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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...
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    sports  suspense  m-f  contemporary  humor  audiobook
  • Always You by Emilia Finn

    Always You by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    What does any self respecting socialite do when she finds her husband screwing his secretary on HER dining room table? She gets petty revenge a'la Louisville Slugger, then she runs home and pretends her whole life isn’t in tatters...
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  • Take A Chance On Me by Emilia Finn

    Take A Chance On Me by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Oh Sh*tThis is part 2 of the Marc and Meg Duet. It cannot be read as a standalone. Due to spoilers, the above is all the blurb you will get.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️The conclusion to the Meg and Marc duet is phenomenal. It’s been a long time since I’ve found a writer that makes me laugh, scream, and cry in the same sitting. This is an epic story - epic love, epic friendship, epic woman finding her way...
  • Power Play by Toni Aleo

    Power Play by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Posey Adler is coming home. After a devastating journey for what she mistakenly thought was true love, she is saying to hell with men and love forever. As the Nashville Assassins’s new assistant coach for special teams, Posey is ready to focus on her job and have the attention on her for a change...
  • Checkmate by Emilia Finn

    Checkmate by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Bishop men are nothing but a plague on this planet, a disease that needs eradication before it spreads. They’re murderers. Liars. Thieves. The day I met Colum Bishop, I thought my life was finally turning around. I was led to believe he would be our saviour. He was supposed to be our hero, a long awaited reprieve from the hardships life insisted on throwing at my mom and me...
    Categorized as:
    sports  suspense  m-f  military  new adult  contemporary
  • Jules by Cleo Browne

    Jules by Cleo Browne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jules Tombs doesn’t do relationships. Or emotions. Or any kind of attachment that lasts longer than a night and involves fewer than three people. Feelings are messy, and he’s got no interest in them—until a baby shows up on his doorstep with his scowl and his DNA, forcing him to face the one thing scarier than fatherhood...
  • Twenty-Two by Toni Aleo

    Twenty-Two by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    When Lucas Brooks was traded to the Nashville Assassins over a decade ago, he was a brash, brawling hothead without an anchor. Well, four kids and a smokin' hot wife will weigh you down real fast, but Lucas wouldn't change a minute of his happily ever after...
  • Always Us by Scarlett Avery

    Always Us by Scarlett Avery

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jace Halsey…It seems I’m the only sane woman in LA who’s immune to that self-important man.Even my big sister swoons all over him. It makes me sick. Truth be told, I want nothing more than to annihilate him because he’s always in the way. Never mind he has no clue of my existence, he’s still the thorn in my side...
  • Meant for Her by Natasha Madison

    Meant for Her by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 34 ratings
    From Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Bestselling Author Natasha Madison comes new enemies to lovers, forbidden, single mom, hockey romance. Christopher I came from the biggest hockey family in the NHL. Records were set by my grandfather, my father, and now my brother. I was taught to love the game, but more than that, I learned early the men you play with are your family...
  • A Cranberry Inn Christmas by Beth Ehemann

    A Cranberry Inn Christmas by Beth Ehemann

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Christmas at the Murphy household has always been a big deal, but with her daughters getting older, Kacie Murphy is feeling a bit sentimental, so she decides to give her family the perfect Christmas. Plans of cookie baking, sleigh ride taking, and snowman making are quickly put in jeopardy when Kacie receives devastating news—her mom has sold the beloved Cranberry Inn...
  • At the Edge with You: A Small Town Hockey Romance by Toni Aleo

    At the Edge with You: A Small Town Hockey Romance by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I never thought I’d see her again.Fable Winthrop was my only partner on the ice. I’d been the hockey player turned figure skater overnight, and she was the prim, proper ice princess who didn’t take my crap.I did everything to make her smile, I worked hard to get her the gold, and I loved every moment of it...
  • Changing Lines by Toni Aleo

    Changing Lines by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Claire and Jude Sinclair have been living the perfect life for the last ten years. Blissfully in love, professionally successful, happily married… They have everything they want—except a baby to make their family complete...
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    sports  hockey  m-f  new adult  contemporary  audiobook
  • Tacker by Sawyer Bennett

    Tacker by Sawyer Bennett

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 34 ratings
    I am not okay. Fifteen months ago, my life was turned upside down when the plane I was piloting went down. Injured and trapped in the wreckage, I had to watch my fiancée die a painfully slow death, which is something that can really mess with your head. Since that day, I’ve had little desire to do much of anything. Except play hockey, that is...
  • Delayed Call by Toni Aleo

