Book Title: Game On
Author and Publisher: Amy Aislin
Cover Artist: LC Chase
Release Date: January 30, 2024
Genre: Contemporary M/M hockey romance
Tropes: Roommates, forced proximity, hockey, slow burn
Themes: taking risks, trusting yourself
Length: 69 000 words / 275 pages
Heat Rating: 3 flames
It’s book three in the Vancouver Orcas trilogy, but can be read on its own.
It does not end on a cliffhanger.
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Blurb
When he broke off his engagement to his team captain’s brother the day before their wedding, Jamie Jamieson swore he’d never get involved with anyone associated with a teammate again. Getting traded to the Orcas is a chance at a fresh start, but one glance at his new housemate, and Jamie knows he’s in way over his head.
Dorian is his new coach’s cousin. And his team’s social media coordinator. And his housemate.
It’s the trifecta of bad ideas.
Dorian Shore doesn’t do hockey. He’s lived by that rule for years, ever since a season playing as a kid left him with emotional scars. But his new housemate—a big, buff, beautiful athlete who gets under his skin—makes him seriously consider doing a hockey player.
It’s not a good idea.
They live together.
They work together.
When the sparks between them ignite, will it be game on or game over?
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“Come on,” Dorian said. “Let’s grab a meeting room.”
The meeting room Dorian chose was small: one table, four chairs, and a large screen on the wall. Dorian hooked up his laptop to the screen, which mirrored his computer, and brought up InDesign.
“You don’t use Photoshop for your graphics?” Jamie asked.
Dorian barely spared him a glance. “Photoshop is the devil. InDesign is where it’s at.” He stretched out his shoulders. “Okay. Go. Give me a truth. Or a lie. Don’t tell me. I want to guess.”
Jamie racked his brain and came up with, “I’m the youngest of eight kids?”
Fingers hovering over the keyboard, Dorian grimaced. “Is that easily searchable?”
“Probably. Plus, I’ve posted family photos on my socials before.” It was hot in the little room, so Jamie removed his hoodie and put it on the chair next to him. “What about pets? When I was a kid, at one point we had three dogs, seven cats, two turtles, a rabbit, and a pig. We might’ve also had a bird at that time.”
“A . . . pig?”
“My mom was raised on a farm.” Jamie shrugged. “So we’ve always been into animals.”
“But that doesn’t explain the pig.”
“I’m not even sure where he came from. I think my brother brought him home. We had him until he died. Then we ate him.”
Dorian’s jaw dropped.
“Made bacon.” Jamie made sizzling sounds, like bacon frying on a pan.
Dorian’s eyes went huge.
Jamie tried to hold in his laughter, but Dorian’s expression . . . “I’m kidding! You should see your face.”
“You have a morbid sense of humour, Jamie Jamieson.”
“Maybe a little.”
Letting out a little laugh, Dorian closed InDesign, opened a blank Word document, and typed up Jamie’s truth. “What else?”
“What else? Uh . . .” Jamie tapped his fingers on his thigh. It couldn’t be anything hockey-related because that was also easily searchable. Without thinking, he blurted, “Six months ago, I ended my engagement the day before the wedding.”
Dorian . . . didn’t seem to know what to do with that. He stared at Jamie, eyebrows coming together. “Is that a truth or a lie?” He asked it slowly, gently, as though walking on eggshells.
Forcing a smile, Jamie waved a hand. “Never mind. Don’t use that one.”
“Obviously,” Dorian muttered. Something in his posture softened. “Do you want to talk about—”
“I met our Prime Minister at a train station in Paris when I vacationed there one summer,” Jamie tossed out, making up the lie on the spot. “I met the Spice Girls backstage at a concert once. I went parasailing with my brother in Cancun and my harness broke. I learned to surf in Tofino.” He paused for breath. “Those are all lies, by the way.”
Dorian stared at him for a beat before he went back to typing. “You were supposed to let me guess. Those are good lies, though. What about truths?”
Fuck. Why were truths so hard?
“I foster rescue dogs.”
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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