Overtime Privileges

He’s the team’s aging enforcer. I’m the flashy rookie who’s supposed to replace him. We were never supposed to share a hotel room.

Evan Park I was built for the spotlight. I smile for the cameras, score the highlight-reel goals, and give the media exactly what they want. But the one person whose approval I actually crave won’t even look at me. Brick O’Hara is a six-foot-four wall of Irish granite. He thinks I’m a liability. He thinks I’m soft. But when he finally pins me to the boards and growls an instruction in my ear, I realize I don't want his approval. I want him.

Brick O'Hara My job is simple: protect the skill players and bleed so they don't have to. At thirty-four, my knuckles are scarred, my knee is shot, and the analytics guys are counting the days until I’m traded. I don't have time to babysit Evan Park, a twenty-four-year-old golden boy who thinks the game is all about speed and flash. But when the coach forces us into early morning training sessions, I see the desperate, hungry kid hiding beneath the PR smile.

When a road trip leaves us with one bed, the professional boundaries shatter. What starts as a frantic, secret release turns into something deeper—something that could destroy both our careers if the locker room finds out.

I’ve spent my life taking the hits. But Evan is the one hit I never saw coming, and the only one I don’t know how to survive.

Overtime Privileges is a steamy, high-angst MM hockey romance featuring a ten-year age gap, forced proximity, intense locker-room drama, and a grumpy veteran who falls hard for the sunshine rookie. Happily Ever After guaranteed.