One Night Puck: A Surprise Baby Hockey Romance

by Riley Keenan

When Harper faints at hockey practice and whispers about morning sickness in her delirium, Marcus's world shifts on its axis. The woman investigating him for corruption is pregnant with his child.

She expects demands for silence or paternity tests, but Marcus asks only one "What do you need?"

The first time Marcus looks at me, it's with complete contempt. It’s exactly the professional distance I need from the NHL's most controversial player while investigating him for corruption.

Then team management does the unthinkable. They assign me to follow Marcus for an entire season for a documentary series, trading unprecedented access for my network's silence about their scandals.

Now I spend every day with a six-foot-three wall of muscle who responds to my questions with cutting sarcasm and sprays ice in my direction during practice.

But Marcus starts slipping. Secret hospital visits. Covering rookies' expenses. Knowing exactly how I take my coffee. And worse, knowing about my father's betting scandal that destroyed our family.

When a blizzard strands us together in Denver, the truth Marcus reveals about that night, and about his own devastating losses, changes everything.

One spectacular mistake later, I'm staring at three positive pregnancy tests while harboring evidence that could destroy Marcus's career or save it.

The corruption goes deeper than anyone imagined, and the man I'm supposed to expose might be the only one I can trust. Suddenly, I'm not just writing the story. I'm living it.

And the scariest part isn't the threats from team owners or the scandal exploding around us. It's realizing that somewhere between the arguments and midnight texts about baby names, I’m falling for hockey's most misunderstood villain.

305 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 20, 2025

Reviews

[Laura Wolff · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another awesome hockey story by Riley Keenan. I love a good hockey romance if I haven’t mentioned it before. But what I love even more is the hockey in the story. There are a lot of hockey adjacent stories but Riley nails the line between romance, fun and hockey. Plus you get the awesome team family vibe, joking, teasing fun that comes with a hockey team.

Mark is a highly traded player who is currently on the Seattle Storm hockey team. His bouncing around coincides with some shady stuff that has been swept under the rug. But he remains tight lipped about the circumstances surrounding his trades. Hockey is his life and his priority, until a journalist comes barreling into him (literally) and breaks down walls he spent a lifetime building.

Harper is an investigative journalist and the daughter of a former NHL hockey player who died in a car crash under false conditions. She believes he was killed due to the money he owed to some bad people. And she is going to uncover the corruption and the gambling ring circling the hockey world. But will she survive Mark Donovan and all that he represents?

This story was a fun back and forth where you could feel the tension rolling off these two. But the best part was the team sticking their noses in it.

I felt like the last part of this book was rushed through a time line just to finish out the book. It could have been shorter with an extended epilogue in my opinion. Please giver her a chance before taking my opinion into consideration. I love Riley Keenan’s stories. This one just wasn’t my favorite.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[EVANGELIA MARAGKOPOULOU · Rating 5 out of 5]

Harper Sinclair is a journalist who is trying to uncover the dirty hockey player who gets paid money to lose games , Mark Donovan is a hockey player who has changed four teams in six years and everyone thinks of him as the big bad guy of hockey . When Harper's editor asks her to make a documentary of series of the entire season so everybody will see who Mark really is . At first she is not trusting him but spending every day with him and watch him how well he is treating his teammates she realizes that maybe she is wrong about him . When they are in Denver for a game and finally they can't deny their feelings and spent the night together , few weeks later she discover that she is pregnant and she worries about his reaction . Mark is ready to have his own family but there is someone how threats there happiness .

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Alicia Bish · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story was infinitely hilarious. I think by the end of chapter one I almost spit my coffee out I was laughing so hard. Saying that it wasn’t a wild ride would be a lie. Harper and mark were so real it was insane.

The banter, the mystery, and the spicey scenes were epic. I was having a hard time not waking my kid up while laughing so hard. Everything was depicted in a tasteful and realistic manner. It honestly reminded me so much of my own friend groups when we’re unhinged and just being ourselves.
If you like hockey and comedy give this book a read.

[Amanda Frye · Rating 4 out of 5]

This story had me finishing one sitting. Once I started I became invested in Mark and Harper. These two had chemistry from beginning even if they fought it. I watch these two become a great story. This is a can’t miss if you love hockey romance with a baby.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Avery · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was good. Tommy and Zoe seemed a bit written by AI, but otherwise good plot and a bit of rushed ending