Conditioning Loan

by L.A. Witt

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Part of the The Games We Play - Season 2 series:

Conditioning Loan
Punchline

Editions:ePub

ISBN: 978-1-64230-373-5

When a hockey star asks him to dance at a club, minor league forward Taylor Wilson is thrilled. Maybe that cute teammate who laughed in his face was wrong after all, and he is good enough for someone.

But then that star loses interest and bails… leaving Taylor back at bruised ego square one.

The universe isn’t done, either—months later, that star is getting ready to return to his team after an injury. The last step in his rehab? A two-week conditioning loan to Taylor’s team.

Vasily Abashev is excited to play for the Everett Orcas because it means he’s one step closer to being reactivated. He just isn’t expecting that cute guy he met at the dance club last summer to be his temporary teammate. Or linemate.

This could either be the longest two weeks of their lives… or not nearly enough time to work up the nerve for a do-over from last summer.

The Games We Play - Season 2 is the second season of this multi-author minor league hockey romance series! All titles run concurrently through the same hockey season and the books can be read in any order, so jump in anywhere!

This book is on:

1 To Be Read list

Available on: October 7, 2025
Editors:

Mackenzie Walton

Cover Artists:

L.C. Chase

Genres:

Contemporary, Sports

Tags:

author - american, format - novel <100K, format - novella 15k-40K, format - paperback, format - self published, format - series, format - shared universe, what - topic - pro sports, what - topic - pro-hockey, what - topic - road trip, what - topic - sports, when - season - winter, who - occupation - athlete, who - occupation - hockey player

Pairings: M-M
Heat Level: 3
Romantic Content: 4
Ending: Click here to reveal
Character Identities: Gay
Protagonist 1 Age: 18-25
Protagonist 2 Age: 26-35
Tropes: Famous / Not Famous, Forced Proximity
Word Count: 38,000
Setting: Everett, WA
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Same Universe / Various Characters

About the Author

L.A. Witt is a romance and suspense author who has at last given up the exciting nomadic lifestyle of the military spouse (read: her husband finally retired). She now resides in Pittsburgh, where the potholes are determined to eat her car and her cats are endlessly taunted by a disrespectful squirrel named Moose. In her spare time, she can be found painting in her art room or destroying her voice at a Pittsburgh Penguins game.

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