Farm Team, Found Family

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He called the rink cozy. The rink manager called him trouble. The ice called them both home.

Mason Cole was supposed to be a star. Two sixty-point NHL seasons, a first-round draft pedigree, and a face built for endorsement deals. Then the slump hit, the media turned, and the GM delivered the verdict: you’re going down. To Millhaven. Population: who gives a fuck.

Luke Harrington has been holding his small town together since his hockey career ended at nineteen and his father’s stroke left the community rink in his hands. He resurfaces the ice at 5:30 every morning, hosts billet players in his farmhouse, and hasn’t let anyone close enough to matter since the last time nearly destroyed him.

But Mason won’t stop fixing things. The bathroom door. The porch railing. The kitchen faucet. Every crack in Luke’s house — and in his armor — methodically, quietly repaired by a man who’s paying attention for the first time in his life. And when midnight hockey practices become something more, and the praise Luke can’t help giving becomes the thing Mason can’t live without, the walls between them don’t just crack. They come down.

With a found family of misfit housemates, a small town learning to look forward, and a love built on the foundation underneath the ice, Mason and Luke will have to decide: is home a place you’re sent, or a place you choose?

You’ll love this book if you enjoy:

✅ Demoted NHL star × grumpy small-town rink manager
✅ Forced proximity billet housing with found family
✅ Bi awakening with the most patient man alive
✅ Praise kink that heals wounds (and destroys composure)
✅ Slow burn that EXPLODES (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — graphic, explicit, emotional)
✅ Hockey that feels real, from someone who loves the game
✅ A porch light that means everything
✅ HEA guaranteed