When opposites attract,
it’s not just the team that’s in for a shake-up.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 make 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.
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Cat gives this one 5 Meows with a 3 Purr heat index...
I don't know a lot about
Hockey but I love these books. I have only read a couple of the previous Hockey
books and I think it's safe to say you
don't have to read in order to enjoy it. I do know there are a few recurring
characters but enough information or they are small enough parts it works fine.
I really liked both of
these characters. They are very opposite, Mark being wealthy and Rowen being an
average guy. I liked that the team is unliked and having to fight hard to stay
alive. I loved the banter between Mark and Rowe as they started out enemies and
became more.
There is a lot going on in
this book. Lots of action, angst and drama. It does have a happy ending. I can't wait for the next one!
RJ Scott... A USA Today bestselling
author, RJ Scott has published over one hundred novels after discovering
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the page, she could create it in her head, and has become a lifelong writer.
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The last time she had a week’s break from writing she didn't like it one little
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