The Ice Between Us
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Hostile Ice by Rachel Matteo (Rachel_Matteo)
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
15 May 2026
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Shane Hollander has spent his entire career in careful control - of his image, his privacy, and the parts of himself he wasn’t ready to share with the world. One leaked conversation strips all of that away overnight, and what’s left in its wake is a locker room that’s turned on him, a coaching staff that wants him gone, and an organization that has decided the easiest solution is to make him disappear quietly.
Ilya has been in the league now long enough to understand that some things are too dangerous to want. He has his career, his team, and the laws of his home country to think about. He has very good reasons to keep his distance from Shane Hollander and the storm currently surrounding him. But he’s never been good at doing what he should do.
A story about what it costs to have everything taken from you - your privacy, your safety, your right to tell your own story - and what it looks like to slowly, painstakingly, build something real in the wreckage. About two people who have been circling each other for years finally running out of room to keep pretending. About found family, hostile ice, and the difference between the life you survived and the one you actually get to live.
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- Part 1 of The Ice Between Us
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Open Ice by Rachel Matteo (Rachel_Matteo)
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
15 May 2026
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The ice was not quite regulation size because he refused to take out the birch trees.
But it was, Shane Hollander thought, perfect.
This is not the story of how Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov fell in love - that story already happened - in hotel rooms and stolen moments between games, in secrets leaked and for hard fought for happiness. This is what comes after.
Their relationship. Their marriage. The Cups. The years.
The daughters who arrived and changed everything.
Two little girls on a rink in Lanaudière, Quebec who were supposed to grow up and play together in the PWHL - until it became clear to their fathers as they circled each other on the ice with such a competitive heat, that rivalry was very much in their blood.
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- Part 2 of The Ice Between Us