In The Cut

A College Ice Hockey Romance

By: Joan Amanda Raymond

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

She had three rules: No feelings. No sleepovers. No falling for the rich boy from Boston.

Maria Santos didn't come to Northfield College to find love. She came to play hockey, prove herself, and build a future that doesn't depend on anyone else. Growing up in Duluth, she watched her mother disappear into her father's life, losing herself one compromise at a time. Maria swore she'd never make the same mistake.

Then she meets Chuck Morrison.

He's everything she should avoid—privileged, polished, and running from a legacy she can't begin to understand. But when a party hookup turns into an arrangement, Maria discovers that Chuck sees through every wall she's built. And what started as stress relief is becoming something far more dangerous.

Chuck has spent his whole life performing. The perfect son. The Morrison heir. The future his father mapped out before he could walk. Northfield was supposed to be his escape—a place where his last name meant nothing and hockey was just a game he loved. He wasn't looking for complications.

Maria Santos is the biggest complication of his life.

She's fierce, guarded, and completely unimpressed by everything he was raised to be. She has a ritual that undoes him, a laugh that rewrites his brain chemistry, and a way of looking at him that makes him want to be worthy of it. The rules were supposed to keep things simple. Instead, they're falling apart—and Chuck is falling with them.

As the season builds toward a championship run, Maria and Chuck must decide: Is love worth the risk of losing yourself? Or is the right person exactly who helps you find out who you really are?

IN THE CUT is a steamy contemporary romance about two college athletes learning that the scariest play isn't on the ice—it's letting someone past your defenses.

This novel contains explicit sexual content and is intended for readers 18+.