Pucked Promise

A single mom.
A fallen coach.
One small-town rink in the mountains that might just give them both a second chance.
I didn’t expect to see Dane again. The hometown hero who made it big first as a professional hockey player and now as a big-time coach.

I especially didn’t expect to see him coaching my daughter’s youth hockey team.

He was my first love.
The boy I let go.
The man who left our small town behind to chase his dreams.

Now he’s back after a brutal season that’s left his future as a pro hockey coach hanging by a thread. And somehow coaching my daughter’s team.
I’ve worked too hard to rebuild my life to risk my heart on a man who might leave again. My focus is on my daughter, the struggling mountain lodge I’m fighting to save, and keeping everything together in a town that doesn’t offer second chances easily.

Except Dane isn’t the same man who left.
He’s patient. Protective. Annoyingly good with my daughter. And the way he looks at me still makes my pulse trip over itself.
When feelings I never truly buried come roaring back to life, I have to decide if I’m brave enough to believe in him again.
Because this time, if I fall, it won’t be just my heart on the line.