Breathe with Me

Playing for Keeps, Book 5

De: Becka Mack

Narrado por: Alex Kydd, Avery Caris

From bestselling author and TikTok sensation Becka Mack comes the final book in her sizzling hockey romance series about a couple who face an agonizing challenge that could bring them closer—or tear them apart.

Cara Hunter is a self-made woman. Driven and fearless, she's never lost a battle. In fact, the only time she's fallen to her knees was, well...for him.

Emmett Brodie might be one of hockey's hottest players, but the moment he sees Cara, he's reduced to a single word: hers. And he'll stop at nothing to change her last name.

With a love as all-encompassing and fierce as theirs, they become the ultimate power couple and the backbone of their family. But when they decide it's time to have a baby, they discover their journey to conceiving will be anything but easy. As they face off with infertility, a battle that strips them to their bones, they'll see just how unshakable their foundation really is.

They thought they could survive anything together, but how do you survive when you're barely breathing?

©2025 Becka Mack (P)2025 Podium Audio

Love this book!

Amazing book and it was a great conclusion to the series! As someone who didn’t suffer infertility but multiple losses- there were many scenes that hit home with my own feelings I’ve had I took 1 star away from performance because this narration style is not my favorite (love a good duet narration instead of this! lol)

LOVED this story, BUT…..

I love this so much. I love these characters so much and I didn’t expect Cara and Emmett to maybe be my favorite couple out of all of them.

BUT I was almost as heartbroken with the ending as I was the overall storyline. I feel like we mourned and grieved, and were with Cara and Emmett through all of the ups and downs of their tribulations, almost as if we were right alongside them. I cried right with them and chapter 21 almost gutted me. I also loved her representation of the husband’s point of view in this situation. However, the ending almost gutted me too, and not because I was sad the series was ending, although I very much am. But because she got the wish she was wishing for, or at least the one she wanted for the majority of the book, at the very very very end and we didn’t get to go through that part with her. (How Abel was handling it, her anxiety over miscarriage, the risks, the birth, did her mental health decline at all, NOT GIVING US ABELS 1st BDAY, etc) We found out she was pregnant and then boom 7 1/2 years later and we get just a small glimpse. I have so many questions still and I guess I just don’t feel closure with the series ending. There is so much more we could’ve gone with her through. I would almost say we went through so much heartbreak and got little reward at the end because Abel’s story was just as heartbreaking. We didn’t get to experience the last part of their journey to their family of 4 and because of that small piece I can understand why to some the ending feels so unrealistic compared to the very much realistic meat of the book. It really bummed me out😣 but besides the ending, I loved it so much!🫶🏼

Also P.S. the narrators were genius. Avery was such a good choice for Cara.

So many emotions and feeling with this one

I had such a toxic relationship with this book. It took me weeks to finish! I just felt like it had too much inner turmoil and just kept repeating and repeating. And the thing that honestly upset me the most about this book, is that we’ve been waiting for Jenny & Garrett to get married since book 2, and we only got like maybe 5 min max on the wedding? Over half the wedding scene was the two of them getting it on at the wedding.
But nonetheless it was a good book. There were soooo many time that I cried! It definitely cut deep! And when the epilogue said 7 1/2 years later, I audibly gasped and then again cried bc now this series is over :( I will miss the Vancouver vipers and the entire crew. Giving us Emmett and Cara’s story was definitely needed to round it out for us :’)

Emotionally Beautiful

I didn’t know this was the story I needed at the time but it’s so beautifully broken. The ability to write with such intention is incredible! Emmet and Kara deserved their happy ending and the love along the way was incredible to listen to.

I’ve never cried so much in a book before and had to explain to my husband why these fictional characters had me on the hook from page 1!

The book we didn’t know we needed

Holly cow this one was something, talk about tears seriously the book I didn’t know I was missing. 10/10 the narration was amazing the store line was amazing I just loved it as a whole! Seriously going through it as if I was there with Cara and Emmitt.