HIS FAVORITE TARGET

Every team has a captain. Every captain has a target. Mine just happened to be me.


Jonáš Vlček came to Masaryk's hockey club to disappear. After a twelve-second video turned him into a stranger's punchline back home, invisible felt like the only safe way to survive three more years of college hockey. Then Captain Dominik Kovář handed him the stained, torn number 00 jersey on day one, the mark reserved for players who don't rate a real number, and made it very clear: Jonáš wasn't going to get to disappear on his watch.

Dominik benches him for nothing. Needles him in front of the whole team. Watches him closer than he watches anyone else on the roster, and Jonáš can't decide if that's hatred or something far more dangerous.


Because underneath the cruelty is a man guarding a guilt he's never told a soul, and underneath Jonáš's guardedness is a fire he thought Ostrava burned out of him for good. When the walls finally crack, in an empty equipment room after a cold Brno practice, it ignites something neither of them can take back. But Dominik's secret isn't done costing people. And the next time the pressure comes, in front of national scouts, in front of the whole team, he might choose silence over Jonáš all over again.


His Favorite Target is a high heat, high angst college hockey bully romance about the terrifying difference between being hated and being seen. Fast burn tension. Slow burn trust. One jersey that goes from exclusion to claiming, and one captain who has to risk everything to prove he means it.

If you love obsessive enemies to lovers, forced proximity, and a HEA that makes the dark moment worth it, grab His Favorite Target today and find out exactly what it costs to become his.