Release Day Review: Powder (Railers Legacy #3) by R.J. Scott and V.L. Locey

Reviewed by Jen

TITLE:  Powder

SERIES: Railers Legacy

AUTHORS: R.J. Scott and V.L. Locey

PUBLISHER: Love Lane Books, LLC

LENGTH: 199 pages

RELEASE DATE: December 4, 2025

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One jet, two weeks, no regrets… until the Winter Games change everything.

With age comes wisdom, they say. Jack O’Leary, Cap to his team, isn’t sure he’s become any wiser during his tenure with the Railers, but he has grown older. Jack is at a loose end after a messy divorce from his high school sweetheart. He’s not ready to retire yet, and he’s not looking for romance, but fate has other plans. A chance meeting on a flight to a summer getaway that’s supposed to be a post-divorce morale booster turns into fourteen days of discovery and wild passion. Tumbling into bed with Tiane was not on his bingo card, but Jack’s not complaining. The young snowboarder is vibrant and sexy, and is just what Jack needs to rebuild his confidence. After the vacation ends, the two go their separate ways, and Jack returns to the ice and his lonely life. When he’s invited to join the US ice hockey team, he’s honored to accept. No sooner is he in Italy than he sees Tian standing in the team’s hotel lobby, as unforgettable as ever. Is Jack brave enough to rekindle their affair, or will he return to Harrisburg alone once more?

Fresh off a breakout season and hailed as one of snowboarding’s rising stars, Tian-Lei Cai-Wilder has earned a luxury vacation from a major sponsor, with first-class everything, including flying by private jet. The last thing he expects on the flight is to meet Jack, a quiet, gorgeous NHL legend who is hot as hades. Jack’s older, jaded, and heartbreakingly closed off—but Tian can’t stay away. Neither of them is looking for anything serious, but attraction flares, and two weeks of sun and sex sounds perfect, no promises, no pressure, just fun. They part ways and their careers resume. But their fling crashes headfirst into reality when both are selected for Team USA. They’re teammates in a pressure cooker of media attention, gold-medal dreams, and emotions that never entirely cooled. Can they turn their fleeting escape into a second chance at romance—or will fear, fame, and the weight of expectations leave them both out in the cold?

Powder is an age-gap, opposites-attract, second-chance romance set against the backdrop of Olympic glory. Featuring a disheartened hockey veteran, a golden boy snowboarder with something to prove, a post-divorce fling, and a no-strings vacation that turns into something real, just in time for the biggest stage in the world.

REVIEW:

Jack is the Captain of the Railers who is in the last few years of what will likely be his final contract. That’s pretty much the extent of the Railers exposure for a good part of this story. He is in the off-season when his sister pushes him to take an expense-paid vacation where he meets super sweet Tian, pro snowboarder focused on his career and making the US Olympic team. From the time the cabin doors close, these two hit it off and quickly decide they will partake in a vacation-only fling filled with lots of hot sex. It is clear they have great chemistry and despite their age difference, have a lot in common starting with their dedication to their careers.

Fast forward to the guys being back on their own paths. They both can’t stop thinking about each other but are sticking by their pact of no contact post-vacation. That is, until they both arrive at the Olympic venue and are in each other’s world once again.

Despite their separate lives, they realize that there are things that become more important as time goes on and career stages change, etc. They find a way to make things work with little to no angst or drama. They are forced to be patient, but it pays off in the end.

Back to the railers again where things are looking to head back to the ice in the next installment when the team picks up a player with a well-known bad reputation, or at least his father does. And the team is not happy about any of it. Sparks are surely to fly and I can’t wait to see how it all plays out.

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