🩵Penalty Kiss (Pucks and Penalties1) by Kat Mizera-review tour🩵

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 26, 2026

One disastrous season. One last chance. One forbidden romance that could ruin everything.

After a career-wrecking season, being claimed in the expansion draft is my shot at redemption. New team. New city. Clean slate. This time, I won’t screw it up.

Then I meet Jayne.

She’s a quiet, irresistible librarian who looks at me like I’m more than my reputation. With her, I want to be better. Steadier. Worthy.

There’s just one problem.

Her father is my new coach.

Now I’m trapped between the career I’m desperate to save and the woman I can’t stay away from. Because if I cross that line, I don’t just risk getting benched—I lose everything.

And Coach made one thing painfully clear: His daughter is completely off-limits.

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REVIEW:PENALTY KISS is the first instalment in Kat Mizera’s contemporary, adult PUCKS AND PENALTIES erotic, hockey romance series, a spin off from the LA Phantoms series. This is Atlanta Thunder professional hockey player Bodi Michener and twenty-three year old, university student / librarian Jayne Morrison’s story line. Bodi was first introduced in Fair Play /LA Phantoms.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Bodi and Jayne) PENALTY KISS follows the forbidden relationship between our story line couple. An accidental meet-cute at the local DMV finds Brodi and Jayne exchanging numbers but as their attraction grows between one another, a party for the Atlanta Thunder reveals the true nature of what is happening. Bodi is a rookie with the Atlanta Thunder, and Coach Morrison is Jayne’s father but there is more of a connection than they could have ever imagined-Bodi and Jayne are about to pay the price.

The world building follows several pathways including the dysfunctional dynamics between the members of the Morrison family, and the spiral of a team of players who are struggling with a possible rebellion between players and coach. Jayne is determined to become independent but her father’s rule is threatening any chance for her own happily ever after.

The relationship between Bodi and Jayne begins as a meet-cute but quickly builds into something more. Discovering Bodi’s connection to the team threatens any chance for happiness for our story line couple but Jayne is certain Brodi is the man she loves. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

The secondary and supporting characters are energetic and often questionable. We are introduced to Coach Hugh Morrison and his wife Lourdes: players West McGregor, Vik Maslak, Simon Lacroix, Ashton Knight, Blaze Villaverde, team management and owners, Jayne’s friend and boss Kelly, and the return of Rome Castellano, and Billie Michener (Fair Play/LA Phantoms).

PENALTY KISS is a story of secrets and lies, power and control, betrayal and vengeance, family and relationships, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is dramatic and heart breaking; the romance is seductive; the characters are determined and charismatic.

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Reviewed by Sandy

KAT MIZERA

USA TODAY Bestselling Author Kat Mizera was born in Miami Beach with a healthy dose of Wanderlust. She’s lived from coast to coast, and everywhere in between, but home is wherever her family is. A devoted mom and wife to her wonderful and supportive husband (Kevin) and two amazing boys (Nick and Max), Kat loves to travel the globe with her adventurous, hockey loving family. Greece is at the top of that list. She hopes to one day retire there, spending her days writing books on the beach.

Kat is former freelance sports writer who now writes steamy hockey romance about her favorite fictional teams, the Las Vegas Sidewinders and the Lauderdale Knights. The library of novels she’s penned also include sexy contemporary stories about baseball stars, alpha sex club owners, bodyguards, rock stars, and royalty. Regardless of genre, her books about bad boys with hearts of gold will steal your breath, rock your world and melt your heart.

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