"A fake girlfriend to improve my image? Yeah, like that'll work.
I'm known as the bad boy of hockey. The grump. The one everyone stays away from. Doesn't matter to me though. All I care about is the game. As long as I keep my head down and it doesn't affect my spot on the team, I'm good. Until it does.
To fix my shining reputation, the team sets me up with Piper Fields, the happiest girl on the planet. Now my girlfriend. Scratch that—my fake girlfriend.
All I have to do is pretend to like her in public and keep my distance in private. Except that's not exactly what happens . . .
With each day we spend together, I find myself forgetting that none of this is real. Sparks fly and lines blur. I know she feels it too.
Then, just when I thought I had finally found something to hold on to, someone threatens to expose us. But just like in the game, I'm in it to win, and this time, I'm going to win her. For good.
Best Laid Plans is a fake dating, brother's teammate, grumpy/sunshine, hockey romance with a guaranteed HEA!"
"As the starting goalie for a professional hockey team, I should be oozing confidence and swagger. Too bad I'm as awkward as they come.
Things go from bad to worse when I want my teammates' help to set me up. Especially when the team's general manager is there to witness the train wreck of a date.
Until she proposes dating lessons . . . mutual dating lessons. How can the most confident, self-assured woman need my help?
What starts off simple and uncomplicated quickly turns into more. A lot more. She's supposed to be helping me with other women. But the more time I spend with Bexley, the more I want her. Only her.
We can't be together. She's my general manager. More than a decade older than me. There's no way this can work. Except it does.
When everything goes sideways, will the two of us find a way to make it work?
I can only hope the outside world won't crush the best thing I have going for me."
"He's the one person I'm not allowed to fall in love with. But I can't seem to stay away.
Growing up, all I heard was how bad the Hollins Family is. How the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
Troy Hollins is so far off limits, he might as well be in another universe.
Thankfully, our paths don't cross at school. Not until senior year – when Troy comes to me for help with his classes. Get a passing grade or lose his starting spot on the university's hockey team. I can't say yes, can I?
But when he comes to my rescue, I agree to help him. What starts off as innocent study sessions slowly turns into more. Stolen moments hidden away from prying eyes. Changing every opinion I had of him and his family.
There's no way this thing between the two of us can last. We have no future together. Not when our families hate each other.
Romeo and Juliet have nothing on our feuding sports families . . ."
"Finding out my fiancé is cheating on me? Not how I imagined my wedding day…
Gorgeous white dress. Champagne. Husband. All of that goes out the window when I overhear a call between my fiancé and another woman.
Hurt and angry, I turn to the only person I can trust—my fiancé's brother. Dax. Otherwise known as my best friend.
I run. And take him with me.
One too many drinks has me confessing everything I heard. With a need to reinvent myself, I make a list. No matter how outrageous it might seem, Dax offers to help.
But when one thing leads to another, I discover new feelings for Dax. How can I go from loving one brother to the next?
It doesn't seem to matter. Because the more time we spend together, the harder I fall.
When his brother comes back into the picture, it threatens everything Dax and I are building. Will Dax be the bigger person to keep the peace, or will his brother keep ruining our lives?
If only Dax and I could break away from his brother's shadow..."
"As the league's reigning playboy, I've had more than a few women arrive on my doorstep. But until tonight, I've never had a baby show up.
A baby.
Out of options, I'm grateful when my grandma and her friend offer to move in and help.
Until someone else shows up at my house.
My new elderly roommate's very young, very attractive granddaughter.
The last thing I need is to get involved with someone who is down on their luck. Besides, I need to figure out this whole parenting thing. Not winning over Stevie.
It's hard not to be drawn to this woman that I have so much in common with. Until one night, it becomes more. She doesn't see me the way the world sees me—she sees me for the person I am underneath the Playboy reputation.
The more time we spend together, the harder I fall. After running from the image I thought I needed, I might finally have it all.
Until my past once again comes back to haunt us both..."
"Coaching in the women’s hockey league is my dream. What I didn’t plan on? Having to coach my ex…
When I took the job with the Toronto Rosebuds hockey team, I never thought I’d be reunited with the woman that ruined me for all others.
Lydia Bishop.
Playing hockey and Lydia are my past. My future is with this new team. Lydia is a distraction I can’t afford.
The more time I spend with Lydia, the more I realize I might not be as over her as I thought. Until one night, we cross a line. A line I don’t want to come back from.
