Goalie Problems — Ebook

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About Goalie Problems

She stood in his crease. He told her to prove it.

Alexei Volkov gets beaten by the same goal forty-two times, and I’m the only person in the building who thinks that’s good news.

The Northbridge Wolves hired me for eight weeks to fix their starting goalie. He’s thirty-three, six foot four, the most expensive goaltender in the league, and he hasn’t listened to a coach in over a year. I run a goalie school out of a rented rink at six in the morning. He took one look at my lanyard and asked how many pages my report would be.

So I walked onto his ice in cross-trainers and stood in his crease.

“Prove it,” he said.

I did. I found the half-second everyone else called attitude. I asked him what he felt, and I wrote down the answer without underlining it. And somewhere between the video room and the day they took me off his program, the most difficult man in professional hockey started looking at me the way he looks at a shooter coming down the wing.

Patiently. As if he already knows what I’m going to do.

Now I’ve got a key to his house, a job offer that puts another coach’s name on my work, and a goalie who says “good” in a voice that ought to be illegal.

He wants me close. I want my name on what I do.

I’m not sure this building will let me have both.

Goalie Problems is a high-heat MF hockey romance with a guarded veteran goalie and the coach who reads him better than anyone, a forbidden workplace attraction, praise that goes in both directions, a skate lace, a safeword that gets used and honored, an eighty-pound dog who is afraid of the doorbell, a lot of on-page spice, no cheating, and a guaranteed HEA. Dual first-person POV. Standalone.

Why readers will love it

• A grumpy veteran goalie who turns out to be the funniest man in the building
• A heroine who can do his coach’s job better than his coach, and knows it
• “Prove it.” Two words in a crease, and eight weeks of consequences
• “Again.” and “Good.” One syllable each, used in both directions
• A man who makes sixty identical dumplings and refuses to discuss it
• He learns to follow instructions; she learns to ask for the number

Ebook edition details

Format: Digital EPUB ebook (not a paperback or audiobook). Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno. Audience: Adults 18+.

Content notes

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic MF scenes, including oral sex, praise, edging and orgasm denial, light restraint with a skate lace and a necktie, sex in a workplace, and a hand over the mouth; all on-page sex is consensual, and a safeword is used and honored), a chronic sports injury concealed from medical staff, a past career-ending injury and surgery, a workplace power imbalance and professional retaliation, a woman’s work credited to a male colleague, media intrusion into a relationship, a brief third-act separation, alcohol, and strong language. No sexual violence, no dub-con, no cheating. Intended for readers 18+.

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