Willa is a newly divorced doctor and starting much of her life over. Her family is important to her and she spends as much time as she can with her sister and niece, going so far as to step in to coach her niece’s hockey team when the assigned coach quits. The only problem is that her ice experience is of the figure skating variety and she is out of her depths with hockey.

Jack Kingston is new to the TItans, but has been playing hockey for some time. He didn’t set out to coach a kids’ hockey team, but after the conversation he overheard between an overbearing parent and the coach trying to help the kids fall in love with the sport, he felt pulled to share his hockey knowledge. He knows he doesn’t have time to do it on his own, but he can step in as assistant and leave drills and plans for when he can’t be there.

As Willa and Jack work together on the Ice Pups’ season, they find themselves fighting an attraction and building a team together. A few restaurant meetings to make plans for the teams leads to banter and flirting and more. But though he is looking for a relationship, she isn’t sure she’s ready to jump into things again and there is that pesky age gap to contend with. She isn’t sure what she thinks about him being younger than she, and it will take effort for him to prove that he is not the love-em-and-leave-em type.

I listened to an audio copy and the narrators did a great job bringing these characters to life. Their performances gave an extra dimension to the story that I loved. I always love returning to the Titans world, whether it is audio or e-book because of the low-angst, smooth nature of these stories. The characters have a problem they have to overcome and they aren’t interested in playing games to figure things out even if the solution isn’t always obvious to them. It was so much fun seeing teammates and friends on the outskirts of the story, and I always look forward to more from Sawyer and her hockey teams!