Thanks
for joining Avon Gale and Piper Vaughn on the OFF THE ICE blog tour. In the Hat
Trick series, love and hockey collide—and create enough heat to melt the ice.
Join the players as they chase both the Stanley Cup and their own personal
happily ever afters.
About Off
the Ice
Tristan
Holt is nothing if not pragmatic. Despite a flourishing career as a defenseman
for the Atlanta Venom, Tristan knows he can’t play hockey forever. One day
he’ll retire—if an injury doesn’t force him to hang up his skates first. His
backup plan? Finishing his business degree. But he doesn’t count on a very
inappropriate attraction to his standoffish sociology professor, Sebastian
Cruz.
Sebastian
is on the bottom rung of the Sociology Department at Georgia State. He has his
sights set on tenure, and he can’t afford to be distracted, especially not by a
sexy student with a body straight out of Sebastian’s dreams. No matter how much
Tristan tempts him, that’s one line Sebastian won’t cross. At least not until
summer classes end. After that, everything is fair game.
But
Sebastian lives loud and proud, and Tristan is terrified of being the first out
player in the NHL. Neither of them can afford to risk their hearts when they
can’t imagine a happily ever after. The problem is, unlike hockey, when it
comes to love, there are no rules.
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About Avon Gale
Avon grew up in the southern United
States, and now lives with her very patient husband in a liberal Midwestern
college town. When she’s not writing, she’s either doing some kind of craft
project that makes a huge mess, reading, watching horror movies, listening to
music or yelling at her favorite hockey team to get it together, already. Avon
is always up for a road trip, adores Kentucky bourbon, thinks nothing is as
stress relieving as a good rock concert, and will never say no to candy.
At one point, Avon was the mayor of both
Jazzercise and Lollicup on Foursquare. This tells you basically all you need to
know about her as a person.
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About Piper
Vaughn
Piper Vaughn wrote her first love story
at eleven and never looked back. Since then, she’s known that writing in some
form was exactly what she wanted to do. A reader at the core, Piper loves
nothing more than getting lost in a great book—fantasy, young adult, romance,
sci-fi, she loves them all (and has an over-two-thousand-book library to prove
it!). She’s an avid tea drinker, a hockey fanatic, a vintage typewriter
collector, and loves to travel so much she has “wanderlust” tattooed on her
ankle and dozens of countries on her bucket list. Recently, she discovered the
world of nail art and realized she’s pretty handy with a paintbrush—as long as
it’s a miniature one.
As a bisexual and Latinx person, Piper
takes great pride in her heritage. She grew up in an ethnically diverse
neighborhood and strives to put faces and characters of every ethnicity in her
stories, so her fictional worlds are as colorful as the real one. She currently
resides in the suburbs of Chicago with her husband, son, and a cat that has
Piper wrapped around her little paw. Above all, she believes that everyone
needs a little true love in their life … even if it’s only in a book.
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Giveaway
To celebrate the release of Off the Ice, one lucky winner will receive a Venom t-shirt in their size
and Venom notebook! Leave a comment with your contact info to
enter the contest. Entries close at midnight, Eastern time, on November 4,
2017. Thanks for following the tour, and don’t
forget to leave your contact info!
Love Avon and Piper's other books. This one should be good.
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