Playoff
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4.6 • 10 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Turning thirty shouldn’t be a big deal—unless you’re a minor league hockey player starting to realize the big leagues might never call. It’s a tough pill to swallow.
But then, out of nowhere, I get my shot. The L.A. Phantoms are in the playoffs for the first time in decades, and with their roster decimated by injuries, they call me up.
I’m prepared to warm the bench, but with a solid season behind me, they’re willing to give me some ice time. This is the chance of a lifetime. Until she walks in.
My first love. The one I never forgot.
She’s now the head trainer for the Phantoms, and we haven’t seen each other in years—not since the night I let the best thing to ever happen to me walk away.
I always assumed we’d find our way back to each other.
I just didn’t expect that day to be today.
Dating her could risk everything we’ve both worked for.
How are we supposed to choose between the future we’ve dreamed of and the past we never let go of?
Customer Reviews
Seductive romance
PLAYOFF is the fourth instalment in Kat Mizera’s contemporary, adult LA PHANTOMS erotic, hockey romance series. This is twenty-eight year old, minor league hockey player Blake Rourke, and team trainer Rowan Taylor’s story line. PLAYOFF can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Blake and Rowan) PLAYOFF follows in the wake of the team’s bus accident on their way to the playoffs against the Alaska Blizzard. With several players injured including trainer Gene Perrault, assistant trainer Rowan Taylor has her hands full Without a full compliment for the playoff, a number of minor league players are called up for duty including Rowan’s high school sweetheart, the man who broke her heart. Enter Blake Rourke. For close to ten years, Blake has regretted his actions including his choices both on and off the ice but with his chance to make things straight, Blake sets out to seduce the woman he still loves, a woman who is caught between love and a future with the team.
The world building focuses on the past; the team’s fight for a championship cup in the wake of the accident; Blake and Rowan’s rekindling romance; and the possibility of a future going forward.
The relationship between Rowan and Blake is forbidden; a second chance romance between two people whose lives imploded ten years before. Blake is struggling with his family’s dysfunctional family dynamics, and both Blake and Rowan are struggling to prove they are worthy of a permanent position with the team. As Blake and Rowan’s relationship quickly turns into something more, the fall-out could end both of their careers.The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
There is a large ensemble cast of colorful, energetic and interesting secondary and supporting characters including the previous story line couples: team owner Harper Barrowman-DeLugo;, and her husband goalie Gabe DeLugo; and Coach Vanek. We are introduced to several minor league players who have been called up including Bodi Michener, Dylan Hayes, Warren Franco and Mikey Stevens; Blake’s sister Phoebe, and their father Ethan.
PLAYOFF is a story of second chances and forgiveness, family and relationships, acceptance and love. The premise is effective and captivating; the romance is seductive; the characters are determined, dynamic and charismatic