Unwritten Rules

Rules of the Game, Book 4

By: Brigham Vaughn

Narrated by: James Edward Jones

Rule number one: Don't fall in love with your family's sworn enemy.

Taylor Hollis brought home gold at the Olympics, then quit competitive skating at the height of his career.

Four years later, he lives a quiet life teaching figure skating classes and looking for the perfect guy with whom to settle down and build a family.

When the Evanston River Otters hire Taylor to take part in a feel-good media piece, he’ll have to defy his father and work with the son of the man he detests.

And his one weakness is a hot older guy who’s good with kids.

Rule number two: Choose your loyalties wisely.

Last season, Jamie Walsh left the Chicago Windstorm after a nasty divorce and falling out with his linemate.

Now he’s getting settled as a new forward for the Otters.

His biggest priority is his five-year-old daughter, Ava, but he can’t ignore how attractive he finds her skating teacher.

The only man he’s ever been interested in.

The more time they spend together, the harder it is for Jamie to ignore his feelings.

Too bad Taylor’s father has always blamed Jamie’s dad for ruining his hockey career.

Jamie and Taylor are perfect for one another but they’ll have to ignore both of their families’ unwritten rules if they let themselves fall in love with the enemy.

Trigger warning: frank discussion of eating disorders and past infidelity of secondary characters.

©2022 Brigham Vaughn (P)2023 Brigham Vaughn

Love this couple❤️

I love this series! I really enjoyed Jamie and Taylor’s book and the audio version was such a great complement to their story. This is a great couple, their story feels very authentic and I loved the purposeful way they come together. The backstory of their fathers’ complicated NHL past adds such tension to them falling for each other. Jamie and Taylor have crazy hot chemistry together and the narrator does an excellent job bringing them to life. Love this series, characters are amazing and the hockey is on point, which I appreciate.

Skating

This is a story of two rival families and an accident during hockey decades ago. Taylors father was injured in a NHL game and had to leave hockey. Jamie’s dad played for the opposing team and ran into Taylor’s dad causing the injury. There are bitter feelings between the families that carry down to the children. Jamie now plays hockey for the Evanston River Otters and Taylor is a figure skater. They run into each other at the Olympics and words are exchanged. Taylor is hired by the River Otters to help the hockey players with footwork. This storyline touches on several subjects including eating disorders, sexuality, medical debt, infidelity and love. As always the River Otter hockey team is fun to read about and see them evolve as a team.

Sweet Bi-Awakening Love

Jamie and Taylor had a lot of hurdles to overcome. This is the story of sweet, single dad Jamie Walsh who is a member of the Evanston River Otters and sexy, figure skater Taylor Hollis who is hired to help with a social media campaign to make the Otters look good after the scandal of Coach Tate and Gabriel in the last book. There’s a lot for these two former ’sort-of enemies’ to unpack and Jamie’s daughter Ava plays a huge part of the story. While the actual love story doesn’t revolve around Ava as much, she is an integral part of it and I love when kids are written well into a story. I can’t wait for the world to get this book because there is so much to love about it. It’s sweet, definitely sexy, and there are several mushy ‘awwwwwwwww’ moments along with some angsty sad stuff but I love the determined way Jamie sets his mind to making sure he doesn’t treat Taylor badly and the resulting love between them is so gooey that I love it!

James Edward Jones does a great job narrating this story and I really enjoyed his performance.

Didn't want it to end!

I'm not big on audiobooks, as I retain info better when I actually read the book, but I decided to venture out and see if maybe listening to a hockey book by one of my favorite authors would be different. I had already read the book, and it was an interesting experience hearing someone else read it in my ear. I can't say I'm a new fan, but at least I loved the book!

I'm a huge fan of Brigham Vaughn's newfound hockey love (and the team she chose), which has spilled over into her hockey books, and I just can't get enough! The previous book hinted at this storyline, and my only complaint is that I read it (first) and whipped through the audio too fast (once I got started; that pesky thing called life gets in the way too often). Jamie has been one of my favorites, and it was great getting to know him better. He and Taylor were great together, and I'm glad that the bad blood between the families was sorted out - even if it'll take longer than one book for everyone to heal. Little Ava was in there stealing hearts while her dad and Taylor were giving each other theirs.

There were parts of the book that audio... enhanced. Jamie and Taylor were pretty steamy, and it was fun hearing Jamie explore his sexuality.

Great addition to the series

Love the story of Jamie & Taylor, so much sweetness and heart. Narration well done and made listening enjoyable!

Amazing Hockey Romance

Hockey romance is always a plus for me. This one was fantastic, done incredibly well. Loved that it was also on a single dad!

I definitely liked Jamie and Taylor as a couple. They had a solid connection and great chemistry. Such amazing character development. I loved both listening to the audio and reading this book. Highly recommend!

Enemies to loves

Enemies to loves that never really was Enemies to loves. It was obvious since the beginning they both had the joys for each other but complications with family makes it had. I get it. This was a good read.

My fave of the series

I absolutely loved this book. Jamie is a wonderful single father and his daughter, Ava, was an adorable scene stealer.

Jamie and Taylor are stuck between a rock and a hard place with their relationship thanks to their fathers’ contentious history and the team already taking hits in the media after Gabriel and Lance’s relationship was outed. Watching Taylor learn to trust Jamie was done well. I would love a story about his bestie too. I know it would be amazingly heartfelt. My favourite of the series so far and by far. This book is just pure sweetness with a dash of angst in the way of a side character dealing with an eating disorder. Please proceed with caution if this is a trigger for you as it is discussed throughout the entire book.

I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this audiobook.

Love on the ice !

Unwritten Rules was an absolute treat for me ! I fell in love with Jamie and Taylor's story, the background they share because of their family's history, Jamie's situation with his ex-wife and ex-best friend, their love for Ava, and Taylor's relationship with his best friend and roommate Charlie . I actually wish that there will be a story where Charlie is the main character because I think he is hilarious and his condition could add a lot of depth to his story and to him finding a man that would help him through it !

Such a great addition to such a great series.

It’s been awhile since I’ve read this book. It was so good to revisit it, especially in James Edward Jones’s dreamy voice. It brought me back to all my favorite things about the story: Ava’s adorableness, Jamie’s and Taylor’s caretaking and lovableness, Charlie’s hilariousness. Love!

Ughh I loved this book! And I love this universe! Brigham Vaughn’s hockey romances are top notch, this one is no exception. Jamie and Taylor’s story was so good and endearing. I loved them, they had great communication from the start, most of the angst they had to deal with was with secondary characters. What I enjoyed about Jamie: sexy hockey player, honest, level-headed, doting dad, self aware(went and got himself a therapist when he realized he didn’t like feeling out of control), also a doting boyfriend. He proved to Taylor not all hunky athletes are the same. Things I loved about Taylor: he’s an amazing best friend, his goal to start a family, how he left competing professionally because it wasn’t good for him, sassy, so funny, understanding. This story was so sexy, full of chemistry, and heart warming. Ava was the best. I cannot wait for Lindy and O’Shea and Charlie and Dustin. Gimme more!

The bad guys are well written and wholly unlikable. Hearing the Kara and Boyd story I felt actual rage and heart break. Kara’s excuses were ridiculous. I ,like, really hated them and the most awful Malone! Hahaha great writing Brigham, I feel for them like they’re real people!