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Length: 57,412 words
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Blurb
When a stipulation in his father’s will throws Mark back into a family that disowned him, he has only two things on his mind; buying his way out of contractual obligations and running in the opposite direction as fast as he can. When neither option pans out, he finds he is now a one third owner of the struggling Arizona Raptors hockey team, and that is just about the worst thing he could have happened to him. Not only does he hate hockey, but the Raptors are a bottom-of-the-league team, rife with jealousies and anger in a locker room that only knows self-pity. How is he supposed to help turn things around when the only way to start fixing things is to form an alliance with the estranged siblings he’d run from fifteen years earlier?
Then there’s Rowen Carmichael, a stubborn, opinionated, irritating man with superiority issues and questionable taste in music. Butting heads with Rowen, who he’d never even wanted to hire in the first place, is one thing, but there is no way in hell that he will allow the growing attraction to the new coach become anything more. Until with everything on the line, he has to make decisions that will change his life forever.
After years of collegiate coaching, Rowen is given an offer that he simply can’t refuse, although perhaps he should. When he’s presented with the chance to take one of the worst teams in the league and mold them into a future cup contender, the challenge is just too alluring to pass up. He leaves his beloved Ontario behind and moves west to the arid city of Tucson where he is faced with a broken team, shoddy management, and players overflowing with resentment and bigotry.
Never in his twenty years of hockey has he ever seen such a raging dumpster fire of an organization. Yet there’s something about this team and this city that compels him to roll up his sleeves and start dismantling. He has his eye on a new associate coach that’s bound to makes waves, and several key players who should be sent packing. Now all he has to do is convince the new owners of the team that his choices are for the best. If only Mark Westman-Reid, one of three siblings who now own the Raptors, wasn’t so damned rock-headed, so damned snooty, and so damned appealing his job might be a bit easier.
My Two Pennies' Worth
Great return to the world of hockey for these two authors. It's time to catch up with the most hated team in the league, the Raptors. This is a team in a mess and it's the team that Ryker Madsen has been drafted to. Into this mess comes a new coach with no pedigree and a hard-nosed attitude. And he immediately bashes heads with one of the new owners. And before long all that antagonistic tension leads to them bashing more than heads. But they still don't like each other.
This is a true frenemies to lovers, with several scenes of angry sex, before things settled down. Mark follows Rowan everywhere, watching his every move with a view to getting rid of him. They argue a lot and both get off on the barbed comments and attitude of the other. But ultimately they are good for each other, more than just compatible in the sack.
I struggled with Mark at first. He had a massive chip on his shoulder and refused to listen to anyone, be it his family or Rowan. I found this especially infuriating with Rowan since Mark knew nothing about hockey and yet tried to lay down the law. However once he acknowledged his family, his relationship with Rowan improved too.
Rowan I loved. He's hard nosed and determined to prove himself. He loves his players and is determined to do right by them and the Raptors. He doesn't want to fall in love but, hey, this is a romance novel, so of course he does.
I've read all of the previous novels in the other connected series so I can't really comment as to whether this can be read as a standalone. There are events that are only briefly touched on with regard to history that readers would have had to have read the other series to appreciate. And that knowledge is especially required for the true vilification of one particular player. So I think it is important for readers to have read at least the Harrisburg Railers series.
Highly recommended.
RJ Scott is the author of over one hundred romance books, writing emotional stories of complicated characters, cowboys, millionaire, princes, and the men who get mixed up in their lives. RJ is known for writing books that always end with a happy ever after. She lives just outside London and spends every waking minute she isn’t with family either reading or writing.
The last time she had a week’s break from writing she didn’t like it one little bit, and she has yet to meet a bottle of wine she couldn’t defeat.
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V.L. Locey loves worn jeans, yoga, belly laughs, walking, reading and writing lusty tales, Greek mythology, Torchwood and Dr. Who, 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, a pair of geese, far too many chickens, and two steers.
When not writing spicy romances, she enjoys spending her day with her menagerie in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in one hand and a steamy romance novel in the other.
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