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- Thin Ice
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- Author: Jaxine Daniels
- Reviewer: Rita Porter
- Publisher: Zumaya Publications (2004)
- ISBN: 1554100607
- Rating: * * * Quills
- www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1554100607/scriquil
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- Mattie Kincaid has scored a job with Web sports, an online magazine. They send her out to cover the Seattle hockey team, Storm. Bad point being Mattie knows almost all there is to know about baseball, but next to nothing about hockey. Even after a video of the Stanley Cup playoffs, Mattie still remains clueless.
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- Hockey player Grant Alexander is assigned to be her babysitter by the PR people at the Storm headquarters. Unhappy with his assignment, Grant takes it out on Mattie. But she is stubborn, and has already fought not only her parents, but Bryce Whitney, her boyfriend.
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- Mattie digs in her heels to show them she has what it takes to report on the all-male sport of hockey. Taken under Grant's wing, Mattie learns about hockey and catches the fever. Rooming with the only other female connected to the Storm team, Mattie and Jamie become best friends almost immediately. Mattie is happier than she has been for a while until the true reason behind her hiring at Web sports becomes known to her.
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- Everyone is in love with the idea of love, and Jaxine Daniels's character, Mattie, is not an exception to this. With current circumstances of mental abuse, Mattie is ripe for true love, but she fights it as most real people would. Daniels has tossed in some twists and turns here and there in Thin Ice that combines nicely with the sport of hockey.
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- It's a fast-paced romance with losses thrown in to prove that, without the bad, one would never recognize the good they have. The characters in this story are a hard-reality bitten, close-knit family unit as any team family would be. They don't allow insiders in easily, so the writing behind the character of Mattie had to be forceful and yet gentle in the shove to join into that family. Daniels did a wonderful job with that mix.
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