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Her Filthy Linebacker
Gigi Love
He's the star linebacker of the football team. After one, intense night that could wreck everything for them, where do they go from here?Holt BarloweI’m a keep-to-myself kind of guy.I’m the strong-but-silent type.And being a college celebrity makes that impossible.People are always looking at me. Asking to take selfies with me. Wanting to get in bed with me so they can tell their friends they slept with Holt Barlowe.For me, it’s just always about the game.I could leave all the rest of it behind.So, this girl is a breath of fresh air for me.Sunny lives up to her name.She’s dripping in sunshine.And I want to get so close to her that she burns me alive.
Defining Us
Karen Deen - 2022
I chose for you to live your dream life.Even if it would never include me!Yet the universe had other ideas.A steamy night, and the muttering of the words,‘Just this one time’.We try walking away,but the attraction keeps drawing us back.Time and time again,it’s the dance we keep performing.Until that one night, discovering your truth,of the life you’ve been living.And finally, everything comes crumbling down.Promises broken, lips colliding, and the heat that can no longer be denied.Will the universe finally win? Or is this the end of the sensual dance, with our words echoing ‘one last time’.
Last Play
Taylor Hart - 2015
But, he’s not surprised, either. It’s the way his life has been lately. Just ask the tabloids that have happily reported his shattered knee, his wife's affair, and the car accident. Unfortunately, Katie is wearing a wedding ring. Not that he noticed. He doesn’t know why he doesn’t tell her about the fact he’s selling the Inn, even after she shoves a list of supply demands into his chest and rambles on and on about all the projects they have to do. When he discovers her husband passed away a year ago, and her seven-year-old son asks him to come to dinner and movie night, things start to change. Or did they start to change when Katie took him sledding? Or when all he could think about was kissing her? Now he has to make a choice—keep ignoring the truth—or try one Last Play.
Rush to the Altar
Jamie Carie - 2013
After moving back in with her parents with her two year old son, Max, she attempts to put the pieces of her life back together. But she didn’t plan on meeting Jake Hart, the star NBA player that she keeps bumping into at her new job as a charity coordinator for the Racers. And she certainly didn’t plan on learning that her husband’s accident may have been no accident at all. Will Jake stick around while her life gets complicated? And if she gives in to her heart, will she just be making another mistake? Rushing to the Altar may be the most daring and risky move of her life.
Dating the Coach: An Instalove Single Mom Matchmaker Romance
Ava Pearl - 2022
The Second Coming
Carrie Aarons - 2019
Of honor for British football. Of God in an athlete’s body. Of every English woman’s fantasy. Jude Davies is my country’s prodigy on the pitch. More famous than the nobility in Buckingham Palace, he and his merry band of scoundrels rule the Rogue Football Academy and the London nightlife scene alike. And now, he’s aiming his well-honed set of skills directly at me. His devilish charm is lethal, but with the tragic hand life has dealt me, distractions like him aren’t an option. Plus, we’re only playing a game. One of convenience, where he needs me to save his reputation, and I need his money to save the one person I love. Until he wraps me around that immoral finger. Until I crave that reckless, wild high he provides. Until I hope for a future that will never happen. That’s the thing about going toe-to-toe with the next football legend. He’s faster, stronger, and will destroy me every time.
Rhino
Abbey Foxx - 2016
Lucy Alex Vann Haden is an arrogant prick. Four years at the same college and he didn’t even look at me. Six years later and he wants me to interview him. One week on his private island out in the middle of nowhere. Me and the man they now call The Rhino. And, apparently, it’s not because he’s got a small brain either. A full on, no holds barred, anything goes, exposé. Alex Vann Haden stripped bare. Yeah, right. I hate him so much I could scream. I wonder if this time, he’ll have the balls to make me. Alex Lucy and I haven’t seen each other for over six years, but that doesn’t matter. I know I can have absolutely anything I want, and right now it’s time for me to prove it. It’s not going to take me a week either, I’ll bet my career on that. One day? Maybe two. Soon enough she’ll be struggling to resist me. That’s the thing about me. If there’s something I want, nothing can stand in my way. I’m an endangered species, and I’ve got to fight for my survival. Wild, huge, and impossibly horny. It's all true. Lucy won't let The Rhino go extinct, even if she doesn’t know it yet. **This is a standalone, full length, bad boy sports romance with a secret baby, absolutely no cheating, and a happy ever after. It’s heavy on the steam, and has just enough sports action to be enjoyed by fans of both genres.** For a limited time only, Rhino comes with full length, bad boy sports romance novel, OFFSIDE, absolutely FREE!
