Faceoff at First Sight
A Single-Dad Hockey Romance of a Friends-to-Lovers Slow Burn and a Holiday Homecoming, and the Second Chance Neither ExpectedBy Lewis G. Northcote
Length8h 9m
About this audiobook
Maggie Chen took the fall once, on live television, in front of all of hockey.
She swore she'd never let a player burn her again.
Then she met Derek Tremblay.
Maggie came to Vancouver for the one job no one else wanted: fix the franchise's most marketable, most impossible star before he walks and takes the whole team's future with him.
She knew the headlines.
The missed pressers. The cold interviews. The night he walked out of a charity gala mid-speech.
She did not know about the kid.
She did not know that the curt, infuriating man behind the jersey was a single dad keeping a secret bigger than any scandal — a hospital, a diagnosis, a file he'd burn before he'd let it leak.
So she did her job.
Road trips. Galas. A snowball fight that wasn't supposed to mean anything.
Slowly, the rival she was hired to manage became the one person who saw the woman under the spin — and the friends-to-lovers slow burn turned into something neither of them could put in a press release.
Then the truth she was hiding for him collided with the truth she was hiding from herself.
A leak. A cancellation. A cost that landed on the people they both loved.
She waited for him to shut her out the way he shut out everyone.
Instead he stood in the cold and said, "I don't need you to fix this, Maggie. I need you to stay."
That was the moment the game changed.
Not because he asked her to stay.
But because staying meant risking the one reputation she had left.
Now there's a surgery, a promise, and one faceoff that decides whether two people who rewrote their own stories get to share the next chapter. If Derek wants a second chance, he'll have to let her past the boards — and let the whole world see it.
Faceoff at First Sight is a tender, steamy single-dad hockey romance about a friends-to-lovers slow burn, forced proximity, a guarded single father, a holiday homecoming, a career on the line, and the second chance neither expected.
Perfect for readers who love single-dad hockey romance, grumpy-sunshine slow burn, workplace forced proximity, found family, and a heart-melting happy ending. A standalone romance with a happy-ever-after.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The First Thing I Had to Break
3Chapter 2 - The One Word I Wouldn’t Say
4Chapter 3 - The Dinner My Sister Arranged
5Chapter 4 - The Road Trip That Wasn’t a Joke
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6Chapter 5 - The Photograph I Couldn’t Explain
7Chapter 6 - The Lie I Had to Tell
8Chapter 7 - The Card I Shouldn’t Have Found
9Chapter 8 - The Hospital I Didn’t Know Existed
10Chapter 9 - The Rival Shows Her Cards
11Chapter 10 - The Dinner That Wasn’t an Apology
12Chapter 11 - The Ultimatum I Should Have Seen
13Chapter 12 - The Trade I Didn’t Ask For
14Chapter 13 - The Snowball That Changed Everything
15Chapter 14 - The Gala We Almost Pulled Off
16Chapter 15 - The Diagnosis I Should Have Shared
17Chapter 16 - The Truth I Wasn’t Ready For
18Chapter 17 - The Errand I Asked Her to Run
19Chapter 18 - The Secret I Wouldn’t Let Him Face Alone
20Chapter 19 - The File I Should Have Burned
21Chapter 20 - The Cancellation That Cost Everything
22Chapter 21 - The Story I Finally Told
23Chapter 22 - The Apology That Opened a Door
24Chapter 23 - The Grand Gesture I Never Thought I’d Make
25Chapter 24 - The Surgery and the Promise
26Chapter 25 - The Faceoff We Finally Won
27About the Author
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