    Delayed Call by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Vaughn Johansson is the Nashville Assassins' star player. He's brash, cocky, and talented. And he isn't afraid to let anyone know it. He lives his life on his own terms, never forming romantic attachments, and only allowing his very closest to see his true, caring self. Brie Soledad has the weight of the world on her shoulders...
  • Perfect Boy by Hannah Gray

    Perfect Boy by Hannah Gray

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    An entire campus knows my name. Women throw themselves at me, hoping I’ll take them home that night. Whispers from the NHL say I’m the one to watch. And the weight of each game is on my shoulders because if our opposing team scores … that’s on me. All the things that keep me up at night are probably someone else’s dreams...
  • Strays by Cora Brent

    Strays by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    STRAYS (An Anti-Hero Romance)Before age sixteen I was kicked to the streets, condemned for a crime I didn’t commit.Since then I’ve done nothing to be proud of.Which is why a man like me isn’t cut out to be a dad.And if this kid had another option I wouldn’t try to be one now.But for once I’m going to step up.I’ll right the worst of old wrongs...
  • 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...
  • It Had to Be You by Susan May Warren

    It Had to Be You by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Eden Christiansen never imagined her role as her younger brother Owen's cheerleader would keep her on the sidelines of her own life. Sure, it feels good to be needed, but looking after the reckless NHL rookie leaves little time for Eden to focus on her own career...
  • Blackbridge Security Box Set 1 by Marie James

    Blackbridge Security Box Set 1 by Marie James

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Box Set contains Hostile Territory, Shot in the Dark, and Contingency Plan!Hostile TerritoryCan you call someone an enemy if you haven’t seen them for the better part of a decade?Deacon Black is perfectly content with the status quo—work, sleep, repeat.Who cares if he’s rigid, structured, and set in his ways?It’s a job requirement that keeps his men safe and his company’s doors open...
  • Wild Heart by Beth Ehemann

    Wild Heart by Beth Ehemann

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    For Lawrence “Viper” Finkle, hockey isn’t just a sport, it’s a way of life. Since the first time he stepped onto the ice at just eight years old, he knew what he was meant to do, and he does it well. When his career takes an unexpected hit, and his relationship is pushed to the breaking point, he’s left sidelined and wondering what his future holds...
  • Jax by E.M. Moore

    Jax by E.M. Moore

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I had real love once. The all-consuming, toe-curling kind of love.Fate had other plans for the two of us though.Ruled by a world of dangerous men, I did something reprehensible. I did what I needed to survive. I betrayed Jax—the only man who ever truly cared whether I lived or died.Years later, I remain a brokenhearted plaything. A puppet to maneuver around a chess board...
  • The Anti-Heroes Collection by Parker S. Huntington, L.J. Shen

    The Anti-Heroes Collection by Parker S. Huntington, L.J. Shen

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling authors L.J. Shen, Parker S. Huntington, and Ava Harrison comes a collection of three full-length standalone romances, featuring filthy anti-heroes and the sassy women who tame them. Includes never-before-seen bonus epilogues!Shattered Dynasty by Ava HarrisonTrent Aldridge is the devil.Rich. Arrogant. Sinfully handsome.He holds my inheritance in his hands...
  • The Tenacious Act by Marion De Ré

    The Tenacious Act by Marion De Ré

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 10 ratings
    Our contractor declared bankruptcy and we now have to leave our bookstore opening into the hands of a professional hockey team.Thankfully, the guys are also skilled off the ice and dedicated to help us make our dream come true.Particularly, Maxime, my friend’s brother who’s a relentless flirt with a goofy personality.And as hot as he might be, I don’t do boyfriends...
  • I Need You To Love Me by Genicious

    I Need You To Love Me by Genicious

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Together they are nothing more than madness,but they say there’s always some madness in loveSix years elapsed since he shattered her life. Four years since she’s brought him to his knees.Now, Ace is the youngest boxing champion in the world – a force to be reckoned with. He’s dangerous, heartless, and always gets his way.Calla moved to New York to chase her career...
  • Brace and Chase by Hinsel Meyer

    Brace and Chase by Hinsel Meyer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happens when rivals have to work together to earn their spot on the team back?SANTACharlie Heart is many things:An annoyingly good hockey player.The man who the media has pitted me against our whole careers.My rival.The only person I truly hate in the world.And now apparently, my newest teammate...
  • Diamond by J.A. Low

