Dalvegan Dragons Series by Xavier Neal – Read Books Online Free Ebooks good best novels to read

Dalvegan Dragons Series by Xavier Neal – Read Books Online Free Ebooks good best novels to read http://www.books2020.com Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:15:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://www.books2020.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/favicon.png Dalvegan Dragons Series by Xavier Neal – Read Books Online Free Ebooks good best novels to read http://www.books2020.com 32 32 The Tendy (Dalvegan Dragons #4) Read Online Xavier Neal http://www.books2020.com/the-tendy-dalvegan-dragons-4-read-online-xavier-neal Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:15:39 +0000 http://www.books2020.com/the-tendy-dalvegan-dragons-4-read-online-xavier-neal Genre: Alpha Male, Forbidden, Sports Authors: Xavier Neal Series: Dalvegan Dragons Series by Xavier Neal
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Total pages in book: 92
Estimated words: 93683 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 468(@200wpm)___ 375(@250wpm)___ 312(@300wpm)

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From USA TODAY BESTSELLING author Xavier Neal comes a laugh-out-loud, off-limits, hockey romance!

Always a groomsmen...never a groom.

And yet, when I finally do meet the woman of my dreams - who just so happens to be older than me - it turns out, she's completely off-limits.

And, of course, secretly dating my coach's younger sister is the type of penalty that could completely end my career.

I guess you could say this season won't be easy.

Especially for me, the tendy

*************FULL BOOK START HERE*************

HOCKEY GLOSSARY

Hockey has its own language! And when/if you are not familiar with it, it can be somewhat confusing. While the novel itself defines many of these for you in context, I am also adding this page as a reference point to assist you in the experience.

Apple – An assist

(The) Assist – Assisting in scoring a goal

Barn – Hockey Arena/Hockey Rink

Bardownsky – Type of shot that hit the top bar and goes down into the net, highly impressive

Beauty – Great Player/Skilled Player/Incredible skills (Compliment)

Bench Boss – Coach

Bender – A bad/low skilled player (whose ankles bend poorly while skating) (Insult)

Biscuit – Hockey Puck

Blades – Hockey Skates

Boat Race – High scoring, fast-paced game

Bottle Rocket – When the goaltenders water bottle is bounced into the air by a shot hitting the net

Brewskie – Beer

Broad/Broadskie – Female

Bucket – Helmet

Cage – Type of helmet that has face protecting front

Cap or “C” – Captain

Celly – Celebrate

Chirp/Chirping – Trash talking

Clapper – Slapshot

(The) Cup – The Stanley Cup, the championship trophy/prize in the league

Deke – Quick move to get around a defensive player or beat a goalie with misdirection

Donnybrook – Fight

Drop the Gloves – Fight

Dub or “W” – Win

Duster – Player who spends most of his time on the bench, collecting dust, never playing (Insult)

Ferda (For The Boys) – Doing what’s best/doing something for the boys/the team

Free Agent (off the ice) – Single/Romantically unattached

Garbage Goal – Lucky shot (Insult)

Gino – Goal

GM – General Manager

Hat Trick or Hatty – Three points scored in a single game by a single player

Lettuce – Hair

Lighting the Lamp – Scoring a goal

LTIR “Long Term Injured Reserve – Players who are injured/expected to miss a lot/most of a season are placed on this as part of salary cap reasonings

Mitts (on ice) – Gloves or hands (depending on context)

Mitt (off ice) – Pussy/Twat/Snatch

Pest – Pain in the ass player (Insult)

Pheasant – Useless, terrible or unskillful player (Insult)

PK – Penalty Kill, when the home team is short one player putting them on the disadvantage

Pigeon – Player who consistently makes garbage goals/garbage plays (Insult)

Pipe-Fitter – Averaged skill player who tends to work a little harder during his shifts

Player’s Only Meeting – Meeting/Session held by the captain and/or alternative captains without management/coaching around to handle issues, more like a peer mediation session

