Synopsis
A spin-off from the Hollywood Playboy & This Is Crazy.
Stone Richards has entered the building!
Ryleigh
Growing up in Hollywood, I was surrounded by liars and phonies.
So when I got my law degree, I knew I wanted to work as a district attorney.
Busy days turned to long nights—I was on my way up the ladder.
Then he happened.
Bullied his way into my life as if there was no choice.
Suddenly everything I thought I wanted wasn’t as important.
Stone
I had one thing on my mind and that was never going to change: The game.
The only goal I had was beating the records set by my family.
I didn’t have time for anything else.
Until she walked in the room.
The earth shifted, just like the stories said it would.
I said it wouldn’t happen—not to me.
I didn’t have the time, but now she was the only thing on my mind.
I knew it was her.
Now I had to convince her.
Review
ARC received in exchange for an honest review.
This is my first book by Natasha Madison and I’m a sucker for sports romance! I was super excited when his popped up on my kindle and I literally read any free waking hour.
STONE! You have the patience of a saint! If someone pushed me back as much as Rayleigh did… I would have given up!
RYLEIGH! You’re one stubborn MOFO!
I’ll be honest the first part of the book….. and whenever it all popped up but the names, families…. Interlocking families…. Threw me off the bat hockey puck.
That being said… I LOVED THIIS BOOK! This Story. The characters. The writing. It helped that, although it was near the end of the book I went to my first ever ice hockey game and so I was able to picture things and understand things a little bit better. Also I’m looking to go to more because my little American soul loves it, even though I’m as British as can be.
Stone is part of a hockey family, and captain of his team. Ryleigh has a Hollywood family but she’s an ADA and worked her ass off to get where she is, helped by the fact the opposite species isn’t on her radar, just her career.
From the start she’s trying to buffer Stones advances regardless of how she actually feels and that family monumentally, especially when in the bedroom. Car. Shower… Kitchen. It fails. They’re like two souls connected with chemistry you can feel which I love but with Stone in Nashville, playing hockey games all over the shanty and Ryleigh in Chicago working on trials and cases, the distance and time availability puts a spanner in the works. One you can feel cripples them both. In the end Stone can’t do it…. As much as it breaks him and Ryleigh, ends it and they both suffer n agonising silence.
At least until we get our HEA.
What i love about this book is its reverse roles. We see all too often the female lead being the one to fall and crumble. In this it’s the male lead. It was refreshing. Even when Ryleigh cocked up a case.. I thought she’d be the one to end the love story, but it wasn’t. I thought Stone would be the one to sacrifice…. But it was Ryleigh. I love that.
I’m 110% looking forward to the following books and maybe getting tidbits of their life. That is if the next story stays in the family.
LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS BOOK now if you’ll excuse me, I have an ice hockey game to book a ticket for!
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