Covey Crushers · Book 3
The Secret Assist
She wants the spotlight on her own terms. He's spent his whole life trapped beneath one—and keeping their relationship secret might be impossible.
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The Blurb ♡
Getting knocked into a campus fountain by a naked hockey player was not how Laura Conners planned to begin college.
Being accidentally slapped in the face by his very noticeable anatomy made it considerably worse.
Scotty Hendricks might be Covey U's celebrated hockey prince, but Laura wants nothing to do with him—or the cameras following his famous family. She came to Covey to escape comparisons with her Olympic-hockey-star twin and build a theater career entirely her own.
Unfortunately, Scotty is difficult to avoid.
Especially when Laura lands an audition requiring her to figure skate and Scotty becomes the only person capable of helping her. Their secret lessons bring them dangerously close, and the infuriating hockey player starts looking less like the privileged reality star Laura expected and more like the thoughtful, dimpled boy hiding underneath his father's legacy.
Scotty has wanted Laura since the moment he saw her reading his favorite book beside that fountain. Helping her chase her dream should be simple.
Keeping his feelings—and their increasingly heated relationship—a secret is anything but.
Between stolen kisses, late-night skating lessons, reality-show cameras, and an audition that could change Laura's future, they're both fighting to become more than the names they inherited.
But when Scotty's world exposes Laura without her permission, he'll need to prove that she was never another storyline.
She's the only story he wants.
The Secret Assist is a spicy, chaotic forced-proximity college-hockey romance featuring secret dating, skating lessons, reality-TV drama, a theater heroine, and a hockey player who falls first. It is Book 3 in the Covey Crushers series and can be enjoyed as a standalone.
♡ At A Glance ♡
- SeriesCovey Crushers, Book 3
- SportCollege Hockey
- Main TropeForced Proximity
- VibeBlack Cat × Golden Retriever
- Heat Level
- POVDual POV
- StandaloneYes
- EndingHappily Ever After
Meet Him →
Scotty Hendricks Jr.
#97 | Center
Known for
- Being the son of a hockey legend
- Growing up on Hendricks Unchecked
- His unfairly charming dimples
- Assisting almost as brilliantly as he scores
- Quoting The Princess Bride
- Falling for Laura before she knows his name
- Calling her "Princess"
- Wanting to be Scotty—not merely another Hendricks
Favorite saying
"You were made for this role, Princess. Made to shine."
Meet Her →
Laura Conners
Theater Major
Known for
- Being Noelle Conners's decidedly non-athletic twin
- Reading The Princess Bride beside campus fountains
- Performing as Princess Blanca at children's parties
- A voice made for center stage
- Refusing to live in her sister's shadow
- Keeping her relationship with Scotty secret
- Learning to skate for the role she desperately wants
Favorite saying
"Help? I do not think that word means what you think it means."
Listen While You Read
The Secret Assist
Covey Crushers · Playlist by Ana Shay
- 1 Accidentally in Love Counting Crows
- 2 Secret Love Song Little Mix feat. Jason Derulo
- 3 Rewrite the Stars Zac Efron and Zendaya
- 4 Always Been You Shawn Mendes
You'll love this book if you love
- Chaotic meet-cutes involving accidental nudity
- Forced proximity through secret skating lessons
- A hockey star who falls first and stays fallen
- Secret dating with very public consequences
- Black-cat heroines and devoted golden-retriever heroes
- The Princess Bride references and "As you wish" energy
Favorite Quotes ♡
"I don't want the performer or the costume or the version she shows the world. I see the real Laura."
Read Now→Part of the Covey Crushers Series ♛
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