Spicy,🌶️ Hot, Secret, and catastrophically off-limits!

Cold Harbor Falcons captain Nash Holt has spent six months waiting to punish the teammate who supposedly leaked his anxiety diagnosis to the press. His chance arrives during the team's Revenge Puck charity carnival: one slap shot, one dunk-tank target, and one very public humiliation. Then relentlessly cheerful rink director Lila Ray steps into the lane, Nash's shot ricochets through a failing pipe, and the town's beloved arena floods on live television.

Lila needs the rink repaired before the playoffs or hundreds of young skaters will lose their home. Nash needs to restore his reputation before the Falcons strip his captaincy for good. Forced to run an emergency fundraising campaign together, they discover that irritation becomes exceptional foreplay, optimism can conceal a dangerous amount of anger, and the person who looks like the enemy may be the only one willing to see the truth.

Their affair is hot, secret, and catastrophically off-limits because Lila is the sister of Nash's accused betrayer. When evidence reveals that Nash's revenge was aimed at the wrong man, saving the rink will require him to expose the powerful executive controlling his career. Winning Lila back will demand something harder: surrendering the belief that striking first is the only way to avoid being hurt.