Ice Time for the Zamboni King
A Minor League Hockey Romance

About this book:

Cal Vance has spent a decade coaxing perfect ice out of a dying arena, guarding his rink—and his heart—with the same stubborn, grease-stained dedication. He doesn't have time for the Blizzard's arrogant young captain, Cole Rossi, who treats the sacred sheet like his personal therapy session and Cal like an obstacle. But when Cole’s career implodes in a six-game losing streak and the team’s equipment manager vanishes, their 2 a.m. collisions in the dark barn turn from shouting matches into something far more dangerous: a quiet, calloused intimacy forged over sharpened blades, blown compressors, and the desperate need to be seen.

Cole plays like a man with nothing left to lose; Cal lives like a man who’s already lost everything that mattered. As the losing streak stretches toward a franchise record, the line between rink rat and superstar dissolves in the steam of midnight floods. Cal knows the physics of the sheet—how temperature, humidity, and a five-eighths hollow can save a season. Cole knows the weight of the 'C' and the ache of a shoulder that might never heal. Neither knows how to stop orbiting the other in the freezing dark, trading barbs that feel like foreplay and touches that feel like salvation.

*Ice Time for the Zamboni King* is a gritty, slow-burn minor-league romance where the ice is always too soft, the bus rides are too long, and two men who communicate best in the language of maintenance and muscle memory must decide if a future together is worth the risk of a hard fall. For fans of *The Fake Out* and *Icebreaker* who crave blue-collar grit, pining that burns hotter than a Zamboni engine, and a love story resurfaced one perfect layer at a time.