Powerplay

Hazel Quintero is a first-generation pre-law sophomore on a scholarship she cannot afford to lose. She builds her perimeter with both hands, runs on green tea and Ruth Bader Ginsburg quotes, and has never once set foot inside the Bellemere hockey rink. Then her work-study assignment drops a manila folder on her desk: Declan Vaughn, team captain, leading scorer, and the son of a billionaire whose name is on the building, has failed his Sports Ethics midterm on legacy admissions. He needs a tutor or he loses his eligibility. What starts as co-revision in the basement of the campus student center — banter like a closing argument, subtext in every session — turns into something neither of them has a legal term for. Dex is the first person who has ever looked at Hazel and refused to be managed. Hazel is the first person who has ever looked at Dex and seen what he is actually doing. The problem is her scholarship, his contract year, his father's money, and the line she drew on the first Wednesday in October that she is now standing on in Doc Martens, watching it move. Powerplay is Book 1 in The Bellemere Wolves series, a dual-POV present-tense college hockey romance. High heat, banter-forward, enemies to lovers. Each book in the series is a complete standalone romance.