From New York Times bestselling author Helena Hunting comes a new standalone friends-to-fake-fiancée hockey romance. Releasing on February 2nd, it’s the first book in the Chicago Rage series and is Quinn and Lovey’s story.
NYT and USA Today bestselling author, Helena Hunting lives outside of Toronto with her amazing family and her adorable, emotional cat, who thinks the best place to sleep is her keyboard. Helena writes everything from emotional contemporary romance to romantic comedies that will have you laughing until you cry.
It was supposed to be just a weekend away from the city, away from the chaos, away from every one of my worries. Yet, here I was, running through the woods and getting chased by someone in a mask.
It was time for The Hunt, and if I wasn’t fast enough, I was gonna get caught.
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He’s my former best friend and my husband of convenience, but he’s not the man that got me pregnant.
One year into my nursing program, two little pink lines alter my reality.
Add on that the baby’s father wants nothing to do with us and I no longer have healthcare coverage, and well?
I start to panic.
Enter Easton Buckley—Mr. Dependable, lineman with great health benefits, and a stubborn streak that pays off when he convinces me to marry him so my baby and I can be taken care of.
The problem is, Easton and I haven’t been on good terms for years, and neither of us has attempted to fix it.
Yet now I’m living with him, forced to see him shirtless, and wondering why hearing him call mehis wifeis making my hormones even more wild.
Then I figure out his secret.
And there’s no stopping the flood of emotions and unresolved feelings that come up.
I’m scared to fall for Easton. I don’t want him to be a mistake like every other love interest in my life.
But what if the reality is, you can’t help who your heart chooses to love? Even if they could be the one to break it once and for all?
I finally have everything I’ve ever dreamed of: a successful business, an amazing family of friends, and a man who made me his goddess. Just goes to show that the moment you think it’s all going to work out, fate comes in like a wrecking ball… or in my case, a random woman with a jealous streak and a steep set of stairs.
Soren
I’m holding the only thing I’ll ever worship in my arms, happier than I probably deserve and about to get married. But the past can be a vicious vixen, and she just might rip everything away from me before I can seal the deal.
Torin
I never tap out. Never give up. It’s K.O. or keep fighting, and now I have the perfect opportunity to get my Spitfire back where she belongs. Only Frost is still in the way. At the end of it all, I’ll make sure I’m the one that sticks in her memory.
She came to Whynot to uncover her mother’s scandal and instantly disrupted the quiet life of the local man who prefers bees to people.
Travel blogger Reese Cartier lives for the rush of discovering the unknown. She’s survived missed flights, bad haircuts, and questionable hostels, but nothing could have prepared her for quirky, southern town of Whynot, North Carolina. She’s here for one reason… to untangle the truth about her late mother’s mysterious past.
Her first clue? A dusty rented cottage on a secluded bee farm. Her second clue? The infuriatingly handsome, maddeningly quiet beekeeper who owns it.
Eli Hart likes his life simple, which includes tending hives, bottling honey, and avoiding unnecessary conversation. Then sunshine-in-a-sundress Reese crash-lands on his property—literally—sending her drone into a tree over his bee boxes and his sanity straight into jeopardy.
She’s chaos. He’s calm. She wants answers. He wants her to stop breaking things.
But when the too-curious tenant begins to chip away at her mother’s long-buried secrets, a reluctant partnership is formed with Whynot’s hottest, most reclusive bachelor and becomes a full-blown adventure steeped in the town’s secrets, gossip, and nosiest residents.
Somewhere between Reese’s big questions, bigger ideas, and the way she keeps tripping into his quiet life… Eli realizes she’s the most disruptive thing he’s ever wanted.
A grumpy-sunshine romance full of small-town meddling, slow-burn heat, and one impossible beekeeper who learns that sometimes love buzzes in when you least expect it.
Why you will love this book… 🏈Pro Football Romance
🏈Single Mom
🏈Best Friend’s Brother
🏈Meant To Be
🏈Reluctant Love
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?
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.
He was too fragile for the world that demanded strength.
He was doomed to die forgotten.
Sparrow is Comanche, son of a war chief, heir to a legacy of hunters and fighters but disease stole the body he was meant to have. While others ride to glory, he is left behind to guard the camp… until the world proves that survival is never fair.
When soldiers descend in fire and gun smoke, Sparrow makes a final stand that turns myth into blood-soaked truth. He dies a warrior at last.
And that should have been the end.
Instead, Sparrow awakens in Tir Na Nog, a brutal world of magic, monsters, and living systems where power is earned or taken. Here, gods bargain, death is temporary, and strength decides everything. Given a second life, a restored body, and bound to a dying trickster god, Sparrow must carve his place in a realm that makes no allowances for weakness.
This is not a story about chosen ones handed easy power.
This is a story about earning it.
Ashes and Ruin blends historical tragedy, Indigenous myth, and hard-edged LitRPG progression into a tale of identity, rage, honor, and rebirth. It asks a simple question:
If you were denied your destiny once…what would you become when given another chance
Sparrow has made a friend in this new world, and one he will not abandon.
Men of Evercrisp Orchard: The Complete Series by Abby Millsaps is now live!
A complete dark hockey romance series from USA Today bestselling author Abby Millsaps. This digital box set includes Almost Ravaged, Almost Rotten, and Almost Ruined, plus new bonus scenes featuring Sawyer and her men.