Plug (on & off the ice) – A useless player/person (Insult)

Puck Bunny – Female/Chick that specifically tries to sleep or date hockey players (think groupie)

Pylon – A cone used for drills

Pylon – A useless player that’s easy to get around (Insult)

Razor – Player in his prime/at his best

Rocket (off the ice) – An attractive/hot female (Compliment)

Sando – Sandwich

Scratch – Player on the roster that’s not going to dress for the game

Shift/Shifts – The stretch of time a player is on the ice

(The) Show – NHL

Ship – Short for Championship

Shutout – The home team wins the game by preventing the away team from scoring at all

Sieve – Goalie who lets in a lot of goals (Insult)

Sin Bin – Penalty Box

Silky Mitts – Great/amazing stickhandling skills (Compliment)

Snipe – A tight shot that scores on the goalie in the tiniest spaces possible

Sniper – A player who makes the aforementioned shot effortlessly (Compliment)

Snipe/Sniper (off the ice) – An attractive/hot female (Compliment)

Snow Showering – Spraying the goalie with ice shavings intentionally

Stud – Great Player/Skilled Player/Incredible skills (Compliment)

Suicide Pass – A pass made that sets up the player receiving it to get smashed by a waiting defenseman

Sweater – Jersey

Tarp – Top/Shirt/Sweater/Jersey

Tendy – Goalie/Goaltender

The Great One – Wayne Gretzky

Top Cheddar/Top Cheese/Top Shelf/Top Cookies/Where Grandma Hides the Cookies – The top section of the net/top shelf/area of the goal between the crossbar and tendy’s shoulders often used in reference of something being “top notch”

Wheel (on the ice) – Skate/Fast skate/Best skating

Wheel (off the ice) – Picking up/having sex with women

Warmies – Warm ups

Zam or Zamboni – Ice Surface Cleaner

Zebra or Zeb – Another name for a referee

Playlist Selects

Here are five songs from The Stud (Dalvegan Dragons #3) playlist!

Feel free to follow the playlist on Spotify to find more songs I felt related to the book.

Never Gonna Give You Up – Rick Astley (Dance Pop)

2. Kinfolk – Sam Hunt (Country)

3. I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) – Whitney Houston (Pop/R&B)

4. Just Us – Jack Harlow, Doja Cat (Rap/Hip-hop)

5. Baby, I Love You – Ramones (Rock)

More songs: https://bit.ly/TheTendyPlaylist

Chapter 1

Thayne

It’s not every day you see a woman wrapped in white fluff run out of the church like she’s a tendy being called to the bench for an extra forward during the last minute of regulation.

But here I am.

Hands in my suit pockets.

Watching the second worst view of the play – the first of course being the poor pylon beside me that truly thought she was “the one”.

In his defense…she did actually make it to the wedding unlike “the one” before her that didn’t bother showing up to the rehearsal dinner.

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Advertisement The Stud (Dalvegan Dragons #3) Read Online Xavier Neal http://www.books2020.com/the-stud-dalvegan-dragons-3-read-online-xavier-neal Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:58:33 +0000 http://www.books2020.com/the-stud-dalvegan-dragons-3-read-online-xavier-neal Genre: Alpha Male, Forbidden, Sports Authors: Xavier Neal Series: Dalvegan Dragons Series by Xavier Neal
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Total pages in book: 88
Estimated words: 88895 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 444(@200wpm)___ 356(@250wpm)___ 296(@300wpm)

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From USA TODAY BESTSELLING author Xavier Neal comes a laugh-out-loud, off-limits, hockey romance!

He wants her...even more than she hates him.

Loose lips sink ships...

Which isn't a problem unless it causes her twin sister - who you might be in love with - to hate you.

And, of course, if it could get you traded from your dream team due to becoming a PR problem you swore you wouldn't be.

I guess you could say this season won't be easy.

