Review & Excerpt Tour for Pucked Love by Helena Hunting

Pucked Love, the final sexy and emotional standalone in the NYT bestselling Pucked Series from New York Times bestselling author Helena Hunting, is available NOW!

Pucked Love, the final sexy and emotional standalone in the NYT bestselling Pucked Series from New York Times bestselling author Helena Hunting, is LIVE!

As an NHL player, relationships haven’t been my thing. Shrouded in secrecy and speculation, they never last very long. But then that’s what happens when you require an NDA before the first date.

Until Charlene. She’s like a firefly. She’s elusive, and if you catch her she’ll burn bright, but keeping her trapped dulls her fire and dims her beauty.

I caught her. And as much as I might want to keep her, I’ll never put the lid on her jar. Not at the risk of losing her. So I've let her set the rules in our relationship.

But as long hidden secrets expose us both, I discover exactly how fragile Charlene is, and how much I need her.

We’re all broken. We’re all messed up. Some more than others. Me more than most. 

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You’re turning twenty-six. It’s your champagne birthday, so we need to do something fun.” Violet bounces, making her boobs shake and my mimosa slosh perilously. “It should be themed! We can all wear leather chaps!”

“Could you be any more cliché?” I roll my eyes. “Just to be clear, Darren doesn’t own chaps.”

“Just a ball gag and a mask with no eye holes, according to Alex.”

And we’re back to my sex life. I knew I was getting off so easy.

I wonder if Darren is catching this kind of heat today. I seriously doubt it’s worse than what I’m getting since I don’t think his friends are likely to push his buttons, but I’ll have to ask when I speak to him next. I’m not sure when that will be, either. The message I sent about Gertrude was pretty straightforward and doesn’t necessarily require a response. Maybe I should’ve worded it differently.

Sunny raises her hand, like we’re all still in middle school and she’s waiting her turn to speak. “Wouldn’t a mask with no eyeholes be dangerous? You wouldn’t be able to see where you’re going.” Her eyes widen, and she looks around the room. “And what’s a ball gag?”

I honestly love that Sunny has grown up in this highly overinformed society and still manages to be innocent.

“Yeah, Char, wouldn’t a mask with no eyeholes be dangerous?” Violet props her fist on her chin and smiles. “And please, do explain what a ball gag is.”

“I’m not sure you really want the answer to that, Sunny.” Poppy gives me a look I can’t quite decipher.

Sunny twirls her hair around her finger. “Why not?”

“Where’s the harm in a little bondage-sex education? It’s not like Miller’s ever going to go out and buy either item for her. First of all, Alex would murder him, and secondly, I don’t think that’s Miller’s thing.”

Sunny’s face lights up, and she does jazz hands. “Oh! I think I know what Miller’s thing is!”

Lily grins. “Eating your cookie?”

“He really likes to do that, a lot. When my belly gets too big I’ll have to watch from the mirror.” She gets a faraway look in her eyes. “But he has another thing! Kind of like how you and Randy are always getting it on in bathrooms, except I think it’s a bit more sanitary.”

“And it doesn’t cause thousands of dollars of damage,” Violet adds.

Lily throws her hands up in the air. “That sink was already falling off the wall. It’s not my fault it broke!”

“That was one expensive orgasm,” I say.

“And Randy says it was worth every penny.” Lily’s smile is devious as she bites her knuckle, then turns to Sunny. “Anyway, back to Miller’s thing.”

Sunny wiggles around excitedly in her chair. “So Miller paints my toenails for me.”

“Miller’s thing is painting your toenails?”

“Yes. Well, no. I think he likes my toes.” Her fingers go to her lips, and she looks around the room, her cheeks flushing.

“Say what now?” Violet asks.

”Sometimes he kisses them.” She covers her mouth with her palm and says something unintelligible.

Violet sits forward in her chair. “Hold on a second, does Buck have a foot fetish?”

“Um, I don’t know.” Sunny looks worried now. “Is that weird? Is it, like, mask with no eyeholes kind of weird?”

Kim's 5 Star Review

This is the seventh book in the series and I highly recommend that you read this series in order

Relationships are not easy when you’re an athlete but being an NHL player just complicate things.  Darren Westinghouse has done his best to stay out of the lime light but when he met Charlene, things changed.  She is the one woman who has gotten to him and the only one who has made him want to try to make the relationship work.  They both may be broken as their past haven’t been easy but they make each other whole.  Will the secrets from the past tear them apart or will it bring them closer?

Charlene learned at an early age that you can’t always trust people.  What she perceives as normal and what is normal can be very different in some people eyes, thanks to her mother. She may be close to her mother but these two have been through a lot in their past which is why she keeps her guard up.  Being in a long term relationship is new for Charlene but Darren is everything she could ever want.  She knows he’ll always be there for her without caging her in.  Charlene is a strong independent woman who is also has a scared little girl inside her.

Darren doesn’t like to be in the spot light. Being friends with Alex Waters has kept the focus off of him and onto his friend.  Now that Darren is in a long term relationship with Charlene, the spot light does make its way over to them every once in a while.  Darren has secrets that he hasn’t shared with either Alex or Charlene as they’re a part of his past that he would like to forget.  Darren, like most athletes is totally an alpha male but he has a little bit of dominant in him that seems to work well in his relationship with Charlene (his Firefly).

These two were truly meant for each other.  They both come off as shy and quiet but when they’re alone they are not quite like you would think.  They have their own tastes which doesn’t match the other but that seems to help their friends rediscover their significant others in ways they haven’t yet.  This also helps Darren and Charlene get out of the shell that they lived under for so long. Darren knows what he wants but being too afraid to put the lid on the jar of his “Firefly”, so he has been holding back. Being out in the open with their friends means they can stop hiding in the shadows and finally shine.

It’s finally here and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this book.  I’ve been waiting for Darren’s and Charlene’s story since the series started.  It’s hard not to fall in love with the gang from the Pucked series but Helena kept Darren and Charlene’s story vague through all the other books. This just made this book the most anticipated book of the series.  Darren and Charlene have always seemed to have this close secret relationship but with this book I got to truly see how these two are with each other.  Both of them come from complicated past but that doesn’t stop them from trying to make things work.  I was lucky to be gifted this in exchange for an honest review and Helena ending the series with a bang.  There were times where I wondered if I should be concerned about Charlene but then a twist comes and any anxieties I may have had ended up gone as Darren seems to know just what to do to help Charlene and apparently me too.  There were times I had tears but they were only because I was laughing so hard as due to what was happening.  Helena really did keep her readers on their toes by adding twists you never really saw coming.  The Pucked series is one of the few series that I will be reading over and over again and still won’t get enough of this fun loving gang.  This is a definite must read in my books!

About the Author

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Helena Hunting lives outside of Toronto with her amazing family and her two awesome cats, who think the best place to sleep is her keyboard. Helena writes everything from contemporary romance with all the feels to romantic comedies that will have you laughing until you cry.

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