The Overtime Persuasive

She needed a business rescue. She got her best friend's infuriating twin brother instead.

Eva Barlow had a plan, and it did not include a hockey player.

She's spent years filing them under arrogant, loud, and best avoided—right alongside anyone whose life comes with glitter attached. But when an unexpected fine threatens to take down the Old Town shop she built with her own two hands, turning down help stops being an option.

Enter Liam Snyder: NHL defenseman, professional karaoke menace, exactly the kind of man who makes "just helping out" feel dangerous in all the wrong (right?) ways.

He's aggressively good-looking, annoyingly charming, and always somehow underfoot. He knows her numbers better than she does, and somehow his oversized, unmistakably hockey player presence makes the shop feel steadier than it has in months.

Something about the way he stays after closing makes it very hard to remember why she swore off this kind of complication in the first place.

This was supposed to be about spreadsheets.

Not feelings.

Definitely not roots.

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The Overtime Persuasive is a best friend's brother, low spice friends to lovers hockey romance filled with sizzling chemistry, undeniable tension, and all the heat!

Tropes in The Overtime Persuasive are:

• Best Friend’s Brother

• Forced Proximity

• Grumpy/Sunshine

• He Falls First

• Longtime Secret Crush

• Friends to lovers

• Found Family

• Close-Knit Community