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Cover: Designs By Sloan
Length: 70,695 words approx.
Blurb
The thirty-eight-year-old captain of the Buffalo Surge had led his team to the final round of the playoffs with his aggressive defensive play and leadership. During the first game of the championship series, he was taken down, and his leg snapped upon impact with the boards. From his hospital bed, Mathieu watched his team go on to win it all.
Adrift in anger, resentment, and the new direction of his life, he returns to his mansion along the St. Lawrence River. Alone and sulking, Mathieu is not prepared for Indigo Neu to enter his life. The genderflux twenty-year-old botany major signs on to play nursemaid, confidant, and groundskeeper over the summer and slowly leads Mathieu out of his confusionę«one tender smile and touch at a time.
The deeper Mathieu falls, the more he wonders if being lost might not be so bad after all.
My Two Pennies Worth
This is my first book by VL Locey.
I’m not a hockey fan, but apparently I find books with hockey player MCs enjoyable reads. There is something appealing about a gruff MC who’s quite happy to knock someone’s teeth out on the ice, finally finding someone who turns their heart to mush. Maybe it’s because so many are hiding their true nature and I’m a sucker for a closeted MC who finally falls for the one person who makes stepping through that door worth it and necessary.
And they don’t come much more gruff, closeted, and broken than Mat.
This book has so much going for it:
- May to December (age gap is just under 20 years)
- Hyper masculine MC (Mat) in Uber macho profession falls for genderflux MC(Indigo)
- Closeted athlete finds ‘the one’
- Slow burn. OMG such a good slow burn.
- 80’s references. Breakfast Club, anyone.
- Have I mentioned the closeted, gruff MC? Yeah, well they’re my Kryptonite.
- Made me cry. Proper tears. Because emotions rather than excessive angst.
- Indigo is not a snowflake. He’s a strong character. Mentally stronger than Mat.
- Well written.
- And, yes, I know this is going to sound weird for a hockey book but there’s not much hockey in it
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V.L. Locey loves worn jeans, yoga, belly laughs, Dr. Who, Torchwood, walking, reading and writing lusty tales, Greek mythology, the New York Rangers, comic books, and coffee. (Not necessarily in that order.) She shares her life with her husband, her daughter, one dog, two cats, two Jersey steers and a flock of assorted domestic fowl.
When not writing lusty tales, she can be found enjoying her day with her menagerie in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in hand.
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