Two French Braids Before Morning Skate

Novella. Callum Rourke can do two French braids before morning skate, pack lunches for a goalie-obsessed eight-year-old and a four-year-old who worships the ice resurfacer, and still be the hardest-hitting defenseman the Hartford Ironclads have. He doesn't need a nanny. He doesn't need help. And he definitely doesn't need the rink owner with the whistle and the clipboard who just printed his name on the squirt team's bench schedule. Josie Maguire makes the ice, sharpens the skates and barely keeps the lights on at Kettle Pond Arena, the drafty barn rink her grandfather built. She needs that squirt team, which means she needs the grumpy NHL captain to coach it. She doesn't plan on watching him calm a meltdown, nurse a 2 a.m. fever, and turn up at five in the morning with two coffees, asking her to teach him to sharpen skates. This single dad hockey romance is a grumpy sunshine romance about two competent adults who talk instead of sulk. It's a small town romance full of rink rats, potlucks and pond hockey, and a found family built one practice at a time. It's a hockey romance novella with real hockey, real parenting and no third act breakup, just one Family Night game that changes everything. If you love sports romance with heart, lace up for Book 1 of Kettle Pond Hockey.

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E-bog: 27. oktober 2026