Smashed Steel by M. J. Fields

Smashed Steel comes out Monday, March 1st. Come back here on Tuesday, March 2nd for a stop on the blog tour spotlighting Smashed. Get ready!

I never wished on falling stars or simply dreamed of making it into the major leagues. 

I did the work. 

I made it happen.

I never expected my last night out with my minor league crew would end up with us stepping in for a no-show stripper at a bachelorette party in the VIP section of Kingston’s.

I sure as hell didn’t expect that the hottie with the pink sash and gold lettering spelling out “Bride To Be” would have me calling dibs on a woman for the first time in my life.

Spoiler alert: she had no ring, she was no bride, and I knew that going … in.

After the hottest hour of my life with the stand-in bride, I left her with my number on a baseball card, confident I’d see her again, and then headed back to Jersey.

In the blink of an eye, everything changed.

I woke up in the hospital, not remembering anything from that night. What I did know was I had been dropped by my team and that I had a long road ahead of me in order to get back on the field. 

Then life swung hard, returned me to the game, gave me some vivid dreams, and dropped the stand-in bride back into my life.

Except, she wasn’t at all what I expected, and she brought her own issues to the field.

Nothing good in life comes without doing the work.

This would be no exception.

Batter up.

Wow. Just. Wow. This was not how I expected Amias' story to go, but oh my was it absolutely everything. Amias is a whole new level of swoon that I was so not prepared for. I love love love me some Ranger, and I'm pretty sure he's still my favorite. Maybe. Ask me again tomorrow. But Amias is, hands down, my favorite Steel man. Bar none. I didn't expect him to be sweet and mushy and so incredibly gooey. I expected a cocky (he was), jerky athlete who thought he was God's gift to mankind. And don't get me wrong, he has that Steel swagger and confidence, but he has such DEEP emotions under it as well. He was just everything. And Ellis was his anti-match in such a perfect way that she was his perfect match. I just loved them together and the way he accepted, without question, the bomb that was the twist in the story line. Swoon is really the only word to describe it.

When I had to put this book down, I was seriously thinking non-stop about when I could pick it up again. I had major low-grade anxiety any time I had to stop reading and I could not get the story out of my head, constantly wondering what was going to happen next. I was well and truly sucked in. I don't know if a book has ever made me so emotionally invested pretty much from the first page.

I received a complimentary ARC of Smashed and I am voluntarily leaving an honest review.