Harry “Deke” Edwards is a Hartford Husky defenseman known to be tricky, fast, and unbreakable. An amazing defensive lunge in a playoff game ends in a life-threatening injury. But Harry’d bounce back. He always did, didn’t he?
Kitty, his wife, runs a successful art gallery in Washington, D.C. Over the last three years, the couple agreed to live in different cities and be together whenever they can. Harry swears they make it work.
Unwilling to face the truth about the damage he suffered, Harry hides his secret. Hoping for a Christmas miracle, but confronted with the inevitable, he makes a decision that breaks his heart. Is this the end of the road for him with the Huskies and Kitty, too?
Previously part of the Holiday Hockey Anthology that made the U.S.A. Today Best-Seller List.
After a long history with crappy guys, high-school teacher Em Newman is going man-vegan. Four months of revirginization has opened her eyes to her doormat imitation, but baby's got spine now and some smooth-talking-even if he is sinfully hot, a rugby player who won't be adding her as a notch anytime soon. Lincoln Quinn loves rugby, women, and poker. And he likes to win at all three. When his teammates bet him he can't break through Em's resolve, he's more than up for the challenge. But this lady has a shoebox of stipulations before she'll even go on a date with him, much less use that mouth for kissing instead of giving orders. Something's gotta give but this time Em's not settling. And Linc's questioning everything he ever knew about matters of the heart.
Fans can't get enough of Levi Hunt, the Special Forces veteran who put his NHL career on hold to serve his country and fight the bad guys. So when his new Chicago Rebels bosses tell him to cooperate with the press on a profile, he's ready to do his duty-until he finds out who he has to work with: flame-haired, freckle-splashed, impossibly perky Jordan Cooke...the woman he should not have kissed the night she buried her husband, Levi's best friend in the service. Hockey-stick-up-his-butt-serious Levi Hunt might despise Jordan for reasons she can't fathom-okay, it's to do with kissing-but her future in the cutthroat world of sports reporting hangs on delivering the goods on the league's hottest, grumpiest rookie. So what if he's not interested in having his life plated up for public consumption? Too bad. Jordan will have to play dirty to get her scoop and even dirtier to get her man. But if she wins the story, she might just lose her heart...
Caitlin Monroe is ready to confront her past. Years ago, her father ditched her mother for the NBA, leaving her pregnant and alone. Now he's a big-shot coach, and Caitlin's ready to take the so-called "family man" down. But on her way to the team gala, her car dies, and it's her father's sexy new star player who comes to her rescue. Brady Hudson wants nothing more than to put his past behind him and concentrate on winning the championship for his new team. But when he finds himself the recipient of unwanted attention-attention that could destroy his career-he introduces the beautiful woman he saved on the side of the road as his girlfriend. Brady needs to focus on his job. And Caitlin isn't about to date an athlete whose career is riding on her father-although he is a convenient way to get the dirt she needs. But sometimes love has other ideas, and it's not long before their pretend relationship becomes a liability neither can resist...
The Ballers may have the upper hand at RHS.
I underestimated them, their cruelty, their ability to look the other way when something hits them over the head, but camp is a whole other story. Their asses are mine.
Contains mature themes.
Former quarterback Lance Quaid just inherited the most losing team in the NFL. He's got only a few weeks until draft day to turn things around, and after firing more than half his staff, he can't do it alone. Thankfully, his HR manager is more than capable, if only she'd stop focusing on 'due diligence' and stop looking so sexy while she's yelling at him.
Charlotte James has made a life out of following the rules. But nothing could have prepared her for Lance Quaid-he's a human resources nightmare. The man is brash, has no filter, and, as her new boss, is constantly relying on her to cover his ass. Which is admittedly quite nice.
When Lance begs her to join him on a trip down the coast for his brother's wedding so they can finalize details-on a strictly business basis-she agrees . . . after they fill out the necessary forms, of course. Away from the office, though, sparks start flying as the team starts coming together. But both of them know anything more than the weekend would be a colossally bad idea-after all, the extra paperwork would be a nightmare.
Contains mature themes.
He's a professional hockey player that lives on the edge. I prefer to play life by the rules.
I'm the personal assistant at a sports agency that no one notices. I don't like sports and I like professional athletes even less. I'm indifferent to the mostly male clientele, except for one. Mica 'the savage' Petrov.
When it comes to wild antics, Mica is the biggest offender of them all. He's reckless, wild, and carelessly charming. I'm mortified that I find him attractive. But it doesn't matter because the guy hasn't taken a second look at me. Not once. In two years.
Mica's career-jeopardizing situation requires drastic measures to be taken to keep him in the game. He's got money, I've got debt, and my boss has a crazy idea. Which is how I found myself stepping up to save him from himself. But at what cost?
