He gave him a curfew. A set of rules. A guest room with white walls and a locked door between them.

He didn't plan on the gold nails. The 2 AM game film. The bolognese on the ceiling. The way a twenty-two-year-old rookie looked at him across a locker room and saw the man inside the captain -- and refused to look away.

Hayes Gallagher is closeted, thirty-six, and playing his last season on a knee that's bone-on-bone. Kieran Rossi is his opposite in every way -- young, loud, unapologetically himself -- and the GM just made him Hayes's problem.

The secret starts behind locked doors. It doesn't stay there.

With the Cup on the line and a photographer in the parking garage, Hayes has to choose: the legacy he spent twenty years building, or the man who dismantled it with a blanket and a pour-over coffee.

Age gap MM hockey romance. Forced proximity. Closeted captain / sunshine rookie. Explicit. HEA guaranteed.

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• Publication Date: March 27, 2026
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• Print Length: 481 Pages
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