The most hated man in hockey just signed with the one team that has every reason to slam the door.
Alexei Petrov knows exactly what he is. The villain. The manipulator. The man whose own locker room in Carolina called his exit "addition by subtraction." At thirty-two, declining, and out of leverage for the first time in his life, he takes the only offer on the table: one year in Atlanta — the team whose beloved veteran he broke, years ago, in ways nobody films.
The room decides. Not the reputation. The room.
Ezra Wolfe reads rooms for a living. The Reapers' new performance coach is warm with everyone, unbudgeable with Alexei, because Ezra has seen charm like his before '' armor built by somebody else's hands — and he has a rule he'd stake his license on: he will not be managed. He clocks the whole act in a week. He refuses to applaud it. And being read instead of obeyed is the most destabilizing thing that has ever happened to Alexei Petrov.
Then a team retreat, a burst pipe, and one bed change the math on everything.
What starts at a lake becomes the thing neither man has ever risked: a relationship with no angles in it. But Alexei was built by a man who taught him that love is something you manage before it manages you — and old operating systems die hard, and loud, and in public. Redemption isn't a story you can plant. In Atlanta, it's a maintenance schedule. And the one man who won't be managed is done asking.
MAJOR PENALTY is Book 8 of the Power Play series and a full standalone — new readers can start here. Enemies to lovers, villain redemption, forced proximity, only one bed, a found-family locker room that votes in bread, and the slow, devastating unraveling of the league's best-defended man. Explicit MM romance. No cliffhanger. HEA earned the hard way.
Genre: Gay Romance
Alexei Petrov knows exactly what he is. The villain. The manipulator. The man whose own locker room in Carolina called his exit "addition by subtraction." At thirty-two, declining, and out of leverage for the first time in his life, he takes the only offer on the table: one year in Atlanta — the team whose beloved veteran he broke, years ago, in ways nobody films.
The room decides. Not the reputation. The room.
Ezra Wolfe reads rooms for a living. The Reapers' new performance coach is warm with everyone, unbudgeable with Alexei, because Ezra has seen charm like his before '' armor built by somebody else's hands — and he has a rule he'd stake his license on: he will not be managed. He clocks the whole act in a week. He refuses to applaud it. And being read instead of obeyed is the most destabilizing thing that has ever happened to Alexei Petrov.
Then a team retreat, a burst pipe, and one bed change the math on everything.
What starts at a lake becomes the thing neither man has ever risked: a relationship with no angles in it. But Alexei was built by a man who taught him that love is something you manage before it manages you — and old operating systems die hard, and loud, and in public. Redemption isn't a story you can plant. In Atlanta, it's a maintenance schedule. And the one man who won't be managed is done asking.
MAJOR PENALTY is Book 8 of the Power Play series and a full standalone — new readers can start here. Enemies to lovers, villain redemption, forced proximity, only one bed, a found-family locker room that votes in bread, and the slow, devastating unraveling of the league's best-defended man. Explicit MM romance. No cliffhanger. HEA earned the hard way.
Genre: Gay Romance
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