Especially for me, the stud.

*************FULL BOOK START HERE*************

HOCKEY GLOSSARY

Hockey has its own language! And when/if you are not familiar with it, it can be somewhat confusing. While the novel itself defines many of these for you in context, I am also adding this page as a reference point to assist you in the experience.

Apple – An assist

(The) Assist – Assisting in scoring a goal

Barn – Hockey Arena/Hockey Rink

Bardownsky – Type of shot that hit the top bar and goes down into the net, highly impressive

Beauty – Great Player/Skilled Player/Incredible skills (Compliment)

Bench Boss – Coach

Bender – A bad/low skilled player (whose ankles bend poorly while skating) (Insult)

Biscuit – Hockey Puck

Blades – Hockey Skates

Boat Race – High scoring, fast-paced game

Bottle Rocket – When the goaltenders water bottle is bounced into the air by a shot hitting the net

Brewskie – Beer

Broad/Broadskie – Female

Bucket – Helmet

Cage – Type of helmet that has face protecting front

Cap or “C” – Captain

Celly – Celebrate

Chirp/Chirping – Trash talking

Clapper – Slapshot

(The) Cup – The Stanley Cup, the championship trophy/prize in the league

Deke – Quick move to get around a defensive player or beat a goalie with misdirection

Donnybrook – Fight

Drop the Gloves – Fight

Dub or “W” – Win

Duster – Player who spends most of his time on the bench, collecting dust, never playing (Insult)

Ferda (For The Boys) – Doing what’s best/doing something for the boys/the team

Free Agent (off the ice) – Single/Romantically unattached

Garbage Goal – Lucky shot (Insult)

Gino – Goal

GM – General Manager

Hat Trick or Hatty – Three points scored in a single game by a single player

Lettuce – Hair

Lighting the Lamp – Scoring a goal

LTIR “Long Term Injured Reserve – Players who are injured/expected to miss a lot/most of a season are placed on this as part of salary cap reasonings

Mitts (on ice) – Gloves or hands (depending on context)

Mitt (off ice) – Pussy/Twat/Snatch

Pest – Pain in the ass player (Insult)

PK – Penalty Kill, when the home team is short one player putting them on the disadvantage

Pigeon – Player who consistently makes garbage goals/garbage plays (Insult)

Pipe-Fitter – Averaged skill player who tends to work a little harder during his shifts

Player’s Only Meeting – Meeting/Session held by the captain and/or alternative captains without management/coaching around to handle issues, more like a peer mediation session

Plug (on & off the ice) – A useless player/person (Insult)

Puck Bunny – Female/Chick that specifically tries to sleep or date hockey players (think groupie)

Pylon – A cone used for drills

Pylon – A useless player that’s easy to get around (Insult)

Razor – Player in his prime/at his best

Rocket (off the ice) – An attractive/hot female (Compliment)

Sando – Sandwich

Scratch – Player on the roster that’s not going to dress for the game

Shift/Shifts – The stretch of time a player is on the ice

(The) Show – NHL

Ship – Short for Championship

Shutout – The home team wins the game by preventing the away team from scoring at all

Sieve – Goalie who lets in a lot of goals (Insult)

Sin Bin – Penalty Box

Silky Mitts – Great/amazing stickhandling skills (Compliment)

Snipe – A tight shot that scores on the goalie in the tiniest spaces possible

Sniper – A player who makes the aforementioned shot effortlessly (Compliment)

Snipe/Sniper (off the ice) – An attractive/hot female (Compliment)

Snow Showering – Spraying the goalie with ice shavings intentionally

Stud – Great Player/Skilled Player/Incredible skills (Compliment)

Suicide Pass – A pass made that sets up the player receiving it to get smashed by a waiting defenseman

