If You Love Me
by Helena Hunting
Toronto Terror #4
Release date: March 13th
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Narrators: Stephen Dexter & Stella Bloom
Two nights with her ruined me for all other women, but I never got the chance to make her mine.
I’m the pinnacle of control. I protect the net, my team, and my daughter.
It’s my final season and I can’t afford any distractions.
Except our new assistant coach just walked in.
And I would know her face anywhere.
She’s the one I dream about.
That weekend, I was just a man—not the legend, the dad, the mentor.
I didn’t care that I was a decade older.
For the first time in my life, I was ready to risk everything if it meant having her.
Until I woke up to an empty bed and no note.
Three years of wishing I knew how to find her, now she’s my new boss.
I can be patient.
But for her—I want to break all the rules.
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Review:
My favorite of the series–so far!
Ms Hunting teased this book so heavily with not only some tantalizing details at the end of the previous book ( If You Need Me ) but also the prequel novella “If You Stay the Night” that she released a chapter at a time though her newsletter that I was all but gagging for it by the time I finally got my hands on it–and the wait absolutely paid off.
Lexi and Roman (man, did that guy need to find his person in the worst way!)’s story is an earthshattering-two-night-stand-three-years-ago-oops!-now-we-work-for-the-same-organization story that has all kinds of extra complications for its MCs. Lexi’s the first woman to be an assistant coach in the NHL and is raising her much younger sisters after a family tragedy. Her own relationship with her one remaining parent is less than ideal, and though she knows she can’t get involved with a player, she and Roman have a history and it’s next to impossible to keep her distance. Roman, on the other hand, knew going into the season that it would be his last and finding out that the mystery woman he’d been obsessed with for 3 years is his new boss is a complication he didn’t need. Add in the age difference that seemed like so much more of a problem in book 2 ( If You Want Me ) when it was about his daughter and best friend and his need to be there for Lexi and her sisters when life happens, and early retirement starts to look more and more tempting to him.
I wasn’t expecting Lexi and Roman to come to the conclusion they do about fixing their “problem,” but I wasn’t upset about it either. It took the whole workplace romance angle in a new direction and made it even more impossible to stop reading this one until I got to their much-anticipated HEA. As is to be expected in this series, the secondary characters add so much to the story (reading the other books in the series first is highly recommended, since every one of these characters is absolutely up in each others’ business 24/7); I especially loved Lexi’s younger sisters every second they were on the page. New Terror player Connor Grace was an unexpected delight, and I sincerely hope that the next book in the series will be his (and that it will be with the person I am shipping him so hard with right now!) Counting the days…
I listened to the audio version of this one, and really enjoyed the presentation. Both narrators did a fabulous job of bringing the characters and the story to life–if you enjoy audiobooks, I absolutely recommend this one!
Rating: 4 1/2 stars / A
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
About the author:
A NYT and USA Today bestselling author, Helena Hunting lives outside of Toronto with her amazing family and her adorable, emotional cat, who thinks the best place to sleep is her keyboard. Helena writes everything from emotional contemporary romance to romantic comedies that will have you laughing until you cry.
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