Olivia Bennett has a boyfriend, and unfortunately for her, he’s hockey’s biggest heartbreaker. Two years of putting him first have left her dreams on the back burner and her heart hanging by a thread. Enter Sebastian Knight, her boyfriend’s biggest rival, a cocky hockey captain with sinful smiles, dangerous charm, and absolutely no business looking at her the way he does. He’s off-limits. She’s taken. And neither should want what they can’t have. But when her relationship begins falling apart and Sebastian becomes the one man who truly sees her, the lines between friendship and forbidden attraction start getting dangerously blurry. Sebastian swears he won’t steal his rival’s girl. But what happens when the girl decides she’s done being anyone’s possession?

On Christmas Eve, Odessa Rose is broke, exhausted and too stubborn to break when she stumbles upon a bleeding stranger in a frozen alley. She should walk away. She does not. One reckless act of kindness drags her into the orbit of Emerson Fox, a man whispered about in fear and a king in a kingdom built on blood. By dawn he is gone, leaving only money on her table and a mark on her fate. When Odessa is framed, arrested and abandoned on Christmas morning, it is Emerson who pays her bail and tears her world open. He offers her protection, power, a job she never asked for and a dangerous closeness she cannot ignore. Desire becomes a battlefield when secrets surface. Odessa is tied to the man who destroyed Emerson’s family. Betrayal cuts deep. Love hits harder. When war closes in, both must choose to walk away or burn the world down to keep each other.