The Year We Fell Down
by Sarina Bowen
My whole life changed in the blink of an eye.
I was supposed to start college on the Harkness Women’s hockey team. Now I’m showing up in a wheelchair instead.
There’s only one person who understands. Across the hall, in the other handicapped-accessible dorm room, lives the too-delicious-to-be real Adam Hartley. He’s a hockey player too, but his leg is broken in two places.
We bond over broken elevators and video games. We’re just friends, of course, until one night when things fall apart. Or fall together. All I know is that I’m falling. Hard.
But can Hartley love someone as broken as me? His deep brown eyes hold their own demons. While my troubles are visible for everyone to see, his are hidden deep inside…
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- Burn
- Slow
- Pages
- ~274
- Ending
- HEA
HEA means happily ever after: they end up together, for good.
How spicy is The Year We Fell Down?
The Year We Fell Down is a 3 out of 5 on our spice scale: steamy (open door). On-page sex scenes, a handful of them, with some detail. Spice supports the plot. Spice starts around the middle.
- Steam: Open door
- Burn: Slow burn
- When: Spice starts around the middle
- Pairing: One man, one woman
- POV: Dual POV (both leads)
- Ending: Happily ever after
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The Year We Fell Down: quick answers
How spicy is The Year We Fell Down?
The Year We Fell Down is a 3 out of 5 on our spice scale: steamy (open door). On-page sex scenes, a handful of them, with some detail. Spice supports the plot. Spice starts around the middle.
Is The Year We Fell Down a standalone?
No. The Year We Fell Down is book 1 in The Ivy Years. It is the place to start. The series is complete.
What tropes are in The Year We Fell Down?
The Year We Fell Down features college / university, hockey player, disability rep, friends to lovers. It is a slow burn M/F romance that ends with a happily ever after.
Does The Year We Fell Down have content warnings?
Our notes for The Year We Fell Down include: child abuse (past or present), addiction / substance abuse. This list may not be complete; check the author's own content notes if anything is a hard limit for you.
What should I read after The Year We Fell Down?
If you loved The Year We Fell Down, try Collide by Bal Khabra, Icebreaker by Hannah Grace, The Deal by Elle Kennedy. They share its college / university and hockey player energy at a similar spice level.