A Little Jaded: A Slow-Burn He Falls First College Hockey Romance (The Little Things Book 3)

★★★★★ "Kelsie Rae has done it again with A Little Jaded, delivering another incredible 5-star read! This book is a masterful mix of heart, humor, and deeply moving moments that pull you in from the very first page." — Amazon ReviewerHe's my ex's rival. He's also the only person who can protect me from him.I have one shot at scaring my ex off, and his name is Everett Taylor.Everett is confident in a way that should be illegal, broody in a way that makes me want to throw something, and he's been my ex's rival since they shared they first shared an ice rink. He's also the only guy on campus my ex is genuinely afraid of.So I do the only thing that makes sense.I offer to pay him to be my fake boyfriend.It's a transaction. A short-term contract. Hold my hand at parties, glare at the guy stalking me across the quad, make it look real enough that my ex packs up and leaves.Everett agrees.He also doesn't take my money.Instead, he starts showing up at my favorite coffee shop. He moves me in to his place. He makes me soup when I'm sick and picks out the mushrooms from my omelettes when he finds out I despise them. And every time I remind him that this is fake, he just looks at me like he's already decided it isn't.And when my ex makes his next move, I'm going to have to choose: keep running, or trust the boy I hired to save me.A Slow-Burn He Falls First College Hockey Romance Heat Level: Open Door / Explicit POV: Dual First Person Setting: Lockwood Heights — home of the LAU Hawks Book 3 of The Little Things series — each book is a standalone, read in any order Ending: HEA — no cliffhangerPerfect for readers who love Hannah Grace's Wildfire, Penelope Douglas's Birthday Girl, and Elle Kennedy's The Graham Effect — guarded heroines, golden heroes who fall first, and the slow-burn fake-dating-to-real payoff worth waiting for.Raine is the daughter of Milo and Maddie from the Wrecked Roommates series. Everett is Kate and Macklin's son from the bestselling Don't Let Me series.Continue The Little Things series with A Little Jaded. Read more