He has a dream of playing in the NHL and no one is going to get in the way of that. He has a vision for his future that no one can change, but when his brother's best friend moves to town he begins to think about someone other than himself. With his eyes on the new girl will he lose his focus, and ultimately his dream?Twenty-two-year-old Logan Leo has never lived a life for herself. She's had to take care of others for as long as she can remember, but now that she has no longer has the responsibility of anyone else can she learn to care about herself first? She's moving across the county to live closer to her best friend in hopes that she can learn to become a bit more selfish and begin to build the life that SHE wants to have. That is until she meets her best friend's brother, Eli.

    He's a man on a mission; redeeming the death of his little brother, who was on his way to becoming a boxing star. Jaxon holds himself accountable for his brother's death and now takes his place in the ring to continue his dream. Turns out, he's a natural. With a 5-year-old daughter he's raising, he needs the money now more than ever and is steadily making his way to the top with the help of his Coach. There's just one problem - he's taken a keen interest in his Coach's daughter and can't afford the distraction or any further burdens. But resisting her and focusing on his torturous reality is easier said than done.Quiet and shy Emily Resnick leads a simple life as an elementary teacher. Or she did until her father took the talented and outrageously handsome Jaxon Cage under his wing. Now, she finds herself consumed by the dark and brooding but secretly soft-hearted man. She was a goner for him the second she saw the devotion he gave to his daughter and newfound job. As she discovers the many layers to this difficult man, she can't help but want to ease his burdens and carry his demons. She can't help but want him, period. Jaxon is intent on pushing her away, though, and Emily must decide if she should run from the inevitable destruction of her heart while she can, or fight for the fighter.

    Not the space where I sleep or the walls that surround me, but instead, the people that surround me. The ones that make me feel like me. Like I don't need to hide. My brothers, my best friend. It's a small bubble, sure, but one I'm damn happy with. I might be a little lost at times-I mean, who isn't?-but I always know where to go when I need to find myself. It's safe, comfortable, familiar. My home.Until he falls into my lap. No, literally. Into my lap. That beer I spent the last of my money on? Gone. All over me. Damnit. I'm wet, and I'm...oh.Oh dear God.Tall and broad. That surfer hair and those sparkly blue eyes. Cheeky grin and southern drawl that makes a girl wanna drool. All those rippling, tattooed muscles. Oh, yes.Mitchell Hudson, baseball superstar, you may fall into my lap any day, kind sir.Except then he starts making a home inside my heart, and that vital organ? Well, I'm not sure we're ready for what he has to offer. His home is tied to a place thousands of miles away, and mine? Well...mine's right here.The man hits more homeruns than I can count, and that's exactly what I'm afraid he's going to do: run home, and take a piece of my heart with him when he goes.** You do not need to know anything about baseball or even really like the sport to read this story. But if you like athletic men who like to throw their strength and alpha sides (and their women) around, this might be the story for you! **

    But after losing his career and his fiancée in a car accident, he falls into a pit of grief and bad choices. When a mysterious girl shows up to his party, he feels drawn to her and makes her his…for one night.Former beauty queen Nova Morgan is on a mission. Scantily clad as a princess from a galaxy far, far away, she sneaks into a high-profile party to capture the attention of her favorite quarterback. But her hopes crash after an awful one-night stand.Fast-forward two years. Broke and desperate, Nova returns home to Blue Belle, Texas, where, by a cosmic twist of fate, her broody neighbor is none other than Ronan, the shiny new football coach everyone adores. But he has no idea who she is.The booster club keeps shoving women at Ronan to keep him in town. His solution? He proposes fake dating to Nova. But things heat up for real under these Friday-night lights when he realizes she’s the one who slipped away.Has this jaded beauty found her forever baller, or will his past keep them apart?

    No dating all season.2. Don’t jinx a no-hitter while one’s in progress. 3. Be cold-hearted. If you find something you think about more than baseball, destroy it. Calliope Thomas is one of those things. Ever since she left a bad review on the Max Energy Drink I endorse, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about her. Obviously, when she said she hoped I had a losing season, I had to meet her and get her to take the words back.Now, she’s making me do insane things. Like, obsess over the color of her panties or if I can make her blush. Read superstition one—I don’t do this sort of thing. I play ball, not chase after a woman I barely know. But, I am, and she wants nothing to do with me. She thinks I’m the devil. And I have to say she makes me want to sin. I’m becoming a borderline stalker. And to make matters worse she’s affecting my game. I can’t pitch. I can’t hit. I can’t focus. Something needs to give, and it won’t be me.

