Thursday, August 22, 2024

Cover Reveal! Forbidden Puckboy

FORBIDDEN PUCKBOY

Puckboys - Book Seven

by Eden Finley & Saxon James

Cover & Excerpt Reveal

Release Date: September 19, 2024

Model: Gustavo L.
Genre: M/M Sports Romance Standalone
Trope: Brother's best friend, forbidden relationship, ref/hockey player, conflict of interest, sibling drama, collective palooza

Synopsis

Easton 

You know what’s the worst feeling in the world? Being in love with someone since you were twelve years old, knowing they only see you as a little brother type. 

Not even becoming an NHL star has made him realize I’m all grown up now. 

All of that changes when I ask my brother’s best friend to ref a charity match and we spend an entire week in each other’s pocket. 

Being close to him is torture, but for the first time since my adolescent crush started, I begin to feel hope. I swear Knox looks at me the same way I look at him. Or so I think. When I throw myself at him and get utterly rejected, I never want to see him again. 

Yet, shaking him is impossible, because he and Connor are always around, and my older brother is suffocatingly protective. Every time I look at Knox, I’m reminded of how he turned me down. 

Can’t I just die of embarrassment in peace? 


Knox 

The Kiki brothers are legendary in the NHL world. Thick as thieves, unstoppable on the ice, and the kind of family nothing can come between. Or so I thought. 

For the last ten years, I’ve successfully hidden my feelings for the middle Kiki brother. Easton is snarky, determined, and the prettiest guy I’ve met. Ever since we stumbled across each other on a gay dating app and shared our secrets, I’ve felt a connection to him that I haven’t had with anything else. 

But Connor is my best friend and when it comes to his little brothers, “protective” doesn’t cover it. I’m determined to take my feelings for Easton to the grave, but after a week in close proximity to him, my willpower is ready to break. 

All it takes is one charity hockey match, a drunken night out, and a forbidden kiss for me to know that Easton Kikishkin is it for me. 

And unless I want to lose Connor, Easton will never be mine.

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Excerpt

Connor is an amazing best friend, and then here’s me, monster crush on his little brother, and in his own words, Connor will kill anyone who touches him. 

I’m not stupid enough to think that might exclude me. 

It’s why I’ve never mentioned how cute I find Easton, and the few times it’s been him and me one-on-one, the thoughts that filled my head made me so guilty I didn’t mention us hanging out to Connor. It felt like I’d be handing him a reason to suspect my feelings. 

Not that Connor knows for sure that I’m bi. It’s more the type of situation where I’m sure he heard that I hooked up with men in college, but he didn’t bring it up, so I never mentioned it, and we both get on with life not at all concerned about each other’s sexuality. 

Does that make me a dishonest dick? Kinda, yeah. And it’s not even the omission; it’s the guilt that comes with it because I know that deep down, the reason I haven’t brought it up, the reason I haven’t told him I’m sort of friends with Easton outside of him, is because I’m worried he’s not a dumb jock after all and will put the pieces together. He’ll figure out I’ve had a crush on Easton since the first summer he came home from college. He’d had a growth spurt and somehow went from awkward teen to man in the blink of an eye. 

I keep my shower short and fast, not giving myself time to think about Easton too much, and then head back out in only a towel. 

“You packed yet?” Connor asks, not looking up from his phone. 

“Yup, you?” 

The expression he pulls reminds me I really should know the answer to that. “We’ve got time.” 

“We leave in the morning.” 

“Exactly. Plenty of time.” 

“Not the way you pack.” All of my clothes have been shoved into the overnight bag sitting at the end of my bed, so I pull out an old pair of sweats before joining him. “You stress over every single thing.” 

“I have nice clothes. I want them to stay nice. Sue me.” 

“Even if you fold them, they’ll still end up in a crumpled mess by the time you arrive.” 

“How would you know? You’ve never folded your clothes in your life.” 

Eh, he’s got me there. 

Connor suddenly snorts at his phone. 

“What is it?” 

“Easton being … Easton.” 

My interest immediately spikes. “Oh yeah? What, uh, did he say?” 

“Told me to take the photo again with your shorts off.” Connor tosses his phone to the side, barely holding back from rolling his eyes. 

Easton openly flirts with me, in front of Connor, but Connor plays it off like it’s a big joke. I wish I could find the humor in torturing me slowly with flirting and no follow-through. Not that I would ever allow the follow-through to happen, no matter how much I’d want it. 

“Oh, damn. Should have told me that a few minutes ago.” I’m mostly joking to show how unfazed and totally unbothered I am by that, and maybe a tiny bit to see how he reacts to the idea of me sending his little brother dick pics.


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About the Author

Eden Finley is an Amazon bestselling author who writes steamy contemporary romances that are full of snark and light-hearted fluff. 

She doesn't take anything too seriously and lives to create an escape from real life for her readers. The ideas always begin with a wackadoodle premise, and she does her best to turn them into romances with heart. 

With a short attention span that rivals her son's, she writes multiple different pairings: MM, MMF, and MF. 

She's also an Australian girl and apologises for her Australianisms that sometimes don't make sense to anyone else.

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Saxon James unapologetically writes happy endings for LGBT+ characters. 

While not writing, SM is a readaholic and Netflix addict who regularly lives on a sustainable diet of chocolate and coffee. 

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