Conceivably Yours: A Secret Baby Hockey Romance
By Ruth Kennedy
At eighteen, Beck is told he can’t have kids. At twenty-two, he walks away from Ruby so she can have the big family he can’t give her. He has no idea he’s already given her a son.
That summer, he doesn’t plan on falling for Ruby, who runs a floating barbecue shack on the Lake of the Ozarks and wants four kids. He falls anyway. Their game is truth or jump. Ruby always picks truth. Beck always jumps.
On the last night of summer, Ruby says she has something big to tell him. Beck jumps. It was...
Show More
At eighteen, Beck is told he can’t have kids. At twenty-two, he walks away from Ruby so she can have the big family he can’t give her. He has no idea he’s already given her a son.
That summer, he doesn’t plan on falling for Ruby, who runs a floating barbecue shack on the Lake of the Ozarks and wants four kids. He falls anyway. Their game is truth or jump. Ruby always picks truth. Beck always jumps.
On the last night of summer, Ruby says she has something big to tell him. Beck jumps. It was only a summer, he says. By dawn he’s gone.
Eight years later, Beck captains Kansas City’s NHL team and still isn’t over Ruby. He knows she runs a barbecue joint across town. He knows she has a seven-year-old. He’s sure the boy can’t be his.
Ruby has her reasons for staying quiet. She went to tell him once. She stood ten feet away, their son asleep on her shoulder, and heard Beck tell a crowd that kids were never going to be part of his life.
Now her sister is marrying his teammate over Labor Day weekend, back at the lake. Ruby is maid of honor. Beck is best man. And the ring bearer is Otto: seven years old, crazy about palindromes, and never without his green notebook or his stuffed pig, Brisket.
Same peanut allergy as the best man. Same three sneezes every time he steps into the sun.
Beck hasn’t put it together yet. Otto is already taking notes.
This time, nobody gets to jump.
This is a second chance, secret baby hockey romance with surprise pregnancy and a HEA.
Show Less
