The Captain

She wears the C. She carries the notebook. The article that broke them is not the article either of them filed.
Captain × embedded journalist · Sapphic hockey romance · First-person present dual POV · Heroine-is-the-athlete · Forced proximity · Grumpy-sunshine · Medium-high heat (3.5/5) · Committed HEA · Standalone in series

Mac Reilly is the captain of the Boston Banshees in the second year of the North League. She wears the C. She has not told anyone about her father since the night her grandmother died. She has, for four years, been writing under a name no one in the locker room knows.

Then a journalist from L.A. shows up at George's Diner.

Cass Bellamy is thirty-one, a sportswriter for The Athletic. She has a notebook obsession, an ex-editor named Brad who once stole her byline, and a six-hour rule about getting attached on assignment. She breaks it the moment she watches Mac hand a Sharpie to a sixth-grader.

There are mornings in booth six. There is a bus to Toronto. There is a hotel bar in Newark where Mac tells Cass a story she has never told anyone. Cass writes it down in a notebook that is supposed to be private. The article her former editor publishes is not the article she filed.

The captain is on the ice. The journalist is in the press box. They are in the same building for the first time in nine days. Neither of them looks at the other.

The grand gesture happens in a Best Western lobby at 5:36 in the morning. The ice machine has just started working.

The Captain is Book 1 of The Boston Banshees, a five-book interconnected standalone women's professional hockey romance series. Each book features a different couple on the Banshees roster. Each book is a complete HEA. No cliffhangers. Just a team of women who fight as hard for love as they do on the ice.

Sapphic. Forced proximity. Embedded journalist. The captain who says "yeah" instead of "yes." The article that wasn't filed. The ice machine. The Best Western lobby. The bell on the door at George's.

For fans of sapphic sports romance, dual-POV women's-pro hockey fiction, and books where the city is a character.

Book 1 of 5. The binge starts here — at George's, booth six.