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What’s worse than being assigned to the most arrogant hockey player in the NHL?
When I’m his third PR agent… and we’ve both officially run out of chances.
***brother's best friend, marriage of convenience, steamy hockey romance***
“Marrying a stranger wasn’t part of my playbook.
Falling in love with her? Definitely not.”
On the ice, they call me East—fast hands, sharp edges, zero hesitation.
Off the ice? I keep my life simple. Hockey. Teammates. No complications I can’t skate away from.
Unfortunately, I’m terrible at thinking things through—like the moment I agreed to a late-night pool bet with my teammate and accidentally ended up with a wife.
Katerina Popovich isn’t the Russian ballerina I expected. She’s sharp, sarcastic, and entirely unimpressed by my NHL contract. She also happens to have a ticking visa deadline, a powerful family with opinions about her future, and zero patience for my chaos.
So we make a plan.
Stay married.
Keep it temporary.
Follow the rules.
Simple. Clean. Totally under control.
Except suddenly we're living together in a penthouse apartment. My family adores her. My teammates won’t stop calling her “wifey.” And the woman I married because of a bet keeps stealing my hoodies, falling asleep in my bed, and making my life feel suspiciously… complete.
Because falling for my wife was never part of my playbook.
And losing her might be the only breakaway I don’t know how to survive.
*** Playbook Breakaway if book #5 in the Rookie Hawkeyes Series and is a standalone within the series with an HEA at the end. The series can be read out of order but in order not to spoil other player's HEA it is recommended the books in order.
This is a continuation series from the OG series The Hawkeyes Hockey Series.
Book #1 Match Penalty
Book #2 Bleacher Report
Book #3 Bottle Rocket
Book #4 Player Misconduct
Book #5 Playbook Breakaway
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Book #6 Coming Soon
Book #7 Coming Soon
Book #8 Coming Soon
Luka Popovich is the Seattle Hawkeyes’ Olympic golden boy with a god complex—and after his latest scandal, he’s already torched two PR reps.
Now it’s my turn. Lucky me.
Taking this job is my last shot at proving I’m not the PR disaster everyone whispers I am. Except Luka mistakes me for a journalist, tries to charm his way into a “one-on-one,” and I learn fast that his idea of an interview includesno questions... and no clothes.
My plan is simple: bury the scandal and broker peace with the Olympic Committee before Luka’s facing lawyers… and losing more than endorsements.
Then he disappears on bye-week—straight to the Swiss Alps.
And his agent gives me one order: Follow him.
So I do the most unhinged thing I’ve ever done. I drain my savings to fly to Switzerland… to chase a hockey player who doesn’t want help halfway across the world.
Of course there’s a blizzard.
Of course the resort gives away my room.
So now I’m soaked, shivering in a luxury lobby, swallowing my pride—and begging Luka Popovich to let me stay in his private chalet. With one bed.
Now I have to fix Luka’s career, save my job, survive the Swiss Alps on my own dime, and stop myself from falling for the one man who could ruin me completely…
All while he does everything he can to stay away from me.
What could possibly go wrong?
How about the part where Luka Popovich has decided that the only way to keep control—
—is to make sure I lose first.
***The Rookie Hawkeyes Series is a spin-off series from the original: The Hawkeyes Hockey Series. Each book in this series is a standalone: Each MMC and FMC gets their HEA at the end of each book.
*** You do not have to read The Hawkeyes Hockey Series before starting the Rookie Hawkeyes Series. However, some couples from the prior series will be making cameos.