Cold as Ice

Sena Harris has mastered the art of looking untouchable.

Gloss perfect. Outfits flawless. Clapbacks locked and loaded. Around the rink, she’s Lakeisha Jackson’s stylish best friend, the girl with the quick mouth and colder-than-ice confidence. But behind the look, Sena is juggling a broken car, a lost sublet, family pressure, and the kind of pride that refuses to let anyone see her struggling.

Quill has always seen more than Sena wants him to.

He teases her, checks her, and somehow shows up right when her life starts falling apart. When a housing crisis forces Sena into the spare room at Quill’s house, their harmless banter turns into something warmer, messier, and much harder to ignore.

But Sena refuses to be anyone’s charity case.

As her styling work for a powerful Black women in skating campaign finally gives her a chance to build something of her own, a jealous campus gossip page starts exposing her private life, twisting her ambition into scandal and her survival into entertainment.

Quill wants to protect her. Sena wants to prove she can stand on her own.

Between forced proximity, late-night arguments, soft moments, public pressure, and a kiss neither of them can forget, Sena has to decide if letting someone care for her makes her weak, or if love might be the one thing strong enough to thaw what she’s spent years keeping frozen.

Cold as Ice is a closed-door Black college romance featuring friends-to-lovers tension, forced proximity, emotional healing, sharp banter, found family, campus drama, and a stylish heroine learning she doesn’t have to survive alone.