My head and my heart go to battle every day over of the hockey player I once loved, the competent professor I crave, and the sweet apple orchard owner I can’t stop thinking about.
Two of them say I don’t have to choose, while one is hellbent on keeping me all to himself.
I spent three years trying to get over my brother’s best friend, Tytus Tremblay, only to slingshot right back into his orbit when we’re reunited at Holt University. But the pleasure the Mercer Eden and Noah Henry offer me—individually, and together—is the primal distraction I live for.
Then Tytus makes a life-altering choice that affects us all. Delusions spiral toward disaster as my men attempt to undermine and sabotage each other. It’s not until they nearly succeed that I crumble.
I refuse to choose between them, so I’m opting out entirely. I’d rather break my own heart and mourn the loss of them for the rest of my life than let them hurt each other ever again.
THE MEN OF EVERCRISP ORCHARD BOX SET INCLUDES OVER 900 PAGES OF BINGE-WORTHY ROMANCE THAT CONCLUDES WITH AN EPIC HEA FOR SAWYER AND HER MEN. THIS BOX SET INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TITLES:
Almost Ravaged
Almost Rotten
Almost Ruined
Plus brand new bonus scenes
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Almost Rotten and Almost Ruined are releasing in audio later this fall.
🧡Review🧡 When Sawyer arrives at university and is reunited with Tytus, her foster brother and best friend, who she has always loved she hopes it will be a second chance as a devastating event separated tore them apart a few years earlier. Their past is complicated, emotional and filled with angst so it is understandable that she looks for solace elsewhere.
That peace comes in the most unlikely of places and includes Mercer, her professor, and Noah, his best friend. Even though they couldn’t be more different together they give each other and her exactly what she needs. The one problem that remains is her feelings for Tytus and his reaction to finding out she had other men in her life could destroy them all.
Sawyer and her men take us on a whirlwind of emotions that with each twist has you wondering what will happen next and what the outcome will be. Each of the characters are dealing with a lot both as individuals and as a group that will keep you on edge however the outcome makes all the turmoil worthwhile. It is great to have this series in one collection.
A.L. Jackson has revealed the narrators for Carved in the Shadows!
Duet Narrationby:Austin Stone & Andi Arndt
Releasing October 20, 2026
It was a terrible idea to agree to move in with my best friend’s little sister
She is everything I’ve ever wanted and the one thing I can’t have.
As our motorcycle club’s Vice President, I’m charged with her protection. Touching her would be a penalty subject to death.
When she demands the chance to spread her wings, it’s my duty to go with her. I knew staying at her new apartment would be excruciating. Listening to her in her room and imagining her under the fall of the shower. But when she asks me to crawl into bed with her so she won’t feel so alone, there’s nothing I can do.
One brush of her hand and I’m crumbling. One crook of those fingers and I’m trapped. One reckless night and there’s no going back.
Only with the lives we lead, our enemies are never far away, and as she begins to receive threats, I’m in a race to end the threat before it’s too late. Soon, our secrets unravel, and I’m faced with the consequence of loving her. But I promised her everything, and I’m willing to offer the greatest sacrifice.
Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… 🎄 Christmas Romance
🏒 Pro Hockey Player
💔 Ex-Boyfriend’s Brother
❄️ Snowed-In / Forced Proximity
🛏️ Only One Bed
📚 Standalone
Clay Barlowe’s NHL career ended the night his knee gave out. One torn ACL was bad enough. The second? Game over.
Now he’s the guy with a reputation—grumpy, stubborn, hotheaded. Every teammate would agree he’s impossible, and he hasn’t bothered to prove them wrong. Coaching might be his second chance…if he can avoid distractions and keep the rumors under wraps.
Which is why being snowed in with Tessa St. James is a temptation he can’t afford.
Their families spent every Christmas together. Everyone thought she’d grow up to marry Clay’s brother. No one knew her heart quietly belonged to Clay.
She’s sunshine, sugar cookies, and Christmas cheer. He’s a grinch, cold as ice, with more coal than candy canes.
When one stolen kiss under the mistletoe leads to one night tangled up by the fire, Tessa isn’t just snowed in…
She’s stuck in the sin bin with the scrooge.
And this holiday season, the only thing at risk is her heart.
🎧Review🎧 Hockey has always played an important part in Clay’s life but now that playing is no longer possible he is trying to find a path forward. In addition to dealing with this challenge he also finds himself snowbound with the woman he has always wanted but could never have as she was dating his brother even if they shared an unforgettable kiss a few years earlier.
Tessa has always tried to do what others expected of her which is how she found herself dating Clay’s brother rather than Clay, the man she really wanted. She ended her relationship with his brother and has tried to move past the kiss they shared but when they found themselves snowbound the sparks fly but will this be their second chance or another memory that they can’t forget.
Clay only wants what is best for Tessa and he doesn’t believe it is him however Tessa is willing to fight for their relationship and isn’t about to let others derail what they could have together as they take us on an a tumultuous journey that is both heartwarming and humorous. Listening to Amy Hall’s interpretation Tessa brings out all the aspects of her personality while Gabriel Spires allows us to experience the conflict that Clay is feeling.