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Advertisement The Veteran (Dalvegan Dragons #2) Read Online Xavier Neal http://www.books2020.com/the-veteran-dalvegan-dragons-2-read-online-xavier-neal Sat, 13 Apr 2024 11:41:42 +0000 http://www.booksnovels.com/the-veteran-dalvegan-dragons-2-read-online-xavier-neal Genre: Alpha Male, Contemporary, Sports Authors: Xavier Neal Series: Dalvegan Dragons Series by Xavier Neal
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Total pages in book: 91
Estimated words: 90524 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 453(@200wpm)___ 362(@250wpm)___ 302(@300wpm)

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What's good for the gosling is good for the gander...At least according to the sunshine and snowflakes woman whose amnesia episode has her believing she's been assigned to be my daughter's new nanny.And, of course, I can't really fire the fake hire because the last thing I need as the captain of my pro hockey team is to be trending for more drama.I guess you could say this season won't be easy.Especially for me, the veteran.TROPE CHECKGrumpy/SunshineSingle Dad/Nanny Amnesia Romance Plus-Size/Curvy Heroine Possessive Alpha

*************FULL BOOK START HERE*************

HOCKEY GLOSSARY

Hockey has its own language! And when/if you are not familiar with it, it can be somewhat confusing. While the novel itself defines many of these for you in context, I am also adding this page as a reference point to assist you in the experience.

Apple – An assist

(The) Assist – Assisting in scoring a goal

Barn – Hockey Arena/Hockey Rink

Bardownsky – Type of shot that hit the top bar and goes down into the net, highly impressive

Beauty – Great Player/Skilled Player/Incredible skills (Compliment)

Bench Boss – Coach

Bender – A bad/low skilled player (whose ankles bend poorly while skating) (Insult)

Biscuit – Hockey Puck

Blades – Hockey Skates

Boat Race – High scoring, fast-paced game

Bottle Rocket – When the goaltenders water bottle is bounced into the air by a shot hitting the

net

Brewskie – Beer

Broad/Broadskie – Female

Bucket – Helmet

Cage – Type of helmet that has face protecting in the front

Cap or “C” – Captain

Celly – Celebrate

Chirp/Chirping – Trash talking

Clapper – Slapshot

(The) Cup – The Stanley Cup, the championship trophy/prize in the league

Deke – Quick move to get around a defensive player or beat a goalie with misdirection

Donnybrook – Fight

Drop the Gloves – Fight

Dub or “W” – Win

Duster – Player who spends most of his time on the bench, collecting dust, never playing (Insult)

Ferda (For The Boys) – Doing what’s best/doing something for the boys/the team

Free Agent (off the ice) – Single/Romantically unattached

Garbage Goal – Lucky shot (Insult)

Gino – Goal

GM – General Manager

Hat Trick or Hatty – Three points scored in a single game by a single player

Lettuce – Hair

Lighting the Lamp – Scoring a goal

LTIR “Long Term Injured Reserve – Players who are injured/expected to miss a lot/most of a

season are placed on this as part of salary cap reasonings

Mitts (on ice) – Gloves or hands (depending on context)

Mitt (off ice) – Pussy/Twat/Snatch

Pest – Pain in the ass player (Insult)

PK – Penalty Kill, when the home team is short one player putting them on the disadvantage

Pigeon – Player who consistently makes garbage goals/garbage plays (Insult)

Pipe-Fitter – Averaged skill player who tends to work a little harder during his shifts

Player’s Only Meeting – Meeting/Session held by the captain and/or alternative captains without

management/coaching around to handle issues, more like a peer mediation session

Plug (on & off the ice) – A useless player/person (Insult)

Puck Bunny – Female/Chick that specifically tries to sleep or date hockey players (think groupie)

Pylon – A cone used for drills

Pylon – A useless player that’s easy to get around (Insult)

Razor – Player in his prime/at his best

Rocket (off the ice) – An attractive/hot female (Compliment)

