Worth The Trade (Montreal Phantoms #1)

Montreal traded its future for Eero Mäkinen. Matty Soucy only offered him a spare room.

Eero arrives in Montreal with a championship ring, a firebird tattoo, and a seven-year contract everyone in the city has an opinion about. He plans to keep his head down, prove he was worth the price, and follow the rule that has protected him for years: never get involved with a teammate.

Then his new roommate starts cooking for two.

Matty is supposed to help Montreal’s high-profile acquisition settle in. He is not supposed to become obsessed with the deadpan Finn taking over his kitchen, or with the fact that Eero sees straight through every joke Matty uses to hide. For the first time, Matty wants a man. For the first time in a very long while, Eero wants something he can’t afford to lose.

Their solution is simple: keep it secret, and keep it feelings free.

It lasts about as long as any plan involving two hockey players, one spare bedroom, and a judgmental cat should.

Soon Eero is finding a place inside Matty’s family and Montreal’s locker room. Matty is learning every silence Eero owns. And the life they refuse to name is becoming the most real thing either of them has.

But when the pressure attached to Eero’s price tag begins to break him, Matty’s instinct to protect turns into the one thing Eero cannot accept: someone else deciding his future.

Worth the Trade is a steamy MM hockey romance featuring former rivals, forced proximity, roommates to lovers, teammates with benefits, grumpy/sunshine energy, a bisexual awakening, a secret relationship, found family, one judgmental cat, and a hard-won HEA. This is the first book in the Montreal Phantoms series.