Pucking Daddy: An Enemies to Lovers Single Dad Sports Romance (Metro Raptors)

He's the arrogant hockey star she's sworn to despise—until she realizes his most infuriating quality is how fiercely he loves his daughter.

Cara Sullivan doesn't do athletes. Especially not Metro Raptors defensemen who strut through life expecting the world to clear a path. When a scheduling disaster lands her as the new nanny for Bryce Callahan's six-year-old, she tells herself it's temporary. Three months. Survive the smirk, bank the paycheck, move on.

Bryce Callahan doesn't do complications. His life runs on ice time, game tape, and getting his daughter to school without burning breakfast. He doesn't need a nanny who challenges every decision he makes, reorganizes his kitchen with zero permission, and somehow makes his little girl laugh like he hasn't heard in two years.

But late nights bleed into longer conversations. Loaded glances stretch past what either of them can pretend away. The man beneath the ego is nothing like the headlines, and the woman beneath the attitude sees him in ways no one else bothers to try.

They're better at fighting than surrendering. Problem is, every argument lately ends with them standing too close, breathing too hard, reasons blurring at the edges.

Bryce plays for keeps—in hockey and in everything else. Cara just needs to decide whether the risk is worth the reward.

Some love stories start soft. This one starts with sparks.