BLURB Everyone thinks I quit hockey. They’re wrong. After a devastating hip injury threatens to end the career I’ve spent my entire life building, I transfer to Thornfield College, the worst hockey program in the country, for one final chance to prove I still belong on the ice. No one can know my secret. Not my teammates. Not the scouts watching from a distance. And definitely not Coach Ezra Whitlock. He’s forty, brutally demanding, and a former NHL star whose own career ended because he refused to listen to his injured body. He sees the way I hesitate on the ice. He notices every time I hide my pain. And he refuses to let me destroy myself. At first, I hated him for it. He benches me. Pushes me. Challenges everything I do. But somewhere between our endless arguments and stolen moments, hatred turns into something neither of us can control. Ezra is my coach. I’m his player. He has a fiancée waiting for him at home, a daughter who has somehow become my biggest fan, and a career he fought for years to rebuild. I have one last shot at the future I've always wanted. Falling for him could cost us both everything. And when my carefully guarded secret finally comes to light, I'll have to choose between the game that has defined my life... And the man I was never supposed to love.

“Touch what's mine and I would break your fucking finger off.” **** Aria Sinclair thought she’d found her fairy tale ending when Gabriel Gray swept into her life. After years of living in her foster sister's shadow, he made her feel seen, cherished, and secure. But everything shatters when she discovers Gabriel’s ultimate betrayal: he’s been in love with her foster sister all along. Heartbroken and abandoned, Aria loses everything—including their unborn child. With nothing left but a burning desire for revenge, Aria is determined to take back the life she deserves. But how can she, when Gabriel holds all the power? Enter Roman Cade: her high school friend turned billionaire. He’s cold, calculating, and has a proposition of his own, a contract marriage that promises Aria the revenge she craves, in exchange for becoming his.