There is a reality Jace Lowell Campbell must consider once again: her one weak spot, Lily-Rose June cannot leave the Red Oak Manor Orphanage, where she grew up. And he cannot stay there…

Lily-Rose June was born and raised amid the damp, grey walls of Red Oak Manor. She spends her days studying, often insulted by the rich kids who enjoy humiliating her, and the chores she must carry out under the careful supervision of Miss Price, the orphanage head teacher. And yet on one bleak Sunday like so many others, her routine is turned upside down by the return of the blue-eyed boy who made her heart beat for the first time: Jace Lowell Campbell, who must do his penance in Red Oak Manor. It is a shame that his true punishment is to keep away from June, who has always been his weak spot. Dropping his guard now would be fatal, because there is a fact Jace must take once more into account: June cannot leave Red Oak Manor. And he cannot stay there…

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A slow-burning college romance with hockey, forced proximity and hate turning into love.

Nothing good happens after midnight: a fact well known to the Black Bears hockey team, disqualified from the championship after a rather boisterous party that concluded at the police station.

The person responsible for their disqualification is Jordan Alexander, an uncompromising journalist who reported the event and now has to live alongside the Black Bears: she must therefore reach a compromise with love and choose between the two players, Nate and Chase.

Jordan and Nate are old friends in their third year at college. Jordan writes for the university’s online magazine, while Nate is captain of the hockey team. They have feelings towards each other, but their relationship is complicated by the impending wedding of their siblings and by a sensationalist article about a party that ended up at the police station, which Jordan was compelled to write, and which has led to Nate’s team, the Black Bears, being disqualified from the championship final.

However, when Jordan is expelled from her sorority for writing an article against sororities, Nate offers to put her up. Living with his roommates proves challenging, but despite initial conflicts, Jordan is increasingly attracted to and involved with Chase, one of Nate’s team members, and must soon face her feelings, torn between Nate and Chase.

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Sequel of After Midnight

Dual POV

An overwhelming love threatened by a past that keeps hurting. But nothing can ever divide two people who truly belong to each other.

 

Hockey was his life, Jordan Alexander his home. Their future appeared to hold nothing but happiness and passion. But for Chase, there was an emptiness that no victory could fill: the affection of a father who had abandoned him, but whom he is now determined to win back at any cost. A family he didn’t even know he had, but now desires more than anything.

His most important game has yet to begin. However, the price to pay is incredibly high. Will he be willing to play this game, risking the love of his life?

Jordan had promised never to leave him, but now he’s the one who is running away.

Unresolvable misunderstandings drive them further apart, bringing Jordan dangerously close to a new beginning. She’s the only one who could save him. But is love enough when the pain runs too deep? When the darkness seems endless?

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