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San Francisco Strikers #5
All I Want
A tragedy in her past inspired Maggie Terraza to become a pediatric oncologist. Her focus on her career leaves little room in her life for anything else. Maggie might have loved Alex Westbrook for years, but they were on very different paths. When Alex’s career takes him from their Chicago hometown to the west coast, whatever they had between them had to end. Maggie can’t let a long-distance relationship distract her, no matter how it breaks her heart. But when a residency opens up at San Francisco’s Children’s Hospital, can she avoid seeing Alex?
Alex “Westie” Westbrook loves his job playing with the San Francisco Strikers hockey team. His life is the game, but also giving back to his new city with his Westie’s Warriors Foundation, offering an arena suite to sick children and their families from Children’s Hospital. The last person he expects to see when he greet the kids in the suite is the woman who stole his heart and iced him out four years ago.
Fate has finally brought Maggie and Alex back to the same city. Can he open his heart again to the woman who broke it? Can Maggie find room for both her career and the man she never stopped loving? With the holidays fast approaching, they may discover all they really want for Christmas is a second chance at love.
This is an 18,000 word novella with a HEA and NO cliffhanger!
Readers 18+
Please note - This novella was originally published in the Hockey Holidays anthology
Alex “Westie” Westbrook loves his job playing with the San Francisco Strikers hockey team. His life is the game, but also giving back to his new city with his Westie’s Warriors Foundation, offering an arena suite to sick children and their families from Children’s Hospital. The last person he expects to see when he greet the kids in the suite is the woman who stole his heart and iced him out four years ago.
Fate has finally brought Maggie and Alex back to the same city. Can he open his heart again to the woman who broke it? Can Maggie find room for both her career and the man she never stopped loving? With the holidays fast approaching, they may discover all they really want for Christmas is a second chance at love.
This is an 18,000 word novella with a HEA and NO cliffhanger!
Readers 18+
Please note - This novella was originally published in the Hockey Holidays anthology
108 pages, ebook
Published December 4, 2018
323 people are currently reading
276 people want to read
About the author
Stephanie Kay
23 books490 followersUSA Today Bestselling Author, Stephanie Kay has always loved a good romance, and she got hooked on the dirty ones at the tender age of 14, when she told her mother that if the cover wasn’t a bodice ripper, then there was no sex in the book. As an avid mystery reader, her mother never checked to see if Stephanie was lying. Twenty plus years later, Stephanie’s most prized possession is her Kindle, and she may have a Hallmark movie obsession.
She has called California, Maryland, and Rhode Island her home, but now lives in New Hampshire with her husband where she asks him incessant questions until he escapes to go hiking in the mountains. That’s the only time she can get him out of the house so she can get her writing in. Married couples shouldn’t both work from home!
Sports were never her thing, but after beta reading for another hockey author and buying NHL Game Center within one month of watching her first hockey game a few years ago, she dove into learning everything she could about the sport and the hot men that play it. Now she spends her spare time visiting hockey arenas in the name of research and loving every second of it.
You can find her online at www.stephkaybooks.com, and on Facebook and Twitter. Please join her reader group for updates and excerpts. https://www.facebook.com/groups/19224...
You can also email her at stephanie@stephkaybooks.com
She has called California, Maryland, and Rhode Island her home, but now lives in New Hampshire with her husband where she asks him incessant questions until he escapes to go hiking in the mountains. That’s the only time she can get him out of the house so she can get her writing in. Married couples shouldn’t both work from home!
Sports were never her thing, but after beta reading for another hockey author and buying NHL Game Center within one month of watching her first hockey game a few years ago, she dove into learning everything she could about the sport and the hot men that play it. Now she spends her spare time visiting hockey arenas in the name of research and loving every second of it.
You can find her online at www.stephkaybooks.com, and on Facebook and Twitter. Please join her reader group for updates and excerpts. https://www.facebook.com/groups/19224...
You can also email her at stephanie@stephkaybooks.com
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December 13, 2018
This story is short, fast paced and a nice read. I read this book within half an hour and was satisfied throughout. This book is the first book of Stephanie Kay’s that I have read. I found the writing style easy to follow, the characters likeable and the storyline sweet. This story is a second chance romance. Maggie and Alex had grown up together and dated for years. A few years earlier, Maggie broke Alex’s heart by ending their relationship. Maggie loved Alex but they were both heading in different directions. Her to medical school and Alex to a professional hockey team where he could get traded at any time. When Alex learns that Maggie is living in the same town as him to do her two-year residency, he makes a move. Alex is determined to win Maggie back but will it work out?
The storyline for this book is easy to follow and it is a sweet read. I cannot wait to read the other books in this series.
The storyline for this book is easy to follow and it is a sweet read. I cannot wait to read the other books in this series.
December 14, 2018
Too much ‘angst’ for me
Will she, won’t she, will he, won’t he, will they or will it be another miss? This kind of stupid round and round just gets on my nerves.
This is not an enjoyable read, to me. And not a book I would recommend.
Will she, won’t she, will he, won’t he, will they or will it be another miss? This kind of stupid round and round just gets on my nerves.
