The hardest hit goes straight to the heart. Marco Morelli has spent seventeen years keeping his sexuality buried under guilt and discretion. Then an injury forces the Colorado Glaciers' defenseman to accept help from his best friend-and the one person who could unravel his secret. Living with Marco shatters everything Étienne Savard thought he knew about himself. After one near-kiss, he's suddenly questioning his past-and his future. While their relationship shifts behind closed doors, the walls close in as the captain watches their every move, threatening exposure. Marco and Étienne face an impossible choice-coming out means devastating their families and risking a trade that would separate them, but staying closeted means destroying themselves. Open Ice is a hard-hitting MM hockey romance with best friends to lovers, a bi awakening, forced proximity, hurt/comfort, and learning that love finds a way to open ice.