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Playing with the Enemy
Madison Wright - 2019
Tall, Dark and Douchey is causing me all kinds of problems... Working 3 jobs while at college and struggling to maintain my GPA, I crashed pretty hard. The result. I’m being punished and I have to share a room with the biggest name and hearth-throb on campus. The trouble: • He’s the burning hot, bad-boy superstar of the football team • Biggest sports star on campus and even bigger jerk • Sexy as hell My only problem, I’m a SUCKER for a bad boy and damn if his dominant attitude isn’t skin tingling. And now he sleeps on a bed only a few feet from mine! One game day with him and my life changes forever. Will I be able to make it through this semester with my GPA and dignity intact?…
Cruel Union: An Arranged Marriage Mafia Romance
Ivy Davis - 2022
But which one of us will survive the cage we’re living in?For both of us are stuck in this marriage without mercy.
Pompous Player
Brenda Rothert - 2021
Before I’d even met the selfish former pro hockey player turned CEO, he was at the top of my shit list. The entire city of Chicago thinks he’s God’s gift to humanity, but I know the truth.He knocked up my best friend and then ditched her when she needed him most.She got sick after that, and before she passed away, she chose me to raise her newborn daughter. I just need Harry to sign away his rights to the little girl who means everything to me.Unfortunately, it’s not quite that simple. To stay in his daughter’s life, I end up moving in with the man I detest. Loathe. Despise. Hating Harry Stone is the easiest thing I’ve ever done. But slowly discovering a way to not hate him? Now that, I didn’t see coming.
Layover Lover
Jeannine Colette - 2020
It’s my home.Ten years ago I ran away from everything I’ve known and vowed never to return. That is until my flight is canceled due to weather, and I’m stuck in San Francisco. Fate is not on my side when I end up in an Uber rideshare with the one man I thought I’d never see again. Zack Hunt was my high school sweetheart, and the boy I walked away from without a note saying goodbye. Except, he’s no longer a boy. No, this man is gorgeous, intense, and heated at the sight of me. The anger searing off him is nothing compared to the way my heart pounds from seeing him again. Words are said. Feelings are crushed. But when he invites me into his bar to hash out our past, I find myself following him in, desperate for more. The line between past and present is blurred when Zack challenges me to a dare—come back home with him to see what I walked away from. Call me a glutton for punishment, but I do. Then I challenge him right back to live a day in my shoes. We drive home to rediscover the past We fly abroad to live in the present.When we stop moving, we realize we may never have a future. Layover Lover is a second chance romance, aligned by fate. Can two lost souls really find love again on a layover? Or do they need to keep flying?
So Wright
Skye Jordan - 2019
She’s about to break ground on her dream of building green, affordable houses for retired veterans, and she’s not about to let anything alter her plans—especially not a sexy know-it-all architect from New York. Her strict, no-seconds rule has kept her heart safe this far, so why fix what isn’t broken?When a family crisis strikes, Jack Taylor is on the next flight to Nashville. But coming home stirs up more betrayal than answers, and he finds the perfect distraction in a feisty but guarded brunette. Only, one-night turns into a whole lot more, and Jack finds himself all-in by the time he discovers that Miranda’s secrets may very well cost him not only the family business, but his heart.
Fantasy for Hire
Erika Wilde - 2020
Especially when she hires him to play the role of her adoring, hands-on significant other to waylay her boss’s unwanted advances.But what starts as a casual, sexy arrangement quickly evolves into an emotional connection neither one of them anticipates. Falling in love was never part of the deal, but you know what they say about best laid plans . . .Originally published as Christmas Fantasy by Janelle Denison
Revved
A.M. Mahler - 2020
A successful web designer, image was Simon’s life. He had a very specific idea of his dream girl in his head. She would be put together, spotless, the quintessential girly-girl. Then he met Maggie Dalton.As Willis-Reilly Racing’s lead engineer, Maggie was singularly focused on one thing. Work. Her fingertips were stained, and she wore engine grease on her face like other girls wore blush. Her life consisted of work and sleep. When Simon Weber comes to work for WRR her work-life cycle is thrown into chaos.Experience the wonder of falling in love as two introverts’ worlds collide and their new relationship is tested when tragedy strikes. Revved is fun, witty, sexy, and romantic. Written in K. Bromberg’s Driven World, this sweet story will hit you right in the feels.
