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Books Featuring Forced Proximity

Sometimes characters want to avoid each other, often because of those pesky feelings. But forced proximity makes them face that. Sometimes they have no control over that proximity, sometimes they manage to justify being together without acknowledging how much they like it.

Play Off
Toronto Blaze · Book 4
Play Off
Brother's Teammate · Enemies to Lovers
Alek plays in the NHL with an asterisk by his name — his parents stole money in a Ponzi scheme. Being traded back to Toronto is the last thing he wanted. His first night in the city he has an anonymous hookup, only to discover she's his teammate's sister — and her family were victims of his parents.

Should be easy not to go there again with Jess, and yet…
Out of Play
Toronto Blaze · Book 5
Out of Play
Forced Proximity · Second Chance
Justin is a hockey player used to playing through pain. But when he punches his teammate at practice, he finds out that emotional pain is not something he can ignore. Back in his hometown, the team has hired the woman he left behind to help his recovery.

Seeing Mia again stirs up old feelings. Strong ones. He's trying hard not to act on them.
Goalie Interference
Standalone
Goalie Interference
Enemies to Lovers · Forced Proximity
Remy is desperately hanging on to his career as a backup goalie. The goalie coach — a former rival — is not happy that Remy is living beside his ex-wife, Sophie.

Excellent reasons to keep his distance. Except Sophie is the most amazing woman he's met, and keeping his distance is getting harder by the day.
Halftime
Standalone (True North world)
Halftime
Second Chance · Female Hockey Player
Drunk dialing your girlfriend to tell her you didn't really cheat is a bad idea — Seb Hunter learned that the hard way. Now he's finally moved on, looking forward to sophomore year at Moo U. Until his ex arrives on campus.

For goalie Faith Devereaux, cheating is a hard pass. She's gotten over Seb. She picked the college of her dreams. The fact that he's here changes nothing.
Playing it Safe
Where the Blaze Began · Book 2
Playing it Safe
Female Hockey Player · Single Mom
Hockey star Troy Green never gives up — not on the ice, not after battling cancer, and not when it comes to his new neighbour Michelle Robinson. Troy only wants to help the struggling single mom and her sweet kids, but soon he's falling for her.

Is Troy finally ready to trade in his bachelor life and become a family man?
Kidnap Threat
Love Inspired Suspense
Kidnap Threat
Forced Proximity · Romantic Suspense
Intruders breaking into Alice Benoit's home was no coincidence — she's a ruthless gang's best pawn to keep a witness from testifying. With a leak in his own police department, superintendent Ben Parsons must keep Alice safe.

There's nowhere to go. No one to trust. And twenty-four hours to survive before they lose everything — including each other.
Hidden Evidence
Love Inspired Suspense
Hidden Evidence
Forced Proximity · Romantic Suspense
RCMP officer Caleb Drekker has a simple assignment — watch over veterinarian Alana Travers using retired K-9 Rex as his cover. When Alana learns she's been in witness protection since childhood and is now a killer's target, she leans on Caleb for help.

But the closer he gets to Alana, the more complicated his assignment becomes.
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