Forced to flee to the First Hunger and escape the wrath of the Crown and their new, deranged leader, Drake and his companions soon find themselves caught up in a civil war which threatens to tear the cosmos apart. A new enemy, one of the elder gods, has risen from obscurity, aligning herself with Chaos itself in a bid to topple the existing hierarchy and reshape the multiverse to her own designs.
I used to have a Nate Becker poster on my wall. Now I have to save his career.
Ever since Nate Becker showed up as the Brooklyn Bats’ shortstop with the million-dollar smile, he’s been the object of every girl’s affection. Myself included.
While others got to watch him from afar, I had an up-close-and-personal view of my lifelong crush, thanks to the benefits of being related to the team manager. We even became friends, although the butterflies in my stomach whenever he was close never went away.
But things are different now. I’m no longer that swooning teenager. I’m a sports reporter determined to make it on my own. And not because of who my family is.
Until a viral photo threatens Nate’s legendary career, turning the golden boy of Brooklyn into public enemy number one. Now he needs positive PR in the worst way, and I’m the one the Bats call on to make that happen.
My job was simple: Fix the narrative. Don’t fall in love.
Easier said than done.
I wasn’t prepared to learn about the humble man behind the cocky grin, or see all the good he did when no one was looking. And I definitely wasn’t prepared to meet the real Nate Becker…and discover the heart of gold that beats inside that broad chest.
The man now looking at me the way I always dreamed of.
Suddenly, professional distance turns into stolen moments. A simple touch turns into a caress. And our scorching kisses are undeniably life changing.
One night with a beautiful stranger is supposed to be exactly what I need to forget that my NFL career is hanging on by a thread. No last names, no strings, no expectations. Just two people having a little fun before going their separate ways.
Scarlett Cole is a contemporary romance and romantic suspense author who calls both Toronto, Canada and Manchester, England home. A born city dweller, she periodically quashes the urge to live in the country by hiking up a mountain to remind herself that living away from people would terrify the pants off her.
She believes everybody deserves their love story to be told and loves her heroes on the rough and rugged side…and usually tall (because she married one of those 6ft 6” men you read about in romance!). She’s an A-type personality and Scorpio star sign, so good luck getting her to do anything she doesn’t want to.
When she isn’t writing, she’s happy to talk hot men and expensive shoes while drinking a cold gin and tonic. Don’t bring up olives. As far as Scarlett is concerned, they are the devil’s food. As long as you don’t bring up olives, she’s happy to hear from any time.
From USA Today bestselling author Scarlett Cole, writing as S. Cole, comes an electrifying small-town, one-night-stand, opposites-attract romance.
Della
I understand why alligators are ecological engineers, what disappearing amphibians mean, and how one tiny change can destabilize an entire ecosystem.
People are more complicated.
Especially Lucas “Sunny” Reed.
He’s an outlaw biker who thinks everything can be improved with a joke, owns a three-legged cat, and somehow likes all the things about me other people find strange.
I’m trying to prove someone is poisoning the wetlands I love.
And, I didn’t think I needed protecting. Until one night changes everything.
Sunny
I thought my job was protecting the men who ride beside me.
Then I met the brilliant, socially awkward Dr. Della Hart.
She’s the smartest person I’ve ever known. She can explain why alligators are ecological engineers, identify a bird by its call, and somehow make a patch of mud sound like the most important place on Earth.
Me?
I once tried to microwave a Pop-Tart still in the wrapper.
But while Della notices every bird, every flower, and every tiny change in the water that tells her someone is poisoning an entire ecosystem, she doesn’t notice the men following her.
Or the ones lying to her.
Good thing I do.
Everyone thinks I’m the funny one. The laid-back one.
And they’re right.
Until they come after Della and give me a reason not to be.
Despite his upbringing Sunny has found his family within the Iron Outlaw and is a man who brings humor and fun to everyone around him. When he sees Della he doesn’t hesitate to come to her aid and when he finds out she is in danger he will do whatever is necessary to protect the woman who has claimed his heart.
Although she has her degree Della still feels like she isn’t enough when it comes to those she cares most about. Investigating the wetlands leaves Sunny with questions and she isn’t shy about sharing them with Sunny. The only problem is that her questions have drawn the attention of the wrong people and she and the club may become collateral damage.
Even though Sunny and Della couldn’t be more different they are perfect for each other in every way. They support each other when it comes to those who have the power to hurt them, the interactions between them are humorous and heated, the camaraderie within the MC is touching and the romance between them was always meant to be.
I BUILT MY FOOTBALL CAREER BY KEEPING EVERYONE AT A DISTANCE. THEN I MET MY SISTER’S BEST FRIEND.
For years, winning was the only thing that mattered.
