Pucking Valentine
(2026)(The second book in the Boston Bruisers Hockey Romance series)
A novel by Bronwen Evans
A Valentine's Day RomanceI’m Finn Gallagher, injured goalie for the Boston Bruisers.
I’m losing everything, and I didn’t even notice it happening.
Eight seasons as starting goalie for the Boston Bruisers. A wife I’ve loved since we were sixteen. Three kids who deserve better than the ghost I’ve become.
But a separated shoulder has me watching from the press box while my backup plays lights-out in my net. And somewhere between the injury and the fear and the suffocating panic about who I am without hockey, I stopped showing up for the people who actually matter.
My wife, Penelope, has been holding our family together while I fall apart. She’s been patient. Understanding. Everything I don’t deserve.
But patience has limits.
I can see it in the way she looks at me—or rather, doesn’t look at me anymore. The way we’ve become strangers who share a house and a last name, but can’t remember the last time we had an actual conversation. The growing distance between us I’m too broken to bridge.
Valentine’s Day is coming, and I have one last chance to prove I can be the man she married. The partner she needs. The father our kids deserve.
One chance to show her that losing hockey doesn’t mean losing myself.
One chance to remember that the most important save I’ll ever make has nothing to do with the net—and everything to do with the family I’ve been taking for granted.
But first, I have to figure out how to stop drowning long enough to fight for what matters most.
A raw, emotionally sweet hockey romance about identity, marriage, and learning that being present is the hardest—and most important—play you’ll ever make.
Perfect for readers who love flawed heroes fighting to save their marriages, second-chance romance, and stories that prove love is worth the work—especially when the battle is against yourself.
Genre: Romance
I’m losing everything, and I didn’t even notice it happening.
Eight seasons as starting goalie for the Boston Bruisers. A wife I’ve loved since we were sixteen. Three kids who deserve better than the ghost I’ve become.
But a separated shoulder has me watching from the press box while my backup plays lights-out in my net. And somewhere between the injury and the fear and the suffocating panic about who I am without hockey, I stopped showing up for the people who actually matter.
My wife, Penelope, has been holding our family together while I fall apart. She’s been patient. Understanding. Everything I don’t deserve.
But patience has limits.
I can see it in the way she looks at me—or rather, doesn’t look at me anymore. The way we’ve become strangers who share a house and a last name, but can’t remember the last time we had an actual conversation. The growing distance between us I’m too broken to bridge.
Valentine’s Day is coming, and I have one last chance to prove I can be the man she married. The partner she needs. The father our kids deserve.
One chance to show her that losing hockey doesn’t mean losing myself.
One chance to remember that the most important save I’ll ever make has nothing to do with the net—and everything to do with the family I’ve been taking for granted.
But first, I have to figure out how to stop drowning long enough to fight for what matters most.
A raw, emotionally sweet hockey romance about identity, marriage, and learning that being present is the hardest—and most important—play you’ll ever make.
Perfect for readers who love flawed heroes fighting to save their marriages, second-chance romance, and stories that prove love is worth the work—especially when the battle is against yourself.
Genre: Romance