She’s got game everywhere but the bedroom. Enter the player who knows exactly how to grade her curves . . .After a very public breakup and a viral post that declares him the villain, power forward Cal Foreman is taking a timeout from women and relationships to focus on hockey. When Chicago Rebels captain and old friend, Vadim Petrov, “volunteers” him to help train Vadim’s sister Mia, Cal figures … sister Mia, Cal figures he can do a favor for a pal and get ready for the season with his new team. But the imperious Russian would slice a skate blade through Cal’s internal organs if he knew what lessons Mia really wants.
Yeah, not that kind of stickhandling.
Hockey phenom and Olympics hopeful Mia Wallace needs help seducing the man of her dreams. That man is most definitely not Cal Foreman: notorious playboy, thorn in her side, and her brother’s bestie. But surely a guy with his reputed skill set has a few tips on how she can nail her target—which makes him the perfect foreplayer.
Cal knows Mia sees him as merely the warm-up act in her grand plan to win another man, but as they spend more time together, he wonders if that’s enough.
If they could be more.
And if he could convince her he’s worthy of the starting line-up . . . in her heart?
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While not as heart wrenching as Man Down (the book before), this is not a light hearted rom-com as it touches on the current metoo issue.
Mia is trying to get her game back after a crushing situation with an ex. And poor Cal, whose not-create-waves personality, unwittingly created some social media fodder with a public break up which brings both of these characters into each other’s orbit. I had a little difficulty connecting with Mia and Cal in the beginning as were both so circumspect with their emotions. But as their relationship developed, I got more involved. I always love the “teach me how to seduce a man” trope as there is always some latent fire between the characters. This story has some steam and hilarious moments with the banter and text exchanges.
I received a free ARC. This is my unbiased review.
Callum and Mia’s story was quite a read! I loved how their (mostly) easy friendship developed, gaining understandable emotional traction as time progressed. The humorous exchanges and relatively open conversation topics these two had -Mia’s bluntly amusing topic texts were free game for razzing Cal a bit in the locker room-also gave great insight to how these two tick. And what blossoms as Cal and Mia go from teacher/student to friends to lovers…yowza!
I received an advance reader copy from the author and this is my honest review.