    The nation’s favorite football player. Can they make it work?An unlikely matching of the stars. The opposites had it all for one year.Justice Bexley, the daughter of Cain and Calla leaders of The Diamond Syndicate, sacrificed true love to protect Liam. Her selfish action destroyed them both.Liam Blake moved on with his prestigious career. However, his outlook on life was never the same. If his parents could fight for true love with a Pinky Promise he can keep moving forward. At least he tried convincing himself of that.Some say true love has a way of finding its way back. Justice and Liam know better to believe. That’s up until the day they find themselves in a heated meeting.She owns a new football team.He’s coming back from an injury and thirsty to prove the nation wrong.Years of pent-up anger and hatred may fuel an epic second chance love story or ruin both of them for good.Find out in FULL CONTACT by HJ Bellus & Kathy Coopmans.Reading Cain and/or Pinky Promise prior to Full Contact is not necessary. While it would provide insight into their families, their story is a standalone.

    Don't miss out, grab yours now!Gucci:It was supposed to be one night with no rules. One night, just her and me.Booze has a way of sucking the oxygen out of your fears and feeding it to the parts of your heart you starve. It was the end of summer. The alcohol, fire and a wild look in her eyes was too much to turn away from.Now we're supposed to go back to college and pretend it never happened. Like, she's still just my best friend's little sister. The girl I grew up with. Not this addiction burning in my veins.I don't want to hide it. Or sneak around behind my best friend's back. But, Etta is more than just his little sister.And I need so much more than one night.

    Safe.So when a beer-drinking, quick-witted, tattooed hockey player asks me to tutor him, I'm suddenly thrust into the world of bad boys and bad decisions.Jordan is a renowned player on campus.He doesn’t take anything seriously, except hockey and partying.But he gives me butterflies.I’m a wallflower tutoring Valley University’s hottest player.

    After a race season of losses he knows he needs to move forward or his career will be the next thing to go up in smoke. Sutton Pierce has never had anything handed to her but when the opportunity of a lifetime is, what will she do? It’s too good to pass up but is it too good to be true too? Then she meets Rathe, her Revv-It Racing teammate but it’s not the warm welcome she would hope for. The two are forced together off and on the track but as the pasts and true colors start to show can they stop the feelings from speeding up their hearts? When the smoke surrounding them starts to create sparks will the rivals find love on the track?Stephanie Nichole's Rivals is an enemies to lovers romance written in K. Bromberg’s Driven Worlds project.

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    His career as the pitcher for the Baton Rouge Gris Gris, the baseball farm team, is garnering him national attention as a major league contract seems to be rapidly approaching. His love life is also not lacking. His devilish good looks and southern charm have women flocking to him both on and off the baseball diamond. Cally Cooper loves her life and takes pride in the fact that she helps animals that otherwise might be lost due to irresponsible owners and neglect. She runs Love & Paws, a non-profit, no-kill animal rescue center. The animals fill her life with purpose and her heart with love, though lately she finds herself yearning for the love of a good man as well.After one night of celebration, Jase is arrested and charged with a DUI. Community Service at the Love & Paw’s animal rescue center is part of his sentence. Neither Cally nor Jace are happy about the situation, but neither have a choice in the matter. Both have preconceived ideas of what the other is like, but as they spend more time together, a spark of attraction takes them by storm. Will they realize that maybe they misjudged each other? When two people find something they didn’t know they needed, will they embrace it or run from it? Are they willing to take a chance on love or will the idea of opening yourself up to something you never expected have them both running from Rookie Love?***This book is intended for those 18 and older. It contains explicit sex, graphic language, and adult content. Those against those things should NOT read!

    And, growing tired of his self-imposed solitude, hockey captain Ethan Russell is looking for a roommate. Ryan moving into Ethan's luxe condo seems like the perfect solution to both of their dilemmas. The only catch? A smoldering sexual attraction that they both try to deny. All that Ryan wants is a place to live-- a place that isn't the dorms or her friend's couch. Still recovering from the aftermath of an ugly breakup, a relationship is the last thing on her mind. Besides, she'd never fall for a jockAll that Ethan wants is to focus on hockey and school-- without any dating, drama, or heartbreak. After getting third-degree burns from his last relationship, he's sworn off dating altogether. His life is back on track and he has control over things again. They both agree to keep their roommate arrangement platonic... with mixed results. Their friendship turns complicated when it turns out that you can't control everything, particularly chemistry that is too strong to ignore.

