"We're friends, teammates—and we hook up. Often.
Shaw: He's intense and the heat of his stare is hot enough to set fires. The first time we got together, it was a spontaneous earth-shattering moment. I wanted more. So, of course I popped the question. 'Yours or mine for round two?' That’s where the trouble began. We agreed on an exclusive, no strings arrangement. When one of us is ready to walk away, we'll still be friends. Perfect, right? He's not exactly a people person—understatement of the year—but I've seen the real him and he's so much more than the broody loner others see him as. But the brilliant plan backfired. I accidentally caught feelings.
Bishop: He could be my game-changer but there's a problem. He put a dent in my armor when he decided I needed a friend. Then he managed to crawl under my skin—and between my sheets. He's the one person in the world I trust, and he's mine, for as long as this lasts. But I think I messed up and likely lost him for good. The role in my family's company I've been groomed for my entire life competes with my growing feelings for him. Turns out I can't have them both. What a terrible time to realize he means more to me than just a friend and convenient hookup.
Being friends with benefits is the perfect arrangement until someone falls in love.
Broken Play is a story about finding that one person that gets you, choosing your own future, and the love of football.
Contains mature themes."
"Mark: Stay focused. Finish my game. Stay out of trouble. Those were the rules. I thought hanging around Derrick was harmless. Now I'm drowning in the fallout and Derrick holds my future in his hands. Then he gives me a way out. Date the hockey captain. Break his heart. Walk away.
I didn't commit the crime being pinned on me. Besides, the hockey golden boy would never look twice at someone like me. Hunter isn't what I expected. He's gentle, patient, and so disarmingly kind it terrifies me.
If I want to save myself and Hunter, I have one choice left. Stop Derrick or risk losing the only good thing that's ever been mine.
Hunter: Between caring for my best friend after an accident shattered our lives, juggling school, and keeping my spot on our college hockey team, I'm stretched too thin. After one fight, my friend gets arrested, and I'm stranded in his dorm hallway with nowhere to go. Then I meet Mark.
There's a spark between us that first night. And the closer we get, the clearer it becomes that Mark is keeping something from me. When the truth hits, it detonates everything I thought we were building toward.
So much for happily ever after.
Contains mature themes."
"The boundaries of our friendship are tested and lines are crossed.
RUSH: I'm in love with my best friend.
There wasn't an exact moment when I fell for him. It was something that grew and evolved over time. He loves me back, but it'll never be more than platonic. It can't be because he's straight. Then one night he kissed me and left me with more questions than answers. The very next morning my trust was shattered by a family secret. I'd been lied to my whole life. He was by my side through it all, offering support when I needed it most. How can I risk losing a friendship that held me together when I was falling apart?
TORIN: He friend-zoned me.
Four years ago, I gathered enough courage to kiss my best friend. What I'd hoped would be a pivotal moment that would start a new kind of relationship between us was over before it began. His world was upended, so I put my feelings aside and stepped back into my role as a friend he could count on. He wasn't ready then, but now it's time to find out if he's willing to take a chance on us being something more.
We’ve been friends, roommates and teammates, but I want him, body and heart.
Contains mature themes."
"Noah: Rich. Confident. Motivated. Or at least I was until my father kicked me out after catching me with a one-night stand. My life is going just great. But then, I'm offered a room to rent. It's a cute place, and the man who comes with it is sexier than I know how to handle. I am only a mere mortal. I try to resist, but no matter how much my best friend warns me, I can't stay away from my brand new tattooed sexy roommate. The spark between us can't be denied. I know he feels it too. My best friend says he's trouble, but that only makes me want him more. Because let's face it, I love trouble.
Jamie: Looking for a roommate after my best friend ditched me to move in with his stupid boyfriend is the last thing I want to do, but it's not like I can afford this place myself. Then I meet Noah. Our attraction is instant and offering him the room to rent is a bad idea, but I can't stop myself from word vomiting the first time we meet. The adorably sexy bookworm with an obsession for romance and inappropriate shirts starts to wedge himself under my skin. Noah knocks down every wall I've spent years building since tragedy struck me. My demons are hard to fight and when my past comes back to haunt me, I have a choice. Heal the splintered parts of my heart or fall back into my old ways and risk losing him forever.
Contains mature themes."
"College student West Millbrook is in financial dire straits since his overbearing parents refuse to support him when he moves away to study. His solution is working for the Polished P & P company which will also give him the freedom to be himself.
All he has to do is be an escort who sells his company, not his body. Easy, right?
It is until he meets Russian god Adrik Hail.
Wealthy businessman Adrik is lonely. His solution is to pay for no-strings-attached company. He doesn't have time to waste impressing someone, nor does he want anyone to think they can weasel their way into his life. He's a busy man who likes organization, and hiring someone from Polished means he's the one in control.
Then adorable West walks through the door, changing everything. Now Adrik's mind and body want more from the man, who is as sweet as he is kind. Adrik just needs to find a way of working out West.
Contains mature themes."
"We never should've been anything more than roommates.
DREW: Life dealing me a hard blow is nothing new. What's one more sucker punch?
