Ice Cold Friction

An MM Hockey Romance
by Jace Wilder

He’s spent fifteen years keeping control. One rookie is about to destroy all of it.

Beckett “Beck” Callahan has one rule: don’t let anyone close. At thirty-four, the veteran enforcer for the Tacoma Titans has survived a brutal career by keeping his head down, his fists up, and his secrets locked tight. He doesn’t do feelings. He doesn’t do relationships. And he sure as hell doesn’t do rookies who won’t shut their goddamn mouths.

Nico Salerno has one goal: prove he belongs. The flashiest first-round pick in a decade, Nico skates like lightning and talks even faster. He’s openly bisexual, unapologetically loud, and determined to make the roster—even if the team’s scariest veteran wants to put him through the boards every practice.

When a locker room brawl goes viral, the front office ships them to a remote charity clinic in northern Montana. Then the blizzard hits. The power dies. And there’s one bed.

What starts as hate-fueled friction becomes something neither of them can control—or keep secret. But Beck has spent his whole career building walls, and Nico’s about to find out what happens when you push a man past his breaking point.

Some fires melt the ice. This one might burn down everything.

Ice Cold Friction is a 78,000-word standalone MM hockey romance featuring a closeted veteran enforcer, a sunshine rookie who sees right through him, explicit heat, deep emotional stakes, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Book One in the Tacoma Titans series.

Content Note

This book contains explicit sexual content between men, homophobic language (used by an antagonist and challenged by the narrative), a closeted athlete’s journey, family estrangement, and themes of internalized shame. It also contains: one very good dog, one truly inadvisable cake, and an enforcer who gardens.