Sando – Sandwich

Scratch – Player on the roster that’s not going to dress for the game

Shift/Shifts – The stretch of time a player is on the ice

(The) Show – NHL

Ship – Short for Championship

Shutout – The home team wins the game by preventing the away team from scoring at all

Sieve – Goalie who lets in a lot of goals (Insult)

Sin Bin – Penalty Box

Silky Mitts – Great/amazing stickhandling skills (Compliment)

Snipe – A tight shot that scores on the goalie in the tiniest spaces possible

Sniper – A player who makes the aforementioned shot effortlessly (Compliment)

Snipe/Sniper (off the ice) – An attractive/hot female (Compliment)

Snow Showering – Spraying the goalie with ice shavings intentionally

Stud – Great Player/Skilled Player/Incredible skills (Compliment)

Suicide Pass – A pass made that sets up the player receiving it to get smashed by a waiting defenseman

Sweater – Jersey

Tarp – Top/Shirt/Sweater/Jersey

Tendy – Goalie/Goaltender

The Great One – Wayne Gretzky

Top Cheddar/Top Cheese/Top Shelf/Top Cookies/Where Grandma Hides the Cookies – The top section of the net/top shelf/area of the goal between the crossbar and tendy’s shoulders often used in reference of something being “top notch”

Wheel (on the ice) – Skate/Fast skate/Best skating

Wheel (off the ice) – Picking up/having sex with women

Warmies – Warm ups

Zam or Zamboni – Ice Surface Cleaner

Zebra or Zeb – Another name for a referee

Playlist Selects

Here are five songs from the The Veteran (Dalvegan Dragons #2) playlist!

Feel free to follow the playlist on Spotify to find more songs I felt related to the book.

1. I’ll Be Around – The Spinners (R&B)

2. Naked – X Ambassadors (Rock)

3. Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely – Backstreet Boys (Pop)

4. Dime Mi Amory (Texican Rock n’ Roll)

5. Neon You – Don Louis (Country)

More songs: https://bit.ly/TheVeteranPlaylist

Chapter 1

Igor

It turns out the only thing worse than being chewed out in Russian by my old man is being bitched at in English by the woman who literally holds my career in the palm of her claw like hands.

Most people think it’s the bench boss that a player should be afraid of.

Those people?

They’ve clearly never met Harlow “Hot Rocket” Hennington, Owner and GM of the Dalvegan Dragons ice hockey franchise.

And yeah, Hot Rocket would be redundant – since that’s what a rocket is – if it weren’t for the fact hot was in reference to her temper rather than her body.

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Advertisement The Owner (Dalvegan Dragons #1) Read Online Xavier Neal http://www.books2020.com/the-owner-dalvegan-dragons-1-read-online-xavier-neal Fri, 24 Mar 2023 15:26:25 +0000 http://www.booksnovels.com/the-owner-dalvegan-dragons-1-read-online-xavier-neal Genre: Contemporary, Funny, Romance, Sports Authors: Xavier Neal Series: Dalvegan Dragons Series by Xavier Neal
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Total pages in book: 85
Estimated words: 83190 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 416(@200wpm)___ 333(@250wpm)___ 277(@300wpm)

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What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas…
That’s true unless your new husband – who is much younger than you by the way – doesn’t actually want a divorce when you both sober up.
Or, of course, if you get pregnant – the last thing you need right after becoming the new GM to a failing pro hockey team.
I guess you could say this year won’t be easy.
Especially for me, the owner.

*************FULL BOOK START HERE*************

Here are five songs from the The Owner playlist!

Feel free to follow the playlist on Spotify to find more songs I felt related to the book.

1. Jealous (Remix)—Nick Jonas, Tinashe (R&B)

2.p B.I.G.—X Ambassadors (Rock)

3. Bad At Love—Halsey (Pop)

4. if I could I would feel nothing—blackbear (Rap/Hip-hop)

5. Starstruck—Years & Years (Electro Pop)

More songs

Harlow

This is how normal people mourn the death of their favorite person on the planet, right?

