Two years ago, Jaxson Reed, the most brutal enforcer in professional hockey, delivered a violent hit on the ice that shattered my fiancé’s career and tore my world apart. I swore I’d hate him forever. Then my idiot younger brother made a career-ending mistake, and Jaxson’s holds the trigger. Luckily, he needs something. The deal is simple but cruel, and completely non-negotiable: pretend to be Jax’s devoted partner to clean up his chaotic reputation before contract negotiations, and he wipes my brother’s slate clean. In public, we play the perfect couple for the cameras: lingering touches, fake smiles, and convincing glances… in private, he’s the roommate from hell. Jax is ruthless, arrogant, and impossible to ignore. But as the forced proximity wears down my defenses, the lines between hatred and desire start to blur. I begin to see the calculating mind behind the bad-boy persona… and a dark truth about the night that ruined my future. Now that he’s got me pinned against the wall with his pulse racing against mine, Jax is done playing by the rules. And the dangerous part isn't that he's going to break them... it's that I’ll let him.