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  • Finding Infinity by Layne Harper

    Finding Infinity by Layne Harper

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 28 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...
  • 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...
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  • Leo by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Leo by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Nadia Gardini has been worshiping the men in the Savage Kings MC for years, even though they rarely want her for more than a few nights.Three years ago, she thought one of their newest members might be different, until he cast her aside faster than the others...
  • Hard To Handle by Lori Foster

    Hard To Handle by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 36 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...
  • Grand Slam by Lisa Suzanne

    Grand Slam by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 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...
  • Forgive Me by Melanie Walker

    Forgive Me by Melanie Walker

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    There are very deep issues at play in this book and it is not for the weak. The twist in this book leaves you devastated and you will need to absorb it. You will get mad, cry your heart out, be crushed, smile, and lose it by the end of this book. Forgive Me is about Forgiveness. All the things you think you know are only a fraction of the big picture...
  • Timeless by Erin Noelle

    Timeless by Erin Noelle

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Re-releasing on Jan 19, 2020 with new covers and edits Six years. Two People. One love. After the long awaited wedding of her dreams, Scarlett Templeton, along with her rockstar husband and their five year old twins, are finally putting down roots and settling into their first suburban home...
  • Actually Love - Jessie & Zach by Melanie Shawn

    Actually Love - Jessie & Zach by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Real or fake. As VP of public relations for SPC, the beautiful and talented Jessie Sloan, knew the difference. The order and control she had in her life was real. Love was fake and she didn’t have time for fake. Win or lose. Sexy, sculpted boxing champ Zach Courtland has had his share of losses in life, but inside the ring, he knew nothing but wins...
  • Loving Colt by C.A. Harms

    Loving Colt by C.A. Harms

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    **Mature Content Warning** Recommended for ages 17+ due to language and sexual content. Alexis and Colt never planned on crossing paths. Alexis and her three year old daughter were running from their past and Colt was looking for his future. Neither planning to find salvation in one another. One night changed it all… And they had no hope of ever being the same again...
  • Causing Havoc by Lori Foster

    Causing Havoc by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 35 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...
  • Last Chance: A Second Chances Novel by L.P. Dover

    Last Chance: A Second Chances Novel by L.P. Dover

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A steamy, second chances novel by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, L.P. Dover. Can be read as a STANDALONE. One Taste, the prequel to Last Chance, has been added at the beginning with all new scenes. One last chance. That's all Luke Collins, local bad boy and motocross champion, has to not only find his redemption, but win back the girl he lost...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Only Him by Melanie Harlow

    Only Him by Melanie Harlow

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Sometimes your first love deserves a second chance. He was my first crush, my first kiss, my first everything. But I’m not a lovesick teenager anymore, and I’d never let that cocky troublemaker break my heart again. So when he shows up out of the blue asking me to have dinner with him “for old time’s sake,” I say I will...
  • 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...
  • Undisputed by A.S. Teague

    Undisputed by A.S. Teague

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I live a life most could only dream of. Parties, women, fame—what more could I want? As the undisputed MMA light heavyweight champ, I’ve faced the world’s toughest men. But, with a single glance, I knew that the five-foot-five redhead with a smart mouth and innocent eyes would be my hardest opponent yet. Sidney O’Neil isn’t my type...
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    athletes  fighters  contemporary  new adult
  • Paradise Fought: Abel by L.B. Dunbar

    Paradise Fought: Abel by L.B. Dunbar

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I'm not a fighter. I was born into a fighting family. As the middle child, I was overlooked in favor of my older brother. He took the negative attention, too. In comparison, there's nothing special about me. I’m not as big as Cobra. I’m not as strong as Cobra. He's the alpha. I'm a beta. The second son. The lesser one...
  • Bring The Heat by K.B. Winters

    Bring The Heat by K.B. Winters

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Steamy, Sexy Bad Boys Of Summer! Can It Get Any Hotter? I never claimed to be the greatest pitcher in the world—then again, maybe I did—but I was probably drunk off my ass trying to seduce some chick. I had no intention of ever becoming Cody Wright, the best—or the greatest. That was more my old man’s dream. The REAL Mr. Wright...
  • Deep Down by Elle Aycart

