Puck Me Twice (Boston Grizzlies Hockey Club, #1)

Puck Me Twice is:

second chance romance
fake dating
Own Voices - neurodivergent male character
found family
opens with a bang 🌶️🌶️🌶️
he's touch averse... except with her
Meet SVEN.

Sven is a Swedish hockey player who happens to be autistic. That doesn't define him, though, there are other things about him that are far more interesting, like:

he loves to garden; even though his house is stark black and white (and in the middle of the city), it's alive with plants
VERY invested in his sourdough starter; bakes bread and trades recipes with the little old lady who lives across the street
cares very deeply for Rupert, his parrot -- and yes, Rupert can talk
Meet VANESSA.

Vanessa is a romance-book obsessed workaholic who doesn't know if she actually believes in real-life happily ever after.
she has virtually no relationship with her family
works for a hockey team... and has a strict no hooking up with players rule
when her ex starts working for the team, she asks the hockey player she had a one night stand with to pretend to be her boyfriend