Book Description:
Sometimes the perfect gift is standing right in front of you. . . You’re just too stubborn to see it.
I don’t like to make mistakes. Ever.
Especially when those mistakes are witnessed by the same person—flirty Finn Holbrook—who can’t seem to leave me alone. Can I really trust him not to tell anyone that the night we met, I tried to kiss him? Or that I fell apart after I got fired from a job I loved? Or that I’m not as strong as I want everyone to think I am?
The simple fact that he’s boomeranged back into my orbit after all these years feels like a great, big cosmic joke.
Only now he’s a professional hockey player, and while he doesn’t look like the goofy college bartender I met all those years ago, he still acts like one—immature, flirty, and unable to take anything seriously.
Which is why I never, ever fall for his game.
I know better than to get swept up in romance. I don’t have time. I’m busy making myself irreplaceable in my new job with the Chicago Comets. Work isn’t just something I do, it’s who I am.
And while my sisters are constantly on me to slow down and take breaks, those things aren’t on my schedule, so . . . I push on. Do more. Load up my schedule. Overcommit. Until eventually, my stress lands me in the emergency room.
The prescription? A month off. No emails. No work. No distractions.
Unless you count Finn Holbrook, who keeps showing up at my door, determined to leverage his positive, golden retriever energy to show me there’s a great, big world outside that I haven’t bothered to explore, most of it covered with white twinkle lights and Christmas decorations.
I begrudgingly go along with his grand plans, and little by little, I start to see there really is more to life than work—and more to Finn than flirting.
Which makes me wonder . . . how can someone so obviously wrong for me start to feel completely right? And more importantly . . . how do I make those feelings go away?
My Merry Mistake is an opposites attract hockey romance with all of the sizzle but none of the steam. It’s the third book in the Holidays with Hart series, but can be read as a stand alone.
Narelle’s Thoughts:
I enjoyed reading My Merry Mistake, the third book in Courtney Walsh’s Holidays with Hart Romance series set in Chicago. Raya is the eldest Hart sister who is determined to not follow in the footsteps of her younger sisters and date an ice hockey player. Raya reluctantly attends a Halloween party with her sisters that’s hosted by a hockey player. She finds herself in an awkward and embarrassing situation with Finn, who she accidentally met five years earlier in an even more embarrassing situation she’d prefer to forget.
Fast forward two years and Raya is working as a corporate executive in recruiting for the hockey team. Finn is intrigued by Raya and he’s frustrated by her attitude. His friends on the team are dating her sisters and he’s seeking a friendship with Raya that he hopes will have the potential to become something more.
Raya is on a journey of self discovery and working out what’s important in her life. Finn surprises her and debunks a few of her wrong assumptions. Their romance is sweet and amusing, and they both have emotional baggage to unpack as they overcome obstacles in the story.
Trust issues and forgiveness themes are explored and I loved the story ending. I recommend My Merry Mistake to contemporary romance readers who like opposites attract and friends-to-more sports romances with a hockey player hero, unrequited love, and wholesome low spice story elements.
