Season of Becoming

Dani Johnson doesn't believe in forever.

She's a foster kid. She learned early that people leave, promises expire, and "family" is usually just another word for temporary.

She believes in facts. Evidence. Things she can see through a camera lens.

So when she's assigned to profile Maine University's hockey captain, she expects the stats to tell her everything she needs to know: gorgeous, cocky, and surrounded by puck bunnies who'd happily volunteer for a front-row seat to his life.

Instead, Nix Klaas is steady. Kind. Annoyingly perceptive.

And somehow, the guy Dani never planned to fall for is telling her things she can't explain-about his family, a hidden island, and a world that sounds like something out of a fairy tale.

She should walk away.

Instead, she follows him to Nordhaven, where impossible things are real and the life she's always wanted suddenly feels within reach.

But wanting a family and trusting one are two very different things.

Because falling for Nix means risking the one thing she's spent her whole life protecting:

Herself.

Maybe forever isn't something you find.

But it's something you have to be brave enough to believe in.

Season of Becoming is a character-driven romantic novel by JJ Wilder that blends contemporary college romance, hockey, and fantasy into an emotionally compelling story about love, belonging, trust, and the courage to embrace the unknown.