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Back to Me


Lindsay Paige - 2016
    When he finds her at the airport, he realizes she's changed, and she's struggling with things she doesn't want to tell him about. Noah also realizes just how much she scarred him when she left. Meredith Quick has always planned everything out. She chose her tennis career over love in order to better succeed, but her plan dissolves when an injury threatens her career and her fiancé leaves her. Struggling through pain and the uncertainty of her future, she realizes her first misstep was walking away from Noah. She impulsively decides to go back to him while she attempts to put her life back together. Reacquainting isn't easy when Noah doesn't quite trust Meredith to stay and Meredith struggles with overcoming the pain she's endured without him. Can they work through their issues and move forward, or will their past ruin things between them forever?

Assumptions


Melanie Codina - 2014
    It’s simple, you work hard, enjoy life, surround yourself with friends and family, avoid jumping to conclusions … and oh yeah, don’t date college athletes. These rules have worked well and taken her down the path she wants in life. So what’s a girl to do when temptation, in the form of a sexy college soccer player, is placed right in the middle of that path? Deciding when to break the rules has never been easier for Leeann. But when assumptions are made, and more than just the rules are broken … will she be able to find her way down that path again? And what happens when it’s no longer the path she’s meant to take?Until now, Jonathan Baxter had one primary focus in his life, soccer. All decisions made, have been based on how it could affect his ability to play soccer. His grades, his choice of college, any type of extracurricular activities, were all carefully assessed. All of it has made playing college soccer possible. But when an injury sidelines him for the foreseeable future, and jeopardizes his dreams, he has to work even harder than before. Rehabilitating his injury becomes his primary objective. Until he meets Leeann, a physical therapy assistant whose touch has the ability to make him lose focus. She has him thinking there could more in his life—in his future—than just soccer. So what’s Jonathan to do when Leeann assumes he’s just like every other jock out there? He has to prove her assumptions wrong.

Dare You to Hate Me


B. Celeste - 2021
    Lindon U’s star tight end.⁣⁣Still as attractive. Still as dedicated.⁣⁣With rumors of him being drafted to the NFL coming to fruition, I know it’s only a matter of time before we have to say goodbye again.⁣⁣But he can’t seem to let me go no matter what I say, and I don’t think I want him to.⁣

Skating on Thin Ice


Jami Davenport - 2014
      Ethan Parker, a billionaire determined to bring professional hockey to Seattle, will stop at nothing to realize his dream. After signing an agreement to purchase another city's team, Ethan plans to make the move to Seattle, but a gag order by the League forces him to keep the sale a secret until the season ends, leaving him no choice but to go undercover as a consultant to study his team during the playoffs.   Lauren Schneider, Assistant Director of Player Personnel for the Giants hockey team, gets no respect from the team's testosterone-loaded staff. So when Ethan bursts onto the scene, full of charm and genuinely interested in her opinions, she shares the team's weaknesses and discovers a weakness of her own--for Ethan. But when his true identity is revealed, and he starts cleaning house based on her unwitting input, his betrayal cuts deeply on both a professional and personal level. Bound by an employment contract, Lauren reluctantly moves to Seattle to work for the newly christened Seattle Sockeyes and her sexy, infuriating boss.  Lauren and Ethan must come to terms with their passions--for the team, for hockey, and for each other. Will their situation build a frozen wall between them, or will their love burn hot enough to melt the ice shielding their hearts?

Losing Love


Laura Ashley Gallagher - 2021
    Work hard, become a teacher, and spend the rest of my life with my childhood sweetheart, Nick. But here's the thing with plans-they're fickle. I didn't plan for Nick to die that year, or all the choices I'd have to make.Six years on, I didn't plan to stumble into Alex Hale-the man with piercing blue eyes and a smile that makes me melt. I didn't plan to fall in love with him. With his heat and passion, he reignited the fire I had lost.But I made choices in my past that will jeopardize everything. It's a past that taught me our words can hurt, but it's the ones we don't have time to say that can destroy us.

The Duke


Selena Laurence - 2019
    He's also the heir to an actual Dukedom. When Winston receives a phone call telling him his grandfather has died and he's the new Duke of Surrey, there's one minor stipulation: he has to marry to get the cash. Strapped for capital to invest in the team, Winston strikes a deal for a wife in name only. But Kat is not at all what he bargained for, and she might make Winston rethink everything he's ever wanted. Kat Monroe is spunky, opinionated, and the new DJ for the Chicago Norsemen. When her boss, the "Duke of Douches" fires her for her colorful behavior, she's left with a small business loan and not even a small income to pay it. But then the same Duke offers her the chance to have her job back and her loan paid off--if she'll agree to be his bride of convenience in exchange. But Winston is not at all what she bargained for, and he might make Kat rethink everything she's ever wanted. The Duke is a standalone royal billionaire marriage of convenience romance with a grumpy hero, a spunky heroine, and an HEA worthy of Cinderella.

Trusting You


Ketley Allison - 2018
    A knee injury derailed my football career for good, and I dealt with it the only way I knew how, by burying myself in booze and women.It's made me a pro player in a different sense of the word, and I'm proud of it. I feel unstoppable, unbreakable, and no one will ever figure out how miserable I've become. That is, until a woman from my past shows up. And she has my baby.Her CARTER The ultimate tragedy is losing someone you love forever, and I'm about to experience it a second time. I'm honor-bound to keep this child safe, and it's that duty alone that keeps me from clutching her to my chest and running far out of the city once I meet Locke Hayes.His attitude, reputation and living space all make him the worst fit, but the choice is no longer mine. He's the father. Granted, he's entitled to be surprised. I'm hoping he'll become the man this little girl needs him to be, but I worry he won't grow up enough to vacuum his carpet, never mind take care of a new baby.Most of all, I'm terrified that by losing her, I'll also be giving up my heart ... to him. WARNING: TRUSTING YOU is an angsty, slow burn, steamy, enemies-to-lovers romance with cursing and sweaty, gasp-worthy scenes. Not to mention, a touch of a forbidden best friend's ex.