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Synopsis

From the International Best Selling Series Something So

Zack

Finding my teammate in bed with my wife made the decision I had been fighting with for years easier.It’s time to move on.

A fresh start and a new NHL team in a big city. Most importantly, it’s my son Jack’s best shot.

It would be both of our best shots.

Denise

After a bad childhood, I made sure I would succeed.

The problem is I die a little with each patient I lose. It’s part of my career at Hudson Children’s Oncology Hospital, but it doesn’t make the sting of loss any easier.

Seeking anything other than a life saved isn’t on my agenda until a NHL player walks into my hospital with his son.

We’re officially off script the moment we meet.

If this love is anything, it’s unscripted.

 

 

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Review

5 stars!

OMG, I love this book! It has the sense of fun and sexiness that I love about this series, but with a gutwrenching emotional punch that will take your breath away and have you feeling everything! It’s beautiful and sweet, funny, heartwarming and gorgeously romantic, and I absolutely loved it!

Star NHL defenseman Zack Morrow’s life is upended when he finds his wife in bed with his team mate and best friend. Desperate to leave the situation behind, he packs up his young son and transfers to the New York Stingers, giving them both a fresh start, and putting them near the renowned doctor who is his last resort for saving his son’s life.

Dr Denise Horton is the younger sister of New York Stinger, Max Horton (hero of Something So Irresistible). She also happens to the very pediatric oncologist that Zack is seeking out. Denise had a hellish upbringing, but her older brother rescued her, and she has gone on to become a dedicated doctor, committed to her career and to the children she treats, even though each patient’s loss tears a little piece of her heart out. And from the moment she meets Zack and his adorable five year old, Jack, she is smitten with the both of them. And immediately takes on the case.

“What do you want to hear?”
“I want to hear that you’ll help save my son. I want to hear that I didn’t come all this way for nothing. And most of all” – a tear escapes his eye – “I want to hear that I won’t have to bury my son.”

Jack is a bright, bubbly and happy little kid and you can’t help but fall in instant love with him – which is exactly what Denise does. Zack and Jack are pulled straight into the Stingers family, of which Denise is very much a part, and when they begin spending time together inside and outside of the hospital, Denise is effortlessly drawn into Zack and Jack’s circle, becoming a friend and somebody to lean on as well as Jack’s doctor. It’s a support that Zack hasn’t known until that point, and as they begin to open up and get to know each other, Zack and Denise’s feelings for each other become impossible to ignore, and the emotions are intense!

I thought that Natasha did a wonderful job of getting us to the heart of Zack and Denise, understanding their fears and feeling their heartache right along with them. Zack, of course, as the father who is fighting for the life of his son, and Denise, who is right there next to him, but with the added pressure of having his life in her very hands. With their feelings for each other just adding to the intensity of it all.

“What if I can’t save Jack, and then he hates me for it?” I say as tears streak down my face.
“But what if you save him?” She looks at me. “What if you save him, and you allow yourself to have something you’ve never dreamed of before? You get to love a little boy with everything you have while holding his father’s hand.”

And wow, what a beautiful love story! The chemistry is fantastic, and it’s a slow build as they understandably dance around their feelings for a while before finally diving in. The sexual tension is great (and more than backed up by the super sizzling sexy time) and the emotion is obvious between them from the very beginning. And when it all happens for them it’s easy, functional and so freaking beautiful. I could feel everything developing between them, and I loved watching it all happen for them.

“Life is too short not to live to its fullest, and I want to live life.”

And woven into the romance, and balanced beautifully, is their fight for little Jack, and oh my God, the feels are intense from the very beginning. A gravely sick child is always a devastating storyline, and Natasha does a wonderful job with this one. It’s terrifying and heartbreaking, and I was in tears more than once. But it’s also incredibly uplifting, with a great sense of love and happiness as this little family support each other, openly love and laugh, and cherish every moment.

There is some drama, but it works to add to the story rather than overwhelm it. It’s dealt with well, there is no angst, and not once was I frustrated with these characters.

