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  • Forever Paired by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Paired by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Landon Davies had worked hard to start his own restaurant. It was a very different path than most of his family had taken. He was one of the few family members that were not military or law enforcement. But his hard work had given him a restaurant that was beginning to take off when a woman’s scream in the alley outside his kitchen changed everything...
    Categorized as:
    sports  suspense  m-f  contemporary  humor  audiobook
  • Path To Resolution by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Path To Resolution by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Wolfe Emerson is notorious for two things: being an absolute beast in a boxing ring and being a voluntary mute. His story remains unspoken and he prefers to live his life in silence. That is, until, his world is turned upside down when he meets someone who is louder than life...
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  • Not Quite Perfect by Catherine Bybee

    Not Quite Perfect by Catherine Bybee

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Catherine Bybee delivers the fifth heartwarming, flirty novel in the wildly popular Not Quite series. Mary Kildare knows how to read people. It’s both why she makes a great therapist and why she refuses to trust the average bachelor...
  • The Legend by Shey Stahl

    The Legend by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    In a lifestyle of speed, adrenaline and desire, one racer has sacrificed everything for the sport he loved. In turn, he will fight for his name, his family and now his life to be the legend he’s been portrayed to be. You can be everything you set out to be if you want it bad enough. You can be that record breaker you said you’d be. You can be that hero you always thought you would be...
  • Hard To Handle by Lori Foster

    Hard To Handle by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Sometimes Fate delivers a left hook. After Fate deals Supreme Battle Challenge (SBC) fighter Harley Handleman a sucker punch, his uncle secretly hires a pretty lifecoach to get Harley back in the ring of life. Anastasia Kelley has actually known Harley for years, but never as well as she's going to now...
  • Path To Realization by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Path To Realization by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Asher Pryce hides behind a wall of secrets he's spent most of his life building up. How else is the adopted child whose birth parents run a drug cartel supposed to fit in? He's notorious for his overconfident swagger and total lack of patience for bullshit - a master of masks. The one thing in his life he can't fake? His feelings for his best friend's twin sister...
  • Sangre by Chiah Wilder

    Sangre by Chiah Wilder

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A second chance at love like no other. When Sangre, the tatted and built officer of the Night Rebels MC, agrees to be the bodyguard of Isla Rose, he has no idea what he's in for. It's just an ordinary gig: A bodyguard for a temperamental, difficult, diva who thinks a fan is out to get her. Sangre doesn't have time for drama and decides there's no way he's going to indulge the spoiled rock star...
  • Grand Slam by Lisa Suzanne

    Grand Slam by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Alexis’s father tells me he’s going to ruin me. He does not want his pop star daughter or her brand associated in any way with the bad boy of baseball. I make it my mission to prove to her father that I’m not the bad guy he thinks I am. But he takes things a few steps too far, causing major issues that will affect my upcoming baseball season...
  • Hart to Heart by ME Carter, Murphy Rae

    Hart to Heart by ME Carter, Murphy Rae

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    We’re the Harts. Between an engagement, a wedding and an adoption, we’ve had the best year of our lives. Things have never looked better for Jaxon, Addison and myself. But just because you say “I do” doesn’t mean you get a happily ever after. And sometimes, you get tackled more in life than you ever did on the football field...
  • The Billionaire's Salvation ~ Max by J.S. Scott

    The Billionaire's Salvation ~ Max by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Billionaire Max Hamilton thought he was finally starting to find contentment, more than two years after losing his wife Mia in a tragic drowning accident. He'd been reunited with a sister he hadn’t realized existed. Finally he had family again, a reprieve from the pain and loneliness that had haunted him since his devastating loss...
  • Finding Infinity by Layne Harper

    Finding Infinity by Layne Harper

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    "Finding Infinity" as described by Colin. .. "Fine Charlie. ” Colin says dropping his hands in defeat. “Here's what I want. I want everybody to back off and let me play football. I want you to go back to practicing medicine because I’m ready for you to be happy again - not this forced shit that you keep trying to sell me...
  • Simon Says by Lori Foster

    Simon Says by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 38 ratings
    With his perfectly chiseled, lava-hot body, Simon Evans, an ex-fighter, also has a perfect life—great job, great girl, and more than enough dough. All that changes, though, when he catches his girlfriend cheating. To shake things up, Simon goes full force back into the ring, ready to take his rage out on his opponents...
  • Fast Kill by Kaylea Cross

    Fast Kill by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The past has come back to haunt her. Having battled long and hard to put her painful past behind her, DEA Special Agent Taylor Kennedy has done everything in her power to make a new life for herself. She never dreamed that same past would suddenly show up on her doorstep one night, or that its reappearance would threaten everything she’s built for herself...
  • Relentless by Kaylea Cross

