The Vegas Venom turn up the heat in this brand new standalone hockey romance series from USA Today Bestselling Author Colleen Charles! As one of the top goalies in hockey I live a sweet Vegas lifestyle: VIP treatment at all the hottest spots in town – ushered past every velvet rope – and all the puck bunnies I can handle. Until my whole world changes when fate takes my sister, leaving her precious baby an orphan. Even though I’m still mired down in grief, I step up and adopt my niece. After all, I already adore her. I’ve just started to get a handle on things when the perfect woman literally falls into my lap, sending me and my newfound single dad life reeling. She’s everything I ever wanted, but how can I offer her my heart while it’s still broken? After our first meeting, she confesses that she needs lessons in seduction. Easy enough. We agree that once I teach her everything I know, we’ll part as friends. But when we kiss… I see stars. I catch feelings. And after one taste of her, I’m not willing to let go. My Venom buddies try to warn me not to get too close, but they shouldn’t worry because I won’t let myself fall all the way. Yeah, about that...

Throughout my time as an elite hockey player, I’ve had a few hookups. But there's only one I can’t get out of my mind. Stella left me high and dry in Costa Rica with a bruised ego and a broken heart after a single perfect day. I wish I’d ignored all the rules with her. I wish I’d made her mine in every way that mattered. Instead, I pushed her out of my mind, buckled down and became the team captain of the Vegas Venom, leading them to their first Stanley Cup. But all of the accomplishments in the world can’t stop her memory from haunting me. And when she breezes back to Vegas for a photo shoot where I’m her model–her…uhh…nude model–and doesn’t seem to remember me, my heart drops. So I give her the best deep freeze I can muster while I build bigger walls around my heart. Then she starts chipping away at my hard exterior. In order to let her in, I’ll have to trust her. And I’m not sure I could survive it if she left me again...

Scarlett Stone hates me. Every time she takes the mic during her popular sports podcast, she rips me a new one. Some would call us enemies but I make it a rule not to make a rival of a smart, sexy woman like her. If I make one single error on the ice, she calls it out in a way that both frustrates me and turns me on. When I find out she’s been assigned to cover me on a trip to Minnesota, I ask my agent to pull strings to get someone else. Anyone else. Turns out, I’ll have to smile and take it. Oh and try not to make things worse, but it seems even my breathing yanks her chain. I’d give anything to know why she hates me. It almost seems… personal. During the award ceremony, a huge storm hits the area. One that makes it dangerous to be on the road so everyone has to hole away in a room for a few days. Except there’s only one room left in town. I’m trying to be the good guy here but she’s not having any of it. She’s hell bent on making me pay. Which sucks because her attitude lights a fire inside of me. But it’s fine. Because while she’s distracted by hating me, I’ll focus on claiming her as mine.

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My future is planned, and it doesn't include a relationship. The last one destroyed me. I was in love...but she was in love with my money. So, I'm done with that. Instead, I'm throwing my energy into mentoring the younger players on the team and planning for the end of my NHL career. Since I only speak in three word sentences, my next move is going to shock everyone. Once I hang my skates up, I want to be a full-time country singer/songwriter. No one knows that I write music and perform, but I'm cocky enough to know it’ll happen. I’ve got the talent. I’ve got the drive. Nothing is going to stand in my way. Until a freak accident on the ice causes enough damage that I lose my voice. I don't know if I'll be able to talk....let alone sing, again. It's in physical therapy where I meet her. Kingsley. She's the best therapist around and if anyone can get me singing again, it's her. But the more time I spend with her, the more I have to remind myself of my no-relationships rule. And when I enter a songwriting contest, it turns out, Kingsley has entered too. Now crushes don’t matter. She's my competition. And I have a new Don’t get close to Kingsley and my heart won’t get broken.