Icebreaker

She lost everything on the ice once—her Olympic dream, her confidence, her nerve—and Valeria Cortez has no intention of risking it again. Coaching at the Glassport rink suits her just fine, until budget cuts force her to share her sacred 5 a.m. ice time with the men's hockey team and its impossibly cold, impossibly magnetic captain, Jordan Bauer. What starts as a territorial war of sabotaged playlists and razor-sharp insults becomes something far more dangerous when a charity exhibition forces them into each other's arms. He's hiding a diagnosis that could end him. She's hiding a hunger that could break her all over again.