Review / Release Blitz: Cross-Checked (Boston Rebels #3) by Julia Connors

🩷𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀-𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 by Julia Connors is NOW AVAILABLE!
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Tropes:
🏒 enemies to lovers
🏒 single dad
🏒 reverse age gap
🏒 forced proximity
🏒 female GM x hockey captain

Some people might call it a grudge, but in reality, hating Alessandra Jones is more like an obsession.

AJ is the league’s first female general manager, and my boss. As the team captain, I have to play nice with her—in public, at least.

But in private, the gloves come off. And then one time, our clothes do too.

We vow it won’t happen again.

Not only can we not stand each other, but we’re in tense negotiations over my contract right now, and AJ is up for the league’s GM of the Year award. Getting involved wouldn’t just be a PR nightmare—it would be unethical.

It doesn’t help that we have a history, or that she and my daughter adore each other. When AJ is injured protecting my baby, there’s no choice but to move her into my place.

Taking care of someone I hate shouldn’t feel so right. Getting to know her better shouldn’t break down my defenses. She’s hurt me once before, and I’d be a fool to trust her again.

But the more time we spend together, the more I realize that maybe I’m not obsessed with hating her . . . 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘐’𝘮 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘦𝘳.

MY REVIEW

Ronan McCabe has been telling himself (and everyone else) that he hates his boss, the GM of his hockey team, but deep inside he keeps his real feelings for her. And when they finally consummate those feelings? Yeah, now he really can't say he hates her anymore. Now he knows he feels the opposite. But he can't be with her publicly, not without ruining both their careers. Sneaking around will just have to do. FOR NOW.

Now really isn't the time for Alessandra "AJ" to be falling in love with one of her players, especially McCabe, the man who says he hates her, the man whose contract she and the team are supposed to be renegotiating. But once they come together and she starts seeing the real him, there's no way she can stay away. Even if they have to be together in secret, FOR NOW, they'll be together. She never told him the real reason for what happened before, and telling the truth has the chance to ruin everything. She can't tell him, can she?

AJ & McCabe's love story is FIRE! She's a badass GM, the best GM according to her team and her peers. She dominates in a typically male industry. She leads with strength and compassion, but hadn't yet realized she could truly have both her career and love. That she found it with the man who couldn't stand her is just...perfect actually. Ronan really isn't the man he presented to her, to the world, and once she realized it, there was no way she could keep her heart from him. I absolutely love them, their enemies to lovers vibe, their reverse age gap, her kickass boss to his grumpy (not really) single dad with a heart of mush for the two females he loves most.