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Poke Check (Harrisburg Railers #4)

Out February 14 2018

Cover By Meredith Russell

One scorching summer in each other's arms could never be enough.

Stanislav “Stan” Lyamin is happy playing for the Railers. The towering goalie is well-loved, respected, and making a home for himself even though that home only contains him, his cat, and his growing Pokemon trading card collection. Stan prefers it that way. He’d given his heart to a man in a secret affair, and that man walked away, leaving Stan shattered. Now Erik is back in his life, and he has the same tumultuous effect he had on Stan’s heart as before. This time it’s not just a kissable mouth and sweet blond curls that Erik has brought to Harrisburg, there’s a soon-to-be ex-wife and a precious baby. Despite the vow Stan made to hate Erik forever, he’s now finding it harder and harder to turn away.

Erik Gunnarsson’s dream had always been to play in the NHL, he just never imagined he’d land a contract with the Railers. Who would have thought that fate would put him on the same team as Stanislav Lyamin; the man whose heart he’d callously broken?

Secrets and lies had defined their summer relationship, and the choice that Erik made to end it all haunts him still. In the middle of a messy divorce and with a baby in tow, Erik finds himself back in Stan’s life. Now all he has to do is be the best dad he can be, prove to the team that he deserves the chance to stay on the roster and try his hardest to get Stan to forgive him. Is it possible to persuade a man who hates you to give love a second chance?

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Harrisburg Railers Series

Changing Lines (Book #1)
First Season (Book #2)
Deep Edge (Book #3)
Poke Check (Book #4) WIP


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Changing Lines (Railers' Book 1)


Can Tennant show Jared that age is just a number, and that love is all that matters?

The Rowe Brothers are famous hockey hotshots, but as the youngest of the trio, Tennant has always had to play against his brothers’ reputations. To get out of their shadows, and against their advice, he accepts a trade to the Harrisburg Railers, where he runs into Jared Madsen. Mads is an old family friend and his brother’s one-time teammate. Mads is Tennant’s new coach. And Mads is the sexiest thing he’s ever laid eyes on.

Jared Madsen’s hockey career was cut short by a fault in his heart, but coaching keeps him close to the game. When Ten is traded to the team, his carefully organized world is thrown into chaos. Nine years younger and his best friend’s brother, he knows Ten is strictly off-limits, but as soon as he sees Ten’s moves, on and off the ice, he knows his heart could get him into trouble again.


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Torvill & Dean - The figure skaters that got me hooked on ice...



Yesterday was the release of Deep Edge, book 3 in the Railers series with VL Locey. In it we have an ice hockey player and a figure skater, in an opposites attract story.

As you all know I love hockey, but my love of this came from watching the pairs figure skating at the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics. We had these skaters you see, the UK I mean, and we don't have an awful lot of people entering the Winter Olympics (or at least we didn't back then!). They were called Torvill & Dean and they were going to win something.

So we all watched, because, you know it was weird to have this thing happening. Robin Cousins was our other figure skater at the time, but like I said before as a country we don't have the investment in ice sports the same as we do in say, Football.

T&D won gold and became "... the highest scoring figure skaters of all time (for a single programme) receiving twelve perfect 6.0s and six 5.9s which included artistic impression scores of 6.0 from every judge, after skating to Boléro. ..."

You can see the actual program here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2zbbN4OL98

Amazing...

They were national treasures from that day on!


Deep Edge - RJ Scott & VL Locey

One man’s passion, another man’s lies. Can love fix even the darkest of hearts.

Trent Hanson is a figure skating phenom adored by millions around the world. His whole life has been dedicated to the sport he loves even when the sport - and his own family - have turned against him. From the playground to the Olympics to his parent’s living room, Trent has fought against bullies and homophobes to be the out and proud gay man he is. But the constant fighting has left Trent tired, lonely, and skittish.

All those fears will have to be shelved though when he’s hired to spend the summer working with the Harrisburg Railers ice hockey team. Who would have guessed that the man fate has decided to pair him off with is Dieter Lehmann, all-around sex god and a man who seems to have everything to prove and doesn’t care who he hurts to get what he wants.

Dieter has spent too many years languishing in the minors and a secret addiction to prescription painkillers means his career is in a downward spiral. His ex is blackmailing him and he’s close to walking away from it all.

But when he’s called up in the run for the Stanley Cup to cover injuries he has a taste of what it’s like playing in the NHL and he realizes that a place on the Railers roster is what he wants more than anything. More than listening to his heart, and even more than caring for the infuriating figure skater who gets under his skin. When he crosses the line to get what he wants, he knows he has lost his way. He has to change, but is it too late for both his career and any chance he might have at love?

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The Book

One man’s passion, another man’s lies. Can love fix even the darkest of hearts.

Trent Hanson is a figure skating phenom adored by millions around the world. His whole life has been dedicated to the sport he loves even when the sport - and his own family - have turned against him. From the playground to the Olympics to his parent’s living room, Trent has fought against bullies and homophobes to be the out and proud gay man he is. But the constant fighting has left Trent tired, lonely, and skittish. All those fears will have to be shelved though when he’s hired to spend the summer working with the Harrisburg Railers ice hockey team. Who would have guessed that the man fate has decided to pair him off with is Dieter Lehmann, all-around sex god and a man who seems to have everything to prove and doesn’t care who he hurts to get what he wants.

Dieter has spent too many years languishing in the minors and a secret addiction to prescription painkillers means his career is in a downward spiral. His ex is blackmailing him and he’s close to walking away from it all. But when he’s called up in the run for the Stanley Cup to cover injuries he has a taste of what it’s like playing in the NHL and he realizes that a place on the Railers roster is what he wants more than anything. More than listening to his heart, and even more than caring for the infuriating figure skater who gets under his skin. When he crosses the line to get what he wants, he knows he has lost his way. He has to change, but is it too late for both his career and any chance he might have at love?

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Harrisburg Railers Series

Changing Lines (Book #1)
First Season (Book #2)
Deep Edge (Book #3)
Poke Check (Book #4) WIP


Changing On The Fly: The Second Period - Various Authors


The Book

Changing on the Fly is a celebration of romance, featuring four M/M stories about hockey players falling in love on – and off – the ice. All proceeds from the anthology will be donated to a charity that supports inclusiveness in athletics.

The anthology will be available starting in October 4, 2017, for a limited time only.

It includes the following stories:

Head in the Game by Jeff Adams
Second Chance at Love by Heather Lire
Rookie Moves by V.L. Locey
Secrets by Rj Scott




Jeff Adams’ – Head in the Game

After a disastrous breakup, pro hockey defenseman Roger Jacobson’s game is slipping. With his contract up for renewal he has to do something quick because his fourteen-year career is on the line. Roger returns to his hometown to work with his old coach, while helping run the summer hockey camp. But Dylan Baker, a handsome graduate student and the coach’s son, proves to be a romantic distraction that Roger couldn’t have anticipated.

Can Roger’s trip home fix his game and mend his broken heart?

Heather Lire’s Second Chance at Love

Growing up in Holiday, Vermont Zach and Tony were best friends. After high school, they drifted apart as their lives and careers took them in different directions. When they run into each other on vacation they fall back into the easy friendship they’d had as kids.
The one thing they didn’t expect was the sexual tension between them. As they explore these new feelings for each other they discover that sometimes the last person they expected fall for is their Second Chance at Love.

V.L. Locey’s Rookie Moves

It’s been three months since New York Nightwings superstar center and captain, Riley Zeally, came out. The glare of the media has been incredibly bright but Riley’s used to dealing with the spotlight. His boyfriend, Keiffer, isn’t. The intense scrutiny of being at the side of such a huge sports star is proving to be incredibly stressful for the one-time hustler.

Details about his former life on the streets is now common knowledge, his life with Riley is under a magnifying glass, and his past is about to step out of the shadows in an even bigger way. Can a rookie in the ways of the press and professional athletics survive the pressure of sharing his life with the league’s most famous gay player? Will the tentative new love Riley and Keiffer share fold under the weight of fans and fame?

RJ Scott’s Secrets

Benji is 'the' skater in the league who brings down the height average. Coming in at five eight, he's used to players chirping at him all night about his height.

Including the sexy defenseman for the Carlisle Rush, Avery Lester, with his stunning eyes and his cute smile.

When Benji makes a single inappropriate comment about Avery's ass, everything goes to hell. Add in Avery’s heroics during a hate crime, and things just go from bad to worse.

Abruptly it's not his height Benji has to worry about, but the chance that his closely guarded secret is shared all over the Internet.

Can love find a way, or will keeping secrets tear Benji and Avery apart?



