Practice Makes Perfect : A friends-to-lovers college hockey romance (Pine Barren University Book 2)

She's great at everything—except intimacy.

Em Dubois has color-coded schedules, meticulous lists, straight A's—she's got life figured out. Except for one problem: physical intimacy sends her into full panic mode. So she does what any rational person would do. She finds someone to teach her.

A controlled experiment. Clear parameters. No emotions involved. It's just science, right?

Which means she needs someone who knows exactly what he's doing.

Her target? Linc Garcia.

He's Pine Barren hockey's golden boy, who has NHL scouts circling and every girl on campus hoping for a chance. He brushes other girls off by saying he's got enough pressure, but when a brilliant French girl with a detailed lesson plan asks for his help, he doesn't see any downside.

He helps her gain experience. She gives him a no-strings escape from the weight of everyone's expectations.

No feelings. No mess. And absolutely no falling for each other.

Except rules were made to be broken.

Lessons stretch into late nights, touches linger longer than planned, and—somewhere between the carefully negotiated boundaries and the vulnerability neither of them expected—connection becomes inevitable.

Because no matter how detailed the syllabus, the heart refuses to follow instructions.

Practice Makes Perfect is a college hockey romance about finding safety in unexpected places, rewriting your own rules, and discovering that sometimes the best lessons are the ones you never planned for.

Inside you'll find:

Teaching/lessons romance (with a detailed syllabus!) Agreement-to-lovers (no feelings rule? what could go wrong?) Healing past trauma (one touch at a time) Second in series (but read as standalone!) Steamy 'open door' spice level Happily-ever-after and no cliffhangers
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