The Spin

Her column made him the most hated man in college hockey. Now she has to date him.

She wrote the story everyone believed…

Sloane Vega has one season left to turn the Hartley Herald into a real newsroom job, and "The Hawks' Favorite Bully" is the most-read story the paper has ever printed: ten seconds of viral tape, star winger Crew Donnelly putting a freshman into the boards, her byline on top. So when the athletic department's PR fixer offers her season-long inside access in exchange for one favor — publicly dating the bad boy she exposed, so the world can watch the villain reform — Sloane takes the deal. Keep it professional. Keep score. Keep it fake.

…and he's the villain who never denied it.

Crew Donnelly is the player every rink loves to boo, and he's earned it on purpose. The heel act is armor, the captaincy is the last thing he has left to protect, and pretend-dating the journalist who wrecked him should be the easiest performance of his season — he's been playing a villain for years. But Sloane argues like a body check, sees through every bit he runs, and the longer the arrangement lasts, the less of it he's faking. Which is a problem. Those ten seconds of tape aren't the whole tape — and the woman he's falling for is the one person guaranteed to publish what she finds.

Tape doesn't lie. It just never tells the whole story.

For readers who love: enemies-to-lovers with real teeth, fake-dating that quietly stops being fake, a sharp-tongued journalist heroine and the golden-boy villain who falls first, slow-burn forced proximity, the armor of a heel act worth cracking, found-family team banter, and a hard-won, guaranteed HEA.

The Spin is a witty, banter-forward, high-heat new adult college hockey romance with enemies to lovers, fake dating, forced proximity, a he-falls-first hero, and found-family team energy. Standalone. Dual POV. HEA guaranteed. No cheating. No cliffhanger. Adult. 18+.