by C.R. Jane
First published 2024
Monroe is alone in a big city, no safety net, when a text meant for someone else lands on her phone. She answers it. She keeps answering. The back-and-forth is easy, funny, a little electric, and she has no idea she is trading messages with Lincoln Daniels, the Golden Boy of the Dallas Knights and one of the most recognizable hockey players in Dallas. When she finds out, she is not impressed. That indifference stops Lincoln cold. He is used to women chasing him, on the ice and off it, and Monroe's refusal to care about his status flips something in him. He does not just want her attention. He wants all of her, and he pursues her with an intensity that goes well past flattering. Monroe sees the warning signs. She catalogs them. She keeps showing up anyway, because Lincoln makes her feel wanted in a way she has never quite experienced before. This is a dark hockey romance from USA Today bestselling author C.R. Jane. It sits at the tension between what Monroe knows is probably wrong and what her body and heart keep voting for.
Genres: romance, adult, dark-romance, contemporary-romance, sports-romance
Vibes: addictive, dark, electric, intense, tension-filled
Tropes: forced-proximity, indifference-to-attraction, slow-burn, wrong-number
Setting: Dallas, big city
340 pages · Paperback · Podium Publishing
Content warnings: toxic-relationship