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Skating on Thin Ice
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 25 2026
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Skating on Thin Ice is a small-town, high-stakes hockey romance where one bad headline can end a career-and one impossible choice can change everything.
Mara Kline came back to Harbor Point to do her job, not to be a story. As Lake State's head athletic trainer, she lives by protocols, boundaries, and control-because one mistake in her world doesn't just hurt someone. It ruins lives. Then the team trades for Beck Rourke: a lightning-rod player with a menace reputation, a battered body, and a media narrative that follows him like a shadow.
When a leak reveals private team details that are too clean to be rumor, the franchise panics. The owner wants damage control. The internet wants blood. And Mara becomes collateral-pulled into a PR containment plan that forces her and Beck into a staged relationship meant to smother scandal with boredom.
But the lie doesn't stay a lie. Snowed in at Mara's family lodge, watched more closely than they realize, the line between performance and truth fractures-then shatters. A stolen moment becomes evidence. The league circles. Sponsors threaten. Compliance moves in. Mara's career hangs by a thread, and Beck is one incident away from becoming the villain everyone expects.
As the pressure spikes, the only way out is straight through: expose the real leak, face the fallout publicly, and prove-on the ice and off-that restraint is strength, not weakness. Because in a town that never forgets, and a sport that feeds on narratives, choosing each other isn't romantic.
It's war.
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