Two captains. One loft. No safe distance.
Superstar scorer Tyler Hayes came to Milwaukee to become the face of the Frost. Veteran defenseman Brock Lawson came to prove he is still the hardest man on the ice.
Neither expected to want the other.
Their attraction ignites during the team’s first physical assessments, then explodes when a violent collision against the boards follows them into the deserted locker room.
Tyler and Brock are equally strong, equally stubborn, and completely incapable of backing down—especially when every confrontation leaves them desperate to get closer.
After tying in the Captain’s Gauntlet, they are named co-captains and forced to share a converted brewery loft. Suddenly, their rivalry is everywhere: inside their private gym, beneath the recovery-room lights, behind the shower glass, and eventually in the same bed.
To keep their arrangement under control, they create the Captain’s Ledger.
Goals earn commands.
Assists earn requests.
Penalties require surrender.
Game-winning goals award everything until sunrise.
But the hotter they play, the more dangerous their rules become. Every body check carries a private promise. Every road trip tests their restraint. Every victory gives one captain permission to demand what both men secretly need.
Then the Frost reveal they may only be able to afford one of them.
Tyler receives an offer that could make him the highest-paid player in the league.
Brock is handed a graceful path into retirement.
With the championship approaching and their future disappearing beneath them, the rival captains must decide what matters more: the title they have fought for all season—or the man neither of them is willing to lose.
On the ice, Tyler knows exactly how hard Brock can hit.
Off the ice, he discovers how fiercely the same man can hold him.
ROUGHING THE CAPTAIN is a scorching, emotionally intense MM hockey romance featuring rivals-to-lovers, co-captains, forced proximity, professional athletes, teammates-to-lovers, one-bed tension, locker-room heat, masculine vulnerability, possessive chemistry, championship stakes,
and a hard-earned happily ever after.
