Clara Kane was twenty-one the summer she realized her heart had started keeping a different kind of score.

She had just finished her junior year at the University of Wisconsin, where she played defense on the women’s hockey team—big, physical, smart with the puck, the kind of player coaches trusted to shut down top lines and teammates trusted to have their backs. Off the ice, she was still the same Clara: fiercely loyal to her family, quick with a laugh, protective of her niece Rowie ...