Review: Some serious hot action on the ice!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2014
This gets four enthusiastic “Holy hotness Luke Hudson!” stars from me!  After a cheap shot finds him out of commission and needing to rehab with a minor league team, Luke was fuming mad that his hockey career was being put on hold.  Until he met the sassy but sweet trainer Adella Price, who kept him on his toes and caught his eye even though she acted (and dressed) like just one of the guys.  Their crass comments back and forth had me smiling as these two got to know each other, and there was plenty of lusting going on to make something more seem inevitable.  But with her job meaning anything physical was off limits between them, and her father being the well-known blowhard hockey coach that everyone feared, the odds were not in their favor!Luke didn’t take long to unleash his charm on Dell after they met, and they were so cute together as she tried to help ease him back into playing up to his old standards.  She didn’t put up with his crap when he tried to lay it on her, and Luke liked her more because of it.  He had the pressures of being an injured professional hockey player as well as the stress that his pathetic excuse of a father put on his plate, and Dell was like this entertaining distraction at first.  But she quickly became much more for him as he found himself wanting more and more time with her, even if they couldn’t touch.  And wow, even without touching her this man is crazy sexy!!Single mom to an adorable little boy, Dell knew all about putting someone else first.  She’d pretty much given up on her own happiness just to give him a good life, and a playboy hockey player wasn’t about to change that.  Luke had to work hard to prove himself more than just the typical athlete out for tail, and he was even sexier as he did!  He was part sweet and tender, part “I can make you scream my name!” hottie, and Dell was just the lucky recipient of both!Just when it looked like everything was going to go their way, Dell’s past and her pushy father set out to derail it all.  There were some unexpected twists that brought the story to a boiling point, and it was tough to put this read down until it was all cleared away.  While it wrapped up a bit too perfectly for my tastes, I definitely enjoyed this story and look forward to hopefully having more from this great series!Quotes:“And I’m 25.  Is my interview over? I’d like to assess you before practice is over.  I have to work on several of the guys today.”“Well, somebody’s a busy girl.”She rolled her eyes. “Sit down and zip it, Slick.”~ Loc 85“I haven’t even known you 24 hours, and you’ve already got me on my back,” he said. “Am I a whore?”He was a hockey player, wasn’t he? “Probably, but not because of this.” ~Loc 140I wanted to stop – to make this last, but her eyes were pleading as they stayed locked with mine.  She wanted to see what she could do to me. And I wanted to show her. ~Loc 1165