Sasha Bough has always been the quiet type, and that’s exactly how her family wants her to remain. When a tragic incident rocked her childhood, she was left with two options: never speak of what happened or suffer the consequences. When Sasha reaches the age of nineteen, then tension in her family rises when she still hasn’t secured a husband. It’s not always easy for the quietest person in the room to gain attention until that attention comes in unwanted ways.
When an unprompted attack interrupts the silence, Prince Alaric takes an interest in Sasha’s family and the events surrounding the trouble. Sasha knows he only wants to help, but the more he digs into her family’s past, the riskier being near him becomes. He shouldn’t be too difficult to push away, except that she may need his protection after all… After the attack, she learns that someone knows her secret and they’re willing to do anything to silence her.
If her secret is revealed, she’s as good as dead, and if she can’t find whoever is targeting her, they’ll simply kill her first. With a prince willing to help keep her safe, does she dare let him get close to her? Or is she better off staying hushed?
♡ public displays of “she’s mine, and I’ll burn the world down for her”
♡ unhinged hockey friend group
♡ girl group bonding
♡ poor girl/rich boy
♡ tracks her without her knowledge
♡ only soft for her
♡ he falls first
♡ touch her/ look at/ breathe near her and literally die
♡ virgin FMC & MMC
♡ somno w/ prior consent
♡ birth control refusal/tampering
♡ mirror play
♡ s*xting
♡ co*kwarming
♡ no third act break up
♡ no other woman drama
If he can’t have her, no one can. Hayden Lockwood harbors a dark obsession with Madison Caldwell. The brooding hockey captain’s unhinged infatuation began the instant he laid eyes on the most untouchable girl on campus. The night his mother and her father were found slain amidst their affair, Hayden couldn’t tear his eyes away from the girl who didn’t shed a single tear. Hayden’s fixation on Madison deepens as he watches her every move, intervening at every imposing threat and sabotaging any potential suitor.
Madison can’t avoid the hothead hockey player when their surviving parents find comfort in each other and decide to marry. As their parents’ wedding approaches, a violent attack on campus forces Hayden and Madison to make life-altering choices. When someone threatens to expose the dark secrets of their elite circle, Hayden is forced to reveal just how obsessed he is with Madison, and how far he’s willing to go to protect her.
Kings of Castlebrook are elite hockey legacies born to cause trouble on and off the ice. Please read Pucking Obsessed with caution as it contains dark themes, and please note that this book is not enemies to lovers and there is no malice between the main characters.
“Do you know what I’m wondering, Tennessee? I’m wondering if you ever stop giving long enough to let someone return the favor?”
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His words landed on a sore spot deep inside. I’d had to accept help after being shot, and maybe having it forced on me was the reason I was so determined to stand on my own now, why I hadn’t told my family my plans. But instead of saying any of that, I did what I thought we both needed. I lightened the mood, smiling up at him and saying, “I think I was on the receiving end of a lot of gifts last night. Two at least.”
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“Four.”
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I raised a brow playfully. “Was it four I’m not sure I remember. Maybe I fell asleep. Or maybe you thought you anted up and didn’t pay out.”
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He let out a savage growl before slanting his HMMM over mine in a brutal K–ss.
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“You ready to back that little taunt with a wager, Tennessee?” His voice was low and dark. “How long do you think you’ll last before you b3g for relief?”
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“Maybe you’ll be the one b3gging, Slick.”
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He devoured me again in a way that had every particle yearning for more of what he’d given me last night. Just as m0-an escaped me, he stepped away, grinning down wickedly with a look that promised sin and salvation. “How about I just leave you to think about it, shall I?”
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I stepped inside my bedroom, pulled his borrowed shirt from my body, and tossed it at him.
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“How about I leave you thinking about this.” I waved a hand over my BIRTHDAYSUIT and then closed the door in his face.
💛 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙇𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝘿𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙎𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙙 💛
🤠 Grumpy Cowboy 👨👧 Single Dad 🏡 Small Town 💪 Protective Hero 💔 Sworn Off Love 😍 Standalone HEA 💥 Romantic Suspense 🦸♀️ Spitfire Heroine ❤️🔥 Missed Opportunity
From Best Selling Author Kimberly Readnour comes a new enemy-to-lovers sports romance in the Cessna U Hockey series!
