Checking It Twice (Crashing Book 2) by Samantha Wayland Page A

season, while his lovers are both in
Boston.
     
    Savannah
Morrison has no one but herself to blame for practically shoving her lover into
the arms of another man. After all, it was her idea that Garrick take a lover
while they are separated for the season. She loves Garrick with all her heart,
but how the hell is she going to share him with Rhian?
     
    Rhian
Savage used to have such a simple life. Now he’s in love, his dreams of skating
on an NHL team are coming true, and he keeps spotting a strangely familiar face
in the crowds. To top it all off, he has to see Savannah every day. He knows
she’s Garrick’s real future, but he doesn’t have the balls to do the right
thing for all of them and end it—until his life goes sideways. As usual.
     
    Now Rhian is alone, Garrick is heartbroken,
and Savannah—the one person Rhian figured would celebrate his departure—is
beating down his door. What the hell is up with that?
     
     
Crashing
the Net
     
    Mike comes to Moncton wanting nothing more
than to play for the Ice Cats and finally live on his own terms. He’s broke,
bruised, and covered from head to toe in cheap lube, but he isn’t going to let
that stop him. All he needs is a place to live and some time to figure out how
to reconcile who he really is with who everyonewants him to be.
     
    Dumping three gallons of lube on the new
kid is just another day at the office for Alexei. He knows exactly who he is: a
goalie on the ice, a prankster in the locker room, and a man who knows better
than to share his private life with anyone. He’s let people in before and it’s
taught him that if he can’t have what he really wants, it’s better to be alone.
     
    Despite their apparent differences, an
unlikely friendship grows. Neither of them could ever have guessed how much
they really have in common.
     
     
Home
& Away
     
    You can build a
team, but you have to find your home.
     
    Rupert Smythe is
fond of many things. Callum Morrison isn’t one of them.
     
    Rupert is a quiet,
thoughtful business man and, sadly, a total wimp. Maybe not the ideal candidate
to run a professional hockey team, but he signed on to do it anyway. As his
life has reminded him on an almost daily basis since, this isn’t the most
brilliant idea he’s ever had. And that was before Callum showed up.
     
    Being in the
spotlight is just part of being a professional athlete, but Callum needs a
break. He arrives in Moncton unannounced, determined to help grow the team he
just bought, and under the assumption he’d be welcome. Possibly he should have
tried to make a better first impression.
     
    Callum figures he
can push through the rest of the summer, never expecting two kids, a host of
friends, and his growing feelings for Rupert to derail everything he has ever believed
about what he wanted, and what he could have.
     
     
Out of Her League
     
    Lachlan Morrison’s
family likes to tell people that he’s shy, but that’s like saying the sky is
sort of blue, or good hockey is just a little bit rough. Lachlan knows
perfectly well he’s a social disaster and works hard to humiliate himself as
infrequently as possible.
     
    Then Michaela
Price, the most beautiful woman he’s ever laid eyes on, moves to town, and she
needs a friend.
     
    Michaela knows
she’s no prize. As a nationally-known disgrace, she’s pretty used to being
stared at and having to chase photographers off the neighbors' roofs. She
wouldn’t wish her life on anyone, and certainly has no intention of inflicting
herself on poor Lachlan Morrison, who literally cannot speak in her presence.
     
    But then, going
back to school isn’t what she expected. It turns out her new life is just as
lonely as the old version, and she only knows one person in town.