His teammates told him to talk to someone. They didn’t mean fall for her.

Sean Walsh had the life he wanted — eight years married to Liv, a career he’d earned, a routine that made sense. Then he finds out she’s been sleeping with Elijah King, the same defenceman who put Walshie into the boards last season. The divorce is quiet. Walshie handles it the way he handles everything — nothing on his face, moving on quietly.

His teammates drag him out. Buy him drinks. Tell him to enjoy being single. But casual doesn’t fit him. He’s the guy who wants someone to come home to, someone to cook breakfast for on game days and argue about thermostat settings with at midnight. He’s not built for hookups, and every one just makes him feel more hollow.

So the guys convince him to try therapy. Just to get his head right for the playoffs. He walks in expecting to sit in silence for fifty minutes and leave. He doesn’t expect Devina Samuels.

She’s warm where he’s guarded. Direct where he deflects. She sits in his silences without flinching and waits him out. She’s the first person in months who doesn’t want him to be fine. She wants him to be honest.

The problem is, he starts to feel something he has no business feeling for the woman holding his mental health in her hands. And Devina feels it too — which terrifies her, because crossing that line doesn’t just break a rule. It could end her career. Her licence. Her practice. Everything she’s worked for.

But that’s not the worst part. Devina’s stepbrother is Elijah King. She has no idea what Elijah did to Walshie’s marriage. And Walshie has no idea the woman he’s falling for shares a family with the man who wrecked his.

Pucking the Wrong Woman is book 7 in the New York Fury Hockey Series. Each book in this series features different characters and can be read as standalones, though interconnected through the vibrant world of professional hockey — including fan-favourite characters from the Boston Titans series.

Tropes you’ll love: forbidden romance, therapist-patient, divorced hero, forced vulnerability, slow burn, secret connection, and a defenceman who just wanted to cook someone breakfast but fell for the one woman who could cost him everything.