A professional hockey player falls headfirst into fanfiction—and ends up shipping himself with his captain—in this slow-burn friends-to-fanfiction-to-lovers romance.

When star forward Will Burns gets sent a fic about him and his best friend (and team captain), he laughs it off. It’s a joke. It has to be. But one late-night scroll turns into another . . . and another—and suddenly Will’s a little too invested.

Because the fic gets a few things right.
Like how good Théo looks in the locker room. How steady he is under pressure. How he’s always been Will’s person, on and off the ice. And the more Will reads, the harder it is to ignore the truth: Maybe he’s not as straight as he thought. Maybe he never was. And maybe what he feels for Théo has never been just friendship.

So Will does what any normal person would do: He dives deeper. He tears through every fic he can find—then starts writing his own. But the deeper he gets, the more he realizes he might be chasing a hopeless fantasy. Can two teammates really become lovers? Or is fanfiction the only place Will can ever find his One True Pairing?