    Diamond by J.A. Low

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Round 2 with the Devil begins.Grace thought she had left the nightmare of the Bratva Jewels behind her. Her days spent with them were some of the darkest of her life, but she’s safe now.Or so she thought.When the Bratva seeks revenge for losing one of their own, Grace knows she must be strong to withstand whatever they have in store for her...
  • Portland Storm: The Second Period by Catherine Gayle

    Portland Storm: The Second Period by Catherine Gayle

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Delay of Game With her father’s health in question, Sara Thomas is focused on reducing his anxiety. That’s no small feat considering his high-stress job. Everyone knows Sara’s single; no one knows she’s pregnant. There’s never a good time to unexpectedly get knocked up, but now is not it...
  • Icebreaker, Wildfire by Hannah Grace

    Icebreaker, Wildfire by Hannah Grace

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched The Maple Hills Hannah Grace 2 Books Collection Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA...
    Categorized as:
    hockey  suspense  sports  contemporary
  • Enemy Heir by Carrie Ann Ryan, Nana Malone

    Enemy Heir by Carrie Ann Ryan, Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A bad boy prince meets his match in this epic Tattered Royals stand-alone romance.I know men like him.Powerful. Arrogant. Trouble. The world is his playground.The playboy prince, the tabloid favorite, and the bane of my existence. And unfortunately, he’s the only one who might be able to help me uncover the truth...
  • Delayed Call by Toni Aleo

    Delayed Call by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 32 ratings
    Vaughn Johansson is the Nashville Assassins' star player. He's brash, cocky, and talented. And he isn't afraid to let anyone know it. He lives his life on his own terms, never forming romantic attachments, and only allowing his very closest to see his true, caring self. Brie Soledad has the weight of the world on her shoulders...
  • The Carolina Cold Fury Hockey Series by Sawyer Bennett

    The Carolina Cold Fury Hockey Series by Sawyer Bennett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Discover the series that led Violet Duke to rave, “Sawyer Bennett never fails to deliver heroes I fall hard for and heroines I adore.” Featuring the chiseled bad boys of the Carolina Cold Fury hockey team, these electrifying romances are melting hearts, one reader at a time...
    Categorized as:
    sports  m-f  hockey  contemporary  length-epic  audiobook
  • Hit 'em Hard by Kat Mizera

    Hit 'em Hard by Kat Mizera

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Phantoms are back with a vengeance… and the City of Angels will never be the same. JENSEN: Chasing my pro hockey dreams in the City of Angels has been a relentless battle. Each season feels like starting over, and being miles away from my family only adds to the struggle. I don’t know what I would do without my online gaming friends. Especially @Empress...
  • Smokeshow by Raine Miller

    Smokeshow by Raine Miller

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Be "just friends" with a smokeshow like her? That's pretty much a p#cking impossible ask.—Tyler Lockhardt, VEGAS CRUSHI'm just over here minding my business playing hockey for the Crush when the SMOKESHOW of my dreams turns up and seriously rocks my world.For real.Beautiful, smart, and so incredibly sweet I cannot help myself from wanting to get to know her a whole lot better...
  • Heller Brothers Hockey - A Five Book Hockey Romance Collection by Kelly Jamieson

    Heller Brothers Hockey - A Five Book Hockey Romance Collection by Kelly Jamieson

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    An amazing opportunity to own all 5 Heller Brothers Hockey romances In One Limited Edition Digital Boxed Set...
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    athletes  sports  hockey  contemporary  length-epic
  • When I Fall in Love by Susan May Warren

    When I Fall in Love by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Hawaii was the last place Grace Christiansen ever imagined she’d vacation, much less fall in love. But when her family surprises her with a cooking retreat in paradise, she is pulled—or maybe yanked—away from her predictable, safe life and thrown headfirst into the adventure of a lifetime. Max Sharpe may make his living on the ice as a pro hockey player, but he feels most at home in the kitchen...
  • Smoke Signals by Catherine Gayle

    Smoke Signals by Catherine Gayle

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Catherine Gayle presents the second novel in the Tulsa Tunderbirds hockey romance series. Desperation changes a person. Leads them to do things they never would have dreamed. Thanks to his mother, Ray “Razor” Chambers knows what desperation can lead a person to do. But as a defenseman for the Tulsa Thunderbirds, those days are long in the past for both of them...
  • On the Fly by Catherine Gayle

