Alexander “Rush” Markov has been given an ultimatum by his team—shape up or ship out.Alex is celebrating his biggest season in professional hockey, and he’s enjoying every minute of it—perhaps a little too much. He’s been nonstop partying like a rock star since his team won it all, and management isn’t pleased. Next thing Alex knows, he’s been exiled to a remote island with orders to lie low, … lie low, stay out of trouble, and avoid one-night stands.
Rosalind Newcomb is the quintessential good girl, and she’s fine with her role. Sure, she gets lonely and wishes for a special someone, but the choices on Madrona Island are slim to none. When a panty-melting mystery man disrupts the peace and quiet in her bookstore, it’s dislike at first sight. The infuriating man turns her ordered life upside down and inside out and has her thinking about hot summer nights and tangled sheets. Only Alex isn’t who she thinks he is, and love isn’t all hearts and roses.
As Alex battles who he pretends to be and who he really is, he also resists falling in love for the first time in his life. His intense feelings have him ready to bolt, and only he can decide if love is worth fighting for.
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I’m a huge fan of Jami Davenport’s sports romances. I always get lost in the books. This one was no different. Hockey romances are one of my jams right now so I knew I had to read this one. Alex needs to get his act together and he is sent to a quiet coastal island. That move will forever change his life because he meets Rosalind. They rub each other the wrong way right off the bat, but as each looks below the surface they will see there is more than meets the eye. Alex may come off a little cocky and jerky in the beginning, but the man has a cat and loves to read so you know the guy will have me won over in no time. The more Alex stays on the island the more we get to know the true Alex and along with Rosalind I like what I see. Rosalind is a planner and she likes order and control. Alex throws that into chaos one thing she is not fond of. They may come off as oil and water, but they soon become more like peanut butter and jelly. The characters drew me into this book. I also enjoyed Rosalind’s secret career.
If your looking for a bad boy hockey romance, stop right here! 5 hockey pucks for this one!
Meet Alex, hockey bad boy, team playboy. When management give him an ultimatum to clean up his act or get traded, he takes their advice and heads to Madrona Island to try to keep himself out of the spot light. After all this island is small, how much trouble can he get into here.
Rosalind, resident of Madrona Isle, and owner of the bookstore in town, gets a first hand meet and greet with Alex, though she has no clue who he is. While in her bookstore, he breaks the rules and she ends up kicking him out!
Read along as these two fight an attraction to each other, Jami does an amazing job with Alex’s story! Don’t miss out on this one!
When party boy and pro-hockey player Alex “Rush” Markov is sent to a remote island in the off season by his team’s management to tone down his behaviors and stay out of trouble, he feels exiled and wonders how he will spend his time with no entertainment to keep him busy.
When he walks into the small town bookstore to indulge his secret love of reading, he knows immediately that his summer just became a lot more interesting. There’s no denying his attraction for the sassy owner who doesn’t fall at his feet or even seem to recognize who he is, and instead calls him out for his rude behaviors and kicks him out of her store.
Rosalind Newcomb likes order and playing by the rules. She has a game plan, and she’s sticking to it even if she would rather be writing romance novels full time. Though she can’t deny her attraction to the handsome and cocky Russian sports star, she knows he isn’t a good choice for her. She doesn’t do casual and she knows it could never be more than a summer fling. And, he’s annoying.
But the more time they spend together, the more they both start discovering about not only each other but themselves as well. Alex isn’t only the persona he portrays and Rosalind may be up for a chance at love, even if it only lasts a summer. Can this opposites attract couple of small town good girl and pro-athlete playboy find a way to make it work once they are no longer wrapped in the bubble of their remote island summer fling?
Jami Davenport’s Deflected was truly a gift to her fans! This book was crazy sweet and super hot! I loved Alex and Rosalind so much as a couple that I couldn’t get enough of this book.
For book after book in this series, the glimpses readers caught of Rush were that of a player who only cared about finding his next fling. To learn that he was a closet bookworm was fantastic! I also loved delving deeper into the persona he plays for others versus who he really was. He was really a fun character to get to know.
Rosalind was a fun contradiction as well. She was all about having a plan . . . but learning she secretly wrote hockey romances was pure genius! Even better was when Alex got hooked on her series without realizing she was the author. I loved that she finally decided to give Alex a chance . . because their romance was both sweet and spicy!
Jami Davenport fans will love some of the other athletes from previous books that make an appearance in Deflected and romantics will flip over the grand gesture that will either cause this couple to find their happy ever after or break them apart forever.
Deflected was a really fun additional to the Seattle Sockeyes series and Rosalind and Rush have become my favorite couple by this author to date. 5 stars!
I have enjoyed this book so so much.
