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Rookie Season

by Katie Bailey

A rookie season, a fresh start, and an inconvenient roommate

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A rookie season, a fresh start, and an inconvenient roommate

Set against Noah Downsby’s first season in the NHL, the romance pairs his ambition to make hockey history with Ally Callahan’s effort to rebuild her life in San Francisco after rumors have damaged her reputation. Their shared loft—also home to two other NHL players and Ally’s cat—puts Noah’s no-distractions resolve in close quarters with the person he least expects to affect him. The setup brings together professional pressure, a new start, and the friction of living alongside someone whose guardedness is beginning to shift. Hockey frames the relationship, while the central tension turns on trust, reputation, and what happens when attraction unsettles carefully held boundaries.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Contemporary romance readers interested in a hockey setting and an athlete’s rookie season.
  • Readers who enjoy roommate proximity and a relationship shaped by guardedness and attraction.
  • Readers drawn to stories about starting over after reputational harm.

Themes

Professional ambitionFresh startsReputation and rumorsTrust and guardednessAttraction and boundaries

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Book overview

He's starting his rookie season in the NHL...

 

Noah Downsby has always had one goal: play professional hockey. Now that he's finally made it, he's determined to prove himself. And if he's going to have the best rookie season in NHL history, he needs zero distractions.

But Noah didn't plan for Allegra-Ally-Callahan moving in with him.

With her sassy smile, smart mouth, and bad habit of 'borrowing' his jerseys-nevermind her stupid cat who won't stop sleeping in his bed-one thing's for certain:

Ally is officially a distraction.

 

...She's moving across the country to start over.

 

The rumors say she's a bad girl, but they're all lies. Lies that have ruined her reputation.

So when Ally's offered a fresh start in San Francisco, she packs up her life and brings her baggage out west-emotional and otherwise.

Living in a swanky loft with three NHL players is a world away from college dorms, but at least two of her new roommates treat her like one of the guys.

And then there's Noah. The grump whose broody glances turn her blood hot. Who makes her feel both safe and sexy...when he's not icing her out.

 

As things between Noah and Ally heat up, their walls come down. And suddenly, there's a whole lot more than his rookie season on the line...

 

 

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