Wake Up, Nat & Darcy
A Spicy Sapphic Hockey Romance
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3.8 • 4 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Ex-lovers. Ex-rivals. New cohosts. Oh, puck.
Cut from the U.S. women’s hockey team right before her third chance at gold, Natalie Carpenter is scrambling for a plan that’ll help her avoid moving back home. The answer: a guest hosting gig on Wake Up, USA’s winter games coverage. Her co-host: Darcy LaCroix, Nat’s ex-girlfriend, one-time college teammate turned adversary.
Since leaving Team Canada, Darcy has worked hard to make a name in broadcasting. If her big break requires sharing screen time with the former cocky freshman who turned her world upside down, so be it. At this point, there’s nothing between them except history.
But audiences disagree. #PuckingHotties is trending hard, and Nat and Darcy agree to lean into it...for ratings, obviously. It’s not like Nat can forget the way Darcy broke her heart or their bitter team rivalry.
Between working, traveling together, and that irresistible spark, it’s getting hard to separate what’s real and what’s for the camera. Because somewhere underneath everything that went wrong is the sneaking suspicion that nothing will ever feel quite this right again.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Cochrane's solid queer debut, Darcy LaCroix, a retired Canadian hockey star, must work with her onetime lover and teammate turned rival, Nat Carpenter, as cohosts of a segment on the morning show Wake Up, USA. Nat and Darcy are flown to Olympic host nation Switzerland to meet the athletes of all the winter sports and then attempt to learn how to do said sport themselves. Meanwhile, Nat's still nursing a bruised heart and ego that Darcy caused when she denied their secret relationship in front of their college teammates. After years of intense, heartbreak-fueled hockey rivalry, will the two succumb to the chemistry that's still obvious between them? Adding to the tension is the pressure from legions of queer viewers of Wake Up, USA who start shipping them, complete with the hashtag "#PuckingHotties." This fandom element adds extra fun to a strong and well-executed premise that's sure to appeal to fans of sports romances. Cochrane shows promise.
