He is the team’s golden boy who has a broken foot and whose contract expires this year. She is the trainer whose job it is to say no to him, and for the following six months both of them will be unable to leave.
Quinn Abbott has rules. Rule one: the athlete’s health outranks the athlete’s opinion. Rule two: never get attached to a patient. Rule three, written specifically for the San Antonio Outlaws’ star running back: do not, under any circumstances, fall for the smile.
Grant Hale has never met a door that stayed closed to him. Then a broken foot puts his season, his contract, and his entire identity on an exam table, and the trainer running his rehab turns out to be the one person in Texas immune to his charm. She has a clipboard, a timeline, and zero interest in his comeback-of-the-year plans. He has a comeback clock, a stubborn streak, and a growing problem: the best part of his ruined season is the hour a day she spends telling him no.
Every morning, the same training room. Every session, her hands on the injury that could end him. Team flights, hotel treatment tables, a rehab schedule written into his contract and hers. They can’t avoid each other, and it’s starting to show. Falling for your trainer is against the rules. Falling for your patient can end a career. And somewhere between the countdown on the whiteboard and the question he shouldn’t ask, two people who’ve spent their lives carrying everything alone have to learn what it costs to let someone in.
Neither of them stands a chance, and the whole season is watching.
Tropes & tone:
• Slow burn — the wait is the point
• Athlete × athletic trainer, forced proximity (three sessions a week, no escape)
• Forbidden — he’s her patient, and one signature could end her career
• Golden retriever hero who falls first and earns it
• Found family — the Outlaws locker room, opinions included
• Open door · guaranteed HEA · standalone
Book Two of the San Antonio Outlaws series. Each book follows a different couple
Forsaking All Others by Giana Darlingis now available for pre-order on audio!
Narrated by:Sean Masters & Rose Dioro
Releasing November 10, 2026
In this scorching dark romance from bestselling author Giana Darling, a mafia princess transforms herself into the ultimate mob wife in order to survive her new world—and the man who rules it.
Fiametta
As daughter of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra’s capo, I’m sheltered, protected, and expected to do as I’m told. So, I lock away my heart and walk down the aisle to a man I don’t love. But that day costs me everything. And my new husband is harder and fiercer than any man I’ve ever known.
Dario Ferretti may not want me. But if I can’t find my place as his wife, I’ll make my mark on his kingdom instead.
Dario
I rule the Ferretti Corporation’s Chicago outfit with strength and fear, but my father still forces my hand to secure an alliance with our greatest rival. I’ll do what it takes to maintain my position, even if it means marrying a woman too young, too innocent, and far too enticing.
Fiametta Cavallaro is more than I expected. But I’m not who she thinks I am. I’m so much more, so much worse—and it’s all to keep her safe.
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.
From USA Today bestselling author Kimberly Knight comes a high-spice, father’s-best-friend age-gap romance about crossing the line with the one man she knows she shouldn’t want.
The last person Blair Hart expects to run into at a members-only sex club in Beverly Hills is her father’s best friend.
Not Yours to Wantis a high-spice, dad’s-best-friend age-gap forbidden romance novella featuring a one-night stand that turns into something more, an older man/younger woman pairing, a secret relationship, and a very exclusive sex club.
✨TEASER: WHO THE HEART CHOOSES by @harlowjamesauthor releasing October 23rd!This will be a simultaneous release in audio with the amazing narratorsConnor Crais and Andi Elosiein DUET!
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?
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?
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.
Lisa Suzanne has revealed the cover for Eggnog & End Zones!
Releasing: November 12, 2026
Cover Designer: Qamber Designs
From Amazon Top Ten Bestselling Author Lisa Suzanne comes EGGNOG & END ZONES, a standalone holiday football romance featuring a fake relationship with her best friend’s ex, a golden retriever hero and his adorable dog, and a schoolteacher immune to his charms.
Of course the man who ruins my holiday side hustle is my best friend’s ex.
Clay Mack is a star wide receiver, a notorious playboy, and the last man I’d ever fall for. He sees me as nothing more than an uptight, wholesome schoolteacher. I see him as a charming heartbreaker who coasts through life on his good looks alone.
After he accidentally gets me fired, he offers me a new job as his holiday assistant. He needs help wrapping gifts, planning parties, and transforming his bachelor pad into a Christmas wonderland. Since I love everything about the holidays except eggnog, it’s an immediate yes from me.
