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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  m-f  contemporary  suspense  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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  • Reshuffle by Emilia Finn

    Reshuffle by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 16 ratings
    The first round is for practice. The second round is for keeps. She was everything Ben ever wanted. But time, distance, and jealousy made it impossible. Now they’re adults, Evie’s back in town after college graduation, and Ben never once let go of what he knew was meant to be...
  • The Playbook of Emma by Brynne Asher

    The Playbook of Emma by Brynne Asher

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The most epic day of my life got even better when I ran into my brother’s best friend and my first crush, Jack Hale. He’s still just as charismatic, charming, and larger than life. Those skills come in handy as a sports agent whose biggest client is the country’s most popular football player. When I land a career-changing interview after the big game, our worlds collide in a Vegas bar...
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    sports  m-f  contemporary  length-long  audiobook
  • 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...
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    sports  m-f  military  new adult  suspense  contemporary
  • Hearts at Play by Melissa Foster

    Hearts at Play by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Brianna Heart has a six-year old daughter and a twelve-year plan to keep her life as simple as possible until Layla turns eighteen. That means swearing off relationships and the drama that goes along with them, working two jobs, and being the best damn mother she can be...
  • Path To Resolution by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Path To Resolution by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Wolfe Emerson is notorious for two things: being an absolute beast in a boxing ring and being a voluntary mute. His story remains unspoken and he prefers to live his life in silence. That is, until, his world is turned upside down when he meets someone who is louder than life...
  • 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...
  • Hustle by Chelle Bliss

    Hustle by Chelle Bliss

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 18 ratings
    Vinnie Gallo's the hottest rookie in professional football. He's a smooth-talker, good with his hands, and knows how to score. Bianca Hernandez thinks she's immune to Vinnie's charms. She's not impressed by the glitz, glamour, or fame, but after a six month self-imposed break from men and sex, she feels her resistance slipping...
  • REGRET by Emilia Finn

    REGRET by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Preston Danes was born and raised on the streets.Unloved. Unwanted. And quickly discarded.Now he’s a man on the verge of a new career when the infamous Checkmate Security offers him a job.They want to shut down a mafia family, and they need the assistance of a skilled hacker to get the job done.Preston knows code like others know their left hands. He’s perfect for the job...
  • Sea of Love by Melissa Foster

    Sea of Love by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    You fell in love with Lacy Snow in Sisters in White (Snow Sisters, Book Three). Follow her on her path to her forever love in Sea of Love. Lacy Snow hadn’t been looking for love when she met strikingly handsome and seductive Dane Braden...
  • Path To Restoration by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Path To Restoration by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Nate Hunter; aspiring boxer, brother to five younger sisters, and...stripper. Yeah, you read that right. After his twin sister went through an abusive relationship, Nate fought to restore her honor by starting a chain of nightclubs that hire and help victimized women get back on their feet...
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    sports  m-f  single-mother  contemporary
  • Sacrifice The Knight by Emilia Finn

    Sacrifice The Knight by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Sacrifices are never ideal, but to win the game, sometimes the knight must fall. Katrina Blair is a single mom to a daredevil teen, which means she has no time for fruitless endeavours such as dating. Why? Because men are all the same: liars, thieves, and unreliable a**holes...
  • Bases Loaded by Lisa Suzanne

    Bases Loaded by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alexis is backed into a corner as she looks between two doors. Behind door number one is the man her father is pushing her to marry, the man who’s good for her brand and her future. Behind door number two is me: the bad boy of baseball who happens to be the man she has fallen in love with.I wish we could just run away together. I promised I’d wait for her no matter how long it took...
    Categorized as:
    sports  m-f  contemporary  audiobook
  • 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...
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    sports  m-f  hockey  mature couple  contemporary
  • Dirty Toe Drag by Toni Aleo

    Dirty Toe Drag by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 17 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...
  • 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  m-f  new adult  contemporary  hockey  audiobook
  • Just One Look by Rosalind James

