Full Tilt

<p><strong>Once bitten twice shy ...</strong></p><p></p><p>The mantra I live by so no one can hurt me in the same way my parents did.</p><p></p><p>I'm Tommy Schneider the most feared player in the NHL with a last name to match my bad boy reputation. Only I'm the better stronger faster version of my estranged dad. Everything in my life I control with expert precision-from the hits I land in fights to the tattoos covering my body. Nothing and no one can get the better of me. I'm impermeable a wall of steel that's as cold as it is opaque.</p><p></p><p>So when my trade to the New York Blades is met with controversy it's fair to say I'm unbothered. The recently appointed General Manager expects a brutal enforcer and that's exactly what he'll get.</p><p></p><p>But what I didn't expect when I landed in Brooklyn? Jenna Miller. And the way she unceremoniously turned me down. I shouldn't let her rejection weave it's way under my skin and I definitely shouldn't have punched her brother when he tried to defend Jenna's honor.</p><p></p><p>Instead I should heed my mantra and walk away from the girl who hates my guts and grates on me with her bratty smile and backtalking mouth. If I don't I know someone will eventually get hurt. But each time I back off I wind up standing outside her apartment door again.</p><p></p><p>I'm in the fight of my life with so much more at risk than just broken bones and bruises ...</p><p></p><p><strong>This time it's my heart on the line.</strong></p>