    Relentless by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Former Delta Force operator Rhys Sinclair defied the odds by recovering from a traumatic brain injury that should have killed him. Given the chance to repay the beautiful doctor who saved his life by guarding hers, he can't say no--even if it means facing an unknown threat from the cunning terrorist his CIA-sanctioned team had been hunting in Afghanistan...
  • Point of Freedom by Stacey Lynn

    Point of Freedom by Stacey Lynn

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Hatred. Desire. Broken Dreams. Jules McAllister has loved and lost. She experienced the gut wrenching pain of grief after her boyfriend, Scratch, a member of the Nordic Lords MC, died on the same night that she told him they were going to have a child. Grief stricken and destroyed, she left Jasper Bay, unable to tell anyone the truth of what really happened that fateful night...
  • Back in Black by Lori Foster

    Back in Black by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 32 ratings
    Never before published from the New York Times bestselling author. Gillian is a PR expert hired to smooth out the rough edges on hot- headed sports club president Drew Black. He's rough, raw and ready for any challenge Gillian throws his way. But which one's going to end up on top?
  • Fighting for Control by Melynda Price

    Fighting for Control by Melynda Price

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 13 ratings
    For Nikko “the Bull” Del Toro, an ex-marine turned MMA fighter, only two things quiet the demons raging inside him—facing an opponent in the cage…and the memory of his hottest one-night stand. But when his PTSD resurfaces, causing him to lose control at a CFA press party, it’s his career that may be KO’d. Dr...
  • Fast Burn by Lori Foster

    Fast Burn by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    For the woman who’s his perfect match, he’s willing to break the rules…. The moment Brand Berry meets beautiful, driven Sahara Silver, the connection between them is electric. It’s also something he can’t pursue. Sahara wants him, sure—to join Body Armor, where his MMA skills, size and cocky attitude make him perfect for her elite crew of bodyguards...
  • Muffler's Mayhem by Elizabeth Knox, Charli Childs

    Muffler's Mayhem by Elizabeth Knox, Charli Childs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I lost her once, and I'll be damned if I lose her again. Muffler. Beretta and I had a relationship many years ago, only, we were the only two who knew about it. Now she's been in an accident and is suffering from amnesia. The doctors tell us her memories will come back with time, but to go along with what she thinks. Only, she thinks it's the time period when we're still together...
  • Close Contact by Lori Foster

    Close Contact by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    There’s no resisting a desire like this…. MMA fighter Miles Dartman’s casual arrangement with personal shopper Maxi Nevar would be many men’s fantasy. She seeks him out, they have mindblowing sex, she leaves. Rinse, repeat. Yet lately, Miles wants more...
  • Causing Havoc by Lori Foster

    Causing Havoc by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Orphaned and torn from his sisters as a boy, sexy extreme wrestler Dean "Havoc" Conor gets a letter revealing how much his siblings want him back in Harmony, Kentucky. To stop his sister from marrying a sleazeball, Dean finds himself teaming up with her pretty-but-smart-mouthed friend Eve-who's heard of Havoc's reputation and doesn't need some hunk trampling on her heart...
  • Cruz by H.J. Bellus

    Cruz by H.J. Bellus

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    She hates fighting. He lives for it. Layla’s vicious past drove her away from her hometown. She couldn’t live with all the reminders surrounding her, so she ran. Cruz Felix found a new home. A place where he could get his head on straight, train, and fight match after match toward the end goal: the championship in Las Vegas...
  • Ghost Dance by Catherine Gayle

    Ghost Dance by Catherine Gayle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Catherine Gayle presents another novel in the sexy Tulsa Thunderbirds hockey romance series. He had it all. And lost it in an instant. The night Dmitri Nazarenko won hockey’s Holy Grail, he lost more than he ever bargained for. With a world of guilt weighing him down, Dima can never forgive himself for his tragic misjudgment...
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    athletes  sports  m-f  contemporary  hockey  length-medium
  • Tapout by J.C. Valentine

    Tapout by J.C. Valentine

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    History brought them together. Circumstances may keep them apart. Alyson Blake’s past left her with scars. Scars that she tried to fix the only way she knew how—by helping others. But actions have consequences, and Alyson is about to find out that being naïve is no excuse. Fighting is Jamison Weston’s passion. Alyson is his obsession...
  • Frostbite by Cambria Hebert

    Frostbite by Cambria Hebert

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Revenge is a dish best served cold. What if we lose everything? It was a question that had haunted me even after I spoke it aloud. Turns out one loss--one profound loss--is enough to put everything else at stake. What a house of cards life can be. How easily everything ices over. We've survived an avalanche, made it through a blizzard, but now a chill has set in...
  • Forever Hers by E.B. Walters, Ednah Walters