Changing on the Fly: The Second Period – A MM Hockey Romance Charity Anthology


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The Anthology 

Changing on the Fly is a celebration of romance, featuring four M/M stories about hockey players falling in love on – and off – the ice. All proceeds from the anthology will be donated to a charity that supports inclusiveness in athletics.

The anthology will be available starting in October 4, 2017, for a limited time only.

It includes the following stories:

Head in the Game by Jeff Adams
Second Chance at Love by Heather Lire
Rookie Moves by V.L. Locey
Secrets by RJ Scott

Story Blurbs

Jeff Adams’ – Head in the Game

After a disastrous breakup, pro hockey defenseman Roger Jacobson’s game is slipping. With his contract up for renewal he has to do something quick because his fourteen-year career is on the line. Roger returns to his hometown to work with his old coach, while helping run the summer hockey camp. But Dylan Baker, a handsome graduate student and the coach’s son, proves to be a romantic distraction that Roger couldn’t have anticipated.

Can Roger’s trip home fix his game and mend his broken heart?

Heather Lire’s Second Chance at Love

Growing up in Holiday, Vermont Zach and Tony were best friends. After high school, they drifted apart as their lives and careers took them in different directions. When they run into each other on vacation they fall back into the easy friendship they’d had as kids.
The one thing they didn’t expect was the sexual tension between them. As they explore these new feelings for each other they discover that sometimes the last person they expected fall for is their Second Chance at Love.

V.L. Locey’s Rookie Moves

It’s been three months since New York Nightwings superstar center and captain, Riley Zeally, came out. The glare of the media has been incredibly bright but Riley’s used to dealing with the spotlight. His boyfriend, Keiffer, isn’t. The intense scrutiny of being at the side of such a huge sports star is proving to be incredibly stressful for the one-time hustler.

Details about his former life on the streets is now common knowledge, his life with Riley is under a magnifying glass, and his past is about to step out of the shadows in an even bigger way. Can a rookie in the ways of the press and professional athletics survive the pressure of sharing his life with the league’s most famous gay player? Will the tentative new love Riley and Keiffer share fold under the weight of fans and fame?

Rj Scott’s Secrets

Benji is 'the' skater in the league who brings down the height average. Coming in at five eight, he's used to players chirping at him all night about his height.

Including the sexy defenseman for the Carlisle Rush, Avery Lester, with his stunning eyes and his cute smile.

When Benji makes a single inappropriate comment about Avery's ass, everything goes to hell. Add in Avery’s heroics during a hate crime, and things just go from bad to worse.

Abruptly it's not his height Benji has to worry about, but the chance that his closely guarded secret is shared all over the Internet.

Can love find a way, or will keeping secrets tear Benji and Avery apart?


Changing on the Fly: The Second Period – A MM Hockey Romance Charity Anthology



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The Anthology - release date 4 October

Changing on the Fly is a celebration of romance, featuring four M/M stories about hockey players falling in love on – and off – the ice. All proceeds from the anthology will be donated to a charity that supports inclusiveness in athletics.

The anthology will be available starting in October 4, 2017, for a limited time only.

It includes the following stories:

Head in the Game by Jeff Adams
Second Chance at Love by Heather Lire
Rookie Moves by V.L. Locey
Secrets by RJ Scott

Story Blurbs


**Jeff Adams’ – Head in the Game**

After a disastrous breakup, pro hockey defenseman Roger Jacobson’s game is slipping. With his contract up for renewal he has to do something quick because his fourteen-year career is on the line. Roger returns to his hometown to work with his old coach, while helping run the summer hockey camp. But Dylan Baker, a handsome graduate student and the coach’s son, proves to be a romantic distraction that Roger couldn’t have anticipated.

Can Roger’s trip home fix his game and mend his broken heart?

**Heather Lire’s Second Chance at Love**

Growing up in Holiday, Vermont Zach and Tony were best friends. After high school, they drifted apart as their lives and careers took them in different directions. When they run into each other on vacation they fall back into the easy friendship they’d had as kids.
The one thing they didn’t expect was the sexual tension between them. As they explore these new feelings for each other they discover that sometimes the last person they expected fall for is their Second Chance at Love.

**V.L. Locey’s Rookie Moves**

It’s been three months since New York Nightwings superstar center and captain, Riley Zeally, came out. The glare of the media has been incredibly bright but Riley’s used to dealing with the spotlight. His boyfriend, Keiffer, isn’t. The intense scrutiny of being at the side of such a huge sports star is proving to be incredibly stressful for the one-time hustler.

Details about his former life on the streets is now common knowledge, his life with Riley is under a magnifying glass, and his past is about to step out of the shadows in an even bigger way. Can a rookie in the ways of the press and professional athletics survive the pressure of sharing his life with the league’s most famous gay player? Will the tentative new love Riley and Keiffer share fold under the weight of fans and fame?

**Rj Scott’s Secrets**

Benji is 'the' skater in the league who brings down the height average. Coming in at five eight, he's used to players chirping at him all night about his height.

Including the sexy defenseman for the Carlisle Rush, Avery Lester, with his stunning eyes and his cute smile.

When Benji makes a single inappropriate comment about Avery's ass, everything goes to hell. Add in Avery’s heroics during a hate crime, and things just go from bad to worse.

Abruptly it's not his height Benji has to worry about, but the chance that his closely guarded secret is shared all over the Internet.

Can love find a way, or will keeping secrets tear Benji and Avery apart?


First Season (Harrisburg Railers #2) with V.L. Locey

Cover by Meredith Russell

The Book

Layton Foxx has worked hard for what he's achieved. The condo, the career, the chance to make his mark...it's all down to the sacrifices he's made. With tragedy in his past, he doesn’t want or need love. Then he meets Adler Lockhart, the extroverted, sexy winger for the Harrisburg Railers, and abruptly he can’t avoid love even if he wanted to.

Adler Lockhart has had everything handed to him his whole life. Cars, villas, cash, college tuition at the finest Ivy League schools. The only thing he doesn’t have is parents who care, or the love of a good man. Then Layton walks into his privileged life and shows him what real love can be like.

Layton wants success, Adler wants a family...how can love make both these things possible?

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Harrisburg Railers Series

Changing Lines (Book #1)
First Season (Book #2)
Deep Edge (Book #3)

Reviews

"First Season is an excellent follow up to Changing Lines and solidifies this series as a must read for anyone who enjoys hockey or a sweet romance between strong men." Joyfully Jay

"...When you mix that all together in the story First Season, it all comes together in a romance that hooked me in from the very start, made me love its characters from the main couple to the secondary cast and kept me invested as well as connected in everyone’s story." Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words 

"...First Season is of the same high quality writing, character and plot development that has become the norm for RJ Scott and V.L. Locey." Jim's Reading Room

"On the surface, this is probably one of the most unlikely pairings that I’ve encountered in a while but at the end of it all, it’s also one of the sweetest." My Fiction Nook 



Deep Edge (Harrisburg Railers #3) with V.L. Locey

One man’s passion, another man’s lies. Can love fix even the darkest of hearts.

Trent Hanson is a figure skating phenom adored by millions around the world. His whole life has been dedicated to the sport he loves even when the sport - and his own family - have turned against him. From the playground to the Olympics to his parent’s living room, Trent has fought against bullies and homophobes to be the out and proud gay man he is. But the constant fighting has left Trent tired, lonely, and skittish. All those fears will have to be shelved though when he’s hired to spend the summer working with the Harrisburg Railers ice hockey team. Who would have guessed that the man fate has decided to pair him off with is Dieter Lehmann, all-around sex god and a man who seems to have everything to prove and doesn’t care who he hurts to get what he wants.

Dieter has spent too many years languishing in the minors and a secret addiction to prescription painkillers means his career is in a downward spiral. His ex is blackmailing him and he’s close to walking away from it all. But when he’s called up in the run for the Stanley Cup to cover injuries he has a taste of what it’s like playing in the NHL and he realizes that a place on the Railers roster is what he wants more than anything. More than listening to his heart, and even more than caring for the infuriating figure skater who gets under his skin. When he crosses the line to get what he wants, he knows he has lost his way. He has to change, but is it too late for both his career and any chance he might have at love?

Buy Links


Harrisburg Railers Series

Changing Lines (Book #1)
First Season (Book #2)
Deep Edge (Book #3)
Poke Check (Book #4) WIP

Reviews

My Fiction Nook - I loved Trent and Dieter’s story and as a couple they worked really, really well for me and while I know that the next book’s a new pairing…it’s Stan the big, adorable, teddy bear Russian Goalie for the Railers and I’m totally on board for Stan’s story and yes, I do have my fingers crossed for a peek or two at Trent and Dieter…these two worked hard for their HEA and I’d love to see more of these two.

