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Angst, fury, and a grovel that will break you, this is hockey romance at its most devastatingly brilliant! 🏒🖤

Seven years. That’s how long Ivy has carried the night Gabriel Castellano ruined everything, her dream, her career, her belief in him. And he doesn’t even remember her. When he walks into her bar like he’s never seen her face before, she snaps, IPA straight down his six-hundred-dollar shirt, a surprise he won’t forget 💥🔥

But fate has a cruel sense of timing: his team just bought the sponsorship keeping her late father’s bar alive. Suddenly the man she’s spent years hating is everywhere, at her taps, in her space, slowly chipping away at the walls she built to protect herself. And Gabriel? He knows he’s missing something. He feels the weight of her hatred, and worse, he starts to realise he should know why 💙

This isn’t just enemies-to-lovers, it’s a reckoning. Ivy’s grief and anger are so raw, so justified; Gabriel’s slow, stunned realisation of what he’s forgotten and what he’s cost her? Searing. The grovel is legendary, hard, honest, and bloodied, because fixing seven years of silence and hurt isn’t quick or easy. Watching them untangle the truth, confront the past, and find their way back to each other? It hurts so good 🥹❤️

Slow-burn, high-angst perfection that proves the deepest love sometimes has to fight through the darkest memories first. The First Line series has started with a masterpiece, I’m utterly ruined and desperate for more ✨

Charming, fiery, and utterly heartwarming, small-town neighbours to lovers perfection! 🐐✨

Frankie never planned to be back in Cherry Valley, broke, living in a tiny home, working hard to save enough to leave the town she swore she’d escape. Then new neighbour Cole shows up, fresh start, fixer-upper, stubborn as the day is long, and one chaotic escaped goat throws them straight into each other’s orbit 🐐😂

She finds him infuriatingly stubborn; he finds her impossible to ignore. Their bickering is sharp, funny, and charged with so much unspoken heat you can practically feel it crackling between them! What starts as clashing neighbours slowly softens into something real, late-night encounters, quiet understanding, and the terrifying realisation that the place you wanted to flee might just be where you belong… with the last person you expected 💙❤️

Frankie’s journey from “I need to get out” to “I want to stay” feels so genuine, and Cole proves that the best fresh starts include the right person beside you. It’s low-drama, high-heart, and packed with that cozy small-town charm that makes you want to pack your bags and move to Cherry Valley yourself 🥹✨

Absolutely delightful from start to finish, I’m already ready for the next one! 🤠💕

Warm, sweet, and achingly tender, the grumpy/sunshine hockey romance I’ve been waiting for! 🏒🍯

This book wrapped around my heart and wouldn’t let go 🥹 Hallie loves her life in Wattlebrook Ridge, her bakery, her community, her quiet joy in exactly where she is. Then Chase lands, Canadian NHL star, counting the days until he can leave, unimpressed by the tiny town and its crumbling rink. He’s all sharp edges and longing for home; she’s sunshine, warmth, and cinnamon scrolls that soften even the hardest frown ❄️✨

Somewhere between morning coffees, practice sessions, and quiet moments, the grump melts. He starts seeing the beauty in what she loves. She starts seeing the homesick heart beneath his annoyance. But the clock is ticking, his career is back in Canada, her life is here, and falling in love means facing the hardest choice either has ever made 💛🌏

The mutual pining hits so hard, they don’t want to care this much, they know the end date is looming, and yet, here they are. It’s slow-burn perfection, gentle, genuine, and deeply felt. No grand drama, just two people realising they’ve found something rare, and wondering how to hold it without letting go. The ending? Beautiful, brave, and exactly right 🥹❤️

Small-town charm, mouthwatering baked goods, and a love story that proves home isn’t always a place, sometimes it’s a person. I’m already counting down to more from Wattlebrook Ridge ✨

Fake marriage, real love, and secrets that will break your heart, then put it back together stronger! 🏒💙

Sebastian Voss can block the fastest slapshot on ice… but winning custody of his daughter? That’s the fight of his life. His reputation is in tatters, his case hanging by a thread, so he proposes a fake marriage to the one woman who sees past the headlines, the one woman he’s already losing his heart to 💍🔥

Kat knows saying yes is a mistake, because she’s loved him for years, and she’s been forced to write the very lies ruining his name. Blackmailed, trapped, keeping a devastating secret under his roof… she walks into his home, wears his ring, loves his little girl, and falls deeper every single day. Stolen kisses, quiet nights, building a family, the fake becomes so beautifully real that forgetting the expiration date is the easiest thing in the world 🥹❤️

The tension is unbearable, knowing the truth is hovering over them, watching Sebastian trust her completely while she carries the guilt, wondering if love can survive when the lie finally unravels. It’s raw, tender, and utterly gripping, two people fighting for the same future, terrified the other will walk away when they learn who really pulled the strings. And when it all comes out? The healing, the forgiveness, the realisation they were always on the same team? Swoon. 💙✨

A hockey romance that scores far beyond the game, about protecting what matters most, finding your person in the middle of the mess, and loving someone enough to trust them with your whole heart. HEA hits so hard and so right 🏒💕