And then he needs one more favor: pretend to be his girlfriend at his brother’s wedding two weeks before Christmas.
It’s supposed to be fake. It’s just a paycheck. Except the more time I spend with Clay, the harder it is to ignore the man behind the reputation. The generous one, the thoughtful one, the one who decorates cookies for my students and loves his golden retriever almost as much as he loves football.
He isn’t the playboy I thought he was, but he’s still my best friend’s ex. He’s still completely off limits.
But the cozy little cottage we’re sharing for his brother’s wedding…
It only has one bed.
Pre-order today!
Visit Lisa Suzanne’s website for buy links, or Eggnog & End Zones by Lisa Suzanne on Amazon.
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Her sunshine is a game winning shot against this grumpy goalie.
What fans don’t know about Vikings’ goalie Soren ‘the Wolf’ Wolfenspiel is that he hides behind the mask of grumpy loner to protect himself from the pain of emotional connection.
That way, he won’t get hurt again.
But then he meets his teammate’s sister, Ali St. Francis.
Ali’s move to Vancouver to work for her brother’s foundation is her new lease on life. She wants to bury herself in her new job and forget about the mistakes of her past.
When she recruits her brother’s teammates to raise money using their celebrity status, she finds herself engaging the reluctant and enigmatic goalie to participate.
It doesn’t take long for Ali’s sunshine in a bottle to melt the icy veneer of the goalie.
But will their casual (and secret) fling threaten to turn into something more and snare this lone wolf in his very own net?
Sierra Hill is a RONE Award-Winning author of Game Changer, as well as over 40 novels, including the college sports series, Courting Love, and the twice award-finalist erotic why choose serial, Reckless – The Smoky Mountain Trio. She lives in the Seattle area with her husband and their rescued lab. In her spare time, she enjoys listening to audiobooks, baking, and hiking.
🏒Review🏒 Needing to distance herself from the situation Ali found herself in and the person who caused it she goes to the place where she feels safe which is with her brother. She is happy to be near him and determined to show her that he didn’t make a mistake by hiring her and that includes not getting personally involved with his teammates.
Wolf is the goaltender for the Vancouver Vikings who has distanced himself from everyone in his life due to his past. When he meets Ali she him feeling emotions he never expected or wanted to feel again however and feeling them for his teammate’s sister is the definition of complicated.
Wolf and Ali take us on an emotional ride as they are both going through a tumultuous time in their life. The chemistry and connection were never in doubt and seeing Wolf let Ali into his life was what made their relationship so special.
One More Goal is a fake dating, opposites attract romance…
As the newest forward for the Jacksonville Mud Hens, I’m determined to make a name for myself.
But it’s not easy. I stumble my way through interviews and choke when there are lights and cameras in my face. When the fans get a little too friendly, I freeze up. My public persona is taking a nosedive and my rookie season has just begun.
The solution? A fake relationship. Apparently, a girlfriend will make me look more approachable, and she’ll have no trouble telling fans to keep their hands off her man.
My team and my publicist think they’ve found the perfect person for the job. She’s a figure skater. She’s gorgeous. And her reputation could use a little rehab, too.
But she’s no stranger. I already know Emersyn Zabek. How could I forget being snowed in with the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen? How could I forget losing my virginity to her?
Now that I think about it, I couldn’t have asked for a better fake girlfriend.
My feelings for Em are far from fake. They’re heating up as the days go by. And when her safety is threatened, there’s nothing I won’t do to keep her out of harm’s way.
One More Goal is the first book in the Dirty Puckers Book Club pro hockey series and it can be enjoyed as a standalone. If you love sassy heroines, stoic heroes, and enough steam to melt your Kindle, then Leo and Emersyn are the perfect couple for you!
Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… 🏈NFL Quarterback × Coach’s Daughter
💜One Night Stand
🏈Forced Proximity
💜Forbidden Romance
🏈Found Family
💜Mental Health Rep
🏈Interracial Romance
💜Caretaking MMC
🏈Praise Kink
💜He Falls First…and Harder
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.
At least, that’s the plan.
Problem number one. I definitely want more. Problem number two. She disappears before the sun. Problem number three. I can’t stop thinking about her.
Surely the universe is done with me now. The universe: Bet. Because the woman of my dreams is my coach’s daughter, who I absolutely can’t have.
Pretending our night together never happened is probably the smartest thing either of us could do, but I’ve never been good at walking away from something I want.
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