Sudden Death Overtime

Description

Meet Sprague Deacon—one of the toughest old-time hockey players who ever skated upon a rink of hand-poured ice. Sprague was born, raised, and expects to die here on the Northern Labrador coast. What he did not expect was a tour bus full of vampires, none of whom glitter in the least bit, to pull into his town and begin lowering the population level—one corpse at a time. Sprague and his three best friends, an over-the-hill, never-say-quit bush league hockey team from Northern Labrador, go toe-to-tooth with the vampires in an immortal-stakes showdown of . . . street hockey?

Also including the bonus time travelling hockey tale, “Time Out,” as well as a bonus hockey-oriented ghost story, “Smoke Signals.”

“With Sudden Death Overtime, Vernon perfectly captures the dark heart of a Canadian Winter and the lifetime passion surrounding the game of hockey. He takes a group of old friends who never backed down from a fight on the ice when they were younger and still refuse to do so even when they’re old enough to know better. Toss on the rink some memorable characters, truly great dialogue, a bus-load of nasty vampires, and a shocking surprise ending that you won’t see coming, and you’ve got yourself a story that’s sure to be a winner.” —Gord Rollo, author of Valley of the Scarecrow