Fresh Ice: An MM Hockey, Friends to Lovers Romance (Atlanta Firebirds, Book 1)

A bisexual awakening, a closeted captain, and the NHL expansion team that becomes their found family. Co-captains. Teammates. A slow burn neither of them saw coming.

Ryan Ash Asher is the sunshine center who makes every locker room warmer just by showing up. Signed to the Atlanta Firebirds after a divorce he's still pretending didn't break him, he's chasing a fresh start. New city. New team. New ice. He's fine. But from the first phone call with his co-captain, something he can't explain takes hold. Ash has never wanted a man before, and Antero Ikonen is unraveling everything he thought he knew about himself.

Antero Avi Ikonen hasn't let anyone close in a decade. Fifteen years closeted in professional hockey. A secret relationship with a teammate that ended on a highlight reel. A trade that felt less like a roster move and more like being thrown away. Avi's job is to lead this expansion team, not fall for the too-warm center who texts at midnight and keeps finding doors in walls Avi didn't know existed.

He falls first. He falls quiet. And he can't stop.

A grumpy-sunshine, slow burn teammates romance about a bisexual awakening, a closeted captain who's been hurt before, and a stray cat at the team facility who knows what he wants before either of them do.

Tropes:

MM Hockey Romance

Bi-Awakening

Slow Burn

Grumpy-Sunshine

He Falls First

Forced Proximity

Secret Relationship

Hurt/Comfort

Found Family

Co-Captains

Stray Cat

This is book 1 of the Atlanta Firebirds Series. An MM Hockey Romance with a bi-awakening, an adopted cat, a roster of misfits, and swoony-worthy, high-heat moments with a guaranteed HEA.