Garrett Sullivan and Michael Strand have been on opposite sides of the ice for twenty years. First as players. Now as head coaches. Boston and Montreal. Two of the oldest rivalries in hockey, separated by a border and six hours of highway. The press loves it. The fans live for it.
What nobody knows is that they have been meeting in hotel rooms between divisional matchups for five years.
The rules were simple. No strings. No feelings. No staying past morning. They are both too old and too smart to pretend this is anything other than what it is. Except Sullivan has stopped following the rules. He books the room for two nights now. He texts on days they do not play each other. He looks at Strand across the handshake line like he is done pretending.
Strand is not ready. He has built his entire career on control, on distance, on never giving anyone enough to use against him. Coming out at forty-six, as a head coach in a league that has never had one do it, in a city that worships its hockey team like a religion, is not a calculated risk. It is a free fall.
But a playoff collision course is putting them on opposite sides of the biggest series of their careers. The cameras are closer. The border crossing gets harder to explain. And Sullivan is not asking anymore. He is telling Strand he is done hiding. One of them is ready to be found. The other is not sure he will survive it.
Full Strength is Book 10 and the series finale of the Ice Breakers series, a spicy MM hockey romance featuring rival coaches with a five-year secret, two men old enough to know better, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
Each book can be read as a complete standalone with no cliffhangers.
For readers who enjoy:
What nobody knows is that they have been meeting in hotel rooms between divisional matchups for five years.
The rules were simple. No strings. No feelings. No staying past morning. They are both too old and too smart to pretend this is anything other than what it is. Except Sullivan has stopped following the rules. He books the room for two nights now. He texts on days they do not play each other. He looks at Strand across the handshake line like he is done pretending.
Strand is not ready. He has built his entire career on control, on distance, on never giving anyone enough to use against him. Coming out at forty-six, as a head coach in a league that has never had one do it, in a city that worships its hockey team like a religion, is not a calculated risk. It is a free fall.
But a playoff collision course is putting them on opposite sides of the biggest series of their careers. The cameras are closer. The border crossing gets harder to explain. And Sullivan is not asking anymore. He is telling Strand he is done hiding. One of them is ready to be found. The other is not sure he will survive it.
Full Strength is Book 10 and the series finale of the Ice Breakers series, a spicy MM hockey romance featuring rival coaches with a five-year secret, two men old enough to know better, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
Each book can be read as a complete standalone with no cliffhangers.
For readers who enjoy:
- Secret relationship with a ticking clock
Rivals to lovers (coaches edition)
Cross-border complications
Spicy MM sports romance
Genre: Romance