Angsty Ice

HE DESTROYED HER NAME TO SAVE HIS. SHE BOUGHT THE TEAM THAT COULD END HIM.

Jose Erickson has everything a man could want: NHL superstardom, a fifty-million-dollar contract within reach, and a fiercely loyal wife who has protected his darkest secret for ten years. But when that secret threatens to surface, Jose makes the one decision Alina Cannon may never forgive. He approves a ruthless media campaign that paints her as an adulteress, lets millions believe she betrayed their marriage, and watches silently while her reputation burns.

Then he makes it worse.

He cheats.

Jose expects anger, lawyers, and eventually a private reconciliation. He does not expect Alina to walk into a televised press conference and reveal herself as the controlling owner of the Boston Sabres, his team’s fiercest rival.

Suddenly, the wife he underestimated is sitting in the owner’s box while his career collapses beneath him.

As fabricated affair evidence begins falling apart, reporters uncover suspicious connections between Jose’s management, a hidden betting empire, and the secret financial ledger Alina once promised never to use against him. Jose loses his captaincy, his contract, his marriage, and eventually his place in New York. Yet the cruelest punishment is watching Alina keep the one promise that could destroy him while knowing he broke nearly every promise he made to her.

Months later, Jose returns to professional hockey at league minimum salary, wearing Boston colors beneath Alina’s ownership. An elevator traps them alone. A hospital room exposes wounds neither has healed. Game Seven forces Jose to choose between becoming the hero again or finally becoming the man Alina once believed he was.

But redemption cannot erase betrayal.

And wanting his wife back does not mean Jose deserves her.

For readers who crave devastating marriage angst, genuine infidelity consequences, powerful heroines, brutal groveling, NHL rivalry, second chances, and love that must be rebuilt rather than simply forgiven, Angsty Ice delivers the emotional wreckage you came for.

Step onto the ice and discover whether the marriage Jose destroyed can survive the man he becomes afterward.