My brothers kept me clean my whole life.
Then the coach’s daughter walked into the wrong bar, and I stopped being the good one.

I was supposed to be the Gallagher who made it right. No blood on my hands. No debts. No midnight phone calls. Just the ice, the crowd, and a future my brothers broke bones to build for me.

Then Brynn Calloway looked at me across a sticky bar floor, and every clean thing about me caught fire.

She’s sharp. Fearless. Off-limits by every rule in professional hockey. Her father is my head coach, and he already hates everything my last name carries.

I should have walked away.

Instead, I drove her to work every morning. Checked her locks every night. Stood between her and the kind of men my family knows by name.

Because someone put her in danger. And the boy my brothers shielded from the violence?

He was already gone.

I scored the game-winning goal on a Tuesday night. An hour later, I broke a man’s hand in a parking garage and didn’t lose a second of sleep.

Turns out the Gallagher blood runs just as hot in me. And for Brynn?

I’d burn every clean thing I ever had to ashes.

The Rookie is a scorching dark Irish mafia hockey romance featuring a forbidden coach’s daughter relationship, a possessive protector hero, and a love story forged in violence and devotion. Standalone with a guaranteed happily ever after.

Perfect for readers who love:
• Hockey sports romance — the rookie who becomes the most dangerous Gallagher
• Forbidden coach’s daughter romance
• “Touch her and die” protector alphas
• Irish mafia families with loyalty thicker than blood
• Slow burn that combusts into scorching spice
• A guaranteed happily-ever-after