Cross-Check My Heart
An MM Mafia Romance of a Runaway Bride, a Closeted Star, and the Love Worth Fighting ForBy Vincent K. Stanhope
Length7h 48m
About this audiobook
He came to Maple Creek to disappear.
Instead, Cole Maddox met the one man who refused to let him.
Twenty-two years old and already washed up.
One glorious NHL season, one bar fight, one tabloid headline, and a temper that torched everything he loved.
Now he's coaching nine-year-olds in a rink that smells like bleach and rot, hiding from the media vultures and the brother who needs him gone from Toronto.
Drew Campbell is the assistant coach with wire-rim glasses, a limp he won't explain, and a daughter named Tara who sees straight through Cole's armor.
Drew wanted the new guy to be terrible.
He needed him to be.
Because if the washed-up hotshot turns out to be worth a damn, Drew has no excuse left for the way his pulse trips every time Cole looks at him.
One closeted star with everything to lose.
One single dad who already lost too much.
One sheet of ice where neither of them is supposed to fall.
But the lines blur over early-morning practices and coffee that tastes like a truce, and the secret they're building could end Cole's last shot at a comeback and tear Drew's quiet life apart.
Then a scout's eyes land on them, the tabloids close in, and Drew asks the question that breaks the dam.
"Are you going to be here, Cole? Or am I just the thing you do until they let you leave?"
One of them is running from the spotlight.
The other is running from his own heart.
And the love worth fighting for might cost them both the only lives they know how to live.
Cross-Check My Heart is a yearning, banter-soaked MM hockey romance about a closeted star, a single dad, forced proximity, a guarded heart, a secret that could ruin everything, and a love worth fighting for.
Perfect for readers who love MM hockey romance, grumpy-sunshine pairings, single-dad heroes, closeted-athlete angst, slow-burn forced proximity, and small-town second chances. A standalone romance with a happily-ever-after.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length7 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Dedication
3Chapter 1 - The Penalty Box I Built My Life Around
4Chapter 2 - The Line I Never Crossed Before
5Chapter 3 - The One Drill That Broke Us
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6Chapter 4 - The Coffee That Tasted Like Truce
7Chapter 5 - The Split Second That Changed Everything
8Chapter 6 - The Ghost That Skates Beside Me
9Chapter 7 - The Brother I Can’t Protect
10Chapter 8 - The Weight of a Secret
11Chapter 9 - The Rink That Became a Trap
12Chapter 10 - The Voice That Wouldn’t Let Me Walk
13Chapter 11 - The Frostbite Cup Warm-Up
14Chapter 12 - The Scout’s Eyes on Us
15Chapter 13 - The Lie That Could Destroy Everything
16Chapter 14 - The Dinner That Almost Fixed Us
17Chapter 15 - The Public Reckoning
18Chapter 16 - The Confession That Cost Everything
19Chapter 17 - The Meeting That Felt Like a Funeral
20Chapter 18 - The Tabloid That Found Us
21Chapter 19 - The Last Practice Before the Storm
22Chapter 20 - The Question That Broke the Dam
23Chapter 21 - The Ultimatum I Couldn’t Refuse
24Chapter 22 - The Walk That Felt Like Falling
25Chapter 23 - The Truth Leo Never Told
26Chapter 24 - The Pond Where We Started
27Chapter 25 - The Team That Melted the Ice
28About the Author
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