I really enjoyed the first chapter, but once Justin and Ten left the main scene, Ryker on his own was not enough to capture my interest, since I didn't care about Jacob at all.

I skipped so many pages that the story became completely meaningless to me. Thus, I'm abandoning this series.

I'm much more interested in the Arizona Raptors series, which I hope to start next month.

This is the first book in a new spin-off series from the Harrisburg Railers set in the world of college hockey and it stars Ryker, who is the son of Jared Madsen, Railers’ coach and former hockey player. If you’ve read the Railers series then you will have come across Ryker previously, and I’ve been waiting for his story in some form or another ever since he declared he’d fooled around with guys as well as girls.

Hockey, family, and young characters have all been written, and written well, by these authors, so I had faith that these aspects of the story wouldn’t disappoint me. And they didn’t.

There’s (not quite) enemies to lovers, and a lot of emotional immaturity as you would except from lads this age. It’s very much an ‘opposites attract’ story, with Ryker being Hockey Royalty and the money that provides, and Jacob being a country farm boy, using his hockey scholarship as a means to earn his agricultural degree.

There are mentions of an event that happened in Railers 6, so if you haven’t already read that you may want to read that first. Not because it doesn’t make sense in this story, it does, the authors have made sure of that. But the emotional impact of that event lies in book 6 of Railers. These terrible moments really show how much Ryker has come to rely on Jacob, how far their love has come. Because, forget hockey, and farming, and college, ultimately this is a tale of that first blinding love, and it is told beautifully.


It ends on a HFN, but I suspect this series will develop in the same way as the parent series and we will catch up with previous couples as we move through the series. ( )

This is the first book in a new spin-off series from the Harrisburg Railers set in the world of college hockey and it stars Ryker, who is the son of Jared Madsen, Railers’ coach and former hockey player. If you’ve read the Railers series then you will have come across Ryker previously, and I’ve been waiting for his story in some form or another ever since he declared he’d fooled around with guys as well as girls.

Hockey, family, and young characters have all been written, and written well, by these authors, so I had faith that these aspects of the story wouldn’t disappoint me. And they didn’t.

There’s (not quite) enemies to lovers, and a lot of emotional immaturity as you would except from lads this age. It’s very much an ‘opposites attract’ story, with Ryker being Hockey Royalty and the money that provides, and Jacob being a country farm boy, using his hockey scholarship as a means to earn his agricultural degree.

There are mentions of an event that happened in Railers 6, so if you haven’t already read that you may want to read that first. Not because it doesn’t make sense in this story, it does, the authors have made sure of that. But the emotional impact of that event lies in book 6 of Railers. These terrible moments really show how much Ryker has come to rely on Jacob, how far their love has come. Because, forget hockey, and farming, and college, ultimately this is a tale of that first blinding love, and it is told beautifully.


It ends on a HFN, but I suspect this series will develop in the same way as the parent series and we will catch up with previous couples as we move through the series. ( )

The first third or so of this romance novel was better than the rest—later on, the story felt a bit rushed and flat. ( )