Reviewer's Rating:
5
5.0Overall score
A great start to a new series! ❤
Coast to Coast By RJ Scott
and V.L. Locey
Genre: Contemporary, Sports, Romance, Hockey, GLBTQ, MM
Released: September 29, 2019
Publisher: Love Lane Books Ltd
Series: Arizona Raptors, Book 1
Cover Design: Meredith Russell
Length: 57,412 words words approx.
When opposites attract, it’s not just the team that’s in for a shake-up.
When a stipulation in his father’s will throws Mark back into a family that disowned him, he has only two things on his mind; buying his way out of contractual obligations and running in the opposite direction as fast as he can. When neither option pans out, he finds he is now a one third owner of the struggling Arizona Raptors hockey team, and that is just about the worst thing he could have happened to him. Not only does he hate hockey, but the Raptors are a bottom-of-the-league team, rife with jealousies and anger in a locker room that only knows self-pity. How is he supposed to help turn things around when the only way to start fixing things is to form an alliance with the estranged siblings he’d run from fifteen years earlier?
Then there’s Rowen Carmichael, a stubborn, opinionated, irritating man with superiority issues and questionable taste in music. Butting heads with Rowen, who he’d never even wanted to hire in the first place, is one thing, but there is no way in hell that he will allow the growing attraction to the new coach become anything more. Until with everything on the line, he has to make decisions that will change his life forever.
After years of collegiate coaching, Rowen is given an offer that he simply can’t refuse, although perhaps he should. When he’s presented with the chance to take one of the worst teams in the league and mold them into a future cup contender, the challenge is just too alluring to pass up. He leaves his beloved Ontario behind and moves west to the arid city of Tucson where he is faced with a broken team, shoddy management, and players overflowing with resentment and bigotry.
Never in his twenty years of hockey has he ever seen such a raging dumpster fire of an organization. Yet there’s something about this team and this city that compels him to roll up his sleeves and start dismantling. He has his eye on a new associate coach that’s bound to makes waves, and several key players who should be sent packing. Now all he has to do is convince the new owners of the team that his choices are for the best. If only Mark Westman-Reid, one of three siblings who now own the Raptors, wasn’t so damned rock-headed, so damned snooty, and so damned appealing his job might be a bit easier.
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
A great start to a new series! ❤
Coast to Coast is book one in the new Arizona Raptors series by RJ Scott and V.L. Locey. It’s a great start with lots of action on the ice and between the sheets. 😊
New coach, Rowan Carmichael, and one-third team owner, Mark Westman-Reid, couldn’t be more opposite but they need to learn to work together to rebuild the Arizona Raptors. It would be easier to do if they didn’t hate each other.
Mark isn’t happy being forced to help his other family members because they stood by and did nothing when his father threw him out for being gay. The terms of his father’s will say that he and his two brothers must work together for at least 12 months or the Raptors will be sold and the money given to charity.
Owen just wants to coach hockey and acquire the player talent and coaching staff he needs to help the team be successful. He can’t stand the arrogant Westman-Reid brothers but he has to work with them in order to get who and what he wants for the team. There’s also something sparking between Owen and Mark. When these two finally act on their attraction, oh boy, watch out! I thought my ereader was going to burn my hands.
If you’re a fan of RJ and V.L. you will be thrilled at the little glimpses of Harrisburg Railers team members that are sprinkled throughout the story. One bad actor, whom we met in the Railer’s series, Aarni Lankinen, hasn’t cleaned up his act; in fact he’s gotten even nastier. While I’m certain you’ll enjoy this new series even if you haven’t read the s, I highly recommend reading them if you want the back story on Aarni.
RJ and V.L. have formed a great writing partnership that has taught me more about hockey than I ever thought I’d want to know. 😊 I hope they keep writing together for a long, long, time.
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USA Today bestselling author RJ Scott writes stories with a heart of romance, a troubled road to reach happiness, and most importantly, a happily ever after.
RJ Scott is the author of over one hundred romance books, writing emotional stories of complicated characters, cowboys, millionaire, princes, and the men who get mixed up in their lives. RJ is known for writing books that always end with a happy ever after. She lives just outside London and spends every waking minute she isn’t with family either reading or writing.
The last time she had a week’s break from writing she didn’t like it one little bit, and she has yet to meet a bottle of wine she couldn’t defeat.
She’s always thrilled to hear from readers, bloggers and other writers.
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USA Today Bestselling Author V.L. Locey – Penning LGBT hockey romance that skates into sinful pleasures.
V.L. Locey loves worn jeans, yoga, belly laughs, walking, reading and writing lusty tales, Greek mythology, Torchwood and Dr. Who, the New York Rangers, comic books, and coffee. (Not necessarily in that order.) She shares her life with her husband, her daughter, one dog, two cats, a pair of geese, far too many chickens, and two steers.
When not writing spicy romances, she enjoys spending her day with her menagerie in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in one hand and a steamy romance novel in the other.
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