Margot Finch grew up in the stands of the Packard Dome.Now she's a junior reporter with one week to prove herself, and the assignment is the man she swore she'd never write about.Sullivan Kavanagh is a franchise player in freefall.Twenty-eight goals last season. Nine this one.Benched for "conduct detrimental to the team."And a betting line buried deep that asks whether he'll be traded before the deadline.Everyone else is writing the autopsy.Margot is writing the resurrection."My season's not worth profiling," he tells her."That's what I want to find out," she says.A grumpy enforcer with winter-ice eyes and a scar through his brow.A sunshine reporter clutching her dead father's ring like a talisman.One week. Practices, games, downtime. No handholding.But the deeper Margot digs, the more the slump looks like a secret, and the secret looks like a loan shark, and the loan shark looks like a reason a good man might be tempted to throw a game.And somewhere between the bus rides and the cracked-oven dinners, the story she's chasing becomes the man she's falling for.Then the past she shares with him surfaces, the kind of old flame that never fully went out, and Sullivan Kavanagh has a child and a debt and a deadline of his own.If Margot files the truth, she makes her career and destroys him.If she buries it, she betrays everything her father's ring stands for.One story.One impossible deadline.One last chance at the love she walked away from.Hat Trick is a yearning, banter-filled sports romance about a grumpy-sunshine pairing, an old flame, a single dad, a buried secret, a debt that could ruin him, and a last chance at forever.Perfect for readers who love hockey romance, grumpy-sunshine pairings, second-chance love, single-dad heroes, slow-burn yearning, and a hero worth saving. A standalone romance with a happily-ever-after.