Slap Shot

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Hudson Hayes star defenseman for the DC Stars needs help. He's been looking for a private chef for months but keeps coming up short. With the NHL season starting and no prospects in sight he's close to giving up.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Madeline Galloway needs a job. Recently let go from her executive chef position in Las Vegas she's desperate as can be when she reaches out to an old acquaintance about a possible job opportunity.... in Washington DC.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>After hitting it off with her prospective employer--the blond hockey star who seems to have a heart of gold--she and her daughter Lucy make the move east.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The rules were simple: no personal relationships. No falling for the romantic guy who always made her smile even if they are living together and spending all their free time with each other.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>After a kiss on New Year's Eve everything changes. The lines blur. Being Hudson's friend-and only his friend-is the last thing on her mind.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And when Hudson learns American Sign Language for her Lucy? It might be a slap shot to Madeline's heart.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Slap Shot is a spicy slow burn friends to lovers private chef x hockey player romance with forced proximity and a man who if he wanted to he would.</em></strong></p><p></p>