Penalty Minutes
(2026)(The seventh book in the Connecticut Commodores series)
A novel by Skye McDonald
Shawn Hayes has never had a reputation for being nice.
On the ice, the Connecticut Commodores’ resident beast is all sharp edges, bad temper, and consequences. Off it, he’s learned that keeping people at a distance is easier than giving them a reason to leave.
Then Holly Larsen gets too close.
She’s warm where he’s cold. Stubborn enough to stand her ground. Smart enough to know better than to fall for a man like Shawn.
And completely unimpressed by the walls he’s built around himself.
He should send her running.
She should want to go.
But the longer Holly stays in Shawn’s orbit, the harder it becomes to tell which of them is really trapped... and what might happen if the beast finally lets someone in.
PENALTY MINUTES, book seven in the Connecticut Commodores series, is a Beauty and the Beast-inspired hockey romance featuring a brooding, damaged hockey player, the woman who refuses to be intimidated by him, and a love story about what happens when someone finally sees beneath the armor.
Genre: Romance
On the ice, the Connecticut Commodores’ resident beast is all sharp edges, bad temper, and consequences. Off it, he’s learned that keeping people at a distance is easier than giving them a reason to leave.
Then Holly Larsen gets too close.
She’s warm where he’s cold. Stubborn enough to stand her ground. Smart enough to know better than to fall for a man like Shawn.
And completely unimpressed by the walls he’s built around himself.
He should send her running.
She should want to go.
But the longer Holly stays in Shawn’s orbit, the harder it becomes to tell which of them is really trapped... and what might happen if the beast finally lets someone in.
PENALTY MINUTES, book seven in the Connecticut Commodores series, is a Beauty and the Beast-inspired hockey romance featuring a brooding, damaged hockey player, the woman who refuses to be intimidated by him, and a love story about what happens when someone finally sees beneath the armor.
Genre: Romance