Top Shelf (Special Edition)

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I have two goals this season:</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>1. Prove to the Seattle Serpents I'm more than just the old guy.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>2. Don't fall for my captain's stepsister.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In my defense I had no clue who Vanessa was when we met. We were in a different city. How was I supposed to know she's my teammate's stepsister?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now she's in Seattle still healing from her divorce and apparently she's here to stay. That would be fine if I didn't still think about our night together every waking hour. Thing is I do think about it-constantly-and then when I find out she needs a place to live I offer my spare room.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We're roommates and that's it. Until it isn't.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We're just having fun that's all. Except nothing feels like </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>just fun</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. It feels far too real and far too serious and her stepbrother has no idea about us living together </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>or </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>that I'm slowly falling for her.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So much for focusing on the season...</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>TOP SHELF is a standalone hockey romance novel. There's an age gap a veteran player falling for his teammate's stepsister a woman recovering from a broken heart sneaking around a one-night stand one bed <em>lots </em>of steam ridiculous group chats amongst teammates and a happy ending. </strong></p><p></p>