Sudden Death

By: Juno Reardon

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Each book in this series features a different couple and a complete happily ever after.

Hollis Underwood threw her helmet at the boards two years ago. The clip went viral. She became a meme. She got diagnosed — autistic and ADHD, dual — and spent two years in the PWHL rebuilding quietly while the internet kept the loop running.

She is back at residency camp on her last realistic shot at an Olympic roster spot. Everyone — coaching staff, media, former teammates, the federation, and several thousand strangers on social media — has an opinion about whether she deserves it. She is not here for their opinions. She is here to prove she belongs, and she has exactly zero emotional bandwidth left for anything else.

Then she meets the team's goalie.

Iver Sørensen is twenty-two, processes the game in geometric patterns, has an absurd save percentage, and has been watching Hollis Underwood highlights since she was fifteen. She sees not the viral meltdown clip but the player who taught her to be fearless in the crease. She chooses Hollis — deliberately, stubbornly, in full knowledge of the optics — and she will not be protected from her own decision.

The age gap is nine years. Both of them know it. The forbidden romance is not lost on anyone, and everyone around them will use it as a weapon. Hollis is terrified of being predatory. Iver is furious at being treated as someone who cannot choose.

With the Olympic roster announcement looming and the world already watching, love has never been more inconvenient — or more necessary.

She already lost the thing she loved most once. Is it possible to build something new in the space left behind?