Breakaway Blades

Dani Kowalski is twenty-six, post-surgery, and supposed to be grateful she can walk. She’s not grateful. She’s back on the ice.

The return from a femur fracture — six pins, one rod — is not a comeback story. It’s a negotiation. With her body, her coach, her pain tolerance, and Marcus, the team physician who reads her MRIs like they’re personal.

Dani doesn’t need to be understood. She needs to qualify. And she will, or she will fail publicly. Those are the only options she’s willing to entertain.

Breakaway Blades is sports romance where the woman is the athlete. The injury is real. The medicine is accurate. The feelings arrive later, inconveniently, and without warning.