Tropes:
οΏ½οΏ½Secret identity/hidden identity
οΏ½οΏ½Hockey romance
οΏ½οΏ½Slow burn
οΏ½οΏ½He falls first/harder
οΏ½οΏ½Found family
οΏ½οΏ½Brainy heroine
οΏ½οΏ½Swoony hero
Blurb:
Kace Elliott is the hockey player with a genius IQ and a secret side hustle in applied physics. Heβs falling
for his research partner, but she doesnβt know who he is outside of the lab. Now, the closer they get, the
harder it becomes for him to keep his two worlds from colliding.
On the ice, Iβm Kace Elliottβstarting goalie for the Pittsburgh Titans, fighting to prove myself in the
playoffs. Off it, Iβm Williamβa scientific researcher, quietly holding on to the academic world Iβll return to
when hockey is over. Both versions are real, they just arenβt meant to overlap.
Until Dr. Laurel Kent.
Laurel is brilliant, principled, and deeply rooted in a world where transparency matters. She knows me
online as William, her intellectual equal, the man who shares her passion for data, late-night
collaboration, and easy, unexpected chemistry. William is very much her type whereas athletes are not.
I need her to like the bigger part of meβthe hockey player. When she meets me in person, as Kace, I
make the choice to let her see the type of man sheβs sworn off from ever dating. She gets the Titans
goalie and all the craziness that comes with the playoffs. But hereβs where it gets complicated: I make
the dangerous decision not to tell her Kace and William are the same person.
By some stroke of luck, Laurel agrees to give Kace a shot, and our time together is more than I ever
hoped for. The closer together we grow, the less she talks about William, and I convince myself Iβll tell
her the truth when the timing is better, once Iβm able to prove Iβm more than the label sheβs written off.
But timing has a way of unraveling even the best intentions.
As the pressure of the playoffs intensifies, the boundary Iβve relied on becomes impossible to maintain.
When Laurel discovers how closely intertwined my worlds really are, Iβm faced with the cost of asking
someone to love only part of me.Β And winning on the ice means nothing if I lose the woman who made me want to stop dividing my life in two.Β 
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