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Ice Cold Chemistry

Short Blurb:

The team’s broodiest defenseman meets his match in a sunshine yoga instructor who doesn’t take no for an answer.

Banks doesn’t do relationships. Doesn’t do feelings. Doesn’t do yoga.

Winnie’s about to change all that.

Ice Cold Chemistry is a grumpy-sunshine hockey romance, and oh... it’s going to get spicy!

About the Book:

She’s the distraction the team can’t afford.

He’s the solution no one saw coming.

Winnie Garrett is done with men. After a toxic relationship left her second-guessing everything, she’s focused on one thing: her dream job as the New York Knights’ new yoga instructor.

Banks Callahan doesn’t do relationships. Or feelings. Or anything that requires letting people get close. Growing up in the foster system taught him not to need anyone—and definitely not to want something he could lose.

So when the team’s new yoga instructor becomes an unexpected locker-room distraction threatening their playoff focus, Banks comes up with a solution so ridiculous it just might work.

Fake dating.

If the guys think Winnie is his, they’ll back off. It’s simple locker room code: you don’t touch what’s claimed—like calling dibs on the last slice of pizza.

The problem?

Nothing about Winnie Garrett is simple.

She’s warmth and laughter and everything Banks has spent years convincing himself he doesn’t need. She makes him want things he can’t have. Makes him feel things he doesn’t understand.

He was never supposed to fall for her.

But somewhere between fake hand-holding, pretend nicknames, and very real late-night moments, the line between “just for show” and “dangerously real” starts to blur.

Ice Cold Chemistry is a slow-burn hockey romance featuring fake dating, a grumpy hero, a sunshine heroine, and the relationship neither of them planned—but both might need.

Buy Links:

Amazon: https://amzn.to/4b7EHYj

Goodreads: https://geni.us/ICCGR

Audio: https://geni.us/jj23tn

ICE COLD CHEMISTRY 🏒✨

💙 a broody hockey defenseman

💙 a sunshine yoga instructor

💙 explosive chemistry

Tropes:

• Grumpiest of grumpy/sunshine

• Hockey Player x Yoga Instructor

• Fake Dating

• Possessive / protective hero

• Opposites attract

• Brooding hero softened by sunshine heroine

My Review

5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ice Cold Chemistry by Kendall Ryan

Winnie Garrett, after a toxic relationship, has vowed to stay away from men. She’s excited about her new job as a yoga instructor for the New York Knights. However, the hockey players seem immature and dismissive of her, acting as if they’ve never encountered a woman before. Worried that if they don’t take her yoga sessions seriously, she won’t be able to meet her boss’s goals for improved flexibility and reduced injuries. Failing to achieve these goals could lead to her job loss. Her best friend, Tori, steps in to help her find a solution to this problem. But they sure didn’t think of him…

Banks Callahan notices that the team is distracted because they’re all fixated on the gorgeous new yoga instructor, making it difficult for them to concentrate on their jobs. With an important playoff push approaching, someone needs to address this issue, but he doesn’t want to be the one to do it. He tends to not get involved in drama, keeping his head down, doing his job, and going home. That’s how he has survived this long, but the image of her shaking won’t leave his head. However, he soon discovers an option that might work—fake dating. After all, no one would touch anything that belonged to him, right?

“This is what I’ve been waiting for. This is what I didn’t know I needed. Every nerve in my body is on fire, every thought in my head reduced to more, more, more.”

Ice Cold Chemistry

**** Releasing June 25, 2026 from Author Kendall Ryan ****

Will be available as an ebook, paperback and audiobook and will be going into Kindle Unlimited upon release.

Tropes:

• Grumpiest of grumpy/sunshine

• Hockey Player x Yoga Instructor

• Fake Dating

• Possessive / protective hero

• Opposites attract

• Brooding hero softened by sunshine heroine

• Physical tension (yoga moments!)

About the Book:

She’s the distraction the team can’t afford. He’s the solution no one saw coming.

Winnie Garrett is done with men. After a toxic relationship left her second-guessing everything, she’s focused on one thing: her dream job as the New York Knights’ new yoga instructor.

Banks Callahan doesn’t do relationships. Or feelings. Or anything that requires letting people get close. Growing up in the foster system taught him not to need anyone—and definitely not to want something he could lose.

So when the team’s new yoga instructor becomes an unexpected locker-room distraction threatening their playoff focus, Banks comes up with a solution so ridiculous it just might work.

Fake dating.

If the guys think Winnie is his, they’ll back off. It’s simple locker room code: you don’t touch what’s claimed—like calling dibs on the last slice of pizza.

The problem?

Nothing about Winnie Garrett is simple.

She’s warmth and laughter and everything Banks has spent years convincing himself he doesn’t need. She makes him want things he can’t have. Makes him feel things he doesn’t understand.

He was never supposed to fall for her.

But somewhere between fake hand-holding, pretend nicknames, and very real late-night moments, the line between “just for show” and “dangerously real” starts to blur.

Ice Cold Chemistry is a slow-burn hockey romance featuring fake dating, a grumpy hero, a sunshine heroine, and the relationship neither of them planned—but both might need.

Buy Links:

Amazon: https://amzn.to/4b7EHYj

Audio: coming soon!

Goodreads: https://geni.us/ICCGR