If you’ve been thrilling to the Stanley Cup Finals, (surely someone out there is watching hockey! Game 7 is tonight.) here’s a book for you! (Click on the picture for book info.)

Rachel Gibson has not only had some funny things said to her, she even gets gifts! Says Rachel…

"Readers have sent me cool stuff like hockey pucks and t-shirts. MooseJaw Mountaining sent me a sweatshirt. I've received maps and bookmarks, but the most bizarre was a pair of silver plated salad tongs. Why someone would send salad tongs---don't know."


In the meantime, I’ve been flipping back and forth from baseball to soccer (known to the rest of the world as football). It struck me that some of those soccer players are mighty cute! But sports heroes are seldom in the Romance Hero Hall of Fame. Rachel does write about hockey, and Susan Elizabeth Phillips has, famously, written about the “Chicago Stars” football team.

But while sports keeps (at least some of) us glued to the television, why doesn’t it translate to romance? And it can’t be the challenge of a checkered past, since many heroes aren’t exactly poster children for faithfulness…