Puck Bros

An MM College Hockey Romance
by Jace Wilder

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Pairing: MM
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Best Friends to Lovers, Bi-Awakening, Forced Proximity, One Bed, Secret Relationship, Closeted, Teammates to Lovers, Snowed In, Touch Starved, Hurt/Comfort, He Falls First, Found Family

Three feet between their beds. Zero distance between their bodies. One secret that could destroy everything.

Declan “Deck” Hayes is the captain of the Northern Pines Lumberjacks — a team on the edge of its first Frozen Four run and a man on the edge of a breakdown he won’t admit to. He wakes at 4:47 every morning. He controls every variable. He hasn’t voluntarily expressed an emotion since puberty. The only thing that quiets the noise in his head is the sound of his roommate breathing three feet away in the dark.

Brody “Buzzer” Vance is his right winger, his best friend, and the openly bisexual chaos agent who’s been in love with Declan for fourteen months. He uses humor as armor, flirtation as deflection, and “gay chicken” as a slow-burning strategy to make his straight-laced captain crack. When Brody’s hands slip dangerously high during a post-game massage, the crack becomes a fissure — and everything behind it comes pouring through.

They set rules. No kissing. No looking. No one finds out. The arrangement is purely physical — stress relief between two guys sharing a basement apartment in a Minnesota winter. Except the sex keeps getting dirtier. The risks keep getting bigger. And the no-kissing rule shatters the night Declan grabs the back of Brody’s neck in a snowed-in motel and kisses him like he’s drowning.

When an NHL scout offers Brody a ticket to the West Coast, and the coach starts asking questions Declan can’t answer, the secret becomes a bomb with a shrinking fuse. One of them is going to have to choose: the closet or the light. The career or the man. The fear or the love that’s been building since freshman year.

You’ll love this if you enjoy:

✓ A stoic captain whose entire emotional vocabulary is “I’m fine” until it catastrophically isn’t
✓ Dirty talk in the dark that escalates from curiosity to addiction over three devastating chapters
✓ The “no kissing” rule — established in Chapter 4, reinforced in Chapter 5, shattered in Chapter 7 in a laundry room during a jealousy blackout
✓ A team bus handjob in the back row with 21 sleeping teammates
✓ “You’re something.” Then “You’re everything.” Then “You’re the best thing in my whole life.” — the slowest, most devastating confession arc in romance
✓ A motel room in a North Dakota blizzard where the lamp stays on for the first time
✓ The Finnish goalie who sees everything, says nothing, and delivers the book’s most important speech in nine words
✓ “I’m not like you” — four words that break everything. And the 5,000-word grovel that puts it back together.
✓ A championship-winning goal, a kiss on the ice, and Jonesy screaming “I FUCKING KNEW IT”
✓ 91,000 words of yearning, hockey, and the most explicit friends-to-lovers slow burn you’ll read this year
✓ Guaranteed HEA with an epilogue that will ruin you

⚠️ Content Warning

This book contains explicit MM sexual content including mutual masturbation, oral sex, anal sex, dirty talk scenes, semi-public encounters (team bus, equipment closet, locker room showers), rough/possessive sex, wall sex, jealousy-driven claiming, and face-to-face intimacy. Themes include bi-awakening, internalized homophobia, closeted identity, fear of outing, parental pressure, NHL career anxiety, emotional repression, and a devastating breakup/reconciliation arc. Features escalating heat across 21 chapters with a reunion scene that will wreck you. All encounters are enthusiastic and consensual between adult men. Guaranteed HEA.

Reader discretion advised. This book is intended for mature audiences only.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this book part of a series?

Puck Bros is the first book in the Northern Pines Lumberjacks series. It’s a complete standalone with a guaranteed HEA — Declan and Brody end up together, publicly, playing in the NHL on the same team, wearing matching rings on chains under their jerseys. Future books will follow their teammates: Mats the stoic Finnish goalie, Jonesy the loud-mouthed defenseman, and Sully the golden retriever sophomore. Each book can be read independently. No cliffhangers!

How spicy is this book?

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — This is a 5/5 heat level book with 9 distinct on-page explicit scenes that escalate from dirty talk in the dark to face-to-face intimacy with the lights on. Features mutual masturbation, oral sex (given and received), team bus encounters, equipment closet hookups, locker room shower scenes, rough possessive sex, tender worship scenes, and a reunion that will make you forget your own name. Each sex scene serves a specific emotional function — the heat drives the plot, not the other way around. All scenes feature enthusiastic consent between adult men.

Is there a happily ever after?

Absolutely. After surviving a devastating breakup, a two-week cold war, and the most emotionally raw grovel scene you’ll read this year, Declan and Brody win the championship, come out to their team (Jonesy screams “I FUCKING KNEW IT”), and build a life together. The epilogue jumps two years forward to their shared NHL apartment in Minneapolis — king-sized bed, string lights from the Penalty Box, matching rings on chains, morning sex, and a man who finally says “I love you” as easily as breathing. Always HEA.