Grounded

Grounded

K R Collins

K R Collins

Sophie's coach was fired over the summer but not before he took several parting shots at Sophie's character and dedication to her sport and her team. Her coach's firing, her own injury, and her team's whimpering exit from the playoffs weren't the ideal way to end a season, but Sophie's looking forward to a fresh start. If Sophie is on the ice, everything makes sense. She can navigate a new coach, she can handle a strained relationship with Elsa, and she can breathe hope back into her franchise. An unprecedented hot start to the season sees Sophie breaking NAHL records. She has her sights set on Bobby Brindle's point streak record, the one she fell short of breaking in her rookie season. With personal success comes team success, and Concord has a resurgence on the back of Sophie's accomplishments. And then she's injured. She has to spend the rest of the season on the sidelines, and it forces her to confront a question she has never...
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Line Chemistry

Line Chemistry

K R Collins

K R Collins

Coming off a season of professional highs and then lows, Sophie is looking forward to a fresh new season. A season without a new coach or long-term injury. A season where everything returns to normal. But even though Sophie has recovered from tearing her ACL, she isn't back at the top of her game yet. All her life, Sophie's father has told her if she isn't the best, they won't let her play hockey. On the ice, she has to rely on her teammates more than she's used to. She has to learn that there is a place for her on the roster, even if she isn't setting franchise records for points scored in a single season. And off the ice, Sophie learns that some relationships go beyond hockey. She and Elsa are teammates, linemates, but their partnership is more than that. And maybe, all this time she's been telling Elsa she wants them to be Condors for life, she's been asking for something else.
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Home Ice Advantage

Home Ice Advantage

K R Collins

K R Collins

Winning the Maple Cup has always been Sophie Fournier's dream, ever since she was a little girl watching hockey in her grandparents' basement. She isn't satisfied after a season where she won hockey's biggest prize. She wants to hoist the Cup again, in back-to-back seasons. She's done it once before and, like any good hockey player, she knows to repeat a successful formula in order to find success again. Only, this season is determined to be nothing like the last. Coach Butler breaks up not only the top line which drove their success, but he splits Sophie and Elsa. She's cut off from her favorite winger on the ice and off it, Elsa begins to date, leaving Sophie on her own. And with this being a Winter Games year, their NAHL season is halted for international play. For the first time since becoming teammates, Sophie will compete against Elsa for a gold medal. It's a year of change and Sophie hates it. She knows what worked to win the Cup the previous...
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Lighting the Lamp

Lighting the Lamp

K R Collins

K R Collins

Entering her third season, Sophie Fournier has almost everything she wants. She’s the captain of the Concord Condors, she’s roommates and linemates with Elsa Nyberg, the elite Swedish winger she’s wanted to play alongside since the Zurich U-Tourney. There are two major things she’s missing, though. She doesn’t have her next contract lined up, and she still hasn’t won the Maple Cup, hockey’s most coveted prize. If she wins the Cup, she’ll have leverage going into her contract negotiations. And, in case she needed more motivation, this is Benoit Delacroix’s final season as a Concord Condor, and she’s determined he won’t retire without lifting the Cup.
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Glove Save and a Beauty

Glove Save and a Beauty

K R Collins

K R Collins

Gabrielle grew up in the shadow of Five-Hole Billy. When she becomes a goaltender, she carries two important lessons with her. Don't rely on the fans for support and always protect the five-hole. Isolated by the nature of her position and her personality, she struggles to fit in with her team. On the ice, she guards the net, the last line of defense when their efforts fail. Off the ice, her team views her as a girl, not a teammate, as if she can't be more than one thing at once. She doesn't have the patience for their lack of understanding. She resigns herself to a quiet, lonely career set apart from her team. And then she gains a new teammate, someone outgoing enough to overcome her social awkwardness but who always respects the boundaries she sets. He meets her where she is, and she does the same in return.
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Power Play

Power Play

K R Collins

K R Collins

After two seasons without winning another Maple Cup, the pressure is on for Sophie Fournier to win the NAHL's biggest prize. It's her sixth season in the North American Hockey League, and she knows what she needs to do, and how to do it. Only, she isn't the only one feeling the pressure to win. Coach Butler's job is in jeopardy if he can't repeat the success from Sophie's third season. As his vision for the team drifts away from Concord's identity, Sophie is left with a difficult choice. Does she unite the team behind Coach Butler's vision and risk losing her team's identity? Or, does she unite the Condors against their coach and risk her captaincy and her future with the team?
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Sophomore Surge

Sophomore Surge

K R Collins

K R Collins

Entering her second season in the North American Hockey League, Sophie Fournier sets her expectations high. The Concord Condors will make the playoffs for the time in franchise history. They have the veteran core to do it and the new talent to give them the extra push. From the beginning, things don’t go according to plan. The season begins without one of their best players, and they lose others to injury and trades as the season progresses. Hockey is a team sport, and Sophie can’t drag them to the playoffs on her own. Is her voice loud enough to convince her team to believe the way she does?
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