Rebel Bride
Chicago Players #2
by Kate Meader
Blurb:
Sheโs just jilted my teammate at the altar and Iโm the one who helped her escape. We never hit it off, but Iโll still keep her safe โฆ and pray she never learns how I really feel about her.
SUMMER
I canโt marry him.
I have no good reason to jilt my hockey player fiancรฉ, except that the closer we get to the big day, the more I feel myself shrinking to a hollow shell. Two minutes after I slip into the church bathroom to calm my pre-wedding jitters, I jump out the window to make my escape โฆ
โฆ and land on Hatch Kershaw, my fiancรฉโs teammate on the Chicago Rebels.
This guy has always hated me for reasons I canโt fathom. Half the time he looks right through me, like Iโm no better than the ice shavings on his skate blade. The other half? That brooding green gaze strips me bare and sees right into my soul.
Neither option is good for me, so I really shouldnโt want his help โฆ should I?
HATCH
The bride hit me like a ton of bricks.
The last thing I expected was for my teammateโs bride to ask for my help in fleeing her wedding. Make that the second lastโeven more unexpected is that I said โyes.โ Before I know it, Iโve driven her to my familyโs vacation home because Iโm a nice guy and she needs to catch her breath.
Only now, I canโt breathe around her.
Summer Landry and I have never hit it off, so why the hell am I going along with this madness? Every stolen glance and accidental touch tell me sheโs off-limits, while each torturous second with her in our lakeside hideaway has me questioning everything I thought I knew about who she is and what sheโs hiding.
No one can know what I didโnot my teammate, not my family, not the mediaโor all hell will break loose. Most of all, Summer can never know why I dislike her so much.
Because if she did, I might never recover.
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Review:
**slight spoilers ahead**
Oh goodness did I love Hatch and Summer together. Granted I got seriously frustrated with both of them – Hatch for his impatience and Summer for her habit of running away – but I embraced the angst and just went with it ๐ Meader brings the cheese, the banter, the heat, and the heartbreak.
I felt for Hatch and having to hide his feelings and being conflicted about what to do now. I also felt for Summer and how easily she found herself swept away, losing bits of herself along the way, in her relationship with Dash. (And I love love love that Meader had her take that back for herself.)
I’m enjoying this series, and Meader’s writing, so much and as with Sweet Thing there’s a cliff-hangerish moment at the end for the next story that I am definitely here for!
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