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    It’s the most famous cold case in hockey history. Up-and-coming Russian phenom Ilya Rozanov mysteriously vanishes the summer before his rookie season. Despite extensive police work, no trace of the young superstar is ever found.

    Shane Hollander remembers Ilya Rozanov. Better than most. And now, several years retired and with two highly successful hockey biographies under his belt, he’s taking a crack at the mystery that’s haunted his own career with strings of what-ifs and memories revisited so often they’ve softened like old cotton.

    Perhaps now, with the long eye of perspective between him and those memories, he can unravel the short lifetime of the man poised to become his biggest rival and best kept secret. Travelling to Russia he searches for stories and the answers they hold.

    If only this damn dog that’s apparently a local cryptid would stop raiding his trash cans.

     
    It has wandered this place for years. It knows every stream, every hill, every tree. Every pale, flat face in the place of straight lines. It does not know this face.

    But it remembers dark eyes and star-dots across the cheeks.
    It cannot remember its own name.

    But it remembers him.

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    11 Jun 2026

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    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
    On the night of 14–15 December 1984, four senior officers of the Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-219, designation Krasnyy Oktyabr', arrived on United States soil. Their defection is assessed as voluntary, premeditated, and of EXCEPTIONAL intelligence value. This event is to be treated as a TIER ONE defection. Unauthorized disclosure will be prosecuted under Executive Order 12333.

    SECTION I — DEFECTING PERSONNEL
    1. Captain First Rank ILYA ROZANOV, 30 years old. Commanding Officer, K-219. Ten years service, Soviet Northern Fleet. Graduate, Frunze Naval Academy, 1972. Rozanov is assessed as the primary architect of the defection. Motivation assessed as ideological disillusionment regarding the Soviet criminalization of homosexuality, compounded by a romantic relationship with [REDACTED].

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    10 Jun 2026

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    Apparently, Shane’s no better than a skittering lab rat, except he doesn’t press a button when he’s hoping for scraps—he knocks on Rozanov’s door.

    Or: Rozanov is never going to love him back, so Shane decides to go to war with biochemistry. He buys a psychology book with a five-step guide to help him do it. If only he could actually stick to the plan.

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    08 Jun 2026

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    The sun is setting soon, and the golden hour light casts the town in a shroud of timeless beauty that steals his breath every time.

    Ilya can’t wait to never see it again.

    Upon the death of his father, hockey star Ilya Rozanov returns home to the sleepy New England town of Moonlight Falls, Connecticut. He just has to survive long enough to settle his family estate before he can turn tail and never come back. Unfortunately for him, his high school sweetheart is still around and just as beautiful as ever. And also, a werewolf. So, there's that.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    “You know,” Shane says to the nobody nearby that definitely doesn’t exist, “You don’t need to hit pause every time I do something mildly interesting.”

    The forest noise swells around him in a great gust of birdsong and tree branch rustling, as if the woods are huffing a laugh at him under their breath. Shane still doesn’t believe in fairytales or spirits, but he’s starting to think that maybe there is a personality to this place. He stops in his tracks at the thought.

    “I’m fucking losing it,” he whispers to himself. “That has to be what this is.”

    There’s something in the woods.

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    07 Jun 2026