What you need to #ONECLICK this book… ✓ Brother’s Best Friend
✓ Teammate’s Sister
✓ Reverse Grumpy/Sunshine
✓ Football
✓ Small College Town
✓ Childhood Crush & Neighbor
✓Girl next door vibe
✓ Interconnected Standalone
A sizzling and addictive romance from USA Today Bestselling author Brooke O’Brien about a football legend about the one girl he walked away from—and a past that refuses to stay buried…
He finished his taco and tilted his head, considering me. The jack**s was so handsome and easygoing it made me want to rage. Not that I’d show him how he affected me. I was a pro at remaining icy cool.
Still, beneath the surface, I was ready to throw hands.
“It’s funny,” he said, picking up his beer. “All that power in Washington. Your big job and fancy clothes and degrees. But here you are, still the bad guy. Must be hard, coming home and slipping into second place again.”
Eye twitching, I ground my teeth, working to get a handle on my aggravation. I’d been attacked by a sheik’s bodyguards and private military contractors. Once in a private jet over the Indian Ocean. But never had I wanted to throttle a man so badly.
All the Zen, the breathing techniques, the therapy I’d done to ensure I wouldn’t crack, went straight to hell.
I picked up a taco, giving him a moment to bask in his insults.
Then I threw it.
The corn-shelled delicacy hit him in the chin with a wet slap. Sticky pork slid down the front of his shirt and a slice of fennel stuck to his jawline.
Silence fell over the brewery. Behind me, pint glasses clinked.
The two of us stared at one another.
The taco had barely hit his lap when it dawned on me that I may have overreacted.
Also, this would be major town news before I even made it to the parking lot.
Across the room, a phone was lifted. Dread swept through me. Great. This would be all over TikTok by morning.
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I was raised to believe the danger lived outside our walls. And Ford James looked like the most dangerous thing of all.
I’ve spent my entire life inside Bright Covenant — a religious community with rules for everything, a place where questions aren’t allowed. When my family is sent to heal Westside, a small Florida beach town, I arrive certain of two things: the world outside is exactly as dangerous as I was warned, and Ford James — who vandalized our home before we’d even unpacked — is proof.
He’s the reason I had to leave home during my final year of school. He’s the reason half the senior class wants me gone. But he also makes me question everything I know, and want things I’ve never wanted before—things I’m meant to save for my husband.
Come June, I board a plane to Bolivia, and will return engaged to a member of Bright Covenant.
Which means I have one year to decide if Ford James is really the villain. Or worth burning my world down for.
Neve Snowe doesn’t need to settle down. She is already settled in her small harbor town, with a cozy beach cottage and part ownership in the family-run auto repair shop. She doesn’t want a man, but she likes them. And she has one golden rule: only sleep with flatlanders. You know, the guys who never intend to stay in Lovewell Landing, only use the coastal area for a brief holiday.
And the last thing she desired was the unexpected . . . to be expecting.
Tate Love spent his summers in Lovewell Landing as a teenager, but somehow he’d missed the beautiful girl who turned into a spunky woman, daring him to jump into the icy ocean one New Year’s Eve, then slept with him near the town’s sacred well, holding spell-binding waters.
He never thought he’d see her again, until nine months later, a business prospect brings him back to the area.
Now, the man who longs to be tied down finds that one night planted the seed to everything he ever wanted, while he holds the pen that could sign away all she’s ever loved.
Welcome to Lovewell Landing, where autumn is in the air, pumpkins decorate every doorstep, and a little fiasco might cause opposites to fall in love.
Fall Love is a steamy, romantic comedy companion novel to The Holiday Post and continues the romances of the Snowe sisters in the beautiful and quirky small town of Lovewell Landing.
Knox McNichols and I have one thing in common—we can’t stand each other.
He’s the NHL playboy who enjoys getting under my skin, and thanks to the marriage between our siblings, avoiding him isn’t an option.
