Melting the Ice (Portland Evergreens #1)
Beth Bolden
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Explicit open door [?]
· 31 ratings · 339 pages · Published: 10 Oct 2024
Recovering from a knee injury he hopes won’t keep him off the ice. His team, the Portland University Evergreens, have a brand new coach, and he’s hoping to impress the legendary leader. Plus, he's got to make a decision once and for all about playing professional hockey or using his love of science to go a totally different direction.
The last thing he needs is a sexual awakening at the large, calloused hands of his football player roommate.
Dean is big and brawny and taciturn, but he doesn’t need words to woo Brody. He wants Dean, even if he thought he was straight. And Dean? Doesn’t matter that he’s never hooked up with a guy before, either.
They’re discovering new pleasures every night, while pretending during the day that they’re just roommates.
Except the heat burns so hot between them, it doesn’t just melt all the ice on Brody’s rink, it melts all his beliefs about who he is and what he wants.
But even more, it destroys the lie that he can’t fall hard for a guy. Because Brody is falling hard for Dean, and he discovers he’s not alone.
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- sports 6
- gay romance 6
- hockey 6
- college 6
- queer awakening 6
- queer romance 6
- friends with benefits 5
- friends to lovers 5
- forced proximity 5
- football 5
- contemporary 4
- bisexuality 3
- anal sex 3
- shy hero 3
- sweet/gentle hero 3
- nerdy hero 3
- angst 1
- funny 1
- childfree 1
- class difference 1
- height difference 1
- caretaking 1
- secret relationship 1
- found family 1
- alpha male 1
- possessive hero 1
- rich hero 1
- tortured hero 1
- athlete hero 1
- new adult 1
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- content warnings
- mental trauma 1
- geography
- oregon 4
- north america 1
- usa 1
- Format
- audiobook
- third person pov 3
- male pov 1
- dual pov 1
- interconnected standalone 1
- standalone 1
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The 'Portland Evergreens' series
4.04 · 82 ratings
dual-pov · third-person-pov · anal sex · explicit-open-door · queer · sports · m-m · new adult · audiobook · college · contemporary · hockey · secret-relationship · friends to lovers · athletes · oregon · usa · tortured hero · bisexual · age difference
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