Cross-Check My Heart

Some secrets destroy families. Others destroy futures.

Chloe Brennan thought she was escaping her father's shadow when she took the job as the hockey team's student athletic trainer. Instead, she walked straight into the orbit of the most dangerous man on campus: Nate Hawkins, the captain with a golden smile and eyes that hide a decade of buried pain.

He hates her. She can't stand him. But when his shoulder gives out and the championship season hangs in the balance, they're forced into the training room together. He calls her Princess. She calls him out on his ego. Every session is a war of wills—and every accidental touch is gasoline on a slow-burning fire.

Then she finds the file. A scholarship document. Her father's signature. A decision that destroyed Nate's family before he was born.

Now she's carrying the truth that could shatter everything. He's falling for the one person who represents everything he's been running from. And when the secret finally comes out, he'll have to choose: protect the legacy he's been fighting for—or fight for the woman who taught him to trust again.

In the final seconds of the championship game, one shot will decide it all. The trophy isn't the only thing on the line.

Cross-Check My Heart is a steamy enemies-to-lovers romance with forced proximity, a protective hockey captain, and a buried family secret.