The Linemate's Obsession
A Single Dad, Closeted Star Hockey RomanceBy Marla Quinn
Length7h 9m
About this audiobook
Erik peels the tape off his stick for the third time and starts again. Clean white from heel to toe, a black band at the top so he can see the puck in his peripheral vision. He has done it that way since peewee.
Last night's loss sits on the room like wet gear. Three goals in the third. There is a dent in a locker where somebody's fist went.
Hannah leans in the equipment room doorway with a bag of pucks and tells him Coach wants lines on the board in five, and that he is with the new kid.
Beau MacIntyre is flame-red hair and a shot that snaps off the blade like a whip crack, and he overskates two passes in the first drill. Flashy, reckless, highlight reels and turnovers in equal measure. But when the whistle goes, Erik catches a look on his face that is not confidence. It is the same one Erik sees in his own mirror.
The rink at Raven's Peak is old. The boards are patched in a dozen places, the netting sags, the lights hum just off-key. Two years in the ECHL and three teams, and this is the first place that hasn't felt like a bus stop.
There is a video of Beau on the internet with a million views. He was fifteen, provincial finals, he scored the overtime winner, and then he went down on his knees and cried while his father hugged him. People have been calling him crybaby ever since. Jace Thorson makes a joke about it on the team bus, loud enough for everyone.
Erik was also fifteen when he told his father he was gay. His father scouted for the Wild and spent fourteen years watching kids. Erik still has the scar above his eyebrow, and it still itches when he is nervous, and his father's phrase still runs in his head before every game.
So the two of them build a line, and then something else, and every single thing they have worked for rests on information neither of them can take back if it gets out.
*"I've been hiding my whole life. And I'm tired, Erik. I'm so goddamn tired."*
A hockey romance between two men on the same line in a minor league town, about a mocked video, a suspension, a leak, and what it costs to stop playing small. The romance is closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Scar I Never Show
3Chapter 2 - The Mask I Put On
4Chapter 3 - The Frozen Four Festival
5Chapter 4 - The Joke That Stings
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6Chapter 5 - The Video We Never Delete
7Chapter 6 - The Promise I Can’t Keep
8Chapter 7 - The Almost Kiss
9Chapter 8 - The Warning I Ignore
10Chapter 9 - The Dinner I Dread and Crave
11Chapter 10 - The New Game
12Chapter 11 - The Lie We Tell Ourselves
13Chapter 12 - The Threat at the Door
14Chapter 13 - The Suspension That Separates
15Chapter 14 - The Quiet That Breaks Us
16Chapter 15 - The Trophy We Almost Touch
17Chapter 16 - The Leak That Drowns
18Chapter 17 - The Price of My Dream
19Chapter 18 - The Lie That Wins
20Chapter 19 - The Silence Before the Goal
21Chapter 20 - The Comeback No One Expects
22Chapter 21 - The Game That Remakes Us
23Chapter 22 - The Press Conference
24Chapter 23 - The New Ice
25The End
26About the Author
27Also by Marla Quinn
28Acknowledgements
29A Note from the Author
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