Why Knot Pack Series by Kara Kaminski

I hate hockey.Unfortunately, hockey is my family’s religion—and my hometown’s entire personality.When my older brother calls and says the Rinkrats are about to be sold, I should hang up. I escaped this town, this team, and my “perfect omega daughter” role years ago.Instead, I get on a plane.Now I’m back in Puckridge, hockey, gossip, and bad decisions. My brother’s coaching the failing team... moreI hate hockey.Unfortunately, hockey is my family’s religion—and my hometown’s entire personality.When my older brother calls and says the Rinkrats are about to be sold, I should hang up. I escaped this town, this team, and my “perfect omega daughter” role years ago.Instead, I get on a plane.Now I’m back in Puckridge, hockey, gossip, and bad decisions. My brother’s coaching the failing team. My ex—the one who chose the sport over me—is the captain trying to hold the locker room together with duct tape and rage.And the franchise? One bad season away from being bought and relocated by a big-city shark who sees our town as cheap real estate.I do what I’m good rebrand the team, pack the stands, fix the sponsorships, turn the Rinkrats into a social media fairy tale. For a minute, it works.Then the sabotage starts.Mysterious offers. Tampered equipment. Players getting poached with deals they’d be idiots to refuse. On the ice, they’re a mess—fractured lines, bad blood, zero trust.That’s when the ugly truth hits This isn’t a marketing problem. It’s a pack problem.As a rare unbonded omega, I’ve spent my whole life avoiding exactly what everyone expected from me—collars, mates, a neat little pack life. But a bonded pack shares more than a bed, more than a nest. They share instincts, focus, and something you can’t fake on the trust.If I bond with them, they’ll play like they can actually read each other’s minds. They’ll stop looking over their shoulders for the next trade offer. They’ll choose each other, and this town, instead of cashing out.All I have to do is break every rule I ever made for myself… and sleep with the men who already broke my heart once.What could possibly go wrong?I Hate Hockey is a filthy, emotional small-town omegaverse reverse harem romance with one stubborn omega, a whole bench of possessive hockey players, a grumpy brother-coach, and zero choosing between love interests… because, why choose, right? First in the Why Knot Pack trilogy; HFN for the pack, HEA over the series. less

Saving the team was the easy part.Apparently, the hard part is waking up every day in a house full of hockey players I’m technically mated to… and pretending this is just a temporary arrangement.The pack-bond changed everything. On the ice, the Rinkrats are lethal—clean passes, impossible plays, the kind of chemistry that makes commentators talk about “magic” and “miracles.”Off the ice, it’s chaos.My ex-captain still doesn’t trust that I’m here for him and not just the franchise... moreSaving the team was the easy part.Apparently, the hard part is waking up every day in a house full of hockey players I’m technically mated to… and pretending this is just a temporary arrangement.The pack-bond changed everything. On the ice, the Rinkrats are lethal—clean passes, impossible plays, the kind of chemistry that makes commentators talk about “magic” and “miracles.”Off the ice, it’s chaos.My ex-captain still doesn’t trust that I’m here for him and not just the franchise. The rookie winger thinks “pack” means “permission to follow me everywhere like a golden retriever.” The enforcer keeps acting like he doesn’t care, then shows up at my door every time my heat even twitches.And the small town that loves hockey? They have a lot of opinions about their coach’s little sister sharing a house—and a bed—with half the lineup.Meanwhile, the sharks circling us aren’t gone. They’ve just changed tactics.Now it’s not just the team getting offers. It’s me. Consulting gigs. Big-city marketing jobs. Quiet little “buyouts” that just happen to require me to move far, far away from Puckridge… and from my pack. Take the money, disappear, and the problem solves itself. The problem being us.The worst part? Some nights, when the house feels too full and my own feelings feel too big, I’m tempted.Because pack life walls.No secrets.No pretending I can keep one foot outside the door.And if I’m going to choose them—for real, not just as a strategy to win games—then I have to admit something I’m not just saving the Rinkrats anymore. They’re saving me too. I Hate Pack Life is book two in the Why Knot Pack more steam, more feelings, more jealous alphas trying to figure out how to share. Expect messy emotions, possessive heroes learning to communicate, small-town backlash, and a deepening pack bond. Not a standalone; HFN with HEA for the whole pack coming in book three. less

The joke used to be that I hated hockey.Now my entire life revolves around a rink, a town, and a pack of stubborn, infuriating men who would wreck themselves for me—and for each other.The league loves a miracle story, and the Rinkrats are the miracle of the year. A once-dead team surging toward the championship, a tiny town rallying behind them, a coach’s little sister who just happens to be everywhere at once.What the cameras don’t show is the rest of it... moreThe joke used to be that I hated hockey.Now my entire life revolves around a rink, a town, and a pack of stubborn, infuriating men who would wreck themselves for me—and for each other.The league loves a miracle story, and the Rinkrats are the miracle of the year. A once-dead team surging toward the championship, a tiny town rallying behind them, a coach’s little sister who just happens to be everywhere at once.What the cameras don’t show is the rest of it.The quiet way my brother stares at the ice like if they lose, it’ll kill him. The contracts on the table that say we can keep the team… if we move them to a city that isn’t ours. The owners who smile and insist they’re doing what’s “best for the sport.”And my pack, pulled in twenty different directions at Some of them could make more money anywhere else.Some of them finally feel like they belong—for the first time in their lives.All of them are terrified I’m going to wake up and decide the safe choice is to walk away.They’re wrong.I’m done pretending I’m not all in.But choosing them means more than falling into bed and calling it destiny. It means finding a way to protect this town, this team, and this loud, complicated, beautiful pack from a world that doesn’t have a box for what we are.No neat roles. No clean endings. No guarantees.Just one last shot at rewriting the rules—on the ice and off it—before someone else writes the ending for us.I used to hate hockey.Now I just hate goodbyes.I Hate Goodbyes is the explosive finale (for now!) of the Why Knot Pack trilogy, bringing the Rinkrats’ story to a full, swoony, pack-wide HEA. Expect championship-level stakes, big romantic gestures, public claiming, and a future that’s messy and perfect in all the right ways. less