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INTERFERENCE
Pilots Hockey #3
Sophia Henry
Releasing June 7th, 2016
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“Sophia
Henry tackles real issues that tug at your heartstrings,” raves bestselling author
Rachel Harris. Now, in this sweet, sensual Pilots Hockey novel, a young single
mom falls for a damaged coach pulling double-duty as a cop.
Linden Meadows doesn’t back down
from anyone, especially if her family’s involved. So when her little brother’s
new hockey coach benches him in the middle of a game, Linden lets him have it.
She also notices that the coach is way hotter than she expects, but Linden
won’t let herself get burned by another athlete. Been there, done that—and had
a kid at seventeen to show for it.
When Jason Taylor isn’t taking abuse
from hockey moms, he’s patrolling the streets as a member of the Bridgeland PD.
After Jason pulls Linden over for speeding, he begins to see that there’s more
to her than a big mouth . . . or a lead foot. Their chemistry leads to good
company, intense conversation, and an intimacy that pushes beyond the
boundaries of friendship. And yet Linden’s decision to keep her now
three-year-old son, Holden, is a painful reminder to Jason that his own mother
gave him up for adoption.
Linden’s sure she’s found the man to
round out their family. But when Holden’s deadbeat dad forces his way back into
the picture, Jason starts to back off. He needs time—to heal, to grow, and to
love with all his heart.
Excerpt
#1
After
my verbal altercation with Damien’s coach, I trudged up the stands
to the seat Mom had saved for me. Tonight’s was the first game I’d
been able to attend since a new coach took over my brother’s hockey
team. In all honesty, I don’t know much about hockey, but I know
people. And that pretty boy behind the bench had “cocky idiot”
written all over him.
“Mama!”
Holden, my three-year-old son, jumped into my arms from his spot
standing on the bench next to my mom.
“Hello,
my sweet boy!” I hugged his warm little body to me, sniffing his
silky, brown curls as I squeezed. “I missed you today.”
“I
miss you, Mama,” he responded.
“Bad
day at work?” Mom asked as she scooted over to give me room.
“Nothing
crazy. Why?” I set Holden down and sat next to Mom, close enough to
press the outside of my thigh against hers. I hadn’t had time to
change after work, and the cold air of the arena had the bare skin
not covered by my skirt popping with goose bumps.
“You
just walked in the building and you’re already up in arms.” Mom
threw her arm around my shoulders and squeezed me. “I’ve been
here the entire game. You don’t hear me making a fuss.”
“You
don’t care that he’s swearing at D?” I said, defending myself.
“You
tell Damien to get his ass off the couch all the time.” Mom reached
across me to pull the sleeves of her fleece jacket over her fingers.
“How is this any different?”
“I’m
his sister.” I shrugged. As Damien’s older sister, swearing at
him was my birthright.
“He’s
a good coach. Don’t stick your nose where it doesn’t belong.”
Mom coughed, the throaty rumble and deep hack of a thirty-year
smoker. Then she stood up and grabbed Holden’s hand. “Come on,
sweetheart.”
My
entire body shivered, protesting the loss of heat when she left my
side.
“Mama.
I pease go with Gramma?” Holden pleaded with huge, brown eyes.
“Sure,
sweet boy.” I reached out and ruffled his hair.
Holden
tugged at my mother’s arm. “I get popcorn, Gramma?”
“No
one gets anything asking like that,” I called out as Mom led him
down the steps slowly.
“Pease,”
he added. “Pease, Gramma?”
Holden
had my mom wrapped around his finger, but I never stopped trying to
instill manners in him. Technically, he had me
wrapped around his finger, too. That happens when your family is your
entire life. And my son, my mom, and my brother were my entire life.
Once
Holden and Mom turned the corner toward the snack bar, I shifted my
eyes back to the new hockey coach. I couldn’t stop myself. I hadn’t
expected him to be so young.
And
hot.
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Sophia Henry, a proud Detroit native,
fell in love with reading, writing, and hockey all before she became a
teenager. She did not, however, fall in love with snow. So after graduating
with an English degree from Central Michigan University, she moved to North Carolina,
where she spends her time writing books featuring hockey-playing heroes,
chasing her two high-energy sons, watching her beloved Detroit Red Wings, and
rocking out at concerts with her husband.
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