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  • More Than Forever by Jay McLean

    More Than Forever by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Narrated by Nelson Hobbs, Shirl Rae13 hrs and 21 minsUnabridged Audiobook-LUCY-There is a love so fierce it cannot be measured. A heart so strong it will never slow. There is a promise so sure it can never lie.He promised me that love forever.Even when it wasn't enough. -CAMERON-Forever. Everlasting. Eternal.There is no measure of time. No sounds of the ticking of a clock...
  • Say You Swear by Meagan Brandy

    Say You Swear by Meagan Brandy

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A College Romance...Coming February 18th. For years, I’ve dreamt of what college life could bring and while some things changed, there was always one constant. It didn’t matter how wild I allowed my imagination to run, it always led me to the same place in the end. It led me to him. My future was clear, and he was it. Until suddenly ... he wasn’t...
  • Felix the Watcher by Blue Saffire

    Felix the Watcher by Blue Saffire

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Award winning Bestselling Author Blue Saffire presents Brothers Black 5: Felix The Watch Book 5 in the Brothers Black Series I’m a P.K., a pastor’s kid. I’ve done almost everything I’ve been told since I was a little girl,—no matter how confining that has felt. I’ve hidden my dreams and desires to toe the line. So imagine the burn of being blamed for something you didn’t do...
  • The Dugout by Meghan Quinn

    The Dugout by Meghan Quinn

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Let me ask you a question: If someone is vying for your spot on a team and just so happens to injure you during practice, would you believe it was on purpose? Word around campus is . . . it was no accident. That injury has cost me everything; my starting position, my junior year—and the draft...
  • The Jock by Tal Bauer

    The Jock by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Wes Van de Hoek clawed his way off his family’s West Texas ranch under the Friday night lights, earning a football scholarship to the state’s best university. Three years in, he has it all: he’s the starting tight end, team captain, and, according to ESPN, maybe the best college football player in the nation. But he’s been keeping a secret from everyone...
  • My Kinda Song by Lacey Black

    My Kinda Song by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Abby Summer has been in love with one man most of her life, but he doesn’t know she exists. For years, Abby has watched him go home with woman after woman, not even noticing the one who stands loyally beside him. That’s why a dating site is the perfect solution to Abby’s problems: get over Levi and move on to someone else...
  • Infinity. by Layne Harper

    Infinity. by Layne Harper

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Colin McKinney has wanted three things since he met Caroline “Charlie” Collins when he was a junior at Texas A&M University: to make her his wife, play professional football, and have a family. In the first three books of the Infinity Series, Colin and Charlie met, fell in love, broke apart, reunited eight years later, and got married...
  • Player by Natalie Rios

    Player by Natalie Rios

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Cocky. Player. A**hole. Without a doubt, Theo Montgomery is the university's most promising student athlete – and it’s biggest player. Confident, charming, and handsome as sin, there isn’t a single girl at Carlton University who’s immune to this quarterback. Except Allie. ​ Smart. Driven. Sassy. Make no mistake, Allie Perez can’t stand jocks...
  • Kiro's Emily by Abbi Glines

    Kiro's Emily by Abbi Glines

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The year is 1992, and no one on the rock music scene is hotter than Kiro Manning, the lead singer of Slacker Demon. With a multi-platinum record, total ownership of the Billboard charts, sold-out concerts, and sinful amounts of money, Kiro can have anything—and anyone—he wants...
  • More Than Her by Jay McLean

    More Than Her by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    "For every action there is an equal or opposite reaction." For every choice you make there are rewards, or there are consequences. It was my choice to walk away the first time. And my choice to chase her the second. But sometimes you don't get a choice, and all you get are the consequences...
  • Desperately Seeking Epic by B.N. Toler

    Desperately Seeking Epic by B.N. Toler

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Paul James loved Clara Bateman. Hating her would have been easier. She was the past, and he was hell-bent on keeping her there. Or so he thought... Craigslist Ad: DESPERATELY SEEKING EPIC You’re my father. I don’t know much about you. I know your name is Paul James, you’re a thrill seeker, and once upon a time you did stunts and people called you ‘Epic.’ I’ve been told you don’t know about me...
  • Drunk on You by Harper Sloan

    Drunk on You by Harper Sloan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It was supposed to be fun. A mutual use of each other's bodies. To be a ruse to the world around us. I wanted to be free from my ex, and he wanted to escape his. One drunken night turned a joke into a life-changing moment. He warned me not to fall for him, and I should've listened. He intoxicated me. He made me crave him. He ruined me. In the end, I'll never be the same...
  • Oral Arguments by Loni Nichole

