His Brutal Advantage

Vera Lindqvist is the only goalie who has ever shut Lev Morozov out, and she did it when they were seventeen. Five years later she walks on to a North American development roster, and he is the first person she sees. He did not forget. He has spent five years making sure she never got close to a rink he was on. When she shows up anyway, he does the thing he swore he would not: he takes her onto his team, into his house, under his name, and holds a file on her father over her head. Vera does not scream. She keeps a notebook. Every call, every time, every coded word, until she has enough to burn him. Then she finds out what he signed when he was seventeen — and who is holding the pen. A dark hockey captive romance about two people who ruined each other on purpose and one file neither of them can destroy.