Wild Ice (A Grumpy Sunshine Hockey Romance Book)

Everyone deserves a second chance at love… When Lauren Bennett inherits her Aunt Cora's quiet country cottage, she's ready for a fresh start. Nestled beside a wildlife refuge, it's the perfect place to spend the summer studying birds, healing, and finding her footing again. There's just one problem. The brooding man in the crumbling mansion next door. JD Mason used to have it all—until tragedy shattered his world and drove him away from the game he loved. Now the former Red Valley Ravens player wants nothing more than to be left alone. Lauren has other plans. Bright, curious, and impossible to ignore, she crashes through his carefully built walls and into his solitary life. What begins as irritation slowly turns into something neither of them expected. But grief doesn't loosen its grip easily. And when the past refuses to stay buried, JD will have to decide if shutting Lauren out will protect his heart…—or cost him the one person who might finally bring him back to life.*Although part of a series, Wild Ice can be read as a stand-alone, as can all the books in the Red Valley Ravens series.*