Body Check

A Hotwife Professional Ice Hockey Romance

She knew exactly what she wanted. He was willing to give her everything. Neither of them knew the cost.

Cole Ashford reads the ice the way most men read a room — ahead of the play, trusting his instincts, never missing a signal. As a Chicago Blackhawks left wing, he's built his career on composure. His marriage to Maya is built on something rarer: trust that runs deeper than jealousy, and a shared life where desire gets to be honest.

When Maya tells him what she's been thinking about — the specific, carefully examined thing she's been carrying since February — Cole doesn't flinch. He takes nine miles to think. He comes home and says yes.

What follows is the best summer of their lives and then, without warning, the worst. A new arrangement, vetted with care and entered in love. A night when something goes wrong — suddenly, violently, in their own home. And the long hard work of what comes after: the blame that has to be relocated, the desire that has to be reclaimed, and the specific courage it takes to want something again after you've been frightened out of wanting.

Body Check is an adult contemporary romance about a couple who built something real and refused, even in the hardest months, to stop choosing each other.