What happens when three friends with benefits join together to make a throuple? Ivan has always been a bit of a player, and not just on the hockey rink. But lately the center for the Hopeton Howlers, the league’s newest expansion team, is having a bit of a midlife crisis. He just turned thirty, and his mother is bugging him to settle down. He’s secretly in love with the woman he’s been hooking up with, Maria, but she seems to only want to keep things casual. Then there’s his best friend Erik, a defenseman for the team. The two bisexual men have had a casual arrangement for years, but now Erik is ready to get married, and he’s looking for the man or woman he can make a family with. When Erik meets Maria for the first time, sparks…and pucks…fly. Suddenly Ivan is worried that he will lose them both, at least until he remembers that they’re living in Hopeton, where poly relationships are the norm. Now Ivan has a new moving his friends with benefits to something more. But can these three independent souls turn their fun and steamy nights into a long-term relationship? “Penalty Box” is a sweet and steamy MMF menage romance with two best friends who go for the same woman but aren’t afraid to share, meddling matchmaker friends, an independent woman with commitment issues, and two cinnamon roll hockey players looking to find their forever love.