Gloves Off

A Marriage of Convenience Hockey Romance (Vancouver Storm, Book 4)

De: Stephanie Archer

Narrado por: JF Harding, Stella Hunter

The only way to get my inheritance? Marry Alexei Volkov—the grumpiest enforcer in the NHL, a brutally handsome jerk, and the last man I’d ever fall for.

In public, we act as besotted newlyweds, but in private, we’re at each other’s throats. He’s competitive, arrogant, and surly. The guy’s never cracked a smile in his life. He’s jealous of my ex, he glares at my high heels, and insists he’s not attracted to me. He’s only marrying me for citizenship.

Fighting with Alexei is more fun than expected, though, and beneath his grouchy exterior, Alexei is surprisingly caring, protective, and generous.

He cooks for me and worries about my safety.

He sends me flowers with secret meanings and spends way too much money on me.

He makes me sleep in his bed and calls me his wife.

For a guy who said he’d never fall in love with me, Alexei’s doing a good impression of it… and now I’m wondering if this marriage is fake after all.

Gloves Off is an enemies to lovers marriage of convenience hockey romance. It's the fourth book in the Vancouver Storm series but can be listened to as a standalone.

©2025 Stephanie Archer (P)2025 Stephanie Archer

Delicious

A true enemies to lovers story. This is one of the best examples of how to do the genre justice. That Alexi🥵 and I truly love the MFC.

Alexei and Georgia ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I needed them like air and Stephanie did not disappoint!!! The grumpy, the banter, the flowers 😍😍😍😍 I want so much more !! I am so ready for Tate and Jordan!! Give it to me!

Loved every bit!

🏒Hockey
🏒Marriage of Convenience
🏒Enemies to Lovers
🏒Forced Proximity

This is my first book by this author, and it definitely won’t be the last! I can’t wait to dive into the rest of the series. Marriage of convenience is one of my favorite tropes, and this story absolutely delivered! The chemistry and tension between Alexei and Georgia had me hooked, and their banter had me laughing out loud more times than I can count. A perfect mix of humor, heart, and heat…highly recommend!

🎧JF Harding and Stella Hunter both did an amazing job with their duet narration. They really brought these characters to life and I could feel all the emotions!

Fake marriage

The banter in this book is top tier! It’s a laugh out loud, sexy, hockey romance! Took a while to hit spice…totally worth the wait!!🌶️🌶️🌶️
Definitely a reread!!

The narrators in this book are 10/10! Outstanding performances by both of them!

Great close to the series

Engaging, heartfelt, and hockey fans will enjoy too. Or, you’ll become a hockey fan. Like me

Enemies to Lovers Perfection!

First off, this audio is SO GOOD! It's duet (hallelujah!) and JF Harding and Stella Hunter are fantastic as Alexi and Georgia! The way they bring their banter and chemistry to life made it a GREAT listening/reading experience! 100000% recommend it for listening while you read along!

This is a true enemies to lovers, because the way these two couldn't stand one another was next level lol! Even though the hate was misguided (you'll get it later)! They had snarky banter from the get go (well for multiple books now haha), & it never quit! Ever since their first meeting when Alexi decides in his mind that Georgia is a spoiled & vapid, & she decides he is a lost cause & should retire (once again, just wait for later!), it's lots of assumptions about the other on both of their parts. But when they are both needing to get married for reasons, a marriage of convenience commences! ANNNND I love a marriage of convenience! Gimmie alllllll the "my wife" moments, & Alexi does!!

Their chemistry is insane, the way they actually get to know one another, their families, THE FLOWERS, the shoes, & when they come to realize that all their assumptions were wrong is so well done! I love me an in love Alexi, let me tell ya! I loved them so much and hope you do too!!

PS: Jealous Alexi is fantastic, I mean spending $100k just because he is jealous was top tier scene haha!

PSS: Damon & Stefan. That is all.

Dual narrators are sooo good

The narrators were great! The MMC is so 🥵🥵🥵. I like that the narrator hides some surprises for the reader. Loved it!

Loved it

Great! I’m picky about narrators and story lines but I loved everything about this book.

My Favorite Installment!

Enemies to lovers, marriage of convenience, grumpy Russian bruiser x stubborn heiress, fake marriage, forced proximity, only one bed (and it gets used)

Brace yourself: Gloves Off is a straight-up sexual tension death match wrapped in a fake marriage and simmering hate-lust that explodes into some of the hottest, most possessive scenes Archer has ever written...this is my favorite installment in the series!

Alexei Volkov is the Storm’s intimidating enforcer—icy stare, brutal on the ice, impossible in person. When he's roped into a fake marriage with Georgia, the sharp-tongued socialite he can’t stand (or stop watching), things go from cold war to nuclear heat. He might act like he hates her, but under the surface... He wants her. In every filthy, possessive, emotionally unhinged way possible.

But it’s not just sex—it’s survival.
Georgia might be rich, but she’s starved for affection, for safety, for someone to choose her. And when Alexei finally lets down the walls? He’s soft-spoken in a way that shatters. He makes her soup when she’s sick. He fixes her car without telling her. He remembers the things she says in passing.
And then he absolutely wrecks her body.

Coming in 2026: The Wild Card is next… and it looks like Coach Ward’s about to lose his control too.

Best book by this author-couldn’t stop listening

Best characters thus far — the whit, banter and spice level was perfect. Narrators were perfect.