{"product_id":"desire-after-the-blue-line-mila-westbrook-9798190728279","title":"Desire After the Blue Line: A High-Heat Reverse Age-Gap Hockey Romance with a Younger Rookie Centre, an Older Brand Strategist, Friends-to-Lovers Desi","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlexandria McIlwee has built an international career by finding the truth before a false story becomes permanent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarani Muthama is the twenty-three-year-old rookie centre nobody can keep on script.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe arrives in Grayhaven to protect her celebrity client after a manipulated audio recording threatens a nine-million-pound investment in Overtime Harbor. Karani is supposed to become the smiling face of the new academy campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead, he refuses the script.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexandria should find him difficult. He is younger, dangerously observant and far too willing to ask what she actually wants. But the friendship growing between them soon becomes the most honest part of a crisis built from edited words, secret contracts and public suspicion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen photographs of them are used as evidence in an ownership battle, every conversation becomes a potential conflict. Every private choice becomes another headline. And the attraction Alexandria keeps calling temporary becomes impossible to separate from the life she is beginning to build in Grayhaven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarani has spent his first professional season waiting for someone to decide he arrived too early.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexandria has spent years protecting other people's stories while keeping her own life carefully controlled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe cannot ask her to surrender her career to prove she loves him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe cannot keep treating desire like a problem that distance will solve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo save the club, they must expose who manipulated the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo save their relationship, they must finally stop letting institutions, contracts and strangers decide what their love is allowed to mean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesire After the Blue Line is a high-heat reverse age-gap hockey romance featuring a younger rookie centre, an older brand strategist, friends-to-lovers chemistry, workplace conflict, public scandal, career ambition, emotional vulnerability and a deeply satisfying engagement happily ever after.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mila Westbrook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798190728279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 710\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.42d","brand":"Mila Westbrook","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50666086138111,"sku":"9798190728279","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/desire-after-the-blue-line-mila-westbrook-9798190728279","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}