Downloading Five Hole Heart (Seattle Storm 2)
He was supposed to stop every shot. No one ever taught him how to survive the ones that broke him.
Ilya Vasiliev was untouchable—Vezina finalist, Stanley Cup champion, the best goalie the franchise had ever seen.Until the puck started slipping through his five-hole.
Until the saves stopped coming.
Until the league decided he was replaceable.
With his career hanging by a thread and ten games standing between him and exile, Ilya is drowning in guilt he’s carried since childhood—guilt that no amount of trophies can erase.
Enter Leo Marchand: a relentless rookie, an elite scorer, and the last person Ilya wants anywhere near his unraveling world. Assigned to “fix” him, Leo refuses to walk away—showing up before dawn, taking the hardest shots, and seeing through every wall Ilya has built.
What starts as obligation becomes obsession.
What begins on the ice ignites everywhere else.
As pressure mounts from management, the media circles, and ghosts from Ilya’s past return to demand payment, the line between redemption and destruction blurs. Loving Leo might be the thing that saves him—or the final distraction that costs him everything.
Five Hole Heart is a raw, slow-burn, emotionally devastating hockey romance about trauma, masculinity, and what it means to be worthy of love when you believe you’ve already failed. 226 pages
Ilya Vasiliev was untouchable—Vezina finalist, Stanley Cup champion, the best goalie the franchise had ever seen.Until the puck started slipping through his five-hole.
Until the saves stopped coming.
Until the league decided he was replaceable.
With his career hanging by a thread and ten games standing between him and exile, Ilya is drowning in guilt he’s carried since childhood—guilt that no amount of trophies can erase.
Enter Leo Marchand: a relentless rookie, an elite scorer, and the last person Ilya wants anywhere near his unraveling world. Assigned to “fix” him, Leo refuses to walk away—showing up before dawn, taking the hardest shots, and seeing through every wall Ilya has built.
What starts as obligation becomes obsession.
What begins on the ice ignites everywhere else.
As pressure mounts from management, the media circles, and ghosts from Ilya’s past return to demand payment, the line between redemption and destruction blurs. Loving Leo might be the thing that saves him—or the final distraction that costs him everything.
Five Hole Heart is a raw, slow-burn, emotionally devastating hockey romance about trauma, masculinity, and what it means to be worthy of love when you believe you’ve already failed. 226 pages