The Zamboni Driver's Playbook
A Minor League Hockey Romance

About this book:

She drives the Zamboni. He captains the team. The only thing colder than the ice is the hatred between them—until the midnight practices start.

Hallie Evans knows every inch of the Pine Ridge Arena's ice. She knows how it breathes, how it cracks, how to coax a perfect sheet from a fifty-year-old compressor held together by duct tape. She also knows she doesn't belong here—six years ago, she stood on a podium in Spokane. Now she hides in the rafters at 2 a.m., carving figure eights on a rink she's forbidden to touch, running from a knee that failed her and a father's medical bills that won't stop coming.

Tanner Price doesn't do "fine." The former NHL draft pick plays through a shoulder that screams with every reach, captains a team that's forgotten how to win, and spends his nights skating laps until his lungs burn, punishing himself for a mistake that cost them the game. When he catches the ice tech trespassing on his surface, he expects a fight. He doesn't expect her to dissect his stride, expose his compensation patterns, and challenge him to be better with the same ruthless precision she uses on the resurfacer.

What starts as a territorial war over thirty-five minutes of cure time becomes something far more dangerous: a partnership. She teaches him edges; he teaches her power. She finds the cracks in his armor; he finds the fire she thought she'd buried. But in a town where the rink is the only heartbeat, the line between coaching and touching blurs fast—and when the season hits the playoffs, both of them have to decide if they're playing for the win, or for each other.

*Gritty, steamy, and sharp as a freshly honed blade—The Zamboni Driver's Playbook is a rivals-to-lovers hockey romance where the ice is the only place they tell the truth.*