Penalty Box Payback

Ivy never forgot the night Gabriel Castellano wrecked her shot at the national team and the only future she had planned.

Seven years later he is traded to Whistler, sitting in her booth with his new teammates and ordering a drink as if he has never seen her face.

She dumps the worst IPA in the house down his expensive shirt, then remembers that his team’s partnership is all that keeps her late father’s bar alive—and the town wants repairs the place cannot earn in a season.

The man she has hated for years is suddenly the closest thing she has to leverage, and every night he returns the price of that hatred climbs.

Golden-boy Gabriel cannot explain a bartender who despises him so specifically, except that he is beginning to think he should.