Juan-Carlo's Play
Mona Merlin - 2021
To me, heaven is like a wet dream, you’ll have to wake up sooner or later and realize it’ll never happen.Love exists only in your dreams.Scrum; A different letter word except this one I understand; I apply not just to the sport I love but to my personal life: Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation. The 3 pillars of upholding every implementation of empirical process control. Basically what helps is to control the unexpected.I don’t expect the unexpected because I control everything.
Seven Is My Lucky Number
Kelli Callahan - 2017
I soon found out he wasn't the only player on the team interested in me... Matt, the linebacker with a heart of gold that first showed interest in me. Jerrod, the quarterback with a cocky attitude and an ego to match. Roger, the running back that knows how to find a hole and score the game winning touchdown. Chad, the every-man on defense that can play any position. Hank, the veteran safety with a bit of a wild side. Joe, Matt's brother and the best kicker in team history. That's six...the seventh surprised even me. Coach Dawson, the man who leads the team with an iron fist. He's hot, experienced, and he knows how to bring all of us together. Seven men that want to make me the center of attention. I don't think I'm going to be a virgin for long. Kelli's Note: This is a steamy standalone novella with a HEA and no cheating! I'm a girl that likes wild and crazy romances, so that is exactly what you get from me. My heroes might be a little over-the-top with a touch of caveman and you'll get some angst along the way, but I promise that the good parts will give you a plenty of reasons to read this all by yourself!
Quarterback's Surprise Baby
Imani King - 2016
One gorgeous bad boy. What could go wrong? Odell It’s just my luck that the man I picked up--my first and only one-night-stand-- would be the famous jock who I am defending. Tattooed, sexy, and all wrong for a career girl like me, Gryphon James is an obstacle I don’t need. And as much as I’m trying to deny the feelings rising in my heart, it's just as impossible to ignore the growing bump in my belly. Either could change everything. Griff I was just looking for someone to f*ck at the bar that night. Hell, so was she. After the last time I got my heart stomped on by a beautiful woman, I vowed I'd never fall in love again. Besides, Coach insists I focus on football--no more distractions, no more complications. But when Odell looks at me with her Godiva eyes and her sweet curves press up against my angles, my resolve melts away. Can a no-good trailer-trash jock and a high-priced lawyer ever last? The Quarterback’s Surprise Baby is a steamy standalone novel with a HEA ending, a satisfying epilogue, and NO CLIFFHANGERS! Author's Note: 'Quarterback's Surprise Baby' is a full-length (50k) romance novel. For a limited amount of time, this edition also includes the bonus book ‘Nicholas’ (40k)!
Going for a Ride
Kylie Gilmore - 2016
Now he’s spending the summer working for his uncle’s traveling carnival company and trying to figure out who he is without football.Free-spirited Kelsey Brown returns to her hometown of Sapphire Falls, Nebraska for the annual festival and a much needed break to figure out her next career move—follow her corporate advertising job in its relocation or feed her artistic soul with the photography that she loves. But when she discovers her long-time football hero crush is working the festival, she quickly decides she’s going for a ride. With him.Sizzling summer nights in Sapphire Falls soon lead to a future neither of them could have imagined. But can two very different people follow their dreams together?
To Win Her Love
Mackenzie Crowne - 2015
Forced to live for three months under the same roof as the sexy tight end, will she fall prey to his flirtatious pursuit? Or worse, will the skeletons in her closet destroy her chance for the love and family she so desperately wants? Neglected by his parents as a boy, Jake doesn’t believe in happily ever after. Yet living with Gracie and the twins might be enough to change his mind—and his womanizing ways. But when the press unearths a scandal from Gracie’s past, will he lose the one woman he was ready to open his heart to?88,000 Words
The Bigger Badder Berger Box Set
Pippa Grant - 2018
Now he's my boss. But this jilted lover is done playing games. I want one thing and one thing only: revenge.The Pilot and the Puck-Up, a Hockey / One Night Stand / Virgin Romantic Comedy: I’m the biggest, baddest, mother pucking-est machine to ever own the ice. I shoot. I score. In and out of the rink. I don’t come early, but I come often, if you know what I mean. And I always leave the ladies wanting more. Until that chick last night. I should cut my losses, lick my wounds, and walk away. But Zeus Berger doesn’t walk away from anything. Especially when she's the only woman in the world who might be able to handle me.Beauty and the Beefcake, a Hockey / Roommates / Opposites Attract Romantic Comedy: There are two kinds of women in the world – those I can bang, and those I can’t. My teammate’s sister? She’s a can’t.But she makes me feel like something more than a dumb puckhead with a big Zamboni pony. And it’s getting harder to remember why I need to keep my hands to myself.The Bigger Badder Berger Box Set features three sexy standalone romantic comedies with no cheating or cliffhangers. They're so sexy and funny, they're illegal in at least two made-up countries. You'll never look at bratwurst, coconuts, or hockey pucks the same again.