Penalty For Pleasure
Cassian Vale is the NHL’s ultimate sin on skates - a wickedly talented forward with a body built for rough, sweat-drenched nights, a filthy mouth that gets him in trouble on and off the ice, and a reputation for leaving a trail of broken hearts and tabloid scandals. One more public fuck-up and his career is over.
Enter Nadia Petrova - the icy, untouchable Russian figure skating coach with legs for days, a razor-sharp tongue, and zero tolerance for cocky hockey players who think the world revolves around their stick.
She despises everything Cassian represents: the arrogance, the endless parade of puck bunnies, the way he smirks like he already knows how she’d sound screaming his name.
When the league forces Cassian into a high-profile charity “Winter Wonderland” tour to clean up his image, the only way to survive the scrutiny is a very fake, very public relationship with the one woman who can’t stand him.
Nadia needs the exposure for her own career comeback. He needs a leash.
What starts as staged kisses for the cameras quickly spirals into something feral. Stolen moments in luxury hotel suites during road trips.
His rough hockey hands sliding under her elegant skirts in the back of team buses.
Dirty whispers in Russian and English against cold arena walls while the rest of the world thinks they’re just playing pretend.
Cassian discovers that beneath Nadia’s frosty control burns a hunger that matches his own — raw, demanding, and impossible to tame. She learns that the man the world calls a reckless playboy can worship a woman’s body like it’s his only religion.
But the lines between performance and reality blur dangerously fast. Every heated fight turns into angry, clothes-ripping sex.
Every tender look after a brutal game feels a little too real. As the tour heats up and the playoffs loom, Cassian finds himself breaking the one rule he never intended to break: falling hard for the only woman who might actually destroy him.
Because when the charity tour ends and the fake dating contract is over, he’ll have to decide - is he willing to risk everything on the ice for the woman who’s already stolen his heart off it?
Penalty for Pleasure is a scorching standalone hockey romance packed with forced proximity, fake dating, enemies-to-lovers fire, rough dominant sex, and enough filthy tension to melt the ice. Perfect for readers who want their heroes possessive, filthy-mouthed, and completely obsessed once they fall.