"Welcome to the game, Nora. This isn't a boys' club, it's a man's world. So take your hair out of the bun and put on some mascara. All cameras are on you."

"We are not made for the speed at which the world runs, but sometimes we find peace right at the center of the chaos." Carla Elena Leclerc is a phantom who sings. After years spent hiding from the weight of her surname, the violence of a past that tore her mother away from her, and the devastating grief of losing Jules Bianchi, her first, immortal love, Carla decides to return to where it all began. To the music world, Carla Elena Leclerc is an enigma. An incredible voice, a heavy surname, and a years-long absence from social media that led gossip magazines to bet on the wildest theories. Nobody knows what drives her to disappear for months, nor what demons she has been dragging behind her since she was just a child. When Carla decides to step back into the world in 2021 and join her cousin Charles, even if they act like siblings, in the Formula 1 paddocks, she is simply looking for a place that feels like home, far away from the wrong people who tore her apart in the past. However, she hasn't factored in the fiercest season motorsport history can remember. And above all, she hasn't factored in Max Verstappen. Max is a hungry lion: icy, unfiltered, and laser-focused on a single goal he has been chasing since childhood. He has no time for the spotlight, zero tolerance for fake people, and is the last person on earth Carla would expect to understand her. Yet, amid the garage smoke and the suffocating media pressure, Max is the only one who looks at her without pity or pitying eyes. The only one who seems to notice the details Carla hides from everyone else. Including that number 17 on her collarbone... and the other secrets carved into her skin. Between a world tour on the biggest stages and high-tension F1 weekends in the paddock, Carla and Max find themselves trapped in a dangerous attraction. But how close can you get to the fire before you get burned? And how much of your past can you really hide from someone who has learned to read you from the inside?

𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 ──── 𓍯𓂃𓏧♡ In which Briar University's beloved Ice Princess returns to the ice determined to prove she hasn't lost her edge, only for one accidental collision and a forgotten sketchbook to put her in the path of the hockey player she probably should've stayed away from. 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝟏 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐉𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄 : ✿˚ ༘ ⋆｡♡˚ 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐋𝐨𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐱𝑥 𝐹𝑒𝑚 𝑂𝑐 𝑂𝑓𝑓 𝐶𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑢𝑠 ┊ 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑙 ( 𝑆𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 1 ) 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒 🧾 : ──── 𝑂𝑛𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 ( 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦 19, 2026 )

Lilia met John Logan at his garage; her car wasn't running right, and Logan repaired it. Then a car crash nearly took her life, and then he showed up at the hospital worrying about her, without being friends yet. Three years later, they're best friends. And Lilia is falling for him. Logan? He has no idea. Or he pretends he has no idea. Now she's stuck between keeping the safest friendship she's ever had or risking it all for a love that could destroy everything if he doesn't feel the same. • . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁꒰ঌ·✦·໒꒱ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁. • ENGLISH IS NOT MY FIRST LANGUAGE, sorry for eventual mistakes. Friends to Lovers + Slow Burn + Found Family, deals with topics that may offend sensitivity. The story contains explicit +18 scenes. All characters belong to Elle Kennedy, except for my protagonist, her family, and plot, which were created by me. All rights reserved.

when a lost phone forces kennedy knox to finally start acknowledging john logan's existence. john logan off campus s1 (based off the tv show!) started 5.27.26

After surviving the car crash that killed her younger siblings, Freya Wheeler leaves behind the grief, blame, and broken home that destroyed her life. At Briar University, she plans to keep her head down and survive. But then she meets Dean Di Laurentis - the cocky hockey player who hides more behind his smile than anyone realizes. Dean was never supposed to become her safe place. Especially when Freya's past refuses to let her go.

