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  • Pucks, Sticks, and Diapers by Toni Aleo

    Pucks, Sticks, and Diapers by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    First came love, then came the NHL, then came Baylor and Jayden with a baby carriage...
  • Bring It Home by Toni Aleo

    Bring It Home by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Boon Hoenes only has three goals in life. To make Posey Adler his wife, to win the Stanley Cup for the second year in a row, and for Shea Adler to like him.The first, he’s got on lock. The second, he’s well on his way. And the third… Well, two out of three ain’t bad...
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  • Needing You Close by Kennedy Fox

    Needing You Close by Kennedy Fox

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I never expected to see my first love again after he left me twelve years ago. Though I’ve moved on, working with Tyler is no easy task—especially when he focuses his bedroom eyes on me. Flirting with the past is like playing with fire, and considering I’m engaged, I’m bound to get burned...
  • In the Crease by Toni Aleo

    In the Crease by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Jensen Monroe is a unicorn. As handsome as any model, as polite as can be, a goalie of unmatched skill, and the best friend anyone could ask for. But he longs for a particular special someone to make his life complete. He’s been in love with Wren since he was a teenager, but as his best friend’s sister, she’s always been off-limits...
  • Dirty Toe Drag by Toni Aleo

    Dirty Toe Drag by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 16 ratings
    Stella Brooks is a woman who knows what she wants. From her first glimpse of Paris Fashion Week at the tender age of eleven, she has only ever wanted to be a designer. Hardworking and dedicated, she knows she can make a success of it. Until…she is driven to trade fashion for frosting, a move that makes her soul sing but shakes her confidence in her decision-making to her core...
    Categorized as:
    sports  new adult  hockey  contemporary  open-door  m-f
  • Dump and Chase by Toni Aleo

    Dump and Chase by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Shelli Adler has known what she wanted since she was eleven years old. Aiden Brooks. But Aiden has always had other ideas. After spending the early years of his life without his dad, hockey legend Lucas Brooks, Aiden is determined not to settle for anything less than true love. When he’s ready. Now he’s living the fast life of an NHL bachelor...
  • End Game by Toni Aleo

    End Game by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    This is going to be Ryan Justice’s year. It’s his last year of college and his last year as a hockey player for the Bellevue Bullies. He’s making all the plays in preparation for achieving his dream of being drafted into the NHL. This is Sofia Castilleja’s beginning. She is starting her college career as a star member of Bellevue’s brand-new gymnastics team...
    Categorized as:
    sports  new adult  hockey  college  contemporary  m-f
  • Changing Lines by Toni Aleo

    Changing Lines by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 14 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...
    Categorized as:
    sports  new adult  hockey  contemporary  m-f
  • Promise by T.K. Leigh

    Promise by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He was supposed to be my first kiss. My first love. My first everything... There are moments in our lives that define us. For Brooklyn Tanner, it's the summer before her junior year of high school. The summer boys finally begin to notice her. The summer he finally begins to notice her. Andrew Brinks. Handsome. Popular. Star hockey player. Her best friend's brother...
  • Only One Forever by Natasha Madison

    Only One Forever by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    From The Something So Series and the This Is series comes Only One Forever.DylanMy dreams came true when I was adopted at ten.I was the best on the ice. Living the life of what every kid dreams of.We’ve been best friends since then. Even when she was the annoying little sister following us around.I would do anything for her.It is another family vacation; except this time it feels different...
  • Jersey Girl by Rhonda James

    Jersey Girl by Rhonda James

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Brantley Cage is a standout D-man on Great Lakes University hockey team. Now that his dream of signing with the Detroit Red Wings has come true, his goals for senior year are simple: Work hard. Score big. Stay away from love. And then he meets her. There's just one problem...
  • Spiked by Love by Toni Aleo

    Spiked by Love by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Allison Titov and Asher Brooks have been best friends their whole lives. Brought up together as part of the Assassins family, they might as well be related. But... Ally has never felt anything sisterly toward Asher.In love with Asher since she was a teen, Ally has gone pro at keeping her feelings a secret. It’s been easy..
  • Writing the Rules by Mariah Dietz

    Writing the Rules by Mariah Dietz

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Poppy Anderson was nailing her sophomore year at Brighton University. She liked her classes, had the greatest best friend, and was finally ready to start dating again. Or she was … until her ex, Mike, transferred to Brighton and started exchanging long stares and inside jokes that Poppy thought he’d forgotten.Paxton Lawson was long ago labeled ‘The Golden Boy...
  • The Chase is Over by Toni Aleo

    The Chase is Over by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    You are cordially invited to the wedding of Shelli Adler and Aiden Brooks…Shelli has been planning her wedding to Aiden in her scrapbook since she was old enough to wield a glue stick. And now that day has finally arrived...
  • If It's Only Love by Lexi Ryan

