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Length: 57,412 words
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Blurb
When a stipulation in his father’s will throws Mark back into a family that disowned him, he has only two things on his mind; buying his way out of contractual obligations and running in the opposite direction as fast as he can. When neither option pans out, he finds he is now a one third owner of the struggling Arizona Raptors hockey team, and that is just about the worst thing he could have happened to him. Not only does he hate hockey, but the Raptors are a bottom-of-the-league team, rife with jealousies and anger in a locker room that only knows self-pity. How is he supposed to help turn things around when the only way to start fixing things is to form an alliance with the estranged siblings he’d run from fifteen years earlier?
Then there’s Rowen Carmichael, a stubborn, opinionated, irritating man with superiority issues and questionable taste in music. Butting heads with Rowen, who he’d never even wanted to hire in the first place, is one thing, but there is no way in hell that he will allow the growing attraction to the new coach become anything more. Until with everything on the line, he has to make decisions that will change his life forever.
After years of collegiate coaching, Rowen is given an offer that he simply can’t refuse, although perhaps he should. When he’s presented with the chance to take one of the worst teams in the league and mold them into a future cup contender, the challenge is just too alluring to pass up. He leaves his beloved Ontario behind and moves west to the arid city of Tucson where he is faced with a broken team, shoddy management, and players overflowing with resentment and bigotry.
Never in his twenty years of hockey has he ever seen such a raging dumpster fire of an organization. Yet there’s something about this team and this city that compels him to roll up his sleeves and start dismantling. He has his eye on a new associate coach that’s bound to makes waves, and several key players who should be sent packing. Now all he has to do is convince the new owners of the team that his choices are for the best. If only Mark Westman-Reid, one of three siblings who now own the Raptors, wasn’t so damned rock-headed, so damned snooty, and so damned appealing his job might be a bit easier.
Review
My Rating - 5 Stars!
Coast to Coast, the first book in the Arizona Raptors series, is everything I love about RJ Scott and VL Locey.
This hockey romance is intriguing from the start. Not only are the Raptors in need of being "fixed", their owning family is as well.
Mark, ahh, poor, lovable Mark. His history with his family is ugly, as he was kicked out for being gay and was homeless for a time. He wants nothing to do with his brothers or this team. Unfortunately, he's being forced to spend a year running the Raptors with his brothers. Cue family issues galore.
I love Mark. He's a survivor and is rightfully full of resentment towards his family. As if his family issues aren't enough, he's also finding himself attracted to the new coach of the Raptors.
Meanwhile, that new coach Rowen is a middle aged man tasked with fixing this broken team. He's arrogant, straight forward, and sassy, making for a whole lot of fun. He won't take shit from anyone, and is here to do a job.
Together, these two are a lot of fun. Both men are frustrated with one another. They disagree, they bicker. Rowan doesn't want anything to do with the entitled young man, and Mark's frustrated by his attraction to the older coach. But the sparks keep flying and the tension is palpable.
This is a fun story, as The Raptors are the hated team in the league. As the new coach, Rowen's tasked with the job of cleaning this team up and getting them on the right path. In other words, he's got a tough job ahead of him.
Their story includes a fractured family, some fun hockey players, and an arrogant player who isn't happy with anyone.
Coast to Coast is an great hockey romance. This writing duo combines opposites attract, age gap, and some good chemistry to create this entertaining story. I'm excited to see what else these authors have in store for us with the rest of the Arizona Raptors books.
RJ Scott is the author of over one hundred romance books, writing emotional stories of complicated characters, cowboys, millionaire, princes, and the men who get mixed up in their lives. RJ is known for writing books that always end with a happy ever after. She lives just outside London and spends every waking minute she isn’t with family either reading or writing.
The last time she had a week’s break from writing she didn’t like it one little bit, and she has yet to meet a bottle of wine she couldn’t defeat.
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V.L. Locey loves worn jeans, yoga, belly laughs, walking, reading and writing lusty tales, Greek mythology, Torchwood and Dr. Who, the New York Rangers, comic books, and coffee. (Not necessarily in that order.) She shares her life with her husband, her daughter, one dog, two cats, a pair of geese, far too many chickens, and two steers.
When not writing spicy romances, she enjoys spending her day with her menagerie in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in one hand and a steamy romance novel in the other.
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