The Kindred Ice by Astrid Moss | Halfsky Publishing

Sloane Ivers is an investigative journalist who was reassigned from politics to sports — a move she knows was bought. Her press credential gets her into the Kindred Ice arena. What she finds there is not what she came for. Viktor Kasimir is thirty years old and has been the captain of this team since before the arena had a name. He knows what the franchise is built on, and he has spent his entire adult life trying to be worth the trade. When he first notices a journalist in a black wool coat who writes things down and then underlines them twice, he should let her go. He knows, precisely, what happens to people who look too closely at his family. He doesn't let her go. Captain of Nothing is a dark hockey romance about two people who choose each other with full knowledge of the cost. It is scorching and cold and deliberate. The darkness in this book is psychological and moral — the weight of loving someone who is not safe, the specific cost of loyalty, the question of whether choosing someone dangerous is a defensible choice. Dual first-person present tense. HFN. 87,000 words.