Offside Temptation

A hockey coach and player put their hearts—and their season—on the line.

About the story

She wants to be judged on her game. Her new coach makes distance difficult.

Mara Ellison arrives early because the empty rink is the one place hockey still feels entirely her own. New head coach Reid Callahan is already there. He knows the roster, expects precision, and notices exactly where her safe choices are slowing her down.

Mara has spent years trying to earn a reputation that belongs to her, rather than to her father’s name. Reid brings his own history into the rink. Between practice demands, professional scrutiny, and an attention neither can treat casually, keeping their connection within the rules is harder than staying onside.

A forbidden coach-and-player hockey romance with adult leads, an age gap, and careers that leave little room for a private mistake.

Your kind of romance?

• Adult coach-and-player romance
• Hockey training and professional pressure
• Mara Ellison and Reid Callahan
• An age gap and complicated boundaries

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From the opening pages

The ice at six in the morning smells like nothing else does. Cold metal and rubber matting and the particular sterile hush of a building that hasn’t filled with bodies yet.

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