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Defense and Deals: Goshawks Hockey Romance #2
The Portland, Maine Goshawks open the season with a target on their backs. A Cup win brings no mercy. Rival teams come hard, while deeper threats surface inside the organization. Star goalie Hunter Griffin faces contract limbo. Two hockey phenoms join the roster. One chases the spotlight. The other fights to fit in.
Fan favorite trades and sudden management shifts expose the truth players know too well. Hockey is a ruthless business. Loyalty rarely survives a balance sheet. Players become assets, cut loose without warning.
Margret VanAlen never expected to stand in the center of the storm. Last season’s Goshawks media manager now shoulders mounting responsibilities as deadlines tighten and pressure closes in. Her summer romance with a South Dakota cowboy threatens to derail her hard work when he arrives in Portland, blurring the line between personal risk and professional fallout.
On the ice, front line defenseman Ryan Mitchell carries his own South Dakota complications. A summer fling refuses to stay buried, pressing at the edges of his focus as the season intensifies. He tucks it away the moment he steps onto the sheet. Protecting his goalie with relentless precision, he absorbs punishment shift after shift. Rivals crash the crease. Bodies hammer the boards. Bruises bloom. He blames himself for every shot he fails to stop, even when his battered frame tells a truer story.
The Goshawks fight through wins and losses in a volatile race for a second Cup. On-ice plays raise the stakes. Off-ice deals raise them higher. Unexpected love slips into the quiet spaces between defeat and victory, catching players and management off guard as the season unfolds.
Defense keeps the Goshawks in the battle.
Deals threaten to pull them apart.
Love finds a way through the seams.
Fan favorite trades and sudden management shifts expose the truth players know too well. Hockey is a ruthless business. Loyalty rarely survives a balance sheet. Players become assets, cut loose without warning.
Margret VanAlen never expected to stand in the center of the storm. Last season’s Goshawks media manager now shoulders mounting responsibilities as deadlines tighten and pressure closes in. Her summer romance with a South Dakota cowboy threatens to derail her hard work when he arrives in Portland, blurring the line between personal risk and professional fallout.
On the ice, front line defenseman Ryan Mitchell carries his own South Dakota complications. A summer fling refuses to stay buried, pressing at the edges of his focus as the season intensifies. He tucks it away the moment he steps onto the sheet. Protecting his goalie with relentless precision, he absorbs punishment shift after shift. Rivals crash the crease. Bodies hammer the boards. Bruises bloom. He blames himself for every shot he fails to stop, even when his battered frame tells a truer story.
The Goshawks fight through wins and losses in a volatile race for a second Cup. On-ice plays raise the stakes. Off-ice deals raise them higher. Unexpected love slips into the quiet spaces between defeat and victory, catching players and management off guard as the season unfolds.
Defense keeps the Goshawks in the battle.
Deals threaten to pull them apart.
Love finds a way through the seams.
318 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 1, 2026
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Dee Marie
9 books128 followersDee Marie is an award-winning author, photographer, and artist. Her career in publishing began as a managing editor, eventually advancing to editor-in-chief, of an international computer graphics print magazine.
An avid hockey fan with a special admiration for NHL goaltenders, Dee spends September through June chasing NHL games on her flatscreen. Her passion for the sport shines through in her writing, bringing the excitement and drama of hockey to life for her readers.
She also has a vast knowledge of Arthurian Legends, with a reference library overflowing with British, Celtic, and Druid history. Research for her “Sons of Avalon” series also included a visit to Britain, where she was privileged to walk within the inner circle of Stonehenge, embracing the Dancing Stones on the Salisbury Plain. While in Cornwall, she explored the moors surrounding Bodmin, and ambled upon the ancient ruins of Tintagel.
Dee Marie lives in South Dakota with her husband (a former hockey player) and two very loved and spoiled Labradors Retrievers.
An avid hockey fan with a special admiration for NHL goaltenders, Dee spends September through June chasing NHL games on her flatscreen. Her passion for the sport shines through in her writing, bringing the excitement and drama of hockey to life for her readers.
She also has a vast knowledge of Arthurian Legends, with a reference library overflowing with British, Celtic, and Druid history. Research for her “Sons of Avalon” series also included a visit to Britain, where she was privileged to walk within the inner circle of Stonehenge, embracing the Dancing Stones on the Salisbury Plain. While in Cornwall, she explored the moors surrounding Bodmin, and ambled upon the ancient ruins of Tintagel.
Dee Marie lives in South Dakota with her husband (a former hockey player) and two very loved and spoiled Labradors Retrievers.
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January 13, 2026
Eat your wheaties!
This is high energy, fast-paced action, and a smidgen of romance. Written by someone who obviously knows the game, loves the game, but also a talented author capable of bringing it all to life. HATS OFF and looking forward to book three. Well done...again.
This is high energy, fast-paced action, and a smidgen of romance. Written by someone who obviously knows the game, loves the game, but also a talented author capable of bringing it all to life. HATS OFF and looking forward to book three. Well done...again.
February 18, 2026
If you're a fan of ice hockey you'll love this book. You'll find yourself feeling every moment, experiencing the action, and slicing your way across the ice. A beautifully written book that I (and I'm not an ice hockey fan) can highly recommend.
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