I am and always will be second best to everyone… except him.
As the Tampa Thunder’s backup the entirety of my career, I shouldn’t complain. It’s a privilege, even if I don’t get the playtime I want. That fact isn’t enough to get me down. Enter: Aaron Volkov, starting goalie. The most solitary asshole I’ve known the past fifteen years. A goddamn genius on the ice. He has the spot I covet, and his career is everything I wanted mine to be. I've always been in his shadow.
To make matters worse, he’s frustratingly attractive and unavailable. After all this time, it seems there’s more to him than meets the eye. Walls he’s built to keep everyone out. I’ve never wanted to knock something down so badly in my life, and I’m beginning to think second best wouldn’t be so bad if I had him by my side.
The Backup is the first full length dual-POV novel in a brand new MM hockey romance series about the league’s favorite superstitious weirdos: the goalies. Each book will be a standalone featuring a different goalie (or two) from around the fictional league. Content warnings: alcoholism (a minor character), death of a minor character, general mental health discussions.
Genre: Gay Romance
As the Tampa Thunder’s backup the entirety of my career, I shouldn’t complain. It’s a privilege, even if I don’t get the playtime I want. That fact isn’t enough to get me down. Enter: Aaron Volkov, starting goalie. The most solitary asshole I’ve known the past fifteen years. A goddamn genius on the ice. He has the spot I covet, and his career is everything I wanted mine to be. I've always been in his shadow.
To make matters worse, he’s frustratingly attractive and unavailable. After all this time, it seems there’s more to him than meets the eye. Walls he’s built to keep everyone out. I’ve never wanted to knock something down so badly in my life, and I’m beginning to think second best wouldn’t be so bad if I had him by my side.
The Backup is the first full length dual-POV novel in a brand new MM hockey romance series about the league’s favorite superstitious weirdos: the goalies. Each book will be a standalone featuring a different goalie (or two) from around the fictional league. Content warnings: alcoholism (a minor character), death of a minor character, general mental health discussions.
Genre: Gay Romance
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