The Games We Play Season 2 Book 3: Hearts on Ice by Denver Shaw

The Games We Play Season 2 Book 3

I’ve stopped pucks my whole career. What I can’t stop… is wanting him.

Drew

Six years ago, I buried my heart with my wife and daughter. Since then, I’ve lived by one rule—keep it professional, keep it safe.

But the kid in the net? He’s wrecking my rules one save at a time.

Miguel plays with heart. Reads the ice like it’s poetry. Sees me in ways no one has in years.

He’s too young. Too alive. Too off-limits.

And every time he smiles, I start to wonder if what I buried wasn’t just love—maybe it was who I am.

Miguel

Drew is discipline in a gray hoodie and heartbreak in human form.

I never thought I’d fall for anyone—especially not a man.

But something about him makes the rules blur and the air between us catch fire.

Every look is a risk. Every touch, a line we shouldn’t cross.

Some loves break the rules.

This one remakes them.

Hearts on Ice is a forbidden MM hockey romance with age gap tension, double bi-awakening, slow burn heat, and enough hurt/comfort to break your heart before putting it back together.

The Games We Play—Season 2 is the second season of this multi-author minor-league hockey romance series! All titles run concurrently through the same hockey season and the books can be read in any order, so jump in anywhere!

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My Review: 4/5 Stars

Drew has been holding himself the best he can for the last six years after losing not only his hockey career when he is injured on the ice, but when a plane crash took away his wife and daughter shortly after. So he’s buried himself working as a coach for the minor team ice hockey team. But then there is a shift. One he doesn’t realize is happening until it’s too late. Miguel is changing everything for him. He’s bringing him back to life. He never expected it, never thought he would want it, but every look Miguel gives him, well, Drew finds himself looking back. Miguel has known Drew for five years now and realizes he doesn’t know a lot about him. And there has been this shift inside him when he looks at Drew. He too doesn’t realize what is going on until it’s too late. And it’s something that he can’t stop, nor does he want to. Because the more he gets to know Drew, the harder he falls. Their coach and player, it probably shouldn’t happen. But their hearts say otherwise. A lovely slow burn between Drew and Miguel as they come to realize how they feel about one another. Neither have looked at men before, but really gender is the last thing on their mind. It’s how the two of them are together. How they feel when they lock eyes. I loved watching these two slowly fall in love. To taking steps to know one another better and just becoming closer and closer before they have that aha realization of falling. Great story all around!