Changing Lines

Ava Collins had a plan.

Keep her head down. Do her job. Find an accounting position that actually uses the degree she worked so hard to earn. Then leave the world of professional hockey behind without looking back.

Working as the new Director of Public Relations for the Ice Titans was supposed to be temporary.

The players are arrogant. The media never sleeps. The fans are relentless. And Captain Mason Mercer, with his infuriating calm and habit of questioning every one of her decisions, is determined to become the single biggest inconvenience in her life.

Ava has no interest in dating a hockey player, especially one with a history of tabloid-worthy relationships. She has enough baggage of her own. Growing up in a controlling home taught her that vulnerability is dangerous, trust is expensive, and the safest place to be is behind a well-organized schedule.

Unfortunately, the Ice Titans refuse to stay in their lane.

One by one, twenty-three hockey players, a meddling coach, his warmhearted wife, and an entire organization quietly dismantle the walls she's spent years building. Somewhere between road trips, prank wars, late-night practices, and impossible hotel disasters, Ava discovers that family isn't always the one you're born into.

Sometimes...

It's the one that chooses you.

But when the past she escaped walks back into her life, Ava must decide whether she'll keep running from the people who taught her fear... or finally believe the people who taught her what home feels like.

Because changing careers was never the hardest part.

Changing her heart was.

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A slow-burn hockey romance filled with sharp banter, found family, emotional healing, stubborn idiots in love, and one deeply inconvenient captain who never gives up on the woman determined to argue with him forever.