Skating on Thin Ice

By Maeve Callahan

Skating on Thin Ice is a small-town, high-stakes hockey romance where one bad headline can end a career-and one impossible choice can change everything.

Mara Kline came back to Harbor Point to do her job, not to be a story. As Lake State's head athletic trainer, she lives by protocols, boundaries, and control-because one mistake in her world doesn't just hurt someone. It ruins lives. Then the team trades for Beck Rourke: a lightning-rod player with a "menace" reputation, a battered body, and a media narrative that follows him like a shadow.

When a leak reveals private team details that are too clean to be rumor, the franchise panics. The owner wants damage control. The internet wants blood. And Mara becomes collateral-pulled into a PR containment plan that forces her and Beck into a staged "relationship" meant to smother scandal with boredom.

But the lie doesn't stay a lie. Snowed in at Mara's family lodge, watched more closely than they realize, the line between performance and truth fractures-then shatters. A stolen moment becomes evidence. The league circles. Sponsors threaten. Compliance moves in. Mara's career hangs by a thread, and Beck is one incident away from becoming the villain everyone expects.

As the pressure spikes, the only way out is straight through: expose the real leak, face the fallout publicly, and prove-on the ice and off-that restraint is strength, not weakness. Because in a town that never forgets, and a sport that feeds on narratives, choosing each other isn't romantic.

It's war.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQ72KXSR
• ISBN13: 9798249786359
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"