Hell or High Water: Toronto Thunder, Book 3

HELL OR HIGH WATER - BETH BOLDEN This is book 3 in the Toronto Thunder series, and Ramsey’s long awaited story! Nate and Ramsey have had a love-hate relationship going through the first two books, and now we find out the reason why! After meeting in a bar, and going home with Nate, Ramsey is letting his true self be seen by this guy he can’t help being drawn to. Sparks fly as things heat up and Ramsey cannot help but let Nate in, that is until he realizes that he is one of the NFL players on his best friend Wes’s team, and he rushes out of Nate’s apartment without explaining why. Fast forward to the first team event after the Thunder win their pre-season games, and Wes suggests a new bar for the team to check out. Imagine Nate’s shock when he is introduced to nine other than the summer hook-up he can’t seem to forget! And from there things go downhill when Ramsey acts like they never met, and shows the fake personality Nate broke through when they originally met. Nate cannot believe Ramsey can be such a jerk, and every time they see each other after that, he stays as far away from him as he can. The team are all trying to get him to include Ramsey since he is stuck in Toronto on the injured reserve list from his Buffalo NHL team, but since they don’t know the two met earlier in the summer, he just keeps his distance as much as possible. Ramsey is going through a few challenges of his own since he cannot admit to his best friends Wes and Brody he slept with Nate, so he…

4/5 STARS! I freaking love Ramsey & this relationship & how it progressed was so much fun while also being relatable. Super enjoyable and entertaining audiobook.

Wanna know how to spot a sweet-talker, someone who’s been fake so long he’s perfected the craft of charming everyone? Beth Bolden’s “Hell or High Water” pairs a flirt with someone forthright. Their repartee shouldn’t be this witty, or their chemistry this wicked! Ramsey is gorgeous and so good at reading people that he’s disarmed when his pick-up, Nate, sees right through him. After a hot bout in the sack, Ramsey discovers Nate is a pro-football player on the same team as Ramsey’s bestie, Wes. Ramsey is staying with Wes while rehabbing from a concussion received in his career as a pro-hockey player. Other than Wes, Ramsey doesn’t let people see his true self, doesn’t do repeats, and doesn’t want any complications with Nate. Instead, he runs. Nate had liked Ramsey beyond his looks and skill between the sheets. He’d thought they’d had genuine moments and is furious to keep encountering the guy who ghosted him, especially watching competent Ramsey get everyone to like him, when Nate was not allowed. Nate snarks whenever Ramsey approaches. Realizing their nasty exchanges are affecting Wes and Nate’s team, Ramsey proposes they fake date, and Nate agrees, wanting to right his team’s mood. But charmers can play themselves. Both men prefer to avoid emotions. Of Ramsey, we learn, “If he kept burying (emotions) down, reinforcing his walls so nobody could see deep enough within them, then even he didn’t have to know (his feelings) either.” For Nate, “It was so much easier to be…