The Comeback Rule: A Hockey Romance

By Dara Finch

She's the fourth physiotherapist he's had in six weeks. She's also the first one who isn't going to leave.

Nora Callahan doesn't manage difficult athletes. She engages them. When she's assigned to NHL captain Declan Maguire's ACL rehabilitation - after three physiotherapists have already quit - she walks into the facility and tells him his resistance band is anchored wrong.

It's the beginning of twelve weeks she didn't plan for.

Declan Maguire has been the best at everything for fifteen years. Being injured is an identity crisis. Being managed by someone who won't be negotiated with is something else entirely. The protocol is twelve weeks. The team wants eight. He wants yesterday.

What he gets is Nora: precise, direct, and completely unwilling to be pressured by anyone - including him.

In this forced-proximity sports romance:

✦ A grumpy NHL captain and the sunshine physiotherapist he can't intimidate

✦ Twelve weeks of residential rehab and a professional line neither of them expected to test

✦ Institutional politics, a trade rumor, and a midnight conversation that changes everything

✦ A woman who resigns rather than compromise her work - and a man who refuses to return to play without her sign-off

The comeback was always the goal. Neither of them planned on everything else.

The Comeback Rule

is a standalone steamy contemporary hockey romance with an HEA. Heat level: steamy. No cliffhangers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HMW3RRT7
• ISBN13: 9798182882804
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Dara Finch
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"