Forbidden Forward

JACKIE

I know what it’s like to lose everything.

After a spectacular fall from grace destroyed my career and reputation, I’m determined to start over in Raleigh—quietly, anonymously, and one day at a time. The last thing I need is another complication.

Especially a hockey player who’s completely off-limits.

COLBY

I’ve built a career getting under everyone’s skin. As the newest member of the Carolina Surge, I’m fighting to prove I belong, earn a contract extension, and keep the peace with my volatile teammate, Donovan Harper.

There’s just one problem.

I can’t stop thinking about his sister.

Jackie keeps running into me when I’m not wearing a hockey helmet or ticking people off for a living. I’m not sure how it happens, but I let her into the parts of my life I don’t share with anyone else. Turns out there’s more to me than two minutes for roughing. The more time we spend together, the harder it is to stay away from her.

But some lines were never meant to be crossed.

As Jackie’s past threatens the future she’s worked so hard to rebuild, I risk losing a life I’ve finally found worth fighting for. Now we have to decide if falling for each other is the biggest risk of all … or the only way to find safe harbor.

Forbidden Forward is Book One of The Playmakers Series^®: Carolina Surge but can be read as a standalone.