    Oral Arguments by Loni Nichole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A rowdy bar fight and a feisty lawyer have this growly hockey player ready to serve his time in Silver Spoon Falls.Reid LawlessI had one job in Silver Spoon Falls: make the hockey team, the Falcons, look good. My plan went off the rails when fists started flying at a local bar, and a Barney Fife lookalike took me to jail...
  • The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden by Jessica Sorensen

    The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    For Kayden, suffering in silence was the only way to survive. If he was lucky, he could keep his head down, do as he was told, and make it through the day. But one night it seemed like his luck-and his life-might finally end... until an angel named Callie appeared just in time to rescue him.Callie has never believed in luck. Not since her twelfth birthday when everything was taken from her...
  • Making His Play by Mari Carr

    Making His Play by Mari Carr

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alex has a big name in hockey, famous for his stick skills—on and off the ice. But he’s also got a freckle-faced female problem. He took his sister’s tomboy best friend, Charley, to a Vegas wedding to cheer her up after a bad breakup.Too much champagne later and he’s waking up with Charley in his bed and his ring on her finger. And the crazy part is…Mrs. Alex Stone has a nice ring to it...
  • Pieces of You by Cassia Leo

    Pieces of You by Cassia Leo

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The stunning continuation of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series."Sometimes, the lies we tell ourselves are more destructive than the truth we hide from others."In Relentless, college student Claire Nixon and surfer Adam Parker each had a painful past too heavy to carry alone...
  • Lucky Bastard by Kaylee Ryan

    Lucky Bastard by Kaylee Ryan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Emma When my best friend Aubrey asked me to tag along to an event with her, I never could have imagined that it would be the day that my life changed forever.He’s arrogant and demanding and doesn’t take a hint. Landon Barker, the quarterback for the Hermosa Beach Trojans, is a player on and off of the field. He’s got his sights set on me as his next play, but I see right through him...
  • The Champion by Shey Stahl

    The Champion by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A powerful love story of tragedy, love, and commitment. The fourth book in the Racing on the Edge series submerges you in the lifestyle of a champion of a sport that dominates America. Through smoke and methanol, you learn the good, the bad, and the secrets no one wants you to know...
  • Going Long by Ginger Scott

    Going Long by Ginger Scott

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    They fell in love in high school and found their way back to one another despite the odds. But can first loves really be forever? For Reed Johnson, the dream was always football. But then Nolan Lennox took over his heart...
  • Only One Night by Natasha Madison

    Only One Night by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Manning As captain of the Dallas Oilers, I was their leader on and off the ice. From the outside, it looked like I had the perfect life. I didn’t.I was married to a woman who refused to give me a divorce. All she wanted was the status title, and all I wanted was to be set free.It was supposed to be just another event, except it took a turn I didn’t see coming...
  • Hard to Love You by Megan Smith

    Hard to Love You by Megan Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What do you do when the one you’ve always wanted becomes too Hard to Love? Hailey Taylor's heart has always belonged to Mason Cahill, but one secret has changed everything. Things on the baseball field come easy for Mason Cahill. Why can’t the rest of his life be simple? Mason's finally admitted he wants the one girl he can be himself around, but one secret destroyed that...
  • Torn Hearts by Claire Contreras, Madison Seidler

    Torn Hearts by Claire Contreras, Madison Seidler

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    **This novella is part of the Kaleidoscope Hearts Series, and is meant to be read in between Kaleidoscope Hearts and Paper Hearts (which releases September 10, 2015).** I met a boy once. He made my heart go into a frenzy every time he looked at me, and my knees go weak whenever he touched me. The beginning of our love was beautiful that even its demise was bittersweet. I met a girl once...
  • The Crush by Karla Sorensen

    The Crush by Karla Sorensen

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    You know that girl from your past that you can’t quite stop thinking about? The one that you pushed away because you had a goal that seemed so much bigger, so much more important than any crush you might have had?That’s Adaline Wilder for me.Nothing came before football. Not in college, and not in my five years in the pros...
  • The Trade by Meghan Quinn

    The Trade by Meghan Quinn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Can you pinpoint a time in your life where you realized you are completely and utterly screwed? I can. I got the dreaded phone call, the one every baseball player hopes and prays never comes. I was traded. Yeah, that phone call. Traded from my long time team of over ten years. And not just to any team, but my childhood rivals; the Chicago Rebels. Completely and utterly screwed, right? Wrong...
  • Pucked Love by Helena Hunting

    Pucked Love by Helena Hunting

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    As an NHL player, relationships haven’t been my thing. Shrouded in secrecy and speculation, they never last very long. But then that’s what happens when you require an NDA before the first date. Until Charlene. She’s like a firefly. She’s elusive, and if you catch her she’ll burn bright, but keeping her trapped dulls her fire and dims her beauty. I caught her...
  • When We Touch by Renee Williams