    And me, Dalton Boyd.But my baseball scholarship is my one-way ticket out of this town and away from judgmental eyes.Nothing stands in my way.That is, until a pretty blonde with the brightest blue eyes breezes into town and tilts my world.Cassie Green comes with one simple rule.Don’t fall in love.One summer is all we have.And trust me, a summer fling isn’t a problem.But there’s one small glitch in our plan.I’ve never been one to follow the rules.And being with Cassie is no exception.Only this time, it may be me wishing I’d stuck to the plan.On Deck is the prequel to Caught Looking, Book Four in the Cessna U Wildcat Series and does not end in an HEA. Look for the exciting conclusion in the sequel Caught Looking.

    Fame. Adoration.Women want him. Men want to be him.But appearances can be deceptive.When there's nothing left to strive for, what's the point?It's time for a new challenge—and he's set his sights on her.

    I’m a beast on the ice, and off.All I want is to be back playing the game I love,And now this bossy publicist is telling me she can make it happen.I’ll grit my teeth through all the publicity stunts if it means being back on the team by January,We both need for this to work,But that means keeping our hands off each other,And I’m starting to think the frustration might be more than either of us can take.

    One assignment. After making it through her freshman year at the University of Southern California. Avalon Miller planned to get through sophomore year and every year after that by doing the same thing. Fitting in. What more could she possibly want? Apparently, a confident and sexy football player who has every girl falling at his feet. Everyone except Avalon anyway.But after her journalism professor assigns her to write an article on the football team for their big sophomore year project. Her plan for staying under the radar vanishes into oblivion when Noah Jackson the senior heartthrob and star quarterback takes an interest in her. He has girls falling at his feet on a daily basis and has slept with more girls than you can count. So, when Avalon Miller crashes into his life and doesn't fall to his feet like every other girl it's a breath of fresh air. One he can't get enough of. While Noah introduces Avalon to the life of a football player. Avalon brings him back down to earth and teaches him how to love. Something he didn't even know he was looking for until she walked into his life and something, she didn't know she was missing until she falls in love with him along the way.A journalism major and a football player...what could possibly go wrong?

    Attacked. Thrown to the wolves. And that was all before I boarded the bus back to the Village. I didn’t have the energy or patience to explain how wrong they all are about me. I was ready to get the hell out of Italy and leave the Unity Games behind. Scrap the mission, forget why I was here in the first place. Now that I’m tied to the one person in the world who probably hates me most, my life might depend on figuring out who I can trust. Unfortunately, trust doesn’t come easy…PhoenixOf all the lousy ways to top off a terrible weekend, this probably takes the freakin’ cake. For the first time, I put myself out there against all my better judgement. Figures I’d pick the psycho stalker who might be behind all the crazy stuff going on at The Games. To be fair, she did warn me she’d crush my heart. But now I’m tied to her, our future and fate linked… for the time being. My scorched heart still wants to trust her, to believe, but each lie burns me just a little more. Hopefully I can get out of this before everything goes up in flames.

    After being unexpectedly traded from his beloved professional hockey team in San Antonio, he’s still trying to mesh with his new teammates in Tampa. It’s going fine, but that’s just it… fine. Lacy Hawkins is holding a grudge of her own. She blames the man who left her alone five years ago and caused her dreams to die a slow and painful death. Now it takes all her energy everyday just to stay afloat.When their paths unexpectedly cross again, drinks are thrown and anger becomes the norm. But Tucker and Lacy have to find a way to stop fanning the flames if they want to come out unscathed.Because when you’re under fire, the innocent can get burned…

    * Newly retired NHL defenseman Dean Hollis knows that Brooke is off-limits. She's flaky, flighty... and hot as hell. Unfortunately, she's also the younger sister of his longtime best friend and business partner. That's why he's gone to extremes to keep her at arms' length and to keep his hands to himself.Brooke Maccabe is focused on salvaging her struggling social influencer career. She doesn't want a boyfriend and if she did, it definitely wouldn't be her arch-nemesis Dean. After they end up in bed together on New Year's Eve, she tells herself it's a one-time thing. Until it becomes a two-time thing... and then a three-time thing. Before they know it, they're hooking up in secret on the regular. But when they get stuck planning a wedding together, the strings of their their no-strings-attached arrangement become increasingly tangled.

    until someone gets hurt.I'm Andrea Harper, top striker for the LA Angels. I play hard, party hard, and I don't do relationships. I sleep with who I want, when I want. I'm out to have fun. The only important thing in my life is soccer. I have spent my entire life dedicated to the game. And I'm on track to be one of the best female soccer players in the country, if not the world. Being the best is the only thing that matters.But life has a way of throwing you a curveball when you least expect it, and in my case, it was love.One night with my childhood hero was all it took. Brad Swift. He's nearly ten years older and used to be one of the best professional soccer players in the world before he got injured. He was my childhood hero until we slept together and messed all that up. I thought I could put it down to just another stupid mistake, that he would go back to England and I would never see him again.That was until he turned up at training as our new soccer coach.The attraction we share is undeniable, but he's off limits. It's strictly forbidden for a coach to date a player. Too bad I've never been one to follow the rules and the temptation is just too much... So we slip up, make a pact to keep it fun. Nobody needs to know.But secrets this good have a way of getting into the wrong hands. And when they do, danger is the name of the game.* Content warning: contains elements of violence and self-harm.