Cocky Duke
Annabelle Anders - 2020
Ambrosia Bloomington, now a widow, is ready to start a new life amongst Mayfair elites without the overarching reach of her late husband, Mr. Harrison Bloomington. With her trunks loaded safely onto her own private carriage, she’s ready to face the world as an independent woman in Regency London.She does not, however, bargain for cocksure Frenchman, Mr. Charles Cochran Bateman coming along and turning her very ordinary journey into the adventure of a lifetime.She does not bargain for his laughter, his enthusiasm, nor his Joie de vie.And blast and fiddlesticks, she certainly is not expecting to experience the sparks that charge the air between them.And, it seems, apparently, neither is he…
Your Biggest Fan?
Sydney Aaliyah Michelle - 2016
Callie James is such a big Noah Patrick fan, she named her energetic Chihuahua after the man of her dreams. When they find themselves hiding out in the same Brooklyn Brownstone, a crazy blizzard, a never-ending supply of spaghetti, and a dog with identity issues bring them together even though they both have secrets that would tear them apart.One-liner: Snowed in with the man of her dreams, a football fan and her dog find love.
Caught In The Game: A Sports Romance (Diamond Lake Rattlers Book 1)
Cassie Verano - 2021
Never Say Never
Taylor Holloway - 2018
Never hesitate. Never get emotionally involved.Words I've lived by. Until her.I'm a fixer.I fix bad, embarrassing, illegal problems, for the right price.My clients are rich, famous, powerful, and very dangerous.Now I’ve got a problem of my very own: Eva Martin. She just happens to be both my best friend’s little sister, and at the center of the most explosive problem I’ve ever faced. As the body count rises around us, I’m falling for the one woman that’s totally out of bounds. Her wide innocent eyes, perfect curves, and sexy, smoky voice—she’s a liability and a weakness, but I'm unable to resist.Eva’s a risky distraction for a man like me. I'm going to make her mine, and I'll use everything in my arsenal to keep her safe.Even if it means everyone else—including me—becomes collateral damage.
Passion on the Pitch
Maya Hughes - 2017
She plays by the rules and doesn’t take leap without analyzing where she will fall. But when a green-eyed Irishman blows into her life, Jess breaks all her own rules for one night of recklessness. What's the harm if he's not going to be around for more than a few weeks?Aedan O’Connell needs some serious rest and relaxation after a grueling football season from hell. It was worth every minute, but now he just needs to get away. Where better for an international football star to escape the spotlight...than America? They think football is a tackling sport, and call the real thing "soccer." Aedan can blend in and just be another tourist there. But when a vivacious beauty with a silver tongue catches his eye, he’s smitten.Now he has to convince her to keep their romance going once he leaves the States--oh, and enter the spotlight as the latest sweetheart to an international footballer and constant paparazzi target. But when she finds out who he really is, will it destroy all that they’ve been building?Standalone novel with a HEA.
Texting the Rugby Player
Ariya Cox - 2020
She arrived with her ex-boyfriend, who promptly cheated on her, and ever since then she’s been too embarrassed to go home and face the family who warned her against him. Now all she does is work long hours, save her money, and avoid anything to do with the opposite sex. She’s just not interested.Until one night she comes across a passed-out girl, Ciara, and ends up taking a phone call from her very irate brother. Her brother, Jack, is rude, snappy, and abrupt, but when Mae and Ciara become friends and Jack continues to text her, she starts to see the real him. Somehow she ends up looking forward to their chats and starts revealing more and more of herself to him.It's a relief to talk to someone, and he feels safe because he's on the other side of the world and she knows she’ll never see him.Then he comes to Australia.And she finds out he’s an international rugby star.And he wants to meet up.None of this was part of her plan, and she definitely wasn’t expecting what comes next.
Goal Keeper: A Pearson Players novel
Sarah Nego - 2018
Luci has big ones and they don't include getting laid. She's got scholarships to maintain, a grueling schedule of classes and soccer practice, and no room for nonsense. So when her captain makes it clear that the guys' team is off limits, it's not a problem... Until she meets Ryan. Star forward on the guys' soccer team. Hotter than should be legally allowed. And worst of all...her team captain's ex. When Ryan talks Luci into being his partner in Spanish class, he makes her want things that could set all her big plans on fire. Things like Ryan, naked in her bed, naked in the locker room, naked on the quad...so much naked. She shouldn't want him, but a girl can only have so much restraint when temptation throws a drool-inducing six-pack in your face and kisses in a way that makes breathing seem optional. Dating Ryan was never Luci's plan, but plans can change. Is this hot jock worth risking everything she's worked for? Goal Keeper is a laugh-out-loud standalone full of swoon-worthy, forbidden romance. Drop your plans and start reading today!