The Warm-Up That Stuck

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He’s the last line of defense. The trainer with steady hands is the one thing that gets past every wall.

Kai Rossi is the guy who never lets anything through. Starting goaltender for the Blizzard, top-five save percentage in the league, known for his composure, his reads, and the fortress he’s built around everything that isn’t hockey. His body is a machine. His emotions are on lockdown. And the late-night training sessions are just maintenance — until the new trainer’s hands find something deeper than a hip flexor.

Nate Shaw is the one who fixes everyone else. The youngest athletic trainer in the organization, built like a swimmer, steady as a heartbeat. He’s calm, competent, and quietly drowning in his own loneliness — because every man he’s been with has wanted his healing hands and nothing else. Then Kai Rossi lies on his table, and Nate’s hands start shaking for the first time in six years.

What starts as treatment becomes something neither of them can name. Late-night sessions that run too long. Touches that linger past the professional. A text at 1:47 AM that says I can still feel your hands — and a reply that says I can still feel you.

But Kai can’t let anyone see the scary part. And Nate can’t stop being the fixer long enough to be the one who’s fixed. When a locker-room video blows their cover and the organization starts asking questions, the secret they’ve been protecting becomes the thing that might destroy them — careers, reputations, and the fragile, extraordinary thing they’ve built in the quiet spaces between the ice and the table.

The Warm-Up That Stuck is a 99,000-word MM hockey romance featuring a goaltender who treats vulnerability like a high-danger shot and a trainer who’s been taking care of everyone except himself. It has scorching heat, a guaranteed HEA, and a training room scene that will ruin you for clinical settings forever.

You’ll love this book if you enjoy:

✅ Goalie × trainer with searing chemistry
✅ “Only soft for you” emotional devastation
✅ Secret relationship under team scrutiny
✅ Touch-starved men discovering tenderness
✅ Training room scenes that blur every line
✅ The quiet guy who turns out to be loud in bed
✅ Found family with the team captain and his wife
✅ Guaranteed HEA with an epilogue that will make you ugly cry