Stay away from puck bunnies—easy. When it comes to my best friend's little sister . . . That's far more complicated.

I've spent my entire career focused on what happens on the ice. Yet now that I'm nearing retirement, the beautiful Savannah Rhodes offers me something I never realized I wanted.

A future.

Our ten-year age difference doesn't matter. Even the risk to my friendship with her brother can't extinguish the inferno of need that ignites with every touch. There isn't anything I crave more than her.

But when our secret is revealed and life takes a painful turn . . . It threatens to change everything.

She's all I want. I just need to convince her that I'm worth the risk.

Contains mature themes.