He wants out of the friend zone…she doesn’t believe in happily ever after.Relationships are not in Lauren Gentry’s playbook. The only kind she’s willing to consider are friends-with-benefits and even a red-hot and sexy hockey player like Dave Martin isn’t going to change that. Right?When those chocolate brown eyes threaten to melt her defenses she has to remind herself that demons from her … herself that demons from her past could rise up at any moment. Which is going to be pretty hard to do, since she loses herself every time they touch.
Dave used to love the benefits that came easily to professional athletes; especially when they were in the form of puck bunnies who only wanted one night. But when he meets the pint-sized girl with bewitching green eyes and sun-streaked auburn hair his outlook suddenly changes.
He wants forever with Lauren. Now he just has to convince her.
Can Lauren risk everything for the man she’s secretly been falling for? Or will her past stop her from taking a chance on love?
Healthy Scratch–book #1 of the Tampa Suns Hockey Series–is a standalone romance whose main characters’ lives are intertwined with those introduced in The Clearing the Ice Trilogy. You don’t need to read the trilogy to enjoy Healthy Scratch. The book stands on its own, promises HEA, and no cliffhangers! To heighten your enjoyment of the Tampa Suns Hockey Series, you may wish to read The Clearing the Ice Trilogy.
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A great follow up story with Lauren – Caryn and Andrew’s best friend from This Piece of My Soul.
Lauren has always had commitment issues due to her childhood and at one time she shared a torrid relationship with the hunky hockey star Dave Martin. For a while you thought that Lauren would stick out the relationship with Dave while they were in St. Louis, but as things would have it work got in the way along with life’s little baggages. Lauren has always not had self-confidence due to her childhood, so naturally in the back of her mind, Dave could have any woman who would be better than her, so she just considered herself and Dave friends with benefits.
I mean their relationship started off with fireworks in the bedroom, but what about the day to day life? Time and life has a way of making people grow up and realize things about themselves.
This is the story.
I do recommend reading the whole series, so you can get a feel about all the characters that appear in the book.
There will be more books to come about the other characters.
Can’t wait.
loved Robyn’s attack on cyberbullying
I won this paperback book in a random contest. I found the the story line good but the use of all the vulgarity just ruined the book in my opinion. This book in my opinion is for 18 or older only. The fact it was a sports romance helped keep my attention.
Will I read this book again? Not sure yet. I might.