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Playing for Gold | Nicole Crystal | Pre Order | Releases December 31, 2026
Pre Order Includes:
Signed book
Character bookmark
Character sticker
Tropes:
- Sapphic Romance (bisexual MC's)
- Women's Olympic Hockey
- Age Gap (Captain/Rookie)
- Ice queen x golden retriever (control vs. chaos)
- Sex as Superstition
- Ethical non-monogamy and open marriage (one character is married to a husband who isn't the villian)
- Right person, wrong time
- Found Family
Blurb:
For fans of Heated Rivalry waiting for the girls' turn.
She was supposed to be a liability.
She became the only thing the captain couldn’t control.
Five weeks before the Milan Olympics, the best women’s hockey team in the world is 1–4, and nobody can say why.
Then the head coach writes three names on a whiteboard. Reese Whitmore-Kane: three-time Olympian, flawless, untouchable, playing her final cycle. Emma Cole: the rookie who sees plays before they happen. And Sloane Kowalski: the loud, reckless twenty-year-old one reporter called “a liability,” who grew up with Reese’s poster on her bedroom wall.
On the ice, chaos plugs into precision, and the line starts to win. Off it, one night in a darkened suite above an empty rink becomes an arrangement with rules. No one can know. Only before games. And it ends the night of the gold medal game, whatever the result.
Reese is married. Happily. Openly. Her husband knows, and he likes Sloane.
The rules were supposed to keep it simple. But Sloane has never held back in her life, and Reese has spent ten years being careful: for her father, for the cameras, for a future that’s already been announced. Sloane is the first person who’s ever made her want to stop.
Some love stories end at the final horn. Some just haven’t started yet.
Playing for Gold is a steamy, dual-POV sapphic hockey romance starring an ice-queen captain, a golden-retriever rookie who had her poster on the wall, and a husband who’s rooting for them both. Bring tissues for the ending, and stay for the bonus epilogue.
• Genre: Adult sports romance (F/F, hockey, Winter Olympics)
• Heat level: Explicit, with a content note at the front of the book
• Ending: Bittersweet, with an optional bonus epilogue
Pre Order Includes:
Signed book
Character bookmark
Character sticker
Tropes:
- Sapphic Romance (bisexual MC's)
- Women's Olympic Hockey
- Age Gap (Captain/Rookie)
- Ice queen x golden retriever (control vs. chaos)
- Sex as Superstition
- Ethical non-monogamy and open marriage (one character is married to a husband who isn't the villian)
- Right person, wrong time
- Found Family
Blurb:
For fans of Heated Rivalry waiting for the girls' turn.
She was supposed to be a liability.
She became the only thing the captain couldn’t control.
Five weeks before the Milan Olympics, the best women’s hockey team in the world is 1–4, and nobody can say why.
Then the head coach writes three names on a whiteboard. Reese Whitmore-Kane: three-time Olympian, flawless, untouchable, playing her final cycle. Emma Cole: the rookie who sees plays before they happen. And Sloane Kowalski: the loud, reckless twenty-year-old one reporter called “a liability,” who grew up with Reese’s poster on her bedroom wall.
On the ice, chaos plugs into precision, and the line starts to win. Off it, one night in a darkened suite above an empty rink becomes an arrangement with rules. No one can know. Only before games. And it ends the night of the gold medal game, whatever the result.
Reese is married. Happily. Openly. Her husband knows, and he likes Sloane.
The rules were supposed to keep it simple. But Sloane has never held back in her life, and Reese has spent ten years being careful: for her father, for the cameras, for a future that’s already been announced. Sloane is the first person who’s ever made her want to stop.
Some love stories end at the final horn. Some just haven’t started yet.
Playing for Gold is a steamy, dual-POV sapphic hockey romance starring an ice-queen captain, a golden-retriever rookie who had her poster on the wall, and a husband who’s rooting for them both. Bring tissues for the ending, and stay for the bonus epilogue.
• Genre: Adult sports romance (F/F, hockey, Winter Olympics)
• Heat level: Explicit, with a content note at the front of the book
• Ending: Bittersweet, with an optional bonus epilogue