Portland Storm: The First Period
May 2017 · Bons Mots, Inc.
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BREAKAWAY
She’s reaching for a breakaway pass.
Dana Campbell spent the past seven years in self-imposed isolation for a crime she didn’t commit. The danger is in the past, but her panic attacks make it impossible to have a healthy relationship with a man. Even counselors have given up on her. She has to find someone to help her fight through the panic, or her seven-year ordeal will become a lifetime sentence. There’s only one man she feels safe enough to ask.
He got caught with his head down.
As the captain of the NHL’s once elite but now fading Portland Storm, Eric Zellinger knows about keeping his focus on the job. Questions are flying about his ability to lead the team back to the playoffs. If they don’t make it, he might be shipped out of town. It’s the worst time possible for his best friend’s kid sister to divide his focus. How can he give her what she needs without jeopardizing the Storm’s playoff hopes and his future with them?
It’s her only chance, but it’s his last shot.
ON THE FLY
Injury after injury has put Brenden Campbell’s NHL career on hold for years. Now he’s playing for the Portland Storm and determined to make it stick. Few things in life drive him more than being told he can’t have something he wants, and what he wants most is to prove he belongs. Brenden also wants Rachel Shaw, the cute redhead who just got hired as the general manager’s new assistant. But then she went and made herself off-limits. That pretty much guarantees he’ll do everything he can to change her mind.
Rachel is changing things up on the fly for her family, moving them somewhere she can be the kind of mom her kids deserve. Allowing anyone else to be in their lives is out of the question, at least until her instincts get back on track. How else can she be sure who to steer the kids clear of? Right now she trusts no one, including herself, and especially not a man like Brenden Campbell. He’s way too handsome and cocky. Falling for a guy like him is a mistake she can’t afford to make twice.
TAKING A SHOT
Katie Weber has had a crush on Jamie Babcock for almost two years, since he joined her father’s pro hockey team, the Portland Storm as an eighteen-year-old rookie. When cancer takes her health, her hair, and even her friends, she can’t bear to go to senior prom…until Jamie intervenes.
LIGHT THE LAMP
Life’s been rough lately for Noelle Payne, but negativity has never ruled her. So, she lost her job? She’ll find another one. The bank foreclosed on the house? Well, she can live out of her car. There’s always an upside to be found…but now Noelle needs to find something to give her life meaning. She owes it to the universe to figure it out, too, because a stranger just saved her life.
When Liam Kallen’s wife died, his goal-scoring ability died, too. After a trade from the only pro hockey team he’s ever played for, he’s now with the NHL’s Portland Storm. Everyone said he needed a change of scenery, but nothing changes until he rescues Noelle. All of a sudden, the world once again looks bright and he’s lighting the lamp like he used to.
Noelle’s disposition is the bit of sunlight Liam needs in his life. He’ll give her everything she needs because she’s everything he wants. The problem? She doesn’t believe she needs anything…at least nothing material. The one thing they both know she needs—a purpose—is also the one thing he can’t give her. If she doesn’t find that, she might walk away and take all her sunshine with her.
She’s reaching for a breakaway pass.
Dana Campbell spent the past seven years in self-imposed isolation for a crime she didn’t commit. The danger is in the past, but her panic attacks make it impossible to have a healthy relationship with a man. Even counselors have given up on her. She has to find someone to help her fight through the panic, or her seven-year ordeal will become a lifetime sentence. There’s only one man she feels safe enough to ask.
He got caught with his head down.
As the captain of the NHL’s once elite but now fading Portland Storm, Eric Zellinger knows about keeping his focus on the job. Questions are flying about his ability to lead the team back to the playoffs. If they don’t make it, he might be shipped out of town. It’s the worst time possible for his best friend’s kid sister to divide his focus. How can he give her what she needs without jeopardizing the Storm’s playoff hopes and his future with them?
It’s her only chance, but it’s his last shot.
ON THE FLY
Injury after injury has put Brenden Campbell’s NHL career on hold for years. Now he’s playing for the Portland Storm and determined to make it stick. Few things in life drive him more than being told he can’t have something he wants, and what he wants most is to prove he belongs. Brenden also wants Rachel Shaw, the cute redhead who just got hired as the general manager’s new assistant. But then she went and made herself off-limits. That pretty much guarantees he’ll do everything he can to change her mind.
Rachel is changing things up on the fly for her family, moving them somewhere she can be the kind of mom her kids deserve. Allowing anyone else to be in their lives is out of the question, at least until her instincts get back on track. How else can she be sure who to steer the kids clear of? Right now she trusts no one, including herself, and especially not a man like Brenden Campbell. He’s way too handsome and cocky. Falling for a guy like him is a mistake she can’t afford to make twice.
TAKING A SHOT
Katie Weber has had a crush on Jamie Babcock for almost two years, since he joined her father’s pro hockey team, the Portland Storm as an eighteen-year-old rookie. When cancer takes her health, her hair, and even her friends, she can’t bear to go to senior prom…until Jamie intervenes.
LIGHT THE LAMP
Life’s been rough lately for Noelle Payne, but negativity has never ruled her. So, she lost her job? She’ll find another one. The bank foreclosed on the house? Well, she can live out of her car. There’s always an upside to be found…but now Noelle needs to find something to give her life meaning. She owes it to the universe to figure it out, too, because a stranger just saved her life.
When Liam Kallen’s wife died, his goal-scoring ability died, too. After a trade from the only pro hockey team he’s ever played for, he’s now with the NHL’s Portland Storm. Everyone said he needed a change of scenery, but nothing changes until he rescues Noelle. All of a sudden, the world once again looks bright and he’s lighting the lamp like he used to.
Noelle’s disposition is the bit of sunlight Liam needs in his life. He’ll give her everything she needs because she’s everything he wants. The problem? She doesn’t believe she needs anything…at least nothing material. The one thing they both know she needs—a purpose—is also the one thing he can’t give her. If she doesn’t find that, she might walk away and take all her sunshine with her.
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About the author
Catherine Gayle is a USA Today bestselling author of more than thirty contemporary hockey romance and Regency-set historical romance novels and novellas, with more than half a million books sold. She’s a transplanted Texan living in North Carolina with two extremely spoiled felines. In her spare time, she watches way too much hockey and reality TV, plans fun things to do for the Nephew Monster’s next visit, and performs experiments in the kitchen which are rarely toxic. Sign up for her newsletter to receive a free Portland Storm short story called ICE BREAKER, available only to newsletter subscribers. http://eepurl.com/GXcwr
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