The Long Change: Rain City Harbormasters Hockey Romance

One winter. One drift she didn't plan.

Stacey Quinn knows exactly how long she's staying in Seattle: one winter. There's a flight home in April with her name on it.

A shattered ankle ended her figure skating career fourteen months ago, and she's been carefully rebuilding a life with nothing left to lose — small, packed, portable. Wintering at her aunt's house is just a place to wait out the rain. The local rink is just somewhere to sketch. The cheap seats at the top of the stairs are just safe.

Then the assistant captain of the Seattle Harbormasters sled (or sledge) hockey team climbs all those stairs to ask why she keeps drawing his team.

Juan is the warmest man in any building he enters — and nobody's noticed that's the wall. Nine years after the crash that put him in a chair, he carries the team he captains in everything but the letter, the family hardware store, and everyone in both. He asks for exactly nothing. He has one rule: never ask anyone to stay.

She has one rule: never have anything you can't pack in twenty minutes. Never love anything that can break a bone.

One borrowed sled breaks both rules. And when the smallest club in the Northwest makes its first-ever championship run, the final lands in the same week as her flight home.

The Long Change features: A grumpy-armored heroine and the sunshine hero who out-patiences her He falls first (he falls so first) She doesn't just watch the team — the team gets her in a sled Found family, one chaotic locker room, and an aunt with opinions Slow burn into open-door heat A porch light that means more than it says
Book one of the Rain City Harbormasters series.