When star goaltender Rhea Markham limps home to ferry-locked Powell River to rehab a bad wrist and outrun a headline, she expects solitude and a puck machine. She gets Noah Kincaid instead?a bladesmith/fabricator whose titanium cages and custom runners make goalies see sharper and move like rumor. In a town that smells like cedar and salt, they build a shared language of consent and craft: ask, answer, adjust, affirm, aftercare. Practice kisses turn real. A tidal-glass mask becomes armor and art.

As a West Coast expansion season ignites, Rhea fights for her crease against bad-faith pundits and a sponsor eager to buy her face and rewrite her story. Noah fights to keep the forge's lease alive?and his work credited, not exploited. Together they choose promise, not property?public when it protects, private when it matters.

From empty morning ice to jumbotron glare, from forge sparks to playoff pressure, Puck & Promise is a consent-forward sports romance about grownups meeting where it counts: at the line between fear and desire, body and choice, work and love.