    If It's Only Love by Lexi Ryan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times bestseller Lexi Ryan comes a sexy new standalone romance in the bestselling Boys of Jackson Harbor series. Meet single dad Easton Connor as he leaves the NFL and returns to Jackson Harbor to fight for another chance with the love of his life. *** I don’t regret much. Not my decision to enter the NFL draft before finishing college...
  • Red Rocket by Raine Miller, Brit DeMille

    Red Rocket by Raine Miller, Brit DeMille

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "Public Relations" is about to take on a whole new meaning for a standout Russian enforcer with a bad reputation and the feisty redhead from the PR department who just might be the one person who can help him shine up his tarnished image in this grumpy/sunshine hockey love story. "They call me 'The Mad Russian' for a reason...
  • Van by Kat Mizera

    Van by Kat Mizera

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Temptation could destroy everything he’d spent his career building…Professional hockey player Jean-Michel Vander is living the dream…. And the Las Vegas strip is a long way from the small town in Quebec where he grew up. He works hard but he plays harder, especially in the off-season. The sexy redhead he spots doing a striptease in a Paris nightclub is all kinds of fun...
  • Foul Play by Kat Mizera

    Foul Play by Kat Mizera

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Phantoms are back with a vengeance… and the City of Angels will never be the same. When the world's top supermodel’s friend zones you, what's a determined hockey player supposed to do? Change her mind. But it’ll take more than a trick play to convince her. Cheyenne is more than a stunning beauty; she's a part of my life, my bed, and now my heart...
  • The Bro-Code by Melissa Adams

    The Bro-Code by Melissa Adams

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 8 ratings
    I’ve always been the most popular girl on campus. President of the hottest sorority, dating one of the hottest hockey players, but this fall it seems like my luck has run out.When my sorority house is destroyed, I’m forced to move into the frat house with not only most of the sexy-as-hell hockey team.I know I’m in trouble...
  • My Next Play by Carrie Ann Ryan

    My Next Play by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens when you fall for your best friend, but they fall in love with someone else? Nothing is what it seems in this unrequited love, new adult romance.Miles knew Nessa never had eyes for him.  Only when someone new tries to hurt her, he knows he can’t stand back any longer. It’s time she finds out the man he is behind the glasses and beneath the shell he wrapped himself in...
  • Hard Pass by Brenda Rothert, Kat Mizera

    Hard Pass by Brenda Rothert, Kat Mizera

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    SariahEver meant to text your ex, but accidentally messaged a stranger instead? I did, and that mistake started a friendship that became important to me as I navigated a move and a new job with the St. Louis Mavericks. I’m crushing life as a strong, single woman until I discover the truth. That stranger I’m crushing on? He’s actually not a stranger at all...
  • All the Sauce by Toni Aleo

    All the Sauce by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Owen Adler has spent his whole life being half of a matched set. But when his twin brother Evan leaves hockey—and him—behind on the Carolina IceCats, Owen finds he has to skate a new path on his own.Angie Paxton knows a lot about being on her own. She pushed Nashville, and the trauma she experienced there, to the back of her mind and started over in South Carolina...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  sports  hockey  contemporary
  • 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...
  • My Rebound by Carrie Ann Ryan

    My Rebound by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A rebound isn’t supposed to last. Though, sometimes, fate has other ideas in this opposites attract, friends with benefits romance.It wasn’t supposed to happen this way.Mackenzie Thomas started planning her future at the age of six. She knew the college she wanted, the career she needed, and the boy she would marry.Only he wasn’t supposed to break up with her in such a spectacular fashion...
  • Inked Obsession by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Inked Obsession by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Montgomery Ink saga from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan continues with a second chance romance sure to tug at your heartstrings.When men in uniform showed up on Eliza Wilder-Strong’s doorstep, she knew her life would be irrevocably altered. She not only lost her husband, but the future she’d carefully planned...
  • Burn by Ginger Scott

    Burn by Ginger Scott

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    **Burn is the third and final book in the brother’s-best-friend, friends-to-lovers Fuel Series by Ginger Scott. This second-chance romance completes this angsty, steamy, new adult trilogy.Dustin Bridge’s world is about speed. About the edge. His life has been carved by cutting corners and making moves, following impulsive decisions while weighing the facts at hand...
  • Slammed by Victoria Denault

    Slammed by Victoria Denault

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Not every goalie plays it safe... As a publicist for the San Francisco Thunder hockey team, Dixie Braddock is too busy rescuing the players from trouble to get into any of her own. Except, of course, when it comes to the super hot new goalie...
  • Behind the Count by Kimberly Readnour