    Just One Look by Rosalind James

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Luka Darkovic has some tackling skills. He hadn’t planned on using them to bring down a runaway dog the size of a Shetland pony, though, especially not when his neck is already buggered. At 33, a rugby forward protects his vertebrae.. He’s even less happy when the dog’s incompetent owner turns up in his hospital cubicle the next day with a plan to fix those vertebrae...
  • Caught Looking by Lisa Suzanne

    Caught Looking by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    When her father orchestrates an engagement for business purposes, Alexis is forced to say yes publicly. Now I’m the other man in this equation, and despite my reputation as the bad boy of baseball, I learned long ago to stay away from married women. But not everything is as it appears, and she isn’t married yet, which forces me to confront my own morals and fears when it comes to relationships...
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    sports  m-f  contemporary  length-short
  • Touched by Love by Melissa Foster

    Touched by Love by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    TOUCHED BY LOVE is a USA TODAY BESTSELLER Readers’ Favorite calls Touched by Love, “The best book I’ve read all year!” 5 Stars! An unexpected tragedy leads to an unexpected love. Fall in love with the story thousands of readers are raving about. Fiercely independent Janie Jansen has always believed there were worse things in life than being blind, and she’s spent her life proving it...
  • Wreck by Cora Brent

    Wreck by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    THOMASNot too long ago my future was all mapped out.Then two brutal swings of a steel bat wielded by a maniac wrecked my world.The adrenaline high I used to get from pitching a perfect game is gone.The major league dreams I counted on have vanished.And the peace of mind I took for granted is shattered.The thrills I seek out now are self-destructive.I know this and I can’t stop...
  • Path To Realization by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Path To Realization by TheFeveredBookaholic

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

    Crashing into Love by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Voted BEST BOOK SERIES by Supportive Business Moms, UK . "Full of fiery passion and tender promise, all aimed at achieving an incredible happily ever after." 4.5 Stars /Hot, RT Book Reviews . "...love, loss, lies, grief, finding happiness in the face of adversity, romance, humor, bravery, hot hot hot sex scenes, marriages, births and totally awesome characters...
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    sports  m-f  contemporary  length-medium  audiobook
  • A Smoky Mountain Hockey Holiday by Toni Aleo

    A Smoky Mountain Hockey Holiday by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    One chalet in the Smokies. Four loving families. While all the grandbabies are on Santa’s Nice List, a few of the adults are getting coal in their stockings. But no matter their status with the man in the red suit, Elli Adler will spoil each and every one of her favorite people with love and holiday cheer...
  • Thrill of Love by Melissa Foster

    Thrill of Love by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Discover the magic of New York Times bestseller Melissa Foster's writing, and see why millions of readers have fallen in love with the Bradens. Fall in love with Ty Braden and Aiyla Bell in this epic love story...
    Categorized as:
    sports  m-f  humor  contemporary  length-medium  audiobook
  • Castling The Rook by Emilia Finn

    Castling The Rook by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Die a hero. Forever remain a hero. Junior, baby-faced, rookie – Riley Cruz has heard it all. The youngest police recruit in town, Riley is thirty-one years old, but is constantly overlooked because of his youthful features and habit to keep his mouth shut when everyone else is loud. But not everything is as it seems. Not everyone is as innocent as they appear...
  • Playing For Keeps by Emilia Finn

    Playing For Keeps by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Life is all about choices, right? Everything we do, from brushing our teeth in the morning, until we climb into bed at night, is a series of choices. Sometimes we make bad choices, sometimes they’re good, sometimes they’re made under duress, and sometimes they’re the lesser of two evils kind...
  • 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...
  • Cocky Senator’s Daughter: Hannah by Faleena Hopkins