    On the Fly by Catherine Gayle

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Injury after injury has put Brenden Campbell's NHL career on hold for years. Now he's playing for the Portland Storm and determined to make it stick. Few things in life drive him more than being told he can't have something he wants, and what he wants most is to prove he belongs. Brenden also wants Rachel Shaw, the cute, little redhead who just got hired as the general manager's new assistant...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    athletes  sports  hockey  m-f  contemporary  length-medium
  • Turn of the Tides by Jessica Prince

    Turn of the Tides by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    When Beau Wade left his small hometown of Whitecap, Oregon, he swore to himself he’d never go back. But when his NFL career goes up in smoke, that’s exactly what he finds himself doing. Not much has changed in the ten years he’s been gone...
  • Game Day Baby by C.M. Seabrook, Frankie Love

    Game Day Baby by C.M. Seabrook, Frankie Love

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A steamy new full-length standalone novel by Amazon bestselling authors C.M. Seabrook and Frankie Love! I had it all planned out.  I'd find a girl, marry her, get the white picket fence and make a family.  But then a baby is dropped off at my doorstep.  My baby.  Turns out I'm more than an NFL quarterback -- I'm a father.  And my daughter's mother is missing. Or she ran away...
  • Can't Get Enough by Molly McLain

    Can't Get Enough by Molly McLain

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    When life gives you lemons, find a former Marine with sexy abs to lick the lemonade from… Tony Dunn's panty-snatching bachelor life has been turned upside down—he now has custody of a daughter he didn't even know he fathered. With his focus solely on doing right by his little girl, the last thing he needs is a sexy, totally distracting blonde showing up on his doorstep...
  • 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...
  • Veritas by A.L. Woods

    Veritas by A.L. Woods

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I have more money than I know what to spend it on.The power that comes with being a partner at a law firm.A closet-full of tailored Brioni suits.The ugly divorce.A daughter I love more than life itself, even if I’m not sure she’s mine.What I don’t have is her.My queen of thorns.Maria Tavares has the paralyzing effect of a black widow disguised as a femme fatale...
  • Wild Blades by V.H. Nicolson

    Wild Blades by V.H. Nicolson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’m ‘Wild’ Wade Collins, defenseman for The Eagles.Drafted at eighteen, I have my life mapped out, until it all comes crashing down around me.Which is how I find myself being managed by a specialist team, the threat of transfer looming over me if I don’t learn to behave. I can’t lose my spot on the team; I bleed Eagle colors, so I agree.I just didn’t know that I’d have to work with her.Kali Roth...
  • Bourbon Truths by Meghan Quinn

    Bourbon Truths by Meghan Quinn

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Every choice you make in life comes with a consequence. I was once on top, I was the professional boxer to be afraid of. I had everything I could possibly hope for. I was happy, satisfied, content . . . until one night. One off day. One wrong reaction. I killed a man. The sound, the blood, the stagnant air, it’s forever imprinted in my mind and now dictates the way I live my life...
  • My Pucking Little Secret by Leighton Grace

    My Pucking Little Secret by Leighton Grace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Devon The Vermont Vipers Star Who Became My Surprising Inspiration - And My Fake BoyfriendI’m a romance writer in a slump.All I did was tag along to a hockey game with my brother.The star player slams a guy into a wall and turns to give the crowd a thumbs-up. Just like that…a spark ignited in me. I went home and scribbled down a story idea, posting it to Instagram...
  • Icing the Enemy by Kristin Lee

    Icing the Enemy by Kristin Lee

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    USA Today Bestselling Author, Kristin Lee brings you a hockey romance full of sass, swoon and spice. I’m not your typical jock—no endless string of hookups or partying until dawn. I’ll wait for the real thing.Until a chance encounter at a truck stop with a defiant, blue-eyed bombshell with a broken down car and a dog sends my heart racing...
  • The Story of Us by Brittney Sahin

    The Story of Us by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A football fanatic sports columnist. A sexy Italian soccer player. When in Rome . . . Maggie Lane, a sports columnist and diehard football fan, is not exactly enthused when her editor-in-chief sends her to Rome, Italy, to write a feature story on Italian soccer star Marco Valenti...
    Categorized as:
    athletes  sports  m-f  contemporary  length-medium
  • Oceanside by Michelle Mankin

    Oceanside by Michelle Mankin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Oscar night. Rock star legend, Ashland Keys should be on top of the world, but the blond blue-eyed SoCal surfer is disillusioned with fame, done with drugs, bored with the groupies and sick of all the fake f*ckery...
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