Between Periods

Thirteen years ago, he let her leave without asking her to stay. Now she's back as his team's physical therapist—and the only woman capable of putting him back together.

SLOANE 

I had a four-point plan when I returned to Frostwood: Be a consummate professional, treat my father through his health battles, never look back, and stay strictly hands-off the roster.

That plan disintegrates the second Reid Callahan steps into my clinical suite.

At eighteen, Reid broke my heart when he let me take a scholarship to California in absolute silence. At thirty-one, he's the widowed captain of the Frostwood Wildcats, raising a precocious six-year-old daughter alone, and quietly nursing a chronic shoulder injury that threatens to end his career. Touching his shoulder brings back every memory I tried to outrun. But treating him means crossing strict league fraternization policies—and opening myself up to the only man who ever truly saw me.

REID

I spent thirteen years convincing myself that letting Sloane Mitchell leave town was noble. I called it generosity. In truth, I was terrified that asking her to stay would hold her back.

Now she's here, working on my shoulder twice a week, and her hands hold the kind of precision that unravels every defense I've built since losing my wife. Worse, she's unknowingly matched with my anonymous profile on a dating app, confiding in "Captain Collateral" about her fears of getting her heart broken twice.

When my daughter starts drawing Sloane into our family portraits and asking for hippopotamus-shaped pancakes, the truth becomes unavoidable. I won't hide behind protocol, and I won't make the same mistake twice. I'm ready to risk my captaincy and challenge the league's rules—if Sloane will give us a second period.

Between Periods is an emotional, high-heat, standalone second-chance sports romance featuring a devoted single-dad captain, a brilliant physical therapist heroine, no third-act breakup, and a hard-earned HEA.