Campus Rival by Cadence Keys book cover

CFU Hockey Book 2

Campus Rival

by Cadence Keys

A steamy enemies-to-lovers college hockey romance where a musician’s lifelong rival is the single dad next door—and falling for him means defying a seventy-year family feud.

The hockey player next door is her sworn enemy. Watching him fall in love with his baby girl was never supposed to make her fall for him.

Each book follows a different couple and can be read as a standalone. Read in series order to follow the friendships and overlapping events.

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Tropes

  • Enemies to lovers
  • Single dad
  • Family feud
  • Forced proximity
  • Found family

About the book

Hating Drew Dumontier is in my DNA. He’s the star defenseman for CFU hockey, a golden boy with a lethal smirk, and the undisputed bane of my existence. Our families have been at war for seventy years, and nothing will stop me from winning.

Our family feud is legendary on campus…and so are the pranks we pull on each other.

Turns out the universe has a twisted sense of humor. Not only are we forced together as partners on a psychology project worth half our final grade, but a baby is left on his doorstep with a note claiming he’s the father.

Watching the arrogant hockey star transform into a devoted single dad is a complication I never saw coming. As the nights get longer and the tension between us reaches a breaking point, the hatred I’ve nourished for years begins to feel a lot like desire.

But it’s the way he protects his daughter and supports my dreams that changes everything. He’s no longer just the enemy; he’s the person who makes me want to break the cycle once and for all.

He tells me he’s choosing me over our families. He says he loves me more than the grudge. But trust is a dangerous thing for a Tinsley to give a Dumontier.

Especially when a secret is revealed that makes me wonder if I was just a pawn in a locker room game all along.

Campus Rival is a steamy enemies to lovers college hockey romance. If you love feuding families, banter, combustible tension, and a college athlete and his roommates turning into big softies for his baby daughter, then you won’t want to miss this one. It’s book 2 in the CFU Hockey series, but can be read as a standalone.

Contemporary romance · College hockey / sports romance

Why you may love it

Drew Dumontier + Harper Tinsley

Set in Clark Fork University / Dunridge, Montana / Meadowbrook, Montana

Harper Tinsley and Drew Dumontier have inherited a generations-long family feud and turned it into a personal rivalry. At CFU, Harper lives in the music house next door to Drew’s hockey house, keeping their prank war close to home. Being paired for a psychology project gives the musician and hockey defenseman another reason they cannot avoid each other. When Drew unexpectedly becomes father to baby Rory, Harper begins to see a side of him their years of pranks and hostility have hidden.

For readers who want a next-door enemy they cannot escape, a prank war charged with attraction, and a hockey player who turns into a devoted single dad. Harper and Drew share neighboring houses, a psychology project, and seventy years of family baggage—but the way he loves his daughter and supports Harper’s dreams makes the feud harder to defend.