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A hockey player who loves to read? Unheard of, right? I always let their teasing roll off my back and keep my head in the game, until they send a curvy little firecracker to my door with a special delivery. And by "special delivery" I mean the filthiest books the jerks could find in Silver Spoon Falls. Now, my head is everywhere except in the game . . . and so is my heart. Both are tangled up in the smart-mouthed little goddess who thinks she can fight what's happening between us. Allie Mackenzie is wrong, and I intend to prove it to her. Repeatedly, in fact.

This exciting collaborative by the Private Eye Writers of America and Sisters in Crime contains short stories by well-known mystery writers including Sara Paretsky and Sue Grafton. The stories are presented in pairs, each linked to the other by a common theme or topic.

Corey is new to Clydebank, a small town where the "Clydebank Welcome" means getting beat up. Blistering his hands mowing lawns to buy his first guitar, Corey’s lonely world shifts when he encounters Shadow, a Maine Coon with hypnotic turquoise eyes and a terrifying, magical power hidden in the town's uncultivated gully. Inspired by the dualities of Robert Frost’s poem Fire and Ice, this story explores a world where souls can burn with rage or freeze from grief.