At 17, star defenseman Brian Thomas McPhee likes his chances of making it as a pro hockey player. Yet a string of recent "accidents" threatens to knock his team out of the playoffs and ruin his promising career. BT McPhee has begun to question how many "accidents" can happen before they become more than a coincidence. But it's not a good time for questions. Not when the team needs him most. For BT McPhee, however, there is no choice. Unless the questions are answered, the team's season and his promising career will surely end.

Seventeen-year-old hockey star B.T. McPhee needs to figure out why his team is suddenly being victimized by a series of mysterious accidents which threaten their chances to win the playoffs.

This is Book 1 of the Lightning on Ice Series for children ages 10-14, stories which weave a tantalizing mystery and a sports dilemma that includes plenty of exciting on-ice hockey drama.

Their goal is to beat the Russian All-Stars in a best-of-seven series to be shown as a television special. Hog Burnell, one of the biggest and toughest players in the league, is happy to be part of it. He could use the money that would come with a series win by the WHL All-Stars. At the very worst, it's a free vacation to Russia. It doesn't take Hog long to discover there's plenty more money to be made along the way.if he's willing to pay the price for it.

Dakota Smith is in trouble.But Mike "Crazy" Keats, with a troubled background himself, doesn't care. He's new to the Seattle Thunderbirds, and Dakota seems like a good guy to have for a friend. Unfortunately, not everyone accepts Dakota's Indian heritage so easily. Spin-off racial hatred takes Keats and Dakota into a web of violence and deceit that makes winning this year's league title the least of their concerns.

When Josh Ellroy, left-winger for the Kamloops Blazers, and his dad find more than a dozen dead cattle on the family ranch, Josh has some serious decisions to make. On one hand, the Western Hockey League playoffs are ahead, plus a chance to play in the National Hockey League. On the other hand, there's a beautiful and interesting girl who believes more prize bulls will be killed. Josh is afraid of what will happen if he gets involved. As he learns more, he's afraid of what will happen if he doesn't.

Tyler Watson and his teammate, the star center for the Portland Winter Hawks hockey team, discover that working with street kids has placed their own lives in danger.