Praise for the novels of
Elle Kennedy
“Elle Kennedy engages your senses from the very first sentence! Both deliciously steamy and heart-achingly tender, The Deal is an absolute winner!”
—Katy Evans, New York Times bestselling author
“A very sexy novel with a complicated emotional story, Kennedy’s latest knocks the puck into the net for a winner.”
—RT Book Reviews on Body Check
“More hockey hotness from Elle Kennedy? Yes, please! The Mistake is a smart, feel-good, swoon-worthy page-turner that will have fans tossing their hearts onto the rink.”
—Sarina Bowen, USA TODAY bestselling author
“Smart, sexy, and utterly addictive, I fell in love with Tucker’s strength and patience. But it was his dirty mouth in the bedroom that made me swoon and search for tickets to a hockey game!”
—Vi Keeland, #1 New York Times bestselling author, on The Goal
“It had everything I crave in a romance; humor, depth, love and an overabundance of grand gestures. Highly recommend.”
—Book Binge on The Mistake
A New York Times, USA TODAY and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Elle Kennedy grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, Ontario, and holds a BA in English from York University. She is the author of more than forty titles of contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels, including the internationally bestselling Off-Campus series.
Body Check
Elle Kennedy
Author’s Note
I wrote this book in my early twenties, and believe me when I say I’d never experienced the kind of joy I felt on the day an editor from Harlequin Blaze called me up and said she wanted to buy my book.
And let me tell you—reading it again nearly two decades later was a surreal experience for me. As an author, I am honing my craft every single day. I might look at a book I wrote last year (let alone last decade) and think, holy moly, I’ve gotten so much better. What makes Body Check special, though, is that it was my very first contemporary romance and my first hockey romance, to boot.
If you’ve read my other books, then you know that one of my top-selling series is set in the college hockey world. I adore sports romance, and it makes me so happy that my first traditionally published category romance was a hockey story.
Being asked to add words to a book that released so long ago was both a pleasant surprise and incredibly daunting, but it was a challenge I was excited to take on. Hayden and Brody will always hold a special place in my heart, and I’m so grateful I was granted the opportunity to take this trip down memory lane. I hope you enjoy this updated and extended version of Body Check.
Happy reading!
Elle
Contents
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
