At nineteen, she becomes the newest social media coordinator for an NHL team—bright, talented, and completely unprepared for the attention she gets both online and in the locker room.
They’ve always been inseparable—late nights, shared secrets, and a kind of closeness that makes everyone else assume they’re already together. He’s fiercely protective, a little possessive, and painfully aware that his feelings for her crossed the line from friendship a long time ago. She, on the other hand, is blissfully clueless, treating him like the safest place in her world. She changes in front of him, steals his clothes, wears whatever she wants without a second thought—because to her, he’s just her best friend. To him, she’s everything. A slow-burning story about blurred boundaries, unspoken love, and the moment when pretending it’s “just friendship” becomes impossible.
Coach’s daughter was always supposed to be untouchable—princess of the rink, golden girl of figure skating, the one every guy admired but none were stupid enough to pursue. Graceful, gorgeous, and impossible not to watch, she lights up the ice the way he dominates it. And the problem? He can’t look away. Not anymore.
Dante Moretti was a man of cold marble. For thirty-two years, the head of the Moretti Syndicate had existed in a world of silence and steel, entirely untouched by the vices of the flesh. To Dante, women were a structural weakness—noise he refused to let into his curated life of violence and order.