{"product_id":"pressure-play-declan-rhodes-9798248520824","title":"Pressure Play: A MM Hockey Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeath Donnelly scores ugly goals and sends every paycheck home.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA late-season call-up to the Chicago Ironhawks wasn't supposed to stick. But Heath stuck-through training camp, through opening night, through the kind of net-front chaos that makes highlight reels and terrifies him in equal measure. At twenty-two, his NHL contract is the only thing standing between his family and the bills that keep arriving. He can't afford a mistake.\u003cbr\u003eHe definitely can't afford to fall for a teammate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKieran Mathers is the mistake.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst-round draft pick. Hockey royalty. The kind of player coaches call \u003ci\u003emature beyond his years\u003c\/i\u003e-which is a polite way of saying he's never been young. Kieran has spent his entire life performing a career he didn't choose, and he has an exit strategy: one more season, then graduate school, then a life where no one knows his father's name. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe plan is flawless. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe plan doesn't account for Heath Donnelly asking him a simple, honest question in a stalled elevator-and seven years of control coming apart in the space between floors.\u003cp\u003eWhat starts in that elevator doesn't stop.\u003cbr\u003eIt turns into a secret neither of them can afford.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoad trips. Locked doors. Late nights in a narrow apartment where the radiator ticks and the bed is too small for two hockey players. In a league that still treats coming out as career-ending-and a locker room where privacy is an illusion-every moment together is borrowed time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeath needs to stay.\u003cbr\u003eKieran needs to leave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe city is watching. The closet is thinning. And the trade deadline is coming fast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it hits, they'll have to choose between the futures they planned-and the one they've found together.\u003cbr\u003eBecause the hardest thing in hockey isn't taking the hit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's staying visible after. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDual-POV MM hockey romance. On-page intimacy. Guaranteed HEA.\u003cbr\u003eforced proximity - closeted athletes - first time - hurt\/comfort\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Declan Rhodes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798248520824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d","brand":"Declan Rhodes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48460366676223,"sku":"9798248520824","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dac94eef-1aed-43c9-a799-44af31f428aa.jpg?v=1777414278","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pressure-play-declan-rhodes-9798248520824","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}