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Ice Doctor: An Age Gap Forbidden MM Hockey Sports Romance
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 2 2026
Pages: 358
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
One secret could save his career. One touch could destroy them both.
Dr. Soren Vass is a man of precision, clinical boundaries, and carefully constructed walls. After a devastating breakup left his personal life in ruins, he moved from the rainy streets of Portland to the frozen heart of Minneapolis for a single purpose: a blank slate. As the newly appointed head physician for the Minnesota Frost, Soren expects to manage torn ACLs and concussions with professional detachment. He doesn't expect to encounter a force of nature like Tolliver Mack.
Tolliver-the legendary enforcer and captain of the Frost-is known to the league as The Vault. He is a stoic, immovable mountain of a man who has built his entire identity on being the toughest player on the ice. But behind the bruising hits and the captain's C is a man crumbling under the weight of a secret. A severe, undisclosed hand fracture is threatening to end his season, and perhaps his career. If the General Manager finds out, Tolliver is off the active roster, and the life he has sacrificed everything for will vanish.
When Soren discovers the injury during a routine assessment, the ethical choice is clear: report the captain and bench him. But Soren sees something in Tolliver's desperate, burning eyes that he recognizes-a man who has nowhere else to go. Instead of following the rules, Soren proposes the Secret Protocol.
Behind locked doors, in the dim light of the training room every morning and every night, a dangerous game of proximity begins. Soren crafts a custom thermoplastic splint that hides beneath Tolliver's glove, allowing him to play through the pain. But as Soren monitors the healing bone, the clinical distance between doctor and patient begins to melt. Every touch is a risk; every lingering gaze in the film room is a betrayal of their professional vows.
On a turbulent team flight to Chicago and during a quiet, soul-baring snowstorm in the player lounge, the masks finally slip. Tolliver, a man who has lived his life in a self-imposed closet to protect his standing in a hyper-masculine world, finds his stoicism shattered by the doctor's quiet strength. Soren, who vowed never to try and fix another broken man, realizes that Tolliver isn't a project-he is a partner.
But the NHL is a small world, and the eyes of the front office are everywhere. GM Billings is already suspicious of the miraculous recovery of his star enforcer, and in the high-stakes world of professional hockey, a romance between a team doctor and the captain is more than a scandal-it's a career-ending liability. As the Frost push toward a grueling Game Seven in the playoffs, Soren and Tolliver must decide if the heat they've found in the cold is worth the certain destruction of the lives they've worked so hard to build.
In this high-tension, atmospheric sports romance, the ice is thin, the stakes are lethal, and the only way to survive the fall is to hold on to each other.
Ice Doctor is a full-length, standalone MM sports romance and is the first book in the Cold Lines series. It features a meticulous blonde doctor, a rugged enforcer who is a secret softie for his man, and a guaranteed HEA.
Tropes Included:
MM Hockey Romance
Forbidden Doctor/Patient Dynamic
The Secret Protocol (Hidden Injury)
Grumpy/Grumpy & Stoic/Stoic Chemistry
Closeted Pro Athlete
Meticulous Professional vs. Rugged Enforcer
Age Gap
He Falls First
Interconnected Standalone Series
The frost is deepening, the game is on the line, and the heart always finds a way to break the ice.
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