Half-Past

The all-monstergirl hockey league has never drafted a man. The worst team in pro hockey just called his name.

Jake Merrick spent eight years riding buses in the human minors, waiting for a shot that never came. Then the Hartford Chimeras, the League's punchline franchise, burned their last draft pick on him as a publicity stunt.

The Mythic Hockey League belongs to monsterfolk, and monsterfolk are women. Foxes, dragons, direwolves, twenty-three predators per roster, and arena wards that cap their magic just enough to keep the game survivable. Capped is not tame. Every night Jake is slower than the fast ones and smaller than the strong ones. Every night he gets up.

Then he tells the most photographed fox girl in professional sports that her release beats the goalie's feet and she should shoot more. No glance at the tail. No comment on the pigtails. Just hockey.

Nobody has ever done that to her.

He treats monstergirls like hockey players. Linemates. In a league where every woman gets stared at for what she is, that makes him the most dangerous man in any building.

Chloe Pierce, the fox winger who told every camera in Hartford that drafting a human is an insult to her career. Their line chemistry is the best she's ever had, and he's the only person alive who talks to her about her game instead of her tail.

Regina Davenport, the ice dragon goalie whose family owns the franchise. She opposed his draft as beneath the Davenport name, until he took a beating defending her crease for a team that treated him like a joke. Now he's her human. Insult him and answer to her.

Tilly Shaw, the direwolf captain of the rival Boston Furies and the most feared player in the League. He takes her best open-ice hit, gets up, and taps her shin pads like a gentleman. Wolves remember. Wolves collect.

The old families want his contract voided. The media wants the Man versus the Monsters. The locker room gave him a week. The women are deciding he's theirs.

And every shift he survives proves the thing the League's purists have spent two generations denying. The door is open now.

Drafted by Monstergirls Book 1 is a full-length monster girl hockey HaremLit novel featuring a growing harem and a single first-person male MC. First of a trilogy.