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Mile High Miners #1
Even Strength
Happy Endings Resort is where I spent the best summers of my life running amuck with my older brother and where I went now to get away from it all. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t complaining about being team captain and starting center for the NHL’s Mile High Miners and now, Stanley Cup champs. Damn, that sounded good to add. It was my greatest dream come true, but it was a long season, and I was looking forward to some downtime in a place where I was still just Barrett to everyone. It was a nice change of pace from being "Boom Boom” McGill and thanks to a new service at the resort called, Happy Campers, I had a clean cabin and cold beer waiting for me when I arrived. For once, some R&R was the only thing on my to-do list. Funny how it all changed with a knock on my door. Okay, two knocks, but I stopped counting when I opened the door for Adelaide. Hell, maybe I stopped breathing because I stopped thinking straight the second I saw her. What was wrong with me? Nothing about the shy mother of two should have intrigued me. Maybe it was the fact that she was outnumbered by her kids. She deserved to be on a team with Even Strength. I wanted to be that for her, only time would tell if I would make the cut.
A standalone novella
Recommended for mature readers due to explicit material
A standalone novella
Recommended for mature readers due to explicit material
- GenresSports
128 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 15, 2018
20 people are currently reading
99 people want to read
About the author
Lane Martin
21 books70 followersI never thought that I would write a novel, although my English teacher my freshman year in college told me that he would hunt me down if I wasn’t published by the time I was thirty. Thirty came and went. I was busy being a wife and working mother of two and nobody came looking for me.
I doubt my sister thought she was about to change my life forever when she got me a book of “Mommy porn” for my birthday in 2012, but that’s exactly what she did. After reading the first book in the trilogy, I rushed out and got the other two books. I became obsessed and read the series several times before learning about Fanficiton. Apparently, I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t get enough. The idea fascinated me and I thought, “I can do that.” I was a nervous wreck when I posted my first story, a one shot about my new favorite couple. One story lead to another and then another. My readers encouraged me to write something original, so that‘s what I did. Thank you to everyone who encouraged me. I couldn’t have done it without you.
I love reading, writing, traveling, and spending time with my family.
Thank you for going on this journey with me.
I doubt my sister thought she was about to change my life forever when she got me a book of “Mommy porn” for my birthday in 2012, but that’s exactly what she did. After reading the first book in the trilogy, I rushed out and got the other two books. I became obsessed and read the series several times before learning about Fanficiton. Apparently, I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t get enough. The idea fascinated me and I thought, “I can do that.” I was a nervous wreck when I posted my first story, a one shot about my new favorite couple. One story lead to another and then another. My readers encouraged me to write something original, so that‘s what I did. Thank you to everyone who encouraged me. I couldn’t have done it without you.
I love reading, writing, traveling, and spending time with my family.
Thank you for going on this journey with me.
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January 23, 2026
When I first started reading this I found it enjoyable. I like seeing the contrast between Barrett and Adelaide but as the book went on I found that the writing really started to turn me off from the book.
There were a lot of moments where the author writes negatively about women and I know that she’s writing from the POV of a hotshot hockey star who is known to be a player but I found it unnecessary to constantly be putting women down. She repeatedly acted like every woman that is a fan of hockey is automatically a “puck bunny” and is only there to see the players because of their attractiveness. Women are simply reduced down to “a gushing fangirl who would break out a sharpie and ask me to sign her tits.”
The way that Barrett talked about Adelaide and the trailer that she worked hard to buy was another aspect that was hard to overlook. He talks about Adelaide and her home in an insanely disrespectful and honestly kind of degrading way. Some of the moments that really demonstrates this:
- “I’d just met her yesterday, she had two kids, and more baggage then would fit in her tiny tin can of a house.”
- “If Adelaide owned her piece of shit trailer, like she indicated when she talked about it, things weren’t adding up.”
I also felt like the use of hockey analogies and puns were really forced especially towards the second half of the book. Coming from Barrett it didn’t feel as bad but when Adelaide used them it felt a lot more forced especially because it happened suddenly and wasn’t something that was used consistently throughout the entire book.
Overall I wasn’t the biggest fan of this book. It was a pretty simple read so it’s great for helping to achieve your reading goal but I probably wouldn’t read this again.
There were a lot of moments where the author writes negatively about women and I know that she’s writing from the POV of a hotshot hockey star who is known to be a player but I found it unnecessary to constantly be putting women down. She repeatedly acted like every woman that is a fan of hockey is automatically a “puck bunny” and is only there to see the players because of their attractiveness. Women are simply reduced down to “a gushing fangirl who would break out a sharpie and ask me to sign her tits.”
The way that Barrett talked about Adelaide and the trailer that she worked hard to buy was another aspect that was hard to overlook. He talks about Adelaide and her home in an insanely disrespectful and honestly kind of degrading way. Some of the moments that really demonstrates this:
- “I’d just met her yesterday, she had two kids, and more baggage then would fit in her tiny tin can of a house.”
- “If Adelaide owned her piece of shit trailer, like she indicated when she talked about it, things weren’t adding up.”
I also felt like the use of hockey analogies and puns were really forced especially towards the second half of the book. Coming from Barrett it didn’t feel as bad but when Adelaide used them it felt a lot more forced especially because it happened suddenly and wasn’t something that was used consistently throughout the entire book.
Overall I wasn’t the biggest fan of this book. It was a pretty simple read so it’s great for helping to achieve your reading goal but I probably wouldn’t read this again.
January 28, 2019
This is one of those books you want to have around when you need a quick pick me up. When you want something sweet with a great dedicated guy that just happens to be a hockey player you will want to open this book. If you want a story with a knight dressed in hockey gear you will want this story.
Adelaide was struggling. She was trying to take care of two young children all on her own. She was trying to keep a roof over their head and food on the table. And she was hiding from some powerful and controlling in-laws.
Who knew going "home" to Happy Endings Resort would give "Boom Boom" McGill an even better feeling than being part of a stanley Cup Champ. He didn't know what he was missing until Adelaide had shown up on his front porch.
Adelaide was struggling. She was trying to take care of two young children all on her own. She was trying to keep a roof over their head and food on the table. And she was hiding from some powerful and controlling in-laws.
Who knew going "home" to Happy Endings Resort would give "Boom Boom" McGill an even better feeling than being part of a stanley Cup Champ. He didn't know what he was missing until Adelaide had shown up on his front porch.
October 10, 2025
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Kindle edition
I think this one was a freebie from Stuff your kindle day. Otherwise not sure how it ended up on the TBR. It was softer than it could've been. Single mother trying to get her life back on track and not be signed off for another marriage and a hockey star. Pretty standard stuff. I did like the interview at the end but not the glee from the reporter.
Kindle edition
I think this one was a freebie from Stuff your kindle day. Otherwise not sure how it ended up on the TBR. It was softer than it could've been. Single mother trying to get her life back on track and not be signed off for another marriage and a hockey star. Pretty standard stuff. I did like the interview at the end but not the glee from the reporter.
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November 26, 2018
Love this book. Love the realness of the characters and the positive outlook they bring out in each other.
September 13, 2020
Great Book
Was late for work because I couldn’t put it down! Never a dull moment in the book and keeps your interest throughout
Was late for work because I couldn’t put it down! Never a dull moment in the book and keeps your interest throughout
July 28, 2021
This isn’t your usual sports romance, and it was amazing!!
January 19, 2025
Read it, don't remember much but I think it was the FMC's age that felt weird for me. I think she was around 19 or so with two kids, and I just felt like I wanted to read more mature characters so I really didn't feel any chemistry between them.
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