Hit Me With Your Best Shot (Houston Baddies Hockey #1)
Sara Ney
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
3.93
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 21 ratings · 376 pages · Published: 10 Mar 2025
I didn’t mean to roast Gio Montagalo, goalie and crown jewel of The Houston Baddies hockey team. Honestly, I was screaming at the TV in a sports bar like any self-respecting sports junkie does when their team is on a losing streak! So when his twin sister sidles up on the stool beside me, laughing at my commentary, I figured I’d made a fan, too. What I didn’t expect? For her brother—the guy I called “a flashy ice peacock with the reflexes of a sloth”—to hear about it.
Yikes. What were the odds?!
Next thing I know, Gio is in my DMs with a challenge: “Hold up a sassy sign at my game and hit me with your best shot. Roast me in front of everyone.” For him, it’s fun. For me, it’s humiliating. But I did it. Glitter included. And because the universe thrives on chaos, the Baddies won.
Now Gio thinks I’m his good luck charm, begging me to show up with more signs. He also wants to see me—off the ice.
What does a hot, hockey hunk want with a bookish girlie like me?
I try to keep my distance. Mostly.
Soon, Gio is showing up at my job for swoony kisses and trying to charm my dog—also named Gio—and failing because my dog hates him at first sight. I wonder if this whole “lucky charm” thing has less to do with hockey and more to do with the overwhelming, undeniable pull I feel toward him. Or maybe it’s fate’s way of showing me that sometimes, the guy you roast on national TV can be the one you accidentally fall for.
Fast-paced and hilarious, Hit Me With Your Best Shot is full of electric chemistry—and tons of spice. Austin Adam's life just went from shouting at the TV screen—to becoming part of the show.
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- sports 4
- hockey 4
- funny 4
- new adult 3
- contemporary 3
- m-f romance 3
- athlete hero 3
- sassy heroine 3
- insta-love 3
- pregnancy 3
- competent heroine 3
- sweet/gentle hero 3
- forced proximity 1
- found family 1
- possessive hero 1
- height difference 1
- teacher/coach heroine 1
- alpha male 1
- sunny/happy hero 1
- rich hero 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- death / grief 2
- geography
- north america 1
- usa 1
- texas 1
- Format
- dual pov 3
- first person pov 2
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The 'Houston Baddies Hockey' series
3.95 · 33 ratings
dual-pov · humor · usa · explicit-open-door · insta-love · hockey · texas · death · first-person-pov · north-america · new adult · sports · height-difference · sassy heroine · athletes · contemporary · m-f · sweet-hero · found-family · super rich hero
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