Hard to Handle , an emotionnaly but powerful 1st book in the Hard Series by K Bromberg

New York Times bestselling author K. Bromberg is back with an all new second-chance, standalone hockey romance.

At first, the request seemed simple—sign a new athlete to the agency.
Then I found out the new athlete was none other than the most wanted man in hockey today: Hunter Maddox
Gifted. Sexy. At the top of his game. And the only man who has ever broken my heart.
If signing him will help save our family business, I’ll swallow my pride and do what’s asked.
But when it becomes clear his uncharacteristic antics off the ice are a hint of something deeper, keeping things strictly professional between us becomes more than complicated. But I know better than to cross that line.
I’ll never date a client. Not even for him.

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Win the Stanley Cup and do it before time runs out.
Not a small feat, but it’s what’s motivated me since the start of my career.
And time is running out.
Enter Dekker Kincade.
Feisty. Dogged. Damn gorgeous. The one I let get away.
I have no idea why she’s traveling with the team, but hell if resisting her is going to be easy.
But I have a job to do, and I refuse to lose sight of that end game. Even if she confuses me. Even if she sees parts of me I’ve hidden from the world.
I can’t lose focus. Not even for her.

Release Date : 30 juin 2020
Publisher : AE
Price : 3.60 ou 15.09 euros
Pages : 362 pages

Note :

Avant de vous donner mon avis le plus complet, je tiens à dire un grand merci à Valentine PR et à K Bromberg pour leur confiance et pour m'avoir permis de lire en ARC ce 1er tome. 

My review: Once again K Bromberg takes us into the universe she brilliantly created and you will love this sports romance in the hockey world but also these sisters who haven't finished making us laugh and move us. Hard to Handle was a great read.

Dekker Kincade is the eldest of the Kincade sisters and after the death of their mother when she was only 15 years old, she took her place and played this role to the perfection. Yet this has deprived her of many things and she is afraid of commitment because it can mean suffering. Working for their father Kenyon as part of Kincade Sports Management, they are outstanding sports agents who always put their heart into the task. The boss will therefore give her a mission of the utmost importance because for some time, they have been robbed of  many customers. They will somehow take their revenge and turn the situation to their advantage. To do so, she will be the only master on board in an almost impossible mission because it will involve recruiting the famous sportsman Hunter Maddox a man Dekker knows very well. I really loved the personality of this young woman because she was able to stand her ground in a very masculine universe and she takes good care of her customers. She listens to them and when she looks after them, she is more interested in their story than in their wallets and the assets they will give to her company. She is therefore professional with her clients and it is therefore out of the question to cross the limit and be more intimate with one of them.

But it's too late because she and Hunter have a liability. They had a great time together before she made a radical decision three years ago. Does she regret it? No doubt but not as we understand it. She will have to play it fine if she wants to reach this sportsman who is on the way to become uncontrollable. She wants to dig and discover the evil that gnaws him away and prevents her from playing properly. But it will not be easy to be in the same room as her former lover because the chemistry is always present and she will have to do everything to resist him. It will not be easy because he loves pushing her to the limit and he knows how to push her buttons. She won't therefore first reveal the reasons for her presence around the members of the Lumberjack team. We will therefore enjoy their verbal jousting and we will obviously start to count the points. Will she dare to open up to him in the hope that he will do the same? Will she have all the cards in hand to carry out this original negotiation. Will she be able to get around the rules to finally hope to be happy?

Hunter Maddox is a 32-year-old man who appears to be on the verge of implosion. He is sabotaging his ending career but also the dream he promised to fulfill for his brother Jonah. These twins share more than a unique relationship with each other and it could be a huge burden on the shoulders of our hero. We will discover together their past, their error but above all the consequences they will cause. Hunter is a person full of rage and anger and this leads him to sabotage his game on the ice. His team would like him to pull himself together, but it will not be easy when like a bull he sees red constantly. I also loved this character who will make me experience a myriad of emotions. He often moved me to tears because he tries to do the best but facing Gary, his father, it will never be enough. He has been forgotten in his brother's profile and this therefore generates a lack of self-confidence. In appearance, one might think that this man doesn't doubt his charisma but it will not be his agent Finn Sanderson who will put him back on track. This sports agent is deplorable and doesn't even try to understand what is wrong with his customer. Where he fails, Dekker could succeed. But to do so, our hero will have to take off his reinforced concrete armor to let others enter his life. He has only one goal in mind and failure is unthinkable. Doesn't he risk getting lost and losing everything at the same time?

Anyway, if you like sports romances with heroes we want to discover more deeply but also we want to take in our arms, if you read in english, then do not waste any more time and go get read this first book that will satisfy you on many points. K Bromberg offers us characters who will break our hearts but we will appreciate every second of it.

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