Off The Record

She tracks financial fraud by searching for things that don't fit. The last thing she expected was the charming younger hockey star across the hall fitting into her life perfectly.

CASSIDY 

My life runs on strict methodology: hypothesis, evidence, and conclusion. Fresh out of a passionless divorce, I took a six-month forensic accounting contract in Frostwood with three simple rules: solve the fraud, make partner in Boston, and keep my heart strictly off the balance sheet.

Then I discover two very inconvenient facts:

•My new hallway neighbor at The Aldwick is Beckett Torres—the Wildcats' electric 26-year-old left wing, who happens to be my younger brother's best friend.
•He's also the hilarious, culinary-obsessed stranger I've been secretly chatting with on an anonymous dating app.

Beckett is six years younger, spontaneous, and dangerously attentive. He listens to financial accounting podcasts just to understand my caseload and folds fitted sheets like a domestic god. He's an emotional liability I can't afford—especially when my brother has a strict hands-off policy.

BECKETT

 I've been in love with Cassidy Hargrove since she laid down the law at a family barbecue four years ago.

Back then, I was a twenty-two-year-old rookie and she was completely off-limits. But now she's living directly across the hall in 14B, working late into the night under harsh desk lamps, and trying to convince herself that numbers are safer than people.

She thinks our six-year age gap is a disqualifying variable. She thinks her brother will kill us. But when she's drowning in corporate audit files, I'm the one bringing midnight Cuban food to her doorstep. When her past comes knocking, I'm the one standing outside her door.

Cassidy can run all the audits she wants. I've already run the numbers, and I'm playing for keeps.

Off the Record is an interconnected standalone hockey romance featuring a reverse age gap, brother's best friend dynamic, a hero who stress-cooks Abuela's recipes, sizzling hallway banter, and a guaranteed HEA.