So many great feelings, a bit of anger which given the nature of the story I expected, a whole lot of surprises, what seems to be some great things coming in the future, but most of all a lot of love and all of that together made Dirty Score one amazingly fantastic story and one I can’t wait to read again! ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
Meet Skye:
Skye’s New York Times bestselling novels are all about enjoying that little wild streak we all have, but probably don’t let out often enough. About those fantasies we usually don’t get the opportunity to indulge. About stretching limits, checking out the dark side, playing naughty and maybe even acting a little wicked. They’re about escape and fun and pleasure and romance. And, yes, even love, because Skye is ultimately a romantic at heart and a happily ever after kinda gal. Skye also writes romantic suspense as Joan Swan, weaving fast paced novels of passion, danger and suspense.Skye is a California native recently transplanted to the East Coast and living in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside Washington DC with her husband of 25 years. She has two grown daughters in college in Colorado and Oregon. In her free time she loves rowing on the Potomac. She’s always learning, attending courses and seminars in art and history and cooking.
Rafe “Savage” lives up to his name on the ice and in the bedroom. Forging a legacy as the Rough Riders’ most notorious playboy is easy when the woman he really wants is off limits. Mia’s brother isn’t just Rafe’s best friend, he’s also a teammate. With the Cup in site, Rafe won’t screw with anything that threatens the team’s winning streak. But when Mia comes to town on a mission of her own, one little woman may turn out to be the toughest opponent Rafe’s ever faced.
When it comes to men, Mia is everyone’s best friend. But when it comes to romance, her relationships are destined for failure. With a new job awaiting her on the other side of the country, she’s determined to start fresh. To do that, she needs to let go of this stupid crush once and for all.
Seducing Rafe isn’t just the best option; it’s her only option. Until she discovers he’s been harboring the same feelings. And with his team weeks away from the biggest game of their career, and Mia’s new life waiting, their no strings affair threatens to tear both their worlds apart.
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I’m kind of a sucker for the big brother’s best friend/ little sister romance troupe and I’ll admit it’s
because of the whole “forbidden” aspect because I’ve never been one to play by all the rules. Skye Jordan does it up big time in Dirty Score because not only does the best friend want the little sister, she wants him back and to make things even more interesting her big brother’s father has been a father figure to ALL of them making it almost taboo, but what a lovely taboo. Secrets, secrets and more secrets, scintillating, seductive, and sexy all describe Dirty Score, but in reality it is two people who have loved each other from afar for far too long finally giving into their passion and how to make what works for them work for the other people they love most in the world.
Life has been good to Rafe Savage and the fact that his hockey team is headed to the playoffs just makes it even sweeter, but knowing he will soon have to face his best friend’s sister, Mia, and explain his absence and lack of communication for the last year makes him jumpy. He knows he can’t act on his feelings for Mia without ruining his friendship with Tate Donovan or Tate’s father, Joe but he is tired of denying his feelings. Mia is in D.C. for a short while before relocating to Hollywood news she has to break to her big brother and Rafe, the man she’s never been able to get out of her head. When she sees a chance to have Rafe for one night, she seizes it; she just has no idea how that one night will rock her world in more ways than one.
I loved everything about this book; the friends to lovers aspect between Rafe and Mia, the best friends who are more like brothers dealing not only with a run for the Stanley Cup but the rift between them, the parental unit trying his best to be there for all three of his “kids” while praying he can keep them all family, and the big decisions they all face as their lives are forever changed. Surprisingly for everything going on in this book there wasn’t a lot of angst (for which I am thankful) and there were a whole lot of good and fun times and some smoldering sexy ones as well.
I will say this; I feel that Rafe was very restrained in the way he dealt with Tate and that Tate needs some help to deal with the anger stemming off of him. I loved that Rafe realized he was going to support Mia’s choices no matter what and while he wants her with him, he knew he had to let her make her own decisions. I hope at some point papa “Joe” finds someone who finds him as special as his three “kids” do and that Mia finally understood that Rafe acted the way he did because he loved her but didn’t think he could have her. One more thing The Renegades team makes a cameo appearance and that seriously made my day, I loved that Ms. Jordan was able to work them into this story.
So many great feelings, a bit of anger which given the nature of the story I expected, a whole lot of surprises, what seems to be some great things coming in the future, but most of all a lot of love and all of that together made Dirty Score one amazingly fantastic story and one I can’t wait to read again!
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