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Breaking the Ice

Portland Evergreens, Book 4

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Breaking the Ice

By: Beth Bolden
Narrated by: Darcy Stark
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Coach Gavin Blackburn has been through hell.

Three years ago, he was on top of the world, courted by the best teams in the NHL to coach their players.

His wife’s unexpected death destroyed him, and sent him running from hockey. He thought he’d left the sport behind forever, but when his ex-player shows up at his remote cabin, begging him to return to Portland University to coach the Evergreens again, he agrees.

The last thing Gavin expected was their mentor-student relationship to turn into something entirely different now that Zach is grown up. He certainly never expected to feel attraction again, or to feel it for a man. For Zach.

Or for Zach to want him back, with a passion Gavin couldn’t deny even if he wanted to.

He’s too old, too washed up, too destroyed by grief, and has no intention of dating ever again, but maybe it’s own assumptions that need to be broken and re-made.

Maybe it’s Zach who needs to be the one who break him down and make him into something new. Give him something new: a wild, unexpected and unprecedented love affair.

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I loved this whole adventure. Gavin had gone through some really bad times when his wife died, she was his other half and he never expected to find that kind of love again, then he met Zach again and they had an instant connection. (He was Zach’s coach before) The fact that these two knew each other helped them quickly get into a groove and they got the team on track. They feel a little more in love all the time but they finally decided to let the team know and they already figured that they were together. Gavin was surprised but happy that he got Zach. I definitely recommend this book to everyone who loves mm ice hockey stories.

Wonderful story!

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Let me start by saying this is a review of only the audiobook and not the story itself.
I read and listen at the same time and the audiobook is missing two chapters and plays two chapters you’ve already listened to again. So you get chapters 9&10 twice instead of 13&14.

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I’m sorry for the mixed rating, because the story was good. Honestly, my fave from this series. And the narrator is solid too. But chapter 13 and 14 are missing. Like, when you navigate to those 2, they are repeats of chapter 10. I deleted and redownloaded it twice, to make sure it wasn’t just a bug on my device, but no. And it isn’t just that the narrator says chapter 10 then proceeds to read the text of chapter 13 or 14. Nope. It’s chapter 10 in its entirety both times. And those are the chapters where the ahem, climax of the story happens and the MCs finally get together. So their absence really does detract from the book. I hope Audible sees this review and fixes the editing issue here, because in every other way this story was worth the read. 😞

Missing chapters: Audible, please fix! 🙏🏼

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