BLURB:

A spicy small-town hockey romance packed with banter, chemistry, and a second chance at love.

Olivia Hart has spent eight years pretending one unforgettable night never happened.

It's worked surprisingly well...until the man she's been avoiding walks back into her life.

As Head Athletic Trainer for the Winding River Whalers, Liv has her dream job, a cozy coastal hometown she loves, and absolutely no interest in revisiting the past. Then Declan Hayes—NHL defenseman, effortless charmer, and the guy she never quite got over—returns to Winding River to rehab after an injury.

Now they're working together every day.

Which would be a lot easier if he didn't still make her laugh.

Or make her question every professional boundary she'd built.

Or look at her like the eight years between them never happened.

Back then, they were best friends who became something more before either of them knew what to do with it.

Now, between sarcastic text messages, relentless flirting, late-night conversations, and a town that seems determined to throw them together, keeping things professional quickly becomes impossible.

But hockey careers don't last forever, and neither do rehab assignments.

As old feelings grow into something impossible to ignore, Liv and Declan have to decide if timing really was the problem all those years ago...or if this time they're finally ready for the kind of love they were too young to understand.