Part of Campus Nights
Rhett Rauthruss has been in a long-distance relationship for six years. Now it's over, and he has one semester left to live like a college student. His goals are simple: go out with his teammates, chase a Frozen Four championship, and meet someone new. Sienna Hale has her own agenda. She is a figure skater in her final collegiate season, still carrying the weight of an accident on the ice the year before. She needs a job after graduation, she needs to skate clean, and she does not need the persistent hockey player who keeps showing up where she practices. Rhett asks her out. She says no. He asks again. The ice between them starts to thin. Both of them have told themselves this is temporary, that they want completely different things from whatever time they have left in college. But spending time together reveals something neither of them planned for. Broken Hearts follows two athletes who arrive at the same rink with opposite intentions and leave with something harder to walk away from than either expected.
Genres: romance, contemporary, contemporary-romance, sports-romance, college-romance, new-adult-romance
Vibes: character-driven, emotional, heartfelt, intimate, romantic
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, second-chance, slow-burn
Setting: college campus, ice rink
Paperback
Content warnings: anxiety, mental-illness