Hidden Scars

Kindle Edition, 431 pages

Published Nov. 3, 2022

(3 reviews)

Charles Preston Carmichael is the most infuriating man I’ve ever met. I want to sock the golden boy of college hockey right in the mouth. He enjoys telling me everything I’m messing up. Publicly. And since he’s my roommate for the next year, I can’t avoid him.

Yet there’s something about him that makes me watch him. Something dark. A secret I want to uncover.

When he returns from a weekend away, broken and haunted, I can’t keep my distance anymore. He needs someone and I’ll be damned if it’s not me. Soon my life no longer revolves around hockey, but the nightmares he’s living with. Desperately I want to save him but I can’t, not yet. The timing has to be just right.

Can I watch him destroy himself as he tries to hold tight to the things that matter or will I be the final hit in the …

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Review of 'Hidden Scars' on 'Goodreads'

This book was very, very good. I was planning on reading a 55,000-word fluffy book to cleanse my palate after having read something kind of angsty but I was having trouble with my Kindle and tapped on this book just to get the thumbnail to load. I exited right away and started reading the fluff but I had accidentally read the first page of this book and couldn't stop thinking about it so I came back and couldn't put it down the rest of the evening.

It kind of reminded me a little bit of Whit but darker, and I also got an Andreil from AFTG vibe. The way Jeremy interacts with Preston reminded me of Josh always responding so sweetly to Ezra in Wrath. Those are three of my favorite books/series so I legit couldn't give higher praise.

It is lighter on the hockey than an LA Witt book …

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