    Behind the Count by Kimberly Readnour

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Dating my brother’s best friend? Yeah, that’s forbidden…Noah Geren.Cessna University’s starting catcher.Sensible. My life-long crush. And totally off-limits.I only want a few things in life. Graduate with a fashion degree. To be taken seriously. And Noah Geren. After my first year of college, I let the idea of him go. And it almost worked Until that late summer night.Shannon Smith...
  • Winning Whitney by Kat Mizera

    Winning Whitney by Kat Mizera

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hot shot hockey player Jake Curruthers has a plan – focus on his game and avoid distractions. He's succeeding at the first. The Alaska Blizzard has been on the upswing lately, but his focus shifts when the heart-stopping blonde from his past shows up in Anchorage. Yeah, his head is definitely not in the game anymore...
  • Taking His Shot by Kendall Ryan

    Taking His Shot by Kendall Ryan

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 31 ratings
    She says she doesn’t date players.She swears up and down that she’ll never handle my stick.We’ll see about that, sweetheart.When I win the pleasure of Harper’s company at a charity auction, I get exactly one date—one shot to win over the gorgeous and feisty brunette.Game on. I play hard, and I love a challenge.But just when I think I’ve finally carved out my shot . .
  • Talk British to Me by Robin Bielman

    Talk British to Me by Robin Bielman

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    As the Dating Guy on L.A.‘s top morning show, I give the single guy’s perspective on dating, love, and sex—and I give great advice. Everyone’s hooking up…well, except for me. Sure, I can get any woman I want, but I’ve got a “no relationship” clause in my contract and the only woman I want has “relationship” written all over her. Probably stamped on her ass, too...
  • Jonah by Brenda Rothert

    Jonah by Brenda Rothert

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    ReynaI don’t do relationships. A federal agent whose life revolves around rescuing kidnapped children, I’ve got no interest in catching any man who’s not a criminal. So when my new assignment in Chicago requires me to get closer to a VIP Chicago Blaze fan, Blaze goalie Jonah West is the perfect cover. Like me, he’s too focused on his career to make time for love, dates or even hookups...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  sports  hockey  contemporary
  • Fight by Molly McLain, Sara Eirew

    Fight by Molly McLain, Sara Eirew

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    **This is not a standalone. Check out FLY (Velocity, #1) first. amzn.to/2dPfsgW :) ** The story continues... I trusted Colton with every bit of myself. I believed him when he promised he'd never hurt me. But he broke me...and now I watch him give another woman everything I thought would be mine. I never saw this coming...
  • The First Taste by Crystal Kaswell

    The First Taste by Crystal Kaswell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Dear Holden, I'm not going to college a virgin. I want to learn everything and I want you to teach me.I have to ask: will you be my first?Yes, there are risks. I'm your best friend's kid sister. As off limits as it gets.But forbidden fruit is always the sweetest.And I'll do anything for a taste...
  • Overtime by Kat Mizera

    Overtime by Kat Mizera

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Hotshot hockey star Patrick Graham has been groomed for the pros since before he could walk. Fast forward to his junior year of college, and he’s having the time of his life. What could be better than pucks, partying, and having his pick of campus women? But if Patrick doesn’t buckle down and get his grades up, he could find himself benched for the championships...
  • Aftersome by Remi Rose

    Aftersome by Remi Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Ten years ago, I lost the love of my life.In a blink of an eye, he was gone and to this day, I still seem to be picking up the pieces of my broken heart.But in losing Hayes, we had also lost Mal. The misunderstood hockey player who wished more than anything that he could turn back time and trade places with his best friend. So, in his grief and guilt, he left. Without a goodbye...
  • Game Changer: A Wynn Hockey Novel by Kelly Jamieson

    Game Changer: A Wynn Hockey Novel by Kelly Jamieson

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Jackson Wynn I don’t want anything to do with my crazy family’s drama, which I’ve been watching unfold from a distance over the last year, but now my grandfather has Alzheimer’s and I feel I need to at least make a quick visit to see him. My hockey season’s over, all I have to do is get through my teammate Steve’s wedding, and then I’m on a plane to Los Angeles to do my family duty...
  • Rain Dance by Catherine Gayle

    Rain Dance by Catherine Gayle

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ***Trigger warning: contains graphic scenes depicting domestic and sexual violence.*** USA Today bestselling author Catherine Gayle presents another novel in the sexy Tulsa Thunderbirds hockey romance series, a spin-off from the Portland Storm series. He's in a drought. No rain. No goals. No women. She has what it takes to quench his thirst...
    Categorized as:
    sports  new adult  hockey  contemporary  m-f  length-short
  • Free Agent by Catherine Gayle

