When she’s fake dating the hockey star, but he was never faking it…

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely, comes the next standalone hockey romance in her brand new Hockey Ever After series, JUST PLAYING FOR KEEPS! Narrated in duet and recorded live by Erin Mallon and Jason Clarke, and with a FULL CAST featuring Savannah Thomas and Ryan West, this spicy, fake dating, grumpy/sunshine, only one bed in a room, opposites attract hockey romance releases June 3^rd in all formats, and will be free to read in Kindle Unlimited. 

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About JUST PLAYING FOR KEEPS (Coming 6/3/2026):

Ever hear the story about the dating coach who got dumped on the hockey arena’s jumbotron?

Everyone did. But I lived it. Including the moment when Lake Axelrod, the team’s broody, tattooed right winger, swooped in on skates to rescue me from public humiliation.

Even more surprising? When the famously grumpy (and ridiculously sexy) hockey star insists on being my fake boyfriend for my sister’s high-profile wedding.

It’s the perfect plan. His family stops pressuring him to settle down, and I’ll get the ultimate revenge, since my ex is the best man. Bonus – I might even salvage my professional reputation.

We need rules though.

1. To pull this off, everyone from his teammates to my boss has to believe we’re a real couple.
2. That means swoony touches and knee-weakening kisses are required.
3. When it ends, we walk away.

But the intensity in Lake’s eyes after every post-game kiss makes me wonder if he’s pretending. With each whispered secret, the line between fake and real bends. Until it shatters one night in a hotel room.

Soon, he isn’t just playing the protective boyfriend—he’s the only one who truly sees me.

If I’m not careful, I’m going to break the most important rule of all: don’t fall for your fake date.

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ABOUT LAUREN BLAKELY:

A #1 New York Times Bestselling, #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling, and #1 Audible Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that’s sexy, feel-good and witty. Her books have been featured in US Weekly and People. Lauren likes dogs, cake and show tunes and she is the vegetarian at your dinner party. 

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🎧New Release🎧

Repair and Prepare (All It Takes, Book 1) by Hinsel Meyer

Narrated by Bill Sharpe & Michael Norman Johnson (@thanatusnyx)

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Blurb:

Jules

One of the hardest lessons I’ve learned is that the only thing I need is hockey – because hockey has never let me down, never abandoned me. What I lack in my personal life, I make up for with my professional achievements. I’m damn proud of the career I’ve had in the NHL and have no plans of stopping or jeopardizing it by coming out.

That is until I meet Sterling.

He does the unthinkable, he gives me hope, makes me wish for more… and then dashes those hopes and wishes to dust.

In the aftermath, I become someone I don’t particularly like, but that someone doesn’t really care either.

Then, it’s hockey—once more—that saves me.

So yeah, hockey is all I have and all I need.

Sterling

I know I f***ed up.

That I had an excellent reason not to contact Jules after I promised I would—after all my life was a tornado at the time—doesn’t mean I didn’t f*ck up.

I know it and I’m prepared to fix this mess now that I moved to Vegas permanently.

But the man I met more than two years ago is nowhere to be found. The one who opens the door when I come knocking isn’t the sweet boy who desperately wanted someone to take care of him.

No, this man is cynical and detached. Worst of all, he’s hell-bent on never giving me anything real again.

No matter how brief our time was, I know he’s the only person—and I’ve met a lot of people—who’s ever made me want more.

So yes, I’ll fight to repair what I broke and then hopefully we’ll prepare for the rest of our lives together.

The only question is, will it all be in vain?

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A small-town writer. A secret-keeping lawyer. One dangerously hot collaboration.

Addison

According to my MFA in Creative Writing, I should be writing the next great novel. When I put pen to paper, though, all my words are about romance and love. But when my inexperience leaves my steamy scenes flat and boring. I need inspiration… and the brewery’s British lawyer, Hawthorne Cumberland, has plenty of ideas. Our “research” starts innocent enough—until his lips rewrite every rule I’ve made about love.

Thorne

By day, I’m a polished attorney. By night, I’m Rosie Thorne—the anonymous romance author who writes happy endings, but doesn’t believe in them for myself. Then Addison Blankenship storms into my life, all fire and honesty, and suddenly my double life isn’t so easy to hide. Because the more I teach her about writing passion, the harder it is to remember where the fiction ends.

When secrets collide, will their story end in heartbreak… or their own happily ever after?

