Puck & Promise

When star goaltender Rhea Markham limps home to ferry-locked Powell River to rehab a bad wrist and outrun a headline, she expects solitude and a puck machine. She gets Noah Kincaid instead-a bladesmith/fabricator whose titanium cages and custom runners make goalies see sharper and move like rumor. In a town that smells like cedar and salt, they build a shared language of consent and craft: ask, answer, adjust, affirm, aftercare.
Practice kisses turn real. A tidal-glass mask becomes armor and art. As a West Coast expansion season ignites, Rhea fights for her crease against bad-faith pundits and a sponsor eager to buy her face and rewrite her story. Noah fights to keep the forge's lease alive-and his work credited, not exploited. Together they choose promise, not property-public when it protects, private when it matters. From empty morning ice to jumbotron glare, from forge sparks to playoff pressure, Puck & Promise is a consent-forward sports romance about grownups meeting where it counts: at the line between fear and desire, body and choice, work and love.