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    Shane Hollander volunteered for a firefighter training exercise because it got him a paid day away from spreadsheets.
    He didn't expect to be handed a casualty card.
    He definitely didn't expect to be effortlessly scooped up by firefighter Ilya Rozanov.

    Now Shane can't stop thinking about the handsome rescue specialist with impossible blue eyes, while Ilya can't seem to stop finding reasons to rescue the same volunteer over and over again.

    Turns out asking someone for their number is a lot scarier than running into a burning building.

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    26 Jun 2026

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    21 Jun 2026

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    “Part of me kinda wishes Hayden hadn’t come this weekend.”
    Hayden’s entire body goes cold.
    The words echo inside his skull.
    His best friend. The person he hasn’t properly seen since Christmas outside of quick moments on the ice.
    Wished he hadn’t come.

    OR: After Shane leaves the team, Hayden becomes the target of his teammates harassment. He has no friends left in Montreal, and now he’s starting to realize his best friend probably doesn’t need him in his life anymore.

    How long can Hayden hold on before he finally breaks?

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    21 Jun 2026

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    Hayden Pike's mother left when he was seven. She didn't come back. This, really, was not important, because Hayden built a family and a life and was happy - until it was important, when Laura Newfield (formerly Pike) reached out with a letter and an address. For Hayden, the question was whether whatever his mom had to say to him after all this time could tell him something about the parts of himself that he didn't quite understand and had never wanted to understand. How this ended up with him and Ilya Rozanov on the road to find these answers together, he wasn't entirely sure.

    or - Hayden goes on an odyssey of exploring his relationship with his mother, with Ilya as his guide.

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    21 Jun 2026

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    “Ilya, what are we gonna do?” Shane says.

    Ilya finishes whatever he has been doing on his phone, and tosses it gently to the bed beside him. He crosses the room to Shane, stands in front of him, squeezes into his shoulders with his big hands, rubbing them like he means to warm them up.

    “Looks like we will have a little vacation,” he says, with a big obnoxious grin.

     


     

    Boston and Montreal are sent to Paris to play against each other in an exhibition series in January 2017. Ilya and Shane decide to stay in Paris for one more night. Just one more night, so they can talk. Maybe finally understand each other.

    They aren't expecting a volcano to erupt in Iceland and close all the airspace in Europe, leaving them stranded there. Together.

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    20 Jun 2026