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  • Hart to Heart by M.E. Carter, Jacob Morgan

    Hart to Heart by M.E. Carter, Jacob Morgan

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Listening Length: 5 hours, 6 minutesWe’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 any of us.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...
  • 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...
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  • Kade by Tijan

    Kade by Tijan

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    I have fought. I have bled. I have wreaked havoc for my family. Anyone who threatened us, tried to break us, I broke them instead. Then, there was peace. Marriage. Children. Life was good. Life was great.Until my phone rang one night. Retired, I was no longer in the NFL. We'd recently moved back to Fallen Crest.So I should’ve known. I should’ve remembered. There is no peace in Fallen Crest...
  • Team Player by Adriana Locke, Charleigh Rose

    Team Player by Adriana Locke, Charleigh Rose

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Hot jocks. We love them all. Sexy baseball players. Intense footballers. Sweaty MMA fighters, and sizzling hockey hotties. Score! The good news? Eleven bestselling authors have gathered to give you a set of stories focused on the men we love most—sports heroes. We bet you’ll love this thick…book. The bad news? The men in these novellas don’t actually exist...
  • Infinity. by Layne Harper

    Infinity. by Layne Harper

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Colin McKinney has wanted three things since he met Caroline “Charlie” Collins when he was a junior at Texas A&M University: to make her his wife, play professional football, and have a family. In the first three books of the Infinity Series, Colin and Charlie met, fell in love, broke apart, reunited eight years later, and got married...
  • From Now Until Infinity by Layne Harper

    From Now Until Infinity by Layne Harper

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Eight years have passed since Colin and Caroline “Charlie” ended their college romance. A chance meeting reunited them confirming that time had not diminished their love for each other. Now, they have to turn their passionate reunion into a legitimate and sustainable relationship. Charlie’s medical practice is in Houston. Colin is the starting quarterback for Dallas...
  • Hopelessly Devoted to Violet: Hopelessly Devoted Novella by Terri Anne Browning

    Hopelessly Devoted to Violet: Hopelessly Devoted Novella by Terri Anne Browning

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Every time someone mentions planning their wedding, Violet finds a reason why they should wait.Luca is her soulmate and Love Bug’s favorite person.They are already a family, but they need to make it official.Luca is getting tired of calling her his fiancée and not his wife.But Vi is torn.Saying “I do” to Luca will mean releasing the last hold Remington had on her heart...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  sports  alpha male  angst  contemporary
  • Our Unscripted Story by L.A. Fiore

    Our Unscripted Story by L.A. Fiore

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Greyson Ratcliffe. I met him at sixteen, the hot new guy sitting on my jetty, an aspiring artist just passing through. He was my first kiss and my first love. I wanted forever with him. I didn’t even get a year. Five years later, I’m a budding writer who scripts stories of love and struggle, the good and the bad and the ups and the downs...
  • Outta My League by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Outta My League by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The way she looks, smells, laughs is killing me.I fell in love with my sister’s best friend. To top it all off, she’s brilliant. And I’m failing Chemistry.Of course, when I get her help, she’s laidback about it. Charming and helpful as always, like she doesn’t know how much I want her. I’ve got to play it cool and let her see a different side of me...
  • A Callahan Wedding by Monica Murphy

    A Callahan Wedding by Monica Murphy

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The sweet and sexy conclusion to New York Times bestselling author, Monica Murphy’s standalone Callahan series, bringing readers along for the ride as fan favorites, Jake and Hannah get married! Hannah Walsh. Gorgeous. Intelligent. My first love. My high school sweetheart. My everything. And now my fiancée...
  • Beyond the Bases - Special Edition by Kaylee Ryan

    Beyond the Bases - Special Edition by Kaylee Ryan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    What happens when you want more in life than just running the bases? You hang out at home plate and stop playing the field.LarissaHe's sexy and irresistible. I've done my best to ignore the magnetism that flows between us. I don't need complications in my life. I can't get wrapped up in his world. The last thing I need is to get attached to a professional athlete. I don’t have time for heartbreak...
  • The Fake by Rebecca Jenshak

    The Fake by Rebecca Jenshak

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 29 ratings
    I've made a lot of dumb mistakes but none dumber than losing her.Senior year. I should be partying and living it up with my friends before graduation, but one more mistake and I'm off the team.Enter Chloe. She comes into my life at a low point, but she becomes the bright spot I reach for every day. She's the kind of girl who makes a guy want to be a better man...
  • Shattered by Tracy Wolff

    Shattered by Tracy Wolff

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The Extreme Risk series—Tracy Wolff’s edgy, emotional take on the New Adult genre—continues with the story of a lost soul and the fearless beauty who inspires him to take a flying leap back into life. Ash Lewis has poured every last ounce of his blood, sweat, and tears into reaching the very top of the professional snowboarding world—until the unthinkable happens...
  • Wingspan by Cambria Hebert

