Title: The Season: Rush
Series: Austin Arrows #1
Author: Nicole Edwards
Genre: Erotic Sports Romance
Author: Nicole Edwards
Genre: Erotic Sports Romance
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Synopsis
A single mom and a sexy hockey goalie. Sounds like a match made in a... PR stunt?
Kingston Rush
Becoming a goaltender in the NHL is the only thing I ever wanted for myself.
Goal accomplished.
Two years ago, I was the best goalie in the league, for the third time. With our Stanley Cup win, the Austin Arrows were on top of the world. Nothing could possibly bring us down.
Wrong.
Turns out, even when you’re at the top, you can find yourself back at rock bottom.
But it gets worse.
Not only did the team fall from grace, then I did too. I was accused of something I didn’t do. And now I’m being forced to repair my tarnished reputation.
Only I don’t know how to do that.
When the suggestion is made for me to pull off this ruse for the media, I know what I’m getting into. I also know there’s only one right answer.
But it’s complicated, and I’m not the only one who could get hurt.
There’s only one major problem.
I can’t say no.
Review
I know absolutely zilch about hockey but after reading this, well let me say my interest has been peaked, especially if the players are like Kingston ‘Mount Rushmore’ Rush. Ooh what a hottie!
Rush is the goaltender for the Austin Arrows playing in the NHL. They have been a little down on their luck for the past two years and added to that some bad press for Rush has led to management taking some drastic actions. One being that Rush needs a pretend girlfriend to improve his tarnished image of his one night stand hook up status. His captain and best friend, Spencer has the perfect solution – his sister Ellie. As they have all been mates for years he doesn’t see an issue and Rush wouldn’t ever make a real play for her would he? Well there are things that Spencer doesn’t know and one being that Rush has carried a torch for Ellie for years. Little does he know that the torch carrying is reciprocated.
Ellie is a single mom to Bianca and owns the Penalty Box, a bar that the Arrows team have adopted as their home from home. Her love life is lacking but she’s not one for relationships, in fact her daughter is the result of a one night stand in Vegas well over a decade ago, but having no idea who that guy was, she has pretty much raised Bianca on her own. Her brother and Rush have always been there for her though. She has always had good banter with Rush and anything else she has yearned for with him, she has kept tightly under wraps. Imagine her inner turmoil when the request is put to her. Can she go through with this pretend game without her heart getting crushed?
This was another hit from Nicole Edwards and kept me on tenterhooks throughout. As always the passion and chemistry between the two main characters was intense and smoking hot. I loved how Rush was in ‘kinkyfying’ Ellie, it was hilarious but oh so sexy at the same time.
Something that was a little different was having the third POV as Bianca’s thought process and mainly her intention to try and track down her Dad though Facebook. At first I found this a little off putting but I soon got with the programme and saw how clever it was to add another dimension to the storyline and was kind of like a third party observation of the relationship between her Mom and her beloved ‘Uncle Kingston’ (obviously not all things!)
I was really invested in this sexy read and has got me wanting to know more, especially about Spencer and his dalliances with Ellie’s friend and business partner. Also what’s going to happen with his ex who has been brought in to market the team? Hmm interesting things being put in place for the next books in the series I bet. Loved it and loved Rush! Five stars.
*ARC kindly provided by the author in exchange for an honest review
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Meet The Author
Learn more about Phoenix, the owner of Rush's Austin Arrows in Nicole's standalone novel A Million Tiny Pieces!
Meet The Author
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nicole Edwards lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, their three kids, and four rambunctious dogs. When she’s not writing about sexy alpha males, Nicole can often be found with her Kindle in hand or making an attempt to keep the dogs happy. You can find her hanging out on Facebook and interacting with her readers - even when she’s supposed to be writing.
Nicole also writes contemporary/new adult romance as Timberlyn Scott.
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