Hooking

He came to Chicago with a file, a cover story, and the certainty that four weeks would be enough.

Nikolai Voss is a ghost - a precision operative for a powerful crime family who has spent a decade building trust only to extract what the family needs, then disappearing without a trace. His new assignment: pose as a sponsorship consultant, get close to a hockey player, and recover a stolen archive the target's dead father left behind. No complications. No attachments.

West Kowalski is the heart of the Chicago Winterhawks - warm, fiercely perceptive, and devoted to his five-year-old daughter. When a quiet stranger appears in his world with credentials that check out and an attention that doesn't match the job description, West notices. He always notices.

Week by week, Nikolai's operational notebook falls silent. The blank pages accumulate. West's warmth isn't a weakness to exploit. Maya's trust arrives without conditions. And somewhere between arena lights and conversations that serve no operational purpose, the mission stops being the mission.

When the truth detonates, Nikolai must choose between the only life he has ever known and the two people he cannot file away.

The family is not patient. They have sent a second man.

HOOKING - Frozen Hearts Series, Book 2

1. Undercover operative × warm-hearted hockey star
2. Secret identity and calculated deception
3. Single dad with the fiercest five-year-old in Chicago
4. Found family that arrives without permission
5. High-stakes romantic suspense
6. Enemies-to-lovers built on trust, betrayal, and impossible choices