When my uncle offers me a job working at his MMA training center, I jump at the chance to turn my life around . . . not upside down and questioning everything I know about myself. Light Heavyweight Champion Asher Ramsey is the definition of a ladies' man. His stormy gray eyes and inked skin call to the artist in me and make me itch for my pencils and sketch pad. If I'm honest, they make me itch to touch every detail too, which confuses me. After he offers to let me stay in his guest room, I discover there's more to Asher than he allows the world to see.
ASHER: My life is a lie. A play written and directed by my PR manager.
With the biggest fight of my career only weeks away, my focus is on securing my title. Losing my belt to some new up-and-comer isn't an option, and I can't afford any distractions. Or an unwanted attraction. When Drew begins working at the gym where I train, my priorities waver. To make things worse, I offer to let him stay with me until he finds a place. It'll be fine. Sure, I'm attracted to him, but I'm an expert at hiding behind the mask of a straight man. Besides, he's completely off-limits. Not that it matters—we don't even play for the same team.
What's the worst that can happen?
Contains mature themes."
"Lucas Storey's life is all about college, studying, and finishing his medical degree. That's until he moves in with his older brother and meets his motorcycle club friends. Only, new people make Lucas nervous, almost to the extent of peeing himself, but he soon realizes they're great people and will accept him as he is.
Now, if only he can stop thinking of a certain grumpy biker, things will be good.
Never before has Wade 'Wreck' Williams noticed the same sex, or at least not until Lucas crashes into their lives. And notice Lucas he does. But that's not all. He wants to get to know the man, and he kind of likes looking at Lucas too. None of it makes sense, and Wreck will fight it for that reason alone.
When Lucas thinks he can go out with a someone who's not Wreck—and jealously rears its ugly head to a point Wreck just has to step in—it's clear that he may just be wrecked forever.
Contains mature themes."
"Kylo Lee, prospect to the Diamond MC, makes a career shift to help better his future. He doesn't know it will change him in more ways than one, and it's all to do with a certain man who confuses and annoys him, while sending his emotions wild.
Just when everything is falling into place, life takes a turn down a road where Kylo doesn't want to go. His past comes back to bite him in the ass. Pain surrounds him and all that can make him happy is vengeance, and the man who surprisingly still stands at his side.
Contains mature themes."
"Hudson Granger was mine for one summer. And one summer was enough to ruin me for anyone else.
On my father's ranch, we worked side by side. Rode hard. Kissed harder. Between sunburns and sweat, he became my everything.
I told him I loved him before I left for university. A month later, he married a woman and built a family.
I should've let him go. But the land keeps us tied together. Now we speak in silences sharp as barbed wire. Every glance feels like a bullet. Every day, I hate him a little more. Every day, I remember how it felt to love him.
Then his world falls apart—wife gone, a three-year-old depending on him, and Hudson barely holding himself together. And just like that, I'm caught in his gravity again.
Four years ago, we loved each other at the wrong time. It nearly destroyed me. Now, with a child between us and old wounds ripped open, do I dare to trust him again?
Contains mature themes."
"'I want to offer you a deal . . . '
Jason Blackwell thought he had finally escaped his father's world of magical medicine. All he wants is a normal life as a practicing veterinarian. No supernaturals. No unpredictable magic. Just a small town, regular animals, and walking away from his family secrets . . . and lies.
Until he's woken in the night by Levi—an incubus attired in a fancy suit with a Southern drawl, too much charm, and an annoying tendency to always get his way. Jason is his only chance to find his missing brother.
And they have only two weeks to find him . . . or the demon dies. And finding Levi's brother might just be the key to figuring out his own father's disappearance.
Pulled back into the life he thought he had left behind forever, Jason now returns to the shadows and secrets of the supernatural world. Only this time, there's no hiding from the truth about himself—and his family's troubled legacy—or from the magnetic demon who pulls at his heart.
But when you make a bargain with an incubus, there is always a price to be paid. The only question is whether Jason and Levi will live long enough to regret it . . .
Contains mature themes."
"LACHIE
It doesn’t matter that I was the number one draft pick in the NHL or that I’m projected to be the next great generational player, because none of it is enough to impress my childhood crush back in my hometown.
Sam used to mock me for being like a Disney Princess with my uncanny knack for finding animals in need. And being home in Colorado for the summer, I’m bound to run into him now that he runs the animal shelter where I used to volunteer. Where I used to try to get his attention every chance I had.
He never noticed me then, at least not in the way I wanted.
But if there’s one thing my time in the NHL has taught me, it’s how to fight for what I want.
SAM
It’s been a few years since I saw the Disney Princess volunteer, but when he brings in a stray cat, I almost can’t believe it’s the same guy.
Damn, has he changed.
Gone is the gangly, pimple-faced teen, and in his place is a man who’s grown up and bulked out. He used to follow me around, asking endless questions about animal care.
Now he’s back, but instead of asking about animals, he’s asking about me. About my life.
Flirting with me. And he’s good at it, too.
There’s something about Lachie that’s undeniably irresistible. I’m willing to give in to his charms, even knowing all he can offer is a summer fling.
Turns out, my Disney Princess grew up to be a real Prince Charming."
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