One arena. Five couples. One unforgettable hockey season.
The Milwaukee Norsemen are fighting to make their city believe again, but off the ice, the hardest lines are the ones nobody can see.
Across five interconnected novellas, forbidden attraction, secret relationships, fake dating, brother’s-best-friend tension, and a manufactured rivalry turn into something real.
Warm, witty, steamy, and full of found family, The Milwaukee Norsemen series delivers competent heroines, guarded hockey players, and five hard-won happy endings inside the arena everyone calls the Longhouse.
Steamy, open-door, and best read in order for the full season arc.
Her job is to get him on camera, but his trust begins when she turns it off.
Margot Avila comes to Milwaukee to film Inside the Longhouse, a series about the Norsemen's rebuild. Captain Dane Pelletier wants no part of it. His knee aches, his contract is uncertain, and a past betrayal has taught him what a camera can expose. Margot respects his limits and sees the care he gives his teammates when no one is filming. Dane begins to see her skill, too, and their growing trust becomes attraction.
They plan to keep their relationship out of the series. Then someone recuts Margot's footage to make Dane sound defeated, putting her project at risk. Margot stands by the work she actually made, while Dane must decide whether protecting his privacy means shutting out the woman who has earned his trust.
GAME FACE is Book 1 of the Milwaukee Norsemen, a contemporary workplace hockey romance novella with open-door intimacy, affectionate team humor, and a happily ever after.
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The man she left before sunrise is back on her schedule, and he wants more than a committee meeting.
Sloane Carney's new event-planning firm has landed a season-long account with the Milwaukee Norsemen. Her player liaison is Linc Foster, the left wing she spent a night with and meant to leave in the past. Linc takes her work seriously and makes sure she gets credit for it. Behind his easy jokes, Sloane finds a man who listens when she has something difficult to say.
They agree to keep their affair private and end it after the Foundation gala. But Sloane's former boss is helping a rival firm pursue her account, and news of the relationship could undermine her work. Linc knows what she stands to lose, even as he begins to want more than stolen time together. Sloane must decide whether leaving him is the only way to protect what she has built.
OVERTIME is Book 2 of the Milwaukee Norsemen, a contemporary hockey romance novella with open-door intimacy, warm team humor, and a happily ever after. The series follows one hockey season and is best read in order.
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Playing his girlfriend is good for his reputation, but she is beginning to resent the part where they break up.
A fabricated translation of a bench clip has Milwaukee fans convinced that Swedish center Anders Lund despises their city. Communications strategist Romy Castillo needs to repair the damage, but a photograph of them laughing together does more than any official statement. She proposes a public relationship with clear boundaries and an end date after the All-Star break. Her career and a possible promotion give her every reason to keep it pretend.
Anders admires the care Romy puts into her work, and she discovers the warmth behind his reserved manner. Off camera, their attraction stops feeling like an act. As a rival for Romy's promotion looks into the department's methods, telling the truth could cost her the future she has worked for. Anders understands the risk, but he needs to know she wants him beyond the campaign.
POWER PLAY is Book 3 of the Milwaukee Norsemen, a contemporary fake-dating hockey romance novella with open-door intimacy, dry wit, and a happily ever after. The series is best read in order for the continuing hockey season.
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Her brother's best friend is becoming her favorite reason to stay late at the rink.
Birdie Lawson knows Mikko Rautio as her brother's best friend and a familiar face at family dinners. When the Norsemen goalie volunteers at her youth hockey program, she sees how patiently he works with the children. Mikko admires the way Birdie puts them first. Bench repairs turn into coffee in the bleachers, where he tells her how much he fears being traded.
They begin a private relationship and plan to tell Birdie's brother after the deadline. Having once been kept hidden by a boyfriend, Birdie insists the choice to wait must be hers. With other teams calling, Mikko can no longer let decisions about his future go unspoken. He must tell Birdie what he wants before his silence costs them the relationship they hoped to protect.
OFFSIDE is Book 4 of the Milwaukee Norsemen, a contemporary brother's-best-friend hockey romance novella with open-door intimacy, affectionate family humor, and a happily ever after. The series is best read in order for the continuing hockey season.
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The city wants a rivalry. Frankie Duval and Roman Stahl are more interested in making each other better.
Milwaukee Valkyries winger Frankie Duval is chasing a scoring record and a championship when a sponsor casts her opposite Roman Stahl of the Norsemen. Frankie knows his game well enough to critique his one-timer. Roman realizes he has paid far less attention to hers. He asks her to meet him on empty ice, where trading drills and corrections builds a respect the manufactured rivalry never could.
Their growing attraction stays private as both teams pursue the playoffs. But Frankie has fought too hard to be seen as an elite athlete to be reduced to the woman beside a male star. Roman can match her stride for stride on the ice. To be with her, he must show he can make room for her achievements beyond it.
HOME ICE is Book 5 and the finale of the Milwaukee Norsemen, a contemporary rivals-to-lovers hockey romance novella with open-door intimacy, fierce competition, dry humor, and a happily ever after.
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A free Milwaukee Norsemen prequel. A losing team. A struggling harbor bar. A quiet defenseman who keeps fixing things she never asked him to touch. Marianne built her bar to have her name on it and no one else's—then Gus Lawson started saving it without asking, and saved is just a slower word for taken. A steamy, grumpy-sunshine hockey romance with a full HEA, and the origin of the bar where the whole series begins.
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