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Restraint by Mari Carr Published by Mari Carr Books LLC Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Erotic, Fiction / Romance / Medical, Fiction / Romance / Sports
Pages: 200
Format: eBook, Paperback
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Girlfriend…without benefits?
Hometown hockey hero, Blake has life completely figured out. He’s footloose and fancy free with the world’s coolest job and an endless parade of puck bunnies ready to help him celebrate his victories. The status quo is working for him, so why does he agree to co-parent a stray puppy with his too-serious, workaholic neighbor, Erika? And why is he so annoyed when she suddenly starts dating some tool named Doug? And why can’t he stop finding excuses to see her and touch her and kiss her and… She’s not his girlfriend, right?
Erika has enough on her plate as an ER doctor without adding any more stress to her life. So adopting a dog with Blake, the fun-loving, never-take-anything-serious, commitment-phobe across the hall is a stupid idea, right? Of course, she also probably shouldn’t be his plus-one for charity galas either. Or seeking comfort from him during a thunderstorm. Or kissing his five-for-fighting boo-boos better. Or letting him teach her how to “reduce stress” with her personal toy collection. After all, he’s not her boyfriend. Is he?
So what happens when two people reluctant to commit find love where they least expect it… Right across the hall.
I enjoyed Restraint by Mari Carr; it was sweet, funny, entertaining and of course because it’s Mari Carr…sexy. ~ Sharon – Simply Love Books
I enjoyed Restraint by Mari Carr; it was sweet, funny, entertaining and of course because it’s Mari Carr…sexy.
NHL star Blake and his next door neighbor Erika, an ER doctor, are best friends who life across the hall from one another. Blake is a typical pro athlete who enjoys everything playing the game has to offer and while he hit on Erika when she first moved in; she turned him down and they’ve formed a tight friendship they both enjoy. They share coffee in the mornings when they are both home, several dinners a week sometimes with his teammates, and are co-parenting a puppy they found and saved. Things are good between them until they blur the lines a bit and Erika decides in order to put their friendship back on track she needs to begin dating, something Blake isn’t all too happy about.
This was a feel good story of two people figuring out their feelings have grown for one another and realizing their relationship has been more than friends for awhile. My one complaint about this book is while it’s a hockey romance there was very little hockey to it; the hero could have been basically in any profession and it would have been the same book.
Restraint was a good start to this new series and I’m looking forward to reading about some of the side characters.
About Mari Carr
Virginia native Mari Carr is a New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller of contemporary sexy romance and romantic suspense novels. With over two million copies of her books sold, Mari was the winner of the Romance Writers of America’s Passionate Plume award for her novella, Erotic Research.
Writing a book was number one on Mari’s bucket list and on her thirty-fourth birthday, she set out to see that goal achieved. Too many years later, her computer is jammed full of stories — novels, novellas, short stories and dead-ends, and she has over a hundred published works, including her popular Wild Irish and Compass books, along with the Trinity Masters series she writes with Lila Dubois.