An Off-Campus Fanfiction: To the rest of the world, figure skating prodigy Brenna Walker is a machine. To her coach, she's an investment-one to be pushed, isolated, and verbally broken until she brings home a crown. Brenna is used to the cruelty. She's used to bleeding for her sport. She's used to freezing everyone else out. She wasn't prepared for Garrett Graham. The arrogant, hyper-protective captain of the Boston Bruins doesn't see a machine. The second they meet, he sees the exhaustion. He sees the subtle flinch her coach ignores. And he decides, right then and there, that he's going to do whatever it takes to help her soar again. Ranked #1 in Figure Skating #10 in Hockey #148 in Elle Kennedy ⭐️ SEQUELS POSTED

Living as the fifth roommate in a house full of college hockey players was supposed to be easy. No drama, clear boundaries, and the perfect setup. But when "just friends" starts feeling like a thin excuse for a lot of unspoken tension, the ground rules become impossible to keep. Stella Maxwell, Beau's twin sister and Dean's best friend since childhood turns heads everywhere she goes on campus. She's strictly anti-relationship, but when Dean finally confesses his massive, long held secret, will she crack under the tension or will the truth ruin their friendship for good?

Genevieve "Gen" Brown was never supposed to fit into Briar University's chaotic hockey world, not after last time that ended badly a broke heart. An Art History major with a sharp tongue hidden behind soft-spoken elegance, Gen preferred quiet cafés, annotated novels, and late nights spent buried beneath oversized sweaters and museum essays. With her porcelain features, pale green eyes, and calm, unreadable demeanor, most people assumed she was delicate. They were wrong. Where Hannah Wells burns bright with stubborn independence and Allie Hayes wears her heart openly, Gen is the steady center between them-the girl who notices everything and says just enough to leave people speechless. She has a habit of dismantling egos with a single deadpan sentence, which becomes a problem for Dean Di Laurentis the second they meet. Because Dean thrives on attention. He's loud, charming, reckless, and impossibly magnetic-the Briar hockey team's resident golden boy with a grin that usually gets him whatever he wants. Girls fall for him easily. People orbit him naturally. Dean knows exactly how to light up a room. And Gen? Gen barely looks up from her coffee. Completely immune to the infamous "Dean effect," she sees through the flirting, the confidence, and the party-boy reputation almost instantly. She's been there before...but. What starts as playful banter quickly turns into something far more dangerous that scare her: lingering looks across crowded parties, late-night conversations in quiet libraries, stolen coffees, unspoken comfort, and the slow realization that the only person capable of calming Dean Di Laurentis down might be the one girl who never tried to impress him in the first place. But beneath Gen's composed exterior lies someone who carries her emotions silently, someone who's spent years convincing herself that needing people is weakness. That dating jocks? Wasn't it if she wanted another broken heart...

Hazel Rose Summers has spent her entire life chasing perfection. As one of Briar University's most promising ballet dancers, every spin, every performance, and every audition feels like it could determine the rest of her future. With the pressure of living up to her late mother's legacy, a demanding father who only seems to notice results, and secrets she's carried for years, Hazel has mastered one thing above all else: pretending she's fine. Dean Di Laurentis has no interest in complicated. The Briar hockey star is used to keeping things light-good friends, good parties, and never taking life too seriously. But when he finds himself spending more and more afternoons in a dance studio he has absolutely no reason to be in, one sharp-tongued ballerina starts becoming impossible to ignore. What begins as sarcastic arguments and reluctant friendship slowly turns into something neither of them saw coming. As Hazel prepares for the biggest audition of her life, old wounds begin resurfacing, forcing her to confront grief, expectations, and the fear that she will never be enough. And when the walls she's spent years building finally start to crack, Dean becomes the one person who refuses to walk away. Set against the backdrop of Briar University, late-night practices, hockey parties, lakeside afternoons, and the delicate beauty of Swan Lake, White Feathers and Hockey Sticks is a slow-burn college romance about learning to let people in, finding strength in vulnerability, and discovering that sometimes the people worth keeping are the ones who stay. Because perfection was never the answer. But maybe love is.