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Ring Around the Rosie by @ab.cynthe

Narrated by Elise Hoffman (@bookishlybye) & Oddeoh House

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Blurb:

ASTER

Sabbath Creed had an intensity that always enthralled me, yet I never would have fathomed his love could warp my own sanity into madness, setting ablaze everything I loved until nothing was left but ashes and agony.

I’ve always been drawn to fire, the way it consumes, transforms, and purifies. But I never expected it to devour my world, leaving nothing behind but ashes and heartbreak.

From that moment on, I chose to escape my fate, to escape him.

I could always feel his presence, lingering like smoke in the air. It was only a matter of time before he would find me. His love, twisted and charred by the flames of his obsession, burned endlessly for me. He would never let me go, not after what happened.

I thought working at Camp Redwood would hide me from his gaze, but it only pushed me into the spotlight with its own dark secrets. He was here, and I needed to make the ultimate decision: allow his love to consume me or extinguish its flames. Forever.

SABBATH

She thinks she can escape me, but she’ll never understand. I’m not just a part of her past; I’m a part of her. She might try to extinguish the flames, but I’ll never let her. I will make her mine again—no matter the cost. My little spitfire.

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Saving Him (NAVY Seal, Book 2) by @sarahurstwrites

Narrated by Eric Corbyn & Lance Isley

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Blurb:

Carson

I dreamed of being a Navy SEAL, but to achieve my goal, I had to choose. I could be gay or be a SEAL. Being a SEAL won out. You couldn’t miss what you had never experienced. I hoped being a team guy would fill the void left by denying who I was.

And it did, until terrorists took my teammate captive, and I watched two of my best friends find love. Now repressed thoughts and feelings plagued me, and I didn’t know if I’d be able to resist.

Especially not when my first and only crush showed up.

Roman

Growing up in the bible belt was hard enough, especially when my dad, the town doctor, committed suicide. I hid in the closet until I left for college. There twosomes turned into moresomes, which somehow led to a drunken hook-up with a sorority girl. When she turned up pregnant, I married her, but she disappeared as soon as the baby was born, leaving me a single dad.

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The Big Picture Edition

Kayley Loring

Release Date: April 24

Meet Kayley Loring:

Amazon Top 25 and USA Today bestselling author Kayley Loring spent many years as a screenwriter (under a different name) in Los Angeles before moving to the Pacific Northwest to live out her childhood dream of being a Disney heroine who talks and sings to woodland creatures. When not trying to keep animals alive, she’s writing steamy romantic comedy novels, obviously. She’s breathing cleaner air, writing dirtier words, and staring at her computer screen until her eyeballs dry out instead of prancing around Southern California in miniskirts and going to the hair salon. Still waiting for the woodland creatures to clean her house, though.

Read or listen to Kayley’s books when you want humor, heat, and heart. You’ll enjoy top-notch banter, strong heroines, lovable characters you’d want to know in real life and you’ll swoon over perfectly imperfect book boyfriends. All Kayley Loring books are steamy open door romance. Be sure to check out her next-level audiobooks!

Listen to Kayley talk to the wildly talented narrators who narrate her audiobooks and her wildly talented author friends on the Multiple Eargasms with Kayley Loring podcast!

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Blurb:

TO: Alex Vega

FROM: Emilia Stiles

SUBJECT: Hello

Dear Mr. Vega, I felt it necessary to follow up on today’s meeting, since we weren’t able to speak candidly in front of your son. I was shocked to discover that you are Ryder’s dad. Given that your ex-wife will be out of the country for a while and you are currently his primary caregiver, I’m sure you understand why we need to establish boundaries and etiquette. I think it would be best if we just pretend that we met in person for the first time today. Your son is a very bright (flirtatious and talkative) student and since his education is a top priority for both of us, I hope I can count on you to respectfully refrain from grinning at me, using that sexy tone of voice, and undressing me with your annoyingly beautiful brown eyes if we should happen to interact with each other again in the future.

Thanks so much, Miss Stiles

TO: Emilia Stiles

FROM: Alex Vega

SUBJECT: Re: Well, hello again…

Dear Miss Stiles, Great to hear from you. My son’s education is indeed a top priority. As such, I respectfully agree to refrain from doing all of the aforementioned things. However, I can’t promise to stop thinking about that kiss at the bar this summer. I’ve been thinking about it for the past month. It’s interesting how humorless and uptight you are about my son’s totally awesome personality, given that I have personally witnessed just how flirtatious and talkative you yourself can be when mildly intoxicated.

