Ava Lane came to Lake Briar with three summer goals: make money, avoid drama, and absolutely do not become entertainment for a bunch of overconfident hockey players.
Then Nate Callahan walked into the snack shack.
Ridgeview’s favorite forward is charming, competitive, annoyingly gorgeous, and publicly convinced he can survive the entire summer without catching feelings.
Ava laughs.
Big mistake.
Now there is a bet. A team group chat. Public odds. A charity challenge. A fake-boyfriend situation that gets wildly out of hand. And one hockey boy who keeps showing up exactly where Ava does not want him, beside her, steady, careful, and much harder to dismiss than he should be.
Nate thought discipline would be easy.
Then Ava Lane started keeping score.
She is sharp, guarded, and done letting the wrong guy make her feel like wanting more is embarrassing.He is determined to prove he is more than a charming summer mistake.But somewhere between fake dating, lake relays, sponsor drama, public kisses, and one terrifying grandmother with opinions, the bet stops being funny.
Because Nate is not trying to win Ava.
He is trying to be worth trusting.
And Ava is starting to wonder if the scariest part of summer is not falling.
It is realizing she wants to.
The Summer Bet is a closed-door hockey romance packed with fast banter, fake dating chaos, public embarrassment, found-family team nonsense, high chemistry, and a swoony happily-ever-after.
