Back in Play Audiobook (Free)
- Cooper North
- 10 h 49 min
- Harlequin Audio
- 2015-07-14
Summary:
For Minnesota Glaciers captain Scott Walters, skating on the bum knee–and self-medicating to maintain skating on it–is all area of the video game. Which the painkillers he’s consuming prevent him from having significant relationships is just yet another sacrifice in a lifetime of them. He’s worked too much to let his image end up being ruined by injury or dependency, so he hides the pain and fakes the rest-a sweetheart would just complicate matters.
High school teacher Rachel Fielding by no means needed a man in her life, but approximately Back Play she also never intended to grow old by itself. When she meets Scott while visiting her sibling, she’s intrigued to discover herself wanting him in her bed. For hours at a time, as often as possible. Scott is usually a giver, and just the memory of his attentions is enough to drive her crazy. Anything long term is out from the question, though-the pills she finds in Scott’s house indicate he’s fighting greater than getting older in a man’s game.
When what starts out like a what-the-hell weeklong fling becomes Scott and Rachel exploring one another beyond the bedroom, Rachel hesitates. But Scott asks for her support to break his obsession, and hearing him admit his secrets provides her overlooking her own rules-until he breaks her center. Using the Glaciers refusing to renew his agreement and his potential with Rachel uncertain, Scott has some big decisions to create and too much to prove-especially to himself.