She’s the doctor who could end his career… or save his heart.
Olivia As the head of sports medicine for the Fury, I’ve worked too hard to let anything jeopardize my career. But when Calvin Barrettโstar defenseman for our biggest rivalsโlimps into my life with a bad ankle and a devastating smile, all my carefully laid plans go up in flames. He’s determined to claim me as his own, and despite knowing better, I’m powerless to resist. But when our secret romance is splashed across the headlines, I’m faced with an impossible choice: my dream career or the man who’s become my everything.
Calvin At thirty-seven, retirement is breathing down my neck, and a stubborn ankle injury isn’t helping my chances of staying in the game. Then I meet Dr. Olivia Angeloโbrilliant, beautiful, and completely off-limits. She’s not just the enemy team’s physician; she’s the woman I know I’m meant to spend forever with. When our private moments become public scandal, I’m ready to walk away from everything for her. Because some things are worth fighting for, and Olivia? She’s worth it all.
Penalty for Boarding is a steamy hockey romance featuring a curvy sports doctor, a possessive player who knows what he wants, forbidden love, forced proximity, and a happily ever after that proves choosing love is always worth the risk.
As always, this Megan Wade romance comes with her Sugar Promise: High heat, low drama. Guaranteed.
โค๏ธ ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ค โ๏ธ Forbidden Romance (rival teams/workplace) โ๏ธ Age Gap โ๏ธ Workplace Romance โ๏ธ Sports Romance โ๏ธ Curvy Heroine โ๏ธ Protective Alpha Hero โ๏ธ Insta-Love โ๏ธ Medical Romance โ๏ธ Found Family (team dynamics) โ๏ธ Career vs Love Conflict โ๏ธ Secret Relationship โ๏ธ Grand Gesture โ๏ธ Older Player/Second Chance at Career โ๏ธ Against All Odds โ๏ธ Plus-Size Representation
โค๏ธ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ง ๐๐๐๐ Megan Wade is a simple girl who believes in love at first sight and soulmates. She’s obsessed with happy endings and Hallmark is her favorite brand of everything. Each Megan Wade story carries her โSugar Promiseโ of Over the Top Romance, Alpha Heroes, Curvy Heroines, Low Drama, High Heat and a Guaranteed Happily Ever After. What could be better than that?
๐Review๐ After playing hockey professionally for many years Calvin isnโt sure how much more his body can handle. He is feeling the aftereffects from a game when the doctor from a rival team offers him treatment and he realizes he wants a future with her despite the complications it will bring.
Olivia has worked hard to become the doctor for a professional hockey team, and she isnโt about to let any player suffer even if he plays for a rival team. There is no denying the chemistry and connection between them even if it could cost them both their careers.
I enjoyed the relationship between Calvin and Olivia as there was no misunderstandings or doubts and they werenโt about to let anyone stand in their way.
I wear my emotions on my tattoo-covered sleeve, I say all the wrong things and I revel in pissing off a certain redhead far more than I should. In other words, Iโm the last person the court would choose to parent any child, let alone three of them.
Yet being their father is all I want.
So when the woman I love to hate offers to help make all my dreams come true, I jump at the chance. Marrying Ava is a convenient solution: sheโs my kids favorite person and the court will absolutely approve of the woman who runs the biggest charity in Boston.
But there is nothing convenient about the way I feel when she fights with me, or when we kiss. And Iโm not sure which I enjoy more.
This marriage may have a time limit but Iโm beginning to think Iโd like to keep my wife. Sheโll probably fight me on it, but as they say, allโs fair in love and war.
Why you will love this bookโฆ ๐Small Town Romance ๐ฅBest Friendโs Little Sister ๐Slight Age Gap ๐ฅReformed Playboy ๐Romantic Suspense-ish ๐ฅChildhood Crush ๐Blue Collar Hero ๐ฅPossessive, Alpha Hero ๏ปฟ๐Touch Her & Die vibes
Bax Mayson thought he had escaped the family curseโuntil he saw Olivia Gannon again.
Itโs been eight years since he last laid eyes on his best friendโs little sister, and now, fate has thrown her back into his life. As if their undeniable connection isnโt complicated enough, a mysterious threat looms, determined to tear Olivia away from him.
For Olivia, moving back home wasnโt supposed to change everythingโuntil it did.
Running into Bax was the last thing she expected, but that one encounter sets off a whirlwind of events she couldnโt have imagined. Now, with family tensions rising, exes resurfacing, and a hidden enemy out for revenge, Olivia must figure out whoโor whatโtheyโre fighting. Because one thing is certain: she and Bax have something worth fighting for.
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS THE HOT FIREMAN NEXT DOOR
Rebecca Norinne Caudill
Release Date: November 27
Meet Rebecca Norinne Caudill:
USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Norinne Caudill writes spicy romance from the heart. Her heroines will make you laugh and her heroes will make you swoon.
When not banging away at the keyboard, she is watching rugby, playing board games, or planning her next vacation.
Originally from California, she now resides in New England with her husband and two cats where she is renovating a house built in the 1700s and trying valiantly not to be eaten alive by mosquitos.
Single mom Callie Caldwell doesnโt have time for romanceโespecially with her brotherโs best friend, James Carmichael, the handsome firefighter who lives next door. But no matter how hard she tries to fight it, James keeps slipping through the defenses around her battered heart. Heโs dependable and steadfast, and his easy charm and protective nature make it impossible to deny the spark between them. With James, Callie finally allows herself to imagine a future she never thought possible.
