DON'T PUCK UP (San Diego Seals Hockey #3) by Ann Grech | Dual Cover & Excerpt Reveal
September 24, 2025

DON'T PUCK UP
San Diego Seals Hockey #3
by Ann Grech
Dual Cover & Excerpt Reveal
Release Date: October 22, 2025
Model Cover Design: Tempting Illustrations
Photo: Emma Jane Photos
Model: Jay Lam
Discreet Cover Design: The Drawables
Genre: MMF Hockey Romance Standalone
Trope: Opposites attract, second chance, why choose, polyamorous romance, vacation romance, marriage on the rocks, masked man, curly girl, movie star, redemption of bad boy, self-acceptance/coming out, strong women, public sex
Synopsis
A masked man at the doorway. An enticing order and a night of intense pleasure.
We could have chosen to fight. Instead, we ran, knowing he’d chase us.
I wanted to get caught.
I shouldn’t be excited at the thought of being captured and pucked wherever he trapped us.
But that was where we found ourselves.
It was a far cry from the scandal that nearly ended my marriage to my NHL defenseman husband, Chris Minns.
This was so much riskier.
If anyone found out, it would destroy his pro-hockey career. His team, the San Diego Seals, wouldn’t accept any more negative press.
Vacationing in Fiji was supposed to be our second chance. We wanted to reconnect and repair the damage to our marriage.
The trip turned into so much more.
I just hope we don’t puck up.
Don’t Puck Up is a masked-man, MMF, why choose romance with a sexy possessive stranger who loves the chase, a bisexual pro-hockey player who’s on the path to self-acceptance, and a curvy girl who captures both their hearts.
CW: CNC and gRape fantasies as well as violence and religion-based homophobia.
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Excerpt
The bedroom door that opened to the patio was unlocked. Darkness surrounded me, and I watched in fascination as Chris dropped to his knees and nuzzled his wife’s mound through her underwear. Kamirah’s hard nipples were visible through the thin camisole she wore, her legs spread as a near-naked Chris licked her pussy. I watched as he palmed himself and lifted his free hand to slide it between her legs. Her head fell back, and she threaded her fingers through his hair, gripping it tight. She arched into him, riding his fingers and mouth.
I licked my lips and flicked on the mask, the red lights bright in the darkness.
Then I opened the door.
Kamirah’s eyes flew open, and she screamed, the sound echoing around the bure. She stumbled back but gained her footing quickly. The woman was anything but a damsel in distress waiting for her man to save her. She reacted in an instant, reaching for the unopened bottle of champagne chilling in the ice bucket and lifting it like she was wielding a baseball bat.
Chris spun on the balls of his feet and stood up in one fluid motion. The muscles in his legs bunched. His cockhead poking out of his boxer briefs was red and shiny with precum. But it slipped back inside them as he lunged forward, charging at me.
He was a brawler, throwing a haymaker as soon as he got close enough.
I grinned behind the mask and raised my left arm, easily blocking the punch with my forearm. I wrapped my right arm around his throat and hooked my foot behind his leg, then twisted. With his momentum carrying him forward, I had him arched back with one foot off the floor in a split second.
He may have been intent on protecting his wife, but I was an experienced fighter. I stared at him through the mask and breathed him in. He smelled like temptation and sex, his lips still glistening from his wife’s juices. My cock bucked in my jeans, and I ground my erection against his hip. He thrashed in my arms, trying to break free of my hold. But he was powerless. All I had to do was let go, and he’d end up on his arse.
“Relax,” I crooned. “I won’t hurt you. Unless you want me to.”
“Get out,” Kamirah ground out.
“I don’t think so,” I drawled. I couldn’t reveal my true identity—it had to remain a secret—and my first instinct was to go with an accent. But Vigilante’s painful history didn’t belong in this room either. He was from Detroit, his accent unmistakable. The words that came out of my mouth sounded distinctly Canadian.
“Feisty. I like you,” I looked her over and watched the way her chest rose and fell rapidly. She pressed her thighs together and her pupils dilated. “I think I’ll fuck you first. Hmm?”
She inhaled sharply, and her grip on the bottle faltered. She lowered it just a touch before she caught herself. I knew I had her interested.
“Fuck off,” Chris gritted out, his grip on my arm tightening as he tried to pull away from me.
Kamirah couldn’t see my eyes, but they were locked on the gorgeous woman in front of me. “You’re going to put that bottle down, come here, strip off those clothes, lie back, and spread those sexy legs for me. Then I’m going to make you scream my name.”
“No,” Chris hissed, bucking hard again.
I ground my erection against his hip again and bit back a moan at the thought of watching my dick slide between his thick arse cheeks and into him.
“You're going to watch me fuck your wife until she comes on my dick. Then you're going to bend over like a good boy and take my cock until you're spent and my cum is dripping out of your hole.”
From the corner of my eye, I watched Chris’s dick twitch through his underwear. The man’s body liked the sound of what I was offering even if his head hadn’t caught on yet. He ground his teeth and gritted out another defiant, “Fuck off.”
“It's a one-time offer. Vigilante comes in here, takes the decisions away from you. Faceless, nameless fucking. No responsibility, no consequences, only orgasms.”
Chris’s grip loosened, and he stopped struggling. But he wasn’t entirely relaxed. He bit his lip and leaned his head back, resting it on my forearm. I didn’t think he was aware he’d even done it. “I don't bottom,” he said defiantly.
I chuckled, the sound raspy even to my own ears. “You do if I catch you.” I righted him and gripped him through his briefs, giving him a tight pump. His breath whooshed out of his lungs, and I ordered, “Run.”
I let him go and stepped back, clearing the path for them to get to the door. Chris only hesitated for a second, then reached for his wife’s hand. She dropped the bottle of champagne, and the dull thud as it landed on the thick rug echoed around the room.
They tore out the door, dashing into the darkness.
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About the Author
By day Ann Grech used to live in the corporate world and could be found sitting behind a desk typing away at reports and papers or lecturing to a room full of students. She graduated with a PhD in 2016 and is now an over-qualified nerd. But the grind got old, and the voices got louder. She still has the librarian look nailed, but she’s a little freer to be herself now.
She’s never entirely fit in and loves escaping into a book—whether it’s reading or writing one. But she’s found her tribe and loves her book world family. She dislikes cooking, but loves eating, can’t figure out technology, but is addicted to it, and her guilty pleasure is Byron Bay Cookies. Oh and shoes. And lingerie. And maybe handbags too. Well, if we’re being honest, we’d probably have to add her library too given the state of her credit card every month (what can she say, she’s a bookworm at heart)!
In 2019 she was an Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction: LGBTQ category of the 2019 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest for her story In Safe Arms.
She also publishes her raunchier short stories under her pen name, Olive Hiscock.
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