Dirty Hit

Holy shit, it’s done

The first draft is finished as of about half an hour ago and I am BEYOND excited to be done with this one.

While it was fresh in my mind, I just put together the trigger warning list and I’m proud to say it’s my longest one yet. Hayden Vaughn is unhinged in all the best ways and I can’t wait for you to get to know him better.

As a hockey fan, I went into this book knowing that a whole lot of realism needed to be set aside to make the story fun. And that’s what I wanted it to be—fun.

Yes, I’m aware that finding a single professional hockey player by the time they hit the NHL is rare. But for the sake of this series, we’re going to encounter a whole bunch of them.

Another thing that I had some fun with in this one is naming the team. They’re the Seattle Anchors. I live north of Seattle and my favorite NHL team is the Seattle Kraken (and yes, they were my team before all the BookTok hype/drama), so I wanted to play on their team name/logo. The Kraken’s alt logo is an anchor, so for this series, Hayden and the other guys play for the Seattle Anchors.

About a year and a half ago, I had an idea for a story while watching a game and it wouldn’t leave me alone. What if a girl slid into a professional hockey player’s DMs to tell him how shitty of a player she thinks he is? And what would he do if he got a message like that?

This book is my answer to that question and let’s just say what he does after that message is… wild.