But when wealthy hotelier Sterling Whitmore arrives in Snowfall Valley to open a luxury ski resort, Callieโs world is shaken. The sophisticated New Yorker seems hauntingly familiar, and his presence tugs at memories that she would rather forget. When Callie takes a job working for him, her professional and personal worlds collide, and an unexpected revelation forces her to confront old wounds.
With her wild-child past threatening to undo everything sheโs built with the handsome, hardworking firefighter, can Callie find the courage to let go of her fears and embrace their love and the future they could have together?
๐ฅReview๐ฅ Callie has always been a single mom to her daughter Maura which does not leave her with the time or energy for much else. She has developed a friendship with James, who is also her brotherโs best friend, however when he becomes her neighbor, their relationship begins to change.
James has had feelings for Callie and her daughter for a while so renovating and living in the house next to Callie is his opportunity to become a bigger part of her life and show her and Maura what they mean to him and that he will always be there for them.
This is a heartwarming story set during the holiday season as this swoony fireman shows Callie and Maura what love really means.
Everything in my life is rigidly planned, nothing ever takes me by surprise, until her.
Wren Jacobs.
I swear the woman was put on earth to drive me insane. She’s too young, too beautiful, my daughter’s best friend, and one of my best friendโs daughters. In other words, completely off limits.
And for one weekend she’s the art curator assigned to help me pick up my newest painting.
My only job is keep my hands off the forbidden woman almost twenty years my junior. Every whisper of daddy Wilson that falls from her lips drives me closer to forgetting my rules and realizing this nightmare might be the fantasy I need for the night.
Even if one night could be enough, will everyone finding out destroy it all?
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Everbound University is the mandatory graduate school for anything that goes bump in the night. Not going isnโt an option unless you want to be hunted down for illegally inhabiting the mortal world. All legaciesโthe descendants of the Four Housesโare required to attend because weโre all cursed, and the only way to break our curses is through binding our hearts in a quintet. Becoming part of a quintet is a dream come true. Destiny fulfilled. A gods-given, merciful blessing.
For me, itโs a hard pass. I canโt be bound to anyone else. Trust me, it wouldnโt end well. So when Iโm placed in a quintet, I promptly reject all four of my matches for their own good. But these powerful, gorgeous, high-profile legacies have no idea how to handle rejection, becauseโฆ The cutthroat blood fae shows me his soft side. The charming dragon shifter won’t leave me alone.
The unhinged nightmare prince calls me darling. And the gorgeous ice elemental is as overprotective as he is cold. They’re the kind of deadly perfection that draws attention. Which is exactly what I’m trying to avoid, since no one can know my secret. I’ll do whatever it takes to make them decide Iโm not worth the chase. The problem is, no matter what I do to make them hate me, it only seems to have the opposite effectโฆ
Sheโs a preacherโs daughter, a runaway bride and now the (not quite) qualified nanny for a sexy tattoo artist with a beautiful daughterโand a dirty mouth.
Whatโs a bad boy to do with a woman like her?
Everythingโฆ
Aaliyah Montgomery isnโt just ditching her wedding. Sheโs also fleeing her suffocating small town and her familyโs expectations. Sheโs got plansโfor college, for finding herself. But landing a job in Chicago that fits her schedule isnโt easy. Good thing Von Howard is desperate to find a live-in nanny. Bad thing that heโs a gritty, grumpy, gorgeous tattoo artist carrying as much baggage as he has ink.
Vonโs new hire is inexperienced and a fire hazard in the kitchen. Sheโs also all thick curls, thicker curves, and a distracting mix of innocence and sensuality. After the upheaval of a divorce, he just needs a nanny, not a sneaky link. Meanwhile, Aaliyah is bonding with his seven-year-old and showing an unexpected flair for tattoo art. Who could resist?
Yet deep down, Aaliyahโs still runningโfrom her feelings and her fear of losing herself to someone elseโs expectations again. Even as their pasts return to haunt them, their undeniable heat says maybe itโs time to stand and fight for a love they didnโt see coming.
Aaliyah has always followed the edicts of her family which includes planning to marry a man she doesnโt love and live a life she doesnโt want. Deciding she canโt do it she ventures to Chicago to stay with her cousin and follow her dreams. One of those dreams is college so she agrees to take a job working for Von as a nanny.
Von is a tattooist and a single father to his daughter. His marriage is a mistake he doesnโt want to repeat, and he believes that Aaliyah is everything that he doesnโt want in a woman but the more time he spends with her and sees the woman she is destined to be the more intriguing she becomes.
I enjoyed seeing Aaliyah spread her wrings and with the support of Von gain the confidence and realize that she doesnโt have to conform to anyoneโs view of her but that she is a fierce woman who deserves to be loved for who she is and not what people want her to be.
AUTHOR BIO
USA Today Bestselling author Naima Simone loves writing sizzling romances with heart, a touch of humor and snark. Her books have been featured in The Washington Post and Entertainment Weekly, and described as balancing โcrackling, electric love scenes with exquisitely rendered characters caught in emotional turmoil.โ
She is wife to Superman, or his non-Kryptonian, less bullet proof equivalent, and mother to the most awesome kids ever. They all live in perfect, sometimes domestically-challenged bliss in the southern United States.