Tainted Love: An 80s/90s Opposites Attract Hockey Romance (Merrimack Mavericks Hockey)

Hooking up with the NHL’s golden boy would be easier if Michael Tazman hadn’t once been my best friend turned enemy.

We spent years pretending we were strangers, until he bulldozed his way back into my life like he never left.

But Taz has always been impossible to ignore.

He flirts like it’s a sport and lives like there are no consequences. Somehow, he still ends up in my bed night after night like he belongs there.

No one sees the version of him I do. The reckless grin hiding razor-sharp edges. The broken man buried beneath all that swagger.

Because before we became enemies, Taz was mine.

Now we’re trapped somewhere between old feelings, unfinished history, and something far more dangerous. The harder I try to keep my distance, the more determined Taz becomes to drag me back into his world.

We tell ourselves it’s temporary. Just one last time. Just a secret we’ll survive keeping.

But Taz has never known when to quit—especially when it comes to me.

And when our past threatens to destroy everything we’ve rebuilt, I realize the real danger was never falling for him again.

It was believing I could survive losing him twice.

Tainted Love is an emotional second-chance hockey romance featuring best friends to enemies to lovers, close proximity, opposites attract, secret love, and an NHL golden boy who refuses to let her go.