Review: Trying To Score by Toni Aleo

Trying To Score by Toni Aleo  is a hot, sweet and sexy romance that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Fallon Parker has always dreamt of running the family owned winery. But her dream will be cut short when she falls in love during her college years. When Fallon meets Lucas in a nightclub, she is there with a fake ID along with her college friends celebrating her sophomore year. Only to be immediately attracted to the man eyeing her from the other side of the bar.

Lucas was in the mood to get drunk after his team’s latest loss, but as soon as Fallon walked into the nightclub he felt attracted to her. She is the perfect height for him, he so used to women always being short compared to him, but Fallon was tall and gorgeous. And as soon as she approached him he took advantage.

Lucas and Fallon spent the night together, then when he couldn’t let her go the next day, they fell into a relationship and almost lived together for two years. But when a serious mistake on Lucas’s part tears them apart, Fallon knows that she can never forgive him so when she finds out that she is pregnant she decides to run away and not let him know, without knowing that she is leaving a broken man behind.

Seven years Later Lucas has been traded to the Assassins, the Team that Fallon works very closely with. As soon as she knows of this development her first reaction or to run, but she cannot run from her responsibilities in her family’s company or keep hiding the truth from Lucas. But she can try for as long as she can. While Lucas has not stopped loving Fallon or regretting the one mistake he made in their relationship, the one that he cannot even remember making.

After so long away from each other, the love they have still beats true, but Fallon will not forgive Lucas easily, but can she find his forgiveness when he finds out she kept his son from him for seven years?

Fallon and Lucas will have many things to learn, one of them being forgiveness, and that love is a risk that is worth the pain it could bring when it’s your one true love.

Book Info

Publisher: Loveswept  Pub Date   Apr 23 2013

Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Publication Date: April 10, 2012

Fallon Parker’s dream was to have her family’s wine company at the top of all wine magazines and to have a cellar of her own. After graduating from college, she has worked hard to make that dream a reality, even if that meant having a nonexistent love life. She had her chance at love and that was a bust, so she put everything into the wine company. After becoming the official sponsor of the Nashville Assassins, Fallon finally feels like everything is falling in place, that is until Lucas Brooks comes back into her life.

Lucas Brooks hates his life. He is lonely, he is sober, and he is angry. On the ice, when he’s not in the sin bin, he the leading scorer in the NHL but off the ice, he is a mess. He threw away the most important person in his life, and has regretted it ever since but when Lucas sees Fallon again after being traded to the Assassins; he is bound and determined to get her back. Even if she wants nothing to do with him.

The sexual tension between Fallon and Lucas is electrifying as Lucas tries to convince Fallon that he is a changed man. Fallon tries to resist Lucas, but it is so hard when all her body wants is his. But when Lucas finds out that Fallon has been keeping a huge secret from him, the game he is playing stops and penalties are called.

With new rules and new players on the ice, will Fallon and Lucas be able to work out their differences and work as a team or will they be left trying to score alone.