The Puck Chase

Hockey is the only goal and the only escape for a senior at Fairfield University (FU). His plan is simple: keep his head down, focus on the game and get drafted into the NHL. Everything is on track at the start of the year.

Then there is his teammate Daemon Forbes, who loathes him. Taunting Daemon has become a pastime he enjoys nearly as much as playing, and he keeps stoking that hatred on purpose.

The game of needling is shifting into something else. The two have been at odds since the night they met, when Daemon found him in his bedroom. Being teammates and being enemies no longer keeps them apart, and the heat between them keeps climbing.

The book is book 3 in the Fairfield U series, whose interconnected books each stand alone. The narrator speaks in the first person, and the rival-teammates romance comes with banter and plenty of open-door spice.

Daemon has a dark past, and the narrator knows his attention belongs on the ice and on the career he wants. Being near Daemon feels better than anything else, though. The question is whether the shadows around Daemon will pull him under.