He’s the best goalie in the league – Scotia Storm’s golden boy. Everyone loves the team’s biggest player – everyone but me. That’s okay, he doesn’t like me either. We might have grown up in the same small Cape Breton town, but we’re different people from different worlds. Which makes me wonder why our friends asked us to babysit during summer break. The forced proximity proves to be hard on my head…and my traitorous body. But the last thing I want is to get involved with the guy who blatantly ignored me growing up. Except he’s not ignoring me anymore. Nope, not ignoring me at all. Instead, he’s showering me with kisses and touches and OMG, things are so damn good, I forget why we hate each other. Until summer comes to a close and our past catches up to us, reminding me why we can never ever be anything more than enemies.

He’s a defenseman on the academy’s hockey team – a well-known player on and off the ice. It’s a reputation he wears proudly…flaunts, even. The only one he has to look out for is himself. No one expects anything else. Thanks to past mistakes, I have a whole lot of responsibilities outside of the academy, and have no choice but to put others in my life first. They count on me, but you know what? I’m lonely. I guess that’s why I got all tangled up in the guy whose only focus is on hockey – and fun. What I hadn’t meant to do, however, was fall head over heels for the player who only wanted one thing from me. Can you say been there done that? But I think, underneath it all, there’s a lot more to him than even he knows and maybe his choices aren’t his own. Maybe someone else is pulling the strings. Either way, when past mistakes catch up with me again, the team’s biggest player must decide whether to follow the path carved out for him and walk away from me, or shape his own future, and become the man he keeps well hidden.

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He’s as tough as nails on the ice, but off the rink, he’s a potato farmer from Prince Edward Island who knows exactly what he wants. What he wants is me. A rich girl from the Hamptons who’s practically engaged. When I find out my boyfriend is going to propose when I go home for the holidays, I do the only thing I can do. Run the other way. That’s right, I’m a coward. Thanks to an injury the night of our college’s holiday production, I have the perfect excuse to stay in hiding. Ryan drives me to his farm on the island to care for me, but the tension between us is explosive. Still, we keep our distance until my boyfriend gives me an ultimatum that ends our relationship. Soon enough, Ryan and I are finding ways to warm our bodies during the cold winter nights, but when I start getting conflicting messages from his family and friends, I am no longer sure what Ryan wants. When I get the answer wrong, and tragically hurt the guy I’ve fallen for, I’m not sure we can ever find our way back to happily ever after.

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Away Game: I begin to dream about our future, until the storm breaks and I realize he’s everything I never wanted and I’m everything that can destroy his future. Warm Up: Someone might be pulling his strings, but the team’s biggest player must decide whether to follow the path carved out for him and walk away from me, or shape his own future, and become the man he keeps well hidden. Crash Course: As summer comes to a close and our past catches up to us, it reminds me why we can never ever be anything more than enemies.

Have you ever met an alpha-hole? Well, let me introduce you to the ultimate Ash-hole: Ash Wheeler, star defenseman for the Boston Bucks. He’s got it all—hockey skills, women, fame, looks, and swagger. A real Ash-hole. I don’t want to be attracted to him. Seriously, I don’t. But every time I’m around him, my body ignites. I’ve been burned by a guy like him before, and I swear I’ll never go down that road again. Until I do. As a single mother who seems to draw men like Ash, I console myself with the knowledge that I know what I’m getting into. I mean, if I understand the risks, what could go wrong? A lot, apparently. I try to keep things casual and vow not to fall for him. Until I do. And then I discover his secret and now there’s only one thing left for me to do...