They Bought the Ice, They Bought Us

The Chicago Cutters are owned by a company that has no address and have won the Presidents' Trophy seven years running. Their enforcer, Rene Duchamp, has been on the roster since he was twenty-one and has not aged in a decade. When the team trades for backup goalie Yin Okonkwo and hires assistant coach Benoît Marchand, Rene recognizes both of them from a page he signed in a room under the arena, and from nothing else. Yin has been dreaming about a rink with no roof since he was a teenager. Benoît has been sleeping on a schedule he did not choose. All three of them signed the same contract fifteen years ago, and only Rene has been awake for it. Breaking the contract requires three living signatories in the same place at the same time - something the thing beneath the arena has spent a century preventing. A dark MMM urban paranormal hockey romance about a team that was never a team, a city with a second rink under the first, and three men who are finally awake at the same time.