
The Winger's Penalty
A Revenge Hockey RomanceBy Devyn FrostLength7h 52m
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Three seconds after the buzzer, Cormac Sloane throws the right hand.
Halifax's left winger goes down, a kid named Dubeau, nineteen years old, baby face and all, and his helmet skids toward the blue line spinning on its crown. *"The camera caught it. The ref caught it."* By the following morning the clip has two hundred thousand views and the Ice Wolves have a public relations problem with a name attached to it.
Coach Kowalski's terms are not negotiable: see the new team psychologist, and the suspension runs four games instead of six. The card in Cormac's truck reads *Dr. Sasha Belanger*. Her brother Garnet is a rookie defenseman just called up from the ECHL, a thin kid with dark circles under his eyes, which makes her the last person in the building Cormac wants inside his head.
She already knows the worst of it. In the notes at the bottom of his file: *Father, Declan Sloane, retired NHL enforcer. Died 2022. Cause of death: complications from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.* Sasha wrote her master's thesis on him.
Management wants a fixed player. What Sasha is actually able to offer is confidential clinical care, which is not the same product and satisfies nobody upstairs.
Then someone cuts Cormac's skate lace before a game. Clean, with a blade. Sasha works out who did it before he does, and the evidence sits in her coat pocket like a confession she hasn't made.
Tyson Rourke has photographs from the cafe and footage from a hotel lobby, and a price: drop the gloves one more time, put on a show, prove you're still the guy who takes care of business. If he refuses, the pictures go to the Chronicle-Journal, to the coach, to the league office, and fraternization costs her the licence along with the job.
*"I'm telling you I'm not fighting tonight. Or tomorrow. Or ever."*
This is a contemporary hockey romance about an enforcer trying to become something other than a pair of fists on skates, a clinician who cannot ethically treat the man she is falling for, and a brother whose descent nobody in either family wants to say out loud.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length7 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Punch That Cost Me Everything
3Chapter 2 - The Clean-Up Woman
4Chapter 3 - The Ice Wolves Don’t Apologize
5Chapter 4 - The Brother I Couldn’t Save
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6Chapter 5 - The First Crack in the Mask
7Chapter 6 - The Coffee That Meant More
8Chapter 7 - The Kiss We Didn’t Take
9Chapter 8 - The New Rule I Hated to Make
10Chapter 9 - The Lace That Almost Broke Me
11Chapter 10 - The Brother I Did Not See
12Chapter 11 - The Date That Wasn’t
13Chapter 12 - The Evidence I Couldn’t Ignore
14Chapter 13 - The Betrayal I Couldn’t Believe
15Chapter 14 - The Enforcer Who Walked Away
16Chapter 15 - The Father I Never Knew
17Chapter 16 - The Promise We Made
18Chapter 17 - The Rival’s Gambit
19Chapter 18 - The Leak That Could Sink Us
20Chapter 19 - The Brother’s Descent
21Chapter 20 - The Black Moment
22Chapter 21 - The Game That Nearly Took Everything
23Chapter 22 - The Choice I Never Wanted
24Chapter 23 - The Grand Gesture That Cost Everything
25Chapter 24 - The Fallout and the Future
26Chapter 25 - The Ice Wolves Howl (The New Season)
27About the Author
28The End
29About the Author
30Also by Devyn Frost
31Acknowledgements
32A Note from the Author