He hid the injury. She wrote it down. Everything is about to be on the record. Dr. Noa Reyes runs rehabilitation for the Austin Chupacabras and owns, on paper, every tendon in the building. On her door hangs a laminated, numbered rulebook that has kept her employed and sane for three years. Rule one: she doesn't treat liars. Rule two: she doesn't date athletes. Rules two and three have no exceptions. Mason Duffy is the team's captain, their sunshine, the man who calls referees "bud" while screaming at them, and, as of banner night, the owner of a shoulder tear he has hidden for eighteen months. The captain of a bubble franchise doesn't get to be broken. So he didn't tell anyone. He told his charts even less. The lie was in her files, under her own signature. Now there's a full season of rehab to get through, a captain armed with a pad of sticky notes and a talent for finding the one exception in every rule she's ever laminated, and a doctor who is very good at treating injuries and has never once had a plan for this. The whole building is still riding the high of a scoreboard proposal two months back, the goalie who skated the length of the ice to answer it. Noa watched it on the tunnel feed with a transducer in one hand, thought good for them, and meant it. She didn't expect the captain's own rehab file to be the next document that needed rewriting. Rule ten says the door is always open. It's the line that's never been tested until now. Welcome to Moontower Arena, where the ice fights Texas for eight months a year, the mascot suit keeps secrets, one cat runs the building's morale, and everybody on this roster is one bad day away from falling in love in front of a few thousand witnesses. Rule one: she doesn't treat liars. He's counting on an exception. You'll love this book if you love:

• Off-limits workplace romance (team doctor x team captain)
• Hidden-injury, secretly-suffering hero
• Grumpy heroine, sunshine hero (roles reversed)
• Slow burn rehab-room tension
• Found-family hockey world (Book Two of the series)
• One cat with a staff badge
• Banter-heavy hockey romantic comedy
• Workplace hijinks
• Full happily-ever-after, no cliffhanger

THE REBOUND RULEBOOK is Book Two of the Austin Chupacabras and a complete standalone romance. Contains explicit scenes and adult language, 18+. If you love a heroine who runs on rules and a hero who exists to test them, this one's for you.