The Wild Card by Stephanie Archer
What to Expect:
⋆✴︎˚。⋆ sports romance ➺ hockey ➺ forced proximity ➺ single dad ➺ found family ➺ coach vs owner’s daughter ➺ black cat & golden retriever ➺ slow burn ➺ he likes everyone but her ⋆✴︎˚。⋆
Review
I had such high hopes for this book but unfortunately this one didn’t do it for me. The burn was just too slow, and it carried on for too long. I never fully connected with Tate and Jordan as a couple nor as an individual character either. There was just no sparks between them at all. Everything was just so bland! Not even the single dad trope, that I usually love so much, did it for me.
͟͟͞͞➳❥ This is book 5 in Vancouver Storm Series. Each book in this series features a different couple and can be read as a complete standalone. But for maximum enjoyment, follow the recommended reading order.
- Behind the Net
- The Fake Out
- The Wingman
- Gloves Off
- The Wild Card
❝ How do I tell the woman I’m not supposed to be messing around with that when I look up at the night sky, I think about her?❞
❝ Tate Ward is going to ruin me. Nothing will ever be as good as this, right here, grinding on his lap.❞
❝ Maybe the good old days never end. Maybe they just change. ❞
Blurb
Former star player Tate Ward has become easily the best coach in professional hockey, leading the Vancouver Storm team to victory. Everyone is in love with the handsome, authoritative single dad—except Jordan Hathaway, the newest staff member on the Vancouver Storm team.
Jordan was more than comfortable behind her bar at the team’s favorite watering hole. When her father threatens to sell the team, though, she’s forced to put her grievances aside and work with the man who likes everyone but her—: Coach Tate Ward.
But beneath his controlled exterior, Tate is funny, encouraging, and protective. He moves Jordan into his guest house, trusts her with his daughter, and fires the person who made her cry. He’s her boss, and a relationship would ruin both their careers, but Jordan still finds herself dreaming of a life with Tate. As the lines between them blur and Jordan encourages him to be selfish, Tate realizes what he wants . . . is her.


