What happens when the person you let down becomes the person you can't let go of?
Marcus Bennett had one job: be there when a scared kid needed him most. He wasn't. Thirteen years later, hockey gives him no choice but to face the consequences — because the rookie just traded to his team, the one he's ordered to mentor, is the same boy he failed. Older now. Harder. And looking at Marcus like he's a stranger.
Damien Cross doesn't want an apology. He doesn't want a mentor. He definitely doesn't want to fall for the man who taught him that asking for help gets you nothing. But Marcus isn't backing down this time — not from Damien's walls, not from his furious silence, and not from the family determined to drag them both under. Forced proximity becomes something neither man can outskate, and every shift on the ice pulls them closer to a truth they can't keep dodging: some chances don't come around twice — and this one's worth everything.
Breaking Away is a slow-burn, age-gap, second-chance MM hockey romance about guilt, forgiveness, and the kind of love that shows up even when it isn't wanted — featuring a guarded, touch-starved hero, a hockey mentor with a guilty conscience, found family, an HEA, and enough rink-side tension to fog up the glass.
If you love hockey romance, second-chance love stories, forced proximity, and slow-burn MM romance with real emotional stakes — grab your copy of Breaking Away today and find out if some love stories really do deserve overtime.