Recently traded to the Chicago Rebels, hockey veteran Dylan “Banks” Bankowski is adjusting to what might be his last team and his final year in the NHL. That means taking care of his battered body while he strives for the one goal that’s managed to elude him: a championship ring. What he does not need is a visit from the woman to whom he gave a different kind of ring months ago.
His young, flighty, socialite wife.
Apparently, signing the annulment papers within a week of their quickie wedding in Vegas didn’t quite take, and now she’s back, right before the playoffs when he needs his focus most. Only this time she has a different request: let’s keep up the charade. He should say no, but he once said “I do” and surely that means something …
Georgia Goodwin has good reasons for wanting to keep her hockey player husband. Convincing the big lug to cooperate is the easy part. Not so easy? Ignoring the flutter in her chest when he grunts in jock, kisses her neck, or calls her wife. But it’s only for a few weeks, and as soon as the playoffs finish, so will they.
But the more time Georgia and Banks spend together, the more real their marriage feels. Less Vegas mistake, and more like the start of something amazing. They said goodbye once. Can they do it again … or will they figure out that a love this good is worth fighting for as much as that championship ring?
I love books where you get to know the characters and find out there is so much more to them than you originally thought, but it's handled in a way that knowing more about them makes them seem more human than they did initially.
This was one of those books. Dylan and Georgia were an impulsive mistake Vegas wedding...or were they? As you get to know them, and as they get to know one another, you start to find out that there were reasons that both of them were really attracted to one another, and things that they found within one another that spoke to what they were missing in their lives.
Add in that they are attracted to one another, and going along with them as they figure out that staying married just might be the best thing, and what they actually want, is a lot of fun.
I am not usually a fan of the separate epilogue (and do still sometimes wonder why they just can't be included in the book) but for this one, it's a must and it definitely answers some of the questions at the end of the book and ties them up nicely.
I enjoyed and recommend this title.
About Kate Meader
Originally from Ireland, USA Today bestselling author Kate Meader cut her romance reader teeth on Maeve Binchy and Jilly Cooper novels, with some Harlequins thrown in for variety. Give her tales about brooding mill owners, oversexed equestrians, and men who can rock an apron, fire hose, or hockey stick, and she’s there. Now traveling the world with her soulmate, she writes sexy contemporary, hockey, and LGBTQ romance with big-hearted guys and strong heroines and heroes who can match their men quip for quip.
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