    Free Agent by Catherine Gayle

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Catherine Gayle presents another novel in the emotional Portland Storm hockey romance series. Can you fall in love when you’ve never loved yourself? Universally misjudged, Blake Kozlow doesn’t let society get under his skin. After all, those misunderstandings have never affected his career...
  • Two for Charging by Lasairiona E. McMaster

    Two for Charging by Lasairiona E. McMaster

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dedicated. Driven. Divorced.Coach Elliott Swift is under pressure from all sides. His players are counting on him to return the team to championship success despite his recently graduated star players. His toxic ex-wife dogs his every move, and his sickly, aging parents require constant care...
  • Sean by Sheridan Anne

    Sean by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sean -I’m a shell of the man I used to be.Three years ago, my world shattered.My wife died the day my daughter was born and she took my soul with her.I’ve never been able to get it back.Not until she came and saved me.Gigi -He came storming into my ER screaming for help.I never thought that moment would define the rest of my life.He’s broken and tortured, but not for long...
  • Waiting to Score by Evey Lyon

    Waiting to Score by Evey Lyon

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Former hockey star Declan Dash loves to play the game, and the one with his friend’s little sister, Violet Spears? He plans to win…Running into your brother’s billionaire ex-hockey-playing best friend at a special kind of party should have been a red flag. Pulling one another’s names from a bowl at said party was a coincidence...
  • Two for Roughing by Lasairiona E. McMaster

    Two for Roughing by Lasairiona E. McMaster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s a simple rule: don’t bang your teammates’ siblings.Finn O’Brien didn’t just break the rule, he annihilated it. Falling in love with his best friend’s younger sister when they were teens was an accident. He fought it for years, hiding behind a list of one-night stands a mile long, anything to convince himself Molly Morrison wasn’t the woman for him...
  • One Timer on Top by London Casey

    One Timer on Top by London Casey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    DON’T SLEEP WITH YOUR BEST FRIEND’S EX. Okay. I get that. I respect that. But what about sleeping with your biggest rival’s ex? And… what about marrying her…?* * *I caught my boyfriend enjoying some “oral service” from another woman. Dumping him is easy. Getting rid of him his almost impossible since I work in PR and he’s one of my clients. (Yeah, I know, don’t mix business with pleasure...
  • Hook 'em Hard by Cathryn Fox, Bang Brothers

    Hook 'em Hard by Cathryn Fox, Bang Brothers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Maeve Carter, the Boston Bucks’ team physiotherapist, is the definition of beautiful. As a former model, her stunning looks have defined her—just ask the paparazzi or the stalker who made her life miserable. But I see more. Want more. And she can never know that.You see, she’s my oldest teammate's daughter, and I can’t touch that with a ten-foot hockey stick...
  • Playmaker by Avery Keelan

    Playmaker by Avery Keelan

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    NHL superstar Gabriel Carter has everything: a thriving professional hockey career, an MVP trophy from last season, and a carefree bachelor lifestyle. He also has an infant daughter-one he didn't know existed. Summer Crawford isn't a fan of the cocky playmaker/heartbreaker she remembers from years ago. And working as his daughter's nanny? Not a chance...
  • Faceoff by Rebecca Connolly, Heather B. Moore

    Faceoff by Rebecca Connolly, Heather B. Moore

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She isn’t supposed to want him. He isn’t supposed to want her. But wanting each other is inevitable. Clint McCarthy has finally achieved his dream of playing for a professional hockey program, and is eager to make his mark with his new team...
  • Famous Last Words by C.W. Farnsworth

    Famous Last Words by C.W. Farnsworth

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 51 ratings
    Harlow Hayes has spent three years avoiding Conor Hart. The cocky captain of Holt University’s hockey team makes it easy—he ignores her right back.Plenty of girls fall for the charming lines and that arrogant smirk.Harlow knows better. Knows more.Like the fuel for the fury that makes Conor such a dominant force on the ice. The history they share but didn’t write. The reason they don’t speak...
  • Score by Victoria Denault

    Score by Victoria Denault

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He's used to winning, but now he's playing with his heart.Jude Braddock. Hockey god. That's how everyone sees him now. But when they were teenagers, Zoey knew him as the kid who didn't have enough nerve to make a move on their one and only disastrous date. Seems he doesn't have that problem anymore, though. According to the rumors, he's with a different woman every night...
  • Crossing the Line by Kendall Ryan

    Crossing the Line by Kendall Ryan

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Recovering from a pulled groin muscle isn’t exactly how I planned to spend my much-needed summer vacation. But I’ll admit, being nursed back to health by my gorgeous friend Bailey, who’s just graduated from medical school, doesn’t exactly sound like a hardship...
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