This series just keeps getting better and better for me and I’m definitely looking forward to whatever comes next for the men of the Harrrisburg Railers and their partners…now, if I could just get my hands on a Railer’s hockey jersey…Go Railers!!!

Padme's Library - Truth is, there is so many aspects of this story(and series) that made me smile, laugh, cry, frankly pretty much every emotion out there. I know I use the words a lot in my reviews but it doesn't make them any less true, Deep Edge will warm your heart from page one till the end.

They may not be characters you would meet every day but Scott and Locey present Dieter and Trent in a way that if you ran into them in the grocery store or the gas station you wouldn't look twice. In my opinion, creating characters that are definitely original and yet have that "every day" element to them takes talent and that is what you will find within the pages of Deep Edge and the Harrisburg Railers: talent and plenty of heart.

Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words - ...while you could think this is just an opposites attract story, it also includes much deeper, more serious layers that speak to addictions, recovery, and therapy. And does so in a realistic and even gritty manner at times. For tackling all that, plus the romance, and the continuing overall series arc and pulling them off to a grand effect? Deep Edge (Harrisburg Railers #3) by RJ Scott & VL Locey is a story that’s close to perfect. Truly with each story this series just keeps getting better and better.

Excerpt

Chapter One

Trent

I studied the image of me at the Sochi games. I looked so happy with that silver medal around my neck, standing just a few inches lower than Connor O’Day, my teammate who’d grabbed the gold. Even though Connor – the bitch – had won the gold, I’d still been happy. I recalled that feeling. Happy was nice.

“Trent?”

Two silvers in the past two Olympics. The upcoming one had been supposed to be mine. I’d been skating stronger than I ever had. Everyone had predicted that I’d finally get past Connor to win the gold. Happy would have been everywhere. I’d have been drowning in fucking happy. I would have been wearing happy and that gold around my neck like a cashmere coat from Neiman Marcus.

“Trent?”

Gayle’s touch pulled me from Envy Land. I spun from the newly hung imagery of Trent Hanson on the soft white walls of my new agent’s office. She smiled sadly at me. Gods. Everyone looked at me like that now. I hated it. And I hated not being happy anymore.

“Sorry, I was just admiring that costume. Isn’t that dark blue and silver to die for?” I moved around the short, dark-haired woman who was now in charge of my career. Or what was left of it.

“It is. It still amazes me that you design all your skating costumes. You’re such a talented young man. Why don’t we sit, and we’ll get to the reason I called you in?”

Ah, agents. They were so lovely – when they weren’t embezzling all your money and spending it on whores, vodka gimlets, and a particularly bad run over a week in Atlantic City. Note to the young and innocent – never let your stepfather manage your money, especially when he’s open about how much he dislikes your gay little ass. That way you won’t end up broke, shamed, and trying to figure out how to keep your mother and grandmother from being booted out of their house while your rink teeters on the edge of financial ruin. Where the fuck had all my happy gone? I wanted it back, dammit!

I moved past the windows that looked down on Philadelphia, my hometown. I’d been born and raised in the City of Brotherly Love. I adored this city, and it loved me in return. Or had. Now I was just the mincing and well-dressed queer who didn’t even have two pennies to rub together. How quickly love and adoration turned to titters and cold shoulders. Drawing my coat around me, I sat down in a plush beige chair and crossed one leg over the other, making sure my coat draped properly over my thighs. I hate wrinkles. And beige. Why were straights so afraid of a little color?

Gayle sat down behind her desk, smiled at me yet again, and folded her hands in front of her. I raised a freshly plucked eyebrow. She was still trying to get a handle on me. Tobey & Troy was the largest athletic representation firm in Philly. They handled most of the Eagles, Sixers and Flyers, as well as several tennis players. And now they had me. Trent Lawrence Hanson. Famed gay figure skater and next in line to be a Dickens character in real life. Please, sir, I want some more. Ugh. As if I’d eat gruel. What if I had to? The thought was too much to bear.

“I think that now that the legal issues with your father—”

“Stepfather,” I quickly reminded her.

“Yes, sorry, stepfather. Well, now that he’s been convicted and is serving time, I think this is the moment to start working on marketing you in a positive light.” She smiled again, nervously, and leveled light blue eyes at me. “Where are you in terms of returning to competitive skating?”

I glanced out the window at Ben Franklin standing atop City Hall. I began running my hands over the thin cotton flaps lying over my thighs.

“I have no money, my professional reputation is shot, and both my rink and my mother’s house are two months away from foreclosure. Do you honestly think I could find the mental clarity and focus to skate again?” As soon as I heard how bitchy I sounded, I placed a hand over my mouth. “I’m so sorry,” I mumbled into my fingers.

“It’s quite understandable,” she replied. She was far too nice to be saddled with a miserable cow-bag like me. I wanted to cry, but didn’t. I’d do that later when I visited Mom and my Lola. “Would you like something to drink?”

“Water would be lovely,” I coughed into my fingers. She rang her receptionist. “I’m better now. See.” I lowered my hand and smiled brilliantly at her.

Gayle nodded, but melancholy lingered in her gaze. A tiny blonde hurried in with a bottle of water and handed it to me. I was about to ask if she could possibly find a cold one, but I bit my tongue. Bitchy Trent had already escaped once today.

“Thank you.”

She nodded and scurried out, closing the door behind her slim backside. Her shoes were terrible. Who wears black flats with a peach dress in late June? Honestly, women, learn how to dress. I took tiny sips of the tepid water. Gayle waited. I capped the bottle and balanced it in my left hand so my coat didn’t get watermarked. I was a beggar now. I had to keep my wardrobe in good shape. Tears threatened again.

Gayle broke into the building weep-fest. “I understand that you’re not mentally ready to return to figure skating. To that end, we need to find you something to do that will bring in good money so you can get your assets back in sound fiscal shape.”

“You mean pull my rink and my mother’s house out of the snapping jaws of foreclosure?”

“Well, I wouldn’t have been quite that dramatic…”

“Few are.” I sighed as I returned to working out the crinkles in my duster.

“Right, well, I’ve been approached by GLBTQtv about a reality show with you as the star.”

My chin dropped to my chest. “Get. Out.”

“I’m very serious,” Gayle said, her smile spreading into a grin. “They’re waving a nice fat contract at us.”

“I’ll do it! Wait. Are there lots of zeros mentioned in the contract?” I was so excited I grabbed my duster and wadded it up in my right hand.

“There are several zeros,” she whispered as her grin grew even wider.

“I’ll do it!” My gods, I was such a whore. Wave a ten in front of me and down to my knees I went. But zeros meant money. Money that would keep my family safely housed and my rink operational. Rainbow Skate was my rink. I’d bought it and refurbished it. It was where I practiced. And it was where little gay and straight children who wanted a safe place to skate and express themselves and their art could come. No hateful slurs or brutes were allowed at Rainbow Skate. That was my rule. I hated bullies. I’d dealt with them from the time I was eight and discovered how fabulous I was on skates and how amazing my sewing skills were. By the time I was fourteen and came out officially, not one person was shocked. My stepfather was disgusted, but then again, he was a thieving twat.

“Wonderful! I’ve read over the contract and it’s pretty straightforward.” I bounced in my seat as Gayle talked. “They’re asking for six to eight weeks with exclusive access to you and the Railers as you work with them.”

The bouncing slowed. “I’m sorry...” I tapped my right ear. “Did you say Railers? What are Railers?”

“They’re the hockey team that’s expressed a pointed interest in working with you on this show.”

I couldn’t control the laugh that burst out of me. I roared so long and so heartily that I was close to hyperventilating when the laughter began to die down. Gayle sat behind her desk, staring at me as if I’d gone around the bend.

“Phew. Oh, my gods and garters,” I panted several minutes later. Dabbing gently under my eyes, I saw a blur of black on my fingertip. “And I thought this was waterproof eyeliner. Do you have tissues?”

She got up , grabbed a box from the edge of her desk, and handed it to me.

“Thank you.” I wiped my finger on a Kleenex, then gingerly pulled a tiny corner under my right and then left eye. “I hate this cheap stuff. I’m going to throw it out when I get home. Why did I even buy anything other than waterproof?”

“Is there a problem with you working with hockey players?” Gayle asked after she sat back down.

I tittered. “How much time do you have?” I asked.

She gawked at me.

“I do not do jocks.”

“But you’re a jock.”

