Hit on Open Ice
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The only romance that Dr. Josephine "Jo" Spencer experienced in her life came from the novels she read. They pulled her in and she lived vicariously through the characters in her books. In her twenty-nine years on earth she hadn't been lucky to experience true, earth-shattering love, and she longed for it. She was beginning to think that maybe there wasn't such a thing.
But then she meets him. Trenton "Trent" Weslowksi plays for the local AAA hockey team. Their paths cross in the most unlikely of places and she is instantly drawn to him. His rugged good looks, his brilliant smile, his kind demeanor. Would this be her chance to get what she always wanted? Or would she find that the love she longed for didn't have a place in the real world?
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