Cross-Checked by Julia Connors
Boston Rebels Book 3
Contemporary Sports Romance
Release: January 31, 2025
🏒 enemies to lovers
🏒 single dad
🏒 reverse age gap
🏒 forced proximity
🏒 female GM x hockey captain
Some people might call it a grudge, but in reality, hating Alessandra Jones is more like an obsession.
AJ is the league’s first female general manager, and my boss. As the team captain, I have to play nice with her—in public, at least.
But in private, the gloves come off. And then one time, our clothes do too.
We vow it won’t happen again.
Not only can we not stand each other, but we’re in tense negotiations over my contract right now, and AJ is up for the league’s GM of the Year award. Getting involved wouldn’t just be a PR nightmare—it would be unethical.
It doesn’t help that we have a history, or that she and my daughter adore each other. When AJ is injured protecting my baby, there’s no choice but to move her into my place.
Taking care of someone I hate shouldn’t feel so right. Getting to know her better shouldn’t break down my defenses. She’s hurt me once before, and I’d be a fool to trust her again.
But the more time we spend together, the more I realize that maybe I’m not obsessed with hating her . . . maybe I’m just obsessed with her.
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When I toss my shirt on the floor outside the bathroom, she reaches out to undo my belt, then shakes her head when she remembers that one of her hands is splinted. I take that arm by the elbow, raising her hand to my lips. “I’d never have wanted you to get hurt like this. Never. But is it wrong that I’m the tiniest bit grateful that it led us here?”
“I don’t know yet,” she says, her voice breathless. “Why don’t you take your pants off and make it worth my while?”
My chuckle fills the entire bathroom as I set her hand back in her lap. “You literally can’t wait to get me naked.”
Defiance takes over her face. “Don’t tell me the same isn’t true for you.”
“Oh, Sunshine, I’ve been waiting for you for a f*cking decade. I could wait longer . . . I would wait longer, if I had to.”
Her lips part with a soft sigh. “Why do you have to keep saying things like that?”
“Because they’re true.”
Cross-Checked by Julia Connors
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Okay then … three for three and now Julia Connors and I are gonna be ❤️besties❤️!!
I met Julia’s word wizardry with this series, and not only do I want to devour her backlist now, but this series is fast becoming one of my favorite sports romance series! I don’t just love the stories, I love the players, and of course their significant others, and the team as a whole!
I’m an audiobook junkie so of course I’ve already devoured the first two books via audio as well as reading, and 🎧✨I just cannot wait to get this story in my ears!!✨🎧 So far, the narrating teams that Julia has picked for her stories have been excellent and have truly brought the stories to life for me vividly. I am positive that she will not fail me with Cross-Checked :)
Speaking of Cross-Checked … what an absolute rollercoaster of emotions this story turned out to be, in the best possible of ways! Every emotion you can think of right now, I felt it. I was invested from the very beginning, and it did not let up one bit as the story progressed. If anything, my investment in the story got more intense as the story unfolded and I wanted to feel all the things! This is a story not just about the journey of two people to HEA, but also their own journey over some hurdles of their own in order to even try to get to a HEA. Their dynamic was intense all the time, whether they were at odds or not, intense was the name of the game with these two. And rightly so when you have McCabe, the team Captain and newly single dad, and AJ, the team’s GM, which makes her McCabe’s boss’s boss and a woman holding a position that is predominantly held by her male counterparts, you are bound to have intense be the precursor to just about any circumstance in their journey. And you know what? That entire dynamic was perfectly written and realistically portrayed. The struggle was real, as they say, for these two throughout the story and it was exciting for me as a reader to experience this story unfold so closely to reality.
They start off as opposites and on the defensive but soon figure out that together they are the perfect team. They each bring to each other what the other needs in one way or another, and isn’t that just the perfect romance story to get lost in? Did they have conflict? Sure, but their journey forward and all the other little side circumstances happening to move the story forward were so powerful that whatever drama happened was just a bleep. At least it was to me. I was completely consumed with all things ❤️AJ + McCabe❤️ that everything else was white noise I barely heard. Feel me?
OKAY, that’s all the notes I have so I’m exiting stage left now. See ya next time! :)
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I grew up in warm and sunny California, but my first decision as an adult was to trade my flip-flops for snow boots and move to Boston. I’ve been enjoying everything that New England has to offer for over two decades, and now that I’m acclimated to the snowy winters and have finally found all the places to get good sushi and tacos, I have zero regrets.
I live in the Boston-area with my husband and two daughters. I spend way too much time in front of my computer, weaving words into stories or wasting entirely too much time on social media.
But when I stop writing, I’m most likely to be found outdoors, preferably with a pair of skis or snowshoes strapped to my feet in winter or on a paddleboard in the summer.
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