“Uh, no, no, I am not. I’m an artist. I don’t go skating around hitting people in the face with sticks. No, sorry, this sweet thing,” I motioned to myself, “does not do hockey players, footballers, baseballers, basketballers, or those men who run around with nets to catch balls in. Lacrosse! I don’t do them either. I will do tennis players or an occasional fellow skater, but they can’t be on my team. Cat fights amongst team members are so ugly. I rather like Russian skaters. It’s the accent. I once did a Russian skater. He was delicious. I called it my Boris Godunov phase.”

I giggled at the witty, but Gayle simply continued to gape. I was so happy now – why was she being a prude?

“What?” I asked when she didn’t speak.

“Trent, this contract is contingent on you working with the Railers.”

“No, sorry. I don’t do hockey players. Didn’t we just cover that? They’re rude bullies who have never passed up an opportunity to shove me into lockers, dunk my head into toilets, or taunt me in front of everyone at the rink. Nope. Tell them I don’t do hockey players.”

“Trent, the contract is very specific. The Railers recently had a player come out.”

I passed the water bottle from my left to my right hand. “Good for him. I wish him all the success in the world. This impacts me how?”

“He and his coach…”

“Ew. His coach? Oh, yuck. Have you seen coaches? Ugh. They’re usually old Russian men with nose hair and breath that always reeks of potato soup and pickles.”

“Trent, what the man looks like isn’t important…”

“Maybe not to you.”

“They’re hoping to have this gay player and his teammates spend a few weeks with you at Rainbow Skate. It will show the world that gay athletes are caring, competitive, normal people.”

“If the nematodes out there in TV land don’t know that we’re normal people, then fuck them in the ass with a splintery wooden spoon. Again, I state that I do not do hockey players.”

“Then the show goes to Connor, since he’s recently come out as questioning.”

I shot to my boots. “There is no way in hell I get beat out by that simpleton again. How dare he try to out-gay me?! Gods above, I hate that little shithead. Fine. Fine! Tell the TV people I’ll work with the Cro-Magnons on skates, but the first time I hear one homophobic remark or one of them corners me in the bathroom, I am out of there!”

I slammed the water bottle on her desk and stalked to the door, my duster snapping around my leather ankle boots.

“Before you go, you need to read and sign the contract,” Gayle called, stopping my perfect diva exit cold.

I glowered at the door, turned, and walked with purpose back to my seat. I snapped the contract from her and flopped down. Oh my. There were so many zeros. I needed zeros so, so badly. Why was nothing easy? Hockey players. I shuddered, read, and signed.

“I feel so cheap and dirty,” I mumbled ten minutes later when I was standing on Broad Street. I tied my coat around my waist. Some fool walked past and asked if I knew what fucking month it was. “Yes, I know it’s June. The outfit needed a coat. Don’t judge me.”

I hailed a cab. I don’t drive cars unless I must. I do have a scooter, but it had looked like rain when I left.

“2020 South 16th Street,” I told the driver after I was in and seated. He flipped the meter on and off we went to my mother’s house.

I was torn now. On one hand, I was the happiest I had been since my stepfather had run off with all my money. On the other hand, working with big, dumb hockey players was going to be dreadful, even if one of them was gay. I spent the ride staring out at the city and the narrow streets.

Newbold – or Point Breeze – was where I’d been raised. There was a nice Asian community there, with plenty of people from Laos, Indonesia, Cambodia, and the Philippines, which was where my Lola was from. Mom and my grandmother had been trying to keep their heads above water since the debacle with my stepfather. The taxes were overdue on her little brick rowhouse. I’d paid them for years, but now…now I didn’t have the cash to pay my own rent. Then there was the mortgage on Rainbow Skate.

“My life sucks,” I groaned when we pulled up in front of my mother’s place. There was no way the cab could get to the curb. Cars were parked bumper to bumper.

“Welcome to life, kid.”

“I’m twenty-three,” I told Mr. Cabbie. He shrugged. Someone behind us blew their horn. The driver gave them the finger. I paid, and tipped the best I could. I felt the dark look for the measly buck tip as I hurried out of the yellow cab and up the cement steps to blessed relief from the nasty old world.

Lola was in the kitchen when I blew in. She gave me one look and opened her arms. I ran to the short, round, silver-haired woman and pulled her close. She stroked my back and murmured to me in Pilipino. The room smelled of soy sauce. Maybe she was making chicken adobo. I really needed some of her cooking, but I needed her hugs more.

“Where’s Mom?” I asked during the embrace.

“At the shop,” Lola whispered.

I grimaced, then gently stepped away. “I thought she had today off,” I sighed, peeling my coat off and draping it just so over the back of the battered chair. I sat down and quickly had a platter of dark chicken thigh meat cooked in soy, garlic and vinegar served over rice in front of me. “She works too hard.”

“Not more or less than any day since he run off with money.”

I blew out a breath and forked up some rice. Mom needed rehab. But, again, rehab cost money.

“I got an offer to be on a TV show. They want me to star in it with hockey players,” I told my grandmother.

She stopped waddling around long enough to point to the bright orange shirt she was wearing. “You make TV with Flyers?!” She pointed at the logo on her boobs.

“No, not the Flyers.”

“Pah, then bad hockey team.”

“They’re from Harrisburg.”

“Almost as bad as Pittsburgh!”

Lola loved her Flyers. As did everyone in the city except me. I didn’t do hockey players. Ever. Except now it looked like I was. Curse my stepfather to hell and back.

“They’re going to pay me a lot of money to do the show, Lola. We need the money. I can pay off the house and the rink. I can help Mom financially so she’s not giving mani-pedis for dismal pay and tips seven days a week.”

She sat down across from me at the table that was as old and worn as she was. Hell, as the whole house was.

“You are good, sweet boy. Eat more.” She patted my hand.

Try maintaining a skating weight with two Pilipino women in your life. It’s almost impossible. But, since I’d probably never skate again, why not have more rice? Who cared? It wasn’t like one of the Railers would be looking at the delightful curvature of my ass. Shit, it had been ages since anyone had looked, commented on, or even patted the delightful curvature of my ass.

“May I have more rice?”




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A short unedited teaser from First Season, Railers Hockey 2, written with VL Locey.

Book 1, Changing Lines, is available to pre-order now and is releasing 12 July.


Excerpt


Layton's first meeting with Adler... Layton's POV



“I think you would benefit from some sensitivity training,” I began.

“Hell no, I’m sensitive, I can be sensitive.”

“It’s standard procedure,” I reassured and lied at the same time.

“Oh,” he deflated a little. “You mean everyone has to do it?”

I wish at that moment I had just said yes, because that would have stopped Adler in his tracks. But no, I had to be all cagey. “That’s confidential.”

He frowned. “So not everyone then.”

“Like I said, confidential.”

“What about Arvy?”

I couldn’t for the life of me think why he was picking on Arvy as an example, so I missed another opportunity to cut this dead. “Confidential,” I said.

“I see, so he has this gay cousin which gives him an out from an entire day wasted listening to shit about what I can and can’t say?”

“Mr. Lockhart—“

“So if you know someone who knows someone then you have an out. Right?”

“That’s not how it works—“

“I know Arvy,” he said, and sat back in his chair. “I have to think about what I say in front of him, so that is me being sensitive.”

“You’re missing the point,” I began patiently, and then I really screwed the pooch. “Wait, Arvy was there when you were handling your junk in the parking lot.”

“Oh,” Adler said and sighed noisily. Then he scrubbed at his eyes with his fingers. “Hate that political correctness shit,” he muttered.

I assumed he meant the sensitivity training, but I wanted to move on from this. “It’s all common sense, and with the changes on the team it’s vital we have a united front to any and all media inquiries.”

“Hell, I don’t care what Ten and the Coach do.” He looked at me and I waited for more because he seemed like he was going to add to that sentence. Only he didn’t, his lips thinned like he was trying very hard to hold someone back.

I took that as a sign that he was about to say something crass and almost felt proud that he’d held back. I looked down at my sketched notes.

“This is a question you don’t need to answer, but it would be helpful to know if you have any religious objections to the situation that we should make a note of.”

“Christ no,” he said, and then snorted a laugh at his own joke. He quickly stopped and schooled his face into all serious business. “Sorry, couldn’t stop myself.”



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Changing Lines (Harrisburg Railers #1) with V.L. Locey


Cover by Meredith Russell

The Book

The Rowe Brothers are famous hockey hotshots, but as the youngest of the trio, Tennant has always had to play against his brothers’ reputations. To get out of their shadows, and against their advice, he accepts a trade to the Harrisburg Railers, where he runs into Jared Madsen. Mads is an old family friend and his brother’s one-time teammate. Mads is Tennant’s new coach. And Mads is the sexiest thing he’s ever laid eyes on.

