190. The Penalty Box (Blades, 4) – Deirdre Martin, Berkley Sensation Romance, March 2006, ISBN: 0425208907, 342p.
Featuring: Katie Fisher and Paul van Dorn
Synopsis (from author's website):
Can a jock and a nerd find true love together?
Everyone from Didsbury High remembers Katie Fisher as the dumpy brainiac from the poor side of town.
Everyone from Didsbury High remembers Paul van Dorn as the school hockey star and heartthrob.
But now they're facing off -- and matching up in more ways than one. Katie's lost the pounds, added some self-confidence, and become a drop-dead gorgeous sociology professor.
And since a series of concussions put an end to Paul's pro hockey career, his star has dimmed. Now he hits the ice as a coach. But he's still got the hometown crowd behind him as the owner of a bar called The Penalty Box.
Paul is reliving his glory days. Katie wishes she could put those years behind her. And the battle of wills that ensues just might knock love right out of the game.
Comments:
Both Katie and Paul had some growing to do in this book, but they made it by the end. I wish I hadn't jumped straight from the second book in the series though - Ithe end of Paul's career was a surprise to me (I didn't read the back of the book) w/o reading the 3rd in the series.
The great gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap [Hah! It most certainly is not!], it consoles, it distracts, it excites. It gives knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is moral illumination. ~ Elizabeth Hardwick
