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Love In The Stands

By: Joan Amanda Raymond

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

She came to the arena to hide. He came to survive. Neither expected to find each other.

Beth Callahan has spent three years perfecting the art of being alone. After a marriage that left her feeling invisible, she's built a life that doesn't require anyone—her job, her gym, her season tickets to Milwaukee Admirals hockey. The arena is her sanctuary, the one place she can exist without pretending to be fine.

Mike Dvorak knows what it's like to stay too long with the wrong person. Four years after his divorce, he's stopped believing in second chances. He goes to hockey games because the alternative is another night alone in the house he built for a life that never happened.

When a corporate buyout moves Mike into the seat next to Beth's, neither of them is looking for connection. But somewhere between overtime goals and shared armrests, something shifts. A hug after a win. A phone number exchanged. Texting that turns into talking that turns into something neither of them saw coming.

Beth has spent years keeping people at arm's length. Mike has learned that patience isn't the same as giving up. And in Section 114, surrounded by regulars who've been rooting for them since the beginning, two people who'd stopped believing in love discover that sometimes the best things happen when you finally stop running.

A steamy, emotionally honest contemporary romance about second chances, the courage to be seen, and finding home in the last place you expected.

For readers who love: slow-burn romance, found family, sports settings, characters over 40, explicit intimacy with emotional depth, and love stories where healing happens together.

Content note: Explicit sexual content. Intended for adult readers.