The Enforcer He Ruined

Cass Novak ended a career with one hit and ended his own with it. One year sober, one year gone, and now the only program that will take him back is the one that still hates him. Sasha Pryor runs that program. Her brother is the freshman Cass put in a hospital bed. She does not want him gone. She wants him where she can see him, on the ice, with the rookies she is rebuilding around. He should quit. He does not. They survive the season on hostility and discipline, until February, when an argument in a parking lot ends somewhere neither of them planned. Then the school board moves to bring back the drills that broke her brother, and Cass goes on the record about what really happened a year ago. A dark hockey bully romance about two people who had every reason to ruin each other and did something else.