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  • Gentry Boys by Cora Brent

    Gentry Boys by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    “All my life I’d always known what the Gentry boys were. A set of fraternal triplets born to a depraved family, they were rough, sexy and wild as wolves..." DRAW They called us ‘those white trash Gentry boys’ until we believed that’s what we were. Our people squatted at the edge of a hellhole prison town for generations. The childhood we endured was the stuff of nightmares...
  • All That Remains by Michele G. Miller

    All That Remains by Michele G. Miller

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Storms come and go, but true love remains. Fear, guilt, and jealousy all rear their ugly heads as Jules and West strive to figure out what they want now that they've emerged from the wreckage of the storm. A year has passed since the night Jules Blacklin and West Rutledge were thrown together by a tornado...
  • Out of Ruins by Michele G. Miller

    Out of Ruins by Michele G. Miller

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Guilt. A painful, lonely feeling. It seeps into your pores slowly as you go through life day by day. Like a disease, it blackens your heart with thoughts and memories of what you did, or in my case, what you didn’t do.” Surviving the storm was only the beginning for Jules. Surviving the guilt? That is something only love can help her overcome...
  • The Complete Fire on Ice Series by Brenda Rothert

    The Complete Fire on Ice Series by Brenda Rothert

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This series has five full-length novels about hot hockey stars and the women who steal their hearts. Bound College senior Kate Camden has learned to adapt - to her last year of school, to the promise of motherhood, to the fact that she’s doing it all alone. But just when she’s learned to adjust, heartache threatens to break her apart...
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    athletes  young adult  contemporary  sports  hockey
  • Just For The Summer by Danielle Jamie

    Just For The Summer by Danielle Jamie

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bestselling Author of the Savannah Series brings you a fun summer romance novella showing the ups and downs of a hot summer romance. It's the perfect beach or pool side read! Ages 18+ due to Adult Content & Language. This novella is a prequel to the Chasing Carolina series out next year but can be read as standalone. **BLURB** Chase Kenzington loves two things: fast cars and women...
  • Raw Temptation by Eve Carter

    Raw Temptation by Eve Carter

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is Book 2 in the Tempted series. You should start with Book 1 Pure Temptation, on sale for only 99 cents here on Amazon. From New York Times best-selling author, Eve Carter, comes the much-anticipated sequel to Pure Temptation...
  • Portland Storm: The First Period by Catherine Gayle

    Portland Storm: The First Period by Catherine Gayle

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    BREAKAWAY She’s reaching for a breakaway pass. Dana Campbell has spent the past seven years in self-imposed isolation for a crime she didn’t commit. The danger is well in the past, but her panic attacks make it impossible to have a normal, healthy relationship with a man. Even her counselor has given up on her...
  • Promise Me by Kristin Mayer

    Promise Me by Kristin Mayer

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With her best friend happily married and now pregnant, Sam Matthews should be overjoyed. Instead, she can only see what is missing in her life. Pushing her emotions aside, she retreats to a piece of her past that she’s kept hidden, something that even her best friend knows nothing about. Taking a step into her future, Sam moves to North Carolina where she once again encounters Mark Robertson...
  • Conceal by Juliana Stone

    Conceal by Juliana Stone

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    No one said going home would be easy... Black sheep and all around trouble maker, Betty Jo Barker is back home and hoping for a do-over. Things are finally looking up until Beau Simon comes to town. The man pushes every button she owns and manages to awaken long dead emotions she'd rather leave buried...
  • Double Major by Catherine Gayle

    Double Major by Catherine Gayle

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    It’s the NHL’s draft day, but the whole Portland Storm team is back together for an entirely different event. Complete with a double wedding, an unanticipated guest, overdue apologies, unexpected goodbyes, and fresh starts, this big day has the potential to get them all called for a Double Major...
  • Flame by Erin Noelle, Kerry Genova

    Flame by Erin Noelle, Kerry Genova

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’m soaring. After years of hard work and determination, I am exactly where I want to be in life. As the top ranked Freestyle Motocross rider in the world, I have more money than I could ever dream of spending and gorgeous women throwing themselves at me in every city I land. I have everything I want. Everything except her...
  • Forever Love by Chelsea Landon, Megan Smith

    Forever Love by Chelsea Landon, Megan Smith

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For a limited time only, enjoy books one, Forever Dark, and two, Forever Light, in the Forever Love Series together. Forever changed by one night that leaves their lives, love, and sacrifices forever altered...
  • In Sly's Eyes: In Sly's Eyes Marco's MMA Boys Book 2 by S.M. Donaldson, Chelly Peeler

