The Rival Rule (Lakeview State Hockey Romance Series)

Some rules were made to be broken.

Hazel Whitaker has a plan: keep her grades high, protect her scholarship, stay focused on law school, and absolutely avoid becoming campus gossip.

Then Grady Hayes walks into the student conduct office with bruised knuckles, a dangerous smile, and a reputation that makes every warning label on campus look polite.

He is Lakeview State’s star hockey captain.

He is under conduct review.

He is everything Hazel is supposed to keep at a professional distance.

Grady Hayes is used to winning games, taking hits, and charming his way through trouble. But Hazel is not charmed. She is sharp, careful, unimpressed, and entirely too pretty for someone holding a rulebook like a weapon.

When rivalry week turns ugly and Lakeview’s biggest enemy starts pushing every button, Hazel and Grady are forced into daily check-ins, late-night texts, heated arguments, almost-touches, and one kiss that breaks every rule she was supposed to follow.

He is the rulebreaker.

She is the girl who follows the rules.

But the more Grady learns restraint, the more Hazel starts wondering if careful was ever supposed to mean lonely.

With campus gossip watching, Ridgeview waiting to strike, and Grady’s season on the line, Hazel has to choose between the story everyone else wants to tell about her…

and the one she wants to write for herself.

A flirty, steamy, emotional college hockey romance with found family, rivalry drama, real kisses, high chemistry, and a rule-following heroine who falls for the one boy she was never supposed to want.