I was the perfect star quarterback. Focused. Controlled. A team player. I smiled for the cameras, kept my head down, and made damn sure the people I loved stayed safely out of reach.
Until my best friend’s bachelor party forced me back into the life I’d left behind.
And there she was. Lily Callahan.
My sister’s best friend. A single mother with a heart too big for her own good. And someone I had absolutely no business wanting.
It started with one conversation while my defenses were down and turned into hours together that replayed in my mind.
Then came the wedding. Christmas. New Year’s. And suddenly, I was finding every excuse to return to the city I’d spent years avoiding.
Except it wasn’t the city pulling me back.
It was Lily.
She makes me want things I gave up on a long time ago. A home. A family. A future beyond football. Even her daughter has become someone I would protect with my life.
But wanting Lily means letting her past my walls. And I know what happens when I let people get too close.
I’m already the reason someone I love got hurt. I won’t risk becoming the mistake that costs Lily and her daughter everything.
But what happens when the woman I’m determined to protect is the one person who makes me want to stop running?
Blinding Lights is a single mom, best friend’s brother romance in the San Francisco End Game world. This angsty football romance features banter, holiday fun and steam.
🏈Review🏈 Beckett is a professional football player who doesn’t believe that he can have his career and a personal life. It is for this reason that he has remained commitment free however a chance encounter with Lily, his best friend’s sister shows him what has been missing in his life.
Lily is a single mother to her daughter Ava, and she is her whole world. There is nothing she would like more than a man to share her life with, however that hasn’t yet. Seeing Beckett again there is denying the connection between them however their lives couldn’t be more different. As they spend time together she sees the life they could have together, but will Beckett agree.
This is a heartwarming story about love, family and following your heart. Due to his past Beckett has a preconceived idea of his future and when it will happen, but when it comes to Lily and Ava nothing is going according to plan including the unexpected love he has for them.
G.K. Brady is an award-winning author of contemporary romance featuring imperfect characters, hard-earned happily-ever-afters, and plenty of humor, heart, and heat.
Whether her characters are battling it out on the ice, facing danger in a Colorado mountain town, or falling for the one person they absolutely shouldn’t, G.K. gives them questionable judgment, lots of baggage, and opportunities to make terrible decisions.
She lives in Colorado with her very patient husband and also writes historical fiction as Griffin Brady.
Colby is a private man who doesn’t allow many people close and doesn’t always say the right thing. He is having challenges adjusting to his new team and in particular Donovan and if that doesn’t change it could impact his future with them. He knows that he should keep his distance from Jackie, Donovan’s sister, however when their paths cross in the most unlikely way he is drawn to her in a way he never expected.
With her personal and professional life in turmoil Jackie is now staying with her brother. She has a preconceived idea of Colby from her brother, but when a chance encounter brings them together she realizes that man she sees and the way he presents himself to everyone else is very different. She doesn’t believe that she is ready to let anyone into her life which only ups the angst between them.
Although the reasons are very different both Colby and Jackie bear the emotional scars of the past and are both hesitant and cautious. It was so rewarding to see them break through the walls they have both built and realize that what they share is worth fighting for.
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Aria Bad is a tattooist who’s mastered the art of hiding in plain sight. Her art is her only safe place. Crowded rooms make her panic. People’s eyes burn too hot. Except his. Zeke Wicked has been the steady presence she’s leaned on since he tutored her through high school. He’s a loyal, protective Dark Knight biker, the kind of man who sees everything and the one man who could unravel her without even trying. Every year he takes her to see her family for the holidays, but this year she’s harboring a secret and needs to go alone.
Years ago, Zeke swore to protect, and never touch, Aria Bad, but that didn’t stop his heart from staking claim to her. Lately she’s been secretive and has been pulling away, and now she’s determined to make their annual trip without him, but his instincts won’t let her go alone. When a storm strands them, boundaries blur and buried feelings rise to the surface, unearthing a passion neither can deny. But as the storm clears, they discover two dangerous truths—one that ties them together and one that threatens to tear them apart.
It’s not easy to live knowing that your best days are behind you. It’s not easy feeling like you have nothing to live for, even with an amazing, lucrative career and a loving family. It’s damn near impossible to keep breathing when the love of your life chooses your best friend and teammate over you. I barely survived by burying that part of myself, leaving my heartbreak firmly in the past. But when a pre-season trade re-opens old wounds, I’m forced to reconsider everything, because if she’s not happy with him…it might be my chance to ensure that this time, she chooses correctly. And this time she won’t have a choice.
Blake
The life of a hockey wife isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. When I imploded the best thing that had ever happened to me, I hoped it wouldn’t be for nothing. I hoped there’d be a way to salvage some sort of happiness lying in the bed I’d made. I was worse than wrong, and I’ve paid for it in a million little ways over the last ten years. Now, thrust back into the life of the person I hurt the most, the reality is worse than I expected. It’s not just that I have to see him, looking better than ever, and remember the love that I thought I had imagined. It’s that everything from the past feels like it’s just below the surface, waiting to explode. Every stolen glance, every barely there touch…it’s kindling on a pyre that will destroy everything.
