On the ice, Asher Maddox is unstoppable.
They call him The Machine—quiet, focused, ruthless in the game he’s built his life around.

But when an injury takes him out, everything he’s ever known starts to slip away. To everyone else, he’s fragile now. Broken. A shadow of the player he once was.

Everyone except me.

I’ve known Asher my whole life—my brother’s best friend, the one who’s always kept his distance. He doesn’t do relationships. He doesn’t let anyone close. Hockey has always come first.

Until me.

What starts as stolen moments turns into a secret we can’t resist. With me, he’s not The Machine. He’s just Asher. And that’s the risk neither of us saw coming.

Because if I fall for him completely, I might lose the only man I was ever meant to love.