
The Winger's Mistake
A Marriage of Convenience, Holiday Homecoming Hockey RomanceBy Devyn FrostLength8h 48m
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Cole Donovan walks into the press room after losing a championship in front of twenty thousand people and opens with a joke nobody is sure they are allowed to laugh at.
Diana Foss, fifteen years on this beat, has his career numbers ready. Forty-three penalty kicks. Eighty-six percent. Sixty-two in the playoffs. She asks whether he has considered seeing a sports psychologist, and he tells her he does not need a shrink to tell him he choked.
Then a hand goes up at the back. Auburn hair in a messy knot, a vintage press pass on a lanyard, and a notepad with something worse than an opinion written on it.
*You've taken eleven penalty kicks in games decided by one goal or less. You've made seven.* In the playoffs, one for four. Three misses out of his last five under pressure.
Harper Quinn has pulled the tape. When Cole tells her she has no idea what pressure feels like, she tells him about the correction that followed her byline for six months after she trusted a source she should not have.
He rips the microphone off and walks out. In the hallway his hands shake. The compass tattooed on his right forearm points north, and his daughter's name curls across the other wrist in the loops she uses when she writes her own letters.
Harper's editor does not want the piece she is pitching. He wants the one that already has a title: *Redeem the Star.* Human interest. The man behind the number.
What she finds instead is a custody hearing in August, a therapist's confidential evaluations that should never have left the room, and a colleague willing to trade a man's medical file for a story and then ask for a resignation letter by Friday.
This is a contemporary sports romance about an athlete who freezes when it matters most and the reporter who can prove it on paper, about a father with visitation rights and no leverage, and about the distance between a story that is true and a story worth printing. The romance is closed-door.
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GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 48 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Penalty I’ll Never Forget
3Chapter 2 - The Story I Wasn’t Hired to Write
4Chapter 3 - The Interview I Didn’t Want to Give
5Chapter 4 - The Pass That Bends Too Far
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6Chapter 5 - The Anchor of a Secret Name
7Chapter 6 - The Whistle That Sounded Like a Knife
8Chapter 7 - The Hand That Caught Me Falling
9Chapter 8 - The Story I Never Published
10Chapter 9 - The Trap I Set for Myself
11Chapter 10 - The Inside Man’s Number
12Chapter 11 - The Day My Daughter Met Her
13Chapter 12 - The Evidence I Should Have Burned
14Chapter 13 - The Emergency I Didn’t See Coming
15Chapter 14 - The Commitment We Made Without Words
16Chapter 15 - The Answer I Gave the World
17Chapter 16 - The Panic That Didn’t Own Me
18Chapter 17 - The Rival Inside My Own Locker
19Chapter 18 - The Story I Chose to Become
20Chapter 19 - The Pier Where I Almost Lost Her
21Chapter 20 - The News Cycle That Ate My Peace
22Chapter 21 - The Black Moment I Built Alone
23Chapter 22 - The Lie I Finally Named
24Chapter 23 - The Door I Left Open for Her
25Chapter 24 - The Game I Played for Her
26Chapter 25 - The Grand Gesture I Didn’t Plan
27Chapter 26 - The Future I Can’t Look Away From
28Chapter 27 - The Promise I’ll Never Break
29Chapter 28 - The Kick That Never Misses
30About the Author
31The End
32About the Author
33Also by Devyn Frost
34Acknowledgements
35A Note from the Author