Goalie

Lennon
After losing the championship game last season, I’m more determined than ever to bring home the title for Haulton University my senior year. And when one of the best goalies in recent history strides into the room as our new assistant coach, I’m thrilled. To be the best, you gotta learn from the best, and I want to learn everything Luke Holloway can teach me.
Except, he’s not actually interested in teaching me. Or anything it seems. He’s late, lazy, and nothing like the winner he used to be.
But I want to win. I’m hungry for it and willing to do whatever it takes. And that seems to ignite something in my new coach. As the season goes on and we work closer and closer to my goal, lines start to blur.
I begin to notice things I shouldn’t about him, and he starts to do the same.
I thought I only cared about winning, but I find myself willing to risk it all to be with the one person I can’t have.
My coach.

Luke
I never thought I’d be a coach, let alone for a women’s college hockey team. But after a career-ending injury put me into an early retirement from the NHL, I don’t have much else going for me.
When I arrive at Haulton and am tasked with working with their starting goalie, I couldn’t care less. But she’s determined and refuses to put up with my indifference. She wants to learn from the best? Fine. I just hope she can handle what she’s asking for.
But as the season goes on, her fire sparks mine back to life. I try to snuff it out because the things I’m feeling are wrong.
I’m her coach. She’s my athlete.
But neither of us can stop it.
I’ve never been one to follow the rules, but how many am I willing to break to be with the one person who finally makes me feel alive after years of feeling like my life is over?
The answer is every single one of them.