A steamy hockey, age gap, single dad, forced proximity romance.
I’m a thirty-two-year-old single dad, a divorced goalie, and a man who keeps his heart locked behind an impenetrable wall.
Then Taylor walks into my house, young, brilliant, and the only woman my daughter will listen to.
She was supposed to be temporary. A favor during the mid-season break. Nothing more.
Now she’s in my kitchen, in my life… and under my skin.
As the starting goalie for the Steel Wards, control is everything. On the ice, I stop anything that comes at me. Off the ice, I protect the only person who matters: my daughter, Mila. I don’t make reckless choices. I don’t blur lines. And I definitely don’t fall for the team's PR coordinator.
But Taylor makes chaos feel like home.
She tames my fierce little girl, challenges my iron control, and sees the man behind the mask everyone else calls the Wall.
Wanting her is dangerous.
Keeping her could cost my heart.
So when a ghost from my past threatens to rip apart the fragile family we’ve built, I do what I’ve always done: I push her away to keep her safe.
Only this time, losing her might be the one shot I can’t recover from.
Tropes:
- Hockey Romance
- Grumpy Russian Goalie
- Single Dad / Nanny
- Age Gap
- High Heat
- Found Family
- Workplace Boundaries
