So Over You

Meader serves up a delicious mix of sports, sexy romance, and complicated, captivating characters with her second Chicago Rebels hockey contemporary (after Irresistible You). Hockey has always been Isobel Chase’s life, first as the daughter of Clifford Chase—the late hockey legend, Rebels owner, and all-around jerk—and then in her own right, though her career ended with a skate blade to the skull in her first professional game. Now she’s running the Rebels with her sisters and trying to avoid her team’s newest recruit, Vadim Petrov. Isobel has a checkered past with the gorgeous, brooding Russian. Her father blackballed him from the NHL to keep him away from Isobel, and Vadim still resents it. Isobel also still remembers her first sexual experience, in which Vadim failed to satisfy her. As they reconnect, he vows to do better this time around. Meader’s erotic scenes could melt ice, and her complex protagonists will keep readers eagerly turning pages. (Dec.)