This steamy, forbidden hockey romance is a gripping story of love, ambition, and the courage to chase what matters most.
She’s the temptation I can’t escape, no matter the cost.
Maddy Grimes wants to shed her good-girl image, and somehow, I’ve become the guy to help her do it.
The problem?
She hates my guts. And who can blame her after what I did?
Her family is about to crush everything my dad and I have worked for, yet … I can’t stay away. One heated mistake turns into a pact we swear will stay secret.
But the more time I spend with Maddy, the harder it is to pretend this is just a frenemy-with-benefits fling. She’s chaos to my discipline, temptation to my control, and the one thing I want more than the future I’ve been fighting for.
When secrets unravel and loyalty is tested, I’ll have to choose: protect my family or risk everything for the girl who has the power to ruin or save me.
Falling for Maddy could cost me my dreams. Letting her go might cost me everything.
Book Two in the Cessna U Hockey series, Face Me Off, is an enemy-to-lover, forbidden hockey romance featuring a slow burn that sizzles from the first chapter. If you like hot hockey men with big-sized packages to back their claims, click to add Ryan Sorensen.
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Kimberly Readnour lives in the Midwest with her husband and a very snuggly cat.
Having a true passion for romance and HEA’s, she took the leap from the young adult genre to romance and never looked back.
Kimberly worked as a Registered Nurse for fifteen years before hanging up her stethoscope. When she isn’t running her own business, you can find her tucked away writing.
Maddy was raised in an affluent family and has always done what was expected of her. She is hoping that college will be her opportunity to follow her own dreams and become the woman she wants rather than the woman others want her to be. She knows that she should keep her distance from Ryan because of their pasts but her heart doesn’t agree.
Ryan’s upbringing was very different from Maddy’s and he feels the expectation from his father as well. Their families share a tumultuous past which makes the relationship and feelings that Maddy and Ryan complicated but some things are meant to be.
Ryan and Maddy see each other for who they are and are there for each other as they pursue what will truly make each other happy which includes each other.
Virginia native Mari Carr is a New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller of contemporary sexy romance and romantic suspense novels. With over two million copies of her books sold, Mari was the winner of the Romance Writers of America’s Passionate Plume award for her novella, Erotic Research. She has over a hundred published works, including her popular Wild Irish and Compass books, along with the Trinity Masters series she writes with Lila Dubois.
There’s a storm coming… and he’s not taking no for an answer.
Life has dealt Kasi one blow after another. Following her mother’s untimely death, her family implodes, leaving her alone to run the farm. Fatigue and stress have become her new best friends, every day passing in a blur of work, work, and more work. When Levi Storm, her lifelong crush, keeps her from face-planting due to exhaustion, she’s mortified…and more than a little bit turned on.
A person could set a clock by Levi’s daily routine, right down to his afternoon trip to the Mills’ farm market to buy one of Kasi’s delicious pies. He’s known Kasi her entire life, so when the beautiful young woman faints in front of him, coming to in his arms, Levi is stunned by the sudden realization that she’s meant to be his, and he’s prepared to move heaven and earth to claim her.
Kasi should at least try to shake the sexy new six foot five shadow she’s acquired, but Levi’s much-needed help around the farm, his comfort as she struggles with grief, and his breath-stealing kisses are reigniting the hope and happiness she’s lost.
Until reality crashes in again, forcing her to choose between the dominant, possessive, amazing man who makes her heart race and her family’s beloved farm.
🧡Review🧡 Ever since her mother has passed away, she is trying to deal with her group while keeping the family farm viable with no support. It has begun to take its toll on her emotionally and physically however no one seems to notice until Levi, her best friend’s cousin, comes to her aid during a moment of weakness.
Levi makes a visit to Kasi’s family farm daily which has created a friendship between them. When he sees what she has been going through it raises all his protective instincts and forces him to face his true feelings for her which include helping her out of the situation she finds herself in so that they can have the future they both want.
Kasi has always put others first with her needs coming a distant second so it is great to see Levi show her that she could depend on him. The chemistry between them is intense and I enjoyed seeing her open her heart to him and their love.
Welcome to Romancing the Rogue: Volume 2 – Charming the Damsel
What happens when the villain decides to play the hero’s game? Welcome to a world where charm, wit, and cunning take center stage, and the damsel isn’t as helpless as she seems. In this volume, the most notorious rogues set their sights on winning the heart of the woman they never thought they’d love.