    Cocky Senator’s Daughter: Hannah by Faleena Hopkins

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    HANNAH COCKER Every man I've dated in this city has either bored me or hurt me. When Sofia Sol, my crazy cousin, offers a ride on the back of her Harley with no destination in mind besides out-of-Atlanta, what do you think my answer is? I'll give you one guess. TOBIAS KYRKOS Life doesn't ever hand you what you want. You have to take it...
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    sports  m-f  humor  new adult  contemporary  length-medium
  • Trust the Push by Kaylee Ryan

    Trust the Push by Kaylee Ryan

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I'm making strides in the world of dirt late model racing. With back-to-back championships under my belt, I'm determined to win a third and be the youngest driver in history to do so. I'm going to make it happen. My career is my focus. That is until the ultimate distraction in the form of a redheaded bombshell drops into my life...
  • Pucks and Likes by Toni Aleo

    Pucks and Likes by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    Elliot: I’m pregnant. And the father has no clue. I pushed him away. I shut the door in his face, and while I thought it was only my broken heart he left behind, that wasn’t the case. He left a child inside me. And I kept it. Now he’s back, and it’s time to face off with the only man I’ve ever wanted...
  • #Vacay by Cambria Hebert

    #Vacay by Cambria Hebert

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A #Hashtag and BearPaw Resort Crossover Novella VACATION MODE ON #Vacay Itinerary: —Make new friends —Meet a big dog —Kiss in the snow —Don’t get lost —Ignore the press —Don’t make national news —Drink all the cocoa —Wear all the hoodies —Eat all the food —Get lit! *#Vacay is a crossover novella featuring the characters from the reader favorite Hashtag Series and BearPaw Resort series by...
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    sports  m-f  contemporary  length-short
  • 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...
  • Playing Dirty by Mickey Miller

    Playing Dirty by Mickey Miller

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I'm going to teach Andrea to play dirty...she just doesn't know it yet. Jake Pulling in eight figures a year as star pitcher for the Chicago Jaguars, there's no shortage of parties, booze, and women. I'm a beast on the mound and between the sheets but when my social media presence becomes a major problem, the team’s owner brings in a PR expert to clean up my image...
    Categorized as:
    sports  m-f  humor  new adult  contemporary  baseball
  • The Chase is Over by Toni Aleo

    The Chase is Over by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 15 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...
  • Chosen by Love by Toni Aleo

    Chosen by Love by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cameron White is the most famous student influencer on the Bellevue campus. Not only that, she is one hell of a gymnast, ready to stick every landing her senior year. It’s time to go out with a bang...
  • The Sugar Queen by Tess Thompson

    The Sugar Queen by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    True love requires commitment, and many times unending sacrifice. . .At the tender age of eighteen, Brandi Vargas watched the love of her life drive out of Emerson Pass, presumably for good. Though she and Trapper Barnes dreamed of attending college and starting their lives together, she was sure she would only get in the way of Trapper's future as a hockey star...
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    sports  m-f  contemporary  length-medium  audiobook
  • Protecting Her Heart by Chance Carter

    Protecting Her Heart by Chance Carter

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I'm going to make her beg. Emma asked me to take her all the way. She wants to experience every delicious thing a woman can feel. She wants to be brought to the very edge of ecstasy, and then she wants to leap right off the cliff. I'm a complete playboy, an expert in the ways a man can make a woman beg, so naturally I accept. I love a good challenge...
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    sports  m-f  humor  contemporary  length-medium
  • Distance Forever by Luna Mason

    Distance Forever by Luna Mason

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 19 ratings
    It’s their wedding anniversary and this year, it’s Keller's turn to surprise Sienna.In true Keller style, expect an extravagant get away, filled with lots of spice and worshipping of his wife. But when Sienna tells him that she doesn’t feel beautiful after having kids, Keller makes it his mission to spend the entire weekend showing her otherwise… and he won’t stop until she believes him...
  • Ever Found by L.E. Bross

