Lennox Kennedy is beautiful, loud and the love of my life.

She’s also my ex-girlfriend.

The first time I saw her after ten years apart, I slammed into the plexiglass minutes before our game was set to begin. The second time, I threw up. But third time’s a charm apparently, because as my fiancée and I walked into an appointment to meet the woman hired to plan our nuptials, there she was again.

Obviously, I did what any smart man would do–I called off the wedding.

I don’t have a plan, per se, other than winning back the only girl I’ve ever loved.

As a future hall of famer and one of the best centers hockey has ever seen, I know a thing or two about winning, but convincing Lennox Kennedy to give this hockey boy another chance might be the challenge of a lifetime, and this game I’m playing may turn out to be nothing but a pucking disaster.

The first time I set foot in Fire Chief Declan Everhart’s small town, he declared me trouble.

Maybe it’s because I’m a pop star hiding in his house for the holiday season. Or maybe it’s the way I can’t help but tease the Grinch.

More than likely, though, it’s because his best friend Cade touched me right in front of him,
lighting a fire so hot it threatens to incinerate us all.

Now I can’t keep my hands to myself.

Cade is famous for being the Playboy assistant coach of the Boston Bolts, a man only out for a good time. But I know what we have is rare.

Cade wants me, Declan wants me, and Declan would be a bad liar if he didn’t admit that some part of him wants Cade too.

I’ve gone round and round about these feelings. Can we really say the heart wants what it wants, or are we just asking for more trouble?

I’ve never been a good bet.

I wear my emotions on my tattoo-covered sleeve, I say all the wrong things, and I revel in pissing off a certain redhead far more than I should. In other words, I’m the last person the court would choose to parent any child, let alone three of them.

Yet being their father is all I want.

So when the woman I love to hate offers to help make all my dreams come true, I jump at the chance. Marrying Ava is a convenient solution: she’s my kids’ favourite person, and the court will absolutely approve of the woman who runs the biggest charity in Boston.

But there is nothing convenient about the way I feel when she fights with me, or when we kiss. And I’m not sure which I enjoy more.

This marriage may have a time limit, but I’d like to keep my wife. She’ll probably fight me on it, but as they say, all’s fair in love and war.

“In your dreams, Baby Hall.”

Older. Hotter. And way out of my league, Hannah Prescott has been my obsession since the moment she uttered those five simple words.

She thinks she’ll deter me by her dismissive attitude, but her words only spur me on. I love a challenge, and since Hannah is my literal dream girl, she’s worth putting in a bit of work.

Up until now, everything in my life has come easy: hockey, women, friendships. Then Noah Harrison is traded to our team, and my spot on the first line with my best friends is at risk. Suddenly, Hannah is wearing his jersey, and I realise I’ve got to act fast or risk losing my shot forever.

Fortunately for me, dreams do come true, because though she only offers me one night, fate has other plans. She may have said she’ll never call me Daddy Hall, but the positive pregnancy test in her hand makes that impossible.

With my every dream within reach, I need to find a way to prove to Hannah that she’s the one for me, and I’m so much more than a playboy.

There’s an unspoken rule in hockey: don’t date your teammates’ little sister.

Dating the coach’s little sister might be even worse, not to mention bro code, which clearly states that a best friend’s little sister is off-limits.

And I’m definitely prohibited from dating the team’s owner.

But what if, before she was any of those things, she was the woman who turned my world upside down? What if she’s the woman I shared the three best days of my life with, then spent years searching for?

Sienna Langfield is all of those things, and now that I’ve figured out who she is, I can’t walk away.

The problem is, I’m not the same man I was all those years ago. I’m now a single dad, and my son and I are a package deal. On top of that, I’m in the midst of contract negotiations with the team she owns.

With four older brothers and a roster of reasons working against us, dating her would be dangerous. But serendipity has a way of reminding us both that I belong with that beauty.

Camden Snow is old enough to be my father, dangerously charming, annoyingly irresistible—and my future ex-boyfriend.

The moment I meet the former hockey player at his holiday party, the chemistry is off the charts. Despite the pesky feelings his presence stirs inside me, I have zero intention of actually dating the notorious bachelor.

I don’t date.

I’m only entertaining Camden’s advances because I have an article to write and a point to prove. For years, I’ve witnessed my best friend date all the wrong men and repeatedly get her heart broken.

So I’m going to teach her and the rest of my readers what not to do when dating by doing all the stereotypical wrong things and getting dumped.

The only problem? Camden Snow won’t dump me.

In fact, everything I do to push him away only draws him closer.
Flirt with others? He gets possessive.
Talk about the future? He’s all in.

But what if the one thing that could destroy us is the only thing I never planned for? Will my theory prove to be right, or will our love last past the snow?