Delay of Winter: Heat Delay: A Spicy LGBTQ+ Small Town Hockey Romance (The Delay of Winter #3)

Book 3 of the Delay of Winter Series

**The following story is intended for mature audiences only. Reader discretion is advised.**

All’s fair in love and war when it’s amongst family.

Aurora Pierce, once the former juggernaut of the Snowpeak Ice Breakers, now finds herself off the ice and helping rebuild the small mountain town of Snowpeak during an unprecedented heat wave. However, her mind remains elsewhere as a new game closes in on the horizon. The Winter family vacation.

Following the events of Easter, the once rocky relationship between Aurora and Alice has strengthened, but lingering secrets still exist, ready to shatter their lives at a moment's notice. Acting behind each other’s backs, Aurora is determined to discover the secrets Alice is hiding from her, while also trying to preserve the biggest secret of all. Although with the damage done to Snowpeak and the relentless heat wave beating down on the town, finding answers is easier said than done, especially with the trip to Lakeview just around the corner, where a new competition awaits, and truths are worth their weight in gold.

From snowstorms to torrential rainfall, and now overbearing heatwaves. Aurora, feeling like she can only trust herself, faces her biggest challenge yet. A war for her heart with brother and sister going head to head, the winner takes all. However, the competition won’t be so simple, as other factors await to shake things up in ways none of them could imagine. With more than just her heart on the line, Aurora must navigate a new way of life amongst societal elites and find her footing amongst them, or get trampled in the process. Her only hope is to keep her head above water when everything around her is eager to drag her beneath the waves in a fight for emotional survival.