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moderate · 427 pages
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A college hockey captain who never wanted the role finds his academic life slipping at exactly the wrong moment. A book-club organizer and aspiring novelist offers to help him with a difficult course, partly because she understands the material and partly because new experiences might loosen her own creative block. Their arrangement is practical at first: tutoring, schedules, and a set of rules meant to keep expectations manageable. The problem is that both are carrying more responsibility than they admit. Team leadership, coursework, family pressure, employment, and unfinished writing all compete for attention. The romance grows through patient assistance rather than instant transformation, giving the story room to examine competence, procrastination, and the quiet embarrassment of needing help. Its tone is warm and collegiate, with attraction developing alongside the less glamorous work of becoming dependable.
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