Crack the Ice | SIGNED PRE-ORDER WITH SWAG (released Oct 6, 2026)

COVER REVEAL COMING SEPT 7!

This listing is for a pre-order. This title will be released on Oct 6, 2026. Please note, we recommend you purchase pre-orders separately. If you place an order for a pre-order with other items in the same order, your order will not ship until all titles in your order have been released.

In addition to a paperback copy of the book, this pre-order will include: 

• A Maverick Reed player card
• Art exclusive to Shelf Love DSM
• Stickers
• Because this novel features a character with breast cancer, $2 of every paperback will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation

TROPES

Single Guardian
Second Chance Romance
Teammates sister
He falls first
Found Family
Neurodivergent FMC
Open Door Spice
Mental health rep
Friends to strangers to lovers

BLURB 
I’ve known Maverick Reed since I was eleven years old. I knew I loved him at nineteen, started planning a future with him at twenty, before life decided it had other plans and ripped it all away. 

One life-altering event had me making a decision I thought was best for both of us. A decision I never gave him a chance to weigh in on. Hellbent on keeping my distance despite my heart's protests, I ran off to Spain, only to become an Olympic gold medalist in avoidance when I came back. 

That is, until two kids who need exactly what Mav once did find themselves needing a loving home. Now avoiding him and the feelings I’ve tried my hardest to ignore seem impossible. 

Our arrangement may have started “for the kids,” but after long-buried secrets come to light, things begin to change. And the closer we get, the harder it gets to deny ourselves the very thing we’ve always wanted. 

A family we built together.