Save of the Heart

A Sweet Small Town Hockey Romance

By: Katie Thomas

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

He's the team's matchmaker. She's the one woman who doesn't want fixing.

Jason "Matchstick" Burnside has successfully paired off half his hockey teammates, but his own love life is a disaster. When he sets his sights on Lorena Cassanelli—the fiercely independent single mother who works at his favorite Italian restaurant—he's convinced he knows exactly what she needs: a better job, a nicer daycare for her daughter, and definitely a more suitable boyfriend than the teammates he keeps trying to set her up with.

Lorena has built a good life for herself and six-year-old Valentina within the warm embrace of her grandparents' restaurant. She doesn't need rescuing, especially not by some well-meaning hockey player who thinks her choices are problems to be solved. But when Jason finally learns to ask "What do you need?" instead of assuming he knows what's best, Lorena starts to see the lonely, caring man beneath all that meddling alpha male intensity.

Just as they begin to trust each other, Valentina's father returns to town—grown up, stable, and wanting to be the parent he should have been years ago. Now Jason must learn the hardest lesson of all: sometimes loving someone means fighting for them, not stepping aside for their "own good."

Can a controlling hockey player learn to love without trying to manage the outcome? And can a woman who's spent years protecting her independence find room in her heart for someone who sees her strength as something to cherish, not change?

A heartwarming and emotional small-town hockey romance about building family, learning to trust, and discovering that the best love stories can't be manipulated. They have to be lived.

Clean language and only kissing. HEA guaranteed.