Crossfire · Book One
NEAR MISS
He drew him before he knew him.
Dean Callahan is Hartwell’s golden boy: hockey captain, small-town legend, the guy who has never once let himself want anything he couldn’t explain.
Gabe Delaney is the new kid who sits in the stands with a sketchbook in his lap, barely watching the hockey while he draws something nobody else can see. And he goes home every night to a father the whole town respects, in a house where every sound echoes twice.
Then one hit sends Dean through the glass and into the stands, right on top of the sketchbook kid. When the dust settles, Gabe’s leg is broken, and Dean, guilty and completely out of his depth, shows up at the hospital with a bag of Skittles and writes his number on the cast.
It was supposed to be an apology.
It turns into the most dangerous thing either of them has ever done.