Off-Ice Rules

A Hockey Romance Novel

De: Sloane Beckett

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

He left her at nineteen. He came home at thirty-two. He had no idea what he was coming home to.

For fans of Hannah Grace, Elsie Silver, Tessa Bailey, Maggie North, and every reader who has ever screamed into a pillow over a small-town hockey romance, OFF-ICE RULES is a slow-burn, single-dad, secret-baby second chance you will inhale in one sitting.

HOLDEN
Boston Beacons captain. Five seasons. Two conference finals. One hit at the boards in Pittsburgh that ended my career in a single second.

Coming home to Bishop Falls, Vermont was supposed to be the easy part. Sell my mother's house. Pack up the life I left. Be gone before the first real storm. I was not supposed to walk into the old wooden rink my father taught me to skate in and find Cara Whitlock standing at the boards in the same wool coat she wore the night I drove out of town. I was not supposed to see her freckles, or her chin, or her quiet, wrecked anger at the man I turned out to be.

I was definitely not supposed to find out that the small left-handed six-year-old in the pink helmet on her hip is mine.

CARA
I am the woman who runs the bakery, runs the rink, and runs the only youth hockey league in town. I raised my daughter on cinnamon, baking soda, and pure stubborn refusal to need a single thing from the boy who promised he was coming back and never did.

Now he is home. Helping his mother sell the house. Pretending he can coach my daughter's team without falling apart at the boards. Pretending he can sit at my kitchen table on Wednesdays without wrecking the only safe life I have ever built. Pretending the snow on the porch of the carriage house behind the rink does not look exactly like the future I gave up on at nineteen.

Holden Voss has two weeks to convince me he is not the boy who walked away.

He has the rest of his life to convince our daughter.

What's inside:
A washed-up NHL hero with a redemption arc that will gut you.
A fierce single-mom heroine who is the entire heart of a small Vermont town.
A six-year-old hockey-obsessed scene stealer who deserves her own book.
A grandmother-with-a-plan, a brother with a soft side, a best friend who tells the truth, and a slow-burn that will keep you up past midnight.
One photograph in a bakery. One bridge in the snow. One porch swing waiting for a yes in May.
A guaranteed happily ever after, plus a sequel hook for Wyatt and Mari you will sprint to preorder.

Perfect for readers who loved Icebreaker by Hannah Grace, Pucking Around by Emily Rath, Off the Ice by Avery Flynn, the Maple Hills series, the Chestnut Springs series by Elsie Silver, the Bailey Brothers series, anything by Lucy Score, and BookTok's favorite hockey hero with a heart full of regret and a hand full of fresh snow.

Lace up. Take the ice. Come home to Bishop Falls.