Love Me Ruthlessly (Beautiful Rivals #1)

Alex Morgan is the ruthless captain and star center of the Chicago Titans.

He controls every game, protects his teammates with brutal loyalty, and never allows anyone close enough to discover the damage beneath his carefully guarded reputation.

Olivia Carter—the team owner’s intelligent, defiant daughter—is the one woman he has never been able to intimidate, forget, or stop watching.

When Olivia returns to Chicago to investigate a growing scandal inside the Titans organization, she witnesses Alex standing over a badly injured man in a restricted arena tunnel.

The stranger’s final warning connects her father to buried medical records, illegal money, and a secret powerful enough to destroy the team.

Alex needs Olivia’s access to uncover the truth.

Olivia needs the protection of the most dangerous man in professional hockey.

Their hostile arrangement forces them into secret meetings, shared rooms, jealous confrontations, and an attraction that becomes impossible to resist.

But Alex’s protection quickly begins to feel like possession, and Olivia refuses to lose her freedom to a man who believes love means controlling every threat.

The closer they become, the more dangerous the truth becomes—and the harder it is to know whether Alex is protecting her or using her.

With careers, lives, and the future of the Chicago Titans at risk, Alex must choose between vengeance and trust.

Olivia must decide whether the man capable of destroying everything is also the only man willing to stand beside her when the truth is exposed.

Dark, emotional, intensely romantic, and filled with danger, Love Me Ruthlessly is an enemies-to-lovers hockey romance about obsession, betrayal, redemption, and being chosen without being owned.