RELEASE TOUR – Pucked Up by E.M. Lindsey
Length: 72,000 words
Series: Punk as Puck book 2
Prior Reading: Prior reading recommended but not essential
Genre: contemporary, sports/hockey
Tropes: Enemies to lovers, enemies with benefits, hate sex, slow emotional burn, praise kink
Trigger/Content Warnings: D/s elements, ableism, toxic relationship with parents
Designer/Publisher: Raven Ink Cover Designs
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Sometimes what happens anonymously in a dingy, pay by the hour motel room shows up a month later to reveal himself as your new coach…
I have rules. Very important rules. No real names, no strings, no seeing each other again. It’s always worked out well for me, and it’s the only thing that keeps me focused as I try to climb my way into professional hockey after nearly torching my career.
I should have been king of the ice in the paraprofessional league, but instead, I let my anger and bitterness get to me. Now I’m forced to claw my way back into relevance, starting with a community team.
That would be fine if the one amazing, anonymous night I had with a total stranger didn’t end up being the Wolves’ new coach. And even that might have been tolerable if Hugo wasn’t on my father’s payroll.
But he is.
And to make matters worse, I still want him. My bad attitude and attempt to drive him away doesn’t faze him at all, and the more I push, the more he pulls me back into the last place I want to be: his orbit.
All I want is to join the PPHL and prove to myself that I’m a worthy player on my own merit.
Lust wasn’t on the table. And neither was love.
But the closer I get to Hugo, the more I realize that I’m not sure I want to do this without him…and the more I realize I’m not sure if I can.
Pucked Up is the second book in the Punk and Puck series which is best enjoyed in order. It’s an enemies with benefits, coach/player, slow burn into love romance. It features a para hockey player with a continent sized chip on his shoulder, a widower coach who never expected to fall for anyone after the loss of his husband, a bossy dynamic, a lot of praise, hockey bro banter, the merits of jumping on the bed when you’re sad, found family, and a steamy, wild happily ever after.
EXCERPT:
The thud of my feet was even louder than the lock, but I took two steps forward. Then another two.
And then the door shut behind me with a firm, heavy thud. I froze. I was never like this. I never let a hookup get the best of me. So why him? What was it about this man that had me literally shaking at the knees?
“I want to get you on the bed,” his voice rumbled. He pressed himself against my back, wrapping his arm around my waist. He was a steady ballast, and for a moment, I didn’t know if I wanted to agree with him or argue back. He chuckled after a second. “I can see the fight in you, petit feu.”
Little fire.
Why did that name make me shiver? My mouth went dry, and I attempted to swallow but failed miserably. My tongue didn’t always cooperate with me on an average day, but it felt ten times worse now. Every part of my body was a fucking traitor, abandoning my brain to slut itself for this man.
And God, I wanted him to touch me.
about the author:
EM Lindsey is an avid classical historian and author who lives on the east coast of the United States.
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