Return to Contact — Paperback
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📖 Paperback Edition — Cleared to play. Not cleared to touch her. 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno • MF Forbidden Doctor Hockey Romance • Surgeon × Hockey Captain • Injured Athlete • Silver Fox Hero • He Falls First. 6 × 9 paperback. For readers 18+.
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📖 Paperback Edition — Cleared to play. Not cleared to touch her.
Grant Callahan walked out of my exam room last June and said he’d ask me out when he was worth asking. He didn’t call. Not in July, not all season.
Eight months later the Harbor City Breakers’ captain is standing in my office doorway, thirty-eight, contract up in April, volunteering for my return-to-performance study. I rebuilt his shoulder with my own two hands. Now he’s participant fourteen, shirtless on my blue tape, telling me his left side feels “the same” while my cameras say otherwise.
I don’t date participants. So I filed the form. Fourteen days until the recusal goes live. No touching until the ink is dry.
He keeps his hands on a railing and tells me exactly what he’d do to me if I said yes. He calls me from two time zones away. He buys two kitchen stools for a house that’s never had a chair. And when it’s finally allowed, the man who’s spent twenty years playing hurt lets me see him hold still.
We made one rule: his body is his to report. If he says it’s a two, it’s a two. I never check.
Then he gets his first game back, and a contract he can feel slipping, and he types a three into the log where a six should be.
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno • MF Forbidden Doctor Hockey Romance by Tessa Valehart
Tropes: Surgeon × Hockey Captain • Forbidden Romance • Professional Boundaries • Injured Athlete • Comeback Story • Competence Kink • Praise Kink • He Falls First • Mutual Pining • Phone Sex Before First Touch • Scar Worship • Silver Fox Hero • Hurt/Comfort
Paperback details: 6 × 9 in • cream paper • matte cover. Includes a link to the exclusive bonus chapter.
⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic MF scenes, including oral sex, phone sex, solo masturbation, dirty talk, edging and orgasm denial, and light restraint with wrists held; all on-page sex is consensual and negotiated), a sports injury and surgical recovery, an athlete concealing pain from his medical team, a research-ethics conflict of interest, a private photo going viral and a woman’s name and workplace posted online, a past instance of a mentor taking credit for her work, career uncertainty and the prospect of retirement, a brief third-act separation, alcohol, and strong language. No sexual violence, no dub-con, no cheating. Intended for readers 18+.
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