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About the book

The contract was supposed to be business. The safe word was supposed to be a formality.

Cole Mercer used to be the New York Reapers’ golden boy.

Now he is twenty-eight, broke, benched, buried in secret debt, and one viral scandal away from becoming the franchise’s most expensive liability.

Alexander Volk owns forty percent of the team and most rooms the moment he walks into them.

When Cole’s collapse threatens the franchise, Alex offers a private arrangement: monthly support, a luxury condo, strict rehabilitation expectations, and access to Cole’s time under negotiated terms.

Cole signs because he is desperate. Alex offers because he believes control can solve anything.

Then kneeling starts feeling like relief. Praise starts sounding like care. The contract begins functioning less like protection and more like a confession.

When a rival board member weaponizes the arrangement, both men have to decide whether the relationship can survive outside the structure that created it.

Book details

Author: Jace Wilder
Genre: MM contemporary hockey romance
Tropes: Age gap, sugar/kept arrangement, billionaire/team owner, praise kink, control/surrender, D/s, hurt/comfort, touch-starved hero, redemption, second chances
Heat: High heat; explicit adult romance
Ending: Happily ever after

Content notes

For readers 18+. Contains explicit MM sexual content, consensual D/s and restraint, praise kink, alcohol misuse and recovery, sports injury, financial abuse, blackmail, homophobic harassment, and a significant financial/power imbalance.