Sarina Bowen starts a new series with the wonderfully romantic Rookie Move, set against the backdrop of the fictional NHL team franchise, the Brooklyn Bruisers. 
 Georgia Worthington is "number three" for the Bruisers, and although she hasn't officially been handled the title of director, she's in charge of publicity for the team. As she prepares for the press conference to announce the new coach of the team, who just happens to be her father, father and daugher are both in for a huge surprise. 
 Leo Trevi has worked hard to achieve his dream of playing in the NHL, working his way up through the minors to a position on the Bruisers. His world is about to tilt when he discovers his new coach hates him already and the woman who dumped him in high school works for the team. 
 So starts one of the most romantic sports books I've read this year. In this second chance story, Georgia and Leo have much to deal with -- he's a rookie with a coach who wants to trade him before he even gets to play, and she's still dealing with a very traumatic life-changing past. Rookie Move is the story of their road back to each other. 
 Leo is the star of the book, at least for me. He's the perfect alpha man -- strong and commanding when he needs to be, and super sexy and sensitive with those he loves. He had my heart early on and I just loved him more as the story progressed. Georgia also struck a chord with me -- she's focused on her career and has to deal with being a woman in a male oriented field. She's worked hard to get over what happened to her and not let it define her. It didn't take long for me to get invested in Leo and Georgia's happiness. 
 There's lots for Georgia and Leo to work through and Rookie Move deals with a lot of emotions in a very realistic and loving way that made my heart swell when it looked like they were making progress and hurt when they fell a step in their journey back together. 
 The Brooklyn Bruisers and the trade deadline give this book awesome pacing and made me feel like I had an insider's view of the team. Rookie Move also included some well-described on-ice scenes that I absolutely enjoyed. I love it when a sports romance actually includes some page time for the sport and Rookie Move had some really engaging on-ice and off-ice team scenes that I loved and don't want to spoil. 
 The team and it's management provide a nice set of likeable secondary characters (although I'm not sure about Odoul guy) and it was great to revisit with DJ from the Ivy Years series. I might be little partial to the team shrink too.*wink* 
 Sarina Bowen's story telling just gets better and better with each book I read from her. This is a fabulous start to this series. Readers are going to be fighting over Leo for book-boyfriend. Rookie Move left me with a huge smile on my face, and I can't ask for much more than that. 
 Recommended. 
 ARC provided for review.