Last updated on 07/16/2026
I’ve got one week to get my head in the game and forget about my inconvenient attraction to my teammate’s wife.
A relaxing retreat to cottage country with my teammates is the perfect way to prep for the upcoming hockey season.
Or so I thought.
Now I’m trapped in my cabin with my crush–and her jerk of a husband–where it’s impossible to get space or clarity. Or get over her. And that mission becomes even harder when I learn that Shannon’s marriage is failing.
With the lines of loyalty and friendship becoming blurred, and relationships being tested in all directions, I know I need to tap the brakes hard.
Until one night when everyone else is at a party down the lake, and the team captain makes me an offer I can’t refuse…to share his wife, and have a taste of the forbidden I always assumed was forever out of reach.
The Rebound Plan is a swoony forbidden romance between a tall, growly, protective hockey player and a failed model-turned-escort-turned-WAG who needs to learn to love herself as much as she loves those around her. It’s not a love triangle – you know who to root for from page one. #TeamRuss the whole way.
Available on Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Rebound-Plan-Audiobook/B0H428SJ7D
How about an immersive read with the ebook too? (Available for purchase and in KU): https://www.amazon.com/Rebound-Plan-Off-Ice-Book-ebook/dp/B0CQBBLXVS/
Review:
I absolutely love Ms Booth’s Off the Ice series, and though I really like Shannon and Russ as a couple, their book is not my favorite of the 4. They’re not even able to be a couple until close to the end–she’s with his teammate Max for a good chunk of the story. In fact, the first part of the book reads more like women’s fiction than romance (I still don’t like that label, but have we come up with a better one yet? LMK if so), which was a bit of a bummer.
Shannon’s relationship with Max was not a good one–he’s just awful to her throughout the book–and reading from her POV descriptions of how she tries so hard to stay on his good side and placate him is just heartbreaking. Readers are not going to be on his side in this at all; it’s clear that she needs out of her marriage. Once she finally leaves him, I loved watching her begin to take her life back–of course her WAG friends are there for her the whole time (honestly, the female relationships are a major highlight of this book and the series) and it’s easy to root for her to find her way in life without Max’s influence.
I found the sharing scene the blurb talks about pretty uncomfortable to read/listen to–Max doesn’t even try to take Shannon’s wants or needs into account, and once I read it I could see why some reviewers were so upset by it. Russ, at least, does do what he can to make her comfortable, but…yikes.
Once Shannon finally moves to leave Max, things get much better all around–she starts to figure her life out and the book gets a lot more romance-y. (Russ spends the whole book pining, but Shannon is more concerned with her crumbling marriage, which is to be expected.) Ms Booth does a bit of plot magic to make things all better at the end (I honestly didn’t expect the resolution she came up with here, but I’m not mad about it) which tied everything up neatly, if a bit quickly. I really wanted to see more of Russ and Shannon together! But there is a lovely ending, with our MCs in a really good place at last.
The brand new audiobook is done duet style, which I loved–and there are 2 male narrators, one for Russ and his Scottish accent (Nathaniel Priestley) and one for all of the other male characters (Dane Anderson) who perform with Shannon’s (Lauren Beck). They all do a fabulous job.
Rating: 4 stars / B+
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
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