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    Ilya's heart stuttered at the last clip. A video of hands toasting beer bottles. The camera rose and panned the hotel bar, swinging to Harris’s boyfriend and…Shane Hollander. Shane Hollander, in the same light blue shirt that Ilya had seen dashing around a street corner a few hours ago. Shane Hollander, a little rumpled, adorably jet-lagged, drinking at a hotel bar that Harris had conveniently tagged. Ilya knew, he just knew what he'd find when he clicked on the location. The back of his neck was buzzing, a bizarre intuition thrumming in him.

    The location opened, and Ilya had to bite back a laugh. Shane Hollander was in Hanoi, only a few minutes away from him.

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    AU Shane produces a travel show hosted by Rose. When the crew touches down in Hanoi, they cross paths with a pair of travel influencers that Shane would prefer to never see again.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    Shane Hollander is just trying to make enough money to survive as a master's student at Harvard.

    Ilya Rozanov is a star center in the NHL, and wants to find something to relieve stress. He stumbles across a Camboy profile of a beautiful man with the cutest freckles.

    They are on a collision course that will change both of their lives forever.

    (The Camboy AU that no one asked for, but I'm writing it anyway.)

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    06 Jun 2026

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    Jordan Bragg has never believed in love; he’s only ever believed in patterns.
    Following his breakup with Montreal Metro superstar Shane Hollander, Jordan is living exactly the kind of life he always claimed to want: hockey, hookups, parties, and absolutely no strings attached. It’s fun. Predictable. Just the way patterns should be.

    But between his escalating bad habits, concerned teammates, disastrous hookups, and a growing inability to outrun his own loneliness, Jordan finds himself forced to confront a terrifying realization: if this pattern is all he has, then he isn’t left with much.
    Before dating Shane, that never would have bothered him. Jordan thought he was incapable of wanting more. Of needing more.
    But now…

    Jordan finds himself up against one opponent he can’t outmaneuver: uncertainty.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    Shane and Ilya haven’t spoken to each other since they broke up over a misunderstanding at the 2017 All-Stars game. Ilya was traded from Boston to LA and they both tried to move on. But, in December of 2019, when Ilya ends up on injury reserve, he decides to make an unannounced trip to Montreal. He could have never foreseen the global pandemic just around the corner of that decision, and as the world crumbles around them, they find themselves isolated at the cottage for the longest offseason of their lives.

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    05 Jun 2026

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    Ilya let out a quiet laugh, shaking his head. “I want to be perfect for you, Shane. To make up for all the time we lost.”

    “I don’t want perfect,” Shane said quietly, stroking Ilya’s cheek. “I want something real. Something that we fight to make work, because we want it so much. Because being together is so much fucking better than being without each other.”

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    Ten years ago, Shane and Ilya loved each other in secret and let each other go anyway.

    Now Shane, captain of the Ottawa Centaurs, is a single dad to four-year-old Ollie, and good at pretending he doesn’t think about the man he lost when they were younger and terrified of the fallout of being caught. Then one chance meeting turns into drinks, lingering looks, old feelings, and suddenly Ilya Rozanov is everywhere again.

    Some things, it turns out, never really leave you.

    As Shane and Ilya fall back into each other’s lives - and into something softer, steadier, and openly theirs this time — they realise maybe they’re finally ready for the life they used to dream about.

    Or: two hockey players who were each other’s first love reconnect ten years later and slowly build the family they always wanted.

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    01 Jun 2026