She’s my player. I can’t be seen with her. Sneaking around is our only option until the world finds out about us and I’m forced to choose.
The future I’ve always wanted or the past I don’t want to let go of.
I am so pucking screwed…"
"Marcus Evans was the love of my life until a cruel twist of fate tore us apart.
I told myself I moved on.
Until seven years later, when he comes walking back into my classroom, a completely different man than the hockey star I fell in love with–and father to two little girls.
I've done my best not to think about him since a quickie wedding in Vegas. Only it turns out, those marriage papers might still be valid after all.
There's no escaping Marcus now that he's back in my life. The more we see one another, the more I see the man I fell in love with. When I learn the truth about what tore us apart, the icy walls around my heart melt.
I swore I'd never fall in love again. Second chances? They're too good to be true. Yet this time, I want to take that leap.
Even if it might break me in the end.
Game Misconduct is a single dad, second chance, enemies to lovers, hockey romance with a guaranteed HEA!"
"It's finally here. The one game every player wants to be in.
Sweat, blood, and tears have been spilled on the Mountain Lions' journey to the championship game.
The Mountain Lions have it all—love, marriage, and families.
They all want the ring. So bad, they can taste it.
Do they have what it takes to finally be able to hoist that trophy?
Find out as Jackson, Colin, Alex, Knox, and Logan play in . . .
The Big Game."
"Logan Winchester. Star running back for the Denver Mountain Lions and the man of my dreams. Until he left me without another word, shattering me in the process.
I had other things to focus on. Like being the top skier in the world. I put my ex and his small town in my rearview mirror and tried not to look back. Until an injury sidelined me.
Now with the press following every minute of my return to competitive skiing, I need an escape. But I end up in the one place I never thought I'd return to.
With the man who nearly broke me.
All I want is to focus on my rehab. But Logan doesn't make it easy.
We're on different paths. Reaching for new goals. But as we spend time together, truths are revealed, and the anger I held on to for so long turns into something else. Something that sparks inside me every time I look at him.
Can we rewrite our past and change our future, or will our love be something to forget?"
"I asked a sexy stranger to be my fake fiancé . . . and he said yes!
Small-town politics aren't my thing. All I want is to run my store in peace, without interference from the town's busybodies. And the mayor. Otherwise known as my ex-husband. But I'm not that lucky. Disapproving glances. Disparaging comments. Outright hostility to my face.
With my store—and my reputation—on the line, I'll do anything to save it. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Including asking Simon Belvy to be my fake fiancé. I didn't think he'd agree to my outrageous plan. Except, he did. But it's all pretend, right?
He's my knight in shining armor. An unexpected ally. With every stolen glance and tender touch, our connection deepens. Lines blur.
And then? We're obliterating every rule we ever made. This is only temporary. It's not real.
Will Simon tear down the walls around my heart? Or will he shatter it in the process?
This whole fake engagement might not be so fake after all . . ."
"He's my best friend's older brother. I have no business having these feelings for him. But I do.
I've had a crush on Mason Winchester for as long as I can remember. To him, I've never been anything more than a family friend. His little sister's annoying friend. But what happens when he needs a nanny for his daughter for the summer? He calls me.
That's when things change. Suddenly there are feelings. Real feelings I shouldn't be having.
I'm only staying in this small town a few more months, so what could a little fling hurt? Work this out of our system. Easy. No one has to know.
Except when those feelings start to grow. Am I willing to lose my best friend over a summer fling?
This is bad. Very bad. But . . . something this wrong shouldn't be this good, right?
Summer isn't the only thing heating up in Dixon."
"She’s my fake girlfriend…that’s it. It’s not real.
To get the company of my dreams, I need a girlfriend. For three weeks. Of course, being the workaholic I am, there are no prospects in sight.
When I hire Blair Stevens to be my girlfriend, I think nothing of it. I can fake it with the best of them for a few weeks to get what I want.
My dream company.
I won’t fall for her, right?
Wrong.
I fall—hard. Racing heart, tingling hands, and a possessive desire every time she’s near. I shouldn’t feel any of this. We aren’t a real couple.
As the two of us get closer, the ticking time clock on our relationship gets louder. Can we continue this thing in the real world? Or am I foolish to think there’s room in my life for someone else?
It’s all supposed to be pretend, right?"
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