Jared Madsen’s hockey career was cut short by a fault in his heart, but coaching keeps him close to the game. When Ten is traded to the team, his carefully organized world is thrown into chaos. Nine years his junior and his best friend’s brother, he knows Ten is strictly off-limits, but as soon as he sees Ten’s moves, on and off the ice, he knows that his heart could get him into trouble again.

Can Tennant show Jared that age is just a number, and that love is all that matters?


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Harrisburg Railers Series

Changing Lines (Book #1)
First Season (Book #2) 
Deep Edge (Book #3) WIP
Poke Check (Book #4) WIP

Reviews

‘Changing Lines’ is by no means a comedy but it is a good start to what I think is going to be an enjoyable hockey themed series. There were hot men both on and off the ice, humorous moments…also on and off the ice, there’s Pokemon and Pokemon tattoos, there’s Sven, one of the best Russian goalies EVER!…I love Sven and a coming out that is epic from start to finish.
If book 2 is anything like this one…well, all I can say is…‘Hockey Night in Canada’ just got a whole lot more interesting." - My Fiction Nook

"While both Ten and Mads are brilliant characters the supporting characters are just as good, from Ten’s brothers to the Harrisburg Railers team they are an interesting mix and fully entertaining. I have a secret hope that Stan will one day get a story because that Russian goalie is just one excellent character!
I recommend this to those who love sports stories, love a dash of angst, who adore characters with explosive temperaments, and who love watching two men overcoming fears and embracing their love for each other." - MM Good Book Reviews

Excerpt

I heard the fight before I saw it, but skated over on instinct, sliding to a halt and attempting to work out what the hell was going on. A quick head-count had five guys beating on each other, and right in the middle, Ten.

Coach skated alongside. “What the fuck?” he shouted, and blew his whistle.

Three of the fighters backed off, but Ten and…shit, that was Addison, his line mate. They were still going at it, Ten sliding back, losing his footing and falling on his ass, dragging Addison with him in a tumble and tangle of arms and legs. The crack of a breaking stick had me wincing, and I waded through the shocked observers to the two on the floor. Ten was on the bottom to start with, but by the time I reached him, he was straddling Addison and shouting in his face.

I couldn’t make out the words, not clearly, but I winced at what I did hear. Fag. And that was from Ten. Disgust and disappointment welled inside me. Ten knew me, knew I’d had a boyfriend. He wasn’t a kid who crossed lines like that. I gripped his jersey, and with a tug so hard he flailed, I dragged him upward. Temper made me see red, and I yanked him across the ice. He couldn’t get purchase, off balance, and almost crashed to the rubber when we stepped off the ice.

“Jesus, Mads,” he said, and righted himself with a hand on the boards.

“With me,” I snapped.

The forwards coach skated over, but I waved him away. I was dealing with this, and even though he frowned, my counterpart let it go.

“Five minutes,” was all he said. “Then he’s mine.”

I stamped my way to the changing rooms and through to the skate-sharpening area, which was sound-proofed. I had words to say, and I wasn’t leaving them unsaid. Ten came in after me, and I shoved him aside so I could shut the door.

“What the fuck?” I asked with restrained aggression.

“He fucking started it!” Ten said, touching the lump on his forehead. “Asshole.”

That defense meant nothing to me, and it was my turn to snap. I backed him up against the door.

“If I ever hear you using that word again, I will personally knock you the fuck out.”

I was shouting right at him, eye to eye, and I saw the moment when the temper in his eyes became something else. Confusion.

“I didn’t… I wouldn’t…”

“I heard you, Ten. You called him a fag—”

“No,” he interrupted me, and he sounded so hurt—defensive, almost. “He called me that, said I was showing him up, that I needed to slow the hell down, and then he called me a faggot, and I lost it, okay?”

Now it was my turn to be confused. “I heard you say…”

“That if he ever used the word fag again, I would bury him.”

“Why?”

“Why what?” Ten looked at me like I’d grown a second head, like I had something on my face. He was trying to find something there, and all I could show him was confusion.

“Did you do that for me?” I asked, and abruptly all my strength left me and I slumped against the wall for support.

“Jared—”

“Don’t do that, okay? I’m at peace with who I am, but I don’t need you to fight for me, you get that? You keep yourself safe and you don’t rise to what anyone says.”

“That’s bullshit,” Ten snapped. “That word is offensive and I don’t want it used in that way, demeaning, laughing. I won’t have it.”

“Why? Ten, there are ways of dealing with this. Official ways.”

“He kept saying it, and he knew…”

“Knew what? About me? The world and his wife know I’m bi; I don’t need protecting.” My confusion was growing, and Ten looked like someone had kicked him in the balls and left him to cry in a heap on the floor.

“He saw me, he must have…”

“Ten?”

“Okay, so it’s no big deal, right,” Ten began. “I took a guy back to my room when I first got here, and he saw.”

“What are you saying?”

Ten looked at me. “You’re not stupid,” he said. “I’m gay, Jared. I’m in the fucking closet, and I’m gay. Okay?”

Changing Lines (Harrisburg Railers #1) - MM Hockey Romance - excerpt


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I heard the fight before I saw it, but skated over on instinct, sliding to a halt and attempting to work out what the hell was going on. A quick head-count had five guys beating on each other, and right in the middle, Ten.

Coach skated alongside. “What the fuck?” he shouted, and blew his whistle.

Three of the fighters backed off, but Ten and…shit, that was Addison, his line mate. They were still going at it, Ten sliding back, losing his footing and falling on his ass, dragging Addison with him in a tumble and tangle of arms and legs. The crack of a breaking stick had me wincing, and I waded through the shocked observers to the two on the floor. Ten was on the bottom to start with, but by the time I reached him, he was straddling Addison and shouting in his face.

I couldn’t make out the words, not clearly, but I winced at what I did hear. Fag. And that was from Ten. Disgust and disappointment welled inside me. Ten knew me, knew I’d had a boyfriend. He wasn’t a kid who crossed lines like that. I gripped his jersey, and with a tug so hard he flailed, I dragged him upward. Temper made me see red, and I yanked him across the ice. He couldn’t get purchase, off balance, and almost crashed to the rubber when we stepped off the ice.

“Jesus, Mads,” he said, and righted himself with a hand on the boards.

“With me,” I snapped.

The forwards coach skated over, but I waved him away. I was dealing with this, and even though he frowned, my counterpart let it go.

“Five minutes,” was all he said. “Then he’s mine.”

I stamped my way to the changing rooms and through to the skate-sharpening area, which was sound-proofed. I had words to say, and I wasn’t leaving them unsaid. Ten came in after me, and I shoved him aside so I could shut the door.

“What the fuck?” I asked with restrained aggression.

“He fucking started it!” Ten said, touching the lump on his forehead. “Asshole.”

That defense meant nothing to me, and it was my turn to snap. I backed him up against the door.

“If I ever hear you using that word again, I will personally knock you the fuck out.”

I was shouting right at him, eye to eye, and I saw the moment when the temper in his eyes became something else. Confusion.

“I didn’t… I wouldn’t…”

“I heard you, Ten. You called him a fag—”

“No,” he interrupted me, and he sounded so hurt—defensive, almost. “He called me that, said I was showing him up, that I needed to slow the hell down, and then he called me a faggot, and I lost it, okay?”

Now it was my turn to be confused. “I heard you say…”

“That if he ever used the word fag again, I would bury him.”

“Why?”

“Why what?” Ten looked at me like I’d grown a second head, like I had something on my face. He was trying to find something there, and all I could show him was confusion.

“Did you do that for me?” I asked, and abruptly all my strength left me and I slumped against the wall for support.

“Jared—”

“Don’t do that, okay? I’m at peace with who I am, but I don’t need you to fight for me, you get that? You keep yourself safe and you don’t rise to what anyone says.”

“That’s bullshit,” Ten snapped. “That word is offensive and I don’t want it used in that way, demeaning, laughing. I won’t have it.”

“Why? Ten, there are ways of dealing with this. Official ways.”

“He kept saying it, and he knew…”

“Knew what? About me? The world and his wife know I’m bi; I don’t need protecting.” My confusion was growing, and Ten looked like someone had kicked him in the balls and left him to cry in a heap on the floor.

“He saw me, he must have…”

“Ten?”

“Okay, so it’s no big deal, right,” Ten began. “I took a guy back to my room when I first got here, and he saw.”

“What are you saying?”

Ten looked at me. “You’re not stupid,” he said. “I’m gay, Jared. I’m in the fucking closet, and I’m gay. Okay?”
 


