Release Blitz: Cold As Ice: Beth Bolden
Portland Evergreens #2
Beth Bolden
Release Date: January 9, 2025
Read it on Amazon & Kindle Unlimited
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Available on: Amazon, Kindle Unlimited, both model & discreet paperback and audio narrated by Darcy Stark (est February)
Available on: Amazon, Kindle Unlimited, both model & discreet paperback and audio narrated by Darcy Stark (est February)
Tropes: frenemies to lovers, opposites attract, player x player, virgin MC, tutoring, and sexy tutoring.
Malcolm’s all about checking off items in his Life Plan.
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.
It’s annoying, but Mal’s dealing with it, until their new coach insists Mal tutor Elliott to help him pass a class.
And until Elliott discovers Mal’s biggest secret: he’s been too busy checking off points on his life plan to get laid.
They’re fire and ice. Bad boy and virgin. They shouldn’t work at all. But the more time they spend together, on and off the ice, the more irresistible their chemistry becomes.
The more desperate Mal becomes for some of Elliott’s one-on-one tutoring—this time in bed.
But Elliott wants more than just sex. He wants to melt Mal’s icy cold shoulder and convince him there’s more to life—and love—than a plan.
Elliott Jones is the rookie right-wing on the Portland Evergreens. He is easy-going, charming, cocky, and bends the rules. He is seen as a playboy who does not take things seriously. Malcolm McCoy is a few years older and is serious, loner, and left-wing. He is focused on studies and hockey and avoids relationships. Elliott is captivated by Malcolm from the minute he sees him. But his big attempt at a pickup was rebuffed and it set off a year of taunting, sniping, irritating, and appearing to hate each other.
But when Malcolm is asked to tutor Elliott in stats, they start to see behind the facades that everyone sees and develop an unexpected friendship, which also has some extra tutoring benefits for Malcolm. And this pushes them closer than they ever expected and opens up a whole new set of complications.
This is an opposites-attracts, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, hockey romance with steam and sweetness. Elliott likes to shake things up and is fun. I loved seeing the stoic Malcolm start to crack and lose his control. Together they rile each other up, explore intimacy, and push and challenge each other to be better on the ice and in life. And they are loyal friends and teammates.
It brings back the other characters from the first book and I am excited for more in this series with Finn, Zach, and the Coach.
But when Malcolm is asked to tutor Elliott in stats, they start to see behind the facades that everyone sees and develop an unexpected friendship, which also has some extra tutoring benefits for Malcolm. And this pushes them closer than they ever expected and opens up a whole new set of complications.
This is an opposites-attracts, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, hockey romance with steam and sweetness. Elliott likes to shake things up and is fun. I loved seeing the stoic Malcolm start to crack and lose his control. Together they rile each other up, explore intimacy, and push and challenge each other to be better on the ice and in life. And they are loyal friends and teammates.
It brings back the other characters from the first book and I am excited for more in this series with Finn, Zach, and the Coach.
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MM Contemporary Sports RomanceAvailable in: ebook, Kindle Unlimited, two paperbacks (cover model & discreet), and audio, soon after release, narrated by Darcy Stark
Tropes: double bi-awakening, friends/roommates-to-lovers, hockey player & football player
Brody’s got enough on his plate.
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.
Dean is big and brawny and taciturn, but he doesn’t need words to woo Brody. He wants Dean, and his brilliant "experiment" to test his attraction gives Brody all the scientific results he needs to know he's not straight.
Now, they're proving his theory with new pleasures every night, while pretending during the day that they’re just roommates.
Except the heat burns so hot between them, it doesn’t just melt all the ice on Brody’s rink, it melts all his beliefs about who he is and what he wants.
But even more, it destroys the lie that he can’t fall hard for a guy. Because Brody is falling hard. The only question is will Dean catch him?
On Thin Ice
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. Jacob Braun, a goalie who played against his father.
It doesn’t matter that they hated each other, Finn will use him—use everything—to figure out how to beat this mental block. Even seduce his father’s greatest enemy.
What Finn wasn’t expecting was that they don’t just burn hot in bed, but on the ice, too. And that, ultimately, it isn’t Jacob’s brain he wants to pick apart, it’s his heart he wants to own.
Breaking The Ice
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. He certainly never expected to feel attraction again, or to feel it for a man. For Zach.
Or for Zach to want him back, with a passion Gavin couldn’t deny even if he wanted to.
He’s old, washed up, destroyed by old grief, and doesn’t believe he could be good for anyone, but maybe it’s own assumptions that need to be broken and re-made.
Maybe it’s Zach who needs to be the one who break him down and make him into something new. Give him something a wild, unexpected and unprecedented love affair.
A lifelong Oregonian, Beth Bolden has just recently moved to North Carolina with her supportive husband and their sweet kitten, Earl Grey. Beth still believes in Keeping Portland Weird, and intends to be just as weird in Raleigh.
Beth has been writing practically since she learned the alphabet. Unfortunately, her first foray into novel writing, titled Big Bear with Sparkly Earrings, wasn’t a bestseller, but hope springs eternal. She’s published twenty novels and six short stories.
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