A former NHL star. The single dad he left behind. And the second chance neither of them saw coming.
Nolan Hendricks was supposed to be a hockey legend, not a disgraced former captain forced into early retirement after a locker room scandal made him the NHL's most famous cautionary tale. Now he's back in his tiny Minnesota hometown, coaching minor league hockey and trying to remember why he ever loved the game.
The last person he expects to find is Callum Brennan.
Callum was Nolan's best friend in high school, and the man Nolan had feelings for that he was too afraid to explore. Twelve years later, Callum is still brilliant, still fiery, and now an openly gay single father running the town's beloved bakery. He's built a good life for himself and his eight-year-old son.
He wants nothing to do with Nolan Hendricks.
But when Nolan becomes his son's hockey coach, avoiding each other becomes impossible. Caspian thinks Coach Nolan hung the moon. The whole town is watching. And the attraction Callum swore he'd buried? It's very much alive.
Nolan knows he doesn't deserve a second chance. Callum knows better than to trust a man who chose his career over everything else. But somewhere between early morning practices and late-night conversations, between championship dreams and kitchen-counter kisses, they start building something that feels dangerously like forever.
The only question is whether Callum can break his own rule—and trust that this time, Nolan will stay.
The Rebound Rule is a steamy M/M hockey romance featuring a grumpy baker, a reformed athlete learning that trophies aren't everything, an eight-year-old who just wants his coach to stick around, and a small town that's deeply invested in everyone's business. This is Book One in the Northwood Icemen series.
Content includes: explicit intimate scenes, references to past homophobia, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
