Get ready for an emotional ride filled with laughter, longing, and a sweet slow-burn in this sports romance about love’s power not in spite of difference, but because of it.
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This is one of the most powerful books I've read yet this year. I'm an absolute sucker for grumpy heroes. Chloe Liese switched it up, with a grumpy heroine and I'm in LOVE. Frankie owns her grumpiness and she just rocks it. This book will absolutely resonate and have a profound impact.
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Ren is a huge bowl of sunshine. I smiled so much throughout this book, he's one of the sweetest, swooniest book boyfriends you'll ever find. Put one grumpy heroine, and one adorkable ginger hero and you get one of the best books of the year. I loved the first book of the series, and this book did not disappoint. I can't wait for the next book in the series!
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Read this book. Learn this book. Chapter 22 is the most emotional, influential, powerful chapters I've read in a romance novel. We need authors like this to write marginalized complex characters. This book is an #OwnVoice book, for it's portrayal of an autistic character, by an autistic author.
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"And... she's the first person who I ever felt right around. Like I'm not a walking contradiction who'll never belong anywhere, but someone who actually make s a bit of sense. Like I don't have to choose between these different parts of myself."
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This book not only shared some of the struggles that people with Autism go through but also made clear that each person with Autism is different. Their struggles, their devises that help them. It was extremely eye opening.
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Blurb
Ren
The moment I met her, I knew Frankie Zeferino was someone worth waiting for. Deadpan delivery, secret heart of gold, and a rare one-dimpled smile that makes my knees weak, Frankie has been forbidden since the day she and I became coworkers, meaning waiting has been the name of my game—besides, hockey, that is.
I’m a player on the team, she’s on staff, and as long as we work together, dating is off-limits. But patience has always been my virtue. Frankie won’t be here forever—she’s headed for bigger, better things. I just hope that when she leaves the team and I tell her how I feel, she won’t want to leave me behind, too.
Frankie
I’ve had a problem at work since the day Ren Bergman joined the team: a six foot three hunk of happy with a sunshine smile. I’m a grumbly grump and his ridiculously good nature drives me nuts, but even I can’t entirely ignore that hot tamale of a ginger with icy eyes, the perfect playoff beard, and a body built for sin that he’s annoyingly modest about.
Before I got wise, I would have tripped over myself to get a guy like Ren, but with my diagnosis, I’ve learned what I am to most people in my life—a problem, not a person. Now, opening my heart to anyone, no matter how sweet, is the last thing I’m prepared to do.
Always Only You is an opposites-attract, forbidden love sports romance about a nerdy, late-blooming hockey star, and his tough cookie coworker who keeps both her soft side and her autism diagnosis* to herself. Complete with a meddling secretary, tantric yoga torture, and a scorching slow burn, this standalone is the second in a series of novels about a Swedish-American family of five brothers, two sisters, and their wild adventures as they each find happily ever after.
*This is an #OwnVoices story for its portrayal of autism by an autistic author.
