Kim Findlay – författare

BraydonI fought to play in the NHL. Now I may have blown my chance with a drunken rant that went viral about the female goalie who shared my NHL debut.  I can't say that I reacted badly after I found out she was the secret half-sister I never knew existed.To repair my reputation and prove I support women's hockey, I'm pretend-dating a hockey player. So bizarre. Fortunately, she's brilliant, as well as an Olympic champion. And did I mention sexy?When she gets devastating news, I support her, and things between us feel real. It's hard to remember she's only dating me for her job, because she refuses to be 'just' the girlfriend of a hockey player.JaynaI'm one of the top women players in hockey, but my family still considers my brother, drafted but playing in Europe a bigger success. They're more invested in his career than mine, even though I won a fricking Olympic gold medal.Now I'm injured and working PR for the Toronto Blaze NHL team while I rehab. When an idiot they brought up from the farm team gets caught dissing my teammate, I'm asked to fake date him to rehab his reputation. It's just temporary. Until the worst happens, and suddenly my fake date is my biggest support.But I can't lose my identity. I'm a hockey player, not a WAG.

CooperI hate lawyers. My family is made up of lawyers, so I know what they're like. I play hockey, and even though I've got more money and success than they have, I'm still the black sheep.I need an impressive plus one for my sister's wedding. The tax lawyer with the ugly dress, being sneered at by an asshole who's a clone of my brother, would be perfect. In return, I can show her how to navigate the country club the asshole is taunting her about. She's suspicious but I talk her into it.She's one of the few people who sees past my surface layers. Unlike them, she connects with me like no one else ever has. But she's even more relationship adverse than I am, so when feelings develop, she runs.I'm fast on the ice, but can I catch her?CallieMy mother was a flake. I grew up bouncing between her custody and foster care waiting for her to get her act together. Spoiler alert, it never happened.I don't rely on anyone now. I worked hard to become a tax attorney, valuable to my firm and on track to become partner. Except. It's not enough to be a genius at numbers and contracts, I have to navigate things like networking and the country club, with all those unwritten rules.A cocky hockey player offers to help me if I'll be his date to a family wedding. I agree, even though he insists on supervising what I wear because I need his help. I find out what he's like beneath his charm and start to feel things.Just no. I refuse to take that risk. Because no matter what they promise, no one ever stays.

JoshI'm not the brightest guy. I did well in hockey but not in class. So it's not surprising that my mom and Katie's parents convinced me to break up with her back in high school. I thought I was doing the right thing, but when I run into her five years later, she lets me know just how badly I messed up.Things are different now. I'm an established hockey player on the Toronto Blaze, not a draft hopeful, and I have my teammates to help me figure out how to win Katie back. I've learned how to fight to get what I want now. And that's Katie.But when trade rumors start, I might be sidelined before I can convince her that this time, she's my goal.KatieJosh broke my heart in high school when he ended a two-year relationship by text. Since then I've put my education first, and I'm now working on my master's in math in Toronto. What are the odds I'd run into the guy again in a city of millions?I'm angry with him, but when I find out what our parents did, I'm angrier with them. I agree to be friends, like we were before we started dating. Until those pesky feelings arise, and despite how ordinary I am, he's pushing for more.I had my life planned out, and I don't know if getting involved with Josh again will be a mistake that derails my future, or the key to getting everything I want. With school struggles and trade rumors and family disapproval, what's the right solution to this problem?

PhinThe Christmas hockey break came at just the right time. I wanted to avoid my family's Christmas plans and rest my shoulder, so I drove out of the city to spend the holidays at the cottage. I didn't expect a snowfall to blow up into a storm, or to land in the ditch. I also didn't expect the tow driver who came to rescue me to be the girl from the cottage next door. The anger she blazed at me? Also unexpected.When we get snowed in together, I have my chance to find out why.SkyePhin Collins' face was on a dartboard in our family garage. Finding out he is the reason I was dragged out in a snowstorm two days before Christmas was infuriating. Especially when he asked me to drop him at the 'cottage' his family had built after forcing us to sell ours. But the kicker was when the power lines came down, and I was forced to shelter in their McMansion cottage during the storm.I was worried about controlling my temper. I didn't realize our chemistry would be the problem.

RemyFor the last twenty years, hockey has been my life. As a thirty-two-year-old backup goalie, on what could be my final contract, I need to game time if I hope to get an offer next year. Problem? The goalie coach is a former rival, and he's not happy I'm living next door to his ex-wife. My career is in his hands, so the smart play is to keep her at arms length.It would be easier if she wasn't so kind, to me and my rescue dog. She's the most amazing woman I've met, but this can't go anywhere. Her dreams are in Austin, and if the Aces let me go, my hockey career is over and I have no legal standing to be in the country.She's from a family of famous people, her ex was a better goalie than me, and I have nothing to offer, but my stupid heart won't let go.SophieI'm surrounded by superstars, including my ex-husband, so I'm used to being in the shadows, fixing guitars out of the limelight. I want to expand my business, but without my family's support, I'm doing it the hard way. Then Remy moves into the apartment over my workshop, and my ex freaks out.Remy's only here for the season, and spending time with me could hurt his career, so obviously we should ignore everything that's pulling us together. But he's the first person in a long time to see me, not the famous people around me. And when I need to feel desirable after a horrible evening, he makes me feel irresistible.How can I ask him to risk his hockey dreams when being with me is career suicide?

‎ JustinAs a hockey player, I'm used to playing through pain. But when I punch my teammate at practice, breaking my hand and ending my team's playoff hopes, I find out that emotional pain is not something I can ignore in the long-term.So now I'm back in my hometown, where I made the hard choice between family and love eleven years ago. My therapist wants me to face up to the past. It's not easy. My parents avoid discussing what they did, and the team hired the woman I left behind to help my recovery.I can deal with my parents. But seeing Mia again stirs up old feelings. Strong ones. I'm trying to change, but if I have to make the same choice, is a different outcome possible? MiaI'm struggling to keep so many balls in the air I don't have a moment for myself: my job, my six-year-old son, supporting my family including a horrible stepfather, increasingly incapacitated mother and selfish siblings. It's a lot. I'm exhausted.I'm not happy that my famous ex, the NHL player, is back, and people want to dig up our past. I definitely don't want to spend time with him. But he needs someone he can trust to help while he's rehabbing a broken hand. It's the work I do, and it's an easy job, so I finally agree.Spending time together reminds me why we fell in love all those years ago, but he has to return to Toronto, and I have to stay here. Can I survive choosing family over him again? Do I have a choice?