    In Sly's Eyes: In Sly's Eyes Marco's MMA Boys Book 2 by S.M. Donaldson, Chelly Peeler

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kara Chambers plays by her own rules, she has since she graduated high school. Knowing from experience that her body wasn’t one that guys wanted to keep around, she’d drop them before they could drop her. One night, that’s all she ever gives. One night and she’d be able to get the sexiness, known as Sly Webb out of her system. No complications, no awkwardness, just one night. Yeah, right...
  • Dreams of Us by Brooke St. James

    Dreams of Us by Brooke St. James

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bailey Black was a former college athlete who was now enjoying the beginnings of a successful career in Chicago. Some aspects of her life hadn't turned out the way she planned, but she had slowly come to accept that. She thought she was content with her current lifestyle...
  • True Love: The Trilogy: The Complete Boxed Set by Harper Bentley

    True Love: The Trilogy: The Complete Boxed Set by Harper Bentley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From USA Today Best Selling Author Harper Bentley comes all three True Love books together in one boxed set! True Love, Book 1 - Discovering Us They wanted forever... but sometimes forever's not that easy. Ellen has loved Jagger since she was five and he was seven when they kissed through the chain link fence at school...
  • Stepbrother With Benefits 14 by Mia Clark

    Stepbrother With Benefits 14 by Mia Clark

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's not just for a week, it wasn't just a fling. Ethan's not just my stepbrother anymore, he's my boyfriend... Rule #14 – You're perfect just the way you are, Princess. Don't let anyone ever try to tell you differently. That's it for an entire week. We're going back to college now. We won't see each other until the weekend. It's only for a week, Ashley, I remind myself...
  • Stepbrother With Benefits 15 by Mia Clark

    Stepbrother With Benefits 15 by Mia Clark

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "It's you, Princess," Ethan says. "You're perfect, and I need you in my life." Rule #15 – We have to cuddle as much as possible. All the time. Every night. "I love you," I say, mumbling, not sure how to tell him exactly how I feel about him right now. "I love you, too," he says. "I love you so much." "Can you tell me what you meant before?" I ask...
  • Reach for Tomorrow by Lurlene McDaniel

    Reach for Tomorrow by Lurlene McDaniel

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Katie O'Roark is thrilled to learn that Jenny House is being rebuilt. After the fire last year, Katie thought she could never return to the camp, where she spent the summers with teens like her who faced medical odds stacked against them. But thanks to Richard Holloway's efforts, Katie and her longtime friends Lacey and Chelsea will work as counselors once again...
  • Waterfall Kisses: A Billionaire Love Story by Krista Lakes, Veronica Hardy

    Waterfall Kisses: A Billionaire Love Story by Krista Lakes, Veronica Hardy

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    “Every fantasy...” he gasped. “Every single one was nothing compared to that...” When Charlotte Page first met Leo Westbrook, she was a shy, skinny teenager on the verge of becoming a woman. The moment the naked, chiseled Adonis mistakenly walked into her room, she was lovestruck...
  • The Lover's Promise by J.C. Reed

    The Lover's Promise by J.C. Reed

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Meeting Jett was like lighting a match. Dangerous. Scorching. And better left untouched. In his game, some secrets can be deadly. Brooke Stewart, a realtor in New York, is sure of one thing. She has to stay away from the one man who betrayed her. He fooled her once, and she won’t let it happen again...
  • Let Me Heal Your Heart by Lily Foster

    Let Me Heal Your Heart by Lily Foster

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    LET ME HEAL YOUR HEART Book Four in Lily Foster’s LET ME series First loves are not easily forgotten… Anna has endured more by the age of eighteen than most do in a lifetime. Unless you know her, you see only the beautiful, privileged, bright college freshman who seems to have it all. Few people know what she’s gone through or know who she really is...
  • The Soccer Field Is Empty by Mark A. Roeder

    The Soccer Field Is Empty by Mark A. Roeder

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Soccer Field Is Empty is the story of teen love, steamy romance, friendship, loyalty, understanding, and ancient prejudice. Here is a tale that breaks the stereotypes of the ignorant and peers into the soul of two boys who want what we all want; to love and be loved...
  • Finding You by Elizabeth Lee

