Power play: A college Hockey Romance

Avery Collins has her future perfectly mapped out: top grades, medical research, and zero distractions. But when the teaching assistant she's secretly admired for months still sees her as nothing more than a brilliant student, Avery decides it's time to change the equation. Cole Beckett - Hartwell University's hockey captain, campus golden boy, and one failed chemistry class away from losing everything - offers her the perfect solution: a fake relationship that will finally make Marcus notice her. In exchange, Avery agrees to help Cole pass organic chemistry before the semester destroys his GPA. What begins as a carefully calculated arrangement quickly becomes something far more dangerous. Between late-night tutoring sessions, crowded hockey arenas, and moments that feel a little too real, Avery and Cole find themselves crossing lines neither of them intended to cross. Because pretending to fall in love is easy - until the feelings stop being pretend. Nearly Yours is a slow-burn college romance filled with fake dating tension, emotional chemistry, academic ambition, and the kind of love that refuses to follow the rules.