Checked

He communicates in monosyllables. She won't stop talking. His golden retriever has already chosen sides.
Grumpy hockey captain meets sunshine PT · He falls first (hard) · Golden retriever picks sides · Spicy (5/5) · Standalone in series

Beckett Cole is the captain of the worst team in the ECHL. He's coming off a broken collarbone, his team can't buy a win, and the last thing he needs is a new physical therapist who smiles too much, talks too loud, and makes him feel things he absolutely does not have time to feel. He leads by showing up, not by talking about it. He has a golden retriever named Biscuit. He brings her coffee every morning and pretends it means nothing.

It means everything.

Harper Reeves moved to Millhaven, Pennsylvania to build her PT practice and start over after an ex who treated her like his personal support staff. She did not move here to develop feelings for a brooding defenseman who refuses to follow her treatment plan, communicates exclusively through grunts, and has the emotional availability of a brick wall. But Beckett Cole keeps showing up -- quietly, steadily, in the way that actually matters. And his dog likes her more than he does. Or at least that's what he lets her believe.

Late-night rehab sessions turn into late-night conversations. The grunts turn into dry, deadpan humor she wasn't expecting. The coffee shows up before she asks for it. And the man who won't tell his teammates how he feels starts showing a physical therapist who won't stop asking.

But Beckett measures his worth in ice time, not in people. And when the pressure of a losing season collides with the fear that he's not enough off the ice, he pushes away the first person who's seen the man behind the captain.

"She's a breakaway I didn't see coming. And I don't miss breakaways. I just don't know how to let someone score."

Checked is Book 1 in The Northside Rebels, a five-book interconnected standalone hockey romance series. Each book features a different player and a guaranteed HEA. No cliffhangers. Just a team of idiots who fight as hard for love as they do on the ice.

Grumpy-sunshine. Forced proximity. He falls first (and hard). Golden retriever wingman. She's his physical therapist. He brings her coffee and pretends it's not a love letter. Books that make you cry about a hockey player who can't say what he feels.

For fans of grumpy-sunshine hockey romance, dual-POV slow burn, and hockey boys who grunt their feelings.

Free with this complete series.