Mile High

Description

The explosive global bestseller, multi-million-copy BookTok phenomenon, and the definitive masterclass in contemporary sports romance! From Liz Tomforde comes Mile High—a brilliantly written, fast-paced, and intensely addictive contemporary masterpiece. Perfectly launching the acclaimed Windy City series, this unputdownable book delivers a spectacular, multi-layered puzzle of an elite athlete and a fierce flight attendant. Balancing a high-stakes professional hockey season with razor-sharp witty banter, deep emotional vulnerability, and an undeniable, scorching slow-burn chemistry, it will hold you captive from its opening page until its final, incredibly satisfying sentence.

Evan Zanders knows exactly who he is supposed to be: Chicago hockey’s favorite player to hate. He knows his role as the team’s unfiltered, unapologetic bad boy, and he plays it exceptionally well both on and off the ice. In fact, he thoroughly enjoys spending the majority of his game time in the penalty box before leaving the arena with a new girl on his arm each night. What he absolutely cannot handle is the defiant new flight attendant on the team’s private charter plane. She works for the organization, not the other way around. Determined to protect his boundaries and reassert control, Zanders vows to remind her exactly who is boss, confident that by the end of the season, she will be begging to quit her job. But as their high-pressure road trips continuously blur their strict professional lines, the arrogant athlete faces a psychological dilemma: is he pushing the flight attendant call button to push her buttons, or has his protective devotion officially awakened?

Stevie has been a professional flight attendant for years, navigating corporate guidelines and high-stress travel under pressure. She thought she had seen it all, but when her new job lands her onboard working for the most egotistical, self-righteous diva in the NHL, she starts to second-guess her entire career path. Worse, she is forced to confront the ironclad promise she made to herself after past heartbreak: never hook up with a professional athlete again, no matter how annoyingly tempting he may be. Zanders loves his toxic public image, and Stevie hates everything about it—everything, unfortunately, except for the complex, fiercely loyal man behind the mask.

Thrown into close quarters at thirty thousand feet, their adversarial workplace banter quickly gives way to intense domestic intimacy. As external team pressures mount and emotional vulnerabilities surface, Stevie’s crumbling defenses and Zanders’ hidden capacity for gentle, patient care completely combust. Waking up to a reality where their mutual longing is borderline unbearable, the alpha billionaire hockey star must pull off his ultimate performance to prove to Stevie that falling in love isn’t a dangerous game, but a permanent victory.

Masterfully executing the sports romance, billionaire athlete, enemies-to-lovers, workplace/forced proximity, and grumpy-meets-sunshine tropes, Mile High delivers an atmospheric, high-energy comfort read. Brimming with Liz Tomforde’s signature psychological depth, raw emotional healing, and unforgettable dual-POV tension, this premium Hodder paperback edition is a landmark achievement in modern fiction. It stands as an essential, mandatory masterpiece for your personal contemporary romance collection.