The Bind & Brew
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Beau Montgomery was built for the ice-ten years in the NHL, captain of the Boston Bruins, a career that ended in one wrong hit and a surgeon's office.
Now he's thirty, retired, and hiding in a crumbling cottage in Donegal, Ireland.
He came to disappear.
Caleb McGinley doesn't believe in silence.
He runs a chaotic bookshop-café, knows everyone's business, and has never met a problem he didn't try to fix-especially not the massive, brooding American who just moved into the old O'Shea place.
Beau doesn't want fixing.
And Caleb has no idea what he's getting himself into.
But between leaking roofs, black coffee, and a bookseller who refuses to leave him alone, the walls Beau built around his heart start to crack.
And Beau has never been very good at losing a fight-
even when he's starting to realize that this time,
someone else might be the one who pays for it.
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