Set in the rough and tumble world of professional hockey, See Jane Score features an intelligent, likable heroine and a hero with depth beneath his sports jock facade. The layered characters, intriguing setting, and the novel's compelling emotional plot all add up to an excellent contemporary romance.

Jane Alcott, a Seattle Times columnist, has a shot at a full-time assignment. She badly needs the income, but unfortunately, the opening is for a sports reporter traveling with the Seattle Chinooks hockey team and she knows nothing about the game. To add to her difficulty, the team doesn't want her, especially Luc "Lucky" Martineau, the Chinooks million-dollar goalie. The team stonewalls when she tries to interview them and they haze her mercilessly; it isn't until the superstitious Luc decides that she brings good luck that Jane gets a shot at being a real journalist.

But when her acceptance by the team leads to spending more time with Luc, Jane finds to her dismay that he's more than a handsome, empty-headed sports jock and her heart is in danger.

For his part, Luc learns that behind "plain Jane's" boring dark clothing and black-rimmed glasses lies a quick wit, nerves of steel, and a personality that charms him. And when Jane appears at a team banquet with a new haircut, makeup, and a killer red dress with matching stilettos, Luc's affection fast forwards into a major case of lust. But if Jane lets herself fall in love, she'll have to find a way to explain the secret she's hiding before it becomes public knowledge and Luc's passion turns to hate. Can she bring herself to tell him the truth? And if she does, will he forgive her?

This was fun. I had the feeling I read this some time ago. I liked the characters and their storyline. What I did not enjyo was Jane's portrayal as an ugly duckling and that superficial hockey dude falling for the ugly duckling... this was a bit too much for my taste.

This arrived in a wonderful box full of books by this author, as well as another author I'm not familiar with...
I'm not entirely sure if this is a loan or what.... so we'll see what happens with this once I've read it. thanks so much for sending all of these!

Fun quick read. I enjoyed this more than the first in this series and am a bit disgruntled to note that I don't seem to have the third! I find I do tend to confuse Gibson with SEP, and it seems to me there's a very intellectual woman married to a top coach - perhaps that's one of Susan Elizabeth Phillip's books... at any rate I kept expecting Jane to be revealed as a Mensa candidate as well. Despite this slight question in the back of my mind (did the character evolve into a brainiac in subsequent novels in the series or have I got the whole thing wrong??), I enjoyed it very much.
Grateful for the RABCK which sent it my way too. I saw this on the wishlist of another ERTG friend - it might head that way next.

This was sent to me as an RABCK by an ERTG friend, and has now been mooched by another ERTG friend, even if the European Romance Trading Group no longer exists, the links persist! Enjoy!

received from Sonia (Switzerland) through BM. Thanks!