Kissing My Nerdy Hockey Star
(2026)(The fifth book in the Maple Harbor Hockey Heroes series)
A novel by Bryn Beck
I’m an impulsive, globe-trotting photographer. He’s the safety-obsessed hockey star forced to work with me. Naturally, we make kissing part of the project.
Chase Turner sees danger calculations where I see the shot of a lifetime.
Now we’re stuck together for sixty days creating twelve impossible hockey photos.
Our whiteboard gains a kiss-reward column. One successful shot later, kissing him stops being theoretical.
His precision catches what my instincts miss.
I see possibilities his calculations don’t.
We stop clashing and start clicking.
I take pictures of him that will never make the campaign.
His almost-smiles. His hands at work. Unguarded moments.
The version of Chase no one else gets to see.
Between the secret photos and the very real kisses, Chase stops feeling temporary.
I fall for him.
Which is spectacularly inconvenient, because I’m leaving.
Chase builds his life around things that last. I’ve built mine around the next plane ticket.
And for the first time, leaving Maple Harbor might cost me more than staying ever could.
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Kissing My Nerdy Hockey Star is a stand-alone sweet, slow-burn contemporary hockey romance filled with opposites-attract sparks, forced-proximity tension, friends-to-lovers chemistry, twelve impossible photographs, kisses that definitely weren’t part of the original plan, a brilliant hockey star whose literal, analytical mind sees the world a little differently, a curvy, free spirited artist, found family, and the promise that sometimes falling in love doesn’t mean giving up your wings—it means finding the place you want to fly home to.
Heat Level: Sweet, Closed-Door
Maple Harbor Hockey Heroes – Series Signature - Smart, funny heroines; loyal, protective men; sparkling and witty banter that makes us laugh; heartfelt emotion
Chase Turner sees danger calculations where I see the shot of a lifetime.
Now we’re stuck together for sixty days creating twelve impossible hockey photos.
Our whiteboard gains a kiss-reward column. One successful shot later, kissing him stops being theoretical.
His precision catches what my instincts miss.
I see possibilities his calculations don’t.
We stop clashing and start clicking.
I take pictures of him that will never make the campaign.
His almost-smiles. His hands at work. Unguarded moments.
The version of Chase no one else gets to see.
Between the secret photos and the very real kisses, Chase stops feeling temporary.
I fall for him.
Which is spectacularly inconvenient, because I’m leaving.
Chase builds his life around things that last. I’ve built mine around the next plane ticket.
And for the first time, leaving Maple Harbor might cost me more than staying ever could.
***
Kissing My Nerdy Hockey Star is a stand-alone sweet, slow-burn contemporary hockey romance filled with opposites-attract sparks, forced-proximity tension, friends-to-lovers chemistry, twelve impossible photographs, kisses that definitely weren’t part of the original plan, a brilliant hockey star whose literal, analytical mind sees the world a little differently, a curvy, free spirited artist, found family, and the promise that sometimes falling in love doesn’t mean giving up your wings—it means finding the place you want to fly home to.
Heat Level: Sweet, Closed-Door
Maple Harbor Hockey Heroes – Series Signature - Smart, funny heroines; loyal, protective men; sparkling and witty banter that makes us laugh; heartfelt emotion