False Start | SIGNED PRE-ORDER WITH SWAG (released May 5, 2026)

This listing is for a pre-order. This title will be released on May 5, 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 signed paperback book, this pre-order will include: 

• An art print
• A bookmark
• 2 stickers

Falling for my brother's best friend and teammate was never supposed to happen ….. But with one look, one touch, I had no choice but to chase my heart even knowing that it wasn’t meant to last.

My life has never been the picture of perfection. But when I was wrapped up in his arms, It almost felt like it could be. Jake Spencer is everything I dreamed of - smart, funny, handsome, kind, and of course a 6’2” hockey player 

How a guy like him could love someone like me, I'm not sure. I’ve been ridiculed, beaten down and bullied my entire life for being the “fat” girl. With a larger stomach, hips that are curvier than most girls and thighs so thick they practically touch, I’m the farthest thing from anyone’s type… or at least that’s what I’ve been told. So when one too many people get in my head about how incompatible we truly are on paper, I run from the only safe space I truly felt like I had.

Now, almost ten years later, I’m back in Winter Hills, working as a physical therapist for the Winter Hills Blaze. And guess on who happens to be on the team? None other than my ex-boyfriend who hasn’t escaped my thoughts and still owns my heart. And to make matters even more complicated, both of my brothers also play for the same team. 

I left him hanging in the dark, letting my insecurities drown me until I was a shell of myself. But coming back home, seeing him after all of this time, I’ll do anything it takes to make it right. He doesn’t know what really happened that day, what transpired that pushed me over the edge and had me running for the hills. 

But even if he knows the truth, will he still hate me for leaving, or does our false start deserve a second chance at finding our happily ever after?

Tropes:

• Second Chance
• Sports Romance
• Hockey Romance
• Brothers Best Friend/Best Friends Sister
• Forced Proximity
• Plus Size FMC
• Found Family