One brutal trade. One strict rule. One spare bedroom that changes everything.

Twenty-six-year-old Sarah Patterson is very good at hockey. Unfortunately, she's also a salary cap casualty. Traded away from the only team she's ever known, Sarah packs her life into a rental car and drives across the continent to join the Seattle Tides. Still reeling from a broken engagement to a man, she's entirely unprepared for her new city, her new team, and her incredibly intense new captain.

Jamie Chen is fierce, heavily tattooed, and fiercely guarded. As the captain of the Tides, she carries the weight of the team on her shoulders and the scars of a past heartbreak tightly locked away in her chest. Jamie has one absolute, unbreakable rule: she doesn't do straight girls, and she definitely doesn't do questioning women.

But when Sarah arrives in Seattle without a place to live, Jamie reluctantly offers up her spare room.

It was supposed to be temporary. It was supposed to be strictly professional. But the Seattle rain keeps them trapped inside, and the walls in Jamie's apartment are dangerously thin. With every shared room-service breakfast, every lingering glance in the locker room, and every late-night conversation, the ice between them begins to melt.

Sarah is starting to realize that the confusing, electric heat she feels whenever Jamie is near isn't just admiration. It's an awakening. And Jamie is terrified to realize that her unbreakable rule is no match for the rookie sleeping down the hall.

When the tension finally snaps, the fallout could cost them the Stanley Cup—or win them everything.

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