How long can I keep fighting my attraction? What ghosts from his past is he brawling with? All I know is that I need to defend my heart before this big defenseman steals it away. Can we win this game? Or is it too late for either of us?
Contains mature themes.
Once Upon a Time
I dreamed of growing up and being just like her. I dreamed of having an adoring husband, two kids, and a beautiful home where my family would come together and enjoy all of our happy ever afters. But fate had other plans.
My road wasn't easy, it was heartbreaking, and she was there, in the distance, silently supporting me. When all the angst, all the pain, worked its way out, she was there too, but not how she'd always promised, she was there from an unbridgeable distance.
With distance and broken promises, I began to build a wall. She would never be the mother she was, and I would not allow her to hinder the mother I am.
Life is nothing without love. Life is nothing without hope. Life is nothing without dreams. And life is not lived fully until you understand the finality of . . . goodbye.
Contains mature themes.
Muscles. Mandy’s work was supposed to be regulated to muscles.
Well, muscles and ligaments and tendons . . . and general body health and—
Sigh. She was blabbering as usual, but muscles combined with lips that were way too kissable and a pair of sharp blue eyes that pierced right through all of her carefully erected defenses had a way of doing that to a girl.
Blane was her fantasy—literally her nightly fantasy. He was sexy, strong, talented, and normally she would have thrown herself at his feet and begged for a night—or, cough, more—showing him exactly what that fantasy was.
But that would mean she would get fired . . . and worse, so would he.
She couldn’t have that on her conscience, not when Blane was a gifted player for the San Francisco Gold. Plus, he was a professional athlete and their relationships were doomed to fail. Mandy knew that firsthand and she also knew she couldn’t live that life. Always being the one left behind, always way down on the priority list.
Hockey was his job and it was all consuming. That was reality and everything was fine—
Until Blane got hurt. Until she was spending more time with him. Much more time.
Until Blane told her she was his fantasy too.
Mike Stewart is a bad boy.
Sleeping around. Boozing. Fighting with teammates.
Name a bad behavior and he’s done it—done it so well, in fact, that he almost tanked his career as a starting defensemen for the NHL’s San Francisco Gold.
But Mike is done with all that. He’s starting with a fresh foot forward and putting his past behind him.
That is, until his past quite literally reappears before his eyes.
Sara Jetty is just as beautiful as she was a decade before, but Mike hasn’t seen her since she left for her first Olympics and scored a gold medal in women’s figure skating. Now something has put shadows in her eyes, a familiar type of hurt he is all too well versed in.
This Sara wants nothing to do with him. Their easy friendship is gone and in its place is a hardened woman who’s nothing like the girl from his past.
Still, Mike hasn’t become a top defensemen in the NHL by being afraid of hard work, and he isn’t about to let Sara push him away. Come hell or high water, he’s going to crack her tough outer shell and find the sweet, innocent woman he’s lusted after and loved, in equal measure, for more than ten years.
I am not okay.
Fifteen months ago, my life was turned upside down when the plane I was piloting went down. Injured and trapped in the wreckage, I had to watch my fiancée die a painfully slow death, which is something that can really mess with your head.
Since that day, I’ve had little desire to do much of anything. Except play hockey, that is. Because that is the one place where the bad memories are banished and I can escape my pain.
But off the ice, I’m spiraling out of control. Losing the grip on my life and putting myself and my career in danger. Now, thanks to a string of bad decisions, I’ve been ordered to complete therapy in order to stay on the team.
The problem? Nora Wayne, my beautiful and somewhat unconventional therapist. I can’t buy into the brand of happy clappy crap this woman is feeding me. What could she possibly understand about the type of loss that I’ve suffered? How does she know anything about finding happiness after losing the most important person in your life?
Turns out, I’ve got a lot to learn, and she’s just the person I need to break through those walls I’ve erected.
I am not okay.
But for the first time in a long time, I know that I will be.
Marie liebt klassische Musik, Ballett und Milan. Milan liebt AC/DC, Basketball und Marie. Oder doch Viktoria? Aber wen liebt Viktoria? Und wer wird den begehrten Vertrag mit der NBA erhalten: Milan oder sein bester Freund Tyler? Bei einem Zwischenfall auf dem Spielfeld werden die Karten neu gemischt. Milan muss sich seiner Vergangenheit stellen. Und der Mann in der neongrünen Skijacke macht alles nur noch komplizierter. Es ist leichter, einen Buzzer Beater von der Mittellinie aus zu versenken, als Vertrauen in die große Liebe zu haben.Band 2: Das große Finale in der Geschichte um Milan und Marie.
