Ice Girls: An Ice Crew Romance (Ice And Heat)

Mary Kowalski has spent her life chasing the ghost of the hockey player she used to be. Stuck in Greenville, South Carolina, and working as a dental receptionist, she finds a glimmer of her former home-ice glory while skating as an ice girl for the Swamp Rabbits. But beneath the uniform, Mary is struggling with a secret: the life she curated, complete with boyfriends and performative experiences, feels like a costume she can no longer bear to wear. Enter Lena Castillo, a marketing coordinator and fellow ice girl whose tattooed skin and guarded heart hide a decade of suppressed longing. Still haunted by the fallout of a teenage discovery, Lena keeps her true self tucked away beneath conservative office layers. When the two women are paired on the ice, the friction turns into an undeniable, terrifying pull that defies everything they thought they knew about their identities. As the ECHL season heats up, Mary and Lena must navigate the fragile space between mutual attraction and the fear of letting the world see them. Exploring the messy, exhilarating reality of late-in-life discovery, this is a story about shedding old expectations to finally claim the love that has been waiting in the wings all along.