For three years Emory makes herself small for hockey star Cade Calloway, managing his career, giving up her MFA, and leaving fifty pages of a novel in a desk drawer he never notices.
On game 7 she is twelve weeks pregnant and bleeding in a hospital room, calling him eleven times, while a national broadcast shows him check his phone, score a hat trick, and lift the trophy with her identical twin beside him and champagne on her sister's dress—and her twin already knew.
Before he comes home, Emory leaves her ring beside his phone and drives out of Nashville with the manuscript she will finish under a pen name no one connects to the hockey wife from that night.
Three years later she is a number-one bestselling author engaged to a man who shows up every morning without being asked, and she returns the flowers and signed jersey when Cade finds her.
His mid-season retirement, his press conference about becoming a better man, and his dawn practices coaching twelve-year-olds at a community rink in a small Tennessee town happen without cameras, but she is already wearing another man's ring,
and that man has never made her wonder whether he means it.
