Lovable Lamb.

Before Austin Black belonged to death, or medicine, or his brothers, he belonged to the ice.

Notably, Austin Black has also spent his life being known incorrectly.

To the world, he is the brilliant youngest son of a powerful family, already studying pre-med while his peers are still in school. To his family, he is private, precise, and impossible to worry about properly. But before dawn, in the empty rink his family owns, Austin becomes something else entirely: Free.

Hunter Calloway, professional rich boy hater and the school's scholarship hockey captain, is not supposed to see him there. He is not supposed to care. He is certainly not supposed to fall for the rich boy whose world could swallow him whole.

But on the ice, where class, grief, ambition, and fear blur into movement, Austin and Hunter find each other.

Between hockey practice, family secrets, locker-room cruelty, and the impossible distance between their worlds, Austin and Hunter build something neither of them is brave enough to call love until the morning that love no longer remains the most dangerous thing.

Still, the fact remains: they were never supposed to become anything.

Not frenemies. Not secrets. Not fuck-buddies.

And definitely not the kind of love story that involves "breaking news."

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಄ YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE READ "BLOOD" TO READ THIS (though, it will make the experience more enjoyable because dots will connect).
಄ If you have read, or are reading "Blood," this book is set both pre and post "Blood."
಄ It is a gay romance, if you want to be homophobic in the comment section, take a hint.
಄ You don't need to know ice-hockey to read this book.