<p><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">I used to be a good girl.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">That is until I woke up in Vegas married to a former hockey player who also happens to be my best friend's ex.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Cole Hebert and I are opposites. I'm the new town doctor, a rule follower, and five-five on a good day. He's the six-seven bad boy currently doing court-ordered community service.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">I'm struggling to earn the respect of the people in our hometown, and he's doing some soul searching after an injury ended his hockey career. We've already drunkenly said&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">I do</em><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">, so we agree to a marriage of convenience.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Forced to live together, we slowly become friends. I see a side of Cole I never knew existed. He coaches kids' hockey, knits for the entire town, and loves snuggling while watching&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Jeopardy</em><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Soon, we're growing closer, and the way the hockey-playing lumberjack worships my plus-size body and obsessively calls me his&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">wifey</em><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">&nbsp;has me embracing my inner bad girl and tearing down all my carefully constructed walls.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Our feelings eventually burn as bright as our passion, but the small town we both love is harboring dark secrets. After a shocking discovery, we learn there are those who want us silenced forever,&nbsp;</span><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">and we're forced to risk it all to protect our happily ever after.</strong></p><p></p><p><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Author's Note: Axe-identally Married is a marriage of convenience romance featuring a sassy plus-size doctor and a cinnamon roll hockey player with a heart of gold. If you enjoy opposites attract, flirty banter, possessive heroes, wood-chopping, meddling moose, and small-town hijinks, you will not be disappointed.</em></p><p></p>