She's spent years traveling the world for a very dangerous job. He's spent years being in love with two things: hockey and his best friend's sister. Now she's home for the longest stretch of her life and the feelings he's kept wrapped tight are about to come undone.
Arch Hewitt is the Portland Wildfire's quickest mouth and teammate Crosby Hale's closest friend off the ice. He's also been quietly, completely in love with Crosby's sister, Birdie, since the night they were first introduced years ago, and he's never planned to say a word. Loving her from a safe distance is the only way he's been able to live with himself, and the only way he's been able to look his best friend in the eye.
As an elite commercial saturation diver, free-spirited Birdie Hale spends weeks at a time in a pressurized chamber, working on pipelines and platforms hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface. She's built a life out of chasing the next adventure and enjoys her freedom from the kind of attachments that come with permanent addresses.
Between diving jobs, she crashes with her brother, surrounded by the same loud, easy circle of team camaraderie she's been witness to over the years. None of that is anything new to her. What is new is the way Arch's gaze lingers a beat too long, and the way her pulse responds.
With Arch and Birdie once again in the same orbit, everything changes. The feelings Arch has carried for years start to feel less private yearning and more inescapable truth, and the closer Birdie gets to uncovering his secret, the harder it becomes to hide it.
She's never wanted to stay anywhere. He's never wanted anyone but her. Now they're forced to ask whether what they have is worth the life she'd have to give up and the brother who might never forgive them for trying.
Sexy, sharp, and emotionally charged, Arch continues the Portland Wildfire series with a friends-to-lovers, best-friend's-sister romance between a roaming saturation diver and the man who's loved her in silence for years... until silence stops being an option.
