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By: Naima Simone
Narrated by: La'Rey Aris, Sean Bassett
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USA Today bestselling author Naima Simone heats up the page with intensity and wit in this romance between a pro hockey player and a firefighter, both struggling to move on from the past.

Being a firefighter isn’t easy. Especially for a Black woman. Working with family helps a little. But when somebody from your company doesn’t come back from a call, it’s brutal—as in, “How’m I supposed to go on?” brutal.

And one death took me to a really dark place.

A year later, I’m at the Pirates’ hockey training facility. Just another day on the job. Until I find a charred journal. I look inside for the owner’s name, but the words on the page punch me in the gut. It’s like reading my own thoughts. Reliving my own pain.

The journal belongs to Solomon Young, left-winger for the Pirates—a father and widower. When I return it, I’m racked with guilt for the invasion of privacy. The look Solomon gives me is cold as ice.

But damn if that man isn’t hot as hell.

Now he’s stuck in my brain. And fate seems intent on making us face off.

©2024 by Naima Simone. (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Contemporary Sports Heartfelt Hockey African American

Critic reviews

“This touching, funny, sexy novel from Simone is a joy to read and is sure to be popular…” —Library Journal (starred review)

“Naima Simone stuns with this heartwarming romance about a woman firefighter and a hockey player. Solomon and Adina's romance is just the right mixture of humor, angst and heat. An exhilarating literacy experience.” —LJ Shen, Wall Street Journal bestselling author

“Unputdownable. I was either giggling and kicking my feet or feeling my heart squeeze at the poignancy. Maybe the best hockey book I’ve ever read.” —Kenya Goree-Bell, bestselling author
Black Love Romance • Strong Female Characters • Emotional Growth Journey • Well-balanced Humor • Passionate Scenes

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This was a really good story. It took a lot for me to stick with this book because it was an extremely slow burn. A lot of descriptions for the same thing. The narrators were very good.

Sloooowwww Burn!

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OMG!!! The narrators are AWESOME!, especially the male narrator. His voice was panty dropping sexy!!!! Give me all the books he’s narrating !!! This book had me hooked from beginning to end. Do yourself a favor and LISTEN to this audio. It makes a huge difference, I promise!!!! It’s everything.

I could not stop!!!!

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I really enjoyed reading this author.  I look forward to reading more books by this author in the near future.

great read

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I really enjoyed Adina and Solomon’s story. I’m a fool for a good hockey romance and I loved that Adina was a bada** female firefighter. Both have lost their partners and while Solomon has played the field and isn’t looking for something serious, Adina is wondering if she’s ready to get back to dating. These types of books always make me think….what if? The author packed in a good balance of each of their personal lives and then getting to know each other. My only complaint was that I felt the ending was abrupt. I did flop back and forth between the book and audiobook. Overall the audiobook was performed well. I wasn’t a huge fan of the female narrator and how she accented certain words when it wasn’t written that way. Khalil absolutely stole the show.

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Two people struggling through the grief of losing their significant, come across each other and feel guilt for their attraction to each other. I appreciate the author showing the internal struggle each character faced but wished there were more of them interacting with each other to show the draw to each other. I wanted more depth to the interactions or reflect on their time together to show why they fell so fast for each other. I love instalove but this one lacked the key interactions that helped seal the relationship beyond instalove. Good narration and decent story.

Finding Love After Grief

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