Patrick: the Jennings Brothers

Then she makes the kind of proposal a dickhead like me can't resist in spite of the potentially dire consequences. . .

They call me Trick. It's because I'm known for scoring hat tricks.

Or it could be my personality because I'm also known to be a wiseass.

The fun kind, not the mean edgy kind.

Girls love me and I have the collection of abandoned panties to prove it.

But there's one girl, the one I can't have by the way, who is my Achilles heel or my kryptonite depending on your pop-culture preference.

Fifi Rossi.

She's everything.

But I don't do more than dream about her because she belongs to the Rossi family, our family's business and hockey rival and long-time enemies going back four generations.

And in case you think whatever happened then can't matter now--I wish.

I've been warned by her brothers and her mean-as-F*ck Dad Leo--who I swear could double for Corleone senior to stay away from their beloved Sophia, aka Fifi. Or else.

Which in Rossi-speak means bodily harm.

To her credit, and my possible crash & burn, Fifi has a mind of her own.

She arrives at the rink at UNH and I nearly fall off my skates with shock and a good strong overdose of lust.

What happens next?

It's a long, complicated and somehow fun story if you're not the one dead center getting bowled over by the twists, turns, hysterical laughs, moral dilemmas and a runaway emotional train.

Read it.

Patrick: the Jennings Brothers is the first in the Hockey Boys series, a small town hockey romance series with lots of fun steamy banter, forbidden love and making impossible choices.

(Warning: language and sexual content for a mature audience. Heat level 3 out of 5)