The Last Good Season
(2026)(The first book in the Kestrel Bay Wreckers series)
A novel by Sienna Blake
She was hired to save the team. She didn't expect to fall for the reason it's dying.
Paloma Cruz has one skill: making things sound better than they are. It's the only reason a Division I disgrace like her can still get hired, and it's the only reason the Kestrel Bay Wreckers — a bankrupt minor-league hockey team in a dying Upper Peninsula town — brought her in at all. The league gives the club one season to prove it deserves to survive. Her job is simple: make people fall in love with a team that's never won anything.
The problem is the captain.
Wes Pelto has spent twelve years and four organizations building a career out of needing absolutely nothing from anyone, and he is not about to start now — especially not for the polished front-office hire he's certain is here to sell the team out from under him. Every appearance she books, every camera she points his way, costs him standing with the room he's spent a decade earning. He doesn't trust her. He isn't sure he's supposed to.
But six days a week in close quarters has a way of wearing down a grudge, and the more Paloma sees of the man underneath the captain, the harder it gets to remember which one of them is supposed to be using the other. Wes is hiding something that could end his career — and Paloma is about to discover a secret that could end the whole franchise, one that puts her directly between the man she's falling for and the job she can't afford to lose.
By the time the season comes down to one outdoor game on a frozen harbor, in front of everyone, Paloma will have to decide what she's actually willing to sell — and what she isn't.
The Last Good Season is a small-town, grumpy/sunshine, forced-proximity workplace romance — the first book in the Kestrel Bay Wreckers series, where every season the town survives comes at a cost somebody has to pay.
Genre: Romance
Paloma Cruz has one skill: making things sound better than they are. It's the only reason a Division I disgrace like her can still get hired, and it's the only reason the Kestrel Bay Wreckers — a bankrupt minor-league hockey team in a dying Upper Peninsula town — brought her in at all. The league gives the club one season to prove it deserves to survive. Her job is simple: make people fall in love with a team that's never won anything.
The problem is the captain.
Wes Pelto has spent twelve years and four organizations building a career out of needing absolutely nothing from anyone, and he is not about to start now — especially not for the polished front-office hire he's certain is here to sell the team out from under him. Every appearance she books, every camera she points his way, costs him standing with the room he's spent a decade earning. He doesn't trust her. He isn't sure he's supposed to.
But six days a week in close quarters has a way of wearing down a grudge, and the more Paloma sees of the man underneath the captain, the harder it gets to remember which one of them is supposed to be using the other. Wes is hiding something that could end his career — and Paloma is about to discover a secret that could end the whole franchise, one that puts her directly between the man she's falling for and the job she can't afford to lose.
By the time the season comes down to one outdoor game on a frozen harbor, in front of everyone, Paloma will have to decide what she's actually willing to sell — and what she isn't.
The Last Good Season is a small-town, grumpy/sunshine, forced-proximity workplace romance — the first book in the Kestrel Bay Wreckers series, where every season the town survives comes at a cost somebody has to pay.
Genre: Romance
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