After the Faceoff

She writes the rules. He refuses to let the club use his family as leverage.

Katie-Louise McCann needs one flawless player agreement to secure the general counsel role she has spent years earning.

Veteran defenceman Dennis McGerr has no intention of trusting another document written behind closed doors, especially when one hidden clause could expose the people he has spent his life protecting.

Forced into daily negotiations, every objection draws them closer. He remembers her coffee. She builds protections before he asks. Their professional battle becomes a forbidden attraction neither can afford to make public.

Then a legacy debt tied to the club's former owner threatens Dennis's mother's guesthouse, the ownership sale and Katie-Louise's career.

Silence could protect everything they want, but only by repeating the same abuse they are trying to end.

To keep the family, the team and the love they never planned, they must stop calling control protection and choose the truth in full view.

After the Faceoff is a high-heat contemporary hockey romance featuring workplace enemies to lovers, forced proximity, a brilliant lawyer heroine, a protective veteran defenceman, family secrets, consent-forward intimacy, sharp banter and a deeply satisfying HEA.

Book Two and the complete finale of the Icebound Rivals duet.