    Deep Down by Elle Aycart

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Mike Haddican is a proud small-town gym owner, a renowned karate instructor, and all-around good guy. He’s never needed much to be happy: his family, his friends, his girl. Especially his girl. But when Kyra left him seven years ago to chase her dreams, she all but destroyed him. Contemporary dancer Kyra Brims made it big, but it cost her dearly...
  • Doomsday Love by Shanora Williams

    Doomsday Love by Shanora Williams

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    **LIMITED TIME SALE OF $0.99! Regular Price $3.99** If you're thinking this is the typical MMA romance...you're wrong. When we were ten, he treated me like a friend. When we were eighteen, he wanted nothing to do with me. And now that we are twenty-two, he longs to claim every single inch of me. He was wild--untamed. And I, a reckless girl, who loved too hard...
  • Fury by Clarissa Wild

    Fury by Clarissa Wild

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is book 1.5 in the FIERCE series, and it's a retelling of book 1 from Hunter's POV with lots of unique, previously undiscovered scenes! Would you risk everything for love? Life has held nothing but hardships for Hunter Bane. Growing up with a learning disability wasn't easy, especially when you're poor...
  • Better To Rest by Dana Stabenow

    Better To Rest by Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Just when his personal life starts to heat up, Liam Campbell must put it on hold...after the grisly discovery of a dismembered hand leads him to a crashed World War II Army plane frozen precariously in a glacier...
  • Talk Hockey to Me by Kelly Jamieson

    Talk Hockey to Me by Kelly Jamieson

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    They can resist their attraction…until their hearts rocket them across the blue line.HunterTiming. Hockey careers are made or broken on it, and mine has taken exceptionally broken road. I’m not a star. I’m a grinder, I work hard, and I’m finally at the point I can put the past behind me and get the fat, long-term contract I deserve...
  • Rebelonging by Sabrina Stark

    Rebelonging by Sabrina Stark

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 29 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...
  • Fly by Molly McLain

    Fly by Molly McLain

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Meet Colton Wade, FMX rider... I’m just a small town guy who caught a lucky break. Now I’m living the dream, on the brink of high-flying super-stardom. But something’s missing. That something is Taylor. She’s my best friend. The one who makes me want to push harder and higher. The one I fall back on when shit gets tough. The one I’d give it all up for. I’d do anything to protect her...
  • Undeniable by Micalea Smeltzer

    Undeniable by Micalea Smeltzer

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Karlie and Holden's story (This is a New Adult Contemporary Romance recommended for readers 18+ it contains graphic language, sex, and deals with mature subject matter) Karlie Reed has been crushing on Holden Marks for as long as she can remember. The problem? He’s eight years older than her and her brother’s best friend. One night, when things get out of hand, they make a pact...
  • Drawn to Fight: Zac & Evie: New Adult, Standalone Fighter Romance by Lilliana Anderson

    Drawn to Fight: Zac & Evie: New Adult, Standalone Fighter Romance by Lilliana Anderson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    New Adult fighter romance Zac Rivers. A boy no one wanted to know. Always angry. Always fighting his way in and out of trouble. It was no surprise when he was expelled from school and never heard from again. Until now. I found him at the Londonderry Brawl, and I watched him fight like an animal. Strong. Controlled. But desperate...
  • Broken Lion by Devon Hartford

    Broken Lion by Devon Hartford

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bestselling author Devon Hartford brings you another scorching hot and scandalous standalone romance. BROKEN MEN BREAK HEARTS The night the EMTs wheeled Lion Maxwell into my Emergency Room turned my life upside down. Although he was bloody and battered from defending his title as the reigning cruiserweight champion of Mixed Martial Arts, his cocky grin lit up the room...
  • Down and Dirty by Christine Bell

