Restraint is 1 in Mari Carr’s new Stingrays Hockey series.
About Restraint
Blake is a player for the Baltimore Stingrays hockey team. He has lived next door to Dr Erika, aka Erik, for three years now. They are just friends, but deep down Blake wants more.
Erika is in her fourth year of residency at the hospital and works a lot of late night shifts. She gets called in on her days off regularly. It is the life of a resident. When she was younger, there was an incident that forged her path in medicine and she has never wavered.
One rainy night, while walking home from dinner, Blake and Erika find a puppy. They each want to keep her, but know that their lives are not conducive to having a pet. So they jointly agree to co parent Corky.
Erika decides to try online dating. She has met a guy and gone out on multiple dates with him, but something is holding her back from taking that final step with him. On their last date, when she does not invite him in for more, he gets upset and dumps her. She goes upstairs and decides to get Corky out for one final walk before the storm hits, but she is so deep in thought that she does not see the signs of the storm moving in fast.
When a big crack of thunder strikes, Corky breaks free from her leash and runs off. Erik is in a panic, literally and figuratively. She is unable to find Corky in the storm and she is scared to death of storms herself.
When she finally calls Blake, he can tell something is wrong by her voice. He is at a team celebration for winning their game, but as soon as he gets the call he takes off.
They find Corky and head to Blake’s apartment. Both Erik and Corky are completely soaked through. He gives Erik a towel to dry the dog while he works on drying her.
Erik ends up spending the night at Blake’s. She needs the comfort of Corky snuggled up to her. She and Blake end up talking late about a lot of things, but it gives him more perspective on her.
When she goes next door to her apartment the next morning, her “date” is waiting at the door for her. He brought coffee and donuts for her. But when he sees where she came from and that she is wearing a pair of Blake’s sweats, he becomes irate.
When Blake walks out the door to this scene, he solves the problem himself. Erik knew she was holding back for a reason. But until the night before she did not realize it was because she is secretly in love with Blake.
But Erik is afraid of ruining her friendship with him, so she does not act on her feelings. Until one night.
But when our favorite puck bunny, Mindy, makes an appearance in Blake’s bed, will this ruin everything he has worked so hard to build with Erik?
Narration
Colt Carter and Suzanne T Fortin are both new narrators for me. I enjoyed how Colt handles Blake and his teammates. Suzanne brought entertainment to my silly nature with puck bunny Mindy. I loved her take on the character.
Availability
Restraint is currently available in all formats on Amazon.
Series Listing
- Restraint (Stingrays Hockey Book 1)
- Resist (Stingrays Hockey Book 2)
About Mari Carr
Virginia native Mari Carr is a New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller of contemporary sexy romance and romantic suspense novels. With over two million copies of her books sold, Mari was the winner of the Romance Writers of America’s Passionate Plume award for her novella, Erotic Research. She has over a hundred published works, including her popular Wild Irish and Compass books, along with the Trinity Masters series she writes with Lila Dubois.
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