Faceoff
Heller Brothers Hockey • Book 2
by Kelly Jamieson
Why You'll Love This
She spent years being 'one of the boys' — then spent one lake week unraveling everything that meant.
- Great if you want: a quick, steamy friends-to-lovers read with real tension
- The experience: fast and heat-forward — best read in one sitting
- The writing: Jamieson keeps emotional subtext moving underneath the physical pull
- Skip if: you want depth over a compact, breezy romance
About This Book
When you grow up practically as someone's little sister, you don't expect the day everything shifts—but for Kyla and Tag, one summer changed everything, and neither of them has fully recovered. Now reunited at a family lake house a decade later, they're both older, more guarded, and carrying exactly the kind of baggage that makes falling for each other a terrible idea. He's a jaded pro hockey player who assumes every woman wants something from him. She's worked twice as hard as the men around her just to be taken seriously. A week of heat and proximity doesn't care about any of that.
Kelly Jamieson writes this novella with a tight, efficient hand—no wasted scenes, no filler, just character dynamics and slow-burn tension delivered at a satisfying pace. The dual perspective gives readers equal time inside two people who are both deeply self-aware and deeply in denial, which keeps the push-and-pull feeling genuinely earned rather than manufactured. For readers who love the friends-to-lovers setup but want something compact and emotionally direct, this delivers the heat without overstaying its welcome.