    Forever Hers by E.B. Walters, Ednah Walters

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She wants her past hidden. .. Amy Kincaid is running from her controlling ex-husband, who will stop at nothing to find her. With a new identity and a new job as a housekeeper, she just wants to be left alone to raise her daughter. Then Eddie Fitzgerald rolls into town and turns her world upside down. He’s in the business of exposing the truth. .. Eddie Fitzgerald, L. A. P. D...
  • Boone by Elizabeth Knox

    Boone by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I was never good at love, but damn if I didn’t want to try when I met her. Boone. All my life, I’ve never been good at love. My wife literally decided out of the blue that she was going to up and leave me, and our two boys. She acted like she was going to the grocery store to grab a few things and never came back...
  • Final Call by Emma Hart

    Final Call by Emma Hart

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    In the highly anticipated sequel to LATE CALL, Dayton and Aaron learn once more than not everything is as straightforward as it seems, and if they have any chance of getting their long-awaited happily-ever-after, they'll have to work for it. .. We crashed and burned like a falling plane. Hard and fast with an inevitable explosion. Another few weeks together changed my life the way the first did...
  • Fighting For Grace by Hope Ford

    Fighting For Grace by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fighting For Grace. Evan. I’m down on my luck and out of patience. If I can’t fight, who am I? I still go to the gym every day to train and get better. When I get talked into teaching self-defense lessons, I never expected to meet her. She’s sweet, innocent. .. and in trouble. Injured or not, I’m fighting for Grace. I’m in it now, and it’s going to be the fight of my life...
    Categorized as:
    sports  alpha male  mma-boxing  contemporary
  • Defending Hayden by L.P. Dover

    Defending Hayden by L.P. Dover

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Carolina Cougars keep fighting for love as the Second Chances series from bestselling author L. P. Dover continues! In Defending Hayden, a damaged football star teams up with the only woman who can take the pain away. No one’s tougher than Carolina Cougars linebacker Derek McLaughlin...
  • Crazy Maybe by A.D. Justice

    Crazy Maybe by A.D. Justice

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Andi Stone is a strong, smart and independent woman, thanks to the help of a famous boxing trainer, Mack, and his protégé, Shane, who have respectively been like a father and brother to her. But that wasn't always the case. Andi never knew what a “normal” life was like...
  • Revenge, Volume 2 by J.J. Knight

    Revenge, Volume 2 by J.J. Knight

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Dylan Wolf is more than just a street musician with a body and voice to die for. He holds the key to Jess Rivera's future, and her heart. The mystery unfolds in Revenge #2.
  • Line of Fire by Jo Davis

    Line of Fire by Jo Davis

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 25 ratings
    To his fellow firemen, Tommy Skyler has it all. But the golden boy of Station Five hides a private pain. He was once a star quarterback until tragedy derailed his dream. Since then, he's struggled with his choices-including his decision to become a firefighter. His one ray of light shines in beautiful nurse Shea Ford...
  • I Need You To Save Me by Genicious

    I Need You To Save Me by Genicious

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Perhaps the stars aligned, but fate had other plans…. Ace and Calla face the ultimate test as they navigate through the harsh realities of his arrest. The stakes are higher than ever before. With their future crumbling and their past lurking in the shadows, they must confront the demons that threaten to consume them...
  • Everything for Us by M. Leighton

    Everything for Us by M. Leighton

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    When it comes to passion this hot, it’s all or nothing. Olivia Townsend’s wealthy cousin Marissa had everything a girl could ask for—a great job, a privileged life, and all the friends she wanted. Or, at least, all the friends money could buy. But one case of mistaken identity has turned her privileged world upside down...
  • Stacked Up by Sidney Halston

    Stacked Up by Sidney Halston

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Opposites attract in this seductive novel from the author of Against the Cage (“Funny, steamy, scorching. ”—Toni Aleo), with a chiseled MMA fighter falling for a single mom who could use a real man in her corner...
  • Hacking the Biker's Code by Piper Davenport

    Hacking the Biker's Code by Piper Davenport

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    18+ for language and sexual situations. Rabbit. She’s out of my league and I’m low on the list of her trusted allies, but when she’s caught in the crossfire of a conflict with a rival club, I don’t want anyone else watching her back. Even if I have to shackle her to my f***ing bed. Parker...
  • Six Secret Babies by Layla Valentine

    Six Secret Babies by Layla Valentine

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He tried to keep their fling under wraps,. But six adorable babies aren’t going to stay hidden for long…. HER. The Wenstown Wolves were in need of a new physical therapist, and apparently I was the only one they were interested in,. Now I’m halfway across the country, making twice what I made in Seattle, and the team’s new management is an even more welcome surprise…...
  • HEAT by C.A. Harms

