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Off the Ice by Noel Brooks

Genre Gay / Contemporary / Athletes/Coaches / New Adult / Romance / Found Family / Second Chance
Length Novel, 216 pages
Heat Level
Publication Date 04-July-2026

Book Blurb

Luca

Luca Moretti met the love of his life when he was fourteen.

Finn Lawson wasn’t just his first love—he was his forever. By the time he was eighteen, Luca was already planning a future that included Finn in every chapter.

Then Finn vanished.

No explanation. No goodbye. No returned texts. No answered calls. Every attempt to get Finn to talk ended in silence.

Heartbroken and out of options, Luca honored the scholarship he’d worked his entire life for, leaving home to play Division I hockey at Wemberly University in Idaho. Two thousand miles seemed like enough distance to bury the past.

It wasn’t.

During the season opener, Luca lined up for a face-off—and came face-to-face with the boy who shattered his heart.

Finn Lawson.

It was only a rivalry game, he told himself. Finn played for Adam’s Mill. They’d cross paths a handful of times each season, and that was it.

Then Wemberly gained fresh players the following season.

Luca walked into the locker room expecting to meet the team’s newest player … and found Finn Lawson standing in his stall.

The one person Luca never wanted to see again was suddenly his teammate.

And escaping each other was no longer an option.

Finn

Finn Lawson never stopped loving Luca Moretti.

One day, Luca was simply gone.

No warning. No goodbye. No promise to come back.

Just an empty house, unanswered questions, and a broken heart.

Left behind in a home that was anything but safe, Finn spent months scraping together enough money for one goal—to follow Luca across the country. If Luca could leave Pinewood behind, maybe Finn could too.

Earning a transfer to Wemberly’s hockey program wasn’t part of the plan.

Especially since Finn never even wanted to play hockey.

But if hockey were his ticket to freedom, he’d play harder than anyone else.

Seeing Luca again should’ve felt like coming home.

Instead, Luca wanted nothing to do with him, making it painfully clear that whatever they once had belonged in the past.

Still, for the first time in years, Finn had something he never had before—a team that felt like family, a place where he was safe, and a chance to build a life beyond the abuse he left behind.

Then one devastating diagnosis and a single phone call threatened to destroy everything all over again.

Some secrets broke them apart.

The truth might’ve been the only thing that could put them back together.

 

Additional Information

Format ebook
Publisher Independently Published
Length Novel, 216 pages
Heat Level
Publication Date 04-July-2026
Price $4.99 ebook
Buy Link https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7LQQ1PL