Nina Bexley knows exactly what hockey costs. She paid it in four seasons of marriage and one September night. Now the Seattle Tide has hired her to write their human-interest beat, and the assignment is a return to the one building she swore she would never walk into again. Roman Kadri is the team's grump of an alternate captain, her late husband's best friend, and the one man who left town the week of the funeral and never came back. He does not want a reporter. He especially does not want her. But the season is long, the carpool is unavoidable, and the porch light he leaves on for her is turning into something neither of them can name. Nina has one question she has been circling for three years. Roman has one answer he has been hiding. Neither of them has enough time left in the season to keep lying.
