Blitz: Breaking the Ice (Love on Thin Ice #1) by Whitney Dineen with an excerpt and a giveaway

Breaking the Ice

Series: Love on Thin Ice, #1

by Whitney Dineen

Release date: August 29th, 2024

Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance, Sports

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215820419-breaking-the-ice

Blurb:

What do an entitled billionaire and small-town ice-skating coach have in common?

Ellie
My life is not turning out like I thought it would.

My mom’s arthritis has gotten so bad that I had to move in with her. I’m making ends meet by giving ice skating lessons at the arena in Maple Falls. I’d be in serious trouble had the Harts not given me that job.

Which makes it impossible to say no when they ask me to let Troy’s obnoxious billionaire brother stay in the cabin on my mom’s property during the charity hockey event they’re running.

Zach
First the tabloids call me out for being a cheapskate and then Yolanda Simms takes to national television to tell everyone what a vicious heartbreaker I am?

Yeah, my life has been better.

My brother thinks I can fix my bad press by coming to Maple Falls and donating big to his new charity endeavor. Too bad he didn’t mention the woman who owns the cottage I’ll be staying at hates me with a passion.

He also didn’t mention she’s everything I’ve ever looked for in a woman…

Purchase:

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Excerpt:

Zach

I don’t expect everyone to like me, but Ellie Butler has taken things to a new level. She has the disposition of a startled rattlesnake. In a bid to engage her in safe conversation, I ask, “Have you worked at the rink for long?” 

She steps down into the parking lot before answering. “No.” 

I try again. “Were you a professional skater at one time?” Come on, lady, give me something.

Ellie scoffs loudly. “Hardly.”

“Why hardly? You seemed pretty good out there to me.” Her elegantly graceful lines made it impossible for me to look away. 

She stops walking, causing me to nearly run her over. Stepping back to widen the space between us, she demands, “How many professional figure skaters do you know who are five ten?”

I shrug my shoulders.  “None. But I don’t know any professional figure skaters.”

“Maria Sotskova was five eight and that was considered shocking.”

“And she is …”

Ellie rolls her eyes before demanding, “Do you know anything about ice sports?”

“I was a winger on my college hockey team,” I tell her. “I was top pick for the draft my senior year before a knee injury benched me for good.” 

GIVEAWAY

Blitz-wide giveaway (INT) ends August 29th

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AUTHOR BIO:

Whitney loves to laugh, play with her kids, bake, and eat french fries -- not always in that order.

Whitney is a multi-award-winning author of romcoms, non-fiction humor, and middle reader fiction. Basically, she writes whatever the voices in her head tell her to. 

She lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her husband, Jimmy, where they raise children, chickens, and organic vegetables.

Gold Medal winner at the International Readers' Favorite Awards, 2017.

Silver medal winner at the International Readers' Favorite Awards, 2015, 2016.

Finalist RONE Awards, 2016.

Finalist at the IRFA 2016, 2017.

Finalist at the Book Excellence Awards, 2017

Finalist Top Shelf Indie Book Awards, 2017

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