Inside Edge

Inside Edge by Chris Cox book cover

Bayou Boys: Rougarous Hockey Romances · Book 0 · Free with the newsletter

One FPHL left wing with late feet and a one-season clock. One ice resurfacer operator with old skates and an impossible dream. One rink that keeps secrets between the first cut and the morning skate.

The impossible just needs an appointment.

Mason Bell came to Baton Rouge to play well and get gone. His feet have other ideas — always arriving a beat late, always enough behind his brain to keep him off the good lines. Coach’s verdict is three words: work on your edges. What Mason finds at five-forty in the morning is Zachary Lemoine, cutting the ice in figure skates when no one else is watching.

He is not supposed to keep showing up at five-forty. He keeps showing up.

Zachary Lemoine knows every door in the Bayou Ice Center. Keys, codes, corridors — the building gave him all of it, as long as he stays useful. What it didn’t give him was permission to want the ice back. He has a tryout flyer folded in his jacket pocket. He has been creasing the same line until the paper goes soft.

He is not doing anything about it. He is doing something about it.

The problem isn’t Mason’s late feet or Zachary’s locked-away dream. It’s that Zachary has spent his whole life treating wanting like a borrowed room — and Mason keeps showing up with a key.

Inside Edge is a sensual, slow burn MM hockey romance with a cinematic fade. Dual first person. Standalone. HEA. Book 0 in the Rougarous Hockey series and part of the Bayou Boys world.

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Series: Bayou Boys — Rougarous Hockey Romances, Book 0 · Heat: Sensual — on-page desire and physical heat, with the camera fading at the peak · HEA: Guaranteed

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