This is not an enjoyable read, to me. And not a book I would recommend.
December 17, 2020
i won this in a Goodreads giveaway, i see it is book 5 .. in KU if you have that service. sports romance. sports fiction. come out in 2018. different book covers on Goodreads and Amazon, i always find that a bit tough as a reader ... trying to make sure i have the right book to review, etc. second chance romance. short and sweet. has dual point of views because the way of writing ... remember when it wasn't??! i wonder if that is something ...that will change again over and time??!
September 29, 2019
Second chance
Another great hockey romance. Alex and Maggie grew up together, dated through college then broke up. Maggie didn't think long distance relationship would work. She was in medical school and Alex was drafted by the Strikers, Now they're in the same city just crazy schedules. Can they find a way to make it work. Read to find out.
Another great hockey romance. Alex and Maggie grew up together, dated through college then broke up. Maggie didn't think long distance relationship would work. She was in medical school and Alex was drafted by the Strikers, Now they're in the same city just crazy schedules. Can they find a way to make it work. Read to find out.
November 29, 2023
This is the 5th book in the San Francisco Strikers series. It is the story of hockey star Alex Westbrook and his first and only love Dr. Maggie Terraza. Maggie had ended their relationship five years earlier due to career stresses and her own insecurities. They meet again at the hospital where she is a resident and he heads up a charity for sick children. Sparks fly.
April 2, 2019
Level achieved: 2 hour power read
I’ve never read a book faster then I read this one! It’s absolutely cute and I love how it starts off. Totally unlike the other Stephanie Kay Books.
Loved how we were able to feel the love and depth in such a cute novella style
I’ve never read a book faster then I read this one! It’s absolutely cute and I love how it starts off. Totally unlike the other Stephanie Kay Books.
Loved how we were able to feel the love and depth in such a cute novella style
February 22, 2022
Great quick story!
I'm so loving this series I never want it to end! This one doesn't disappoint even as a short story! There's a lot of heartfelt feelings in it! Enjoy 5 stars for this one!
I'm so loving this series I never want it to end! This one doesn't disappoint even as a short story! There's a lot of heartfelt feelings in it! Enjoy 5 stars for this one!
December 3, 2024
Adorable y muy tierno, le queda muy bien el formato corto a esta historia. Aunque habría apreciado un epílogo con más info de la pareja en el futuro y de cómo ha ido el tratamiento con los niños del hospital.
December 12, 2018
A sweet holiday second chance love story.
August 1, 2019
Cute but short Christmas story.
August 11, 2019
Yes!
I'd like Alex under my tree at Christmas time, please. I really love his and Maggie's story. It's a sweet and sexy appetizer to the rest of the Strikers series.
I'd like Alex under my tree at Christmas time, please. I really love his and Maggie's story. It's a sweet and sexy appetizer to the rest of the Strikers series.
October 29, 2019
I really enjoyed this one! The only thing I would change is the length - this couple deserves a longer story!
March 29, 2020
Loved it
What a great short story. They were in love for year's. Know meeting up years later those feelings never went away.Great book
What a great short story. They were in love for year's. Know meeting up years later those feelings never went away.Great book
May 11, 2020
Too short. This could have been fleshed out a bit and made longer. The couples of this series have been 50/50 if they interest me, this one did so I just wish it was a longer story.
January 3, 2021
This is the 1st book I read by Stephanie Kay. I liked the hockey 🏒 scenes. I liked the children. I'm sorry the storyline didn't grab my interest.
September 19, 2021
Great book, so happy they were able to rekindle what they had.
December 13, 2021
Sweet and short
Holiday hockey romance. Not too angsty but with some real emotion throughout. A good choice for a quick winter read!
Holiday hockey romance. Not too angsty but with some real emotion throughout. A good choice for a quick winter read!
March 29, 2023
Good
The reasons why rw u are in a good job? I'm pretty much a five day job? I'm pretty happy
The reasons why rw u are in a good job? I'm pretty much a five day job? I'm pretty happy
October 14, 2024
Maggie and Alex get their second chance. Quick story.
March 28, 2025
Nice HEA romance.
It is short but not something I minded as it was a second chance romances made it quick and easy to get through.
It is short but not something I minded as it was a second chance romances made it quick and easy to get through.
December 1, 2021
All I Want
Short and Sweet
A second chance romance, set at Christmas time.
A very quick read. Alex and Maggie were cute together. There was an awful lot of Maggie’s back and forth about her wants and feelings for Alex in such a short book. Alex never wavered in his feelings for her. As soon as they reconnect, he’s all in again.
As with most short stories, it felt rushed, but it does tell a complete story even if a lot of the details are left out. It’s told in dual points of view. And does have an HEA.
Short and Sweet
A second chance romance, set at Christmas time.
A very quick read. Alex and Maggie were cute together. There was an awful lot of Maggie’s back and forth about her wants and feelings for Alex in such a short book. Alex never wavered in his feelings for her. As soon as they reconnect, he’s all in again.
As with most short stories, it felt rushed, but it does tell a complete story even if a lot of the details are left out. It’s told in dual points of view. And does have an HEA.
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