Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Hard Fall by Kat Mizera & Brenda Rothert

Hard Fall by Brenda Rothert & Kat Mizera is available now
A brand new hockey romance standalone

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ABOUT THE BOOK

The St. Louis Mavericks are having the best season in team history. On pace for a pro hockey record, the unexpected death of their captain and star player knocks them off course in ways they never expected.

Weston

My world was turned upside down the day Ben Whitmer died. Best friends since junior hockey, Ben was like a brother to me. My voice of reason and a grounding force on and off the ice. But as heartbroken as I am, I don’t have the luxury of grieving his loss.

Not only do I have to hold our team together, I was named guardian of the two young children Ben and his wife left behind. Well, not just me—me and his wife’s best friend, Hadley. We’ve been left with the impossible task of deciding which of us will raise the kids, but there’s no way I’m letting that uptight ball buster have them.

Lines are drawn, but they begin to blur as I find out there’s more to Hadley than I thought. A lot more.

Hadley

I can’t take the place of my beautiful best friend in her children’s lives. But I love them so fiercely that I’ll do whatever it takes to raise them the way their parents wanted.

Wes Kirby is an obnoxious womanizer, and I won’t let him take Ben and Lauren’s children from me. Deciding to temporarily live together in our friends’ home, we attempt to provide the kids stability while we figure out which of us is better suited to raising them.

As we learn parenthood together, my enemy Wes slowly becomes something different. Something more. And I’m left wondering not only if I’m enough for the kids, but if Wes and I are enough to last.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Brenda Rothert was a print journalist for nine years. She made the jump from fact to fiction in 2013 and never looked back. From hot hockey romance to steamy romantic suspense, Brenda creates fresh characters in every story she tells. She's a lover of Diet Coke, lazy weekends and happily ever afters.

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USA Today Bestselling and award-winning author Kat Mizera is a South Florida native. Born in Miami Beach with a healthy dose of wanderlust, she's called Los Angeles, Long Island, upstate New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Atlanta home. She's never been able to pick which locale is her favorite, but if pressed, she'd probably choose the west coast.

A typical PTA mom with a wonderful and supportive husband (Kevin) and two amazing boys (Nick and Max), Kat can usually be found scrapbooking or indulging in her second love (after writing) - traveling. Greece is one of her favorite places in the world. She loves that Athens is a big city with a small-town feel. The food, beaches and culture keep her going back as often as possible.

Kat's been a working freelance writer for nearly 30 years. She sold her first article--a review of a rock concert--for $10 in 1985. Since then she's been an entertainment journalist, waitress, bartender, legal assistant, food critic, magazine editor, substitute teacher, and sports writer. She also spent some time working at A & M Records in Los Angeles.

As you can guess from her Las Vegas Sidewinders series, Kat loves hockey and occasionally writes articles about her favorite team, the Florida Panthers. The rest of the time, she writes novels: sexy, romantic fiction that she hopes makes you as happy as it makes her. There's something enticing about hockey players and romance...

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This is the first book I have read by both these authors, it might even be their first together. It was absolutely awesome. I laughed and I cried and my heart broke just a little bit as well. 

I will be honest this story is my absolute favorite trope. I am a mom so I get how hard being a mom can be. Add in the death of someone you love and having to figure things out with someone you don't like and share a complicated past. Then you become an insta mom or dad with a 3 year old and 6 month old. Well lets say its complicated...

In this story this happened to Lauren and Wes. Honestly what these two did was awesome. They literally dropped their entire lives and everything changed in an instant when their best friends died. They didn't just have to become insta parents with someone they did not like but they also had to figure out parenthood while also getting very little sleep.

You would think they had helped from their parents or even the friends who died parents. But they didn't have help. In fact one set of parents makes their lives very difficult. What they did have was an awesome hockey team family and they literally saved them. I loved seeing that happen while at the same time it also caused a lot of tears because the team was in so much pain and you saw that thru how they played their games. But what I loved was how they were not only there for Wes but also Lauren and those two kids and in such huge ways. 

This was a story that I think I will be thinking about for many years to come. It is an awesome book for book club. Its well written. It is sad, but also poignant and you will laugh thru your tears as well. 


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