Jamie Cole knows exactly where his place is: at the cold end of the bench, counting the sixty-three ceiling tiles of the arena, waiting for his ninety seconds of ice time. He’s a grinder. A guy who takes the hits, does the dirty work, and stays far away from the spotlight. He’s built walls around himself, perfectly content to remain invisible.

But Liam is the franchise’s golden boy. He’s the man who commands center ice and has the whole town's unwavering attention. He should have no reason to look at a fourth-liner like Jamie. Yet, beneath the carefully curated public persona, Liam feels hollow in the glare of the cameras. And for some reason, the only person he truly sees is Jamie.

What starts in the quiet, empty chill of 6:45 AM morning skates soon sparks into a fierce, unspoken tension that neither of them can ignore. When the walls finally break, the chemistry is explosive. Liam is everything Jamie isn’t supposed to have—and everything he can’t resist. But with the eyes of the city on Liam, Jamie has to decide if he’s finally ready to step out of the shadows, or if he'll let the best thing that ever happened to him slip away.

The Bench This Town Forgets is a high-heat, deeply emotional M/M hockey romance featuring a gritty opposites-attract dynamic, secret morning skates, and a hard-earned happily ever after.

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