When a viral collision on the ice lands two bitter rivals on injured reserve, a Duluth defenseman and a Superior winger are forced to share a rehab pool, a charity project, and a roof. With their careers on the line and the New Year's outdoor game looming, they have thirty days to heal their bodies and stop fighting their undeniable chemistry.

Rune is a dependable Duluth lifer playing through a bad knee in his contract year, holding his family's tugboat business together while hiding his pain behind a humorless wall. Kasper is the league's loud, frequently traded winger, convinced nobody keeps him around for long. But when Kasper rents the empty apartment right below Rune in a historic harbor building, an unexpected enemies to lovers gay romance heats up off the ice. Between freezing midnight shifts flooding a community rink and sharing Sunday chicken paprikash with Rune's father, their icy defenses begin to melt. Yet with a secret relationship threatening both their futures, risking their hearts across the bay might be the most dangerous play of all.

• A quintessential rivals to lovers hockey story featuring a grumpy-meets-sunshine dynamic and intense forced proximity mm romance.
• Set against the snowy backdrop of a Christmas hockey romance, complete with late-night ice flooding and holiday harbor rides.
• Told in alternating chapters by the two leads, delivering an immersive dual pov hockey romance experience.
• A sports romance steamy closed door listen, bringing sizzling tension that cuts away at the bedroom threshold.
• A complete standalone mm hockey romance with a guaranteed happily-ever-after.