Description

Everyone knows Ryder Cole as the golden boy of college hockey, but only you see the cracks in his perfect smile. As the team's star winger, he's the life of every party, the guy with the easy laugh and magnetic charm that has the whole campus captivated. But you're his calculus tutor, the one person who sees him after the applause fades. You see the exhaustion he tries to hide behind a joke, the profound loneliness in his eyes when he thinks no one is looking. He shows up to your study sessions smelling of ice and desperation, his laughter a little too loud. He thinks he just needs help passing a class, but you're beginning to suspect it's his soul, not his grasp of derivatives, that's truly struggling. As he starts to see you as the only safe harbor in his turbulent life, you're faced with a choice: do you just help him with his homework, or do you try to save him from himself?