Rookie Hawkeyes Series - Böcker

A second chance, forbidden romance where the stakes are high both on and off the ice. In this thrilling tale, love becomes the ultimate goal, challenging the boundaries of loyalty, family, and personal redemption.Jon Paul Dumont is everything I was warned about in this league-talented, entitled, and fully aware of both. The NHL's favorite bad boy has left a trail of broken hearts from Montreal to San Diego, and a year ago, I was stupid enough to become one of them. Now he's signed with my father's team, the Seattle Hawkeyes, attempting a comeback after a career-threatening injury and a DUI charge that got him dropped from the Blue Devils. As the GM's assistant, I've spent four years building my reputation as more than just Coach Wrenley's daughter. I'd like to pretend that my past hasn't just skated back into my life in a Hawkeyes jersey, but the universe has other plans. Now we're paired together on the team's biggest charity event of the year, and suddenly I'm forced to confront not only JP, but all the reasons I fell for him in the first place-his perfect smile, his infuriating habit of speaking French when he knows I don't understand, and the way he brings me coffee just the way I like it. He claims there's more to the story of why he disappeared that night, and the way he looks at me makes me want to believe him, but I learned the hard way that players like JP Dumont don't change. When he challenges me to a bet-three shots on goal for the chance to prove he's not the player everyone thinks he is-I know I should walk away. But with the whole team watching, my pride on the line, and my heart refusing to listen to reason, I realize I'm in danger of making the same mistake twice. Because this time, JP Dumont isn't just playing for keeps-he's playing for me.

When ex-military hockey enforcer Trey Hartley loses his nanny mid-season, he's desperate—until Vivi Newport, CEO of a high-end nanny agency and his old teammate’s sister-in-law, reluctantly steps in. She’s smart, stunning, and way out of his league… and engaged. But as Vivi bonds with Trey’s orphaned niece, the lines between professionalism and passion start to blur. Trey isn’t the golden retriever type—he’s a doberman, intense and possessive, and he’s already falling hard. All he wants now is for Vivi to end her engagement—and give him a chance.

On the ice, they call me “East.” I’m fast, sharp, and just cocky enough to make it work.Off the ice? I’m elbows-deep in takeout and doing everything I can to avoid grown-up responsibilities.So, when Luka—our team’s left winger—asks the single guys for a favour and we end up drawing straws, I don’t blink. Until I pull the short one... and find out I’ve just agreed to marry his little sister.I figured she’d be a stuck-up Russian ballerina with the opposite calorie intake goals, the personality of cold toast, and maybe even a convenient language barrier to save us both from awkward small talk.One quickie divorce and a green card later, we'd both be free again. Easy, right?Then Katerina Popovich steps off a private jet in sky-high heels, wrapped in a fur coat that probably costs more than all my hockey gear combined, with two bodyguards trailing her like shadows.And that's when I realised that I didn’t just agree to marry a Russian ballerina—I agreed to marry a mob princess trying to dodge an arranged marriage her father orchestrated with another crime family.But the real threat isn’t her mobster father. It’s Luka—my teammate and the guy giving me murder-eyes at practice like he’s calculating how many bones he can break before it messes with our playoff chances.Because the only thing more dangerous than marrying a mafia princess… is catching real feelings for my best friend’s little sister.