Winging It
Winging It is the second novel in Ashlyn Kane and Morgan James's Hockey Ever After series, a queer hockey-romance line set in a fictional NHL universe centered on the Indianapolis Racers. Dante Baltierra is the team's brash, charming first-line center, recently and very publicly outed by an ex-boyfriend's tabloid interview. Gabe Martin is the team's quiet, steady backup goaltender, openly gay for years and married to a former teammate whose career-ending concussion has left their relationship in slow, painful decline. When Dante turns up at Gabe's apartment after a brutal road game and the implosion of his own short-lived relationship, the two slip first into friendship, then into a fake-dating arrangement designed to manage Dante's media exposure, and then into something neither of them quite signed up for. Kane and James write the locker-room politics, the cap-space arithmetic, and the actual texture of an NHL season with notable confidence.
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What you might want to know about Winging It
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
Twenty-three-year-old Dante Baltierra is a closeted left wing for the Vancouver Orcas of the NHL, working through a Montreal trade and a long road trip when the new media manager Gabe Martin starts running his social accounts.
Yes. It contains explicit on-page sex scenes typical of contemporary romance with disability representation.
Yes. It contains explicit on-page sex scenes typical of contemporary romance with disability representation.
Yes. It contains explicit on-page sex scenes typical of contemporary romance with disability representation.
It is part of Hannah Bonam-Young's Next of Kin series, following Next of Kin and Out of the Woods.
Winging It was written by Ashlyn Kane, published in 2015 by Dreamspinner Press.
Winging It is 300 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Winging It takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Winging It is a standalone novel by Ashlyn Kane, not part of a series.
Winging It is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.