I liked the enemies to lovers plot and the main characters banters were entertaining.
Alex and Rosalind story is really nice, a famous hockey player with a melting panties smile the first and a lovely bookstore owner the latter. They didn’t start their relationship with the right foot, hating each other on the spot.Fortunately Madrona Island is not so big and they keep meeting each other and little by little they grow and start to know and understand each other better.
Will Alex forget his wild party days in order to start a committed relationship?Will Rosalind stop planning her life and trust herself enough to take the right decision and live outside her box?
Jami Davenport is one of my favourite sports romance author and Deflect is another good read for me.
I received a review copy of the book before release for an honest review.
This book was pretty darn wonderful. It took me about 30% to fall in love with the two main characters Rosalind and Alex but once I did I was absolutely addicted to their story.
This is a story continuing the Sockeye’s Legacy. We see a bit of Ice and some other older characters who are trying to help Alex out. Alex is a Russian player and this takes place after they have won the “you know what” if you are reading this series.
Alex is a very BAD boy in every sense of the word. He has no family so no one really tells him to grow up. That is until the team tells him they need him to grow up and send him of to Madrony Island to get his head on straight.
There he meets very good girl Rosalind. And she hates him on sight. In fact she throws him out of her book store. But Alex kinda loves that about her and he is bored so he decides to get to know her. She is very straight and rigid and that was why at first I did not love her. But as she gets to know Alex she bends a little and that’s where I fell in love with her and Alex as a couple.
This is a sweet romance and HOT as only this author can write. But it also very romantic and sweet. Very little hockey is included as its the off season but it does bring older characters back and I loved seeing them again.
Man do I love these hockey guys!
Possible SPOILERS
Alexander “Rush” Markov has been sent to Madrona Island to basically grow-up…stop drinking so much, stop with the woman and stay out of the media for awhile. Alex decides that the Island life really isn’t so bad especially when he meets bookstore owner Rosalind but he seems to push her buttons the wrong way and he sees her as a challenge…
Rosalind doesn’t quite know what to make of Alex and once she gets to know him things change a little.
When Rosalind’s friend fills her in on the “true” Alex and she Googles him Rosalind doesn’t know what to truly think…which is the REAL Alex?
Love Alex and Rosalind’s banter! Deflected is a great story and incredibly entertaining. After I started this book, I was not able to put it down. Highly recommended read!
This is book #2, in the Madrona Island series. This book can be read as a standalone novel. To avoid spoilers, and to understand the characters and the series better, I recommend reading this series in order.
Alex AKA “Rush” is temporarily banished to an island to learn to calm down. His team is concerned that he cannot stop his partying ways. His drinking and playing around is catching up to him.
Rosalind meets Alex for the first time when he comes into her bookstore. As a sheltered good girl, she does not recognize the Stanley Cup wining player. They clash and hate one another almost instantly. But there is still a serious attraction on both sides…..
I enjoyed this story. From start to finish you felt the tension and heat between these two. I loved the banter and the fact that they truly had a lot in common once they took the time to find out. I give this a 4/5 Kitty’s Paws UP!
***This early copy was given in exchange for an honest review.
Deflected is the first book from this author as well as the series that I have read. I discovered I missed a lot from finding out about this series sooner. I love reading and following Alex and Rosalind’s story, but also loved the characters and how well they are written. I will definitely be checking out the other books connected to this book.
Deflected is a fantastic hot hockey romance that I couldn’t put down. It was an interesting twist to have the entire story take place in the off season but it gave some interesting insight into what it must be like for a sexy playboy of a player to try and clean up his image. Alex is trying to do just that when he meets Rosalind, the one woman who doesn’t know who he is and doesn’t like him either. She challenges him and if that isn’t a turn on for Alex, but she also helps him figure out who he really is and what kind of man he would like to be.
Rosalind has lived a somewhat sheltered life on a quiet island when Alex, this hot stranger shows up and completely turns her world upside down. To find happiness they each have to let go of their secrets and trust each other.
I loved these two characters. They are a perfect example of opposites attracting and are definitely meant for each other.
What do you do when you have the ultimate playboy hockey player and you need to tame him and send a message. You send him to a nice quite island to regroup, but what he never expects is the owner of a quaint bookstore to set him straight.
Alex Markov is a Player with the Seattle Sockeyes hockey team but he also a player off the ice, Rosalind Newcomb is a owner of a cute Bookstore on Madrona Island and when the two meet the chemistry is off the charts but the banter is even better.
Two totally different lifestyles but can the two of them find that happen middle and see what a perfect couple they can be outside of the bubble they have created. Him reigning it in and her letting go if they can do that they can find that HEA.
