Ruby Bennett only needs to deliver twelve dozen cupcakes to a charity fundraiser at the arena, keep her composure around the Houston Lonestars, and get home unharmed.
A runaway puck and a spilled iced coffee wreck that last goal and put her face to face with Liam Fichtner, the team's charming left defenseman.
Liam has always put hockey first, kept women second, and treated relationships as something other people do.
Ruby is sweet, uninterested in the spotlight, and not chasing him, which only makes her harder to keep at a casual distance.
The more time he spends with the baker who would rather stay behind the scenes, the less he remembers why uncomplicated ever felt like enough.
Their collision was never meant to last, yet neither of them can quite walk away from what it started.
