Offsides - Book 2

Rafe Delgado has two problems. The first: a developer wants to bulldoze The Tackle Box, the lakeside bar his grandfather built, and Rafe has 120 days to find money he doesn't have. The second is six-foot-four, freshly retired from pro hockey, and currently working behind Rafe's bar because he has nowhere else to go. Cal Brennan was Rafe's best friend long before he was a star, and Rafe has been in love with him since they were seventeen. He's never said a word. He's not about to start now. Cal came home with a wrecked knee, no career, and no idea who he is without the game. The only thing that makes sense anymore is Rafe: late-night closing shifts, bad jokes over the fryer, the way Rafe looks at him like he's still worth something. When Cal suggests a charity pond hockey game to save the bar, the whole town rallies, and Cal starts to realize his heart has been playing offsides for years. But Cal spent a decade in a locker room that taught him exactly who he was allowed to be. And a job offer in Denver could take him away before he's brave enough to say what he wants. OFFSIDES is a 25,000-word steamy MM romance novella featuring best friends to lovers, a bi awakening, an injured athlete, small-town found family, and a guaranteed HEA. It's the second book in the Kettle Lake Boys series and can be read as a standalone.