The Grumpy Defenseman by A.J. Kingsley

I was sent to photograph the grumpiest man in the NHL. Falling for him could ruin us both.
I came to San Antonio for one summer assignment and a clean exit. Then there’s Evan McKinney.
NHL shutdown defenseman. Contract year. Training camp. Broad shoulders, sharp edges, and a stare built to keep the world out. He treats every camera like a weapon, and I’m the one aiming it at him.
But my lens keeps catching what he works so hard to hide: the heat beneath his restraint, the hunger he can’t bury, and the man beneath all that control.
One drink becomes a night I can’t stop replaying. One kiss turns professional distance into something hotter, deeper, and impossible to resist.
Now Evan’s future is on the line, the league is watching, and if this becomes a story, it could cost him his contract year, and cost me the job, the exit I planned, and the man I was never supposed to want.
Can be read as a standalone in The Stampede Series.
Heat level: Open-door, high heat, with multiple on-page intimate scenes.
Grumpy x Sunshine • Workplace Romance • Forced Proximity • Secret Relationship • He Falls First
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Samantha
2. Samantha
3. Evan
4. Samantha
5. Samantha
6. Evan
7. Samantha
8. Samantha
9. Evan
10. Samantha
11. Evan
12. Samantha
13. Samantha
14. Samantha
15. Evan
16. Evan
17. Evan
18. Samantha
19. Samantha
20. Samantha
21. Evan
22. Samantha
23. Samantha
24. Samantha
25. Samantha
26. Samantha
27. Samantha
28. Evan
29. Samantha
30. Samantha
31. Evan
32. Evan
33. Evan
34. Evan
35. Samantha
36. Evan
37. Samantha
Epilogue
The Off-Limits Captain: Coming June 23
Chapter 1: Ryan
A Note From AJ
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