A free grumpy-sunshine hockey romance — the prequel to the Milwaukee Norsemen. A losing team, a struggling harbor bar, and the quiet defenseman who keeps showing up to fix things she never asked him to touch. A steamy story you can read in one sitting.
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Marianne took over her late uncle's harbor bar with a leak in the back room, a drawer of debts in a dead man's handwriting, and one rule: the next thing she built would have her name on it and no one else's. Then a road-weary Norsemen defenseman walked in on the worst night of a losing season, drank the beer she was stuck with, and started saving her bar without being asked.
Gus Lawson loves people the only way he knows how — by sealing the broken thing before they have to ask. Marianne has been saved like that before, and saved was just a slower word for taken. BAR DOWN is the story of a man learning that the bravest fix is the one you don't make, and a woman deciding she can keep everything that's hers and still let one person all the way in. It's also the origin of the bar at the heart of the whole Milwaukee Norsemen series — the one where, books later, a season finally turns.
Bri Winters writes sports romance with heat that matches the scoreboard and feelings that hit harder than a body check. A fan first and a beer-league veteran second, she has one bad season of hockey to her name and a lasting loyalty to postgame nachos. She writes from the cheap seats when a rink will let her in and opens every newsletter with the best chirp she caught that week.