    When We Touch by Renee Williams

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens when disrespect enters the door? Love has to leave.NinaI was giving him up, letting him go. It didn’t matter what my heart wanted. That organ couldn’t control my emotions. Christian had violated. His pregnant mistress coming to my house crossed every line, boundary, and rule. It was the disrespect for me. She could have him...
  • Wild Abandon by Jeannine Colette

    Wild Abandon by Jeannine Colette

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When you fall in-love it’s forever. But sometimes forever comes with a price. I never meant to meet Nathaniel Teller. It was by accident, on a Tuesday, that I walked into his bar. He was solemn, intense and hiding a secret behind those stoic green eyes. I never intended to fall in-love with him. We were supposed to be just friends. But I fell for him hard, deep. There’s no turning back...
  • Home Run King by Stella

    Home Run King by Stella

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My life was what country songs are made of: my Granny died, my girlfriend broke up with me, I knocked up her cousin, and I was inducted into the Major League Hall of Fame. Yup…just like every country song I’ve ever heard. But let me start over… My name is Gage Nix. That’s all you need to know. Actually, there’s a lot more to Gage than meets the eye...
  • Lucas by Jay McLean

    Lucas by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In a sprint, every millisecond counts.  When you’re waiting for love, those milliseconds can feel like eons.  High school senior Lucas Preston has it all: star of the track team, a scholarship waiting for him, an apartment to himself and a revolving door of girlfriends...
  • Metamorphosis by Erin Noelle

    Metamorphosis by Erin Noelle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Scarlett MacGregor has lived a very sheltered life courtesy of her over-the-top controlling parents. Having never been to a co-ed party, much less on a date, Scarlett has relied on her books, her music, and living vicariously through her best friend Evie to keep her sanity as she's patiently awaited her freedom from their rule...
  • Anti-Stepbrother by Tijan

    Anti-Stepbrother by Tijan

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    He told me to 'settle, girl.' He asked if 'something was wrong with me?' He said I was an ‘easy target.’ That was within minutes when I first met Caden Banks. I labeled him an *sshole, but he was more than that. Arrogant. Smug. Alpha. He was also to-die-for gorgeous, and my stepbrother’s fraternity brother...
  • Wingspan by Cambria Hebert

    Wingspan by Cambria Hebert

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ever feel like you’re being watched?It’s an awareness so familiar I adapted to it long ago.Then I enrolled at Westbrook University to chase my dreamand make up for someone else’s lost one.The prying eyes I’d known almost since birth…They closed.Even still, I never got too close.I made friends with everyone but confided in no one...
  • Trading Paint by Shey Stahl

    Trading Paint by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A must have companion to Happy Hour that give you an inside look into the characters of the Racing on the Edge series. Step into the magic where the clay met rubber and desire defined greatness. Trading Paint takes you inside the hasty driver’s mind to what led him to a decision that changed the path of two souls...
  • Expect Me by Lacey Black

    Expect Me by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Travis Stevens struggles to move on and forget about the one amazing night he spent tangled up in the sheets with a beautiful woman who disappeared just before dawn. Now she’s just a memory that he can’t ignore...
  • Scoring the Quarterback by S.M. Soto

    Scoring the Quarterback by S.M. Soto

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Luke Caldwell has three abhorrent qualities to him: 1) He’s a pig-headed jock. 2) He’s a grade A asshole with the biggest, overbearing ego. 3) He’s a manwhore. These three qualities alone should’ve had me running for the hills. I tried to steer clear of him, I really did, but it was an impossible feat...
  • The Friend Zone by Kristen Callihan

    The Friend Zone by Kristen Callihan

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Gray doesn’t make friends with women. He has sex with them. Until Ivy. The last thing star tight-end Gray Grayson wants to do is drive his agent’s daughter’s bubblegum pink car. But he needs the wheels and she’s studying abroad. Something he explains when she sends him an irate text to let him know exactly how much pain she’ll put him in if he crashes her beloved ride...
  • Because of Ellison by M.S. Willis

    Because of Ellison by M.S. Willis

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When I was nineteen years old, I lived for sex, drugs and a good party. I had it all - good looks, a fast car and a hot girlfriend. Nothing in life was more important. That was, until I met Ellison James…. Since the moment I first saw her she was a raging bull; tackling me in the mud and throwing out insults as fast as her tongue could form the sound...
  • Conflagration by Tessa Teevan

