Hat Trick by Chris Savage

He’s been in love with his best friend’s brother for ten years. Tonight, the brother is moving into his guest room.

Jonah Park is the Atlanta Reapers’ center and everyone’s favorite teammate. He’s the glue. The good guy. The one who always has the right joke at the right moment and who goes home alone to an apartment where a guest room is set up with 400-thread-count sheets, a reading lamp he drove from Minnesota, and towels folded in thirds. All for a man who has never been invited.

Ren Briggs is Cole’s younger brother. Former AHL player. Career over before it started. He’s moving to Atlanta to rebuild his life, and Jonah offered him the guest room because Jonah’s mouth operates independently of his survival instincts.

The lamp was bought at a Target five years ago because Ren once mentioned he liked warm reading light. The receipt cost $34.99. Jonah framed it.
Living with the man you’ve loved since you were sixteen is an exercise in controlled demolition. Every shared meal, every late night on the couch, every accidental brush of hands in the kitchen is another crack in the wall Jonah built to protect his best friend, his friendship, and the only secret he’s ever kept.

But Ren is not the fourteen-year-old kid from the dock in Minnesota anymore. Ren is a man who sees more than Jonah thinks, who has been carrying his own secrets for longer than either of them knows, and who is about to make Jonah choose between the safety of silence and the terrifying possibility that ten years of wanting might not have been wasted.

The problem with a hat trick is that you need three goals to get one. Three chances. Three risks. Three moments where you put everything on the line.
Jonah has been waiting ten years for his first shot.

Hat Trick is a best friend’s brother MM hockey romance with a decade of pining, a $34.99 love letter, and an HEA that proves some things are worth the wait. Third in the Power Play series. Can be read as a standalone. Dual POV. No cliffhanger.
Tropes: best friend’s brother, he falls first (by a decade), roommates to lovers, bi-awakening, pining, secret relationship, found family