Vegas Outlaws Hockey — A 5-Book Hockey Romance Series

VEGAS OUTLAWS HOCKEY

A Five-Book Hockey Romance Series

Five players · One team chasing a Cup · The women who scramble it

Five players. One team chasing a Cup. A roster’s worth of trouble off the ice — and the women who scramble it.

The Series

The Vegas Outlaws are coming off a first-round playoff exit they were favored to walk through. Last year was supposed to be theirs. It wasn’t. This year the captain is in a contract year, the goalie hasn’t blinked in nine months, the veteran D-man is on the trade block, and the rookie was supposed to be a patient development project until he started leading rookies in points. Five men. Five women they did not see coming. One season.

It starts with the captain in Captain’s Call — a four-week fake relationship that nobody walks away from. Open Net drops the star center in his best friend’s blind spot. Cold Front hands the goalie a sixty-day visa clock and an Australian architect he can’t pretend not to want. Penalty Box brings the enforcer face to face with the promise he made to a dying woman six years ago. Overtime closes the run with a rookie, a columnist, and a Cup Final game seven.

Written in dual first-person past with action-driven prose and a roster of women who read contracts at four in the morning and don’t apologize for it. High-heat. Possessive heroes who go slow. Heroines with real jobs and real spines. Five HEAs, one Stanley Cup, and a found-family team that shows up at every wedding, every hospital, and every championship celebration.

Read one — fall in love with the roster. Read all five — watch the team win something bigger.

What’s Included in This Package

The Five Books

Book One — Captain’s Call (Knox Sutherland & Marisol Vega)

“She was hired to clean him up. He was the captain the ex-wife memoir was burying. Four weeks. One contract clause. No press release survives intact.”

Captain’s Call · Knox Sutherland & Marisol Vega

Marisol Vega had six years of climbing toward the Director of Communications chair, and her first day in it cost her three minutes in a parking garage and a captain she was never supposed to be alone in a room with. Knox Sutherland is thirty-five, in a contract year, and being eaten alive by his ex-wife’s tell-all memoir. The GM has a strategy: Mari on his arm for four weeks through the home opener, a controlled press cycle, and a hand at her lower back that does not press.

It was supposed to be a job — to end at the home opener with a quiet press release and a return to the lives they had before the conference room. Then the leaked memoir hits number one. Then the chapter Mari fact-checks at four a.m. turns out to be the only honest thing in it. Then Calgary. Then the rule about lying, and the rule about not lying tonight.

Captain’s Call is fake dating with a contract on the line and an age gap with a captain who bends down at the press line for the woman he was told to walk away from. High heat. Quiet authority. A heroine who fronts a press conference she was never supposed to give.

Featured hooks · Age Gap · Fake Dating · Workplace Forbidden · Only-One-Bed Roadie · Grand-Gesture Climax · Ex-Wife Memoir

Book Two — Open Net (Tate Reeves & Stevie Volkov)

“He’s wanted his best friend’s little sister for two years. Now she’s sublet the apartment above his.”

Open Net · Tate Reeves & Stevie Volkov

Tate Reeves has been white-knuckling it for two years. Stevie Volkov is his goalie’s twenty-four-year-old little sister, a freelance sports photographer he sees at every team Thanksgiving and not once between — the woman he’s been training himself not to look at since the summer she came home from college. Then she takes a photograph from the rooftop of his goalie’s apartment at four in the morning. Then her lease falls through. Then the only sublet in her budget is the unit above his.

Elevator near-collisions, a children’s hospital shoot that hurts to watch, and a Phoenix road game with the wrong hotel reservation. Lex Volkov has been the closest thing to a brother Tate has had in fifteen years — and the locker-room rule on team-family relationships is the captain’s. The clock runs out at Thanksgiving Eve dinner, when Lex sees a hand at his sister’s back that he wasn’t supposed to see.

Open Net is brother’s best friend with two years of restraint behind it, an emergency-room reconciliation when a dirty hit puts the goalie down and the right wing intercepts it, and a heroine who tells her brother she’s moving across the country because she’s choosing the man on the gurney.

Featured hooks · Brother’s Best Friend · Forced Proximity · Only-One-Bed · Hospital Reconciliation · Two Years of Wanting · Photographer Heroine

Book Three — Cold Front (Aleksi “Lex” Volkov & Hadley Quinn)

“She had sixty days before her visa expired. He had four years of silence to break.”

