THE HOCKEY ALPHA'S HUMAN MATE

Lara Parker has one rule: never expect good things during the holidays. Her luck is so bad it should be studied. Still, she plans the perfect anniversary dinner, hoping just this one time, December will be kind. It isn’t. Her boyfriend walks into the restaurant with another woman on his arm… and breaks her heart publicly. But across the room sits Killian Wilde, captain of the Northwind Icehawks—and an Alpha werewolf trying to unwind after a big win. When chaos erupts, one scent hits him harder than any check on the ice. Mate. A spontaneous, spite-fueled kiss from Lara ignites a bond he’s spent his whole life searching for. She thinks it’s a reckless moment. He knows it’s fate. Now Lara finds herself entangled with a man whose world is colder, wilder, and far more dangerous than she ever imagined and who’s determined to show her that the holidays aren’t cursed after all… not when she belongs to an Alpha who’d burn winter down for her. Warm lights, cold ice, one irresistible Alpha. This Christmas, her heart doesn’t stand a chance.