DON'T PUCK UP

San Diego Seals Hockey #3

by Ann Grech

Release Blitz

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.

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.