Portland Evergreens

Recovering from a knee injury he hopes won’t keep him off the ice. His team, the Portland University Evergreens, have a brand new coach, and he’s hoping to impress the legendary leader. Plus, he's got to make a decision once and for all about playing professional hockey or using his love of science to go a totally different direction. The last thing he needs is a sexual awakening at the large, calloused hands of his football player roommate.

Malcom has got a plan, and slowly but surely, year after year of college, he’s executing it. He’s made it to the first line on his hockey team, the Portland Evergreens. He’s made the Dean’s List the last four semesters. He’s right in line to graduate on time, and head to the pros. All steps on the ultimate goal of becoming the best front office guy in the NHL. Elliott is the only fly in his ointment. The younger, wilder forward parties every night, sleeping with everything with a pulse and barely attending classes or practices.

Finn has lived with the pressure of hockey’s expectations since he was old enough to understand his father was one of the greatest the sport had ever known. He’s changed positions. Changed plans. Changed colleges. But he’s never managed to outrun the pressure. When it starts ruining his performance on the ice, he knows he needs to find a way to conquer it once and for all. Desperation sends him running to the one man he thinks can help him.

Coach Gavin Blackburn has been through hell. Three years ago, he was on top of the world, courted by the best teams in the NHL to coach their players. His wife’s unexpected death destroyed him, and sent him running from hockey. He thought he’d left the sport behind forever, but when his ex-player shows up at his remote cabin, begging him to return to Portland University to coach the Evergreens again, he agrees. The last thing Gavin expected was their mentor-student relationship to turn into something entirely different now that Zach is grown up.