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Change Of Plans (A Point Shot Valentine's Day Short) by VL Locey

Change of Plans
By
V.L. Locey


I could tell just by watching him getting ready for dinner that he was stressing something. I know him well. He is my husband, after all. Maybe it was the way he kept looking at me and then glancing away, or the way he fiddled with the new gold cufflinks I had bought him, or it could have just been the weird way him and me were wired together. I know he scoffs at telepathic links and otherworldly things like people being soul mates or predestined to come together. And that’s okay. He can make caustic comments about things I like to entertain in my head. I know it’s his way of coping with the stuff he can’t explain or wise mouth away. That’s how Victor deals with emotional things or ideas that he can’t or won’t try to wrap his head around. His life runs easier if he keeps things on a straight line that includes me, sex, and hockey, with the occasional Netflix binge or pizza.

“Vic, you okay, babe?” I asked when he stalked behind me in the bedroom yet again, the fourth tie chosen in five minutes balled up in his hand.

“Why can’t we just follow my traditional Valentine’s Day agenda?” He stopped on a dime and looked at me, his hazel eyes showing how agitated he was. I could read those blue-green beauties like a playbook now.

“The one where you buy four boxes of chocolates and a bottle of Jack Daniels then proceed to get naked and shitfaced drunk while watching Christopher Titus ‘Love is Evol’ on a continual loop?”

“Yep, that’s the one.” He threw the dark blue tie to his dresser.

“As romantic as that sounds, you gave up drinking.” I turned back to the mirror and ran my fingers through my wet hair, trying to get the black mass to dry before we left. It was four degrees outside in Cayuga, New York. Frozen hair wasn’t new to me, being from Manitoba, but I wanted to try to style the shit a little, maybe.

“Dan, if you cancel this V-Day shit, I will suck your dick so well you won’t be able to walk for days.” Vic stepped up behind me. His hands slipped around my hips. He waggled a red eyebrow and toyed with my belt buckle. I rolled my eyes. “Come on. Every man on the planet wants a stellar BJ on V-Day. See, that rhymes. Totally should be a Hallmark card.”

“Vic, we got reservations in an hour. I made them, like, six months ago, to make sure we had the best seat in the place. We’re not staying home tonight.”

“Seriously, think about it Dan. We can even do a Dan movie. I’ll let you slide some chick flick in while I get you off. You know you wanted to see that movie with that chick and that dude the other night but I was totally into ‘Fast and Loud’ and wouldn’t let you watch it.”

“That’s every night. You’ll need to be more specific.”

Victor started working on my buckle. “The other night. I don’t know which one. You sat down beside me just as the gang at Gas Monkey Garage were going to crank out the reveal on a sweet little ’69 Mustang and shoved a DVD case in front of my face.”

“Oh, that night. Yeah, that wasn’t a chick flick, doofus. That was a comedy-mystery that had Randy Harrison in it.” He slid my belt out of the loops. He looked confused. “Randy Harrison. Vic, he played Justin in ‘Queer as Folk’?”

“Oh, Justin. No shit. I bet he grew up pretty. I still like Brian the best.” He tugged the front of my dress shirt out of my pants.

“You liking Brian is not a shocker to anyone who knows you. And he did grow up pretty. You’d have seen how pretty if you’d have looked at the case.” I grabbed his hand as it wiggled under my shirt. “Vic, we have reservations in an hour. You’re not going to sex me out of this night, okay?”

He snapped his hand out from under my shirt then huffed off. “Fine, we’ll just go sit in that stupid restaurant with all the other saps whose wives dragged them out.”

I had never known Poles had such short tempers. Or maybe it was just this one. There was something else under his bullshit, though, something that was pushing him to be a huge bag of dicks. Well, a huger bag of dicks than he was on a daily basis. There always was something behind his attitude. I padded over to where he stood, staring into the closet and gave his biceps a short cuff. He threw me a glare over his shoulder, his blue-green eyes sparking.

“Okay, for starter’s, I know I told you before, like, fifty times; I’m not your wife, I’m your husband.” He made a face of complete contempt. So, I pushed around him and got right into his long, handsome mug. “Second, I don’t ask much from you, Vic. We both been ignoring us for the Cougars, and I get that. We’re in season and hockey comes first. But tonight, I want us to be first.”

“Well, go be first alone. I can’t take you to that fancy place because I don’t have anything to give you.”

“Vic, really? All this is over the fact you didn’t get me anything? I mean, yeah, it kind of stings because the world knew Valentine’s Day was coming and you didn’t even get me a--”

“It’s not that I didn’t get you anything. Fuck, Dan, I bought you, like, five different gifts. And every time I had Lila check them out – because what does a dickhead like me know about romance and gifts – she told me they weren’t romantic enough. So, I took them back each time and looked for something else. There’s nothing out there good enough for you.” He threw his hands into the air, his rant picking up steam while I stood gawping up at him. “Then she said ‘Write down your words in a poem. Daniel will love that!’ and yeah, that went about as you thought it would. Fucking poems. Christ, like I can make poems that don’t start off with some guy being from Nantucket and his ginormous cock?”

“Vic, babe, I--”

“And now here I am, the brain-damaged moron with no gift to give you after you give me those great cuff links and this dinner. I cannot do this shit, Dan. You know I can’t. I don’t do emotions and shit.”

“What did you want to say?” He looked at me in total bewilderment. I peeled off my suit jacket and lobbed it on the bed. “In the poem that you tried to write for me. What did you want to say?”

“I don’t know.” He spun from me and began pacing our bedroom, his long legs propelling around the room with speed. I leaned back on the dresser and crossed my arms over my chest, watching him churn up what he wanted so badly to say. Victor was right in that emotional dialog was hard for him. His childhood had seen to that, but now that I had his band on my finger and he wore mine, we were working on it. It wouldn’t be quick. Somedays, I figured it would never happen at all. “I wanted to tell you that I love you. And, uh, that you make me smile when I wake up and see your stumpy little body curled around mine.”

“Yeah? Go on.” He ran his fingers through his flaming red hair as he worked to dredge up the feelings he keeps so deeply buried. “What else did you want to say to me in that poem?”

“That you make me laugh. And that the smell of you on me makes me hot and hard instantly. That when I look down and see your ring on my finger, I want to puke and grin and cry all at once. That you’re the best thing that has ever happened to me and that I don’t think I could go on in this world if you weren’t by my side to help me along.”

I cleared my throat softly. “Vic, oh man, that was beautiful.” I went to him because I knew he needed lots of tactile now. He always did when he purged like that. “I really need to hold you.”

“Okay, good, yeah,” he murmured and drew me into his chest, his fingers instantly going into my hair. He fisted it and kissed my brow, his lips soft and needy, he pecked his way over my closed eyes to my mouth. And then, as it always does with Victor and me, the fire ignited instantly. With the just the touch of his tongue to the corner of my mouth I was hard and desperate to love him. The kiss was grinding teeth and frantic hands. I tugged at the light blue shirt he had pulled on but never buttoned. He held my head tightly, pulling slightly on my hair, his tongue sliding over mine then delving deeper to stroke my molars. I bared his chest then went to work on his zipper, freeing his cock. “Oh shit, Dan, man, the reservations…”

“Fuck them,” I huffed then shoved my much taller husband to our bed. “We’ll get something delivered. You need me inside you right now.”

He licked his lips while lifting his ass to wiggle out of his pants. I threw my shirt and tie to the side, unzipped and kicked off my trousers. Victor’s gaze roamed over me.

“I do love a man who goes commando.” He fisted his long cock and began stroking it. “You riding me? Please tell me you’re riding me.”

“Oh yeah, I’m riding you.” He reached over his head for the lube on the bed stand while I crawled over him, taking time to run my tongue over his legs. I tugged on the curly red hairs on his thighs with my teeth, glancing up to see him working his prick. “After I suck on your dick for a little bit. You down with that, Vic?”

“Am I down with you going down? Hell and yes, sweets.” I lapped a wet line along the inside of his pale thigh, making him groan and wiggle around trying to hurry me into taking his dick into my mouth. I wasn’t in no hurry. He continued to stoke himself – the light on the dresser glinting off the gold band on his third finger of his left hand – and watch me making my way closer to his prick. “Dan, you fucking sexy little son-of-a-bitch, get my cock into your mouth.”

“You’re pretty pushy for the man on the bottom.” I flicked the tip of my tongue over the head of his dick. He twitched and held his cock tight. I took him into my mouth, my lips sliding over smooth skin covering hard meat. Vic released his cock when my lips met his fingers. He pumped up as I went down and his moan of pleasure was long and raspy. I sucked him noisily, cupping his huge balls. He pushed my hair from my face as he called my name on a breathless whisper. I pulled off with a pop, spittle dribbling down to my chin. “Give me that lube.”

