Title: Shots on Goal
Author: Amy Aislin
Series: Stick Side #3
Publisher: self-published
Release Date (Print & Ebook): January 7, 2020
Length (Print & Ebook): 84,600 words | 330 pages
Genre: contemporary/new adult romance
Tropes: opposites attract, made family
Cover artist: Natasha Snow
Book blurb:
Recently traded to the newly formed Vermont Trailblazers, professional hockey player Roman Kinsey needs to focus on helping the team win games and filling the stands, not on the blond, bespectacled part-timer who works at the library he volunteers at. He knows all too well that outing himself equals heartache and ridicule…or worse.
Cody Evans, psych major and grad school hopeful, notices everything and thinks too much. But he doesn’t know what to think when he sees Roman reading to kids. The rugged hockey player just doesn’t look like the type. But it stirs something in him, something he’s never felt before.
When the library is threatened with closure, Cody enlists Roman’s help. As they get to know each other better…much, much better…they realize that they have more in common than books. But Roman’s keeping a big part of himself from his team, and giving in to his feelings for Cody might be more than he’s willing to risk.
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From Amy Aislin:
Shots on Goal is a novel about taking risks, about putting yourself out there, even though history says it could end in disaster.
Thank you for joining me to celebrate the release of my newest m/m sports romance, Shots on Goal (Stick Side #3), and thank you to Love Bytes for having me!
Today, I’m sharing an exclusive excerpt. Check it out below!
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“I notice things.” Cody waved in Roman’s direction. “Like that hole in your eyebrow. Got an eyebrow ring?”
“I do,” Roman said, the aforementioned eyebrows winging upward. “I don’t wear it for games or when I know I’ll be recognized.”
“Same thing with the nose ring too, then?”
Roman opened his mouth to respond, but Cody beat him to it.
“Is it like a Clark Kent thing?”
“Huh?”
“Like Clark Kent. People don’t recognize you with the facial hardware?”
“Actually . . .” Sipping his coffee, Roman appeared to think about that for a moment. “Yeah, I guess that’s true.”
“Cool.” Cody brought his mug to his mouth for another sip, then smacked his lips together. “The Clark Kent of hockey,” he said, chuckling to himself.
Roman’s brow furrowed. He tilted his head and said, “You’re a strange one.”
“Says the guy with the tongue ring.”
Roman’s mouth clamped shut.
Cody asked, “Which one hurt the most?”
“Are you serious?”
“Does the tongue ring hurt when you eat? Or kiss someone?”
“No and no.”
“Huh.” It was probably like an earring, there but forgotten unless they needed to come out. Not that Cody had ever had an earring, but he’d met people with those earrings that left giant holes in the ears, and they hadn’t seemed to be in pain, so his hypothesis must be right.
“Anything else you want to know?” Roman asked, sounding faintly exasperated.
“Well—”
“What was that back there?” He tilted his head toward the door, coffee mug held loosely in his lap. “At the library. Why am I trying to impress the parents with my unicorn voice?”
Cody’s hand clenched on his mug. “Apparently some too-big-for-his-britches concerned citizen is going to make a proposal at the next town meeting to shut down the library.”
“Why?”
“Costs,” Cody said, tilting his head back against the couch and staring at the ceiling. “That, and apparently the one in Montpelier is so much better.” He couldn’t keep the bitterness out of his voice.
Amy’s lived with her head in the clouds since she first picked up a book as a child, and being fluent in two languages means she’s read a lot of books! She first picked up a pen on a rainy day in fourth grade when her class had to stay inside for recess. Tales of treasure hunts with her classmates eventually morphed into love stories between men, and she’s been writing ever since. She writes evenings and weekends—or whenever she isn’t at her full-time day job saving the planet at Canada’s largest environmental non-profit.
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