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BAD TO DO

By Natalie Smith

Could Bad To Do be your next read?

Love always ends in pain.
At least, that’s what Noelle Roper and Logan Stone believe.

Logan doesn’t do relationships.
Noelle doesn’t believe she deserves one.

After moving from England to Boston, Noelle is determined to keep her head down and survive college while navigating chronic pain, depression, and the slow loss of her father to dementia.

Then she meets FCU hockey star Logan Stone.
Arrogant. Infuriating. Impossible to ignore.

Logan has spent years keeping people at a safe distance, convinced that love only leads to wreckage. But when the sharp-tongued British transfer student calls out the flaws in his game and might just hold the key to helping him earn the captaincy he desperately wants, keeping her at arm’s length becomes impossible.

What starts with hockey strategy, an undeniable pull, and relentless banter quickly becomes something neither of them expected.

Because Logan sees past every wall Noelle has built.
And Noelle makes him want something he swore he never would.

But when your biggest battle is with your own mind, letting someone love you can feel like the most dangerous risk of all.

Bad To Do is an emotional college hockey romance about grief, chronic illness, found family, healing, and two people learning that maybe love isn’t something bad to do after all.

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