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Fire Between Us: A Protective Single-Dad Hockey Romance
Paperback
Series: The Breakaway Club, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 27 2026
Pages: 462
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Monica Davis knows what happens when powerful people decide privacy is negotiable.
Baraka Kibet knows what it costs when the world turns grief into a headline.
Monica arrives in Port Mercer determined to build a community programme that will survive long after the hockey season ends. She expects difficult budgets, demanding sponsors and a professional team displaced into a waterfront hotel.
She does not expect Baraka.
The guarded team captain is returning from a career-threatening injury while raising his eight-year-old daughter away from the cameras that have followed them for years. When a sponsor attempts to make his family the centre of a national campaign, Baraka refuses.
Monica is the first person who hears no and makes certain everyone else does too.
Protecting his daughter places the programme's funding at risk. Working together to save it forces Monica and Baraka into shared meetings, empty ice rinks, hotel kitchens and moments neither of them can keep professional.
Their attraction is dangerous. Their trust is harder to resist.
But when private photographs, altered recordings and an old tragedy are dragged into public view, Baraka must decide whether opening his life to Monica will protect the people he loves or give the world another way to reach them.
And Monica must learn that accepting love is not the same as surrendering control.
Fire Between Us is a high-heat contemporary hockey romance featuring a protective single father, a fiercely competent heroine, workplace tension, emotional slow burn, found family and a deeply earned happily ever after.
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