Sticks and Stones: Shadow Valley U, Book 1

When Stone discovers his new college dorm room comes with a roommate, he isn't prepared for it to be the one girl he's sworn to destroy.

Hockey is Stone's entire world. His shot at the NHL, his identity, his future — and he believes Wren Davis nearly cost him all of it. So when she walks through his dorm room door at Shadow Valley University with that infuriatingly calm expression on her face, his vow to make her life miserable feels more necessary than ever. The fact that she's his best friend's foster sister? Just another complication he didn't ask for.

Wren isn't interested in Stone's grudge. She has her own reasons for being at Shadow Valley, and none of them involve a brooding hockey player who blames her for problems she didn't cause. But living together means there's nowhere to hide — no escape from late-night arguments that crackle with something that feels dangerously close to heat, or quiet moments that threaten to unravel everything they've built between them.

Stone wants to hate her. It would be so much easier if he could.

Set against the charged atmosphere of college hockey culture, *Sticks and Stones* is a sizzling new adult romance that proves the thinnest line isn't between love and hate — it's between a rivalry worth keeping and a connection worth fighting for. Once the tension breaks, there's no going back.