I spent years of my childhood dreaming of the day I’d call Atlas Grant my own.
He was my older brother’s best friend, my protector, my friend, and the guy I had loved for as long as I could remember.
I bided my time, waiting until I was old enough to make my move.
But the moment I finally worked up the courage to tell him how I felt, he shattered my heart without a second thought.
Since then, I’ve done everything I could to avoid him.
Too bad that’s no longer an option… Because now I’m on a plane to Las Vegas for a combined bachelor and bachelorette weekend. Which means spending the next few days with Atlas is unavoidable.
If I can’t escape him, I’ll settle for making the football superstar regret ever rejecting me.
But you know what they say about Vegas…
What happens there stays there.
Well, unfortunately for us, some things can’t be buried under those neon lights.
🏈Review🏈 When Henley was 18 she declared her feeling for Atlas, her brother’s best friend, and was hurt when he didn’t feel the same. Since then, she kept her distance however that is about to be put to the test when they both will be in Vegas to celebrate their friends upcoming nuptials.
Seeing Henley again intensifies the feelings that Atlas has had for Henley. When their fun night together results in an impromptu marriage he isn’t disappointed and now he needs to show her that this wasn’t a mistake, but they are meant to be together.
Henley is feisty, fiery and not about to just forgive and forget the past, but Atlas is determined in his pursuit to show her that she can count on him to be there for her both when it comes to the little things he does for her but the romance as well.
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Christmas was supposed to be quiet for nurse and former Army medic Tessa Hensley until a wrecked motorcycle and a mouth-watering biker crashes into her life.
Caleb “Bear” Lawson is big, tattooed, and far too tempting to resist. Taking him home to recover should’ve been a mistake…but one smoldering look, one stolen kiss, and suddenly Tessa’s holiday feels anything but lonely.
She knows he’s not here to stay. He knows walking away will hurt like hell.
This Christmas, sparks fly, hearts tangle, and Tessa learns some gifts are impossible to give back.
About the Author:
Avelyn Paige is the mischief-maker behind steamy dark romance, gritty mafia love stories, and high-octane motorcycle club tales that have blazed their way onto the Wall Street Journal and USA TODAY bestseller lists. She calls Indiana home, where she lives with her husband and five furry troublemakers who think they’re her editors.
When she’s not fighting the good fight in cancer research, Avelyn trades test tubes for plot twists and dives into worlds filled with danger, devotion, and deliciously bad decisions. She writes romance because it’s the one place where chaos and love can coexist, bullets can fly, hearts can heal, and everyone still gets the kind of ending worth fighting for.
After losing her dad in 2015, she turned heartbreak into creativity and never looked back. Now, she’s on a mission to prove that even the darkest hearts can find redemption, and that love—no matter how twisted—always leaves a mark worth remembering.
Waking up married in Vegas? Not exactly part of the plan. Especially when the groom is Jax Wilder—Chicago Railers hockey star, shameless flirt, and the most infuriating man I’ve ever met. I want an annulment. He wants to stay married. But with custody of my younger siblings on the line, a stable home—and a husband—might be exactly what I need to keep us together. Jax offers me a deal: stay married, move into his penthouse, and let him help until everything is settled. It’s only temporary. Except Jax doesn’t just make room for me. He makes room for all of us. And somewhere between family dinners, late nights, and sharing a bed with the husband I never wanted, our marriage starts feeling dangerously real. Falling for my husband was never part of the plan. Neither was wanting to keep him. Give Me Tonight is an enemies-to-lovers, Vegas wedding, pro hockey romance featuring a golden retriever hero who falls first—and a black cat heroine who’s spent her whole life standing on her own. He’s determined to prove he’s in it for the long haul… even if she’s terrified to believe him.
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🏒Review🏒 Even though it is challenging trying to finish her education while being responsible for her three siblings Sawyer, Faith and Caleb, Sloane wouldn’t change a thing. She is determined to be independent and do it on her own until a birthday trip to Vegas leads to a marriage and a husband. She wants to pretend it never happened however Jax has other ideas.
Jax has had feelings for Sloane for a while however he has been unable to convince her to give him a chance. Their marriage is a way to show her that she is no longer alone and that she can count on him to be there for her, show her that what they share is real and that allowing others to help is a strength and not a weakness.
Jax is the perfect mix of sweet and swoony and the relationship he shares with her siblings is heartwarming as they become his family as well. Their journey to happiness is filled with humorous interactions, great chemistry, intense feelings and a love that is built on being there for each other.
