The Defenseman's Score
(2026)(The second book in the Frostbite Falls Hockey Club series)
A novel by Cassie Wood
I have one rule: never fall for a hockey dad.
Turns out the rule doesn't survive a blizzard.
Now I can't stop hearing my name through a paper-thin wall.
Six weeks ago, I was just the new first-grade teacher keeping her head down in a small Minnesota town.
I had no idea I'd fall for the widowed defenseman raising the little girl in my classroom.
Or the widower who hasn't touched anyone in two years…
Whose late wife's ring still sits warm against his throat—
And whose six-year-old is the reason I can't just walk away.
Fast forward to a field trip gone wrong, a blizzard that closes the only road out…
And a hallway at two-fourteen in the morning, where the wall between our rooms stops being thick enough.
But a blizzard isn't the only thing this town can't keep quiet about…
The school board is already circling.
Too bad they forgot one thing—
Banks Bankhurst goes quiet right before he stops asking permission.
THE DEFENSEMAN'S SCORE is a scorching standalone, single-dad widower romance guaranteed to make you fall for the quiet defenseman who finally stops holding back. No cheating, no cliffhangers, ultra-hot HEA guaranteed!
Genre: Romance
Turns out the rule doesn't survive a blizzard.
Now I can't stop hearing my name through a paper-thin wall.
Six weeks ago, I was just the new first-grade teacher keeping her head down in a small Minnesota town.
I had no idea I'd fall for the widowed defenseman raising the little girl in my classroom.
Or the widower who hasn't touched anyone in two years…
Whose late wife's ring still sits warm against his throat—
And whose six-year-old is the reason I can't just walk away.
Fast forward to a field trip gone wrong, a blizzard that closes the only road out…
And a hallway at two-fourteen in the morning, where the wall between our rooms stops being thick enough.
But a blizzard isn't the only thing this town can't keep quiet about…
The school board is already circling.
Too bad they forgot one thing—
Banks Bankhurst goes quiet right before he stops asking permission.
THE DEFENSEMAN'S SCORE is a scorching standalone, single-dad widower romance guaranteed to make you fall for the quiet defenseman who finally stops holding back. No cheating, no cliffhangers, ultra-hot HEA guaranteed!
Genre: Romance
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