Hope Wilkens is barely surviving. After a decade spent caring for her sick mother, she’s grieving, broke, and barely holding together her horrible job and the failing bait shop she just inherited. So when she finds the bucket list she wrote as a starry-eyed teenager, she doesn't feel inspired—she feels like a failure. Horseback riding? Painting? Swimming under a waterfall?
Yeah, right. She can barely keep her head above water.
Enter Jax Tanner: NHL golden boy, fan favorite, and the reason "hockey player punches referee" is trending. Banished to tiny Sea Glass Harbour after his headline-making meltdown, Jax is supposed to lie low, reflect, and get his head back in the game.
Instead, he finds his pretty next-door-neighbour, Hope, and her bucket list.
And decides she needs a little help.
With zero subtlety, Jax inserts himself into Hope’s plans, nudging her back toward the life she stopped believing she deserved. What starts as reluctant adventures turns into late-night laughter, undeniable chemistry, and a connection neither of them saw coming.
As the bucket list gets bolder and their feelings get hotter, reality starts closing in.
Jax’s hockey career is on the line. Hope’s heart already is. Because falling for each other?
That definitely wasn’t on the bucket list.
A spicy small-town romcom about a golden retriever hockey player who refuses to let the girl next door give up on her dreams.
