Pro-hockey centerman Max Ducharme likes to skate a line between spectacular goal-scoring and punishing hits, and if he has to dust it up there and there, he won't complain. Grit is part of his game. But when he drops the figurative gloves with a journalist, his team decides to rehabilitate his image by sending him to the local community center to give lessons to underprivileged kids.

After a horrific training accident ends pairs skater Addison Holtz's dreams of a gold medal, her job teaching beginning skating at the community center becomes her last remaining connection to the sport she loves. Only now she finds herself collaborating with a teacher whose appreciation of the finer points of proper technique is... lacking. On top of that, his bad-boy charm distracts her—for all the wrong reasons.

Neither of them can afford romantic entanglements, especially with the grind of the hockey season ahead of them, but with chemistry hot enough to melt the ice, resistance may be futile.