Nylah Collins is racing a three-month deadline for an Olympic engineering fellowship when the last man she wants in her workspace is assigned to her.
Ryan Owen, St. Jude's feared hockey enforcer, wants nothing to do with students, clipboards, or the guilt he hides behind battered hands.
A brawl on the ice puts him on disciplinary probation, and the athletic department orders daily biomechanical testing with Nylah in an isolated basement lab.
Dawn after dawn, their hostility hardens into a pull that neither his clearance nor six feet of empty ice can contain.
Giving in could wreck his draft chances and her academic future, yet staying outside his reach is no longer an option.
