Pucking Around

Rachel Price spends one perfect night with a stranger and leaves without ever learning his name. Two months later she arrives in Jacksonville for a fellowship lasting ten months, working as a physical therapist for the Rays, an NHL team. On her first day she recognises him: he is the team's playboy grinder, and he is now her patient.

The trouble does not stop with him. His best friend, the new equipment manager, is surly and rides her case at every turn. The team's goalie refuses to cooperate and insists she cannot tell that he is hiding an injury.

Rachel has one firm rule: she does not fall for a player. Three of them is out of the question. But a season is long, and the closer she works with this trio, the harder the rule is to hold.

The romance is a why-choose, so more than one man is in the running for her heart. It is open-door, meaning the love scenes are shown on the page, and the workplace setting keeps Rachel in the locker room and the training room with all three men. Banter runs through the scenes. The book is long, and it opens the Jacksonville Rays series by Emily Rath.

The question the story turns on is how long Rachel can keep her rule intact over ten months.