***Shortlisted for the Chatelaine Book Award for Romantic Fiction***Somethingโs terribly wrong with Blake โEshyโ Eshlin, a top-6 winger for the Boston Bears professional ice hockey team. Faced with sudden chronic pain from his bodyโs traumatic response to a virus, Eshy has to learn to live with the agonizing and distracting effects of fibromyalgia without letting the rest of his hockey club know. He hides h ...Full description
***Shortlisted for the Chatelaine Book Award for Romantic Fiction***Somethingโs terribly wrong with Blake โEshyโ Eshlin, a top-6 winger for the Boston Bears professional ice hockey team. Faced with sudden chronic pain from his bodyโs traumatic response to a virus, Eshy has to learn to live with the agonizing and distracting effects of fibromyalgia without letting the rest of his hockey club know. He hides his condition from everyone in his life, but one person can see right through the ruse.As the assistant equipment manager, itโs Kerry Strattonโs job to watch the players closely and attend to their every need, whether itโs sharpening skates, washing towels, or finding the perfect shower soap to clear their sweat acne. When Eshyโs performance wanes and Kerry can see heโs clearly in pain, she inserts herself into his personal life to get him help and make him face his fears of a new normal. But Kerry never bargained for Eshy being a darling sweetheart and such a kind Minnesota mamaโs boy. Even Kerryโs headstrong ways canโt keep her from falling for him and following him into an accidental world of opioids, reckless endangerment, secrets, and blackmail, as Eshy spirals out of control and Kerry fights to save him.When an adversary on Eshyโs own team wants Kerry for himself and goes to dangerous lengths to drive a wedge into Eshy and Kerryโs budding relationship, can Eshyโs hockey career survive an opioid overdose leaking out to the media? And can Kerryโs job survive the aftermath of her involvement in Eshyโs fate?