Between Whistles
Nikolai Volkov and Caden Mercer are the NHL's most celebrated rivals. For three years, their on-ice battles have sold out arenas, dominated headlines, and made them both legends. The world....
Nikolai Volkov and Caden Mercer are the NHL's most celebrated rivals. For three years, their on-ice battles have sold out arenas, dominated headlines, and made them both legends. The world loves watching them hate each other. But hate has never been the whole story. When a private sponsor event in Las Vegas puts them alone in the same room, something happens that neither man planned and neither can take back. One moment — one silence between whistles — cracks the wall they have both spent years building. And behind it is something far more dangerous than rivalry. Niko is a man of iron control — cold, private, untouchable. Hockey is the only language he has ever trusted. Cade is the opposite on the surface — warm, magnetic, beloved — but underneath the smile is a man who has spent his entire career hiding who he truly is. Together they make no sense. Together they make complete sense. And that is the most terrifying thing either of them has ever faced. What follows is a story of two men fighting themselves, each other, and a world that has decided exactly who they are — as they quietly, dangerously, fall apart and back together across two NHL seasons, a pair of playoff runs, and one very determined journalist who is getting far too close to the truth. Between Whistles is about what happens when the final buzzer sounds and there are no more crowds, no more cameras, no more performance — just two people standing in the silence, deciding if the truth is worth everything it will cost them. And it will cost them everything.
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