    

    Shouldn’t he be on his way back to his junior team, not being dragged out to strip clubs to celebrate and trying to figure out where he was going to live? There was no time to come to terms with his new reality, either, before he was swarmed by a gaggle of giggling girls at the team’s preseason Ice Breaker.But then he bumped into her. Literally bumped into her, no less, and all he could do was blush and stammer and hope she didn’t think he was a freaking idiot, because he sure felt like one. She blushed and stammered, too. And then she walked away before he could even ask for her name.Love at first blush? A crazy thought, for sure, but so was the idea of playing in the NHL at only eighteen. Crazy or not, it looked like they were both about to happen.

    ALPHA MAN + DISABLED WOMAN = INSTA LOVE? YES!Why would the #1 world-famous and smoking-hot motorcycle racer Lincoln McKane choose wheelchair-bound Lyra Williams out of all the women throwing their bras at him?Maybe it makes for a good paparazzi photo op.That’s exactly what her ex-fiancé had thought - They’ll have to make me partner now that I’m going to have a disabled wife. Just think how that will look for the firm at public functions.Now, on the opposite coast to nurse her broken heart, this creep is doing the same thing.Or is he?Did she judge him based on his public persona just as people judge her based on her inability to walk?Runaway assumptions, a kidnapping, a dramatic rescue, passion on a beach at sunset, and HEA. OH, THE FEELS!A filthy quickie is a terrible thing to pass up. So, go ahead. You deserve it!

    Fate’s determined they do it together.NHL all-star Clark Dorsey is still at the top of his game, but he’s done with hockey. The night of the championship, Clark announces his retirement and returns to Seattle to spend time with his sick brother and figure out his next move. He needs to unwind, but his interfering brother sets him up by renting half of their shared condo to a beautiful, opinionated and fascinating woman.Nurse Leena Lopez is done with the spotlight. When her whirlwind fairy tale romance ends in a cheating scandal, Leena’s suddenly broke, alone and hounded by paparazzi in a new city. Desperate to put down roots, Leena says yes when a patient offers her the condo he shares with his Canadian hockey star brother. She can ignore the teenage crush she had on Clark Dorsey—he won’t even be in town.But Clark arrives and they’re both thrust back into the headlines they’ve been desperately avoiding. Can they figure out how to be alone together? Do they want to?

    "W-what," I breathed. His gaze flicked to my lips as his thumb stroked again. The calloused pad against my soft flesh sent goosebumps down my arms. His once warm eyes were dark as they lifted and bared into my soul. "What you do to... men." His husky whisper weakened my knees. I almost fell but his other hand settled on my hip, pulling me closer to him. "What you do to me," he added on a breath. The hand on my jaw shifted. His fingers left trails of tingles as he slipped them back slowly, under my earlobe and into my curls. ***************************************************As a young girl, Charlotte Avery's favourite pass time was daydreaming about her Prince Charming: Archer Johnson. She never stopped to consider that Archer was her brother's best friend.. Or that he always appeared severely creeped out by her attention. On her 16th birthday, Charlotte received a harsh reality check. Realizing just how embarrassing she had been acting, she swore to never make a fool of herself in front of Archer again. The problem?She is about to head to college and unfortunately, it's the same school where Archer is currently the star quarterback. Follow Charlotte during her first year at USC as she juggles new experiences, social anxiety, family drama back home, and avoiding Archer. These are the unintended consequences of an embarrassing childhood crush.

    One day the truth will come out, and it will change everything. What will Logan Lyons, her old high school boyfriend, and now star football player, think of her then?She has to protect his reputation and their relationship.But no matter how much she drinks, she can’t forget what happened that day. Or the lies she told.When someone from her past reappears, threatening to reveal the truth, Mira will have to make a choice. Keep hiding or finally come clean.Still reeling after his coach’s death, Logan will stop at nothing to find out what happened on the pitch. Could there be foul play in the LA Rangers? But football isn’t the only thing on his mind anymore, not with Mira back in his life.As the passion ignites between them, will Mira and Logan stay together, or will they get pulled apart again, forced to repeat the past?Find out now in LAVISH LIES Book 2. This is a part of five-book-series and needs to be read in order.