Blood on the Ice: A Baltimore Harriers Novel (Baltimore Harriers Series)
He's been taking penalties on purpose for two years. The rookie goalie is the first person to notice.
Konstantin "Kostya" Orlov has survived thirteen seasons of professional hockey by knowing exactly what he can endure.
The fights. The injuries. The one-year contracts. The debt his father left behind.
And the men who make that debt disappear forty thousand dollars at a time, as long as Kostya does exactly what they ask on the ice.
Then rookie goaltender Wes Hale arrives in Baltimore.
Twenty-three, blond, brilliant, and far too observant, Wes sees the pattern no one else has noticed. The suspicious penalties. The carefully chosen moments. The veteran enforcer who always looks at the referee before he commits them.
Wes could destroy Kostya's career with what he knows.
Instead, he makes him an offer.
Money. Silence.
And one truthful answer every night.
What begins as blackmail turns into something neither man can control. Because Wes has secrets of his own, and the people manipulating Kostya have been watching both of them far longer than either realizes.
As the Harriers fight their way through the season, the line between accomplice, protector, teammate, and lover begins to disappear. And when organized crime finally demands something neither man is willing to give, Kostya and Wes will have to decide what they are willing to lose for the truth.
Their careers.
Their families.
Their freedom.
Or each other.
BLOOD ON THE ICE is a dark, high-stakes MM hockey romance featuring a veteran enforcer, a rookie goalie, age gap, forced proximity, mutual obsession, morally complicated heroes, organized crime, on-ice violence, explicit heat, and a hard-earned HEA.
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