Pretty When You Hate Me: A Dark Bully Hockey Romance

by Evelyn Ferras

Xavier Gallagher is the cruel and handsome golden boy of the men’s hockey team. He checks hard, fights harder, and looks at me as if I’m a challenge he’s dying to conquer.

As the star of the women’s team, I’m everything he hates—confident, competitive, and completely off-limits. So he pushes me, taunts me, corners me in empty hallways, and dares me to come closer... or walk away.

But when we’re forced to co-captain a charity game that could make or break my career, we’re suddenly stuck together and I can’t escape him.

He wants to own me, and I want to destroy him.

Then one night, our fight explodes into something else. I kiss him to shut him up, but he pins me against a locker and kisses me back harder.

We’re supposed to hate each other, and now we can’t stop touching, scratching, and biting. Soon, we’re breaking all our rules.

And when the line between hate and heat finally shatters?

We’ll either ruin each other… or fall so hard we’ll never recover.


Pretty When You Hate Me is a standalone dark bully hockey romance and is intended for mature audiences.

48 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 30, 2025

About the author

Evelyn Ferras is the author of Property, Pretty Plaything, and Ashes. She’s loved reading romance ever since she was a teen, and her passion for strong heroines and sexy heroes only grows stronger every day.

Evelyn lives at the coast with her family and enjoys watching sunsets. Very often, she’ll catch a sunrise too, especially when she’s curled up with a book, binge-watching Netflix, or playing out stories in her head before writing them down.

If you want to know more about Evelyn’s books, please visit https://www.evelynferras.com/