Slapshot Awakening

"You realise, that you kiss her with the same mouth you begged me with."

On the ice, every move is a performance, but off it, the real danger begins.

Hockey player Ryker Hayes has spent years hiding his love for his best friend, figure skater Jaxon Reed. Torn between loyalty to his sister and the pull of something forbidden, he watches Jaxon from a distance, until a near-disaster shatters Jaxon's world and drags them both into a secret they can't control.

As scandal erupts and Jaxon's carefully built life begins to crumble, he's forced to face the truth he's always skated around: the man he wants has been beside him all along. But in a world built on image and performance, choosing Ryker means risking everything, his career, his safety, and the fragile sense of self he's barely begun to understand.

Love was never supposed to look like this, raw, messy, and real. Yet on the ice and in Ryker's arms, Jaxon finally learns what it means to stop performing and truly live.