OVERTIME FOR US: A Second-Chance Hockey Romance

Jake Sorensen has one season left to prove his knee can still carry a championship team - and captaincy isn't the only thing he's afraid of losing.Five years ago, grief made him a coward. When his mother died, he pulled away from the one person who could have helped him through it, certain that shutting Lily Hartman out was a mercy instead of a wound. She never got the chance to argue otherwise.Lily didn't wait around to find out if he'd change his mind. She built a bakery, a business, a life that runs perfectly well without him in it - and she's not interested in reopening a door she spent five years learning to live past, apology or not.Then their best friends' wedding lands them in the same lake house cabin for three days, and there's no polite way to avoid the man she's spent half a decade successfully not thinking about. Or the fact that being near him again feels less like danger and more like something she never actually finished.Getting Lily to trust him again turns out to be the easy part. What Jake has to prove - to her, and to the part of himself still convinced he'll fail the people who need him most - is that he's actually capable of staying when it's hard, not just when it's easy to.Overtime for Us is a sweet, second-chance hockey romance about the risk of loving someone twice - banter, slow-burn tension, and kisses that count, with nothing more explicit than that