Title: Roughing
Series: Ottawa Titans #1
Author: Sarah Hegger
Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance
Release Date: January 14, 2020

Blurb

He’s the hotter than sin bad boy of hockey, on and off the ice, but right now Sam Stone is in trouble so deep, it’ll take a miracle to save his career.

A miracle like getting town sweetheart, and everybody’s go-to girl, Elizabeth Rogers to help him polish his tarnished reputation.

Problem is, Elizabeth and Sam grew up together, and she’s not even a little impressed by Sam. But she’s also the girl who—try as she might—can’t say no…

If Elizabeth and Sam can learn to play nice with each other, what will happen to all those sparks?


My Review 
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Hey sports romance lovers, I know there are a lot of hockey fans in the contemporary romance world, and you are going to love this book. With an orderly, people-pleaser heroine and a hockey star with too much charm for his own good but a big, soft heart to balance it out, there's just enough action on (and off) the ice to keep you glued to the page. 

Sam and Elizabeth basically grew up together, and the last thing Elizabeth would call them is friends. Sam lost that title when he used her beloved princess palace for goal practice. But when Sam gets himself suspended from the team, he needs his old pal Lizzie to spiff up his image and get him back into the Ottawa Titans' good graces. Admittedly, Elizabeth has a hard time telling people no, but she's savvy enough to negotiate a replacement bus for the retirement community where she volunteers, as well as some hockey pointers for her friend's peewee hockey team. 

While there's lots of great tension between Sam and Elizabeth and hilarious camaraderie between the teammates, this story is also sweet as maple sugar. Sam with the miniature hockey players made my heart squeeze, and Elizabeth finally standing up for herself made me want to cheer because I was so proud of her. Touching on personal growth resulting from real-life problems, the addition of humor and heart make this read the perfect hat trick. And did you notice that this is Book 1? It looks like there will be more to come from these awesome Ottawa Titans, and I’ll be eagerly awaiting the next book.

Scroll down for purchase links, a book trailer and how to connect with the author. Until next time, dear reader 

Much love between the covers,

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Author Bio

Born British and raised in South Africa, Sarah Hegger suffers from an incurable case of wanderlust. Her match? A hot Canadian engineer, whose marriage proposal she accepted six short weeks after they first met. Together they’ve made homes in seven different cities across three different continents (and back again once or twice). If only it made her multilingual, but the best she can manage is idiosyncratic English, fluent Afrikaans, conversant Russian, pigeon Portuguese, even worse Zulu and enough French to get herself into trouble.

Mimicking her globe trotting adventures, Sarah’s career path began as a gainfully employed actress, drifted into public relations, settled a moment in advertising, and eventually took root in the fertile soil of her first love, writing. She also moonlights as a wife and mother. She currently lives in Ottawa, Canada, filling her empty nest with fur babies. Part footloose buccaneer, part quixotic observer of life, Sarah’s restless heart is most content when reading or writing books.

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