The Keeper of the Cold Ice

Elias Brandt has been the Binding Goaltender of the Saskatoon Frostbacks for seventeen years. The contract he signed at nineteen guarantees the team a place in the playoffs and takes something back every season - a joint, a year of his life, a piece of whatever it is that keeps a body warm. He is thirty-six now. He is not going to see forty. When the Frostbacks trade for two new defensemen, Elias assumes they're the contract's next meal. Tarvo Sild has runes stitched into his laces and knows exactly what Elias is carrying. Cormac Doyle finds things for a living and can find anything, including a page filed in 1907 and signed in something that was not ink. Breaking the contract requires two witnesses, a willing co-signer, and a night on the rink with the arena dark. Elias has two men willing to stand with him. What the ice wants back is more than any of them planned to give. A dark MMM urban paranormal hockey novel of old magic, old men in a young man's game, and two witnesses who refuse to leave.