He blinked, like he was trying to clear the cloud of lust from his mind then handed me the lube, his body taut and firm. I climbed over him, my leg brushing against his cock when I threw it over his hips.

“You’re going to want to get on me fast, Dan.”

“Yeah, no, you don’t tell me how this is going, Vic.” I leaned down on him, pressing my chest against his and claiming his mouth ravenously. His fingers dug into my ribs as he tried to lift me up higher while I sucked on his tongue. When I needed air, I left his mouth and sat back, ass on his thighs and found the lube lying beside him. His eyes were smoky now, heavy lidded, and his lips slightly puffy from our kisses. He trembled when the lid to the lube snapped open. I squeezed a dollop into my palm then smeared it over the purplish head of his cock. “You liking that, Vic?”

“Shit, yes,” he replied then thrust up into my hand. I gave him a few strokes then shimmied over him, pushing up to a crouch like a catcher in baseball. “Shit, Dan, yes, I fucking love it when you do this.”

He grabbed his cock and held it for me. Eyes sliding shut, I lowered myself downward. The tip of his cock slid past my ass once and then twice. On the third try I felt him penetrate me and I paused, hands pressing into Vic’s chest, I pulled in as much air as I could then lowered myself down onto him. The stretch and burn in this position was intense. He kneaded the flesh on my thigh with his left hand, obviously yearning to rush things but there was no way I was just flopping down on a cock that big.

“Vic, damn it,” I said through clenched teeth when all of him was deep inside me. “Christ, no, don’t move yet. Ahh, okay, yeah, that’s okay.” He rolled his hips in a small circle. The sensations were amazing. I moved up a few inches then gently came back down.

“Fuuuuck.” Vic pulled down on my hips, seating himself so deeply inside me, it made my eyes water. He pushed up to his elbows then to his hands. I shoved him back to the bed before dropping from a crouch to a straddle, my knees gripping his sides. He latched into my ass cheeks with his hands, spreading me wide and then pushing the mounds as close as he could. Again, he tried to sit up and once more I pressed him back into the bedding. “Faster. Now.”

I threw myself into it, whipping my head back with each slamming motion up and back. Victor arched up, his ass leaving the mattress, his fingers digging so hard into my ass, it hurt. I didn’t tell him to stop. Would never tell him to stop. I loved every mark and bite he left on me when making love. They were reminders of our intimacy, of how strong and powerful he and me were as men and as partners. Each twinge I’d feel tomorrow would make me yearn for him again because that was how big me and Victor were and always had been. From the first time I had seen him up close, I knew I wanted the lanky, foul-mouthed bastard. And I got him. How lucky am I?

“Dan, I am so close. Sooo fucking close.” I sat back, pressing myself down onto him and then rotating my ass in a wide circle. Vic lost his mind just as I knew he would. I tossed my hair from my eyes and palmed my cock. My husband cried out my name then closed his eyes, his orgasm hitting him like a body check from the big man in Boston. All it took was one or two tugs on my dick and I blew apart as well. Victor shimmied around under me, rolling his pelvis to get deeper as I came on his stomach and chest.

Noises and grunts fell out of me, no words. The sight of my spunk speckling his chest, stomach and chin a moment later started another rolling tremor that lasted forever it seemed. Finally, when my body couldn’t take anymore, I fell over him, my nose resting under his ear, his hands massaging my ass tenderly.

“Sweet fucking Nellie Olsen,” Victor panted under me, his head rolling an inch or two so he could press a kiss to my sweaty hair. “And maybe Ma and Pa Olsen, too. Shit, Dan, you hot little Hobbit, you.”

I rose enough to be able to look down at him. He pushed a couple of strands of dark hair behind my ear, his expression tender. I know that some people think that the Venomous Pole can’t do tender, but he can, and he can do it so good. It’s just not something he does where anyone but me can see it. Makes him weak or so he thinks. “They teach you how to do that in the Shire?”

“They teach us how to do lots of things that got nothing to do with smoking pipes, poking around in a garden, or wearing ornamental waistcoats on dull days,” I murmured over his mouth, the kiss just an inch from happening.

“No wonder Sam and Frodo always looked so fucking spent,” he chuckled then lifted his shoulders from the bedding to seal his mouth over mine. We rolled to our sides and continued kissing and stroking each other for a long time. “You know we’re going to be late to that fancy eatery, right? No way we can make it to Corning in less than fifteen minutes.”

“How about we just stay here in bed and make call for one of them pizzas you like so good?” I said as I nipped at his collarbone. His fingers traced the Wolverine tattoo on my biceps.

“You sure you won’t be too disappointed because I never got you anything?”

“Nope, not for a second. Not ever, Vic. I never wanted nothing but to have you give me something from your heart. And man, did you ever. I’m real happy to eat pizza in bed with you for the rest of my life.”

He fell into silence. I ran my tongue over his arm just to taste the incredible mixture of sweat and Kalinski. “You still got that movie with Justin from QAF in it?”

“Yeah,” I lapped at the fold in his arm and then licked my way back to his mouth. It wasn’t always toxic. Right now, it was damn sweet, if you asked me. Too sweet. Like addictive sweet.

“Think we can just lay here a bit more so I can look at you a little longer?”

“Yeah, I think I’d be happy to lay here and look at you forever.”

The pizza was a little undercooked but the movie and the encore with Vic totally rocked.

Best. V-Day. Ever.

The End

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Out March 1 2017


Now, you can have the books that introduced Victor Kalinski to the world in one reasonably priced boxed set! With over 350 Goodreads reviews and ratings combined, the romance of Vic Kalinski and Dan Arou is one that once read, will never be forgotten. In this three-book set, you’ll get to experience all the passion, sarcasm, hockey action, and romance that reviewers have called “Beautifully Written”, “Surprisingly Heartfelt”, and “Hot! Hot! Hot!”

“The writing in this is snappy and awesome, the story moves at a great pace and oh it's HOT AS EVER-LOVING HELL. There's romance that never veers into a too-sappy place, it's FUNNY and full of great lines right and left, and so engaging that I couldn't stop reading it. The ending is satisfying, with our characters not becoming perfect people but becoming better together than they are apart, and that's just about as romantic as it gets.” Avon Gale – Author of the Scoring Chances series






Readers should be over 18 due to mature language and gay sexual situations. The set includes:

Two Man Advantage (Point Shot Trilogy #1)
Game Misconduct (Point Shot Trilogy #2)
Full Strength (Point Shot Trilogy #3)

About the Author

V.L. Locey loves worn jeans, yoga, belly laughs, walking, reading and writing lusty tales, Greek mythology, the New York Rangers, comic books, and coffee. (Not necessarily in that order.) She shares her life with her husband, her daughter, one dog, two cats, a flock of assorted domestic fowl, and two Jersey steers.

When not writing spicy romances, she enjoys spending her day with her menagerie in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in hand. She can also be found online on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and GoodReads.

Sunday Social with V L Locey

It's Sunday Social time and today I'm sitting down with VL Locey, author of many MF and MM books for a chat about writing, hockey, fanfic, hockey, books, hockey and a collaboration between the two of us (hockey)!

RJ: Welcome VL. Take a seat by the fire, have a glass of wine, and nibbles and are you ready to start?

VL: Mm. nibbles…

RJ: I’ve got the hockey on as well. It’s a Penguins vs Rangers game, so we’re in for a nice peaceful chat with no rivalry. Right?

VL: Of course. *hides Rangers foam finger behind back*

RJ: Takes off Sidney Crosby shirt...

RJ: So, to those RJ fans who haven’t met you before, can you tell us a bit about your writing? First off: What kinds of genres do you write in

VL:I primarily write erotic hockey romances, mostly M/M although I do have an M/F hockey series running. I also dabble in M/M shifter romances from time to time.

RJ: Where do people need to visit you if they want to see the books you have written

VL: They can find my books on Amazon and all the other quality sites as well as my website -http://vlloceyauthor.com/-

RJ: Oh look the Pens scored, that’s 10 - 2 to the Pens now - JK.

VL: Wait a second! 10-2! *searches tv channels for game RJ is watching* My game shows the Rangers up by 11. *winks*

RJ: Wrong channel… clearly...So when did you start writing - have you always wanted to write?

VL: Sorry, I was still flipping for this game. The guys are going to be exhausted by the time it’s over.
I’ve always had stories in my head I just never knew I could write them down and other people would want to read them.

