Alternative cover edition of ASIN He was forty years old. He was single. He had his dream job as GM of the Baltimore Breakers hockey franchise, and he was happy. Lie. Because the woman he was in love with was married. To a perfectly nice man who loved her and cared for her and treated her like the queen she was. But then Lexi showed up at his house, tears in her eyes, Caleb out of the picture, and he finally had a shot. A real shot. At love. The trouble was that Luc had spent almost the entirety of his adult life running from love. He didn’t do relationships, not any longer. But . . . Lexi was hurt, absolutely devastated, and she needed care and gentleness and deserved all of the romance in the world. So he needed to man up and find a way to convince her to give him that shot.

One second, he had everything. The next, it was torn away. Oliver James was at the peak of his career, captain of the Baltimore Breakers, minutes away from winning another Cup. Then one hit had derailed all that. All he’d ever known was hockey, and he didn’t know where he fit in a world where playing was no longer a possibility. But then he was offered a chance to bring hockey back into his life. A shot at starting over. The only condition of that second chance was required meetings with the team psychologist, Hazel. She was exactly the kind of woman he might have once lusted after—beautiful, kind, a body that screamed sex. She made him feel whole, like a man again. Except, she wasn’t interested in him outside of being a patient. Well then, Oliver would just have to convince her otherwise.

Professional hockey players weren’t supposed to get their hearts broken. But that’s precisely what happened to Marcel Aubert, forward for the Breakers. He’d fallen hard for his ex, and then she’d cheated on him with a truly reprehensible teammate. Because she’d been bored. Of him. Not life. She’d made that fact crystal clear. So Marcel had moved on . . . if remaining single and losing himself in books when he wasn’t on the ice was moving on. Until he met Prudence Hansley. She was, quite literally, the most imprudent person he’d ever had the privilege of knowing. A total daredevil, she’d jumped out of planes, had hiked into a volcano, spent time in a shark cage. She was . . . terrifying. And wonderful. And somehow, she liked him. Boring Marcel. But when she dared him to take another chance on love, would he find the courage to leap?

Kailey Henderson dealt in code. Well, code, social anxiety, and online gaming. What she didn’t deal in was sexy hockey players. And she certainly didn’t deal in sexy hockey players like Connor Smith. He was brass. He was loud. He was funny and charming and…ballsy. Kailey was about the furthest thing from ballsy someone could find. Connor didn’t seem to care. From the moment she’d showed up at the rink to help her friend set up a player development program for the Baltimore Breakers, he had led a campaign to win her heart. The thing was, Kailey didn’t actually want her heart to be won, and the more Connor campaigned, the more she resisted. And…the more she resisted and argued and pushed back, the more she found out that she actually could be ballsy. And the worst thing about that? It made Connor campaign even harder.

She had a secret. One Beth had spent her whole life running from. But her secret had finally caught up with her, and she didn’t know whether to start running again, to leave the life she’d built in Baltimore, one she was finally happy in, surrounded by the family she’d made (meaning her friends and their significant others, and definitely not her messed-up bio family), or to stay. To fight. Or maybe, better yet, to run straight into Raph’s arms. The hockey player for the Breakers was big and strong and had a wonderful family (bio and otherwise). Not to mention, his smile lit up the room and his body was…chef’s kiss. Bonus? He wanted her and made that clear, but…he didn’t know about the secret. And she knew, she knew that if he found out… He’d run. Even faster than she had.

She had no time in her life for a man. Least of all a swoony hockey player who was allergic to commitment. Jules was just trying to give her kid a good life. She worked hard, kept her head down, and avoided men like the plague. Because men were a plague. There was a reason she was a single mom, scraping together an existence, and faking it for her kid. She’d been burned. Bad. It didn’t matter that Cas was successful and smart and could kiss like a dream… It didn’t matter that he wanted her. She wouldn’t put her heart on the line. Not ever again .

Walker Laine is a star forward for the Baltimore Breakers, and he’s only interested in three things—pucks, food, and ever-revolving door of women. Until Dommie. The woman is as smart as she is infuriating, and more stubborn than any person he has ever met. Her walls are thick and impenetrable and for the first time in his life, he wants to break through every barrier in his way and get to the heart of a woman. Because…he likes her. And he wants her. But how to convince her to let him keep her forever?

She’s innocent… And I’m the one who’s going to corrupt her. I’m a hockey player with a secret—one so big that it can get me kicked out of the league. I’ve spent years trying to bury it and there’s only one person who’s found me out. Claire. Former intern. Current jack-of-all-trades for the Baltimore Breakers. And the woman I want more than anything else. More than hockey. More than breathing. Even more than keeping that secret. But she’s seen behind the veil… And, rightfully, wants absolutely nothing to do with me. Unfortunately for her, I’m going to keep her anyway.