Melting the Ice

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Micah's new roommate is turning his world upside down. Maybe a little shake up is just what he needs.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Micah Smith loves order. He's stable. Single-minded. Sure he has quirks and routines just like all hockey players. But his focus is on being the best possible defenseman for the Denver Stampede and everything is going perfectly. Until a purple-haired hurricane blows into his life.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Josie Caine lives by her own rules. Chaos is the spice of life and boredom doesn't exist in her world. Staying put isn't her thing but she's made Denver her home the last few months. So when her boyfriend-of-the-moment skips town she's not ready to leave she just needs a place to crash.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As luck would have it her brother's best friend-a man she's secretly crushed on for years-happens to have a two-bedroom condo. Josie promises she won't mess up his schedule. Except as soon as she moves in she's making him feel things he has no business feeling about his best friend's little sister. Their heat's not just melting the ice it could liquify a glacier.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Can Josie fall hard enough to put down roots? Or is Micah messing up his carefully constructed life-and his heart-for nothing?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tropes:</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>* Brother's best friend</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>* Opposites Attract</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>* Forced Proximity</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>* Banter from the start</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>* A kiss that never should've happened</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>* He's a rule follower and she loves doing the unexpected</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>* Dirty talking defenseman</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>* Quirky game day routines</span></p>