She wrote her number on the plexiglass in lipstick. I never stood a chance.

After last season’s scandal nearly destroyed the Florida Sun Kings, I’m focused on one thing: proving we’re more than headlines and humiliation. No distractions. No drama.

Then I crash into the boards during practice because I’m staring at a blonde behind the glass.

Mia wasn’t supposed to be part of my comeback season. She was just helping with an interview. But when she pulls out a tube of red lipstick and writes her phone number across the plexiglass, backward so I can read it, I know two things:

One, I’ve never met anyone like her.

Two, I’m in trouble.

She doesn’t know it yet, but I’m already planning my hat trick:

1. Make her laugh.

2. Get her number.

3. Convince her this isn’t just a summer fling.

But just like our last season, nothing is going right. Engine trouble. Dead phones. Bad timing. One wrong assumption that almost costs me the best thing that’s happened to me since the Sun Kings fell apart.

And now the team might be relocating.

But I’m not sure I’m ready to lose another thing I care about.

She thinks hockey players won’t take a second-grade teacher seriously.

She’s wrong.

Hat Trick for Her Heart is the meet-cute prequel novella to the Romancing the Sun Kings series, a sweet, closed-door hockey romance packed with locker-room banter, bold gestures, near misses, and the kind of love that knocks you flat when you least expect it.