Overview

No league. No rules. No mercy.

Welcome to the Compound—an underground hockey ring where players bleed for bets and the only thing colder than the ice is the men who survive it.

Julian Reaver was a golden boy once. NHL star.
Untouchable.
Now he’s banned, broken, and dragged into a world that wants him either useful… or dead.

Rafael “Rafe” Scalzi is the man assigned to break him—a goalie, an enforcer, a monster carved from control and silence.

Rafe doesn’t believe in saving people. He believes in owning them.
And Julian? He’s exactly the kind of chaos Rafe was built to handle.

What starts as punishment turns into something darker. Something consuming.
Rafe decides when Julian skates, when he breathes, when he earns his next high—and the deeper Julian falls, the tighter that control becomes.

328 pages