You’re so welcome, Alex

P.S. I volunteered to be a chaperone for your next field trip. See you then.

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🎧Review🎧
Alex has transitioned from his career as a child actor into a successful career as a director however his driving force is being a single father to his son Ryder. This is the reason why after exchanging some correspondence with his son’s teacher he is determined to meet the woman behind the emails, but he never expected that he had met her previously at a bar but had to leave before they could have the steamy evening he was planning.

Emilia is looking for a fresh start both personally and professionally however finding out that her student’s father was a witness to a night she would rather forget was not part of the plan. Her head tells her to keep their relationship business only however her heart doesn’t seem to be getting the message.

Fun and flirty this story is sure to bring a smile to your face. The chemistry between them is hot, the banter is humorous and Ryder is a scene stealer. The narrators only make this story better as Erin Mallon brings out the sassy side of Emilia’s personality to perfection and J.F. Harding brings out the swoon factor of Alex.

WHISKEY CHARM

Walker Rose

Release Date: May 1

Meet Walker Rose:

Thanks for joining me for a cocktail and some girl talk. I live the dream in my own slice of paradise where I get to enjoy colorful sunsets from my rocking chair while I’m working. I have my very own romance hero with Mr. Rose and there’s more than a few little rose buds running around. A couple aren’t so little anymore! We keep things interesting with cats and a dog and the critters that roam though the yard (fingers crossed the mountain lions stay away).

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Blurb:

I came to Huckleberry Springs to regroup—not to flash a cowboy while rescuing some strays from a ditch.

Haven Hennessy is everything I don’t want anyway: A man who puts himself first. A man who’d rather have fun than face commitment. A man who can charm a girl right out of a good decision. So he can kiss my red lace panties goodbye the moment I figure out how to ditch this town.

Yet he takes in the puppy and three kittens I rescue from the side of the road. He’s loyal to his brothers and his company. And he makes it his mission to give me new experiences, like fly-fishing, horseback rides, and getting naked in a tack room.

My stay in this small Montana town is only supposed to be temporary until I can launch a new career. Am I as wrong about that as I am about Haven? Because he makes me feel something no one else ever has: wanted.

But the more I get to know Haven, the more I realize I was right all along. Haven doesn’t let people in. Not fully. Not when he’s spent his whole life being left behind. So when my dream opportunity finally manifests, I have to leave before I break all my rules and my own heart in the process. I don’t dare fall for his whiskey charm.

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🤠Review🤠

Despite her complicated relationship with her father when Preston finds herself at a crossroads both personally and professionally she decides to spend some time with him to regroup. Her arrival into town and her love of animals creates quite the first impression on Haven however she knows what she wants and it isn’t a cowboy with commitment issues.

Haven has a complicated family dynamic when it comes to his mother which has him believing that he is destined to be single. He is happy that his siblings have found their one but he doesn’t see that in his future even though the feelings that he has for Haven is unlike anything he has ever felt before.

Even though they fight it there is no denying the chemistry and connection between Preston and Haven and after what they have experienced in the past it was so rewarding to see them open their hearts and learn to trust each other. The performance by Will Spears allows us to experience the struggle that Haven is having when it comes to his feelings for Preston while Marie Hawkins brings out both the strength and sass of Preston.

Stay With Me by Nikki Sloane is now live!

When the spotlight turns deadly, survival becomes the performance of her life.

A single gunshot rings out, shattering Laurel Hayward’s debut as a professional dancer—and witnessing an assassination is only the beginning of her nightmare. The ruthless killer will stop at nothing to find her—determined to possess her or silence her forever.

Enter Deputy U.S. Marshal Jason Dunn: handsome, confident, and far too good at getting under Laurel’s skin. Keeping her alive is his job, but keeping his distance? Impossible. Alone in the secluded safe house, the line between duty and desire blurs into something too powerful to resist.

Laurel needs Jason to survive. Jason needs her to finally capture the ghost who’s haunted his career for years. But as their attraction ignites, the obsessed killer returns with a deadly final act . . .

And it could cost them everything.

* Stay With Me was previously published in 2014 as Stay by Karyn Lawrence (Nikki’s alter ego). This completely rewritten version features new content, more spice, and a point-of-view switch.

