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When Garrett Nash accidentally swaps phones with professional hockey superstar Nikolai Krasnov at a bar, he gets an unexpected window into the life of his team's biggest rival. What starts as a simple mix-up turns into a week-long ordeal of dodging calls, reading sexts, and discovering that Krasnov — the league's most notorious asshole — might actually have a soft side. The secret? A mysterious woman named Kate who texts Krasnov with genuine warmth, hockey knowledge, and a surprising amount of chemistry. Garrett, along with his wife Marissa, can't help but snoop — and even send a few replies. But when he learns that Kate is deeply connected to the hockey world in ways no one suspects, and that his own best friend Evan Carver might be hiding the biggest secret of all, Garrett becomes an accidental keeper of the league's most explosive secret. Now he must navigate the delicate balance between friendship, loyalty, and protecting the two people at the center of hockey's most forbidden relationship — all while learning that the line between rivalry and romance is thinner than anyone imagined. A sharp-witted, heartfelt hockey romance about mistaken identities, the masks we wear, and finding love in the most unexpected places.