When Seattle's golden-boy winger breaks his hand punching his newest teammate, the general manager exiles them both to a tiny island ice rink for the month of December. Now, a strict no-dating rule, a looming captaincy, and a last-chance contract stand between them and the one thing they can't stop wanting in this mm hockey romance.

Emmett Sorley performs perfection on and off the ice, desperate to secure his team's captaincy. But his pristine image shatters when he throws a punch at Tobin Kask—the brute enforcer who gave him a concussion last season and just got traded into his locker room. Benched and banished to Kettle Island to run a youth clinic, the boys are forced to share a tiny one-bedroom cottage and a fragile truce. In this forced proximity hockey romance, the tension is thicker than a winter windstorm.

As they work together to save a failing eighty-year-old community rink, the ice between them melts. Emmett discovers the tender, private side of the bruising enforcer who refuses to unpack his bags, while Tobin realizes the golden boy is cracking under the weight of his own charm. But giving in means risking everything. If they are caught in a secret relationship, hockey players Emmett and Tobin could lose it all.

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