Save Your Breath

<h4><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>THIS JUST IN: HOCKEY BAD BOY AND POP STAR EXTRAORDINAIRE ENGAGED!</strong></h4><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That was the headline we'd wanted. If only I'd known the cost to get it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Aleksander Suter has been my best friend since high school-and the only man who's ever been able to truly get under my skin. With his reputation for trouble and a smirk that could melt ice he's also the NHL's favorite bad boy.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When my publicist's plan to fix my image collides with his need to clean up his own we find ourselves in a fake engagement that feels too real from the start.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now I'm releasing my new album putting on a show for the paparazzi I usually try to dodge and falling too fast for a man who never falls for anyone. Every stolen glance every heated touch blurs the lines between us until I'm wondering where the lies end and the truth begins.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And when a hurricane traps us together in his high-rise condo all my carefully built walls collapse and resisting the pull between us becomes a losing game.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Suddenly the stakes are higher than just headlines and the risks feel more personal than ever.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But as our past resurfaces and old feelings reignite I realize the biggest risk isn't losing my career-it's losing my heart to the one person I thought would never be mine.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>TROPES:</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Pro Hockey Romance</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Fake Engagement</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Athlete & Pop Star</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Childhood Friends to Lovers</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)>Unrequited Love (or so they think)</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)>Slow Burn</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Save Your Breath is book four in the Kings of the Ice series: </em><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>a series of interconnected standalones </em></strong><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>following a team of professional hockey players and the women who bring them to their knees.</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>They do not need to be read in order but you will gain glimpses of future characters/couples in each book.</em></p>