Buckle up for an emotional journey of hijinks, heartache, and a hot slow-burn in this marriage-in-crisis romance about going the distance to make love last.
Aiden
I've spent twelve years loving Freya Bergman and twelve lifetimes won't be enough to give her everything she deserves. All I want is to make her happy. But the one thing that will make her happiest is the one thing I'm not sure I can give her: a baby. With the pressure of providing and planning for a family, my anxiety's at an all-time high, and I find myself pulling away, terrified to tell my wife how I'm struggling. But when Freya kicks me out, I realize that pulling back has turned into pushing too far. Now it's the fight of a lifetime to save our marriage.
Freya
I love my cautious, hard-working husband. Until one day I realize the man I married is nowhere to be found. Now Aiden is quiet and withdrawn, and as the months wear on, the pain of our growing distance becomes too much. As if weathering marriage counseling wasn't enough, we're thrown together for an island getaway to celebrate my parents' many years of perfect marriage while ours is on the brink of collapse. Despite my meddling siblings and a week in each other's constant company, this trip somehow gets us working through the trouble in paradise. I just can't help worrying, when we leave paradise and return to the real world, will trouble find us again?
Allison Titov and Asher Brooks have been best friends their whole lives. Brought up together as part of the Assassins family, they might as well be related. But . . . Ally has never felt anything sisterly toward Asher.
In love with Asher since she was a teen, Ally has gone pro at keeping her feelings a secret. It's been easy . . . as long as he's stayed halfway across the country at college and she has a volleyball to slap her frustrations out on. But now, he's home. And having his quick wit, heart-filling laugh, and adorkable smile so close is going to test her like never before.
After being dumped by his fiancee, Asher is at a loss what to do next. He craves stability, but with an unexpected kiss, Ally might as well have spiked Asher in the face with a volleyball. Now he's faced with the dilemma of his life. Does he keep Ally in the friend zone, or does he take the ultimate risk for love?
If they've learned one thing growing up in the glow of hockey greatness, it's that you can't win it all if you don't play the game. And by serving one hell of an ace into the middle of Asher's safe little life, Ally is ready to claim victory.
Scandal should be synonymous with Washington DC. I would know; I'm an intern on Capitol Hill.
But I fall for a man even more dangerous than a politician. I fall for Luke, an underground-boxer-turned-entrepreneur. With cool green eyes, tightly coiled muscles, and split knuckles, Luke stands out against the backdrop of crisp suits and polished shoes. He's jaded, closed-off, and impossible to read. He's also gorgeous, determined, and loyal to a fault.
But Luke has a secret, one with compromised allegiances and a dangerous outcome. In fact, he's the greatest scandal of all.
Contains mature themes.
Easton:
Hockey isn't forever.
The money, excitement, and glory of being a professional hockey player meant more to me than a family, a home, and a forever. Another man has my forever, and I have hockey. I thought making the big bucks and playing against the best in the world would feel better than this. Instead I'm empty and hollow, like a big piece of my heart was hacked off. There's something missing. Something big. Something I can never get back.
Caroline:
I loved him, but he wasn't the love of my life.
My husband died too young, too suddenly, too tragically. I was unprepared with no education, no job skills, and no future plans. When a DNA test reveals my twins' true parentage, I have no choice but to do the right thing. I turn to the one man who'd turned his back on me all those years ago.
I'd been shutout from his life, and I'd shut him out from mine. Can two strangers make a family? Do we have what it takes to forgive and move on?
These alpha athletes always score. Three stand-alone sports romances set at Stone Creek University that will melt your heart and curl your toes: Deep in the Pocket; Hard Edge; and Possession. Which hero will be your VIP?
DEEP IN THE POCKET
What happens when research partners discover more than they bargained for?
Serena Sanders is determined to put her past behind her. She's done with football and football players. She's got her sights set on graduate school...and maybe her sexy professor can help her get there.
All her plans come crashing down as Talon 'The Claw' Kelly stumbles into her class. The quarterback for SCU is cocky and more interested in Serena's assets than he is in working on their group project...until he finds out she's still got her v-card, that is.
Will Serena overcome her growing feelings for this unexpected ally? Will Talon outgrow his partyboy ways and get serious before graduation?
HARD EDGE
He's a hockey star with a GPA problem. She *needs* to keep her tutoring job. What happens if their spark burns the rulebook?
Neal Sweeney is the campus golden boy. He works hard and lives hard, but when his grades threaten his ability to play forward for SCU, the math department sets him up with a tutor.
Studious, serious, and totally off limits, Dahlia Wardzinski steps into the study lounge and Neal is ready to learn whatever she's teaching. The only problem? Dahlia is a woman who follows the rules. She can't risk her work-study funding to cross a line with Neal.
