MAYDAY, MAYDAY, THIS IS NOT A DRILL, I REPEAT, NOT A DRILL !! HEATED RIVALRY IS COMING TO A BOOK CLUB NEAR YOU AS THIS MONTH'S GAY WRITES PICK !!!

Unless you've been blissfully offline (jealous), your timeline has surely been filled with edits and discourse around a certain gay hockey show, and unless you're a joyless ghoul allergic to fun (read: heterosexual), you've found yourself emotionally implicated in a sport that has altered your brain chemistry.

Rachel Reid’s novel follows two young hockey stars, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, who've built their careers on a legendary rivalry — one that refuses to stay on the ice. Their connection may have started as mere locker room lust, but it unfolds over years of stolen glances and soiled hotel sheets, an affair carefully withheld from the world and willfully ignored by its participants. But denial has a shelf life, and theirs can’t last the season.

This is an enemies-to-lovers romance that seduces you with heat, then quietly traps you in the yearning, the ache to be understood by the last person who should matter. It's hot, it's tender, it's obsessive. It'll ruin you.

Gay Writes is officially entering its jock era, so strap in — we're coming to the cottage.