What the Puck
An MM Hockey Romance
by Jace Wilder
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Pairing: MM
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, Stepbrother, Forced Proximity, Secret Identity, Rivals to Lovers, Praise Kink
On the ice, they’re bitter rivals. On the app, they’re a perfect match. In the lake house? They’re about to be stepbrothers.
Asher Vance is the Ivy League golden boy. Rich, polished, and obsessed with perfection, he’s the top scorer for his team and the guy everyone loves to hate.
Damon Rourke is the enforcer from State. Rough, tattooed, and playing on a scholarship he fought tooth and nail for, he’s the “Beast” to Asher’s “Prince.”
They’ve spent three years trying to destroy each other on the hockey rink. Now, thanks to their parents’ whirlwind engagement, they’re trapped in a lake house together for six weeks. One house. One shared bathroom. Zero escape.
But they both have a secret.
For eight months, they’ve been falling for each other on LockerRoom, an anonymous dating app for athletes. They’ve shared their darkest fears, their deepest desires, and things they’d never say out loud. Neither knows who the other guy really is.
Until the GPS distance on the app drops to zero feet.
Suddenly, the guy Asher hates is the only one who understands him. And the guy Damon wants to punch is the one he can’t stop thinking about.
The rules are simple: Summer only. No feelings. And definitely no telling their parents.
But on the ice, rules are made to be broken.
You’ll love this if you enjoy:
✓ Ivy League golden boy × tattooed enforcer rivals
✓ Anonymous app identity reveal
✓ “Wait… YOU’RE CleanCut21?!”
✓ Forced proximity with shared bathroom
✓ Soon-to-be-stepbrothers
✓ He falls first (both of them, actually)
✓ Public declaration of love at the wedding
✓ Guaranteed HEA
⚠️ Content Warning
This book contains explicit MM sexual content including power exchange dynamics, possessive behavior, marking/claiming, praise kink, and competitive bedroom dynamics. There are also themes of parental expectations, class differences, fear of abandonment, and coming out.
Reader discretion advised. This book is intended for mature audiences only.
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Chapter One: Packing Heat
ASHER
The last thing Asher Vance wanted to do with his summer was spend it watching his father marry a woman he’d met six months ago.
The second-to-last thing? Sharing a lake house with her son.
He stared at the suitcase on his bed—half-packed, mostly wrong—and tried to remember why he’d agreed to this. Six weeks. Six weeks of forced family bonding, of pretending to be happy about a wedding that felt more like a business merger than a love story, of making small talk with a guy who’d spent the last three years trying to rearrange his face on the ice.
Damon Rourke.
Even thinking the name made Asher’s jaw tighten. State’s enforcer. The guy who played hockey like it was a blood sport and took personal offense at Asher’s existence. They’d faced off more times than Asher could count, and every single encounter had ended the same way—with Asher bruised, pissed off, and plotting revenge.
Now that asshole was going to be his stepbrother.
Fantastic. Really. Just fucking fantastic.
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Six months after the wedding, it’s Damon’s birthday. Asher planned everything—the candles, the rose petals, the gift box with items that made him blush when he ordered them. This scene didn’t make it into the book.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this book part of a series?
What the Puck is a complete standalone with an HEA (happily ever after). No cliffhangers! Asher and Damon get their happy ending.
How spicy is this book?
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — This is a 5/5 heat level book with explicit MM content. Features include power exchange dynamics, praise kink, possessive/claiming behavior, and competitive bedroom dynamics.
Is there a happily ever after?
Yes! Asher and Damon get their HEA complete with a public declaration at the wedding, reconciliation, and an epilogue showing them navigating their rivalry-by-day, lovers-by-night dynamic three months later.
What about the stepbrother element?
Asher and Damon are not related. They become stepbrothers when their parents marry during the book. All romantic/sexual content occurs between consenting adults who are rivals, not family.
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