Injury after injury has put Brenden Campbell’s NHL career on hold for years. Now he’s playing for the Portland Storm and determined to make it stick. Few things in life drive him more than being told he can’t have something he wants, and what he wants most is to prove he belongs. Brenden also wants Rachel Shaw, the cute, little redhead who just got hired as the general manager’s new assistant. But then she went and made herself off-limits, telling him: “I don’t date.” Those three words pretty much guarantee that he’ll do everything he can to change her mind.
Rachel is changing things up on the fly for her family, moving them somewhere she can be the kind of mom her kids deserve. Allowing anyone else to be in their lives is out of the question, at least until her instincts get back on track. How else can she be sure who to steer the kids clear of? Right now she trusts no one, including herself, and especially not a man like Brenden Campbell. He’s way too handsome and a little bit cocky. Falling for a guy like him is a mistake she can’t afford to make twice.
Real life issues and sparks galore I read this book every minute that I could because Catherine Gayle’s writing sucked me into the story and characters’ worlds nearly immediately! I love Catherine’s writing because she isn’t afraid to develop her story lines around real, present day sociological issues such as single parenthood and physical/sexual abuse. Yet, she also successfully builds sizzling chemistry between the heroine and hero and makes the reader fall in love with them! It was also refreshing how Catherine had Brandon…
Let’s get real people….. I’m sorry but am I the only one who has an issue with the way this book abruptly ends??? It’s one of the worst I’ve ever experienced. I actually thought it was an error with the download…..apparently not. Ugh. I love the story but am left super annoyed. Now I’m just irritated
Trauma, sadness, hockey – not romance I didn’t realize that each book in this series is about trauma of some sort. In the first book, it is about a woman that was gang raped and is having non-stop panic attacks – so much so that the book was repetitive and depressing. In this second book, which I read hoping to give this another chance, and thinking that it would get better, the focus is on a young girl that was molested by her father. In both cases, these events take place prior to the story, but that doesn’t negate how awful…