Power Play

"Tell me this trade is a joke." Josephine Kilbride has spent ten years building a career no one can question. She takes the hardest hits, scores when it matters, and never lets anyone see where she bruises. But when a shocking midseason trade sends her to a struggling expansion team, she finds herself sharing a locker room with the one woman she has never forgiven. Delphine Ashworth ended Jo's college season with a single brutal check. Now she is the polished captain and public face of a professional women's hockey league fighting to survive. Del cannot afford distractions, bad headlines, or another reason for the league's board to doubt her franchise. She especially cannot afford Jo—the furious rival who knows exactly how to crack her composure. Forced onto the same roster, the two captains turn every practice into a battle. Budget road trips make escape impossible, especially when cramped hotel arrangements leave them sharing more than ice time. One confrontation becomes a kiss. One kiss becomes a secret arrangement governed by rules neither of them can seem to follow. It is supposed to be physical. Temporary. Safer than admitting that their rivalry has always carried a hunger neither woman understood. But as their chemistry transforms the team's season, the line between resentment and desire begins to disappear. Jo must decide whether trusting Del will finally free her from the worst moment of her career—or give Del the power to break her all over again. Del must choose between protecting the league she helped build and reaching for the one thing she has never allowed herself to want. With the team's future hanging on every game and their secret becoming harder to hide, can two lifelong rivals risk everything for a love neither of them saw coming?