POSSESSION
She’s all he’s got in the world. He’s her rock and support. Can they risk their friendship for passion?
Baxter Morgan is a football god. He was made to pile drive, and a lifetime of pent-up rage has him coiled to pounce.
Olive Hampton is the girl next door. Their family lives are a tattered mess and for years, they’ve relied on each other for everything. Can they bet it all and taste true love?
She’s all he’s got in the world. He’s her rock and support. Can they risk their friendship for passion?
Baxter Morgan is a football god. He was made to pile drive, and a lifetime of pent-up rage has him coiled to pounce.
Olive Hampton is the girl next door. Their family lives are a tattered mess and for years, they’ve relied on each other for everything. While Bax paved his way to SCU on a football scholarship, Olive scrapes by with her work-study job in the training room. When drama and injuries threaten to tear them apart, an undeniable spark ignites between the lifelong best friends. Can they bet it all and taste true love?
Possession is a stand-alone novel in the Stone Creek University series. A bully hero, determined heroine, and sizzling passion will hook you into this fast read from the creator of the Stag Brothers. If you like sports romance, steamy passion, and intense action, you’ll devour this friends-to-lovers novel faster than a defensive tackle scoops up a fumble. Buy Possession today and indulge your romantic fantasies.
It started as a joke...A throwaway promise between friends. A dare for a single kiss at our reunion and nothing more.But that kiss...that kiss was no joking matter. It was hot and wet. A hands-everywhere, breathless kind of insanity that left us both teetering on the brink.She's got rules about guys like me...rules I respect the hell out of when they apply to any other pro athlete.But as they apply to me? Those rules are about to be broken.
This is going to be Ryan Justice's year. It's his last year of college and his last year as a hockey player for the Bellevue Bullies. He's making all the plays in preparation for achieving his dream of being drafted into the NHL.
This is Sofia Castilleja's beginning. She is starting her college career as a star member of Bellevue's brand-new gymnastics team. She's going to tumble her way to success, first in school, and then by realizing her dream of opening her own gym.
Ryan and Sofia didn't see each other coming, but once they meet, they can't look away. Their dreams are destined to take them in opposite directions. But it doesn't take them long to realize that waking up to reality together may be better than dreaming alone.
Rome is for lovers. Passionate, intense, bold lovers.
I'm a twenty-one-year-old virgin and I'm enamored with Lorenzo Barca. He's an arrogant, unapologetic, sexy as sin, Italian race car driver who always gets what he wants. And he wants me underneath him. Or, at the very least, in the passenger seat of his Maserati.
Unrelenting, Lorenzo crushes my excuses to remain detached from everything he makes me feel. Instead, I fall in love-in a passionate, intense, bold kind of way. Lorenzo ruins it by discovering a secret that leads us down a dark, twisted, and dangerous path.
If all roads lead to Rome, then I need an exit strategy.
Contains mature themes.
The most anticipated J. Sterling release of the year is finally here! You've waited years to meet Jack Carter's son and the wait is over! Strap in and enjoy the ride.
Chance Carter is the son of local baseball legend, Jack Carter. Now in his junior year at Fullton State, Chance is facing challenges he never saw coming. Failing a class will stop his draft season short, making him ineligible to play and pushing his goal of professional baseball even further away.
In steps Danika, a mouthy tutor from New York, who only wants to help him pass his class ... NOT get in his pants. But try telling that to Chance. He doesn't trust girls and he definitely doesn't trust his new tutor. A lifetime growing up as a Carter taught him that.
But Danika has issues of her own. After an incident that happened last year, she doesn't trust athletes and wants nothing to do with them. And Chance is no exception.
The fireworks explode as the two try to deny the chemistry between them and family secrets are revealed. Chance doesn't know how to give up on something he wants, and he's decided he wants Danika. There's just one problem ... she has a boyfriend she has no intention of breaking up with.
How can he have her when she belongs to someone else?
They say time heals all wounds. They lie.
Especially my brother's best friend, Zack. Because my brother is dead and that's a wound that will never heal. I'm dealing the best I can, numbing my pain with alcohol and sex of the random variety. Until Zack literally runs into me on Boathouse Row in Philadelphia and takes matters into his own hands. He intervenes in my life and offers a new coping strategy: himself.
His unexpected friendship, brimming with concern and thoughtfulness, affects me. Soon, an attraction I can't deny erupts into a desire I'm desperate to act on. But I can't fall for my brother's best friend.
Not now.
And definitely not after I learn the truth about Adrian's death.
Contains mature themes.
