Deflected

Alex “Rush” Markov is a professional hockey player who has created an image of being a party animal and a womanizer, but he has a huge secret he’s a closet bookworm. Alex is now paying for his wild ways, after winning The Stanley Cup team management isn’t impressed with his ways and has stepped in, and sending Alex to Madrona Island to get his act together and his future on track as Ethan the team owner wants him to step up and assume a leadership role with-in the team.
Once Alex is on the island, he discovers the local bookstore and meets the owner Rosalind Newcomb, straight away Rosalind dislikes Alex with his blatant flirting and his disrespect for her store rules. Rosalind doesn’t know who Alex is and straight away the sparks are flying between the two as they rub each other the wrong way, they are like oil and water.
Rosalind is a sweet down to earth girl who is a planner and likes order in her life, can she step outside the square and go with the flow and experience things in life she might otherwise let pass by because it doesn’t fit in with her plan.
Both Alex and Rosalind have secrets that they use to protect themselves. Can Alex and Rosalind overcome these to help them grow and move forward to have a fulfilling life.
A great story about life and how people deal with things, we all deal with events in our life differently and sometimes we help bring out the best in others. This is a standalone but also part of a great series.

Book 2 in the Madrona Island spin off from Game On in Seattle and this is Alexander “Rush” Markov’s story. This like all the other books in this series can be read as a stand-alone but I’m sure once you pick up one of these stories you will want to learn more about these hot Seattle hockey players and their partners.
Alex and his team have just won the Stanley Cup and that’s means and lots of partying and plenty of wild nights for the man nicknamed Rush but the team owners have other plans and if he wants to keep his contract he needs to spend a month on the remote Madrona Island.
Rosalind Newcomb is the owner of the bookstore on the Island and on the face of it is the quintessential good girl but at times she gets lonely and finds herself wishing for that special man to arrive on the Island. Alex may be a swoon worthy hockey player but he also loves to read so the bookstore is his first point of call when he arrives on Madrona but when he disrupts the peace and quiet of her store its hate at first sight for the pretty store owner, will Alex be able to win her over..
Alex and Rosalind are meant to be and I found myself hoping and wishing for a HEA for this adorable couple but Alex is not a relationship man and Rosalind may not like the man he was before he met her so is it possible for love to win the day I guess you need to read the book to find that out. I love the chemistry this couple share, I love the banter and I love everything about Madrona Island and it’s residents who all seem to have a part to play in match making for the locals and team players from the Seattle Sockeyes. Looking forward to who’s next in this great series.

Alexander “Rush” Markov plays professional hockey, hard, fast and parties even harder. Alex is also a closet reader and he often escapes into the world of book. After over celebrating his teams Stanley Cup win, he knows he needs to ease off his partying ways.

When management decides he needs an intervention, Alex is packed off to Madrona Island with instructions to keep a low profile and to get his life and his future back on track.

Rosalind Newcomb owns a book shop and she is annoyed when Alex begins to turn her life upside down.

Alex really is the quintessential bad boy, hot, alpha and so sexy that women find him hard to resist until he meets Rosalind. She wants nothing to do with him at first but as she gets to know the real Alex, walls begin to tumble and the chemistry builds although she has no idea who he really is.

From the start of Deflected I wanted these two to get together and remain that way. However lies told, even by omission can pollute and destroy a relationship before it can become established.

What will happen when Rosalind finds out the truth? Will Alex take a chance on love or will he run before he can get to involved?