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SHARP EDGES

(Fresh Ice Series, Book 1: Eshy)

★★★Shortlisted for the Chatelaine Book Award for Romantic Fiction★★★

Something’s terribly wrong with Blake “Eshy” Eshlin, a top-6 winger for the Boston Bears professional ice hockey team. Faced with sudden chronic pain from his body’s traumatic response to a virus, Eshy has to learn to live with the agonizing and distracting effects of fibromyalgia without letting the rest of his hockey club know. He hides his condition from everyone in his life, but one person can see right through the ruse.

As the assistant equipment manager, it’s Kerry Stratton’s job to watch the players closely and attend to their every need, whether it’s sharpening skates, washing towels, or finding the perfect shower soap to clear their sweat acne. When Eshy’s performance wanes and Kerry can see he’s clearly in pain, she inserts herself into his personal life to get him help and make him face his fears of a new normal. But Kerry never bargained for Eshy being a darling sweetheart and such a kind Minnesota mama’s boy. Even Kerry’s headstrong ways can’t keep her from falling for him and following him into an accidental world of opioids, reckless endangerment, secrets, and blackmail, as Eshy spirals out of control and Kerry fights to save him.

When an adversary on Eshy’s own team wants Kerry for himself and goes to dangerous lengths to drive a wedge into Eshy and Kerry’s budding relationship, can Eshy’s hockey career survive an opioid overdose leaking out to the media? And can Kerry’s job survive the aftermath of her involvement in Eshy’s fate?

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HOCKEY ROYALTY

(Fresh Ice Series, Book 2: Dandy)

Joan Warren runs a nonprofit that gives hockey equipment, skating lessons, and practice time to underprivileged Boston kids, including organizing a small club of youth teams. Her nonprofit barely breaks even with the help of grant funding, but her ice time at a local rundown rink is precious, and the kids adore her.

All is well until the Boston Bears pro hockey team needs a rink for their late-summer training camp while their own practice facility undergoes repairs. The privileged Bears take over Joan’s rink, the kids’ locker rooms, and her own personal space — ridiculing the ice, the amenities, and what she’s made of a location for youth who wouldn’t otherwise get to play.

Daniel “Dandy” Stoller is hockey royalty. He comes from a long line of hockey greats, but he isn’t one of them. A bottom-D, he has lost his love of the game but can’t disappoint his dynasty family by following his truer passions: golfing, real-estate investing, and avoiding his high-maintenance girlfriend. As one of the most privileged of the Bears, he goes head-to-head with Joan, putting her funding in jeopardy, until she makes him learn the error of his ways, and the kids steal a special place in his heart — with a little help from a lovable bluetick coonhound. As his relationship with Joan becomes more than acquaintances, Dandy must reconcile his feelings for his own girlfriend and a massive secret investing deal with plans to level the rink and make way for new development.

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