If You Need Me: The Toronto Terror Series

Some crushes fade with time. Dallas Bright's has only gotten worse.

The Toronto Terror's star forward has been secretly, hopelessly, embarrassingly in love with Wilhelmina "Hemi" Reddi-Grinst since the third grade — back when he was the reckless kid who obliterated her bike and earned her eternal contempt. Now he's a pro hockey player with a million-dollar smile and absolutely zero progress on the Hemi front, because she still wants nothing to do with him.

When Hemi lands a PR job with the Terror, Dallas sees it as fate handing him one last shot. What he gets instead is a drunken mistake that goes spectacularly sideways and lands them both in the middle of hockey's messiest scandal. The only way out? Convince everyone — their coworkers, their families, their very skeptical bosses — that they are completely, genuinely, head-over-heels in love.

Fake dating a woman who has despised you since elementary school is one thing. Surviving a small-town high school reunion together while maintaining the charade is another level of chaos entirely. But somewhere between the forced smiles and manufactured hand-holding, the lines between performance and reality start blurring in ways neither of them expected.

Helena Hunting and Andi Arndt deliver a laugh-out-loud, swoon-worthy sports romance that proves sometimes the longest enemies-to-lovers slow burn is absolutely worth the wait. The only question is whether Dallas can finally convince Hemi he's worth a second chance — before the whole beautiful lie falls apart.