GallagherWitt
TITLE: Scoreless Game
CO-AUTHOR: Anna Zabo
SERIES: On the Board
COVER ARTIST: Lori Witt
LENGTH: 180,000 Words
PAIRING: Gay, Bisexual-identifying Characters, Asexual
GENRE(S)/THEME(S): Contemporary, Athletes,
Hockey, Addiction, Friends to Lovers
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Audio (narrated by Michael Ferraiuolo)
"There are years of deflected conflicts roiling the pages — along with devotion, vulnerability and the kind of desperate pining that turns a reader absolutely feral." - The New York Times
At nearly thirty-one years old, Pittsburgh Griffins captain Elias Karlsson’s hockey years are numbered. Everything is changing around him, including his eleven-year friendship with Nikolai Sidorov. Elias would give anything for Nisha to be a permanent part of his life, but their once bedrock-strong bond has broken into a million pieces, and Elias doesn’t know why. More than anything, Elias wants his friend back, but if that isn’t an option, maybe it’s time for him to look outside of hockey for someone to be there with him when hockey isn’t an option anymore.
Nisha’s world is splintering apart. He’s been in love with his two best friends for years, but now one of them has someone. The other, Elias, is searching for everything Nisha wishes he could give him… but he’s looking for it in anyone but Nisha. The farther his friends slip away, the deeper the loneliness sinks in and the bleaker his empty future looks. What can he do but numb the pain in the only ways he knows how?
On the eve of the season opener, Nisha’s unexplained absence threatens the cohesion of the team and puts him and Elias on a collision course of strong wills, broken hearts, and shattered trust. In the end, they may lose the very thing that matters most to them both: each other.
CW: on-page struggles with alcoholism and binge-drinking, suicidal ideation, toxic family dynamics, acephobia