The Play

Hunter Davenport has just become captain of the Briar University hockey team. His last season ended short of the national championship, so he sets himself a rule for the new year: no hookups and no girls, only hockey and classes.

The rule survives until Demi Davis enters the picture. She is a classmate Hunter already thinks of as a friend. Once she is single, she starts going after him, and a yearlong school project puts the two of them in each other's company again and again.

Hunter is sure they would never work as a couple. Persuading his body and his heart of the same thing proves much harder than holding to a vow he made to himself, and he has to decide what that vow is actually worth.

This is a college sports romance with a light, flirtatious tone and plenty of banter. The hero is trying hard to behave, and much of the humor comes from how badly that goes. It is the third book in the Briar U series, a spin-off of the Off Campus books, and it reads as a standalone.