Overtime by Toni Aleo Series: Assassins #7
Published by Self Published Publication Date: August 10, 2015
Pages: 543
Also in this series: Empty Net, Falling for the Backup (Novella), Taking a Shot, Trying to Score and Empty Net
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Down and out with an injury keeping him away from the game, Assassins’ defenseman Jordie Thomas lives for the blades of his skates on the ice and the feeling of oblivion off it. With no choice but to heal, he’s forced away from the sport that runs through his veins. With everything at stake and darkness setting in, he quickly finds himself spiraling even further out of control. As his life begins to come crashing down around him and his contract with the Nashville Assassins on the line, he’s given an ultimatum. Ready or not, Jordie is forced to face his past, the fears that consume him, and the one woman he let walk away. Kacey King had her professional dreams come true, yet her heart was battered and broken. With an Olympic gold medal around her neck, she’s ready to look forward to the future but without the one man she wanted in it. She’s missing the key pieces of her heart she left months ago with the only person who was capable of destroying it, causing her to falter in all her plans to move on. In the game of life, there are winners and losers, and neither Jordie nor Kacey want to be on the losing bench. If only Jordie could convince Kacey he’s a changed man and that he wants her right by his side as his MVP for the biggest and best parts of a life they build together. With emotions running high and the game on the line, can two proud people find happiness with each other, or will their hearts and souls be left in the cold? Will they see that sometimes having someone by your side who knows the good, bad, and broken is better than going it alone and losing everything through the back of the net? They are out of time on the game clock and fighting for the win of their lives. But overtime was made for an Assassin like Jordie.
Jordie. Jordie. Jordie. If you were to look up “hot mess” in the dictionary, Jordie Thomas would be the poster child. And if you read Jordie’s novella WANTING TO FORGET, Jordie made it pretty damn hard to like him, even if you knew just how likable he would be if he got his shite together.
Jordie has issues. Issues he spent the first part of the book saying he didn’t have. He’d already lost one of the most important in his life and it wasn’t until the second most important thing was threatened that he begrudgingly took the steps to address his issues. And those issues were pretty damn horrific. But as he dealt with everything, I fell in love with Jordie. He was sweet, fun, flirty, sexy, and one with the dirty mouth. He was everything I love in a book hero and I pulled for him to get everything he wanted after all he’d been through.
I liked Kasey. Heartbroken, she managed to keep her life on track and start her life over even though she knew her new life was going to put her in direct contact with the man who broke her heart. I’m not sure if I’d ever been able to do what Kasey did (other than having the chance to physically hurt him every chance I got). But there was a small thing that bugged me with Kasey. As much as she kept telling Jordie she forgave him, she never really did. She held the past against him and almost made it impossible to allow their relationship to move forward. It was frustrating, especially when you know how much she loved Jordie and what he was doing to try and make things right with Kasey.
I loved this book. Loved it. Toni Aleo took a character who I wasn’t sure how he was going to get redeemed and made me fall for him, forgiving him everything that he had done before. The story was packed full of emotions that left me with a huge book hangover when I was done. But these are all things that I look forward to in a Toni Aleo book and she never disappoints. So now that Jordie and Kasey have their HEA, I can’t wait to see what’s going to come next with the Assassins.
About Toni Aleo
My name is Toni Aleo and I’m a total dork.
I am a wife, mother of two and a bulldog, and also a hopeless romantic.
I am the biggest Shea Weber fan ever, and can be found during hockey season with my nose pressed against the Bridgestone Arena’s glass, watching my Nashville Predators play!
When my nose isn’t pressed against the glass, I enjoy going to my husband and son’s hockey games, my daughter’s dance competition, hanging with my best friends, taking pictures, scrapbooking, and reading the latest romance novel.
I have a slight Disney and Harry Potter obsession, I love things that sparkle, I love the color pink, I might have been a Disney Princess in a past life… probably Belle.
… and did I mention I love hockey?
Shannon
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