When my ex refuses to take no for an answer, I show up at Knox’s penthouse with a desperate proposal—pretend to be my boyfriend.
The plan is simple: convince my ex I’ve moved on.
Except Knox has a few rules…
Rule #1: No flirting with anyone but him. Rule #2: If my ex contacts me, I tell him immediately. Rule #3: My location stays on at all times.
His rules should send me running.
Instead, they make me wonder if the man I’ve spent years fighting with is hiding something entirely different beneath his easy smiles and reputation as hockey’s favorite playboy.
The more time we spend together, the harder it becomes to ignore the sparks between us—or Knox’s determination to protect me at all costs.
When pretending starts to feel a little too real, I realize there might be something far more dangerous than my ex refusing to let me go.
It’s discovering that the man I’ve spent years fighting with just might be the one I can’t live without.
Keep Me Close is a swoony, boy-obsessed, enemies-to-lovers pro hockey romance featuring fake dating, off-limits tension, a hero who’s been secretly pining from page one, and no third-act breakup. It’s book five in the Chicago Railers series and can be read as a standalone.
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🏒Review🏒 Knox is a professional hockey player who despite his reputation with other woman is only interested Cheyenne since their lives became connected by their siblings. For the first time in his life, he isn’t sure how to convince her of his feelings until she comes to him looking for help to distance herself from her ex. Pretending that they are together might just give him the opportunity to show her they are meant to be together.
Chey is feeling stifled both by her career and her ex and she is nervous about finding a path forward. She went into this situation with Knox knowing that he will help her with one situation, but she got so much more. He shows her with everything he says and does that her dreams can be achieved and that he wants to be there every step of the way.
The interactions between them are both humorous and hot. Knox is a man that any woman would be lucky to have as his feelings and devotion to her were never in doubt and her happiness is his only goal. There is also a great cast of secondary characters that only enhance this entertaining story.
Julian Langley has everything a man could ever want—a sprawling Manhattan townhouse, a multi-billion-dollar portfolio, and ownership of the New York Vipers, one of the most coveted franchises in professional hockey. What he doesn’t have, and will never allow himself, is anyone who matters too much. Carrying a devastating loss that completely reshaped him, Julian has since built his life around the certainty that nothing will ever cost him that dearly again.
Harper Hawthorne isn’t looking for a billionaire. She’s looking for a way to keep the lights on. Single-handedly holding her world together since she was a teenager, Harper works two jobs, lives in a rent-controlled apartment on the Lower East Side, and sacrifices everything for her younger brother. When an unexpected phone call lands her a chauffeur job behind the wheel of Julian’s car, she takes it for exactly what it is: a paycheck.
Julian notices everything about her. Harper tries not to notice anything about him. What begins as a professional arrangement starts to crack at the edges when Harper proves, repeatedly and effortlessly, that she’s unlike anyone Julian has ever encountered before. She’s too sharp to ignore, too genuine to keep at arm’s length, and entirely unimpressed by his world in a way that makes it impossible for him to stop thinking about her.
Julian doesn’t do commitment. Harper doesn’t believe in fairy tales. But some collisions are inevitable and some people are worth every risk you swore you’d never take again.
Falling for the one woman who has the power to end my football career was never part of the plan . . .
This was supposed to be Cole Valor’s record-breaking season.
Instead, the star quarterback can’t seem to find his game. Missed throws. Bad reads. And someone is making a fortune betting against him.
When suspicious betting patterns surrounding his performance raise red flags, the NFL assigns its top integrity investigator to determine if its golden boy is the victim . . . or the mastermind.
Dublin Locke has built her career on facts, not feelings. She’s determined to follow the evidence wherever it leads, even if it points back to the man whose kiss she’s never forgotten.
The deeper Dublin digs, the more the evidence points to Cole. Yet he insists on helping her uncover the truth. Is he proving his innocence . . . or trying to throw her off his trail?
