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Power Play #3
Hat Trick
He's been in love with his best friend's brother for ten years. Tonight, the brother is moving into his guest room.
Jonah Park is the Atlanta Reapers' center and everyone's favorite teammate. He's the glue. The good guy. The one who always has the right joke at the right moment and who goes home alone to an apartment where a guest room is set up with 400-thread-count sheets, a reading lamp he drove from Minnesota, and towels folded in thirds. All for a man who has never been invited.
Ren Briggs is Cole's younger brother. Former AHL player. Career over before it started. He's moving to Atlanta to rebuild his life, and Jonah offered him the guest room because Jonah's mouth operates independently of his survival instincts.
The lamp was bought at a Target five years ago because Ren once mentioned he liked warm reading light. The receipt cost $34.99. Jonah framed it.
Living with the man you've loved since you were sixteen is an exercise in controlled demolition. Every shared meal, every late night on the couch, every accidental brush of hands in the kitchen is another crack in the wall Jonah built to protect his best friend, his friendship, and the only secret he's ever kept.
But Ren is not the fourteen-year-old kid from the dock in Minnesota anymore. Ren is a man who sees more than Jonah thinks, who has been carrying his own secrets for longer than either of them knows, and who is about to make Jonah choose between the safety of silence and the terrifying possibility that ten years of wanting might not have been wasted.
The problem with a hat trick is that you need three goals to get one. Three chances. Three risks. Three moments where you put everything on the line.
Jonah has been waiting ten years for his first shot.
Hat Trick is a best friend's brother MM hockey romance with a decade of pining, a $34.99 love letter, and an HEA that proves some things are worth the wait. Third in the Power Play series. Can be read as a standalone. Dual POV. No cliffhanger. KU enrolled.
best friend's brother, he falls first (by a decade), roommates to lovers, bi-awakening, pining, secret relationship, found family
- GenresHockeyM M RomanceSports
169 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 14, 2026
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April 2, 2026
3.75
Ag my heart. The yearning.
"You're down. You're not done."
"Say the thing I need to hear. You've always done that. Since we were kids."
"He laughed. The sound filled the truck cabin and I absorbed it the way you absorb a drug, through every available surface, into every available receptor."
"The feeling of being known, in a way you didn't realise you were being known. The feeling of a detail about you existing in someone else's memory, preserved and acted upon without fanfare."
"You laughed. You were standing in the sun and you laughed and you ruined my life. In the best possible way."
"You are the direction I was always supposed to be looking, and I'm done apologising for not finding it sooner."
Ag my heart. The yearning.
"You're down. You're not done."
"Say the thing I need to hear. You've always done that. Since we were kids."
"He laughed. The sound filled the truck cabin and I absorbed it the way you absorb a drug, through every available surface, into every available receptor."
"The feeling of being known, in a way you didn't realise you were being known. The feeling of a detail about you existing in someone else's memory, preserved and acted upon without fanfare."
"You laughed. You were standing in the sun and you laughed and you ruined my life. In the best possible way."
"You are the direction I was always supposed to be looking, and I'm done apologising for not finding it sooner."
April 8, 2026
I'm to the point when I see Chris Savage as an author I will have to download. The pace, the words, the feelings so perfectly written makes my heart happy.
Kudos to you, Author Savage. You have a fan for life.
Kudos to you, Author Savage. You have a fan for life.
May 13, 2026
The story? 4 stars
The characters? 5 stars
But the writing is something particular. A rythme a bit too repetitive specifically for a short novel.
There are also some editing mistakes that break the reading flow.
But I loved the plot:
Jonah has been in love with his best friend’s brother for 10 years.
10 years of hiding it.
10 years of cataloguing every single details about him
When Ren comes to live with him, after loosing his position as a AHL Player, it takes him 10 minutes in the apartment to realize that there is more than friendship between Jonah and him.
He never wanted to have his hope that Jonah was different with him but now the guest bedroom has the lamp he said 5 years ago, he wanted. Jonah knows what he likes. Jonah has a smile specific to him…
Anyway that’s a comfort read
No 3rd act breakup
Just 2 persons who can finally show how much they love each other.
The characters? 5 stars
But the writing is something particular. A rythme a bit too repetitive specifically for a short novel.
There are also some editing mistakes that break the reading flow.
But I loved the plot:
Jonah has been in love with his best friend’s brother for 10 years.
10 years of hiding it.
10 years of cataloguing every single details about him
When Ren comes to live with him, after loosing his position as a AHL Player, it takes him 10 minutes in the apartment to realize that there is more than friendship between Jonah and him.
He never wanted to have his hope that Jonah was different with him but now the guest bedroom has the lamp he said 5 years ago, he wanted. Jonah knows what he likes. Jonah has a smile specific to him…
Anyway that’s a comfort read
No 3rd act breakup
Just 2 persons who can finally show how much they love each other.
May 19, 2026
Could have been cute, but lacks conflict of any kind and editing.
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