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A marriage of convenience hockey romance
Heidi Grant has spent her career getting elite athletes back in the game. And now, the sports physical therapist is ready to build something of her own—an adaptive conditioning studio.She has the vision and credentials, but she doesn’t have the funding, and her lease deadline is fast approaching.
Viktor Karlsson also has a deadline. The tattooed Swedish CO Storm defenseman is maddeningly calm and far too observant for Heidi’s liking. He doesn't believe in marriage, and his only long-term commitment is to his motorcycle named Priscilla.
Which is inconvenient, considering he suddenly needs a wife to satisfy the inheritance conditions of his grandfather’s estate.
Neither of them believes in fairy tales, so a marriage contract seems a perfectly reasonable solution. Sign the papers. Play the part. Travel to Sweden long enough to convince Viktor’s family their marriage is real.
The hookups are practical, too. They can’t be seen with anyone else, and unresolved tension is terrible for productivity. A situationship with your temporary spouse should be simple.
Except the longer they pretend, the less simple it feels. Viktor takes every ambitious, restless part of Heidi in his stride. And Heidi starts to see through Viktor's quiet exterior to the dry humor, his open heart, and a loyalty deep enough to build a life around.
But when their marriage starts pulling Heidi’s dream into Viktor’s spotlight, the line between being supported or swallowed by someone else’s name gets dangerously thin.
And all Viktor can do is hope the woman he married to save one dream is willing to take a shot on another—and send it top shelf.
Top Shelf is book one in a new sports romance series of interconnected standalones, from the author of the bestelling Colorado Storm hockey romance series, Hailey Rodger.
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Top Shelf's tropes includes:
- hockey romance
marriage of convenience
women in sport
dual POV
ADHD rep
bi rep
he rides a motorcycle
opposites attract
she ties him up 👀
found family chaos
Genre: General Fiction