Ice Blood: Dead Man's Shift (The Casey Whitlock Collection Book 9)

Tyler Hassan was found in the Varsity Arena parking lot with fourteen stab wounds and a gambling debt he could never repay. The police have their suspect: Roger Kowalski, the loudmouth winger with a violent past and no alibi. But Max Chen knows what it costs to be judged by a story that isn't true. He's been underestimated his whole life. Max and Roger are strangers forced onto the same penalty kill unit by a coach desperate to hold a fractured team together. They should hate each other. Instead, they find themselves in a parking lot at 2 AM with snow falling and a confession that changes everything. The murder investigation closes in. The press circles. Someone is watching from the shadows of the rink, and they have everything to lose. This is not a story about a death. It is a story about what happens when two people who have spent their whole lives not letting anyone in finally let each other break the door down. It is about the cold that gets into your bones when you lose someone you love. It is about a city in winter, a team held together by duct tape and superstition, and the kind of love that looks like a bad decision until it becomes the only thing that makes sense. ICE BLOOD: Dead Man's Shift is an MM hockey romance and murder mystery set in Toronto. First person. Present tense. Explicit. No closed doors. Raw, intimate, and unforgettable. 18+.