    Ever Found by L.E. Bross

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I just keep making mistakes. It was supposed to be an easy job. Steal a timepiece from Hook and in exchange, find out where my little sister is. But the hero isn't always the hero and sometimes the bad guy is the person you least expect...
  • ICED by Jacob Chance

    ICED by Jacob Chance

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Oliver Ice, one of Boston University’s notorious hockey players, has been on my radar since I slammed into his rock-hard body during my first week of college, three years ago. He helped me to my feet, muttered an apology, and ran off after his girlfriend, dashing my hopes of a happily ever after. Now, he’s the bartender where I work, and this time, very much single...
  • Somebody Like You by Carrie Elks

    Somebody Like You by Carrie Elks

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He’s rich, talented and way out of her league. Now he’s making her an offer she can’t refuse…Football has always been Cam Hartson’s life. When he's forced to retire following an injury, he slinks back to his small home town, planning to lie low and lick his wounds. Until he meets Mia Devlin. The beautiful single mom of two tearaway boys has no interest in love...
  • Subzero by Cambria Hebert

    Subzero by Cambria Hebert

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My best friend, Liam Mattison, was born with snow in his veins. Me? Ice. Maybe that’s why my eyes are this color. Maybe it’s because I was born in Caribou, where there’s more snow than sun. I always knew I had a chill within me, but after my time with the army, that chill froze over. I saw and did things most people couldn’t fathom. I made contacts with people who were more beast than man...
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    sports  m-f  contemporary  length-long
  • STRIKE by Cora Brent

    STRIKE by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    A summer job. That’s all it was supposed to be. It never crossed my mind that I was about to collide with a man who would obliterate every plan I ever made. My mother has always warned me that love is like a lightning bolt and it strikes without warning. But I had no intention of getting struck by either lightning or love...
  • Never Again by L.E. Bross

    Never Again by L.E. Bross

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    We were supposed to be living our Happily Ever After. It’s been three months since we graduated. X started college, Riot's got his Motocross sponsorship, and Baz is working 20 hour days to try to clean up Peter's mess. Me? I don’t have a clue what I want to do with my life yet. But that might not matter...
  • Grappling for Position by Melynda Price

    Grappling for Position by Melynda Price

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    This battle of wills is about to go below the belt… Willow Scott is sweet, innocent, and 100% untouchable. She’s the epitome of everything MMA fighter Regan “Rapscallion” Matthews has always wanted, but will never have. A woman like her deserves more than a scrapper from the wrong side of the tracks—the Scott’s charity case...
  • Island Side by Michelle Mankin

    Island Side by Michelle Mankin

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Hollie Lesowski is a beautiful young actress locked in a legal battle with one of the most powerful and feared directors in Hollywood, a man who betrayed and hurt her, a man she mistakenly believed was her father. Maximillian Cash is her bodyguard, a blond, blue-eyed giant sworn to protect her. Gentle despite his imposing presence, he seems to be just right for her...
  • Brazen Steele by Ali Dean

    Brazen Steele by Ali Dean

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Beckett Steele knows what he wants and he’s finally going after it. But there’s one thing that might complicate his mission. It was easy to sign the legally-binding contract prohibiting a public relationship when he had no intention of falling in love...
  • Temptation by T.K. Leigh

    Temptation by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A brand new older woman, younger man romance...It was supposed to be a typical business trip to Hawaii.During the day, I’d promote the new location of my bakery. At night, I’d relax on the lanai while sipping a glass of wine.But that all changes when I meet him.Sexy. Intriguing. Haunted.And easily fifteen years younger than me.I should walk away...
  • Take The Chance by Brittainy C. Cherry, Emma Scott

    Take The Chance by Brittainy C. Cherry, Emma Scott

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    **See all the Top Shelf Romance Collections HERE.**Just kiss him. Just love him back. Take the chance. Take the Chance is a collection of four romances, you’ll be glad you devoured. Over 800 pages and 4 standalone novels that readers can’t stop talking about...
    Categorized as:
    sports  m-f  contemporary  length-medium
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