Scoring Position: Volume 2

Ryan Wright’s new hockey team is a dumpster fire. He expects to lose games--not his heart.

Ryan’s laid-back attitude should be an advantage in Indianapolis. Even if he doesn’t accomplish much on the ice, he can help his burned-out teammates off it. And no one needs a friend--or a hug--more than Nico Kirschbaum, the team’s struggling would-be superstar.

Nico doesn’t appreciate that management traded for another openly gay player and told them to make friends. Maybe he doesn’t know what his problem is, but he’ll solve it with hard work, not by bonding with the class clown.

It’s obvious to Ryan that Nico’s lonely, gifted, and cracking under pressure. No amount of physical practice will fix his mental game. But convincing Nico to let Ryan help means getting closer than is wise for Ryan’s heart--especially once he unearths Nico’s sense of humor.

Will Nico and Ryan risk making a pass, or will they keep missing 100 percent of the shots they don’t take?

Morgan James is a clueless (older) millennial who’s still trying to figure out what they’ll be when they grow up and enjoying the journey to get there. James started writing fiction before they could spell and wrote their first (unpublished) novel in middle school. They haven’t stopped writing since. Geek, artist, archer, and fanatic, Morgan tends to pass free hours with imaginary worlds and people on pages and screens--it’s an addiction. They live in Canada, where they’re the personal servant of too many four-legged creatures. Ashlyn Kane is a world-traveling homebody who defines herself by her contradictions: she loves chaos but craves order and writes the most when she has the least free time. Her house is as full of half-finished projects as her writing folder. With the help of her ADHD meds, she gets by. Ashlyn has always had a flair for language and storytelling. She attended her first writers’ workshop as an eight-year-old, won an amateur poetry competition as a teenager, and--the crowning achievement of her adulthood--received a starred review in Publishers Weekly for her novel Fake Dating the Prince.