He needs an image makeover, she needs a mojo upgrade. A new lessons-in-seduction hockey romance from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Sarina Bowen.

After I’m arrested for throwing a raucous party, my hockey team says I have an image problem. And I need to fix it, stat.

Charity work? Check. Haircut? Sure. But I draw the line at hiring my neighbor to style me. In the first place “style” shouldn’t be a verb. And I’m tired of people who’d judge me on appearances.

Vera and I don’t see eye to eye on anything. She wants me to try on clothes, while I just want to remove hers. She's distractingly pretty, with soulful eyes and a sinful mouth that likes to argue with me.

But when management threatens my summer vacation, I grudgingly agree to Vera’s unusual proposal: she’ll give me an image makeover. But in return, she wants lessons in the art of seduction.

It sounds a little nutty, but I know a good opening when I hear it. Besides, it’s not like I’ll ever fall for her…

Love Lessons by Sarina Bowen is so many things, it touches so many tropes frenemies to lovers with epic banter, close proximity, opposites attract, summer vacation fling, hockey romance, and lessons-in-romance but really what this standalone romance is.. is pure JOY… as the author tells you are LOVE STORY once that transcends all the tropes.

Ian Crikey the hockey player with an image issue (and a few other things he is dealing with) and Vera Vestini the personal stylist are not friendly neighbors (frenemies reference above) who end up tangled up as she needs the work and Ian needs the help.

I adored this book Ian and Vera had such great chemistry; the banter turns into an easiness and the connection well that will light your kindle aflame.

The how these two find their way together was so perfect for them, the character growth and use of supporting hockey cast from the prior books was epic!

In the end, though these two become so much of what each needs that it warmed my heart and left a giant smile on my face as I read the very last words of the story!

Bowen has become a must-read author for me!