title: Puck Me, Babyauthor: Ann Grech
series: San Diego Seals Hockey #2
published: 5.7.2025
publisher: self-published
genre(s): lgbtqia+, romance, sports
pages: 401
source: client
format: manuscript
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What happens in Vegas…
A Vegas trip with my best friend’s much younger son and his roommate sounded like a great idea after my divorce. It wasn’t supposed to end with us married and our drunken escapades splashed all over the internet.
He’s a pro-hockey player, the Captain of the San Diego Seals. The newest team in the NHL has already been marred by scandal, and neither of us wants to be the next disgrace. So, when we’re told to keep up the charade of our fake marriage for a year, we both agree.
After all, how hard can it be?
The answer: much harder than I expected.
To the world, Jacques Gauthier has two roommates. Behind closed doors, they’re together. Getting between them is hotter than the sun. But it’s not just our intimate times I love. I’m falling for all three of them.
Then I find out I’m pregnant.
I don’t want to say goodbye, but they also never signed on to raising a baby.
Puck Me, Baby is a steamy reverse age gap, why choose MMMF romance. It features a curvy woman who’s rediscovering life after divorce, the gorgeous, sweet pro-hockey player who falls first, a cheeky firefighter, a quiet, nerdy guy who’s good with his hands, a Vegas wedding, and an unexpected pregnancy.
CW: This book deals with cheating in a past relationship.
a few notes
trigger warning: ❗some graphic violence❗
POV: 1st person; multi
setting: San Diego, California
keywords/phrases: age gap, reverse harem, hockey, infidelity
tropes: unlikely romance
spice: 5/5🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
language: 5/5🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
mood reading: in the mood for steamy, poly romance with a hockey twist
bonus points: sex positivity, reverse age gap
my review
One of the things I love about Ann Grech is the attention and care she pays to sex positivity and relationship dynamics, weaving stories that are spicy but also not fetishizing. She creates believable characters and gives them relationships that are based on true feelings and love. Puck Me, Baby is a perfect example of this.
The author perfectly balances love and spice, emotions from fear to joy, and all the obstacles to forming lasting relationships. The dynamics that exist between Carina, Jacques, Rusty, and Travis are deep and varied, complex but not confusing. With such a complex relationship, it would be easy for their personalities to never become full formed, but the author instead created fully realized characters with their own pasts and histories, their own feelings and issues. It was so easy to love each and every one of the four!
About Ann Grech
By day Ann Grech lives in the corporate world and can be found sitting behind a desk typing away at reports and papers or lecturing to a room full of students. She graduated with a PhD in 2016 and is now an over-qualified nerd. Glasses, briefcase, high heels and a pencil skirt, she’s got the librarian look nailed too. If only they knew! She swears like a sailor, so that’s got to be a hint. The other one was “the look” from her tattoo artist when she told him that she wanted her kids initials “B” and “J” tattooed on her foot. It took a second to register that it might be a bad idea.
She’s never entirely fit in and loves escaping into a book—whether it’s reading or writing one. But she’s found her tribe now and loves her MM book world family. She dislikes cooking, but loves eating, can’t figure out technology, but is addicted to it, and her guilty pleasure is Byron Bay Cookies. Oh and shoes. And lingerie. And maybe handbags too. Well, if we’re being honest, we’d probably have to add her library too given the state of her credit card every month (what can she say, she’s a bookworm at heart)!
She also publishes her raunchier short stories under her pen name, Olive Hiscock.
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