She enters the NHL as a man. He becomes the league's newest obsession. No one knows the truth about Iris Brooks. At twenty, she's Toronto's unstoppable new forward—reckless, arrogant, and terrifyingly talented. She doesn't need anyone's approval. She doesn't need a team. She only needs to win. Then she meets Ryder Hart. Montreal's twenty-two-year-old captain. The star player everyone trusts. Powerful, controlled, untouchable. Their first meeting is on the ice. Their first battle is personal. And their attraction is something neither of them is supposed to have. Ryder is the only person who discovers Iris's secret. She should expose her. Instead, she keeps it. Because somewhere between the rivalry, the late-night conversations, and the moments neither of them can explain, Ryder begins to want something she can't control. And Iris? She already knows she's falling in love. That's exactly why she's trying to run. Because Iris didn't enter the NHL to find love. She entered to prove that a woman could survive in a world built to exclude her. But the closer Ryder gets, the more dangerous the game becomes. On the ice, they're enemies. Off the ice, they're becoming something neither of them has a name for. And when the season begins to burn everything around them, Iris will have to choose between the future she fought for— and the woman she can no longer imagine living without. Some secrets protect you. Some secrets destroy you. And some secrets make you fall in love.