Boarding

Three years ago, Finn O'Rourke walked out of Lena Hartmann's life on a blown-out knee.

Now he's standing in her gym, holding his own board, smiling like he never left.

Lena came back to Silverton to win one last qualifier.

To prove the crash in February didn't break her.
To prove she didn't need anyone to carry her down the mountain.

She had a plan.

The plan did not include him.

Finn was the rival who beat her, the partner who left her, the name she'd crossed out of every late-night thought.

Now Coach wants them training the same pipe. The press wants a story. And someone on the team wants Lena off the slope badly enough to loosen her bindings before a run.

The sabotage is real.

The danger is real.

And the worst part is how safe she still feels when Finn checks her straps with those gravel-rough hands and that voice like velvet over stone.

Then it all comes apart in front of the cameras.

A leak. A lie. A press-conference trap with both their names in the headline and the whole circuit watching her face.

She waited for Finn to set the record straight.

Instead he looked at her across the lights and said, "Lena, tell them the truth - even if it ends me."

That was the moment everything changed.

Not because he asked her to choose.

But because choosing him might cost her the only thing she had left.

Now there's one qualifier between Lena and the run that decides everything. One slope. One drop-in. One last chance to prove that the family they almost lost is worth standing back up for.

If Finn wants a second run with her, he'll have to do more than apologize. He'll have to fall with her and mean it.

Boarding is a steamy, slow-burning enemies-to-lovers sports romance about a second-chance reunion, forced proximity, public humiliation, team sabotage, a holiday homecoming, and the family two broken athletes almost lost.

Perfect for readers who love enemies-to-lovers hockey-and-snow sports romance, grumpy-sunshine banter, second-chance reunions, found family, and a hard-won happy ending. A standalone romance with a happy-ever-after.