Off the Ice by Jaqueline Snowe is now live!

ABOUT THE BOOK

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.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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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I received a complimentary early release e-book prior to release and am voluntarily leaving a review.

This is book 4 in a series and I have only read one other book in the series. I never felt lost or like I missed something by not reading the other books. So, I think it stands alone really well.

This story is primarily about family. It's a romance too but it's got lots of moments and issues that deal with what makes a family and dealing with loss of family and the different ways people deal with that to make a life. I really enjoyed seeing this playout in this book and I really loved the two main characters of Elle and Cal.

This is an at work romance with Elle hating Cal and Cal not knowing why she hates him. When she gets a job at his uncle's bar, Elle tries to avoid him but when her boss goes out of town and Cal ends up helping out, they will both have to confront what he did to her that made her hate him.

One aspect of this story that felt was really weird for me as a reader was something I have not come across before in a romance book. There is a character in this story who works at the bar, Alex and Elle calls Alex a THEY and when I mentioned it to my teenagers, they were like it means it's a gender-neutral term. I just felt like there was no explanation for this and when Elle meets Alex, she just seemed to know it was they. At times it confused me in looking for a second Alex or something I missed. I loved that the book is appealing to all audiences, I just felt sometimes confused and it would have helped if there was more explanation of the why.