    Conflagration by Tessa Teevan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Branson Wellington? The name, my name, is usually followed by f*cking prick or self-serving bastard, and I can't say I haven't earned those titles. It's true. I'm not the good guy. I'm not the boy next door. I'm definitely not your Prince f*cking Charming. Not even close. And I never wanted to be. Until her. The day I pulled her from the wreckage was the day that my life changed...
  • Secret Puck by Rebecca Jenshak

    Secret Puck by Rebecca Jenshak

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Secretly hooking up with the team captain's sister was a bad idea. In my defense, the first time I saw her I didn't know who she was.Kind, gorgeous, a little naïve. Ginny brightened my world from day one.I knew I was no good for her. She was just out of a relationship and I had a reputation for having a new girl in my bed every weekend. I tried to do the right thing. Honest...
  • Spiked by Love by Toni Aleo

    Spiked by Love by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    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..
  • Knox by Eve Jagger

    Knox by Eve Jagger

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sexy. Famous. A player on and off the field. Cooper Knox has a body built for sex and sin, and he's my dirty little secret. He was supposed to be a one-night stand - but now he’s back in town, and he’s going to find out the truth. I’m his best friend’s little sister: off-limits and totally out of his league. We swore we’d stay away from each other. Our secret could destroy everything...
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    alpha-mc  athlete  family  humor  insta-love  multi-pov  sports  steamy
  • Forever Red by Carina Adams

    Forever Red by Carina Adams

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Not afraid to speak his mind or make a scene, Nathaniel Kelly has made a name for himself as country music’s ultimate bad boy. Covered in tattoos, singing songs about drugs, drinking and heartache, Nate acts more like an out of control rock star than the grandson of one of the genres most influential and legendary stars. Every man wants to be him...
  • Fallen Crest Christmas by Tijan

    Fallen Crest Christmas by Tijan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This is a very very short novella consisting of one scene that has three parts, and an additional bonus scene. This was written to be a FREE gift to any Fallen Crest readers! And with that said, Happy Holidays from Tijan. (If it is not free, please refrain from purchasing. I am working on making it free...
  • The Vincent Brothers by Abbi Glines

    The Vincent Brothers by Abbi Glines

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Hot romance is the cure for heartbreak in this sequel to The Vincent Boys.Getting a boy to fall head-over-heels in love with you isn’t easy. Especially when he’s been in love with your cousin for as long as you can remember. Lana has lived her life in her cousin’s shadow. Ashton always made perfect grades, had tons of friends, and looks model-perfect...
  • Before Now by Cheryl McIntyre

    Before Now by Cheryl McIntyre

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Park Reed is a bastard in every sense of the word. He hasn't always been this way. But after his heart was broken by the only girl he ever loved, being heartless gets him through the day and allows him to fill his nights with the nameless girls he has no intentions of seeing again. He now lives his life following his ever-growing list of “life lessons.”Lucy Braden is everything Park is not...
  • Bender by Stacy Borel

    Bender by Stacy Borel

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    All Keegan wanted was a roommate who was quiet, minded their own business, and paid for part of the rent. Instead, she got Camden Brooks. Camden, with his sinful body, sharp tongue, and the inability to stay out of Keegan’s personal space, couldn’t seem to curb his interest in the new girl who wouldn’t put up with his domineering ways...
  • Virgin for the Night by C.J. Fallowfield

    Virgin for the Night by C.J. Fallowfield

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Who do you want me to be?My name is Logan Steele. I’m devilishly handsome, seriously ripped, well hung, charismatic and highly sexed. Women just can’t resist me. So when I lost my job in the construction industry and was struggling for cash, I decided to put my assets to good use.By day I’m a private personal fitness trainer...
  • Roan by Shey Stahl

    Roan by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s the king of the freestyle world. The hottest, hell-raising guy to ever throw a leg over a dirt bike… and I was his before I was old enough to realize what it meant to be tied to a guy like Roan Sawyer. He protected me and saved me, only to turn me away when I wanted him the most. Behind the helmet, he’s gorgeous, rugged, obsessive, and a liar...
  • Sever by Mary Elizabeth

    Sever by Mary Elizabeth

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Misery overstayed its welcome. But fate will not be so easily swayed. Gabriella Mason and Teller Reddy have walked a thin line between affection and hostility for years. The intensity that once set them on fire has ended their engagement and separated them by more than just miles...
  • Tiller by Shey Stahl

    Tiller by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They call him Wild Cat. I knew him before he was the sinfully gorgeous FMX rider with infinite hate in his blood. I knew him back when he was a shy little boy hoping a girl would love him back. That guy, he’s nowhere to be found inside the devil known as Tiller Sawyer. Truth is, I didn't know who he really was..
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