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Allison Olivia

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As all the clichés go, best-selling author, Maisie Sterling, is facing a major writer's block after her long-term boyfriend dumps her for none other than his own sister — sorry, ex step-sister. Struggling to regain her creative spark, she's desperate for inspiration, and she finds it in the most unexpected place.After leaving a sarcastic comment on a viral video from NHL team Seattle Strikers, she receives an unusual job offer: to write a book with the help of a player. The catch? She has to make a character based on him.Enter Rowan Hartley, the grumpy, closed-off defenseman she's to work with. He's gruff, dismissive, and would rather take a puck to the head than spend some time with her... unless she's on her knees, of course.
The more time spent together, the clearer it becomes that the line between love and loathing is dangerously thin.

Valerie Sterling has always had an eye for aesthetic. Her life’s dream was to be a professional interior decorator, but as life goes, it was trampled by the reality of bills, health insurance, and the ever-present guilt of leaving her younger sister behind. Only now she’s lost her job, her sister’s happily in love, and Valerie’s only friends are her anxiety-riddled roommate and Vincent, who sends her more memes than she can keep up with.To the cameras, Vincent Hull is endlessly charming and an all-around fun time. Coined the clown of the Striker’s team, he lives up to the title with shit-eating grins and jokes that never fail to make someone laugh. But there was a time when he bounced in and out of the foster care system, never knowing his place in the world until he landed in the loving arms of his adoptive moms’.Setting out to bring their dream home to life, Vincent’s certain nothing could go wrong. Only right before the hired decorator is set to begin, she quits, leaving him scrambling for help in the only person he has left to turn to: Valerie.Despite Vincent’s growing uncertainty about returning to the NHL, and Valerie’s fear of fumbling the one shot she has at her dream, the two come together to create the home his moms’ have always dreamed of.And discover that it’s never too late to follow your heart.