Grumpy coach. Sunshine therapist. Forced proximity. Forbidden tension. One losing team that might just save them both.
Lex Monroe returned to Glacier Bay to coach hockey, not to deal with a sports therapist who thinks fear—not lack of skill—is why his team keeps losing.
Harper Quinn knows broken athletes when she sees them. She also knows when a man is running from something. And Lex? He's sprinting.
Forced together by a failing team and their own stubborn pride, they clash over every drill, every strategy, every unspoken rule about what it means to be tough. But somewhere between the arguments and the late nights at the rink, the tension shifts.
Professional boundaries blur. Old wounds crack open. And the ice beneath them starts to feel dangerously thin.
A slow-burn hockey romance about the hardest opponent you'll ever face: yourself.