Scoring Chance: The Comebacks, Book 2

Omg Scroing Chance by AJ Turman is one of my top reads of 2026! I love the tropes in this book so much! Hockey players, best friends To lovers, fake dating/marriage, and single dad romance. 🥰😍😆🏒 The chemistry between Des & Tanner is so amazing. I love how they are always they for each other since high school. Des is there for Tanner after even more after Tanner's wife passeed away. Des cares so much for Tanner and his 4 children. Des and Tanner marry so Tanner and his 4 kids can have health insurance when Tanner is let go from his job. Des becomes such a great step-dad to Tanner's kids. Tanner also makes sure Des knows how much cares for him to and listen to him and support him as well. Tanner gives support to Des's treatments and cancer recovery. 🥰💕 The kids Lena, Lulu, Dean, and Davy are also great side characters. I love how the kids support the fake marriage that turns into a real marriage for Des & Tanner. Des & Tanner hockey team player best friends are also supportive and happy Des and Tanner fell in love too. 😆 I adore the Chance- Desmond family so much their chaos and how much they love each other. I love all the high jinx the family gets into. This book made me laugh, cry, and jump for joy and also fan myself too with the spicy scenes.🥰😍🥵🥹 The spicy between Des & Tanner are so good. 🥰🥵 I love how you can feel the chemistry, yearning, and passion between. They are so into each other. It's so hot. 🫠🥵 I love they Des & Tanner got HEA and stay…

Des and Tanner have been best friends for a very long time. They’ve been there for one another at the worst times of their lives, like when Des went through chemo and when Tanner lost his wife. There is nothing these two wouldn’t do for one another. So when Tanner unexpectedly loses his job and is worried about how he is going to take care of his four kids, Des comes up with a bit of a crazy plan. Getting married. If they are married Tanner and his family will be on his insurance in case something happens while Tanner finds a new job. So that is what they do. But things get complicated quick when Des finds out that he is up for a promotion and the person promoting him learns he is recently married and likes to see him settled. He can’t tell him the marriage is a sham to help his best friend. They’ll have to fake it. Even if it means moving in with Tanner’s family. But the lines begin to blur between what is real and not real. And they’ll have to figure out if crossing the line from friends to more is worth the risk. For Des, he never imagined settling down. Not with how he grew up. He was so sure that being with one person, having a family, it wasn’t for him. But being with Tanner? Spending time with his kids who he has known their entire lives? It hits him different and for the first time he wonders if this is what home feels like. And for Tanner, losing his wife and raising his four kids alone has been the hardest thing he has had to face. But he’s doing it. And now…

I enjoyed this one, balancing life's mishaps with humor. Tanner, a widower with 4 kids is fired and desperate. His BF, Des marries him to give him medical insurance and they are forced to live as a family and act real life married for Des's job. It's goofy humor and chaos in this free for all of a circus show as two guys with an awesome friendship become a meaningful, loving relationship with - to their surprise - a hot and steamy love life. One of my favorite lines is about friends giving kidneys to friends, why not another body part? This book is a keeper!

I liked it, would have enjoyed more parenting moments, a bit more a talking. But in the end a good reas

Absolutely loved this story! Friends to lovers is my favorite trope and this one was done so well. Longtime best friends that have been through so many challenging times together realize that they’ve always felt something towards one another. The hardest part is letting themselves have it.