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Body Check
Deirdre Martin
Not many women can boast bossing around a locker room full of buff, naked jocks as part of their job description, but then again, there aren’t many women with a job like Janna MacNeil’s.
Janna MacNeil is a publicist specializing in re-tooling
clients’
images and
damage control. She’s just been hired to transform the
reputation of the New
York Blades, a hockey team known for playing hard both on
and off the ice.
Last year, after winning the Stanley Cup, they celebrated
at strip joints
and made headlines. Kidco—the team’s new corporate owner—
wants the Cup
again, but not the scandal. And that’s where Janna comes
in. They are
paying her big bucks to make the Blades seem “family
friendly”.
Her new boss, Lou “The Bull” Capesi, guzzles Mylanta
like spring water,
and admits the team is a PR nightmare. The way he sees it,
the only way to
get the guys to co-operate is to win the respect of their
Captain,
three-time Stanley Cup winner Ty Gallagher. No problem,
thinks Janna.
Getting the players to toe the corporate line will be a
piece of cake—
they
make their living chasing a little rubber biscuit around an
ice rink.
How
smart can they be? All she has to do is get the captain to
see Kidco’s
point of view.
Easier said than done, because Ty Gallagher is plenty
smart,
distractingly good-looking and sees things from his own
point of view.
And
he has better things to do with his time than deal with a
publicist, no
matter how often she gets in his face…

Jove, March 2003
ISBN #0515134899 Paperback $6.99
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