New York Timesbestselling author of the Briar U series Elle Kennedy’s first hockey romance,Body Check, is now released in an expanded version, with both new and enhanced scenes by the author! More story, more hockey—and more heat!

After a childhood spent being dragged around the country by her hockey coach father, Hayden Houston intends to take some time tofigure out her future.Whether that future will includeher currently off-again boyfriendremains to be seen. What it certainlywon’tinclude is the for-one-night-only guy shejust metat a bar.

It seems hockey star Brody Croft did not get the memo about being temporary. Big, bold anddriven, he’s dedicatedin everything he does. Up till now, that’s beenhis team—the one owned by Hayden’s dad.Buthisnight with Hayden has sparked something he didn’texpect. The two of them are good together.Reallygood. There’s a connection he’s never experienced before, one he knows they’d be wrong to ignore. Even with a game-fixing scandal testing both their loyalties—to teammates, to friends…to family.

Part of Hayden wants to turn tail and run.A complicated relationship with a bad boy hockey player is exactly what she never wanted. But when it comes to Brody, Hayden is realizing that people can be so much more than what they seem.