The Playing Game

Kieran hasn't been with anyone since the one unforgettable night he spent with Harper two years ago, and when his new team's expansion move puts him in her city, he refuses to let the connection slip away a second time. Harper, a pediatric nurse who has watched hockey destroy her own family, carries a deep-seated wariness of players like Kieran — but his quiet, consistent devotion starts to chip away at defenses built from her father's worst mistakes.

Ainsley Booth opens the Off the Ice series with a dual-POV second-chance hockey romance where healing old family wounds matters just as much as the reunion itself.