Mother Pucker

Shayla's a widow who lost her husband to cancer 3 years ago. She's bringing up their 8 year old son, Kai, as best she can but everything terrifies her. Skateboarding, fried food, high fructose corn syrup (in fairness that scares most people) and ice skating.

Kai, being 8, loves the local ice hockey team. At a game one of their key players (insert correct sports term here), Rowan ‘Slick' Parker, gets hurt. Shayla is a physio and her friend's new husband, Beckett, is bossy and working on setting up all the moms. Beckett, whose family happen to own the team, makes sure Shay is the one to provide the physio therapy.

this wasn't the worst of the books, that was Mother Maker, but it was hard to get swept up in it. For one, the nickname 'Slick' just made me cringe every time. As Shay is a physical therapist she didn't want people to become aware of the relationship in case anyone thought she was unprofessional. I get why that was the trope for the book, but they already had a connection and Rowan had offered to teach Kai to skate.