Red Flag Forward
(Hockey Fangirls, Book #1)
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What if your famous hockey player crush wasn’t anything close to the good-guy hero you thought he was?
Hockey saved me. Specifically, my fangirl worship of professional hockey player Sebastian “Baz” Steele, a forward for the Toronto Ice Dragons.
As a teenager, I bounced from one bad foster home to the next, but what kept me going was my adoration of Baz, a love of the game, and my cherished, autographed, number 15 Steele jersey.
Baz, Toronto’s beloved, hometown hockey hero, had lost everyone he loved in a car accident when he was sixteen. Yet somehow, he managed to make it out alive and achieve his dreams. Whenever I pulled on his jersey, it gave me hope that maybe one day, I could do the same.
Years later on Halloween, Baz ends up in the backseat of my ride share, half-undressed and wasted out of his mind. After an argument with his date—an adult film star—she dumps him, leaving me to get him home safely when he finally passes out.
That night, I stumble headfirst into Baz’s world, one comprised of well-guarded secrets and carefully constructed lies designed to protect the sickeningly sweet, wholesome vanilla image that his PR team has spent years cultivating. And my heart breaks when I realize that the gentle, kind hockey player I’ve idolized my entire life doesn’t even exist.
Because from what I can tell, the real Sebastian Steele is an impulsive, possessive man with over-the-top vices, extremely dark desires and way too many personal demons to even count. And it quickly becomes obvious that whatever Baz wants, Baz gets. Period.
There’s just one little problem: what he wants now is me.