Elena Brooks swore she'd never work for Asher Knight again. Three years ago she humiliated him in front of the entire league, and she's spent every day since building a career good enough that she'd never have to see his face again. Then his career-ending injury lands on her table anyway, because she's the only physiotherapist in the country he'll allow to touch him. She doesn't understand why. She thinks he hates her. She has no idea that Asher Knight has been quietly obsessed with her for years. That he's the reason her mother's hospital bills disappeared. That there's a locked room in his penthouse with her name written on every wall of it. Asher is the youngest captain in league history, a man the press calls ice cold and untouchable, a man who has never once let anyone close enough to hurt him. But his body is breaking down, his career is on a countdown clock, and the only person who can rebuild him is the one woman he swore he'd never let back in. What starts as forced proximity in a training room becomes something neither of them can control. Elena tells herself it's professional. Asher tells himself he can keep his hands to himself. Neither of them believes it for very long. But someone doesn't want Asher back on the ice. Threats start showing up on his phone. His training gets sabotaged. Secrets that should be buried start leaking to the press, one at a time, like someone is enjoying it. And when the threats start following Elena home, Asher makes a promise that scares her more than any stalker could. Anyone who touches her will not survive him. Underneath all of it is a truth Asher has been chasing for years: his younger brother didn't die in an accident. He was murdered, silenced before he could expose an illegal gambling syndicate running through the heart of the league a syndicate with more power, more money, and more reach than Asher ever imagined. And Elena, without knowing it, has already crossed paths with the man responsible. As the championship approaches and the danger closes in, Asher and Elena are forced to face the two things they've spent their whole lives avoiding: the truth about what happened to his brother, and the truth about how far Asher's obsession really goes. She healed his body. Now she has to decide if she can survive loving all of him, the darkness included, before the people trying to destroy him get to her first. This is a story about two broken people who were never supposed to trust anyone again, learning that the right kind of obsession might just be the only thing that saves them both.