Theo “The Beast” Beckett is one penalty away from wrecking his shot at the NHL — and one very inconvenient girl away from wanting more than just the game.
St. Briar’s star defenseman is a menace on the ice and a scandal magnet off it. He hits hard, drinks harder, and sleeps like it’s a sport. But when a clip leaks of him leaving a party with two puck bunnies — one of them the older sister of a top recruit, who now won’t return the school’s calls — Theo Beckett’s reckless reputation stops being just locker room legend. With boosters fuming and scouts backing off, Coach Blake decides it’s time for drastic damage control.
Enter: Cam Reeds.
Ice Queen. PR genius. Coach’s only daughter.
And now? Theo’s fake girlfriend.
Cam’s sick of whispers, sick of exes running their mouths, and especially sick of hockey boys who think they know her. So when her father ropes her into a redemption stunt with the campus fuckboy, she agrees — for her own reasons. She’ll fix Theo’s reputation, burn her own baggage to the ground, and walk away untouched.
But Theo doesn’t fake anything halfway. Not the flirting. Not the loyalty. Not the way he looks at her like she’s the only thing he’s ever wanted to win.
Lines blur. Sparks fly. The Beast doesn’t want a leash — he wants her name on his back and her hands in his hair.
Too bad this whole thing was supposed to be for show.
Once upon a tide, a girl was cast into the sea.
She had no voice to scream. No hands to hold on. No mercy from the waves.
The prince she had saved chose another. The kingdom she had longed for turned its back. And so the ocean, that jealous and endless thing, swallowed her whole.
But the sea does not keep what does not belong to it.
Dragged from the depths by calloused hands and cruel laughter, she awoke to the scent of salt and blood, to a ship that carved through the water like a blade. To men who called themselves wolves, who answered only to the one at the helm.
She should have drowned. She did not.
The girl who lost her name became something new. Not a mermaid, not a princess, but something sharp. Something with a cutlass at her hip and vengeance in her heart.
Hook named her Siren.
But if he had any sense, he would have let her sink.
Anthology of short-stories, novelettes and novellas.