Jamie Canning and Ryan Wesley are both star NCAA hockey players about to graduate and go pro when they meet at the Frozen Four. It’s the first time they’ve seen each other since they graduated Elites hockey camp after six years of being best friends, only for Wes to torpedo their friendship over what Jamie saw as just some drunken idiocy and Wes saw as a selfish plan to manipulate the man he loved into bed with him.
Seeing Jamie again is like a hit of a drug Wes had been clean of for four years, and he can’t go back to being sober. So he signs up to join Jamie coaching at Elites over the summer and everything changes.
THIS IS ADULT EROTICA. You have been warned. Other CW include homophobia, hockey-typical misogyny, failure to pass the Bechdel test, and possibly a slight degree of difficulty with suspension of disbelief, depending on how much you know about hockey.
But it's so good. I listened to the Audible version in as close to one sitting as I could manage, and promptly bought the sequel on Kindle. It's very much like an E-rated Check, Please! fanfic, complete with porn with plot, the phrase "toed into my shoes", and friends to lovers. So much so that I had to carefully examine the personalities of Jamie and Wes for traces of the CP main characters, but there's insufficient anxiety. :p
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5/5
