Jenny Linsky
Jenny Linsky has never been so bold as to join an athletic team, but she did have her own friends-to-lovers story with her husband after eight years of singing in a choir together. They now have a three-year-old daughter who is considering a career as a soccer player, butterfly, or monster. The three of them live in Boston, for the weather. When she isn’t writing, coding for a living, or child wrangling, Jenny runs a living-room-theater troupe and embarks on hubristic podcast projects with her husband.
Like so many in fandom, Jenny is queer herself, and she glories in writing agonizing and ultimately joyous stories of queer self-discovery and love.
TEAMMATES TO LOVERS
When professional hockey player Will Burns finds gay fanfiction about himself and his teammate, he thinks it must be a joke—until what he's reading starts to hit a little too close to home.
When NHL star forward Will Burns gets sent a fic about him and his best friend (and team captain), he laughs it off. It’s a joke. It has to be. But one late-night scroll turns into another…and another—and suddenly Will’s a little too invested.
Because the fic gets a few things right.
Like how good Théo looks in the locker room. How steady he is under pressure. How he’s always been Will’s person, on and off the ice. And the more Will reads, the harder it is to ignore the truth: maybe he’s not as straight as he thought. Maybe he never was. And maybe what he feels for Théo has never been just friendship.
So Will does what any normal person would do: he dives deeper. He tears through every fic he can find—then starts writing his own. Somewhere between late-night updates and comment threads, he strikes up a flirtatious back-and-forth with Étienne, his favorite Will/Théo author on AO3.
But when a line in Étienne’s latest fic mirrors a private moment Will knows only he and Théo shared, the fantasy stops feeling so fictional. And Will is forced to make a choice: keep everything exactly as it is—safe, controlled, and unspoken—or risk his career, his friendship, and his heart for the one thing he wants most.
Publication
US: Penguin Random House (Dell Romance)
Release date: 16 March 2027
