IF YOU CLAIM ME
(Toronto Terror, #5)

By Helena Hunting

 

Released: 6 November 2025

 

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Blurb

Hockey’s most hated player just asked me to marry him. 

Connor Grace is the league’s bad boy–and my best friend’s worst enemy.
He’s the fallen prince of a famous hotel chain dynasty.
Me? I’m the foster kid who grew up to be a librarian. 

I never thought I’d end up in a marriage of convenience to make someone’s grandma happy, but here we are. 

I have no plans to kiss my husband for any reason other than show.
I have no plans to fall in love with the arrogant man dressed in a custom suit hiding intricate tattoos. 

But when we’re alone, he drops the mask he wears for the rest of the world.
He holds me like he means it when he says I’m his. And I want to believe him.
Too bad I learned early on that fairytales aren’t real, and nothing good lasts forever.

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Review

5 “I see you” stars!

I have been desperate for Connor ever since I met him in the Toronto Terror series and his book did not disappoint. If You Claim Me delivers an unforgettable romance between Connor, the villain of the Terror hockey team and Mildred, whose best friend happens to be Connor’s biggest enemy. Their love story takes the fake romance trope and puts it’s own spin on it.  Mildred is in a bind with her landlord and Connor can make things right…if she agrees to marry him.  He wants to make his grandmother, Meems, happy and being in a relationship with Mildred will do just that. What starts as a simple business agreement turns very real when these two get to know each other, and what follows is a swoony and sweet romance.

I absolutely love stories with fake relationships and this one is unputdownable.  From the beginning there is a spark between Connor and Mildred but Connor has always been the bad guy when it came to the team and noone lets hims live it down.  One of the best things about Mildred, known as Dred to her friends, is that she always sees the best in people and never treated Connor like he’s the villain everyone else seems to think he is.

Dred grew up in the system and moved from foster home to foster home. She had been let down more times than she can count and she never had a family to call her own. Conner is the black sheep of his family. He wanted to pursue hockey not work for the family business and that made things awful between him and his father. H’es often misunderstood and tends to play into the character he thinks people expects him to be, which is so not him at all.

Spoiler alert – Connor is the perfect man. Even with his faults, he is perfect. He has such a huge heart. My heart hurt for his and the struggles he’s dealt with. I absolutely loved how he treats Dred and how he loves her. The friendship bracelet scence is everything and it shows how well he knows her and how much he loves her. My heart was full during that scene.

Dred is also such a wonderful character.  She too has a big heart and puts everyone before her. She never believed that Connor was truly bad and she saw his goodness and love.  Understanding what he went through, she may be the only one besides Meems and understoof how good he was. She

These two start as friends but quickly realize there is something between them. I felt their chemistry and they really knew how to light the pages on fire.  But beyond the steam, these two were lovely individuals. They care so much about the people they love and fell hard and fast for both of them.

There’s heartache towards the end but it is not drawn out.  There is growth and understanding and their challenges are worth going through to meet them on the other side. The epilogue is perfect for them and I turned the last page with a huge smile on my face, wishing I could relive their story from the beginning again.

I have to note that the audiobook has duet narration and that format is my favorite kind of audiobook. This one was fantastic. I usually prefer reading a book but that was not the case when it came to this book. The way the narrators brought the story to life had me hooked from the first word. I felt everything they went through and loved the whole experience.

Overall, I loved Connor and Mildred’s love story, and it just may be my favorite of the series.

*ARC generously provided by the author*

 

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About the Author

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Helena Hunting lives outside of Toronto with her amazing family and her adorable, emotional cat, who thinks the best place to sleep is her keyboard. Helena writes everything from emotional contemporary romance to romantic comedies that will have you laughing until you cry.

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