Isaac Hale inherited a locker room legend's stall, his minutes, and a blue line he's afraid to cross.
The rookie defenseman has spent his first full NHL season learning when to go — at the blue line, at the DM, at the door of a man he can't stop watching. The problem is, Isaac has never made a move without someone else's permission. Not on the ice. Not in life.
Darius Brooks has been watching from the stands for four seasons.
The Atlanta EMT runs @ReapersWatch, a fan account that sees the game more clearly than most press boxes. When the anonymous voice behind the account turns out to belong to a man who reads Isaac's defensive positioning the way he reads a patient — accurately, completely, from a distance he's learned to keep — Isaac discovers that being truly seen is the thing he wanted most and trusted least.
But when private knowledge sharpens a public observation, and a coaching staff turns Darius's praise into a scouting report, the distance between watching and being with becomes the distance between them.
Isaac must learn that the nod doesn't come from the coach, the mentor, or the crowd. It comes from inside.
Darius must learn that loving from a safe distance is not the same as loving.
And both of them must decide whether the blue line between watching and belonging is a boundary — or a starting point.
Blue Line is a full-length MM hockey romance featuring a rookie defenseman with more questions than answers, an EMT with a fan account and a composure problem, a grandmother who considers fullness a starting point, and a hallway where people stand when they belong. It is the ninth book in the Power Play series and can be read as a standalone.
Genre: Gay Romance
The rookie defenseman has spent his first full NHL season learning when to go — at the blue line, at the DM, at the door of a man he can't stop watching. The problem is, Isaac has never made a move without someone else's permission. Not on the ice. Not in life.
Darius Brooks has been watching from the stands for four seasons.
The Atlanta EMT runs @ReapersWatch, a fan account that sees the game more clearly than most press boxes. When the anonymous voice behind the account turns out to belong to a man who reads Isaac's defensive positioning the way he reads a patient — accurately, completely, from a distance he's learned to keep — Isaac discovers that being truly seen is the thing he wanted most and trusted least.
But when private knowledge sharpens a public observation, and a coaching staff turns Darius's praise into a scouting report, the distance between watching and being with becomes the distance between them.
Isaac must learn that the nod doesn't come from the coach, the mentor, or the crowd. It comes from inside.
Darius must learn that loving from a safe distance is not the same as loving.
And both of them must decide whether the blue line between watching and belonging is a boundary — or a starting point.
Blue Line is a full-length MM hockey romance featuring a rookie defenseman with more questions than answers, an EMT with a fan account and a composure problem, a grandmother who considers fullness a starting point, and a hallway where people stand when they belong. It is the ninth book in the Power Play series and can be read as a standalone.
Genre: Gay Romance
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