    Finding You by Elizabeth Lee

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Being the wild child has worked for Mallory Vandaveer for most of her life. She’s the good time girl, up for anything–and everyone in her small town knows it. But when her sister came home after years of being away, long hidden secrets came out. Turns out, Mallory isn’t who she thought she was. And now everything starts to feel like a lie...
  • Appaloosa Summer by Tudor Robins

    Appaloosa Summer by Tudor Robins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Meg Traherne has never known loss. Until the beautiful, talented horse she trained herself, drops dead underneath her in the show ring. Jared Strickland has been living with loss ever since his father died in a tragic farming accident. Meg escapes from her grief by changing everything about her life; moving away from home to spend her summer living on an island in the St...
  • Between Us: Reid and Lola, Book 1 of 3 by Christine Bell

    Between Us: Reid and Lola, Book 1 of 3 by Christine Bell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was supposed to be a fresh start… Boston is in the rearview mirror, and the McDaniels boys thought they’d left the ugliness behind along with it. But Reid’s got a secret that could tear the brothers apart, and now, to top it off, there’s this girl…Big, sad eyes, chip on her shoulder the size of a Buick. She’s in trouble. Hell, she is trouble...
  • unDefeated by J.C. Valentine, M. Carroll

    unDefeated by J.C. Valentine, M. Carroll

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Spencer Bradley ruins everything he touches. Addicted to gambling, he’s lied, cheated, and stolen to get what he wants. Now, in order to protect those he cares for, he’s keeping his distance. Rehab’s taught him a lot, but when his time runs out and he finds himself with nowhere to turn, he seeks help from the one person he’s capable of destroying...
  • Game Winner by Lindsay Paige, Mary Smith

    Game Winner by Lindsay Paige, Mary Smith

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the final installment of Levi Carr and Presley McCarthy’s story, he’s playing in the AHL a state away in Pennsylvania while she’s back home trying to finish school. Presley’s only dream has been going to law school. That goal has remained strong, even with falling in love with Levi. He’s off playing hockey, and she’s still trying to focus on that goal...
  • Off the Record by Karolyn James

    Off the Record by Karolyn James

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Coming off the first leg of a major tour, Ryan Rasoner plans to finish Gone by Autumn's new song, take a shot of whiskey, and then invite a woman over for a no-strings-attached one night stand. In that order. After he bumps into a beautiful woman at a local club the band is playing at, Ryan assumes everything he wants is about to come true...
  • Spike by Amity Cross

    Spike by Amity Cross

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Renee “Ren" Miller finally has everything she ever dreamed of. For the first time in her life, everything is perfect and she doesn’t want to change a thing. Ash “Maverick” Fuller can’t help but feel that something is missing from his life, even with the woman he loves by his side. His business is flourishing, his woman is content and he should be happy too right? Wrong...
  • Leaving Oxford by Janet W. Ferguson

    Leaving Oxford by Janet W. Ferguson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Leaving Oxford: Christian Fiction~Faith, Humor, Romance, Southern Style Escaping home to Oxford, Mississippi, seemed like a good idea. Until it wasn’t. A year after a tragic accident in Los Angeles flipped her world upside down, advertising guru Sarah Beth LeClair is still hiding away in her charming hometown of Oxford, Mississippi. And she may well be stuck there forever...
  • Still Water by Ruthie Luhnow

    Still Water by Ruthie Luhnow

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "What's the protocol for falling in love with your best friend?" Max Hartmann only cares about two things: his university rowing team and his best friend Finn—the one person Max can always count on, the one person who believes in him the most. But now it's senior year and something about Finn is different. Max can't figure out why Finn is pulling away, leaving Max adrift without him...
  • The Rookie by Shey Stahl

    The Rookie by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The shadows of greatness can be blinding. We have this idea of what we’re supposed to be. What happens when that changes? Arie Levi is living the life her mother live. Same sport, same drama, and even less time for the family she so desperately needs right now...
  • Undressed by Shannon Richard

    Undressed by Shannon Richard

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    She knows the rules of the game . . . but she can't resist his moves Publicist Abby Fields's career is on the rise. And with failed romances in her past, she has no time for men. When a job opportunity opens up with a sports team in Florida, Abby eagerly packs up and heads south...
  • Let Me Love You by Lily Foster