    Wingspan by Cambria Hebert

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Ever feel like you’re being watched?It’s an awareness so familiar I adapted to it long ago.Then I enrolled at Westbrook University to chase my dreamand make up for someone else’s lost one.The prying eyes I’d known almost since birth…They closed.Even still, I never got too close.I made friends with everyone but confided in no one...
  • Rookie’s Regret by Gina Azzi

    Rookie’s Regret by Gina Azzi

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lioness. That’s the first word that comes to mind when I see the brilliant redhead selling cupcakes at the hockey arena.With the soul of an artist and the spirit of a nomad, Bea Turner is gorgeous, quirky, and refreshing. She’s also my teammate’s little sister.As the Tennessee Thunderbolts' Rookie, I should steer clear...
  • Falling For His Fake Fiancè by J.B. Heller

    Falling For His Fake Fiancè by J.B. Heller

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What’s a guy to do to save his MLB career after one too many of his exploits hit the tabloids?Marry his housekeeper, apparently…I’m a pretty laid back guy who doesn’t take much outside my job seriously, preferring to party my way through life. But my poor decisions have landed me with The Bad Boy of Baseball, title. I’m totally cool with it, management however, is not...
  • Perfectly Imperfect by Tiffany Casper

    Perfectly Imperfect by Tiffany Casper

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    DaemonWhen you learn at the young age of nine that words have the same impact as a fist, it shapes you into the man you grow up to be.It makes you hard.Unshakable.And sometimes… Cold.That was until he saw her in a classroom being the kind of mom that he wished he had. Being the kind of mom that all women should aspire to be...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  sports  angst  m-f  contemporary  length-medium
  • Defiant Heir by Michelle Heard

    Defiant Heir by Michelle Heard

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From International Bestseller Michelle Heard comes a new friends to lovers novel in The Heirs series. The man of my dreams is nothing short of perfect. Kao Reed is a hermit who loves to live in the shadows. With striking blue eyes and a gentle nature, he won my heart years ago. I’ve woven all my dreams and future around him. But then the worst happens...
  • 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...
  • Fortuity by Rochelle Paige

    Fortuity by Rochelle Paige

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The only kinds of luck I knew were bad and worse...until my life hung in the balance. I finally caught a break in the form of a second chance. I vowed not to let it go to waste. To make a difference. But I didn’t start really living until I met him. Dillon Montgomery. My complete opposite—except for our matching tortured souls. I couldn’t resist him for long...
  • Broke by Esther E. Schmidt

    Broke by Esther E. Schmidt

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Broke must be rough, dominant, and confident. Stepping into his new role as MC Vice President, the mask he wears screams “Don’t screw with me!” but that just hides the part he can’t show. Inside this sweet, shy man are insecurities stemming from trauma he encountered as a teenager that still haunt him. Roan is as sweet as they come. The epitome of pure; good, honest and innocent...
  • Catching Summer by L.P. Dover

    Catching Summer by L.P. Dover

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Hailed by Heidi McLaughlin as a bestselling author who “knows how to create the men who make us swoon,” L. P. Dover returns with an edgy, emotionally gripping Second Chances novel about a beautiful widow who can’t resist a chiseled NFL player. Former nurse Summer Jacobs has seen her fair share of suffering, but she never expected tragedy to hit so close to home...
  • In Too Deep by Tabatha Kiss

    In Too Deep by Tabatha Kiss

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Pros: Star athlete. Amazing body. Excellent sense of humor.Cons: A bit cocky and-- Oh, yeah. I'm his tutor.This. Can't. Happen. I'm so close to getting everything I've ever wanted but all I can think about is John Kirby sitting in the front row of class. Teaching assistants and students cannot mix the way he obviously wants us to...
  • Picture Perfect Obsession by C.M. Steele

    Picture Perfect Obsession by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Emmitt: A simple assignment to photograph a fun run, shouldn’t even be a blip on my busy schedule between celebrity and location shoots. Still, one runner catches my eye, and nothing will ever be the same again. I drop everything to find out who she is, and when I can tell her that she’s mine. Because once I have her, there’s no way I’m letting her go...
  • One Night with the Rebel by Kendall Ryan

    One Night with the Rebel by Kendall Ryan

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She barged into my life and turned everything upside down. We spent one scorching-hot night together, and then she disappeared into the sunset with the golden jock everyone adored. Which makes sense, right? A girl as beautiful and brilliant as Eden Wynn doesn’t end up with a rebel like me.I expected them to live happily ever after, except that's not what happened...
  • 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…If you just say yes...
  • Three and Out by Meghan Quinn