From dark lords with hidden tenderness to charming scoundrels who can’t resist a challenge, this collection of clean, closed-door romances explores the art of wooing the unsuspecting damsel. These villains know how to spin a tale, outwit their enemies, and—most importantly—captivate the woman they desire.
In Romancing the Rogue: Charming the Damsel, passion brews as dangerous allure meets irresistible charm, and love blooms in the most unexpected places. Get ready to fall for the villains who dare to win it all—and the women who just might let them.
After all, isn’t there a little bit of villainy in every love story?
Brick Wall is a college hockey romance with a hero who falls hard and fast for the one girl he can’t have.
JT
Life hasn’t always been easy, but things are beginning to look up. I’m the starting goalie for the BU Wolves, Coach Baylor has become the family I have always wanted as a kid, and my dream career is waiting for me. All I need to do is defend my net for the next few seasons so I can prove to the Boston Bruisers that they drafted me for a reason. That’s a pretty bright future for a man with a past like mine.
When I hit up a party with a bunch of my roommates, I never expected to fall hard. But from that night on, it’s out of my control. Maggie Baylor is the one for me, no matter how much she tries to deny it.
Just when I think we’re getting somewhere, she ghosts me. But there’s one thing Maggie doesn’t understand: I’m not letting anything or anyone—not even Coach—stand in our way.
Maggie
As a transfer student, I have one goal: finish my senior year without any drama. And, ok…I may have lost sight of that goal before the year officially started. But that’s not my fault—Hottie Gym Shorts Guy was…well, hot. And sweet. And so very talented. That’s why I bolted the next morning. I didn’t move back home to fall in lust or worse, love. I came back to Bainbridge to spend time with my Uncle Hudson and earn my degree.
Besides, there won’t be any drama because I’m never going to see him again.
Except I do. We just keep running into each other. It’s fine, though. I can resist.
Until I can’t. JT is crumbling all my defenses. I’m on the verge of letting myself fall in love, even if I know my uncle will disapprove, when two little pink lines appear. I brace myself for impact because the only thing I know about love is that it doesn’t last.
But JT doesn’t leave my side. He slays my dragons and rubs my feet and makes me reconsider everything I thought I knew.
Is this really something I can believe in, or will our world come crashing down just when we need each other the most?
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Brick Wall is the third book in the Bainbridge U hockey series, but it can be enjoyed as a standalone. If you love a stoic hero who’ll do anything to protect the woman he loves and the family they’ve created, no matter who tries to stop him, JT Norris will melt your kindle. If you can’t resist a jaded heroine who learns to trust again, Maggie Baylor is your kinda girl. If you want all the laughs, all the feels, and every single bit of steam, and no third act break-up, then settle in with your favorite snack—Maggie recommends dark chocolate peanut butter cups—and dive into this forbidden love, surprise baby college hockey romance.
Nathan Shaw has been keeping a secret since high school. It was so tightly intertwined with someone else’s that exposing the darkest facts meant he couldn’t keep the other to himself.
He’s had years of holding onto those truths. This also means he’s had to push away the one person who means more to him than anything—and in the process, all it does is make her think that he despises her like all of the other people in her life.
But that’s so far from the truth about his feelings that he holds so close to his heart.
Haven Larson has had an awful childhood growing up with an abusive father and a mother who tries her best, but sometimes the best can’t protect you from the monsters that hide in darkness.
One night, protecting her from those monsters, fell on the one boy she had loved for as long as she could remember. And now she knows that he can’t stand to be around her after discovering her secrets—or can he, because every time they are together, the sparks ignite and threaten to combust.
But it will take their darkest secrets being exposed in order for their feelings to come to light.
Haven has had feelings for Nathan since she was a teenager but ever since the night he came to her rescue their relationship was forever altered and any dreams she had of them being together are long gone. Instead, she is focusing on her dream of opening a dog park until a storm changes everything.
After that night Nathan is determined to protect Haven and that includes from himself. Now their relationship consists of sarcastic banter until he sees the strong woman she has become and now he wants to help her realize her dreams and that includes him.
Nathan has been determined to distance himself from Haven but once he is in he is all in. The chemistry between them is intense but it is the support that he shows her and the depth of their feelings that make their relationship so special.
