I’m snowed in. With a famous hockey player. I’m snowed in. With a famous hockey player. My life has been a disaster. I’ve lost my job, my apartment, and my direction, so when my best friend suggests a week trip up to her house in Tahoe, I jump on the chance for a change in scenery. Only, I didn’t anticipate Snowmageddon. I didn’t anticipate being trapped on the side of the road and rescued by a famous hockey player—and certainly not by Lake Jordan, star center for the Sierra Hockey team, model, and entrepreneur. I didn’t anticipate having to share his house. Or that there would only be one bedroom. And I didn’t anticipate…that he might want to keep me. Forever.

My ex-boyfriend cheated on me with my best friend. I went to the bathroom, came back, and…they were right there, sucking face in the middle of the bar like they didn’t have a care in the world. And—What could I do with that? What I always do, I suppose. Run. Only this time I end up running straight into the arms of a big, gorgeous, bearded hockey player. Leo West saves me from the floor of the bar. But he also saves me from the boring loneliness of my life. The only question is if he’s going to let me save him right back.

It's always the quiet ones you have to watch out for. I never expected Riggs, the soft-spoken defenseman for the Sierra to a have a dirty streak. But he does, and it blows my mind, and doesn't even like me, and none of it makes sense... Because now the hockey player wants me.

I’ve sworn off love…until her. The only problem? She can’t stand me. Gorgeous, single mom Ivy wants absolutely nothing to do with me. She thinks I’m a player—and maybe I am. She thinks I don’t take anything seriously—and maybe I don’t. She thinks I can never make her happy—but I’ve never been more focused on anything else. Not ever. Not even on hockey, and I live and breathe the sport. She doesn’t understand that she’s become my reason for existing—That if there’s any game in my life I’m willing to do anything to win… It’s claiming her heart as mine.

She’s the one woman I can’t have. And yet I can’t let her go… I’ve respected Joey—Josephine—Banks from the moment I first came to the Sierra Hockey organization. Over the years, that respect grew into friendship…and eventually, it became something more. Something dangerous. Something that I could never allow myself to have. So I stayed away. But then I discover the truth about Joey’s past with the team’s former head coach and everything changes. I can’t stay away. I don’t care about bad press or dumb decisions or all the ways a relationship between us can implode. I just know I’ll do everything to make her mine. Author's note: There are some difficult themes in this story. For CW information, please check this book's page on my website.