The best way to gain confidence after years with the wrong guy? Get lessons in love from my best friend.

Hayden Owens is the hottest defenseman in pro hockey, my confident best friend, and my new dating coach.

He'll teach me to be a player, but convinces me to practice with him... and our flirting lessons and practice kisses push the bounds of friendship.

All that relationship stuff he's always avoided? He doesn't seem to mind it anymore.

Rule number one of being a player is no attachments, but when Hayden sees me picking up other guys, he's jealous enough that I wonder...