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Charm City Chill #1
The Sin Bin
Some battles are fought with fists. Others are won with the heart.
Everyone in New Haven knows Jackson "Jax" Thompson's reputation. As the Charm City Chill's enforcer, he's paid to be the monster under other teams' beds. But after a brutal fight goes viral and puts him in the league's crosshairs, even his knuckles are telling him it's time for a change.
Dr. Lauren Mackenzie wants nothing to do with violent men in any form. As the head of New Haven's busiest emergency vet clinic, she's got enough on her plate treating the arena's K-9 unit without worrying about the bruiser who bursts in at 2 a.m. with an injured kitten and bleeding knuckles. But beneath those scars and hard hits, she discovers a gentle giant whose biggest fights happen far from the ice.
When the competition brings the lumber and his team needs him to set the tone on the ice, Jax must choose between scaring the pretty vet off or getting comfortable in the penalty box. But with the league investigating his every hit, a rookie who needs protecting, and Lauren's own past threatening their future, Jax will have to decide if some fights are worth losing to win the ultimate prize.
The Sin Bin is a steamy, standalone hockey romance in the Charm City Chill series, perfect for readers who love their enforcers soft-hearted, their chemistry ice-melting, and their hockey as hot as a post-game shower.
Everyone in New Haven knows Jackson "Jax" Thompson's reputation. As the Charm City Chill's enforcer, he's paid to be the monster under other teams' beds. But after a brutal fight goes viral and puts him in the league's crosshairs, even his knuckles are telling him it's time for a change.
Dr. Lauren Mackenzie wants nothing to do with violent men in any form. As the head of New Haven's busiest emergency vet clinic, she's got enough on her plate treating the arena's K-9 unit without worrying about the bruiser who bursts in at 2 a.m. with an injured kitten and bleeding knuckles. But beneath those scars and hard hits, she discovers a gentle giant whose biggest fights happen far from the ice.
When the competition brings the lumber and his team needs him to set the tone on the ice, Jax must choose between scaring the pretty vet off or getting comfortable in the penalty box. But with the league investigating his every hit, a rookie who needs protecting, and Lauren's own past threatening their future, Jax will have to decide if some fights are worth losing to win the ultimate prize.
The Sin Bin is a steamy, standalone hockey romance in the Charm City Chill series, perfect for readers who love their enforcers soft-hearted, their chemistry ice-melting, and their hockey as hot as a post-game shower.
335 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 17, 2025
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About the author
Jamie K. Schmidt
167 books731 followersUSA Today Bestselling author, Jamie K. Schmidt is a hybrid author who has over thirty short stories published in small press and ezines, and a variety of novellas and books online. Her Club Inferno series from Random House has been in Amazon's top 100 ebooks sold and Barnes and Noble's top 10. She has a dragon paranormal romance series at Entangled Publishing. Book one of the Emerging Queens series is The Queen's Wings.
Jamie holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the State University of New York at New Paltz in Secondary Education English, which is a fancy way of saying she went to college to teach high school English. When that didn't pan out, she worked as a call center manager, a Tupperware consultant, a paralegal, and finally a technical writer for a major conglomerate company. She is an active member in the Romance Writers of America (RWA). When not writing, Jamie relaxes with a mug of hot tea and knits or makes beaded jewelry. You can reach her at Twitter: @jamiekswriter or at her website www.jkschmidt.com
Jamie holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the State University of New York at New Paltz in Secondary Education English, which is a fancy way of saying she went to college to teach high school English. When that didn't pan out, she worked as a call center manager, a Tupperware consultant, a paralegal, and finally a technical writer for a major conglomerate company. She is an active member in the Romance Writers of America (RWA). When not writing, Jamie relaxes with a mug of hot tea and knits or makes beaded jewelry. You can reach her at Twitter: @jamiekswriter or at her website www.jkschmidt.com
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