USA Today bestselling author Catherine Gayle presents the first book in a brand new spin-off series.
They both need to make amends… he’s changed for the better. But cozying up to Little-Miss-Perfect-Gone-Bad isn’t his idea of making amends.
Agreeing to marry a hockey star to clear her “bad girl” reputation is the worst idea Oklahoma’s former sweetheart, Tallulah Belle Roth, has ever heard. With cameras constantly in their faces, Hunter and Tallie need to prove their sickeningly-sweet, do-good lives are the real deal—just to Bury the Hatchet once and for all.
But when the cameras are off, desire burns hot. Can fake and just for show turn into something real and forever?
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Entertaining. Very much enjoyed.
Great book
I loved reading this book. Your characters and story were truly believable. Even the byplay was exceptional.
Bury the Hatchet has a strong woman finding her place in the world. An arranged marriage with it’s ups and downs. Loved the twists as her story unfolded.
Love this author! Her books about hockey are great. Love they are stand alone but characters carry from book to book!
Tallie is a beauty queen whose image is tarnished; Hunter is a hockey player bad boy. They are put in an arranged relationship by the owner of the hockey team and her parents. While somewhat predictable I loved this book because she tamed him and he brought out the real woman who was
Tallie. A good start to this new series by Catherine Gayle who knows her hockey, too.
A wonderful blend of touching, tender and sexy. Catherine Gayle writes the perfect kickoff book to her hockey series, the Tulsa Thunderbirds, giving us a lovely story about self-discovery, courage, family and love.
Feeling unhappy and deject knowing he’s one of the best goaltenders in the NHL but has to play for a new team which will take years to get their act together, an inebriated Hunter Fielding made public remarks about his new home town of Oklahoma he shouldn’t have. Both his manager and the administration for the Tulsa Thunderbirds need him to do damage control. Their solution? Win over Oklahoma by embracing its former sweetheart.
She’s not just any Southern Belle, Tallulah Belle “Tallie” Roth is Oklahoma’s darling, set to compete in the Miss USA pageant and go on to be Miss Universe. That is until a vacation with her fraternity sisters and a wild night with too much alcohol interferes with her judgment and tarnishes her image. The very public and negative press forces her to give up her crown and all aspirations for future competition. As a counterbalance, she’s being pushed into what should appear to be a step towards maturity by starting a happy marriage with another public figure under scrutiny.
Will Tallie and Hunter rescue each other? Can they ignore their obvious attraction during the year they’ll be married? Can they keep their hearts protected and uninvolved?
This book was a wonderful read. I couldn’t picture a goody-goody beauty queen and a tough, surly hockey player. But as with all her other books, Catherine pulls it off marvelously with steamy tension, deep emotion and some unforeseeable twists.
I always enjoy Catherine’s heroes and Hunter is no exception. Even with his gruff, “I can take care of my own problems attitude,” I swooned when his protective instincts are brought out by Tallie’s too easy acquiescence and the obvious stranglehold her mother has over her. I cheered every time he pushed her to be herself and ask for what she wants, and fanned myself with all his male – with a capital M – sexiness.
But what caught me by surprise was how much I liked Tallie. I usually like heroines who are strong and self-assured and so Tallie’s docility put me on the fence. But even though she had lived under her mother’s thumb her entire life, had been made to feel inadequate and complied with everything she was told to do, she had an incredibly charming sass and once she saw the freedom Hunter offered her, she fought for it.
It also broke my heart to see how Tallie’s mother used her and never really cared about her. So I loved Tallie even more when she fought to bring Hunter and his family closer together especially when she herself didn’t have a good example of what a family should be like. Even when Hunter fought against it as well. It was also heartbreaking how Hunter viewed his brother’s life as unsalvageable.
What I enjoyed the most though was seeing how Tallie and Hunter’s attraction to each other blooms into a sweet, tender and scorching relationship. Because the more time they exchange loving touches and kisses for the cameras, the more the tension grows behind closed doors. And along with it, a deeper, more lasting connection forms as well with their daily interactions and them being open to one another. So much that perhaps a year won’t be enough, perhaps only forever will do.
I can’t not mention the secondary characters and probable future main characters that complete this story. Using hockey and a team expansion as her backdrop, Catherine introduces us to this new series of interesting professional athletes. I loved Razor who I hope we get to know more in the near future and I also enjoyed having Zee and Dana from Breakaway (the Portland Storm book 1) as part of the team who bring some much needed experience both on and off the ice. I can’t wait for the next book!
Catherine is certainly one of my go-to authors for a sweet, satisfying romance. Bury the Hatchet is a standalone, full-length, sports romance filled with sexual tension, sizzling scenes and lots of emotion. It’s the first book in the Tulsa Thunderbirds hockey series with a happy ending.