Wicked Sins Series by Sophie Quinn

Oli. Hockey, my mother, and my best friend. That's what matters to me. Then my best friend betrays me. My chances of getting signed on my dream team go up in smoke. My mother well - she didn’t live long enough to watch me claw my way back to the top. Years later I have a new team, new friends, and a quiet home in the great state of Oregon. It’s perfect. Until Andre, my ex-best friend, is traded to the Otters and becomes our new goalie. Now I’m stuck with him... moreOli. Hockey, my mother, and my best friend. That's what matters to me. Then my best friend betrays me. My chances of getting signed on my dream team go up in smoke. My mother well - she didn’t live long enough to watch me claw my way back to the top. Years later I have a new team, new friends, and a quiet home in the great state of Oregon. It’s perfect. Until Andre, my ex-best friend, is traded to the Otters and becomes our new goalie. Now I’m stuck with him. Coach says I have to play nice but how can I do that when the man who tried to destroy my life is the person I have to defend on the ice? Just the sight of him sets me on fire. He messes with my head in ways I don’t want to linger on. I hate him so much I can’t think. We can’t stop fighting; we’re losing games left and right and okay maybe punching your own goalie for the entire world to see isn’t exactly proper hockey etiquette but who can blame? This fire ignites us both. I expect the flames to kill me. What happens is much, much worse. Andre. Once upon a time Oli Kulivov used to be my best friend. Then he blamed me for something I had nothing to do with. Ever since then he’s hated me and you know what screw him if he thinks I could do that to him. While I want nothing more than to forget he exists but then things at home explode. I have to get out. I need a new team and the Oregon Otters are looking for a goalie. This is my chance at freedom. Being back in Kuli’s line of sight is a dangerous game, but what’s even more dangerous is the feeling deep in my gut I feel whenever I see him. Years later and I still feel that twist in my stomach whenever he’s around me. Our fighting is affecting the team. We just can’t stop. I should be afraid. I should keep my distance. I just can’t. Not when it’s so much fun to toy with the darkness in Oli’s blue eyes. I swear I didn’t get traded to the Otters to piss Oli off personally. That is just a happy bonus. I want to see how far I can push him. When this spark between us ignites. The inferno we’re trapped in changes everything. These Wicked Games is the first book in the Wicked Sins series. It is a high-heat hockey romance based on the seven deadly sins. Andre and Oli’s book- WRATH is an enemies to lovers ex-best friends' romance. less

GreyWhen I got injured months ago, I thought it would be simple. Rehab, Rest. Back on the ice. Only that’s not how my life turned out. No more traveling with my team. No more drinks with the guys after a win. No more hockey. Now I’m stuck at home, bitter and broken, realizing the future I thought I’d have is gone. I know my anger hurts the people around me, but I just don’t care anymore. About anything. Then my sister hires Felix... moreGreyWhen I got injured months ago, I thought it would be simple. Rehab, Rest. Back on the ice. Only that’s not how my life turned out. No more traveling with my team. No more drinks with the guys after a win. No more hockey. Now I’m stuck at home, bitter and broken, realizing the future I thought I’d have is gone. I know my anger hurts the people around me, but I just don’t care anymore. About anything. Then my sister hires Felix. He’s quiet and careful like he’s always walking on glass eggshells. I don’t want him here and I plan to push him away like everyone else. I don’t need another witness to my worst days. Felix is a mess from the start. He startles easily. Avoids my questions. He carries fear like a second skin. Then the puzzle pieces start to fall in place and I don’t like the picture they’re creating. Slowly my anger starts to soften. The silence feels less empty. More comfortable. My days feel survivable. My loneliness morphing into something else. My injury stops feeling like a punishment. These feelings are something I can’t fight. I don’t even want to. With Oli and Andre’s wedding on the horizon, and Felix’s past refusing to stay buried, everything starts to unravel. The closer we get to happiness, the more it threatens to explode. I don’t know how to fix this, but I meant what I said to him. No one gets to decide how he lives his life anymore. FelixThis job isn’t a choice. It’s an escape. When a caretaking job becomes available I know this is my shot. This job is temporary. Just get enough money to leave this state and disappear for good. It’s too perfect to pass up. A caretaking job in the middle of nowhere with free room and board. Done. I need the money and safety. What I don’t need is a volatile hockey star angry at the world around him. Grey is rough, stubborn, and terrifying in ways I understand too well. As the weeks pass, Grey’s anger cracks. What’s underneath his hardened mask is a man mourning the life he used to have. He’s drowning in grief. I see the life he’s lost, and I want to help him rebuild it. I know what it’s like to shrink yourself to survive. We form a temporary truce and for the first time in a long time. I feel safe. Seen. I want him in ways I never planned, but my past is closing in and threatening the peace we’ve built. The fragile life I’m rebuilding begins to fracture. I know how this ends. I knew he’d find me. The only difference is this time I don’t want to run. I want to fight. I just don’t know if I can do it at Grey’s side. less