My new small town neighbor checks all the boxes:
✓ Conveniently single
✓ Handy when things break
✓ Hot forearms in flannel (not that I noticed)

Taking over the café inside our local bookstore was supposed to help me move on after a very public breakup with my NHL ex.

Now I spend my days baking cupcakes and saving every tip, dreaming of leaving this town behind to open my own shop in the big city—far away from hockey drama and heartbreak.

Enter Lucian Lowe.
The quiet, helpful stranger who shows up just in time to fix everything from my espresso machine to my faith in men.

He’s calm, capable, and hiding something behind that cinnamon roll smile.
I told myself we were just friends.
Romance was off the table.
So why am I dreaming about kissing the one man I swore I’d never fall for?

LUCIAN
Keeping my hockey identity secret was supposed to be temporary—just long enough to figure out my next move with the girl next door.

She’s everything I didn’t know I needed: strong, stubborn, and completely immune to my charm.

There’s just one problem: she’s sworn off hockey players for good.

And when she finds out I’m not just the guy who fixes her appliances but the one who used to fill arenas, I’ll lose the only woman who’s ever made me want something more than the game.

Falling for the baker next door wasn’t part of the plan.
But with her?
It just might be the icing on the cake.

The Icing on the Cake is a sweet, small-town hockey romance filled with secret identity twists, cinnamon roll heroes, found family vibes, neighbors-to-friends-to-lovers romance along with just enough sizzle to make you swoon, but still closed door with all the yearning and tension a romance reader could ask for.

Welcome back to Maple Falls—the small town where hockey players fall in love! This is a

multi-author series of seven full-length books that could be read as standalones:

Fake-Off with Fate - Whitney Dineen

Offside and Off-Limits - Kate O’Keefe

Checking Mr. Wrong - Anne Kemp

Skating and Fake Dating - Ellie Hall

Goalie and the Girl Next Door - Elsie Woods

Soulmates and Slapshots- Melissa Baldwin

The Icing on the Cake - Grace Worthington

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