Aria Lang has spent her whole life bleeding for the ice.

But at Northridge Rink, figure skaters don’t matter, hockey does. Her practice slots are disappearing, her scholarship hopes are dying, and the Eastern Showcase is only eleven weeks away. Without a pairs partner, she’s finished.

Cole Brennan is the hockey team’s brutal enforcer, one more fight away from losing everything. He’s cold, arrogant, and the last person Aria wants to share oxygen with… let alone the 5 a.m. ice the rink manager forces them to split.

She hates him. He wants nothing to do with her. Until the morning Aria falls, and Cole catches her like he was born to do it.

Because the town’s most feared hockey player has a secret: before the tragedy that destroyed his family, Cole used to skate pairs. And his body still remembers every lift, every count, every touch.

Desperate, Aria makes him an offer he can’t refuse. He’ll be her partner for the showcase. She’ll help him clean up his image for the scouts. No one ever has to know.

But secrets this big don’t stay buried. And when a blackmail video threatens to destroy Cole’s future, their fragile deal turns into something far more dangerous.

They were supposed to stay on their own sides of the ice.

Instead, they’re falling hard. One wrong move and they’ll both lose everything. Including each other.