Now in preorder: https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FK87H2QK<\/a><\/p>\n Books by a bunch of well-known hockey writers, and other writer folk like… well, me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Season Two will begin with a duo:<\/p>\n “Rough Draft<\/strong><\/b><\/i>” by RJ Scott and VL Locey (remember the Railers books?) on Oct 7<\/p>\n AND “Conditioning Loan” <\/strong><\/b><\/i>by LA Witt (remember Rebound?) also Oct 7<\/p>\n My book is “Against the Odds<\/strong><\/b><\/i>” – coming Oct 22<\/p>\n – hurt-comfort Callum is a hotheaded goalie in the minor PHL (think AHL) who is singleminded about getting to the NAPH (think NHL) – once he’s earning real money he can pay back his grandfather for taking him in when he was nine. He’s not getting derailed by his teen crush moving back in next door, or his least favorite uncle showing up. But determination may not be enough.<\/p>\n Zeke is a cop, on leave after a long deep-undercover assignment, when his step-mom dies and he becomes the guardian for his pre-teen halfbrother. Moving back in the family home is weird, fitting a grieving kid in as he goes back on shift work is hard. And then there is Callum…<\/p>\n Check out all the books in the series. (And if you’re eager to start, the Season One books are all available.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are you still reading hockey fic like I am? Are you ready for some brand new choices? The Games We Play – Season Two is coming. Now in preorder: https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FK87H2QK Books by a bunch of well-known hockey writers, and other writer folk like… well, me \ud83d\ude42 Season Two will begin with a duo: “Rough Draft” by RJ Scott and VL Locey (remember the Railers books?) on Oct 7 AND “Conditioning Loan” by LA Witt (remember … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,27,30,9],"tags":[66,36,23,28,39,22],"class_list":["post-3955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contemporary","category-cover-reveal","category-preorder","category-upcoming-books","tag-66","tag-contemporary","tag-covers","tag-preorder","tag-stand-alone","tag-upcoming-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Covers](\"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AgainstTheOdds_GroupComingSoon_square.jpg\")
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\n– single guardianing of a younger brother
\n– opposites attract<\/p>\n