Desperate needs lead to weak decisions, even in the strongest men.

Ryan Firestone's a driven man, determined to prove to the professional hockey world he deserves his own legacy. Faking a relationship with hockey highness Farrell Eaves was never meant to be permanent or mean anything. With her on his arm and his stats in the stars, Ryan's well on his way to hockey elite. Until the trade, where his biggest competition becomes his own heart.

She didn't expect pretending to love him to be so easy.

Farrell Eaves has fought for her freedom for the last time. She's not about to be Ryan's pawn. She's paid that back a million times over. Yet the passion between them pushes Farrell away from her dreams, and into his bed. He wants it all, but she can't lose herself again. There are too many lives counting on her. Including his.

Ryan and Farrell must come to grips with the passion pulling them together even if it means giving up the most important pieces of themselves.