Off the Ice by Jaqueline Snowe is now live!
Falling for the hopeless romantic was never part of the plan...
Elle Van Helsing wants to start her life away from home. Constantly living under the shadow of her brother, she plans to find romance and survive on her own: even if it's financially harder than she thought. Getting a job at a dive bar three doors down from her new place is the perfect solution. Well, it was until the owner has a family emergency and asks his nephew to help out in his absence. The guy she used to have a crush on until he ruined it.
Cal Holt might be a legend on the ice, but off it? He's alone and likes to keep it that way. It's easier to protect himself when he's always a jerk, but the one person who gets under his skin is Elle. Torn between wanting to get to know her and pushing her away, he's surprised when he learns she hates him. She looked at him differently the year before, and now that they're stuck managing a bar for a few weeks, tensions rise.
She's a hopeless romantic who wants grand gestures and sees the world through rose-colored glasses. He's a grumpy cynic with a permanent scowl. She dreams of love, and he wants a one-night stand. She plans to build a life on campus, and he plans to leave and head to the NHL. Complete opposites in every way, they shift from enemies to friends...but Cal refuses to fall in love, and Elle deserves more. For the girl who never felt enough, and the guy terrified to feel, fear might ruin their chance at finding love.
Caroline's Review
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This was a fantastic read! Fiery, intensely sexy, and pretty emotional.
"Even if it breaks my heart, I want to feel like I'm one thousand percent someone's yes. Like, yes, I make their soul dance."
Eleanor 'Elle' Van Helsing crushed on Cal Holt for years from afar, until he made one careless comment that turned her crush to disdain. From then on, she couldn't stand to be around him and avoided him whenever she could. When she scores herself a new job at a dive bar owned by his uncle, an unexpected circumstance has them partnering up to keep the bar going in his uncle's absence. Slowly, Elle begins to realise that there's much more than meets the eye to the grumpy, angry, unsociable hockey captain.
"She was a dream. Off-limits because I wasn't good enough for her, but a dream."
Cal has a huge wall around his heart. He fears love, but Elle, the girl whose presence brings him peace, is an out-and-out romantic. They are too different to attempt anything more than friendship. As he holds fast to their growing, deepening friendship, he also fights his attraction to her because he can't imagine his life without her in it, yet he feels he can't offer her anything more.
"F*cking Elle. Her kiss destroyed the tiniest string of self-control I had left. I wanted all of her, all the time."
Gah! I really loved this story. Cal broke my heart. He really felt that he didn't know how to love people and didn't even realise that he did so through his actions. He was emotionally stunted because his anger and his aloneness had kept people at bay, and he'd forgotten how to care for people because he couldn't voice his feelings. Elle, on the other hand, used her words to show her love. She was charming and had the kindest heart. Even though Cal hurt her, she refused to make him feel guilty about it because she understood where he was coming from. Cal's battle with himself over Elle was agony to witness. This girl was made for him and he was so stuck in his head that he almost missed his opportunity at something more with her. I loved Elle's bravery and honesty, which made for very happy and romantic ending. And, seriously, their first kiss? What a prelude to some hot and intense scenes! Loved it!
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Meet Jaqueline Snowe
Jaqueline Snowe lives in Arizona where the "dry heat" really isn't that bad. She prefers drinking coffee all hours of the day and snacking on anything that has peanut butter or chocolate. She is the mother to two fur-babies who don't realize they aren't humans and a new mom to the sweetest baby boy. She is an avid reader and writer of romances and tends to write about athletes. Her husband works for an MLB team (not a player, lol) so she knows more about baseball than any human ever should.
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