Three years of blood on the ice. Tonight there are no refs.
Hartman has spent three seasons trying to put Viktor through the boards. Same division, same position, same grudge match every time the schedule lines up — gloves off before the puck drops, blood on both jerseys by the second period. He knows Viktor’s fighting style better than his own teammates’ faces.
Post-game brawl. Ejected. A deserted corridor under the visitor’s stands where the concrete smells like Zamboni exhaust. Viktor shoves him into the wall and Hartman shoves back — except this time his hand stays on Viktor’s chest, and Viktor’s mouth is closer than any cross-check has ever put it.
In a locked equipment room that reeks of sweat and old skates, three years of war become the longest form of foreplay either of them has ever known.
PENALTY BOX (Locker Room Book 6) is a scorching rivals-to-lovers MM hockey romance featuring straight-to-gay awakening, enforcer-on-enforcer tension, and a post-game fight that ends somewhere neither of them expected. Standalone. No cliffhanger.
Content Note: Explicit MM scenes, first-time gay experiences, and enforcers who discover their real fight was never on the ice. Maximum heat. No fade to black.
