{"product_id":"off-side","title":"Off-Side","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe college hockey captain who ran her car off the road on Day 1 also handled her stalker by week three. Sage Maren is starting to understand the difference between being saved and being seen.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom the umbrella pen name behind a 10-book romance launch, Sloane Ashford. Spice: 4 chilies. CWs at the front of the book. Always HEA.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSage Maren transfers to Halverson University in the dead middle of the spring semester with two trash bags of clothing, a financial-aid file that has not, in fact, made it to the right desk, and a restraining order whose interstate registration is theoretically her own problem. The boy who used to be her best friend has decided he is the one who gets to grieve their friendship publicly. Her father is dying in a hospice room in Vermont in approximately four months. She has, in a small green notebook, a list of every single thing she is going to handle herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe does not put the senior captain of the Halverson Hawks on the list, because she does not yet know he exists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEaston \"Crash\" Riordan is six-foot-four, twenty-two years old, and the only Halverson Hawk in three seasons to lead the team in goals \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e penalty minutes. He is graduating in May. He has, in four years on this campus, never asked a girl for her phone number. He has also never run a small woman's Subaru off the icy hill behind the hockey arena on a Tuesday morning because she had the right of way and he had not been sleeping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe gets out of the truck. He apologizes. He drives her to her dorm because the Subaru isn't moving anywhere. He notices the trash bags. He does not ask about them. He texts his defenseman from her parking lot: \u003cem\u003edeal with the car, full repair, on me, do not ask the girl\u003c\/em\u003e. He shows up the next morning with a coffee, exactly her order. A guess, the first time. Documented intel, by the third. He has, in twenty-four hours, located her financial-aid file, written down the license plate of a vehicle that has crossed the Maine state line twice this week in a way her restraining order prohibits, and decided, quietly, in the way he decides everything, that the girl with the green notebook is his.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSage is \u003cem\u003efurious\u003c\/em\u003e. She has been running her own life since she was fourteen. She did not move five hundred miles north so a stranger in a Halverson hoodie could fix her problems before she finished naming them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrash is patient. He has decided he can wait as long as she needs him to wait. He calls her \u003cem\u003ebaby\u003c\/em\u003e on day six. He calls her \u003cem\u003ehis girl\u003c\/em\u003e on day twelve. By the time her father's number comes up on her phone at three A.M. on a Sunday, she is already in his apartment, and he is already pulling on his boots.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe boy who used to be her best friend is not done. The Hawks are eight games from a national championship. Sage's father has four months. And Crash Riordan, who has been waiting his entire life to belong to one specific person who needed him specifically, is in no particular hurry to tell her, yet, that she has been on his list since the morning she stood, soaked and furious, in the snow and said \u003cem\u003e\"You don't get to handle me.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe handled it anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOff-Side\u003c\/em\u003e is a dark-leaning college hockey romance for readers of Elle Kennedy's \u003cem\u003eThe Deal\u003c\/em\u003e, Hannah Grace's \u003cem\u003eIcebreaker\u003c\/em\u003e, and Chloe Walsh's \u003cem\u003eBoys of Tommen\u003c\/em\u003e. Book 1 of the Penalty Box trilogy: three couples on the same team. Standalone HEA. 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