Playing Series · Book 5
Playing It Safe
He’s a defender. He’s wired to protect what’s precious. He just didn’t plan on it being her.
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A dual-hockey romance with a caretaker hero and a heroine who carries the world alone.
When a women’s professional team moves into the Fury’s arena, quiet enforcer Cameron “Mayhem” Miller and Olympic-gold defender Briar Beckett strike a deal to satisfy their coaches and the cameras: a fake romance for show, then a clean split. No feelings. No complications.
Except Cameron can’t stop cooking Briar’s favorite meals, learning the foods she can’t eat, and shopping for her sister — and even his famously mean cat betrays him to curl up in her lap. Briar has held up her entire world alone for years, caring for her sister and guarding a body an ex once tried to control. She would rather fight Cameron than let him carry a single thing. As their arrangement turns real, both of them have to decide whether the safest thing is to keep playing it safe.
Told in dual first-person POV, Playing It Safe pairs genuine heat with real emotional stakes: consent, caregiving, disability, and the quiet dignity of being cared for without being made smaller. It reads as a complete standalone and continues the Playing series.
“Get your head in the game. You have a playoff to win. Let me handle this.” Cameron — Chapter 21
Title details
Everything you need for acquisition.
- Author
- Lainey Davis
- Series
- Playing, Book 5
- Genre
- Contemporary romance
- Category
- Sports / hockey romance
- Audience
- Adult
- Heat level
- High / explicit
- Standalone
- Yes (series continues)
- Editor
- Becky, Bookcase Media
- Cover artist
- Qamber Design Emporium
- Audiobook
- Alastair Haynesbridge & Charlotte North
- Publication date
- October 15, 2026
- Paperback ISBN
- 978-1-957145-92-1
Tropes & themes
Content notes: On-page explicit intimacy (all between consenting adults). References to a past controlling relationship and to reclaiming autonomy. A supporting character with an intellectual disability is portrayed with care. No cliffhanger; happily ever after.