Working side by side as the investigation tightens its grip, the line between professional and personal begins to blur—and every stolen kiss pushes them further over a line neither of them can afford to cross.
Because every instinct tells Dublin to keep her distance. But the more she falls for him, the harder it becomes to know which to believe—the facts . . . or her heart.
🎧Review🎧 Cole finds himself in a bit of predicament when his struggles on the field are proving lucrative for the person who is betting on them. This has drawn the attention of the league, and he now finds himself facing an investigation. That would be difficult enough but finding out that the woman who will be leading the investigation is the same woman he shared an unforgettable kiss with five years earlier.
Dublin knows that the job entails and that is to try and put aside her personal feelings for Cole and find out what role, if any, he played in what was going on. The circumstances that have brought Cole back into life creates a increased level of complication and tension as she finds herself conflicted between the details she has been given and the belief she can’t help having in him.
The connection between Dublin and Cole hasn’t diminished over time and the way they support each other during their most difficult time only makes that connection stronger. The audio performance by Mariana Olmeda & Christian Alexis bring out the heat between them as well as the emotions and heartwarming romance.
No stranger to pain, Torin “The Tornado” Correy had been hit by the best and never once tapped out. Yet, a little wisp of a thing accomplished that impossible feat with nothing but a strappy pink shoe. Like a Cinderella from a ball for the criminally insane, she fled the instant Big Ben struck midnight—leaving her weapon behind.
Have you ever heard the phrase, “It was love at first sight?” Yeah, that doesn’t really apply here since for Diem and Tor, it was lust at first fight.
When The Smoke Clears by Jewel E. Ann is now live!
From USA Today bestselling author Jewel E. Ann comes a bittersweet second-chance romance about deferred love, impossible timing, and the courage of choosing happiness after devastating loss.
Everleigh Reichart and William Landry fell hard—and far too fast. Their weeklong romance ended the moment Will, a twenty-nine-year-old firefighter, learned the truth: Everleigh was seventeen. He walked away to protect them both. Destiny had other plans.
Eleven years later, Will is still running into burning buildings, while Everleigh has become a brilliant psychiatrist. When a house fire strands her on his land, their old feelings ignite like patient embers. But she’s desperate to keep concealing the childhood trauma that has shaped her life, and he’s struggling under the weight of his father’s terminal illness. Too soon, the strain snaps their fragile reunion, flinging them farther apart than ever before.
Now Everleigh must face her past to salvage a future with Will…if he can accept that loving her includes the broken parts too. But first, he needs to come and find her—this time by faith, not fate.
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🔥Review🔥 Everleigh is very smart which hasn’t always made it easy when it comes to her relationships with others. She has loved Will for over a decade however what she didn’t tell him created a rift that has him wanting nothing to do with her. She has recently moved to his hometown for her career and him and she is willing to fight for the man she has always wanted.
Will is a firefighter who felt betrayed by what Everleigh didn’t tell him and the consequences it could have brought. Having her back in his life is not what he wanted and he is very clear about his feelings as he has enough turmoil he is dealing with and doesn’t need to add her even if she makes him feel alive in a way he has never felt before.
This is a second chance for Everleigh however it is filled with emotion as they must not only deal with the past but everything that is going on in the present as well. Everleigh is an intriguing character who only wants a place and people to call home while Will struggles to deal with his complex emotions for her and the chaos she brings into his life.
Tennis is my life. Work hard. Win clean. Trust no one but yourself. That’s how you become number one.
Too bad Cordon University only worships Bryson Moss—the golden boy quarterback I’ve despised since our train wreck of a first meeting three years ago.
Now he wants a favor I can’t afford to refuse. His sister’s dating app needs a power couple for launch, and I need the cash to stay in school.
The contract is simple: fake the romance, fool the internet, cash the checks.
Except our chemistry isn’t fake. The banter, the tension, the way he looks at me when no one’s watching—it’s all devastatingly real. When we go viral, the pressure intensifies. And when my body betrays me on the court, threatening everything I’ve worked for, Bryson won’t let me quit.
