Playing Through

He's hiding an injury.
She's the one person who can see it.

Cole Maddox has one rule: never let anyone see you hurt.

As captain of the Hollowbrook Wolves, he already lost one season to a dislocated shoulder. He refuses to lose another. So when the pain comes back, he tapes it, ices it, and plays through it.

Nora Whitfield is new to the training staff, fully certified, and good enough to notice. She can't bench him. But one word from her to the head trainer, and Cole's season is over.

Now he needs her silence, and she needs him to tell the truth. Late-night treatments in an empty arena. A secret neither of them can afford. And one rule about players and staff that neither of them should break.

Because the hardest thing for a man who has never let anyone carry his weight is to let someone in. And for a woman who has built her whole career on honesty, the hardest thing is deciding what the truth is worth.

Playing Through is a standalone college hockey romance with:

Enemies to lovers
Forced proximity
A stubborn captain who hides his pain
A heroine who doesn't back down
A happy ending

Book 1 of the Hollowbrook Wolves series. Each book can be read on its own.