Ink on Ice

Cal Cooper returns to St. Lorne University exhausted and hoping for a quieter semester-especially after a brutal internship that left him questioning everything about his future in journalism.

Instead, he walks back into a newsroom stretched thin, an unexpected promotion he didn't ask for, and a campus that feels... off.

When Ledger sports editor Beckley Keane begins digging into the university's hockey program, the story refuses to stay contained. Records don't match. Sources go quiet. And the deeper they push, the harder the administration pushes back.

What starts as a routine investigation turns into something far more personal-testing friendships, careers, and the fragile trust growing between them.

Because at St. Lorne, the truth isn't just difficult to uncover-it's inconvenient.

And inconvenient truths come with consequences.

You can tell the story. You just can't control what it costs.

Ink on Ice is a character-driven campus mystery blending student journalism, college athletics, and university politics into a slow-burn unraveling of loyalty, pressure, and the price of telling the truth when it matters most.