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By: Sarina Bowen, Elle Kennedy

Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton, Jacob Morgan

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Can your favorite hockey players finish their first season together undefeated?

Five months in, NHL forward Ryan Wesley is having a record-breaking rookie season. He's living his dream of playing pro hockey and coming home every night to the man he loves - Jamie Canning, his longtime best friend turned boyfriend. There's just one problem: the most important relationship of his life is one he needs to keep hidden, or else face a media storm that will eclipse his success on the ice.

Jamie loves Wes. He really, truly does. But hiding sucks. It's not the life Jamie envisioned for himself, and the strain of keeping their secret is taking its toll. It doesn't help that his new job isn't going as smoothly as he'd hoped, but he knows he can power through it as long as he has Wes. At least apartment 10B is their retreat, where they can always be themselves.

Or can they? When Wes's nosiest teammate moves in upstairs, the threads of their carefully woven lie begin to unravel. With the outside world determined to take its best shot at them, can Wes and Jamie develop major-league relationship skills on the fly?

Warning: contains sexual situations, a vibrating chair, long-distance sexytimes, and proof that hockey players look hot in any shade of green.

Sarina BowenElle KennedyTeddy HamiltonJacob MorganAudible StudiosHim

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Contemporary Romance

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Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance Sports Feel-Good Hockey

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A good story. It had the predictable character beats of a romance novel, but everything was well set-up and nothing felt contrived. The exploration of depression was extremely well done - the fact that it was shown rather than you simply being told was excellent.

I did have a slight issue with the performance in that I often lost track of the POV, and sometimes got confused about why the characters were where they are. This was a bigger issue in book one when the characters had more similar settings, but it took me until half way through book 2 to realise why - the two voice actors didn't voice their own characters during the other character's POV chapters. The consequence of this was four voices for two characters and since both of them put on a gravely voice for the "other" character, it was closer to three voices and my my brain associated the gravely voice with being a specific character (i.e. you had the POV talking to a gravely character in every chapter).

My only actual complaint about the writing was that the internal dialogue of the main characters was often very objectifying of their partner - e.g. "who I want to fuck", "where I stick my dick" and "the fact I like dick". During book 1 these were in the context of exploring sexuality, but when they continued into book 2 when it was about exploring the relationship - it felt at odds with the narrative and after a while I started thinking "no, who you love". That said, I never realised there was an equivalent to 'shouting at the TV' for audiobooks... so that was an experience.