    Down and Dirty by Christine Bell

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    A sexy category romance from Entangled's Brazen imprint... He was a dare she’d never been able to resist… Cat Thomas has never been the kind of girl to stick. A self-professed infatuation junky, she latches on the newest, hottest guy on the block, then finds a reason—real or imagined—to dump him...
  • Winning Love by Abby Niles

    Winning Love by Abby Niles

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Mac “The Snake” Hannon has spent years throwing himself into cage fighting as a way to lash back at the natural disaster that destroyed his future. A call for help has Mac returning to the one place he swore never to return: Kansas—in the height of tornado season. There he meets free-spirited Gayle Andrews...
  • Blindsided: Game On in Seattle by Jami Davenport

    Blindsided: Game On in Seattle by Jami Davenport

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    USA Today Bestselling author Jami Davenport introduces the Seattle Steelheads football team with this sixth book in her Game On in Seattle sports romance series. The daughter of one-time rock legends, Emma Maxwell is the good girl of the family, the dutiful sister, the doting aunt, and a dedicated employee in the family party crashing business...
  • The Trainer by Shey Stahl

    The Trainer by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    What if you had one night to reignite the passion and romance that time and distance had seemed to have forgotten? What would you do for just one night to captivate…one night to find the magic? Just one...
  • Game On by Tracy Solheim

    Game On by Tracy Solheim

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 22 ratings
    The only way to win is to score… With a reputation for fast moves on the gridiron and even faster moves off the field, Shane Devlin was a player in every sense of the word. Unfortunately, his bad-boy persona has made him a risky prospect as a quarterback, and only the Baltimore Blaze are willing to give him a chance. And he’s about to take a hit he never expected...
  • Time Will Tell by Chantal Fernando

    Time Will Tell by Chantal Fernando

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Be spontaneous, they say. That's how I ended up on the back of a stranger's bike. A sexy, tall, tattooed stranger, but a stranger nonetheless...
  • Always Consumed by Skyla Madi

    Always Consumed by Skyla Madi

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the beginning, you have sex. Lots of it. Then, somewhere in the middle, you lose it. Olivia and Seth are stuck in a rut—a busy, sexless rut—and with Valentine's day fast approaching, Olivia wants to force them out of their comfort zones and into fresher waters. Seth, however, believes the trick to recapturing their passion lies in their beginning...
  • Saving a Legend: Kavanagh Legends, Book 2 by Sarah Robinson

    Saving a Legend: Kavanagh Legends, Book 2 by Sarah Robinson

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Praised by New York Times Bestselling Author Penelope Ward as “a unique story line with multiple layers to it,” Sarah Robinson’s Saving a Legend goes another round with the brooding Kavanagh MMA fighters who won’t call it quits in the ring, or in romance.His family’s gym has produced a roster of mixed martial arts legends, but so far Kieran Kavanagh hasn’t followed in their footsteps...
  • Totaled by Stacey Grice

    Totaled by Stacey Grice

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Totaled is a full length (112,000 words) new adult, contemporary romance novel. It is not recommended for readers under the age of 18 due to sexual situations, mature content, and explicit language. Bree Murphy is stuck. Forced to grow up too fast after the tragic death of her mother, she has little time for any sort of life for herself...
  • Collision by K.A. Sterritt

    Collision by K.A. Sterritt

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Their lives were destined to collide. Juliette Salinger lives her life entirely on her mother’s terms. Everything from what she wears to who she dates is determined by what is deemed appropriate for their social standing. Look a little closer. Juliette isn’t cut out for that life. She lives for moments of reckless abandon to escape the crushing pressure of never being good enough...
  • Off the Hook by Laura Drewry

    Off the Hook by Laura Drewry

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Welcome to The Buoys, a West Coast haven where love comes in with the tide. Perfect for readers of Jill Shalvis and Susan Mallery, the Fishing for Trouble series features three unforgettable brothers—each of whom is a great catch.   Major league pitcher Liam O’Donnell knows his best days are probably behind him, but that doesn’t mean he’s ready to retire and become a fishing guide...
  • Lady Killer by Misti Murphy, T Lund

