Dropping Gloves by Catherine Gayle Series: Portland Storm #7
Genres: Coming of Age, Contemporary, Sports, Sports Romance
Published by Night Shift Publishing Publication Date: April 14th 2015
Also in this series: Seduced by the Game, Delay of Game
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She left to follow her dreams; she’s back to follow her heart.
Katie Weber left her heart in Portland to chase a career in Hollywood. Now she has returned to sing the national anthem for the Portland Storm for their annual Hockey Fights Cancer night. Her longtime crush, Jamie Babcock, is hurting just as much as she is. One look in his eyes is all it takes to know that. She's done the Hollywood thing, though, and she's over it, but it might be too late to dig herself out of the hole she’s dug with him.
Jamie’s already done everything humanly possible to let go of Katie, but she keeps coming back, and she keeps crushing him all over again every time she leaves. His heart has been trampled on more than enough already. At some point, he has to draw the line. Doesn't he? Only, when it's Katie, he's not sure that's even possible. She's in Portland again right now, but he can’t be sure for how long.
Katie knows she has a fight on her hands, in more ways than one, if she’s going to convince Jamie she deserves another chance, but she’s willing to drop her gloves this time. Because in the game of love, all bets are off.
Shannon’s Thoughts
Jamie and Katie’s story is one I’ve been waiting for since I started reading this series last year. They were adorable as teens and I needed them to get past all their “stuff” and be Katie and Babs again. Catherine Gayle made the wait worth it.
Katie comes back to Portland after spending four years in Hollywood chasing her dream. The dream to sing and act. A dream Jamie encouraged her to follow, even if that meant leaving him behind. Jamie is determined to figure out a way to move forward with a life without Katie, even if she is temporarily in Portland. While Katie’s determined her home is with Jamie. It’s a bit of a sticky situation, but when Katie needs Jamie’s strength he’s at her side regardless of what that means for him trying to move on.
Katie and Jamie are that couple you know will be together. No matter what they say, do, or what outside forces find their way between them. They always find their way back to each other. They may have broken their own hearts when Katie left or when Jamie read about her in the tabloids, but a large portion of their heart belonged to the other. That doesn’t mean their reconciliation was easy, because they still needed to talk through what had happened when they were apart the last four years and had to learn how to forgiven everything (themselves included) and move on.
I have to say I love the adult version of Jamie. He’s way more serious than he had been as a teen and doubted himself a lot when it came to the responsibility he was given with the team, but you still saw that teen in him (especially his being intimidated by the stove and oven, the dimples and the blushing). And that combination was a hard mix not to love.
Sorry Soupy and Rachel, Jamie and Katie just bumped you from the #2 spot on my all time favorite Portland Storm couples.
Shannon
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