High Sticking the Heart

A Scoring Chance Series, Book 1

De: Marie M.

Narrado por: Christian Fox, Vanessa Vasquez

No last names, no phone numbers, no job titles....

Ariella: In theory, it was the ideal way to keep me from getting attached. My life plans left no room for distractions—not if I was going to break out of my culture’s machismo and prove to my family that I could make it on my own. And the 6’4” Texan rocking boots and a cowboy hat? He was exactly the type of distraction I was avoiding. So when the hot Wrangler-wearing man strolled up to me at a bar with a desperate plea to pretend to be his date, the rules were necessary…and completely useless.

How was I supposed to know my fake date was the star hockey player for the very team I was just hired as the strength and conditioning coach for?

Dalton: Pro tip: If your goal is to stay single so you can focus on not repeating last season’s disaster, maybe don’t ask a dark-haired beauty with looks that could kill to pretend to be your date. Especially not when her laugh makes you feel alive for the first time in years. Because that charade may last longer than you’d anticipated…and trying to keep things fake? Feels like a damn high stick to the heart.

©2025 Marie M. (P)2025 Marie M.

Cute hockey book

Hockey romance
Workplace
Coach x hockey player
Strong FMC
Golden retriever MMC
Dual POV - 1st person

Dual narration - Vanessa Vasquez & Christian Fox
Yummy! I love Christian’s voice and pair that with Vanessa and you have a banger!

Ari is trying to make it in a male dominated world. Getting mixed up with one of her hockey players was not part of her plan.

Dalton is playing on his father’s hockey team, trying to get his father approval. Also navigating a break up and the ex causing issues.

I loved how these two met. It was cute. I also really love Ari, she is strong, independent, and fiesty.

Overall, a very cute and fun listen for any hockey romance fan!

Bantering

I love the representation of a Hispanic female in the culture. Cute hockey romance definitely will be reading the second book.

The relationship

The story is relatable being Hispanic strict family aspect, and it was hilarious felt something me and my Prima’s would get into.

Women’s rights preach fest

If you want to read a book that is constantly talking about toxic masculinity, women’s empowerment to a point where she makes women seem victim-y and whiny, and how the Latino women have it harder then everybody in this world then this is the book for you! I tried to just ignore it but the whiny victim mentality was overly shoved down my throat this whole book to where I forgot the whole story line lol there’s a way to write to make you feel for the characters and in my opinion she missed that mark. This book is probably loved by a certain audience but I definitely wasted my money 😂