Charm City Chill Books

Some battles are fought with fists. Others are won with the heart. Everyone in New Haven knows Jackson "Jax" Thompson's reputation. As the Charm City Chill's enforcer, he's paid to be the monster under other teams' beds. But after a brutal fight goes viral and puts him in the league's crosshairs, even his knuckles are telling him it's time for a change. Dr. Lauren Mackenzie wants nothing to do with violent men in any form. As the head of New Haven's busiest emergency vet clinic, she's got enough on her plate treating the arena's K-9 unit without worrying about the bruiser who bursts in at 2 a.m. with an injured kitten and bleeding knuckles. But beneath those scars and hard hits, she discovers a gentle giant whose biggest fights happen far from the ice. When the competition brings the lumber and his team needs him to set the tone on the ice, Jax must choose between scaring the pretty vet off or getting comfortable in the penalty box. But with the league investigating his every hit, a rookie who needs protecting, and Lauren's own past threatening their future, Jax will have to decide if some fights are worth losing to win the ultimate prize. The Sin Bin is a steamy, standalone hockey romance in the Charm City Chill series, perfect for readers who love their enforcers soft-hearted, their chemistry ice-melting, and their hockey as hot as a post-game shower.

Off the ice, Marcus Adeyemi plays defense with data. The Charm City Chill's analytical blue-liner has built an ironclad system of player statistics that's propelled them into playoff contention. Hockey makes sense. Numbers don't lie. The ice doesn't judge. Then a hacker threatens to leak his confidential player analytics in 72 hours—a power play that would expose vulnerabilities in the team's strategy and devastating personal secrets buried in the code. Stephanie Ellis excels in the offensive zone of public relations. As the Chill's razor-sharp PR director, she's mastered the art of controlling the narrative, even when players go top shelf with their off-ice antics. Now she's forced to partner with the one man who consistently puts her in the sin bin of frustration—the maddeningly logical, infuriatingly attractive defenseman who dismisses her carefully crafted media strategy as mere puck handling. As the shot clock winds down, professional friction ignites into something that burns hotter than a post-whistle scrum. Late-night strategy sessions blur into heated touches and stolen kisses in equipment rooms. But when Marcus discovers the hacker has ties to Stephanie's carefully buried past in Boston, the man who only trusts analytics faces the ultimate test: Can he risk his heart on a woman who controls stories for a living, or will he retreat to his defensive shell before their chemistry can develop into something game-changing? Some plays can't be predicted by any system—and sometimes the most beautiful goal is the one that goes bar down when you least expect it. A sizzling, opposites-attract hockey romance where the only thing hotter than the action on the ice is what happens after the final horn.