Collide (Off the Ice, #1)

by Bal Khabra

She’s holding a gun to my head. Well, figuratively at least. The gun in question: hockey. The woman holding it: Dr. Laura Langston, Ph.D. “Hockey?” I repeat. “You want me to do my grad school application on hockey?” Langston has been my grad school advisor for the past year, but I’ve been working under her wing since I started at Dalton University.

She’s kind of my celebrity crush in the nerdiest way possible. With her Ph.D. in sports psychology, countless papers published, and experience with Olympians and athletes around the world, she’s inspirational. Until you get to know her. When they said Don’t meet your heroes, they were talking about Laura Langston. She’s the human equivalent of an angry swarm of wasps.

So, why the hell did I choose her as my advisor? Because her success rate in getting students into Dalton’s prestigious master’s program is too enticing to ignore.