Release Blitz: Riding Pine: R.M. Neill
Riding Pine
R.M. Neill
Standalone
November 13, 2025
I’m not a real beaver. I just play one for the Bloomburg Aspens.
You’d be surprised how many times I need to clarify that.
It’s not a traditional job, but between my yoga studio and playing the beaver, it pays the bills.
The beaver mascot gig also comes with one rule: Don’t reveal my identity to anyone.
Which wasn’t a big deal until I met this guy at the bar. A hot guy with a shy smile and a huge…wood.
Lukas Pine.
A hockey player for the Bloomburg Aspens.
He was only supposed to be a one-night stand, but we keep finding each other. Usually with our clothes off.
In my defense, I had to tell him. You should know you’re sleeping with the team mascot. Especially when the players aren’t supposed to know who I am.
Lukas is more than happy to keep it a secret, but there’s a new problem.
We’re not very good at hiding it.
And that’s when I learn riding pine isn’t always fun.
Riding Pine is a standalone novel set in the Bloomburg universe of the Sheltered Connections and Broken Horn Ranch series. A smart-mouthed former circus acrobat and a tender-hearted hockey tough guy at the end of his playing days are so hot together they have to bend not just their bodies, but the rules, to stay together. This story is pure ridiculousness with loads of spice and all the feels…oh, and some hockey.
Lukas Pine is a hockey player hoping to spend the last of his hockey career with his new team. Ben is a former elite aerialist in Vegas and now owns a yoga studio back in his hometown.
They have a meet-cute at a bar that leads to ongoing hot hookups, infatuation, and a bit of obsession. Their chemistry is volatile, their banter is fun, and they cannot stop thinking about and wanting each other.
Lukas is big, strong, sweet, and smitten. He is just getting his life together with his new team, and Ben both inspires and distracts him. Ben is cute, fun, selectively friendly, sassy, and not intimidated by the burly hockey player.
But Ben's new job opportunity is good for him, but could be a conflict of interest for Lukas. And now they are having to sneak around and keep boundaries around their jobs.
This is a delightful, spicy, sweet, hockey and mascot romance with a bit of a forbidden element and secret identity. Sometimes it is nice just to have something low angst with a lot of heart, heat, and happiness. And the characters are just so likable and fun that they kept me smiling.
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RM is an introverted Canadian author who likes to write about love while freezing in the winter. Her mission is to always make you swoon and snort laugh, sometimes even in public.
She talks to her cat, Moon, and sometimes people. She married her prince charming, who often inspires her characters, but still can't place dirty clothes in the hamper.
When she's not writing swoony men to fall in love with, she's in her garden providing mosquitoes with an alternative food source. She can also be found inventing new swear words on the golf course.
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