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Narrated by: June deBorahae, Ryan Hudson, & Chris Merlin

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❤️Review❤️
Laurel’s dream of dancing professionally has been realized however what should have been a perfect night takes a devastating turn when violence erupts and the person responsible believes that she saw them. When she leaves the venue she realizes the danger is far from over and now she finds herself hidden away in the care of the Marshals and one agent in particular, Jason.

Jason has never had difficulty ensuring the lines between personal and professional are not crossed however Laurel is unlike anyone he has ever known. Not knowing who was after Laurel was difficult enough but realizing that she has evolved from becoming their next target to her next fixation only amps up the threat and the tension.

The twists keep coming, the suspense keeps you on edge and the conflict that Jason is feeling regarding Laurel understandable. The audio performance of June deBorahae, Ryan Hudson and Chris Merlin compelling as they bring out every emotion as well as the anxiety they are feeling due to the intrigue part of the story.

The Devil and His Fawn by Charity Ferrell is now live!

The devil has decided he wants me …
And what he wants, he gets.

After being expelled from three universities, I’m sent to Saint Vale University, a secluded college for the world’s richest and most corrupt heirs.
That’s where I learn about the Night Sons, a secret society of masked men who rule the campus from the shadows.
Every year, each Night Son claims a Fawn—a female student chosen to serve as a pawn, plaything, or … sacrifice.

Once a Night Son chooses you, your fate is sealed.

When Enzo Marchetti, son of the most feared Mafia boss in the world, selects me, I’m pulled into a world of manipulation, obsession, and violence.

The harder he tries to break me, the more I refuse to bend.
And the more obsessed he becomes with owning me.

He starts seeing me as more than just a Fawn.
And I begin to see the man behind the mask.
Because beneath Enzo’s ruthless exterior is someone who’s loyal to his brotherhood and dangerously protective of the people he loves.

But when my past comes back to haunt me, Enzo faces an impossible choice:
Honor the oath he swore … or destroy everything for the girl he was never supposed to want.

Tropes:

Dark academia

Secret society

Morally grey hero x good girl

Touch her and die vibes

Mafia families

The Devil and His Fawn is a dark academia romance and the first book in the Saint Vale Series. This book can be read as a standalone.

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🖤Review🖤
Blair didn’t know what to expect when she found herself at St. Vale University, but it certainly didn’t include attracting the attention of Enzo or all that it would entail. After all that she has been through she isn’t about to bend to his will even though the depth of his dark side will surprise her at times.

Enzo comes from a powerful family and isn’t a man that you want to get on the wrong side of. He isn’t certain what it is about Blair that brings out the possessive side in him but the one thing he does know is that he will protect her from everyone except himself.

Blair may be still feeling the impact of her past but Enzo is just the man to bring out the fight in her and Enzo may be dark and dangerous, but he allows Blair to see another side which he has hidden deep and the heat between them fire.

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The Saga of Nocturne I: Ossa Temporis by @jdglasscock

Narrated by Michael Norman Johnson (@thanatusnyx) & @jessicadthreet

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Blurb:

Gideon had been dreaming and dreaming and dreaming, a dream he never seemed to able to wake from. And to call it a dream was as broken a description as a child could crayon draw. A nightmare mired in the macabre was the signpost planted in the blood of its concrete. A nightmare shivving his spine and soul with every moment it crawled forward

It was filled with all those he loved, calling for him, pleading, screaming, to save them, to help them and yet he could do nothing but sleep, nothing but dream, circling on repeat over and over again.

And the images were a caricature of a reality cracked in madness, Shira and So’Sha, grown, blades and death in their eyes, Shadow and Moon standing on two legs, L’Sana and Ari in a cage dreaming their own dreams, chained in their own devils, flashing images of a universe at war with itself, the Shadowborn whispering again and again ‘Soon Gideon, soon….be ready..”

He wanted to shatter his prison, wanted to howl, wanted to reach out to those that were his world, his everything but only sleep and dream, sleep and dream…the true War had come and he was drowning within his own mind, choking on the detritus of impotency, eternity in chains that didn’t give a shit.

“I will slaughter them all!!”

Gideon would wake and people would die, a thousand times over they would die!!!

He screamed this at himself, over and over, lost in the dream, in the macabre broken of breaking. It was the prayer he kept lamenting to no-one, kept spitting into the pillow of his insanity as the bars to his cage, tightened, crushing his flesh and his hope, endlessly cruel, endlessly ambivalent.

He would wake, a promise, and a killer would come with him.

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