Mina, a small, cerebral college biology major, rescues a kitten outside an arena gala and collides with Mercer, the icy team captain, and Rook, his chaotic enforcer partner—two men publicly devoted to each other who are blindsided by their reaction to her.

Convinced she’s a biological anomaly they can’t function without, the pair pursue her with escalating possessiveness, folding her into their relationship while trying to reshape her life around them.

When their smothering devotion collides with Mina’s need for her own identity, degree, and agency, all three have to work out whether their arrangement can hold without erasing her.

Tropes: why choose / MMF menage, M/M couple plus one woman, dark romance, hockey romance, obsessive possessive heroes, ‘only exception’ / not-into-women-except-her, size difference, innocent heroine / experienced dominant heroes, protector obsession, fated-mates-adjacent scent bond, kept woman / captivity dynamic, forced proximity, age and power gap, grumpy-and-feral meets soft, pregnancy and wedding epilogue