Draft Night

They made it through the first cut. Now real life is the harder test.

Tristan Doyle survived camp, but surviving is not the same as feeling safe. He is still fighting for every shift, every ounce of trust, every inch of ice the Lake State Blades will let him keep. The dream is alive-but it is fragile, conditional, and one bad week from changing again.

Audrey Bellamy finally has the future she fought for. North Shore State is real now: classes, labs, commutes, deadlines, and the full pre-PT path she refused to make smaller for anyone. It is everything she wanted.

It is also taking every spare hour she has.

They are not wondering whether what they have matters anymore.

They know it does.

That is the problem.

Because now missed calls hurt. Bad timing lingers. One delayed text can land like rejection after a brutal day. And the more Tristan's hockey future opens, the more Audrey's world widens too-until both of them are forced to face the truth:

Love is not the hard part.
Staying visible to each other while chasing two impossible dreams is.

As Tristan's name starts drawing the kind of attention that could change everything, Audrey's future at North Shore becomes bigger, harder, and more real than ever. They are still choosing each other-but this time, choosing each other takes intention, honesty, and more than one kind of courage.

Draft Night is a tender, emotionally intense hockey romance about ambition, timing, distance, and the kind of love that has to fight not just to begin-but to keep going.

Blue Line Hearts continues with more pressure, more longing, and a deeper love story as one couple fights to stay connected on the road from junior hockey to the big leagues.

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