They hop on their private plane with their anal-retentive assistant best friend less than four hours after the funeral of their father—the only real parent to give a fuck about them—send one of their best friends since childhood money for a plane ticket—since he couldn’t make it for the funeral because of a tight cash situation—and tell him to meet them in Vegas where they’ve rented the penthouse suite of The Frost Luxury Hotel for their get royally fucked up adventures.

All of that is…totally…run of the mill…ordinary.

Just like having a Wilcox and coke—or six—during the aforementioned jet setting from Texas to Nevada prior to pounding back shot after shot after shot the instant their best friend and his hot tagalong walk through the door is quite reasonable.

And it’s probably safe to assume that the average grieving individual would also throw cash around the casino like they just won The Cup versus sucking so fucking hard that they’re dead last in the league.

The. Whole. Fucking. League.

Our team sucks so much fucking ass that it gave my dad a stroke.

Okay.

That’s a lie.

The preference for high dollar steaks, fried cheese curds, and refusal to even look at salad contributed to the attack as well as the excessive drinking, smoking, and inconsistency in bringing down his high blood pressure.

But like…owning and having a hand in operating the worst team in the league was probably a factor too.

And while all the shit that I’ve previously listed is obviously acceptable bereavement behavior for a rational, reasonable, emotionally balanced person, I know without a doubt blacking out and waking up with a goddamn mood ring on their left hand is not.

I slowly rotate my warm, honey brown skinned palm from one side to other, glaring at the piece of tacky jewelry.

Black probably isn’t the best sign.

Maybe it means I’m dehydrated?

That I’m malnourished?

Fuck, maybe that I need to take a shit?

Both hands promptly fly over my face on a heavy sigh.

Forfuckssake, it’s not the latest Fitbit. Its job probably isn’t to help regulate my life or remind me how unregulated my life is. Clearly, its sole purpose is to…well, to be honest, I don’t know what the fuck the point of these things are or why on Earth I fucking have one.

And whose idea was it to get one?!

And why would I agree to wear it?

What part of me—skates with the boys, drinks with boys, titty bar hops with the boys—suddenly screams trashy middle school accessories?!

I didn’t even wear those things in middle school!

I would’ve been the laughingstock of the whole fucking barn.

It was hard enough getting them to take me seriously as the only girl on the whole fucking team; however, that shit did change when they realized I was a sniper.

In and out of the uniform.

Audible grumbles suddenly appear next to me not only fanning the dull throbbing I was hoping would be gone by now but drawing my burning gaze over to the stirring movement beside me.

Please let that be a person.

Please let that be a person.

Please let that be a person and not some random baby farm animals Geoffrey Winslow—my childhood best friend from my mother’s home country, Doctenn—convinced me to adopt again.

Ugh.

I can’t believe I have to say the word again.

Although, I’ll admit it.

Life wouldn’t be the same without Cookies and Cream, my Nigerian dwarf goats. Getting those two cuddle bugs not only made turning thirty-five a lot more fun, but they also gave Dad a reason to finally get me out of my downtown condo and into a huge house he had built for me right on the outskirts of Dalvegan. Of course, said house came with obnoxious conversations about me settling down. Getting away from the league—the only thing I fucking live and breathe for. And of course, starting a life with someone who—if it were up to Dad—had very little knowledge about our shared beloved sport.

Sometimes I think he wanted the same type of makeup and cocktails daughter that my socialite, money hungry, ass kissing mother did instead of the sweater—also known as a jersey—wearing and brewskies guzzling one he got stuck raising.

Other times, I know without a doubt, he was grateful for the fearless, athlete obsessed, business savvy beauty he bragged about whenever asked about his personal life.

God, it used to drive her insane to hear him gush about me or our trips around the world together. Without fail, she’d use the press coverage like a debit card to extract more cash from him that she didn’t deserve.

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