I’ve always believed champions stand alone.
But what if falling for my enemy is the bravest thing I’ve ever done?
Getting his enemy to cooperate as his wife: Impossible.
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💎 Enemies to Lovers… for real.
⚠️Arranged Marriage
💎he can’t stand her cat because it’s named after her ex
Rule #3: Never get emotionally invested in your quirky small hometown.
Unfortunately, I’ve broken all three rules…
When a career-ending scandal sends me back to Maplewood, Vermont, I need to lay low and figure out my next steps. Instead, I find my hometown in crisis. The local economy is struggling, the beloved Maple Festival has been stolen by a rival town, and I’m forced to work side by side with Mayor Gabriel Harding, my childhood rival and the town’s optimistic hometown hero.
Helping Gabe save Maplewood should be simple. I’m a political strategist. He’s a small-town mayor. Together, we’re supposed to save Maplewood.
The problem? Gabe refuses to see me as the villain I think I am. Every time I push him away, he fights harder for me, for this town, and for the future neither of us imagined. Somewhere between arguing over town budgets, getting snowed in together, and one ill-advised one-night-stand, our enemies-to-lovers rivalry turns into an unexpected pregnancy.
Apparently, saving a small town requires public humiliation, emotional vulnerability, forced proximity … and an alarming amount of maple syrup.
As I fight to bring the Maple Festival back to town, I uncover a dangerous corporate conspiracy, become the target of powerful enemies, and discover someone wants Maplewood to fail.
Now we’re fighting for our town, our future and the family we never saw coming.
Because falling for my enemy was never part of the plan.
🔥Grumpy, Structure Loving Alpha Werewolf And A Chaos Witch
🔥Fated Mates (And Fighting It)
🔥Instalust (And Not Fighting It)
🔥Forced Proximity
🔥Enemies To Lovers
🔥Witchy RomCom
🔥Magic And Mayhem
🔥Sassy Banter
🔥Voyueristic Magical Creatures
🔥A Blue Moon Race
🔥And An Orgy Bed Oh My!
An impulsive witch and a buttoned-up werewolf discover love is its own beast in this spicy rom-com fromUSA Todaybestselling author Avery Flynn.
As the eldest daughter of the magical Sherwood family, I’m supposed to have everything together. Well, joke’s on them—I, Effie Sherwood, am chaos incarnate, and you’ll never be able to guess my next move.
Like jumping on the back of Darius Aetos’ motorcycle. Not only is Darius grumpy, gruff, and hot, he’s also the head of the Aetos werewolf pack.
My spur of the moment decision has quickly become a much bigger commitment, because a pack elder is convinced this hunk of a man (or wolf, depending on the hour) is my fated mate.
Even though I’m a witch and he’s a werewolf, we’re stuck together until we can find our way out of the tricky pack politics. But under the light of the blue moon, it’s almost starting to feel like Darius doesn’t want to stay away from me. And I’m not sure if it’s my magic going haywire or the starlit skies, but I can’t imagine leaving his arms either.
I’ve spent my whole life chasing eight-second rides, gold buckles, and the roar of a sold-out arena. But after watching my big brother win the PBR World Championship, I’m left wondering if the dream I’ve fought so hard for is still the one I want.
So I come home to Wildhaven for the summer, teaching at the Raintree-Storm Rodeo Academy while I figure out what comes next.
Then Marina Kincade walks back into my life.
Five years ago, we were two lonely rodeo stars sharing stolen nights with no promises. Then she disappeared without a goodbye.
Now she’s standing in Wildhaven as the academy’s new barrel racing instructor.
She’s stronger. More guarded. Just as impossible to forget. And the little boy by her side makes it clear that she had a reason to walk away.
As we get to know each other again, a ghost from Marina’s past comes looking for her.
He’s one of the fiercest rivals I’ve ever faced—determined to make sure Marina’s future belongs to him, not me.
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