I loved the inclusion of the characters from earlier books in the series. While you could easily read this one as a standalone, I loved seeing the story progression for Max & Allison and Matthew & Alyssa, and even Cooper & Parker. The group all gel together so well, and the dynamics are so much fun. The group as a whole is fantastic, and watching them be there to take Zack, Jack and Denise’s backs through everything brought tears to my eyes (again).

And it ends beautifully with a sensational epilogue that once again had tears streaming down my face.

Natasha Madison made me feel everything with this book. I laughed, cried, swooned, and I absolutely loved it! It’s definitely going down as a favourite.

5 stars!

An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.

 

Something So series

 

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Excerpt

“Zack.” I hear her voice and just look at my wife. The woman who said she would love me in good times and in bad yet is currently holding a sheet to cover her naked body.  The four-carat engagement with matching eternity wedding ring glistens in the light. “It’s just …” she starts to say, and I look over at the man in bed next to her. In our bed.

“It’s over.” I say the two words I swore I wouldn’t say no matter how hard it got. No matter how much I saw her push me away, no matter that I always suspected she was cheating on me. Then I look over at the man who I called a brother, the man who stood by my side on and off the ice. “You’re scum.”

“It just happened,” Colton says, getting out of the bed. At least he’s wearing boxers. His knee is still wrapped from the operation he had last month, which is why he wasn’t on the road with us, which is how I surprised them.

We were on the road for the whole week and due back tomorrow, but I hightailed it out of there to get home to my family and my son. “It just so happened you walked into my house and slept with my wife?” I ask him, and I have to wonder why I’m not more pissed, why I’m not more angry with them. “You come here and sleep with my wife with my son under the same roof.”

“Zack,” my wife says, and I look over at her again. Tears are rolling down her cheeks, her perfectly made up face now streaked with the black mascara she always wears. “Please let’s …”

I shake my head, putting my hands in my pockets. “Let’s what? Let’s talk about this?” I throw my head back and laugh. “Let’s talk about the fact that our son is in his room dying. Let’s talk about the fact that instead of helping him, you’re just helping yourself.  Let’s talk about the fucking fact that instead of being there by his side with me, you chose to escape the fucking reality that our son won’t make it to six years old.”

“No.” She shakes her head, and I know that I’ve about had it.

“I’ll give you an hour,” I tell them both. “One hour and I want you packed and at the door when I come back.”

“But—” she says.

“But nothing, Chantal. You did what you had to do for you, and now I’m doing what I need to do for our son.”

I turn and walk out of our bedroom, then down the winding staircase that leads to the big brass front doors. Once outside in the warm Arizona air, I take my phone out of my pocket and call the only person I know who has my back no matter what. My agent and best friend, Jamie.

He answers after one ring, and it doesn’t surprise me he sleeps with his phone in his hand. “What’s up?” he says, his voice sleepy since it’s four a.m. in New York.

“I want out of Arizona, make the trade. Call the powers that be; I want out,” I tell him, getting into my Range Rover.

“You can’t just demand that,” he says, and I hear sheets rustle.

“Just walked in on Colton fucking my wife, so you can bet your ass I can. Make it happen. Call New York because it’s the only place I’ll go. I don’t care if I take a pay cut.”

“That fucking scumbag,” he says. “I’ll call them now.”

“Jamie, there is a top-notch doctor who specializes in cancer in New York. Max Horton’s sister,” I tell him quietly and slowly drive out of my gate.

“I’ll make it happen,” he says softly. “I’ll let you know what they say.”

“Jamie, I’m leaving here in a week regardless of what they say,” I tell him and disconnect the call.

“One week,” I say to myself. “One fucking week.”

 

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About the Author

When her nose isn’t buried in a book, or her fingers flying across a keyboard writing, she’s in the kitchen creating gourmet meals. You can find her, in four inch heels no less, in the car chauffeuring kids, or possibly with her husband scheduling his business trips. It’s a good thing her characters do what she says, because even her Labrador doesn’t listen to her…

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