Part of Toronto Terror
First published 2025
It has been three years since that weekend changed everything. For veteran goalie and single dad Roman, two nights with a woman he never got to keep became the standard every other person failed to meet. He told himself he had moved on. He had not. Now she walks into the locker room as the team's new assistant coach, and Roman has to decide what to do with three years of unanswered questions. He is in his final season. His daughter counts on his steadiness. His team follows his lead. Getting involved with a direct superior breaks every rule he has lived by. She left without a word. No note, no number, nothing. He spent years wanting to know why. Now she is standing in front of him with authority over his career, and patience is the only play available to him. Except patience is not what he feels. This is a story about a man who built his whole identity around control and then met the one person who makes control feel like a waste of time. The emotional core is simple and sharp: some connections do not wait for a convenient moment, and the cost of walking away twice is higher than the cost of risking everything once.
Genres: romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: character-driven, emotional, intimate, passionate, tension-filled
Tropes: forced-proximity, second-chance-romance, secret-history, workplace-romance
Period: present-day
408 pages · Paperback · Ink & Cupcakes Inc