When pro hockey enforcer Ryan Price gets traded to Toronto, he's hoping for a fresh start—but he wasn't expecting to literally crash back into Fabian Salah, the musician he's never quite forgotten from his high school days. Ryan's all grit and anxiety on and off the ice, while Fabian's a free-spirited artist who couldn't care less about hockey, yet the chemistry between them is absolutely undeniable. As Fabian becomes Ryan's guide through Toronto's vibrant LGBTQ Village, showing him a side of himself he'd been hiding away, Ryan discovers what it feels like to truly be himself—but that joy comes with a complicated choice about what his future actually holds. It's a swoon-worthy second-chance romance about opposites finding unexpected common ground and learning that sometimes the most important person in your life is the one who makes you feel most like yourself.

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A slow-burn collision of raw vulnerability and electric chemistry. Indie rock meets R&B sensuality—artists like Hozier, Frank Ocean, and The 1975. Gritty passion building to heat, tender moments of rediscovery, the tension of second chances and bodies drawn together. Urban, intimate, undeniable.