It was never in the plan for Brett to fall for the enemy, the beautiful journalist Maya. Then all of a sudden their worlds come colliding together, and Brett's suddenly blindsided by the chemistry that they share.
Brett should have opened his eyes and seen just what this feisty journalist was when she walked into his life, but he failed to realize just how much trouble she was going to cause him.
Maya's scathing articles on me and my team went viral – and that didn't go over well with Brett's coach. It resulted in Brett's career being put on ice and saw Brett ending up on the bench.
Now Maya's back, dropping back into Brett's life, trying to convince Brett that his comeback story is her golden ticket to getting her to the next level of her career. But, the catch is, the only way it's going to work is if they work together.
But, Brett knows that it's his one shot at getting back on the ice and getting his career back on track. At the same time though, Brett knows better than to trust Maya.
At the same time though, every stolen glance they share, every touch, pulls them together. And every day they spend time together, the glances and touches make it harder and harder for them both to resist the game that they are playing.
Quickly Brett and Maya find themselves living under one roof in a small town, and their both chasing their own redemption stories, stories that are once in a lifetime.
Brett knows that his sister Isabella would kill him if she knew the truth, that he was falling in love with her best friend Maya.
As all secrets do, they come out and are spilled into the world, and Brett feels like he's hearing the final buzzer.....
Now Brett knows that he's risking everything including his very career, just to make Maya his.
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, Hockey Romance, Forced Proximity, BFF Stepbrother, and Sports Journalist x Hockey Player Captain.
A Pucking Chance is An Enemies to Lovers Hockey Romance by Julia Savan. This is the first book by Julia Savan that I have ever read. I wasn't sure what to expect. But, I was happily surprised that I enjoyed this hockey romance. I don't normally enjoy hockey romance novels. But, I enjoyed this one.
I found the Blades' hockey team captain, Brett to be a bad boy and Julia wrote Brett's character to fit that role perfectly. He's the boy you absolutely love to hate. He'd been drafted to the Blades' team at a young age. Now he struggles between leading his hockey team and more than that, trying to find the confidence to believe in his own talent and abilities. His constant showboating nearly cost his team even a shot a the cup, landing him in the middle of blink and you miss it nowhere, where he's now coaching high schoolers.
It's here where we get to meet Maya. He's known Maya for years as she's his sister's best friend and now she's an aspiring journalist and she has taken great joy in shining a light on all of Brett's faults.
Now though, she has other plans. She wants to help him get his career back on track and all Brett has to do is give Maya access to him and the high school team that he's coaching. But, Brett isn't sure, he doesn't know if he can fully trust her? Or if he can fully trust himself around her?
Brett is your typical bad boy but he's more than just a bad boy, he's a hot head with a temper to match. He's got a chip on his shoulder and he's so quick to anger that he scared me at times. (I suffer from PTSD with anger as a trigger).
But, as I continued to read, slowly Brett started to change, and you saw his character start to change. Slowly Brett became a better man and he got his anger issues under control, he lost the chip on his shoulder, and his temper was brought under control. Then he became trustworthy, dependable, loyal, and he had a sense of integrity. He also became a leader who you could see he was meant to be. And more than that, he had this confidence in his skills and abilities on the ice.
I felt for Maya when we first met her she made a mistake in the way that she handled writing about Brett and her article nearly destroyed his career. But, she thankfully realized that she had made a mistake and wanted to make things right and she found where Brett was living and went to where he was and wanted to work with him to revive his career and turn his image around.
I found Maya to be strong, intelligent, courageous, independent, with a sense of ambition and not only for herself but for others as well, over time she learned to respect not only herself but others, and most of all her learned about humanity and knowing her limitations and how to learn from others.
I'm not going to say anything else about the book as I want you to read the book for yourself and enjoy it for yourself.
The only downside to this book is that I wish that this book was longer than it was. But, I did love the way the tension and angst were slowly built up and it was just so sweet and I just loved the way the tension was just lit up on fire. I really just loved Brett and Maya's chemistry.
I loved this story. A Pucking Chance is just a quick, short, sweet book and I found the hockey scenes were written really well I found.
I would recommend this story if you enjoy a quick, short, sweet, hockey romance. And I look forward to reading more from this author. Julia Savan did a great job with this book and I can't wait to see what she writes next.