Stolen Ice Advantage

Penny Correa's only way out of generational debt is the forty-five-thousand-dollar Vanderveer Fellowship, and she cannot afford a single mistake.

Justin Ibarra, collegiate hockey's most violent enforcer, wrecks her diagnostic gear and throws cash at her as though she is invisible—until a separated shoulder strands him in a windowless lab beneath the arena for one hundred twenty hours of private rehabilitation she alone must supervise.

Six-foot-four, with eighty-four penalty minutes and a Boston Bruins contract pending, he lives to control the ice and protect his family, yet the defiant brunette in front of him never flinches.

In that humid concrete room, clinical distance collapses into friction, stolen breath, and commands she cannot ignore.

Fraternization would mean her expulsion and the end of his NHL future, and rival players are already watching the door.