She's here to fix the team. He's the captain who doesn't believe in feelings. A slow-burn enemies-to-lovers hockey romance.She's here to fix the team's mental game. He's the captain who doesn't believe in feelings. This was never going to be simple.
When Ava Harlow is hired as the Chicago Wolfpack's sports psychologist, she expects resistance. What she doesn't expect is for it to come from the brooding, infuriatingly perceptive captain who has spent eleven years making sure nobody gets close enough to see what he's actually carrying.
Finn Gallagher doesn't need anyone picking apart his players' heads. He definitely doesn't need her in his space every Tuesday morning asking questions he doesn't have clean answers to.
Except the team is struggling. She's not leaving. And somewhere between the sessions he was determined to give nothing to and the overnight bus through Ohio at two in the morning—something started to shift.
Off the Ice is a standalone, clean hockey romance full of slow-burn tension, sharp banter, and two people who are significantly better at helping everyone else than helping themselves.