Face Off

About This Audiobook

Holly Griswold’s first day at Surge Hockey is a triple shot of humiliation: she’s assigned to wrangle the team’s most infuriating player, Carter Boone—a goalie whose ego is bigger than the net he defends. Just twenty-four hours in, she’s already questioning her career choice after he bench-presses her office chair mid-meeting. But Holly didn’t climb the corporate ladder by backing down, and when she realizes Carter’s rebellious streak hides a secret softer side (like secretly coaching kids’ hockey), she sees an opportunity to turn his worst habits into her greatest win. This isn’t just another athlete-romance trope; Quinn’s snappy dialogue and workplace satire make Surge Hockey feel like *The Office* meets ESPN, complete with locker-room banter that stings as much as it stuns.

The narration duo of Ramona Radcliff and Julio Maxwell crackle like a live hockey feed—Radcliff’s Holly drips with dry, exasperated charm, while Maxwell’s Carter oozes lazy charm with a rasp so velvety it should come with a warning label. Their chemistry isn’t just good; it’s exactly what this rom-com needs to survive a plot that sometimes skates too close to formula. The production balances crisp audio with subtle crowd noise cues that ground each scene in the rink, though the mid-game quips occasionally get lost in the mix during peak action sequences.