Between Periods

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Cassidy Moran has spent eighteen months invisible after her mom died. Now she's back at Whitmore University as a grad assistant athletic trainer, living in her childhood bedroom, trying so hard not to be seen that she's become a ghost. Nik Volkov notices. Team captain. NHL draft prospect. The one person on campus who refuses to let her fade. He's been watching her for three weeks, and when he corners her with an invitation to actually use the tickets her dad leaves her—sit behind the bench, let people see you—she's too exhausted to keep running. What starts as coffee and stolen glances becomes late-night conversations in empty arenas. He lost his mom too. He knows what it's like to shut down, to exist in the gray fog where nothing matters. Their connection sparks between periods, between practices, between the structured hours of their separate lives. When he takes a brutal stick to the face during a game, Cassidy sprints through the tunnel and stitches him up herself, hands steady even as her heart shatters. He's leaving in April for the NHL draft. She's terrified of being left again. When their secret explodes in front of the team, they'll face her father—the coach who's been distant since his wife died—and decide if loving each other is worth risking the futures they're both too scared to want. A deeply emotional college hockey romance packed with forbidden love, coach's daughter tension, hidden injury stakes, grief healing, a golden retriever hero who sees her when no one else does, and a hard-won HEA spanning distance and drafts. Perfect for fans of Elle Kennedy and Hannah Grace. Listen now.