The Blades of Heart

CORA: I'm in my senior year of college and done it all: interned at my dream job, stumbled home drunk, even gone sky diving. Can you guess the one thing I've never done and everyone around me is doing? Kind of hard to when you've been raised by men - with a hard-working single father, an overprotective older brother who would drop dead if he knew I'm musing on the three-letter-word. NICHOLAS: This girl is going to be the reason I go to jail. Especially if she keeps acting out the way she has been . . . coming home drunk, jumping off planes, talking about sex?

ANGEL: People said I'd never hit the ice again after my humiliating fall on national television. Now, after two years, I'm ready to prove them wrong. At least in private . . . when I sneak into the Buffalo Blades arena—Dad won't mind. Being the coach's daughter has its perks. Until the lead defenseman, Jace Knight, catches me here. JACE: There's no way I'm telling Angel Collins—Coach's daughter and the only Ice Girl immune to my charm—the real reason I'm back on the ice every night. But helping her just might be the perfect cover I need to mend myself from a recent injury.

NICOLE: Some men are just off-limits. Like Royce Collins (aka 'Coach'), who's not only seventeen years older than me but has the sweetest little girl I'm in no shape to be around. She's defiant, calls out BS when she sees it, and hates any woman Coach brings around . . . yep, we'd get along just fine! ROYCE: Some women are just off-limits. Like Nicole Kane, whose twin brother captains the NHL team I coach. And whose dark past makes her a questionable choice to hire as my six-year-old's new nanny.