He’s a bad boy on and off the ice. She’s a good girl, all year round. Can she tame the bad boy or will he bring out her wild side? Davenport uses sports as a metaphor for real life. Deflected is drowning in depth of character and heartbreakingly, beautiful romance. Alex and Rosalind takes readers beyond the surface noise and into an emotionally, captivating battle of hearts. Davenport makes it easy to get caught up in real life drama with stunning romance.
She almost sees into his soul, and rips the rug of self protection out from under his feet.
Jami Davenport is my rock-star author of Ice Hockey romances since I discovered her books several years ago. She has built a complete literary sports world, where readers of this Seattle world are spoiled for choice of codes that include, Ice Hockey, Baseball and Football, and I have loved every book that she has written in these series, including this book, Deflected.
Alexander “Rush” Markov hides his true passion of book nerd deep behind the facade that he is known for and actively cultivates; party animal and a player with bad English and a strong accent who spreads his sexual favours far and wide. Those activities are starting to be played out in public, and Team Management aren’t happy. He’s no longer a rookie, and they want him to step up as a good example to the young ones, or his position on the team may no longer be tenable.
He’s sent to Madrona Island to cool off and dry out.
I loved Rosalind Newcomb. Books were her passion, so she could almost be perfect for Alexander, except, she is such a structured planner, that she didn’t plan on this hot and gorgeous male specimen coming into her quiet bookshop and turning everything in her life upside down. Their first interaction started with him coming onto her, and ending with her booting him out of her bookstore on his backside!! How could this have happened to … him? Women love him and would give anything to have him accept anything that they put on offer. But, she didn’t know him from a bar of soap.
I also love a book where the chemistry is so strong that other characters can barely wade through it, and this was definitely the case between Ros and Alex. Even better for Alex was that her parents supported a summer relationship with him, knowing that their daughter needed to break out of the confines of her rigid plans. The more time they spent together the more she saw beneath his facade, and he saw future plans forming in his mind.
Could it be that Alex is going to put his rabid party lifestyle to bed like those hockey heroes in the series before him, or maybe he will see his plans will go up in smoke when Ros finally googles his name and breaks her own heart as well as his. 4.5 Stars for another fantastic read from the Seattle series.
Book 2 in the Madrona Island spin off from Game On in Seattle and this is Alexander “Rush” Markov’s story. This like all the other books in this series can be read as a stand-alone but I’m sure once you pick up one of these stories you will want to learn more about these hot Seattle hockey players and their partners.
Alex and his team have just won the Stanley Cup and that’s means and lots of partying and plenty of wild nights for the man nicknamed Rush but the team owners have other plans and if he wants to keep his contract he needs to spend a month on the remote Madrona Island.
Rosalind Newcomb is the owner of the bookstore on the Island and on the face of it is the quintessential good girl but at times she gets lonely and finds herself wishing for that special man to arrive on the Island. Alex may be a swoon worthy hockey player but he also loves to read so the bookstore is his first point of call when he arrives on Madrona but when he disrupts the peace and quiet of her store its hate at first sight for the pretty store owner, will Alex be able to win her over..
Alex and Rosalind are meant to be and I found myself hoping and wishing for a HEA for this adorable couple but Alex is not a relationship man and Rosalind may not like the man he was before he met her so is it possible for love to win the day I guess you need to read the book to find that out. I love the chemistry this couple share, I love the banter and I love everything about Madrona Island and it’s residents who all seem to have a part to play in match making for the locals and team players from the Seattle Sockeyes. Looking forward to who’s next in this great series.
**I voluntarily read an early copy of this title in exchange for an honest review**
Alexander “Rush” Markov plays hockey for the Seattle Sockeyes and after finishing his most rewarding season yet, he’s been partying hard. Probably a little too hard, at least that’s the stance from team management. He’s notorious for partying and liking women and when he starts making headlines, the team steps in. Alex is sent to Madrona Island and told that he needs to keep a low profile and clean up his act, otherwise he might be sent packing all the way off the team.
Rosalind Newcomb is a Madrona Island native and she runs the book shop on the island. She’s very much the good girl and she definitely is a romantic. She really wants that special someone in her life, but she hasn’t found that person yet.
When Alex finds his way into the bookshop to feed his joy of reading, Rosalind is immediately on the defensive because this handsome, alpha male is peaking her interest, yet he also drives her crazy. When an omission occurs, Roz throws walls up faster than you can say go. Will Alex be able to crumble the walls that Roz has built around her heart? And, will Roz be able to bring out the real Alex in the process?
There is no doubt these two have chemistry and when they are able to get past their own insecurities, they are amazing together. It was great to see how they were able to bring out the best in one another. I wanted things to work for them as soon as the book started. This is definitely worth adding to your summer TBR pile!