North Paquette is loving his time with the Pittsburgh Titans. He has settled in and built solid friendships with most of his teammates. He met his teammate’s sister, Farren, when she was visiting her brother, Rafferty, and a hook up meant a night of fun before she headed home to Calgary. Now she is in Pittsburgh permanently and wants to strike things up with North again, but only if they can keep things casual between them.

She’s off limits because she is his teammate’s sister. But the chemistry between them has them sneaking around behind her brother’s back. As the sneaking continues, North wants more. He wants strings and a relationship, but Farren is hesitant and wants to keep things casual. Unfortunately that’s easier said than done.

North is such a standup guy. He is at times almost too perfect in his acceptance of Farren’s limits and his ability to let her do what she needs to do in order to feel comfortable. I wanted him to fight harder, to push her comfort zone in a conscious way. Instead, he hears her boundaries and allows her to direct the casual, no-strings relationship she was after even as he knows he is falling.

Farren is where I struggled the most in this book. It is clear pretty early in the book that she is carrying some trauma from something that happened in high school, but she is so determined to hold on to it and not let anyone in (even her family) that it keeps her from letting North in. Since I loved North early on, it frustrated me that she was so reluctant to either share with him or put the past behind her.

But overall, this was a quick, entertaining read that has everything I have come to expect from a Pittsburgh Titans novel. The camaraderie of this team is amazing, and I love seeing everything going on with teammates in the background. I am intrigued by the breadcrumbs dropped about Penn and the mystery that is his life and can’t wait for more insight into his character.