    Three and Out by Meghan Quinn

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Piper was dead to him. The minute she walked out the door on Mason, he was done. D.O.N.E. Now, three months later, he’s still trying to act like he doesn’t care. Like his heart hasn’t been torn into shreds and obliterated beyond recognition. But it’s not working. He’s broken and beyond repair. Then Piper goes missing...
  • Game Changer by Collette West

    Game Changer by Collette West

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Young, rich, and unaware of how seriously hot he is, Brooks Davison is tearing it up as the latest shortstop for the New York Kings, despite his tendency to blush whenever girls scream his name. When a health scare forces his best friend, Kyle Roberts, off the team, no one can stomach the thought of replacing him, especially so close to the playoffs...
  • Liam by LeAnn Ashers

    Liam by LeAnn Ashers

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Paisley I met Liam when I was sixteen years old. There was something about him that tempted me to break all the rules. I was enthralled by his bad boy ways, but I knew there was so much more to him—a side of Liam that he didn’t allow people to see. Little did I know, he’d save me on what could’ve been the worst day of my life. At that point, there was no going back. He was my everything...
  • The Kiss List by Maya Hughes

    The Kiss List by Maya Hughes

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    If I were on fire, she’d break out the marshmallows.It’s not that we don’t like each other, more like hate with the fury of a thousand suns. But it wasn’t always that way.I still remember how her lips tasted. How they felt pressed against mine. How I wanted more. How I still crave her...
  • Kissing Princeton Charming by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook

    Kissing Princeton Charming by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Things just got royally complicated! We have reputations for a reason. His? Spencer Beckett: Princeton Charming. Ivy League Playboy. Rich AF. Hers? Charlotte Hayes: Campus sweetheart. Virgin. Working her booty off to get through this last semester. When a bet pushes these two together it's fire and ice ... and Charlotte is melting. Fast. But Charlotte has a chip on her shoulder...
  • Rocky Waters by C.M. Steele

    Rocky Waters by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    He needs his solitude to meet his deadline, which looms ever closer as the days fly off the calendar. Bennett heads to his cabin to get the words down. There’s only one little problem; some people have invaded his privacy, and that’s just unacceptable. So they all have to go…save one. Darcy’s doing her first couples photoshoot, and her nerves are on edge...
  • The Return Play by Mariah Dietz

    The Return Play by Mariah Dietz

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    USA Today Bestselling Author Mariah Dietz will have you swooning, laughing, and staying up late to finish this childhood friends-to-lovers sports romance!Hudson McKinley, starting quarterback for the Camden Knights, is preparing for the most crucial season of his college career—when a familiar stranger returns and his entire world gets turned upside down—or possibly right side up...
  • Waxing His Board by Fiona Davenport

    Waxing His Board by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling author Fiona Davenport comes an age-gap, rivals-to-lovers, sports romance with two surfers who take a header into love.Wilder Abrams had dominated the world of professional surfing for a decade. He never had time for dating, but that all changed when he shared a wave with an up-and-coming female surfer whose pull was stronger than any undertow...
  • Burn for You by Marquita Valentine

    Burn for You by Marquita Valentine

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Beau Montgomery is *not* the typical single dad for three reasons: 1. He's rich and famous. 2. He needs a nanny, like yesterday. 3. He has no idea if eight month old, Mia, is actually his daughter. Only, number three doesn't matter to him, because he's determined to give up everything to be a standup dad, including racing, partying, and his favorite vice-women...
  • Claimed by Her Sasquatch by Shaw Hart

    Claimed by Her Sasquatch by Shaw Hart

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Emma Fawn has fallen on hard times. Her mom, unable to support them both, had kicked her out when she turned eighteen and she’s been bouncing from town to town and job to job for a few years until she finally lands in Thorp, Washington. She’s trying to stay positive but she’s run out of money, has nowhere to live, and no real options...
  • Lawyer by Lena Little

    Lawyer by Lena Little

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Silas I’m a damn good attorney. But my firm is doing nothing to show me they appreciate or value my work, so I was already thinking that big changes were in order when I met her. I worked cases pro bono to help enhance my resume and profile but wasn’t expecting to meet a woman who would change the entire course of my life...
  • Forward Passes by Jami Davenport

    Forward Passes by Jami Davenport

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Quarterback Tyler Harris is about to find the woman who can get past his defensive line and reach his heart. With two championships in as many years, superstar Tyler Harris is the best quarterback in the league. Gorgeous and rich, he’s at the top of his game. But everyone’s looking to take him down...
  • Treasured by Mink

