Olubunmi Akinsowon

When nineteen-year-old Harper Hayes moves in with her estranged father, the formidable head coach of a pro hockey team, she expects cold silences, awkward dinners, and the constant reminder that she’s an outsider in his perfectly ordered life. She doesn’t expect Liam Carter, twenty-seven, the team’s golden new recruit with the kind of focus and discipline that makes him untouchable on the ice and dangerously magnetic off it. Bound by team rules, an unspoken code of loyalty, and the suffocating gaze of the public eye, their attraction is a slow-burning fuse. But when a scandal threatens to ignite it all, Harper and Liam must decide whether the fire between them is worth the inevitable fallout.

Seventeen-year-old Sharon Wilson has spent her entire life hiding the curse burning beneath her skin. One mistake could expose her forbidden magic and get her executed. When she earns a rare scholarship to Emberfield Academy, the most prestigious magical sports school in the kingdom, survival becomes even harder. The academy is home to elite athletes, ruthless rivals, and the Dragon League captain everyone worships: Jaden Drake. He’s talented, arrogant, dangerously charming… and the last person Sharon should ever fall for. But when strange attacks begin targeting the academy and Sharon’s curse starts reacting to Jaden’s mysterious powers, the two are forced into an uneasy alliance. The closer they become, the more Sharon realizes the secrets surrounding her curse are tied to Jaden, the Dragon League, and the kingdom's future. Now, with war rising beyond the arena walls and the championship tournament approaching, Sharon must decide what she’s willing to sacrifice: her heart, her magic… or the boy who might be the only one capable of saving her.