Body Check

I don't need Caleb Ward to like me. I need him to get off my ice.

At Alderwick, hockey gets priority. My figure skating club gets whatever's left.

I've spent too many mornings fighting for practice time to be charmed by the captain whose team keeps taking it. Caleb Ward might be campus royalty, but a handsome face doesn't fix a stolen session.

Then a joint fundraiser puts us on the same ice—and makes avoiding him impossible.

I expect arguments. I don't expect him to remember how I take my coffee, notice when my hands are cold, or look nervous before asking me out. I certainly don't expect teaching him my choreography to make me forget every sensible reason to keep my distance.

Somewhere between early rehearsals and kisses I can't stop thinking about, Caleb becomes the person I want beside me.

But while I'm learning to trust him, he's keeping something from me. Something that could cost my club the place I've fought to protect.

And when I discover what he knew, wanting him won't make forgiving him easy.

He knows how to hold me.

Now he'll have to learn how to let me choose.

Body Check is an angsty college sports romance about a hockey captain and a figure skater, with slow-burning attraction, tender intimacy, broken trust, and a love worth earning back.

Tropes: Enemies to lovers, forced proximity, shared rink, hockey captain × figure skater, slow burn, protective hero, hurt/comfort, second chance, earned forgiveness.

Title: Body Check. Author: Ryven Kennedy. Language: English. Audience: Adult/New Adult. Genre: Contemporary sports romance. Setting: College. Perspective: Dual first-person POV. Heat: Sensual tension and nonexplicit intimacy. Ending: Happily ever after.