If You Hate Me

When your life falls apart, the last place you want to land is a futon in your brother's apartment—especially when his infuriating best friend lives there too.

That's exactly where protagonist finds herself: broke, jobless, and sharing a cramped space with Tristan Stiles, professional hockey player, notorious playboy, and the one man who knows exactly how to get under her skin. He walks around shirtless like it's a personal mission to destroy her sanity, smirks like he invented it, and seems to take genuine pleasure in making her life difficult.

She's not interested. She's absolutely not interested.

The problem? She was once, a long time ago—back when teenage crushes felt harmless and Tristan didn't know she existed. Now he exists everywhere, taking up all the oxygen in their shared apartment with his broad shoulders, sharp jaw, and that infuriating ability to be charming to everyone except her.

The plan is simple: find a job, save money, move out. Do not, under any circumstances, fall for her brother's best friend.

But close quarters have a way of eroding even the most stubborn walls, and the line between hatred and something far more dangerous is thinner than either of them wants to admit. In this laugh-out-loud contemporary sports romance packed with sizzling tension and razor-sharp banter, Connor Crais and Helena Hunting prove that the people who drive us the craziest might just be the ones we need most.