RJ: What was the first thing you wrote that you wanted the *public* to read?

VL: The first thing I ever wrote that I shared was a Wolverine fan fiction. That was umpteen years ago over at the old Marvel Message boards where I was a moderator. Totally blew me away when other Marvel fans read and liked that story.

RJ: As anyone who follows my blog knows I started in Supernatural fan fiction, and yes, to think that people want to read your stuff - it blows you away. So, how long did you write fan fiction before you decided to publish? Oh and is any of your fan fiction still available and do you still write it?

VL:Was that the Ranger goal horn I just heard?

RJ: No, clearly not.

VL: Rats.

RJ: Well it may have been, but in this virtual game, only the Penguin’s goals count!

VL: I suspect fowl play. Fowl. Ha! See because we’re talking about penguins… Ahem.

RJ: So, go on then, do you still write fan fiction?

VL: As for the fan fiction, yes I still write it. Mostly it’s Torchwood although I do have some older Marvel stuff I want to tidy up and post over AO3. I write under my old Marvel admin name of Feral Female, in honor of Wolverine. I wubs Logan.

RJ: (I wubs Logan too) AO3 is where I read all the hockey fan fiction… just saying… Crosby/Malkin, Kane/Toews, Benn/Seguin

VL: I need to seriously look up this hockey fan fiction. It intrigues me.

RJ: Well, there is a lot of beta/alpha stories, and soul bond stories, very fan fiction, and always awesome! One of my first novels, Oracle, and also Texas 1 and Moments, they were old fan fictions that I took and redid and published with three times the word counts… have you re-visited any of your old fan fiction and thought *This would make an awesome story?*

VL: That’s cool that you could pull some original works from the FF. I never have done that and here’s why. My head is weird. Well, you probably knew that but when I write a story, it’s done. I cannot go back and rewrite it. Which is why I have to work in a linear way. Start to finish on one project. If I stop and go off I lose interest and I never go back. So I have to purge the work completely the first time. I will say that a few of my original characters are based on real hockey players...

RJ: Of course your head is weird, you’re a Rangers fan. Joking aside I feel the same way, once I finish a story now, it’s complete in my head. Done. Poeple ask me whether I would revisit stories like The Christmas Throwaway, and in my mind that story is complete. It would have to take a lot for me to write more in that universe.

*nods*

VL: *throws Rangers hat at Rj*

RJ: Threatens to take of Penguin pants as well as sweatshirt

RJ: Okay so are you a pantser or a plotter then?

VL: Pantster. 100% organic writer. I jot out some character bios before I start and maybe a hot scene or two but that’s it. Plotting kills a story fast for me because I’ve already written it in the plotting if that makes sense.

RJ: Same here. Do you ever feel that plotting means that the story is done in your head? That is how I feel, so I am a definite pantser. I give my characters birthdays, eye colour etc, I even research the houses they live in, but the story just unfolds so I don’t get bored. Is that how you feel?

VL: Totally the same for me.

RJ: Clearly we were twins separated at birth - apart from the fact you support the wrong hockey team

VL: Clearly twins. Although methinks ‘tis you who supports the wrong team. *flashes Zucc shirt*

RJ: Anyone would think I’ve only supported a team since last March…

VL: Hockey is like that. Once you discover how incredible it is you’re hooked forever.

RJ: Sexy. Fast. Brutal. I love the stories behind the teams. This inspires my own hockey series, so tell me about your MM hockey series as most of my readers are MM fans

VL: oh boy, this may take a while. My MM hockey series consist of a couple new ones that I’m going to be kicking off now that I have my rights back from Ellora’s Cave. I’ll be starting things off with a box set re-release of my top selling MM hockey books the Point Shot trilogy. From those I’ll be springboarding into a new series about the Cayuga Cougars, the team that Victor and Dan (from the Point Shot trilogy) played one. I also will be launching a new M/M series about a new team that forms in a Pennsylvania gay hockey league, The Brighton Wood Blades. I have a passel of novellas that came back to me from EC that I’m going to get into box sets as well but those will come later.

RJ: OMG we need to write this together. Sid could mentor them! And bloody Ellora’s cave. Talking of the books coming back from crappy publishers - of which I have some as well - do you find it hard to get those back out with new cover art when you’ve lost money on them?

VL: I would LOVE to write something with you someday. And yes, it’s a real struggle to get them back out financially because good cover art costs. Thankfully at least the editing has been done so there’s not that expense. But, I LOVE the new covers so much more than the older ones so the expense was worth it to me.

RJ: Oh we should write together in an MM series … invites you to write in my ‘verse set in Vermont… in all seriousness, we could rock that, and you could be a Pens fan… oh maybe not… I have had to invest in a lot of new cover art for my ARe books…. (insert curse word for ARe)... and I am much happier with the covers I have now.

VL: We would rock an MM hockey series. You could be a Rangers fan...or maybe not. ;)

RJ: I can’t see that happening - looks at standings - how about we both anti-support the Blue Jackets and the Washington Capitals?

VL: The Russian in a trunk discussion we had just a bit ago? We could totally work that into a book. Just saying.

RJ: So much this!!!!

RJ: we should focus on the interview… coughs… SO what made you decide to publish your work? I can’t stop laughing.

VL: Same here. I’m laughing so hard that it’s hard to type. Ahem, yes. I decided to try my hand at publishing when other people kept telling me to. Seriously, it took that kind of push from several good friends. You know us artists. We’re our own worst critics and I never imagined that what I plunked down on paper would interest anyone other than me. But, I gave it a whirl and wrote the first M/F hockey book in the Wildcat series and the rest just fell into place.

RJ: And I am English, we don’t do well with self confidence at the best of times...LOL… I thought you Americans were super confident!

VL: Oh not all of us. We have our doubts and insecurities just like everyone else. We just hide them behind Captain America.

RJ: Well we have *insert UK hero here* ohhhh we have Dr Who and Torchwood! And Cardiff!

VL: Captain Britain! Well you know my love for Jack and Ianto and Dr. Who. *writes all the Janto*

RJ: If only for Captain Britain, or Captain UK (CUK for short!) So, my next question is… where about in the US do you live? Because there is a very good saying - in the UK 100 miles is a long way, and in the US, 100 years is a long time. We actually think it’s cool that it takes as long to fly from London to NY as it is for you to fly from NY to say, Seattle.

VL: I live in the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania, which is why most of my stories are set in the PA/NY area since I’m so familiar with it. We’re way up in the mountains and VERY rural. Dirt roads, chickens in the yard, no neighbors.

RJ: So why aren’t you a Pittsburgh Penguins fan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

VL: They don’t have Mats Zuccarello or The King. Although they do have my Hags.

RJ: Rumor is that the Pens might be taking Zuccarello - how do you react to that?

VL: Take that back! You already got Hags, you can’t have Zucc. *hugs Mats close to chest*

RJ: Rubs hands in glee… offers Zucc 10 million a year for twenty years, just to reunite Zuccs and Hags…

VL:Wow, you have one HELL of a cap.

RJ: We won the Stanley Cup - we can have what we want!

VL: Pft

RJ: So a reminder to readers… what is your next book and where can they find details? AND, if they are new to VL Locey, where should they start?

VL: My next M/F book will be Angle Play, Venom #4, coming out 18 January, actually. The M/M books will be starting with the Point Shot Trilogy coming out 3/1 *giggles as Rj fixes dates* [RJ: 1st March] Snap Shot, Cayuga Cougars #1 will release on 4/6 and [RJ: 6th April for the non yanks here] and then there will be an F/F novella for the Venom on 5/5 [RJ: well that can’t be argued with, 5th May!]. Oh! The Brighton Wood Blades first book, Finding the Edge, will come out on 9/27 [RJ: that is 27 September, which is incidentally is 24 days after my 50th birthday, just saying!]. There’s more in there but my brain is not working well due to worry over Zuccarello going to the Pens.

RJ: and the Pens score again, that is 14:2 now

VL: Okay, you are totes making that score up.

RJ: look entirely innocent :)

RJ: thank you for this, it was so much fun, and I guess my readers need to watch out for a joint MM series from me and VL Locey… coming soon…

VL: Yay! I had a blast, truly. Thank you for sitting down to chat with me. *hugs*

RJ: Do you have a newsletter to sign up to?

VL: I sure do! Here’s the link--http://vlloceyauthor.us12.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=e5d2a9913f9b3cafe6d73edba&id=1595d88bbf

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RJ: Thank you VL, It was a lot of fun, let’s go organise our series of 29 books now…. And guys, did you see out of this created a whole new series!!!!!!