She enrolls in a Stats class and meets Bridger McCauley. She arrives at college, immediately informs the hockey coach that she can’t play for her, and tries to get on with her life. She lost friends, and her position on the squad. She became an outcast, despite being a well recruited, extremely talented hockey player. Her senior year in high school was awful. She does this by legally changing her name to Scarlet Crowley and fleeing to Harkness College where she hopes no one will recognize her. He was a pretty horrible father, always cold and critical. She honestly doesn’t know if her dad is guilty. The daughter of a well known former NHL star, and current hockey coach who is now accused of molesting multiple young boys, she wants nothing more than to escape the relentless news reporters and ooglers who chase her family and have made her a prisoner in her own home. Of course, I immediately bought and gorged on book two, The Year We Hid Away, which I think I enjoyed even more that The Year We Fell Down.

So this weekend I opened The Year We Fell Downand gobbled it up in giant bites. But why I ever question Jane when she directly says to me, “I’m sure you’ll like these books” is beyond me. I like my romance straightforward with the issues coming internally, rather than externally. I’ll be honest, I was hesitant to read it because generally speaking, I’m not a big fan of “issue” books. Jane read your first book in the Ivy Years Series, The Year We Fell Down, and really enjoyed it.

The year we fell down