The release tour for The Midnight Defensive by Anne Kemp!
Title: The Midnight Defensive
Author: Anne Kemp
Series: Alexandria Dominion Hockey #2
Genre: Romance
Publisher/Indie: Indie
Publication Date: June 4th
She makes a living in happily ever afters. She just doesn't believe in them anymore.
Vivian Sullivan designs engagement rings in her Old Town Alexandria studio. She’s the person people trust with their happily ever after, even after her own ended before the wedding.
Now she keeps things light. Safe. Predictable…Until a desperate attempt to escape an overly interested stranger ends with her kissing the nearest man on the sidewalk.
Unfortunately, he’s not just anyone. He’s Ty McCade—NHL defenseman—and he’s not nearly as easy to forget as he should be.
Ty sees the world a little differently—and he sees her in a way no one else ever has. Where others see effortless, he sees the effort. The cracks. Her truth. What starts as a moment of impulse turns into a series of unexpected run-ins neither of them can avoid, and a connection that refuses to stay casual.
Because when a guarded woman who’s sworn off love meets the one man who notices everything, keeping her distance stops being simple.
Falling is easy, but letting someone catch you?
That’s the risk.
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The Midnight Defensive is a closed-door, forced proximity hockey romance filled with sizzling chemistry, undeniable tension, and all the heat—without the spice!
Tropes in The Midnight Defensive:
Neurodivergent Hero
Guarded Heroine
Forced Proximity
Grumpy sunshine-adjacent
Slow Burn
She falls first, he falls harder
Anne Kemp
Anne Kemp is a bestselling author of romantic comedies. She loves reading (and she doesn’t it ridiculously fast, too!), gluten-free baking (because everyone needs a hobby that makes them crazy), and finding time to binge-watch her favorite shows. She grew up in Maryland but made Los Angeles her home until she encountered her own real-life meet-cute at a friend's wedding where she ended up married to one of the groomsmen. For real.
Anne now lives on the Kapiti Coast in New Zealand, and even though she was married at Mt. Doom, no…she doesn’t have a Hobbit. However, she and her husband do have a terrier named George Clooney and when she’s not writing, she’s usually with them taking a long walk on the river by their home.
You can find Anne on her website - come say hi! She’d love to hear from you: www.annekemp.com
On Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest: @missannekemp
On TikTok: @annekempauthor
You can always find her www.AnneKemp.com.
Vivian Sullivan spends her days designing the perfect wedding rings for people who are ready to take that next step... doing her part to help them find their happily ever afters, even though she is fairly certain she'll never find her own. Then one little kiss changes everything...
The Midnight Defensive brings us into the life of a woman who has given up on finding her own happily ever after, even though she spends her days helping others take that next step. After her own wedding went up in smoke, before they had the chance to say "I do," she decided that she was just one of those people not meant for it. Then she shares an unexpected kiss with a stranger on the sidewalk on day and things in her life take a unexpected little turn.
Kissing hockey star Ty McCade was nothing something she planned, but now that it's happened it's something she cannot forget. That one little kiss intertwines their lives in ways they never saw coming and helps them to see that maybe, just maybe, they were meant to find love too.
This was such a sweet and heartfelt fall, their were moments that had me laughing and more tender moments that made me swoon a bit. I really enjoyed this first time read, it was refreshing to read a story that hints at love and all that goes with it, but leaves things to your imagination. Highly recommend you take a chance on this one, it's words will keep you captivated the whole way through!
I requested an advanced copy of this title from the publisher and I am voluntarily leaving my honest and unbiased opinion.
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Thank you, Partner, @bookedwiththeemilys @annekempauthor
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