Hit From Behind - Jack Hughes

Jack Hughes had everything. Speed. Skill. Stardom. The world had been watching since he was sixteen, and he'd lived up to every expectation-until the hit that changed everything.

One brutal shift ends it all. Jack wakes up in a hospital bed with a shattered shoulder, a spinal injury, and a doctor telling him he might never play again. As the headlines mourn the loss of a superstar, Jack starts mourning himself-who he was, who he thought he'd be, and the life that was supposed to go on forever.

And then there's her.

The woman who's stayed beside him through every high and low, who believed in him before he was anything. But Jack can't shake the guilt, the creeping thought that maybe she deserves someone whole. Someone better. Someone not broken.

Now, stuck in a body that feels like a betrayal, and a mind spiraling into doubt, Jack has to decide: Is he still Jack Hughes without hockey? And can he let someone love him if he doesn't love himself?