Nadia Reeves has three rules for fall semester: run her squad, survive the co-sponsorship arrangement the Athletic Department dropped on her without warning, and absolutely, under no circumstances, feel anything about Cole Hartley. The last one should be easy. She's had two years of practice. Cole is the Hartwell Wolves' captain, the most infuriating person in any room he walks into, and the guy who ghosted her freshman year without a single explanation. She rebuilt herself after that silence. She's fine. She's completely fine. Then the Athletic Department makes them co-chairs of a joint committee for the entire semester — same events, same appearances, same table, same suffocating proximity — and fine stops being a word that applies. When one bad night and one reckless decision leads to a deal — no feelings, no history, no complications, just this, just them, just until the season ends — Nadia tells herself it's practical. Controlled. Exactly the kind of arrangement she can walk away from cleanly. She's wrong. Because Cole Hartley has a secret that changes everything she thought she knew about freshman year. And somewhere between the hatred and the deal and the late-night phone calls neither of them planned, the line between what they agreed to and what they actually feel stops being visible at all. Offside is a dual POV enemies-with-benefits college hockey romance about two people who are terrible at lying to everyone except themselves.