Great chemistry between the hero and the heroine! Although when we first met Remy, I thought he's another manwhore. But I was nicely surprised-he was a good guy, he just has issues. Speaking of issues, Harper has lots of issues and wants to prove that she can take this team from zero to hero!

Loved the banter and the storyline!

ARC received from: the Publisher

Rating: ★★★★★

Trope: Sports Romance

Chemistry: Off the charts Scorchio

One-Sentence Summary: Strong petite female Versus a large Cajun hockey player

Review: In 1995 Susan Elizabeth Phillips gave us Phoebe Somerville, in 2009 Rachel Gibson gave us Faith Duffy and now in 2017 Kate Meader gives us the indomitable Harper Chase the new owner of a Hockey team who has to overcome all obstacles including a spiteful ex, 2 half sisters, a large dose of misogyny and one large burly irritable Cajun hockey player!

When the Hot In Chicago series came to an end, I held a minute's silence for the end of the scorching hot series and wondered what could possibly top a trilogy (give or take a novella) about hot firemen ....... erm, how about a series about hockey players and the three half-sisters who have inherited the team!!!

I can't even begin to describe the insane chemistry between Harper and Remy .... my words simply aren't good enough. All I can say is that from the scene in the rain in New Orleans all the way to the very end, you will feel like you need the entire Engine Co. 6 to come armed with their hoses (oh my, the double entendres!) to cool you down.

Harper is everything you would expect from a strong businesswoman tasked with whipping a bunch of men into shape. It is clear that issues with her father in the past affect her decisions and relationships in the present but these do not weigh down the story and instead give her character depth and flaws. Remy is the real surprise. When we and Harper meet him he has a half-naked girl draped across him and he is resistant, to put it nicely, to accepting that he has been traded and backs Harper into a corner before he is willing to try his hardest on the ice. We soon learn though that he has a heart of gold and family is the most important thing to him and is pretty much the perfect guy in every sense, even if takes Harper awhile to believe it.

Harper and Remy aside, we also get to meet Harper's sisters, Isobel and Violet who have their own issues to deal with alongside future romances with Vadim (who no doubt is sexier than his name sounds. This is a reconciliation romance so needless to say I am totally looking forward to this!) and Bren respectively. As always in a Meader series, their books are set up well in this first novel and have you wishing their books were available to read rightaway. (Like seriously, at the risk of sounding like a drug addict jonesing for their next fix, who do I have to blackmail around here to make that happen ... ;)

Not even halfway through the year I think I've found my favourite romance of 2017.