    Treasured by Mink

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    MateoI’m here to do a job. Steal the vase and get the hell out. Easy. At least it would’ve been if I hadn’t witnessed a kidnapping and decided to step in and help. That’s when I meet Milly… And also when I realize I’m in a whole world of trouble.MillyI’m used to bad men. In fact, I was raised by one. But when Mateo tells me he’s a bad guy, I can’t believe him...
  • Married Into Love by Rochelle Paige

    Married Into Love by Rochelle Paige

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay there... Alec Rourke wasn’t going to waste a night out on the Strip, not even if his friends skipped their own co-ed bachelor-and-ette party. But he never expected to find a plus-one for their wedding—his new wife. And sometimes you find yourself married to a stranger... Alessia Valenti was having the worst day ever. Fired from her job...
  • Pretend Ring Girl by Cassi Hart

    Pretend Ring Girl by Cassi Hart

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    EllaAll she’s ever wanted was to open her own restaurant, but her dream comes at a cost as Ella stretches herself thin between a demanding job and night classes. Desperate for some time to prepare for an upcoming exam and unable to take a day off, Ella begs her twin sister to trade places with her...
  • Snow and Her Seven White Lies by Cameron Hart

    Snow and Her Seven White Lies by Cameron Hart

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Sybil: My dress is too short, my heels are too tall, and the lingerie my cousin made me wear is too tight. The one good thing about my outfit is the mask. It’s actually the only reason I agreed to come out to this Halloween party tonight. Behind this mask, I’m not a painfully shy wallflower. Behind this mask, maybe I’ll find the confidence to talk to a guy...
  • Fake Love by Jocelyne Soto

    Fake Love by Jocelyne Soto

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I had everything going for me.Drafted right out of college. Signed a multimillion-dollar contract. Slated to become a hall of famer.All my prospects were looking up… Until a diagnosis caused me to ruin everything.It took me a season to destroy my career and now I have to work to repair it.Step 1: Get clean.Step 2: Show my new team that their investment isn’t a waste...
  • Out of Order by Flora Madison

    Out of Order by Flora Madison

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Check-in time starts now!Carlie:As a bridesmaid/wedding date for hire, weddings are my life.I've never had any reservations until NFL Bad Boy, Griffin Starke, walks into my office.Griffin's built like a bulldozer and as handsome as a movie star, but not necessarily good for my brand.He's always in the press for bad behavior, and the potential exposure would put my business at risk...
  • Fight Me, Baby by Fiona Davenport

    Fight Me, Baby by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Angelique Butler didn’t want to prance around in front of a crowd in a bikini, but the situation her brother landed her in had left her no choice. Then the decision was taken out of her hands when Michael “Saint” St. John tossed her over his shoulder and carried her away.As a champion MMA fighter, Saint was used to taking hard hits, but nothing prepared him for his reaction to Angelique...
  • Mountain Man Fixated by Olivia T. Turner

    Mountain Man Fixated by Olivia T. Turner

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    I’m a city girl.I don’t do nature.It sucks.Bugs, bears, poison ivy.You name it, I hate it.So, when my niece asks me to accompany her on a camping trip, I’m horrified.But I’m a good aunt, so I say yes.Well, that was a huge mistake.One of many.Forgetting the bug spray. That was a mistake.So was thinking I could control a canoe.Spoiler alert: I can’t...
  • Campus God by Jennifer Sucevic

    Campus God by Jennifer Sucevic

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Crosby Rhodes is considered a god when it comes to Western Wildcats football.And who knows?Maybe he actually is one. There’s certainly no shortage of girls on campus who agree with the sentiment. They swoon over his pretty face, dark messy hair, and hard body honed from years of lifting and two-a-day practices. That alone makes him catnip for the female species...
  • Cream by C.M. Steele

    Cream by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Nicholas Williams has two loves in his life, work and his younger sister Brie. Nothing keeps him away from his business except for Brie. So when she needs his help, he willingly agrees, but that’s all forgotten the instant his eyes land on the woman who just entered the coffee shop. Now he’s found a new love...
  • Hail Mary by J.B. Salsbury

    Hail Mary by J.B. Salsbury

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Theodore is every father’s nightmare and my sweetest revenge. I was nine years old when my dad broke my heart. Ten years later I finally get my chance to break his. And what better way to hurt him than to mess with the only thing he’s ever loved—his football team. Seducing the team’s star quarterback is easy. Throwing him into my dad’s face? Even easier. Letting him go proves much more difficult...
  • Kiss and Tell by Maya Hughes

    Kiss and Tell by Maya Hughes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "Wouldn't most guys love a no strings attached hook up?""Maybe, but most guys don't deserve you. I want to be one who does. And I want to be all tangled up in your strings."Newly arrived on campus, I knew two things. 1) No one could know my dad was the president of the university and 2) football players were bad news.My run in, the literal kind with my neighbor cranked up the heat and sparks flew...
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