Pucking My Coach

He's the coach I was hired to save. The enemy I can't stop craving.DavidI live by a simple logic, data, and a 400-mile buffer from a past I can't outrun. My revolutionary analytics program, Axiom, is my shield and my weapon, and it's earned me a one-way ticket to saving the Southwood Ravens hockey team.The only variable I can't solve for? Coach Damian Blackstone.He's a relic from a bygone era—a former NHL enforcer with a shattered knee and a temper that could melt ice. He's twice my age, double my size, and sees my algorithms as a personal attack. He's the brute force to my brilliant mind, and he's determined to break me before I can prove him wrong.DamianHockey is played with bone and blood, not spreadsheets. I've built my career and this team on a foundation of grit, fear, and absolute control. Then David Vance walks in, a quiet, twenty-two-year-old kid in an oversized sweater who thinks he can win games with a laptop.He's a ghost in my machine, a constant challenge to my authority, and a temptation I fight with every fiber of my being. I want to ruin him. I want to prove his perfect system is no match for the messy, chaotic reality of my world.The war for the soul of the team is brutal, but when a campus-wide blackout traps us alone in the arena, the friction between us ignites into a punishing, undeniable passion. Our secret encounters are a volatile cocktail of anger and need, a game more dangerous than anything played on the ice.But as our unlikely partnership starts forging victories, outside forces close a nosy reporter digging for a scandal and the ghosts of David's past threatening to destroy everything we've built. I'm used to being the protector, but what happens when the man I'm desperate to shield is the one variable that could cost me everything?Pucking My Coach is a spicy, dark, full-length MM college hockey romance with a guaranteed HEA. This steamy, emotionally charged novel✓ An intense enemies-to-lovers dynamic✓ A significant age gap (Coach/Student-Analyst)✓ Forced proximity in a snowstorm✓ Hurt/comfort and found family themes✓ A grumpy, possessive coach who falls first and harder✓ A brilliant, resilient analyst who saves more than just the team✓ Scorching hot, secret encountersOne-click now for a story where the only thing more dangerous than the hits on the ice are the secrets kept off it.