Belonging after loss
Karen moves after her mother’s death and finds it difficult to fit into her father’s new family.
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Cate Cameron - Author
A teen romance set in a hockey-focused small town, pairing Karen’s grief and difficult family adjustment with Tyler’s struggle under adult expectations. The book appears to combine emotional relationship drama with sport, pressure and a strongly signalled mature-content element.
This Entangled Teen Crush book contains adult language, underage drinking, sexual situations, and crazy squirrels. It may cause you to become a fan of hockey - or at least hot hockey players. The hometown hockey hero won't know what hit him ... Karen Webber is in small-town hell. After her mother's death, she moved to Corrigan Falls to live with strangers - her dad and his perfect, shiny new family - and there doesn't seem to be room for a city girl with a chip on her shoulder. The only person who makes her feel like a real human being is Tyler MacDonald. But Karen isn't interested in starting something with a player. And that's all she keeps hearing about Tyler. Corrigan Falls is a hockey town, and Tyler's the star player. But the viselike pressure from his father and his agent are sending him dangerously close to the edge. All people see is hockey - except Karen. Now they've managed to find something in each other that they both desperately need. And for the first time, Tyler is playing for keeps ...
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA teen romance set in a hockey-focused small town, pairing Karen’s grief and difficult family adjustment with Tyler’s struggle under adult expectations. The book appears to combine emotional relationship drama with sport, pressure and a strongly signalled mature-content element.
Karen moves after her mother’s death and finds it difficult to fit into her father’s new family.
Tyler is a star hockey player, while pressure from his father and agent is described as taking him dangerously close to an unspecified edge.
Karen and Tyler find something in each other that they both desperately need, although Karen initially resists starting something with him.
Be ready for adult language, underage drinking and sexual situations. Karen’s mother has died, and she is living with an unfamiliar father and his new family; Tyler is described as nearing an unspecified edge under pressure.
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