Playing for Keeps: A Brother's Best Friend Hockey Romance (Hot Jocks Book 1)

He's been off-limits her entire life—and now he won't stop looking at her like she's the only shot worth taking.

Eleanor has spent years perfecting the art of ignoring Weston Chase. Her brother's best friend, the NHL's most infuriating defenseman, and the one man who knows exactly how to get under her skin. He's cocky, relentless, and absolutely convinced that their constant bickering is just foreplay waiting to happen.

He's not entirely wrong.

When circumstances throw them together under the same roof, the hostility they've carefully maintained for years starts cracking. Every argument dissolves into stolen glances. Every heated exchange ends a little too close, lasting a little too long. Weston isn't playing nice anymore—he's playing to win, and Eleanor is starting to wonder if she even wants him to lose.

But her brother's trust isn't collateral she's willing to risk. And Weston has a reputation that follows him like a penalty flag—charming everything in skates, committing to nothing.

Except he keeps looking at her like she's the exception to every rule he's ever lived by.

*Playing for Keeps* is the addictive first book in the Hot Jocks series—a slow-burn, forbidden romance that proves the most dangerous opponent isn't across the ice. Sometimes, he's standing right in your kitchen, smiling like he already knows how the game ends.

And God help her, she wants to find out too.