Only For The Winter: A Hockey Romance

Mara Ellis is twenty-eight years old, has a knee injury that ended her Olympic career, and a résumé as a sports physical therapist that promises more than the Boston job market is currently willing to offer.

When she's offered a temporary position—as a live-in nanny and physical therapist for Cole Ashby, starting goaltender for the Boston Nor'easters and single father to seven-year-old Lily—she accepts for practical reasons. Twelve weeks. One contract. No complications. Cole Ashby doesn't believe in complications.

He has a daughter who watches every decision he makes, a hip injury threatening his season, and an ex-wife who walked away in March without giving him any real answers. He's not looking for anything. He doesn't have time for anything.

And he remembers all too well the woman in the dark green dress who argued with him about goaltenders at a charity gala five years ago, then disappeared before he could find the right words. Now that same woman is living under his roof, teaching his daughter how to shift her weight on the ice.

That's the thing about the rules we make for ourselves: they work perfectly—until you meet the wrong person at the wrong time in exactly the right place. Only for the Winter is a contemporary romance featuring an authentic slow-burn, a child who understands everything before the adults do, and a happily-ever-after that's truly earned.