    HEAT by C.A. Harms

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Beckett Montgomery is a well-known detective in the New York area. He takes his job seriously and has little time for anything else. During an investigation in to a series of break in’s of an apartment building on 32nd St. , he finds himself getting a little too involved. What had always in the past been his job, now felt as if it was so much more...
  • The Fight by Alice Ward

    The Fight by Alice Ward

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cherry = Ripe and Delicious. Too tempting. Even though I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth, I built my own successful R&D company from scratch. I’m always looking for talent. That’s how I meet Cherry Bomb — underground MMA fighting princess. After watching one match, I’m hooked and sign her on as my newest investment. Sweet, tart, and fresh, I want to do more than spar with her. I want her...
    Categorized as:
    sports  mma-boxing  m-f  humor  new adult  contemporary
  • Believe by Natalie Gayle

    Believe by Natalie Gayle

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What Reviewers are Saying:. "a wonderful slow burning love story of trifling ordeals and the power of the human spirit" Kawehi Reviews. "I fell even more in love with Natalie Gayle's stories, characters, and writing style. She knows how to knock you out with inspiration, heat, and heart. " Rochelle's Reviews. "Dane. ..
  • Cage by Jessica Ames

    Cage by Jessica Ames

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The cage is where I feel most at home. There’s something about the thrill of the fight, of chasing an opponent around the ring that calms those demons inside me. At least until I found the club. I’m a patched brother now, no longer a prospect and with that comes responsibilities, loyalty too. For the first time in a long time I have a place in the world, one that doesn’t come with conditions...
  • Rebelonging by Sabrina Stark

    Rebelonging by Sabrina Stark

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    How do you come back from the biggest screw-up of your life? That's the question for Lawton Rastor, the billionaire bad boy from Detroit, after he lets the girl of his dreams not just slip through his fingers, but run away, fast – and with good reason...
  • Faster Longer by Colleen Masters

    Faster Longer by Colleen Masters

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Two star crossed lovers racing together at breakneck speeds, barreling along at 200 miles per hour willing to destroy everything and everyone in their path. Siena can't escape. She's trapped now. How did she fall so helplessly, recklessly in love with the one man who could single handedly turn her life upside down? Harrison has her wrapped up in his strong, muscular, tattooed arms...
  • Fighting Love by Abby Niles

    Fighting Love by Abby Niles

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Fighting Love by Abby Niles. Talk about kicking a fighter while he’s down. Former Middleweight champion and confirmed bachelor Tommy "Lightning" Sparks has lost it all: his belt, his career, and now his home. After the devastating fire, he moves in with his drama-free best friend, Julie...
  • Hannah by Faleena Hopkins

    Hannah by Faleena Hopkins

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Every boyfriend I've ever had either bored me. .. . .. or hurt me. I'm tired of what the world thinks they know. The gossip. Retaliation. So after another 'date' betrays my trust,. when Sofia Sol, my rebellious cousin, says,. “Hey. .. let's get out of here. A vacation from EVERYTHING. ”. My answer? A big fat YES. I mean, why not? Life can be an adventure. With true love where you least expect it…...
  • The Bodyguard by Jordan Silver

    The Bodyguard by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Hunter Sloane is a no nonsense ex-mercenary with his own security firm. The last thing he wants to do is shadow another Hollywood starlet with more looks than brains. When the call comes in, his guys are all out on assignment, and he's left holding the bag, so he bites the bullet and takes the job. The first few weeks are so smooth he starts to relax...
  • Throttle: A Savage Disciples MC Novella by Drew Elyse

    Throttle: A Savage Disciples MC Novella by Drew Elyse

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Once a Disciple, forever a Disciple. Candy didn’t build a life for herself by being stupid,. regardless what people might think of her being a stripper. And no matter what her body wants, what her heart wants,. she knows that falling for a fighter is as stupid as it gets. A Disciple will fight like a savage, but that isn’t always the way...
    Categorized as:
    sports  suspense  m-f  contemporary  length-novella
  • Vindicated by Misty Walker

    Vindicated by Misty Walker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Dustin is a convicted murderer. He’s mournful, bitter, drowning in a sea of self-pity with nothing left to lose. The church has sent me to bring him into the fold. Bound by my namesake, Saint Odilia,. I should be defending my spirituality and morality with my life. It only took a few letters to change everything. Odilia saved my life and gave me her heart...
  • Passing His Guard by Melynda Price

    Passing His Guard by Melynda Price

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 19 ratings
    Aiden “Disco Stick” Kruze walked away from it all—money, family, friends, and a successful career as a lawyer in Manhattan—to pursue his dream of being an MMA fighter. When a sexy private investigator shows up at Aiden’s gym, he mistakenly assumes she’s a cage-banging groupie. Ryann is determined to haul Aiden back home...
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