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Shane and Ilya know how to handle pressure, but they've never faced anything like Madeline. She's Shane's oldest friend and the one person Ilya can't seem to rattle-until he does. When the cracks in her "neutral" facade reveal a secret she's spent a lifetime hiding, the '' rivalry'' takes a backseat. Madeline didn't want their help, and she certainly didn't want them to see her at her most vulnerable. But Ilya is observant, Shane is protective, and neither of them is letting her run away this time.
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Madeline is a star-a former NFL cheerleader, a gymnast, and Hollywood's newest "it" girl. She's spent her life being exactly what everyone needed her to be: perfect, polished, and unbreakable. But underneath the grey eyes and the spotlight, she's drowning in a past she was never protected from. When she retreats to the cottage with Shane and Ilya, the walls she's built finally begin to crumble. She's terrified of being small, but with the two most competitive men in the NHL acting as her unplanned guardians, she's about to learn that she doesn't have to be "big" to be loved.