I’ve always loved Winston Colson since we were kids. But when he came back to Fair City, all grown into a fine man, he didn’t just break my heart, he trampled on it by getting married to my older sister, Octavia, even though he knew how much I’d liked him. Winston made it clear I wasn’t the one he wanted, and I didn’t have what he wanted in a woman. My sister did. So I married his older brother, Maddox Colson. Where I come from, revenge is best served either flipping hot or ice cold. Our marriage was nothing but a charade… or so I thought. It was supposed to be a business deal, nothing more. Maddox needed a fake wife to boost his public image and clear every rumour about him being into men, and I needed him for my revenge against Winston. After our exchange of vows at the city hall, my husband spoiled me rotten. The wrong brother treated me like a queen, often blurring the line between real and fake. Soon enough, the right brother, Winston came begging after he realized what he had lost. But it was already too late. The wrong brother now has my heart!

Sloane Mercer grew up learning the cost of crossing her father before she understood what love even was. Every player who so much as looked at her twice found himself traded, benched, or gone. So she built a rule and kept it for years: stay away from the Hawks, no matter what. The problem is the three men with the deepest hold on her are the franchise’s biggest names. Rhett Calloway, the captain, has spent years pretending not to notice her because noticing her would cost him everything. Maddox Keane provokes her constantly because arguing with her is the only closeness he’s allowed to have. Jules Ardent, her childhood best friend, disappeared from her life after one mistake the two of them still can’t discuss and has spent years since wondering if she’ll ever forgive him for it. The night Sloane returns to a private team party, years of restraint collapse in a single evening. One kiss becomes three. By sunrise, all four of them know they’ve broken the one rule that was never supposed to bend. Then Damon Mercer names his daughter the team’s new player-relations director — placing her, every day, inside arm’s reach of the three men she’s now secretly falling for. Rhett can’t touch her where anyone might see. Maddox can’t stop testing the boundary just to feel her push back. Jules can’t be near her without circling the mistake he made years ago and never explained. When a photo leaks of Sloane leaving the players’ private residence, the rumors ignite and her father’s response is immediate: identify whoever she’s involved with and remove him from the roster. Sloane refuses to give any of them up — but the leak wasn’t random. Someone inside the Hawks’ organization knows precisely what she is to all three men, and they intend to use that knowledge to dismantle the team’s championship run from the inside. As the playoffs close in, Sloane and the three men she loves have to decide how much they’re willing to risk — for her, for each other, and for the season they’ve all spent their lives building toward.