Breakaway

She killed her career to protect him. He’d never looked twice at her.Owen Powless is stoic and steady, the kind of captain who carries his hockey team and never falters. Until double overtime in Game Seven, when he cracks in front of everyone. The Toronto media is already circling, and he needs to get home to the Onondaga Nation. He didn’t expect his only way out would be a woman with a press badge.Talented reporter Wren Hill has always found the stories that go beyond the box score. As one of the few Native women in sports journalism, she knows what it means to be seen as a story, not a person-and she’s built her career on doing better. Until tonight, when Owen goes missing and the network wants her to give up his location.When she offers to take the wheel at three a.m., what starts as a favor turns into hours of dark highways, disguised coffee runs, and the slow realization that Owen might actually let her in. A list of things Wren hasn’t said grows by the mile. Namely, that she sacrificed her job rather than betray him. #WhereIsOwen is trending, and he doesn’t know she’s the reason nobody’s found him yet.Then an article with her byline drops, and Owen sees her name attached to a story about him on the worst night of his life.He’s been here before and knows how this ends. What neither of them knows is whether what developed between them on that drive is enough to make him read closer.This best friend’s brother, road trip romance features a childhood crush and two people learning that trust is harder to give than either of them planned. With a little bit of heat and adult language, Breakaway is a standalone novella that takes place in the Medicine Game series universe. Follow Owen and Wren’s family and friends beginning with Over and Back.