Kelly Elliott is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling contemporary romance author. Since finishing her bestselling Wanted series, Kelly continues to spread her wings while remaining true to her roots and giving readers stories rich with hot protective men, strong women, and beautiful surroundings.
Her bestselling works include, Wanted, Never Enough, Lost Love and Returning Home, to name a few.
Kelly has been passionate about writing since she was fifteen. After years of filling journals with stories, she finally followed her dream and published her first novel, Wanted, in November of 2012.
Kelly lives in central Texas with her husband, their two pups, Gunner and Ellie, too many cats to name, and a plethora of wild animals. When she’s not writing, Kelly enjoys gardening, reading and spending time with her family.
From USA Today bestselling author, Rebecca Jenshak, comes a brand-new YA romance series that follows Frost Lake High School’s state champion soccer team.
Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… 🏈Sports Romance (He’s the Quarterback)
💕Scientist Heroine (She’s a workaholic)
🏈Opposites Attract
💕Paris Fling
🏈He Falls First
💕Small Town
🏈Close Proximity
💕Celebrity Romance
🏈Billionaire Romance
💕1st POV
Quarterback Clay “Mr. Perfect” Braden is determined to show sexy scientist Pepper Montgomery the benefits of hands-on research in PLAYING MR. PERFECT, the first book in the Bradens at Ridgeport series. Loaded with heat, humor, and heart, this steamy, small-town, opposites-attract standalone romance is unputdownable.No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a happily ever after that will leave you breathless.
What happens in Paris, stays in Paris, right? Oh, Pepper. If only…
Okay, I admit it.
Sleeping with the NFL quarterback who the media has dubbed Mr. Perfect might not have been the smartest move, but I’m in the City of Love, I’d had a few drinks, and was jacked up on giddy girl talk and hopeful hearts—two things I never buy into—and I threw caution to the wind.
I want to sneak out before he wakes up, but when I open my eyes, he’s already up.
In more ways than one.
Convincing the ridiculously cocky (pun intended) man that I’m not the woman he slept with last night is awkward. Actually, he makes it impossible.
The thing is, I don’t even know who that woman was.
They say time heals all wounds, but some cut too deep—or so I thought.
I’ve built a life I love and am proud of in Sandcastle Cove, running the bar, keeping things simple, and enjoying my single life. I don’t need anyone, especially not Parker—the boy who shattered my heart and left me to pick up the pieces after we lost everything.
Then he walks back into town. But he’s no longer that scared, reckless seventeen-year-old; now he’s a man—steady, confident, and determined to make amends. He says he’s here to stay and ready to fight for us.
But what does he expect? That I’ll just hand him my heart again? Forgiving him feels impossible. Trusting him? Even harder. Yet every time our eyes meet, it reminds me of what we once had, and my walls crack a little more, making me wonder if it’s worth risking my heart again.
Cara Sloane has never known a life without heartache. She’s picked up countless pieces and battled inner demons for as long as she can remember. Yet nothing has been as painful as watching her best friend and first love slowly slip away. And when the time comes to say goodbye to Jake, she knows she’s going to succumb to the pain.
Luke Lanza has never known a life without duty. Hopelessly responsible, this single dad is devoted to his business and his family, so he’s quick to promise his dying brother that he’ll always look after Cara. But beneath the layers of his grief and commitment, Luke is carrying a shameful secret: he’d do anything for Cara, no matter what.
As Luke and Cara begin to lean on each other, Luke wrestles with his feelings. Cara, on the other hand, can’t stop running away from her agony. Soon, Luke is terrified that he might lose her, too. Can he accept the truth before it’s too late for him to save Cara from herself?
About Janine
USA Today bestselling author Janine Infante Bosco lives in New York City, she has always loved reading and writing. When she was thirteen, she began to write her own stories and her passion for writing took off as the years went on. At eighteen, she even wrote a full screenplay with dreams of one day becoming a member of the Screen Actors Guild.
Janine writes emotionally charged novels with an emphasis on family bonds, strong willed female characters, and alpha male men who will do anything for the women they love. She loves to interact with fans and fellow avid romance readers like herself.
She is proud of her success as an author and the friendships she’s made in the book community but her greatest accomplishment to date would be her two sons Joseph and Paul.
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