A hockey romance
Nora has worked hard to get to where she's at. She's the skating technique coach for the Titan's hockey team, and while some may believe it's because her father is an NHL legend, she knows it's not. She's also followed a very important rule: Don't sleep with players or anyone involved with the team.
No problem... Until one frustrating night on a yacht when she's trying to get with a guy, but star player Dominic won't let her out of his sight. It doesn't matter how safe she was to prevent being pregnant. Fate seemed to have other plans when two little pink lines showed up a couple of months later.
Whereas the one guy she was originally hooking up with, Carter, is all for being a daddy, Dominic is not. He's never had a good role model in the father department, and he's terrified about messing up. Nora is terrified of losing her job due to sleeping with a member of her team. Therefore, enter man number three! They come up with a totally convoluted plan to help with everything and try to save her job and a media circus for the team.
If you've read other books written by Maya Nicole, you'll likely recognize some familiar characters! Paige from "Stuck on Them," Libby from "Falling for Them," and Josie from "Bad Nanny," along with their men, make some appearances!
This book is sweet in many ways, including that it reminds us / teaches us that NO ONE is ever ready to be a parent. You can read every child book ever written, and so, you'll only truly learn as you go along. Chances are, if you're worried you're going to mess up, you're going to be just fine.
My one tiny critique about this book (at least early on):
Something I realized in the first few chapters is that there is such a thing as TOO many analogies. I get it's a hockey book, but there are a LOT of hockey analogies early on, to the point I found it almost a bit annoying. Just because someone lives and breathes hockey doesn't mean they compare everything to it. You can simply say an outfit is uncomfortable without adding "it's as uncomfortable as wearing skates that are two sizes too small." Especially when you compare holding a particular woman in your arms like, "finding the perfect hockey stick with the right weight, curve, and balance" a few pages later. The very next sentence after THAT compares something shattering the moment, "like a referee's whistle ending play before the puck was in the net." It was like a personal challenge to see how many could be added into one particular chapter. I believe it was chapter three where there were about 9 written. I wished that the author had knocked it back a bit. I was worried the rest of the book would continue the trend, but thankfully, it ended after that. There weren't nearly as many going forward, and those that were written in were more spread out! So, if you get a bit bothered, keep reading. It doesn't continue!