Lip Locks & Blocked Shots: A Forbidden Love Hockey Romance

Heather C. Myers

Oct 2020 · Heather C Myers

About this ebook

A steamy new adult hockey romance packed with a brooding alpha hero, an independent heroine who won't put up with BS, and steamy, forbidden romance romance you won't want to put down!

He's the last person she should fall in love with and the only one that ever stood a chance.

Seraphina Hanson is busy. As manager and owner of the Newport Beach Seagulls on their way to making the playoffs for the first time in their history, dating doesn't even cross her mind.

Unless it involves star goalie and Seagulls goalie, Brandon Thorpe.

Brandon Thorpe is tall, strong, and brooding. She's drawn to him like a moth to a flame but dating him isn't allowed - no matter how badly her sister, Katella, tells her otherwise. Seraphina has been in love with him for a year and that isn't going to change any time soon.

Until they get to Las Vegas.

The new expansion team is hosting their first game with the Seagulls, and general manager Phil Bambridge invites Seraphina out to dinner.

Strictly business.

But Brandon has a bad feeling. It also doesn't help that Seraphina looks flawless in her dress.

So he kisses her. In public. And Bambridge sees.

Phil Bambridge doesn't like rejection. And he'll do whatever it takes to win. Even blackmail Seraphina into trading Thorpe to his team before the trade deadline.

Seraphina is now forced to confront her feelings for Brandon while trying to stay as professional as possible. She won't lose him to Bambridge but she also refuses to give him up, not when she finally has him. But something has to give, and soon.

The trade deadline is almost here.

Ratings and reviews

Romance is an exacting genre because of the HEA or HFN requirement and sports romances further constrict the writer's options with the demands of the selected sport. Fortunately, the options Myers chose allowed her a pretty great deal of leverage in crafting her plot and she chose pretty wisely this time. This time, the protagonist happens to be the owner/manager of the team and the love interest is a team member. She gives some pretty clear-eyed commentary on the position of young, attractive women in public power positions and uses them to swing the audience into its natural inclination to sympathize with the "heroine." The tale she has presented here manages to be compelling, believable, and entirely timely while also managing the relevant sexy scenes with dignity and discretion. I don't think I'd want a 13 yr old daughter to read it but certainly any adult should be able to handle this with pleasure. And the forthright, honest way the heroine handles the attempted blackmailer is an example truly of value to our society. Myers writing is by and large acceptable (even though the predominance of "as how" phrases makes me shudder), she chooses the correct homonym consistently. and the punctuation assists the reader in moving smoothly through the work. I do not hesitate to say I think sports romance fans have another winner on hand.

A tale about the struggles a female GM/Team owner faces in a male dominated hockey world, and compounded with dating and falling for the gorgeous Captain of her hockey team. I'm curious why (the blackmail and sexual harrassment) it all had to be magnified into exagerrated proportions when a simple police report could shut it down. I find the female character too emotional and sentimental when as a supposedly powerful wealthy team owner, who have legal teams at her disposal, anything could be dealt and fought within the law.

i found the repetition of some words annoying. couldn't finish the book.