Winging It: Edition 2

Ashlyn Kane · Morgan James

Oct 2022 · Hockey Ever After Book 1 · Dreamspinner Press

About this ebook

Hockey is Gabe Martin's life. Dante Baltierra just wants to have some fun on his way to the Hockey Hall of Fame. Falling for a teammate isn't in either game plan.

But plans change.

When Gabe gets outed, it turns his careful life upside-down. The chaos messes with his game and sends his team headlong into a losing streak. The last person he expects to pull him through it is Dante.

This season isn’t going the way Dante thought it would. Gabe’s sexuality doesn’t faze him, but his own does. Dante’s always been a “what you see is what you get” kind of guy, and having to hide his attraction to Gabe sucks. But so does losing, and his teammate needs him, so he puts in the effort to snap Gabe out of his funk.

He doesn’t mean to fall in love with the guy.

Getting involved with a teammate is a bad idea, but Dante is shameless, funny, and brilliant at hockey. Gabe can’t resist. Unfortunately, he struggles to share part of himself that he’s hidden for years, and Dante chafes at hiding their relationship. Can they find their feet before the ice slips out from under them?

Winging It is the first book in the hot, hilarious, heartfelt Hockey Ever After series. If you like witty banter, friends to lovers, and sports romance, you’ll love Winging It.

Ratings and reviews

"Wake up, Phil Esposito. It's hockey time" Gabe and Dante were perfectly imperfect together. This had some light angst but not the heavy overly bearing, unnecessary drama you find in some romances. Don't get me wrong - this dealt with some painful issues but in a way that felt real(?) I enjoyed the natural progression of their relationship. The opposites attract philosophy worked for these two. Dante was a YOLO type personality were Gabe was the more serious, in control one of the two They bal

I fully came into this novel expecting cheesiness and sappiness. I got that, but I also got so much more. The characters are fully fleshed out without feeling overwhelming, the scenery is clearly created without feeling like padding, and the story overall was comforting. I finished this book in one day because I could not go a second without knowing how Dante and Gabe would navigate their sexualities and their career. I highly recommend this for people that like some sports with their romance.

I *adored* this book! I read it in two days flat and immediately bought the novella sequel (The Winging It Holiday Special). If you like hockey romances, definitely pick this book up! POV: dual 3rd person; Rep: MLM, Gay MC, Bi MC, Bi awakening, MC POC (Dante); Tropes: hockey, sports gays, famous, outing, secret relationship, family included

About the author

Ashlyn Kane likes to think she can do it all, but her follow-through often proves her undoing. Her house is as full of half-finished projects as her writing folder. With the help of her ADHD meds, she gets by.

An early reader and talker, Ashlyn has always had a flair for language and storytelling. As an eight-year-old, she attended her first writers’ workshop. As a teenager, she won an amateur poetry competition. As an adult, she received a starred review in Publishers Weekly for her novel Fake Dating the Prince. There were quite a few years in the middle there, but who’s counting?

Her hobbies include DIY home decor, container gardening (no pulling weeds), music, and spending time with her enormous chocolate lapdog. She is the fortunate wife of a wonderful man, the daughter of two sets of great parents, and the proud older sister/sister-in-law of the world’s biggest nerds.

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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. Now, with a couple of degrees, a few stints in Europe, and more than one false start to a career, they eagerly wait to see what’s next. 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 passpasses their free hours with in imaginary worlds, with and people on pages and screens—it’s an addiction. A, as is their love of coffee and tea. They live in Canada with their massive collection of unread books and where they are the personal servant of too many four-legged creatures.

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