The Maine Marauders Series
ON THIN ICE
I’ve spent fifteen years in the NHL hiding who I really am. One more season, and I can retire with my secret intact.
Then Stryker Bell crashes into my life.
He’s got hands of gold, a mouth made for sin, and a body that moves like a promise. He’s young, cocky, and everything I shouldn’t want. But no matter how hard I try to keep my distance, every glance feels like foreplay, and every word from his mouth a dare.
After a brutal loss on the road, I finally break. One raw, desperate moment, and I’ve got my mouth on his, starving for a taste.
Now I’m falling for the rookie who makes me feel more alive than I ever have, while battling trauma I buried so deep I almost believed it was gone.
But if I don’t fight for Bell, I won’t just retire in the closet, I’ll lose the only man who’s ever made me want to step out of it.
PLAY THE GAME
When Sebastian Carruthers and I end up in the same Las Vegas nightclub ten years after we last spoke, every lie I ever told myself about my former best friend shatters in an instant.
One desperate night and two desperate confessions lead to something neither of us planned—a campaign that puts Sebastian in the same city where I play hockey. Suddenly, we have months together instead of days. Stolen moments spent living a life that feels terrifyingly real.
In public, we’re just friends. Old roommates catching up. In private? We’re everything we never got to be before, but no one can ever know.
Because if anyone found out, Sebastian’s enemies would turn our relationship into a political scandal that could cost him everything.
I could survive the fallout. What I couldn’t survive is losing him again.
Unfortunately, secrets like ours don’t stay buried for long. And when he’s outed on the world’s biggest stage, we’ll have to decide if what we’ve built in the shadows is strong enough to survive in the light.
FIRST SHIFT (Coming October 2026)
As the son of a hockey legend, I’ve spent my entire life under a microscope, my skills with a puck the only thing people seemed to care about. Now that I’m in the pros, every eye in the building is on me to deliver on the promise of my last name.
Then there’s Mikey Porter, a grinder up from the minors with absolutely nothing riding on him. The guy’s loud where I’m quiet, relaxed where I’m wound tight, and comfortable in his skin in a way I’ve never been.
And he’s good, too—better than anyone’s giving him credit for. But his conditioning’s a disaster, and unless something changes fast, he’s going to get cut.
For the sake of the team, I offer to help. That’s the excuse I go with, anyway.
What starts as extra ice time turns into shared dinners, then a shared address—and the first real friendship I’ve ever had. The closer we get, the harder it is to pretend what I feel for him isn’t more … until a kiss after a win on the road makes pretending impossible.
Except Mikey’s straight, and no one can ever know that I’m not.
But when a careless moment in public blows our secret wide open, I’ll need to decide if I’m willing to keep being the person everyone expects, or if I’ll burn my image to the ground for the one thing I actually want—him.