icing

aubree callahan has spent her entire life around hockey-from freezing early mornings in winson-salam to olympic gold with team USA at just twenty-one years old, hockey has always been the one thing that made sense. now balancing life as the high point university's star forward and leading scorer. aubree is used to pressure, attention, and expectations.

what she isn't used to?

walking into her father's minor league hockey practice in winson-salam and accidentally turning an entire locker room upside down.

especially, igor karpov.

the quiet twenty-three year old russian forward for the twin city thunderbirds barely speaks to anyone, keeps his head down, and lives for hockey. most people find him intimidating. aubree finds him interesting. igor doesn't know what to do with someone who understands the game the way he does, someone who sees past the silence and sharp edges he hides behind.

but, falling for the coach's daughter is dangerous enough.

falling for a hockey star with cameras constantly following her everywhere she goes? worse. as feelings grow between late-night ice sessions, quiet conversations in empty arenas, and stolen moments during chaotic road trips, igor and aubree quickly realize hockey might be the easiest part of all of this, because secrets never stay hidden long in a locker room and when the season starts falling apart, lines between family, hockey, and love begin to blur in ways neither of them expected.

set in the loud, gritty world of minor league hockey, icing is a slow-burn sports romance about pressure, sacrifice, found family, and learning that sometimes the scariest thing isn't losing the game...

it's letting someone become your home.