    Lady Killer by Misti Murphy, T Lund

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    They called him the Lady Killer. Able to get into a woman’s panties in 3.6 seconds flat. I know where he’s been. I know he keeps a list of all the women he’s f*cked. And there are so many reasons I’m not interested in being another number. I’m the reason his boxing career is over. The reason he almost died. I can never stop running...
  • Fighting Strong by Marysol James

    Fighting Strong by Marysol James

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Katie Lloyd finds out that her stepfather is dying, she’s determined to get to him, no matter what. Thwarted by transportation problems and challenged by bad weather, she ends up having to accept help from the one person she can’t imagine being trapped in a car with on a five-day road trip: Adam Pierce...
  • Meant for Me by L.P. Dover

    Meant for Me by L.P. Dover

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    After a night of raw passion with the man Claire O’Briene had been secretly admiring for years, she thought their time together had come once and for all. Fate had finally brought them back to each other, but unfortunately nothing had changed. He was still the same man who ran away from relationships...
  • Knockout by J.C. Valentine

    Knockout by J.C. Valentine

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    From the wrong side of the tracks... Alyson Blake had learned early on that the only one she could depend on was herself. The only light in her life was a boy whom everyone agreed was destined for prison; but with his first kiss, he had set her soul on fire...
  • Tamed by You by Kate Perry

    Tamed by You by Kate Perry

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    First rule of matchmaking: Don't fall in love with your client. Second rule of matchmaking: Don't fall in love with your client! Valentine Jones has never been good at following rules, especially the one that matters most: following the family tradition of being a matchmaker. She's tried, but she happens to suck at it...
  • Rotten by J.L. Brooks

    Rotten by J.L. Brooks

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Growing up on the outskirts of Las Vegas as the daughter of notorious strip club owner, Stephen Knox, and a mother who abandoned her at birth, life was less than kind to a young Antoinette. After a failed teenage suicide attempt, Toni hit the road in search of a life free of undeserved cruelty and any resemblance to her past...
  • A is for Abstinence by Kelly Oram

    A is for Abstinence by Kelly Oram

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Six-time Grammy Award-winning musician Kyle Hamilton has it all—money, fame, talent, good looks, and a job he loves. His only regret in life: walking away from a certain notorious virgin because he was too prideful, stubborn, and even afraid to give her the only thing she asked of him—his abstinence...
  • Unbelonging by Sabrina Stark

    Unbelonging by Sabrina Stark

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    With an accounting degree that's getting her nowhere, Chloe Malinski spends her nights waitressing and her days housesitting in a neighborhood that's infinitely beyond her reach or comfort zone. But she knows all too well that no one wants a pauper in their mansion, so she's gotten good – maybe a little too good – at faking it 'til she makes it...
  • Down By Contact by Sloan Johnson, Quinn Ward

    Down By Contact by Sloan Johnson, Quinn Ward

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nothing could derail his season like being forced to spend time with the only man he’d allowed close enough to hurt him...Zach couldn't step out of the closet if he wanted to play professional football. Griffin refused to stay locked in the dark. As much as it hurt, Zach knew Griffin had done the best thing for both of them when he walked away...
    Categorized as:
    athletes  second chances  sports  m-m  contemporary  queer
  • Dream of You by Kate Perry

    Dream of You by Kate Perry

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Love sucks. Lola Carmichael's known it since her boyfriend broke up with her the night she expected him to propose. Only with a deadline looming for her next romance novel, she better find inspiration fast. Enter arrogant sports radio DJ Sam Touchdown Taylor. Who'd have thought a playboy ex-jock would be just what she needs to get her creative juices flowing…and her heart beating again...
  • On the Ropes by Christa Cervone

    On the Ropes by Christa Cervone

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A murderer’s child…A foster child…A troubled teen…Gabriel ‘The Saint’ Vega has never had an easy life. Being shuffled from one foster home to another after his father murdered his mother, he found himself in and out of trouble with the law. Never giving a damn about himself, let alone anyone else, his life was spiraling out of control; fast. Until one man and one sport changed everything...
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