Playing for Forbidden Love

Jax Morrow keeps his heart on lockdown after two devastating breakups, pouring himself into pro hockey and the daughter he is determined to protect.

When severe bullying pushes her to live with him, the star player finds single fatherhood overwhelming and desperately needs help.

Kiley O’Shea, a single mother balancing full-time teaching with night work at her family’s struggling pub, wants nothing to do with the arrogant playboy her father calls a friend—until Jax quietly invests to save the bar.

She reluctantly becomes his temporary nanny, and life under the same roof turns parenting chaos and late-night temptation into a chemistry neither of them can shut out.

Whether Jax can keep his heart guarded against the woman he should not want remains the one contest he may not be strong enough to win.