Book Title: Game Changer
Author and Publisher: Amy Aislin
Cover Artist: Cate Ashwood Designs
Release Date: July 18, 2023
Genre: Contemporary m/m sports romance
Tropes: Boss/employee, hockey
Heat Rating: 3 flames
Length: 70 500 words/290 pages
Game Changer is book two in the Vancouver Orcas trilogy but stands on its own.
It does not end on a cliffhanger.
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Blurb
It’s Blair Brawsiski’s ride or die year. After a decade in the AHL, if he doesn’t get called up to the NHL this season, it’s time to hang up his skates and focus on other things. But between a second job and family priorities, his attention isn’t where it should be, and his dreams of making it to the big leagues are dwindling by the day.
Hiring a personal assistant to help out with day-to-day stuff? Probably the smartest move Blair’s made in a while.
But when that PA turns out to be an assertive baker who’s exactly Blair’s type? Blair can’t help but wish those dexterous hands would knead something other than pastry dough. Namely, him.
Charlie Shore needs extra income. Desperately. With his expenses about to go up, it’s find a second job or get evicted. Getting hired as Blair’s PA is perfect: flexible hours, decent wages, and a scorching hot professional hockey player who’s willing to let him use his gorgeous kitchen for his baked goods.
Too bad that hockey player is exactly Charlie’s type. Too bad Charlie knows better than to date his new boss…
Chapter Five
“I’m so, so sorry,” Charlie said as soon as Blair opened the door. Shivering, Charlie huddled deeper into his coat and hugged the foil-covered baking dish to his chest while the strap of the reusable grocery bag dug into his shoulder. He didn’t want to think about how he’d almost left both on the bus. “I wanted to be here earlier, but—”
“Come inside, Charlie.” Blair tugged him in by the arm, then closed the door behind them, sealing out the cold, crappy day. “You must be freezing.”
“But I was nervous about getting on the bus, what with the snowy slush this morning,” Charlie continued, as though Blair hadn’t interrupted him. “And you know what Vancouver natives are like behind the wheel in the snow.” They were not equipped to handle it, that was for damn sure. “And it was a good thing I didn’t take the bus, because there was a pileup on my route, and I would’ve been stuck there for hours. By the time the temperature warmed and everything melted, I was elbow-deep in phyllo for a spanakopita, and—”
“You make spanakopita?” Blair broke in, a tinge of awe in his voice. “From scratch?”
At some point during Charlie’s monologue, Blair had taken the baking dish from him, set it on the ottoman, placed the grocery bag next to it, and helped him out of his coat. Charlie stood on the mat in front of the door, empty-handed, and glanced around helplessly. “Um. Yes? Not often, though. Takes forever to make.”
“You don’t have to tell me.” Blair chuckled and draped Charlie’s coat over the arm of the couch. “I’m Greek on my mom’s side, and trying to convince her or my aunts to make it is like asking for a kidney. In fact, I’d have better luck with the kidney.”
Charlie exhaled a surprised laugh and slipped out of his shoes. “I believe it. But one of the new rookies on the team is from a Greek background, and I heard him talking to one of the forwards the other day about how he misses his yiayia’s home-cooked meals, so I thought I’d make him something. It’s been a while since I made a spanakopita, though, so I did a test run today.” Charlie’s expertise ran more towards breads, pastries, and cakes, though he did enjoy dabbling in the odd savoury pastry every now and again.
Blair picked up the baking dish and brought it up to his face. He inhaled deeply and made a little whimpering sound. “Please tell me I get to be your guinea pig.”
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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