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Hockey Pros #4
Breakaway Pass
What does it mean to be a captain?
Finding each other at the Olympics...
Sloane doesn't expect to have a lasting relationship with another athlete he's only going to see once every four years, but he'd kind of like to with this one.
Brought together again by team ties...
Having Tarben join his team sounded great, but now everyone expects him to be a mentor, when what he wants is something more.
Will the weight of expectations be too much?
Can Tarben's love make his Captain see him as more than a teammate?
***Breakaway Pass is a standalone 20k word MM contemporary sports romance with a HEA and no cliffhangers.***
Finding each other at the Olympics...
Sloane doesn't expect to have a lasting relationship with another athlete he's only going to see once every four years, but he'd kind of like to with this one.
Brought together again by team ties...
Having Tarben join his team sounded great, but now everyone expects him to be a mentor, when what he wants is something more.
Will the weight of expectations be too much?
Can Tarben's love make his Captain see him as more than a teammate?
***Breakaway Pass is a standalone 20k word MM contemporary sports romance with a HEA and no cliffhangers.***
66 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 22, 2016
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Elaine Ashford
22 books57 followersElaine Ashford has worked in customer service, graphic design, property management, and banking. When she's not writing, she can be found pursuing her interest in athletic young men and long walks on the beach.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
December 4, 2016
This was my favorite of this series. The guys originally had a one night stand at the Olympics, but after they became teammates, they started hanging out and became friends with benefits. Then feelings developed. After a few weeks apart while Tarben was sent to the minors, they declared feelings.
This was mostly sweet and entertaining. No real angst, just one character having to come to terms with "inappropriate" feelings toward a younger teammate, whom he'd have no qualms dating if circumstances were different. Luckily, everything works out.
This was mostly sweet and entertaining. No real angst, just one character having to come to terms with "inappropriate" feelings toward a younger teammate, whom he'd have no qualms dating if circumstances were different. Luckily, everything works out.
June 21, 2026
📚Story setting/tropes/tags:
- hockey
- single POV (3rd person)
👥 MCs:
- serious, anxious, flustered, responsible, lonely MC
- cheery, funny, bright, playful, easygoing, bold MC
- captain/rookie (20/26)
💕 Romance:
- low angst
- yearning/longing
- ILY
- HEA
🔥 Spice:
- explicit content
- bj
- anal sex
- rimming
- handjob
- frottage
‼️TW:
- none
💬 Review:
Tarben had Sloane completely wrapped around his finger, those two were cute together and clearly smitten with each other (Tarben was more cheeky and impish while Sloane was a clumsily yet sweetly falling in love idiot).
I found it tiresome how Sloane made such a big deal about their age gap which was just 5-6 years. The constant attempt to paint him as an old man was a bit annoyingly too because he was only 26, that wasn’t old at all! Him being a captain and in position of power to some degree, yes that could have been debatable but there was no inappropriateness between them. Tarben was fully aware of what he was doing and to be honest despite being younger he was more emotionally level-headed and stable when it came to giving their relationship a proper go.
It was a quick read: cute romance, hot spice, HFN ending that could have been more fleshed out (Sloane not ready yet to come out and in a way hiding them put a slight shadow of uncertainty on their future imo).
“But the knowledge that he had to purposefully cover up his sadness only made him focus more on how lonely he felt, even in a crowded dressing room. He missed Tarben's presence, not just the jokes and the appeal of Tarben's big, blue eyes, but the way that Sloane felt right around him, like everything was going just as it should.”
- hockey
- single POV (3rd person)
👥 MCs:
- serious, anxious, flustered, responsible, lonely MC
- cheery, funny, bright, playful, easygoing, bold MC
- captain/rookie (20/26)
💕 Romance:
- low angst
- yearning/longing
- ILY
- HEA
🔥 Spice:
- explicit content
- bj
- anal sex
- rimming
- handjob
- frottage
‼️TW:
- none
💬 Review:
Tarben had Sloane completely wrapped around his finger, those two were cute together and clearly smitten with each other (Tarben was more cheeky and impish while Sloane was a clumsily yet sweetly falling in love idiot).
I found it tiresome how Sloane made such a big deal about their age gap which was just 5-6 years. The constant attempt to paint him as an old man was a bit annoyingly too because he was only 26, that wasn’t old at all! Him being a captain and in position of power to some degree, yes that could have been debatable but there was no inappropriateness between them. Tarben was fully aware of what he was doing and to be honest despite being younger he was more emotionally level-headed and stable when it came to giving their relationship a proper go.
It was a quick read: cute romance, hot spice, HFN ending that could have been more fleshed out (Sloane not ready yet to come out and in a way hiding them put a slight shadow of uncertainty on their future imo).
“But the knowledge that he had to purposefully cover up his sadness only made him focus more on how lonely he felt, even in a crowded dressing room. He missed Tarben's presence, not just the jokes and the appeal of Tarben's big, blue eyes, but the way that Sloane felt right around him, like everything was going just as it should.”
February 26, 2016
3.1 Stars
Odd that the book I liked the least actually got a better rating for writing and plot, for being a bit more substantial than the others in this series.
Glad I'm done with them though...
Odd that the book I liked the least actually got a better rating for writing and plot, for being a bit more substantial than the others in this series.
Glad I'm done with them though...
May 23, 2016
Didn't like this one quite as much as the first two novellas in the series, if only because it was a bit less grounded in place/we didn't get as strong an idea about the other guys in the team. The language was a bit more purple too.
January 30, 2016
This book was ok but unfortunately it felt like 10 stories I've already read. Not original enough to stand out from the crowd.
March 16, 2016
It was okayish, but it wasn't good.
Meh...
Meh...
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