Shattered Ice by Brooke Wilder

He’s the king of the ice. I’m the scholarship girl who’s supposed to save him.
If I fail, I lose everything.

Adrian Hale is a legacy, a captain, and a predator. On the surface, he’s untouchable—the golden boy of Briarcliff University, worshipped by fans and feared by rivals. But behind the brutal smirk and perfect stats is a man unraveling, hiding a secret that could end his future.
Clara Harrington is a survivor. Every inch of her life has been clawed from the edge of collapse, held together by discipline, control, and a refusal to break. The one rule she lives by? Stay invisible. Stay safe. But now she’s trapped—forced to tutor the one person who sees straight through her walls.
Our sessions are a battlefield. Every word, every glance, every breath between us is a weapon. He pushes. I push back. He thinks he can crack me open. I refuse to be conquered.
But obsession is its own kind of surrender. And in the shadows of locker rooms and the silence of library stacks, hate starts to taste like hunger. Control slips. Lines blur.

And the boy I should despise becomes the one man who could shatter me completely.