Cold Front · Lex Volkov & Hadley Quinn

Hadley Quinn is the Australian architect leading the renovation of the Outlaws’ arena. Her firm pulls her visa sponsorship on a video call her supervisor put on in the middle of her project review. Aleksi Volkov is the goalie who finds her crying against her car in the players’ lot, hands her a towel without a word, then sits on the concrete two feet away for forty minutes without asking her name.

The fake engagement is the team’s idea — six weeks through New Year’s Eve, controlled press, then a quiet decoupling that lets her petition refile with credibility. The lawyer is clear: the engagement is supporting context, not a green card. Six weeks of Hadley in his guest room. A Christmas tree she insisted on. An apology Tate has been carrying since September. A kiss on the Mirage Center steps that does not stop at the count of two.

Cold Front is grumpy-sunshine fake engagement with a goalie who hasn’t said the word out loud in four years — and says it in a rotunda full of press with a second ring in his pocket. Visa-realistic, lawyer-vetted, no magic green card.

Featured hooks · Fake Engagement · Grumpy/Sunshine · Forced Proximity · Found Family · Real Proposal · Visa Clock

Book Four — Penalty Box (Cole Marchetti & Jules McKenna)

“He promised her dying mother he’d watch her brother. He never promised about her.”

Penalty Box · Cole Marchetti & Jules McKenna

Cole Marchetti made a promise to a dying woman six years ago. He has kept it through everything except the part about her daughter. Jules McKenna just finished nursing school and moved to Vegas to start her career on his couch — because her older brother, the rookie Cole has mentored since the draft, told her Cole had a spare room. Cole would rather lose a limb than say no to Jude. He says yes through his teeth. He has six weeks until the trade deadline to decide whether to keep the promise or break it.

Coffee runs that aren’t coffee runs. A pediatric ICU shift that leaves her hands shaking. A bar bathroom after an ugly fight against Denver splits his eyebrow. Meg’s anniversary at the memorial stone where Cole tells Jules he has wanted her for four years and spent every one of them pretending he didn’t. Two weeks later, the trade column drops — and the deadline is the first Thursday in March.

Penalty Box is age gap stacked with brother’s best friend, a thirty-two-year-old enforcer who has suppressed what he feels for years, and a heroine who refuses to be a promise he is paying off. Cole drops the gloves over her brother at the deadline; the front office extends him on a handshake; and Jude shows up the next morning with two coffees and one sentence.

Featured hooks · Age Gap · Brother’s Best Friend · Forbidden / Protector · Trade-Deadline Clock · Reconciliation Arc · Promise to a Dying Mother

Book Five — Overtime (Jude McKenna & Sloane Carrera) · Series Capstone

“He’s the rookie. She’s the columnist embedded with the team. The line is bright. The line gets crossed.”

Overtime · Jude McKenna & Sloane Carrera

Jude McKenna is twenty-four, one playoff run from becoming a household name, and processing the morning his mentor confessed to dating his sister. Sloane Carrera is thirty-three, a senior columnist, and the journalist who broke the trade-deadline story that almost cost Cole Marchetti his career in Vegas. When she’s embedded with the Outlaws for the playoff run — a Calder Trophy feature, all access, two months in his orbit — Mari’s seating chart puts her next to him on the team plane to round one.

Anaheim. Dallas. A hotel elevator that stops between four and five. A locker-room confrontation with Cole that Jude isn’t ready to forgive. Then a hit piece drops on the morning of game three of the conference final, written by the network anchor who pulled rank on her years ago. Sloane resigns on her own terms, swallows the Calder feature, and decides the newsletter is the career, not the workaround.

Overtime is reverse age gap with a journalist/subject forbidden romance, a rookie scoring the tying goal in Cup Final game seven, a captain raising the Cup, and a family-section seat where Mari sat at the home opener seven months earlier. A proposal after the win with a ring that was his mother’s, and a ring-ceremony epilogue with all five couples on the ice. The series ends where Book 1 began.

Featured hooks · Age Gap Reversed · Forbidden (Journalist/Subject) · Forced Proximity · Career-End Stakes · Cup Final Climax · Older Heroine

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What You Get

Five reads away from your next binge-launch series. ❤