    Let Me Love You by Lily Foster

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Book Two in the Let Me series Letting someone in can be the hardest part… Life has never been the stuff of fairy tales for Rene Beaumont. On her own from a very young age, Rene has struggled to stay on track, determined to make a better life for herself. Forget dating, boyfriends, any sort of love life—surviving day-to-day has been Rene’s main objective...
  • Don't Leave by Jennifer Sucevic

    Don't Leave by Jennifer Sucevic

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    In the first novel, Stay, Cassidy and Cole fell in love and bonded over their shared love of hockey. With his golden whiskey colored eyes, dark shaggy hair, and dimples to die for, not to mention those washboard abs, Cole is everything Cassidy never expected to find. And he just so happens to be one of the nicest guys she’s ever met...
  • Fourth Down by Kirsten DeMuzio

    Fourth Down by Kirsten DeMuzio

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    During the biggest football game of his life, Ford Walsh makes a split second decision that will change his life. For the worse. Three years later, Ford is still stuck in that moment - when his leg was broken and his dreams along with it. Not able to move on, Ford trudges through his life, each day more depressing than the last...
  • Winter Wedding by Rochelle Paige

    Winter Wedding by Rochelle Paige

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    All Alexa wants is to walk down the aisle to Drake with their family and friends surrounding them. Feeling the loss of her mother more acutely than ever, she agrees to a lavish event in an effort to please her new mother-in-law. The stress of a high-profile wedding starts to wear on her – and that’s before things even start to go wrong. All Drake wants is to make Alexa his wife...
  • A Different Side: Book 4 by C.M. Doporto

    A Different Side: Book 4 by C.M. Doporto

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The highly anticipated story from the University Park Series. Park Hill University’s star quarterback, Raven Davenport, has every woman dying to get caught in his trap, but he’s only interested in catching one girl – Lexi Thompson...
  • The Trouble with Dating Sue by Anna Katmore

    The Trouble with Dating Sue by Anna Katmore

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “When hell freezes over!” Chris Donovan can’t believe that Susan Miller just brushed him off like a fly in midsummer. He certainly wasn’t looking for a girlfriend when he followed her into detention. All he wanted was to show this little smart-mouth that no girl can resist his charm when he decides to woo. It’s a plan that thoroughly backfires...
  • Whipped by Elizabeth Lee

    Whipped by Elizabeth Lee

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    SPECIAL $2.99 RELEASE WEEK PRICE! If they want to have a future, they'll have to let go of the past... Georgia Bennett likes to keep busy. So much so that sometimes it's like she's on autopilot. It's the only way she can cope with the tragic loss of her fiancé and move on with her life. Between nursing school and volunteering at the hospital, she barely has time to breathe...
  • Unexpected Forfeit: A Ground and Pound Novel by Sapphire Knight, Mitzi Carroll

    Unexpected Forfeit: A Ground and Pound Novel by Sapphire Knight, Mitzi Carroll

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Chyna Every chance I get, I go to watch the local fights. I crave the excitement and the rush as it courses through my body, with the sounds of fists meeting flesh. It’s not just the blood or the hard bodies that keeps me coming back each time, wanting more. It’s Jace ‘King’ Kash and his artic blue eyes. He has fists made of steel with a body honed for speed...
  • Island Kisses: A Billionaire Love Story by Krista Lakes

    Island Kisses: A Billionaire Love Story by Krista Lakes

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After hundreds of catastrophic dates, she never expected to find love. Harper Thomas loves bad dates. She goes on hundreds of them a year, and then blogs about them online to make her living. When her sister signs her up for a new dating service, Harper's not expecting to find anything other more than ridiculous men. She certainly isn't planning to meet him ..
  • My Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger

    My Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Dear Anthony:I appreciate your recent interest, but I'm not accepting applications at this time. Your letter will be kept in our files and someone will get back to you if there is an opening. Thank you for thinking of me.Respectfully,Alejandra PerezP.S. It's not Allie. It's Ale. Meet T.C...
  • Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsberg

    Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsberg

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Star quarterback Bobby Framingham, one of the most talented high school football players in California, knows he's different from his teammates. They're like brothers, but they don't know one essential thing: Bobby is gay...
  • Pepped Up & Ready by Ali Dean

    Pepped Up & Ready by Ali Dean

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    (This is the third book in the Pepper Jones series. The following description contains spoilers for Pepped Up and All Pepped Up. It is highly recommended that you read the books in order.) Pepper is finally a senior, and she’s determined to defend her national cross-country title. Although Jace is busy with the demands of college football, he’s still at Pepper’s side, supporting her goals...
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