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  • Consider Me by Becka Mack

    Consider Me by Becka Mack

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Carter Beckett is the NHL's resident badboy, top player both on the ice & in the bedroom, and quite possibly the sexiest man to ever grace my field of vision. But worst of all? He knows it.He’s arrogant, self-centered, and the man doesn’t seem to know what a filter is, let alone how to use one...
  • Better With You by Gianna Gabriela

    Better With You by Gianna Gabriela

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mia Collins has an amazing life. She was popular in high school, and college is off to a great start. Everything seems perfect until she goes home for the break and everything changes... One night sets everything in motion and Mia’s world begins to fall apart. She’s stunned that the life she thought she knew was all a lie. After she loses her family, she’s forced to start over...
  • Team Player 2: A Sports Anthology by Charleigh Rose, Ella Fox

    Team Player 2: A Sports Anthology by Charleigh Rose, Ella Fox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Muscular football players. Passionate tennis pros. Sexy soccer stars. All sorts of alpha hotties, on the field and off. Have no fear! The team is back again, and this time...it's thicker. You'll get your sports romance fix with brand-new stories from eleven bestselling authors. Need one last summer fix? Dive into this anthology...
  • 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...
  • 3 Count by Nikki Castle

    3 Count by Nikki Castle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A charming ladies' man that everybody loves.A badass photojournalist that treats every day as a new adventure.A friends with benefits relationship.When Aiden and Dani meet on his college campus, their playful banter and physical chemistry immediately draws them to each other. It's easy for one accidental meet-cute to become a standing date, and for a certain understanding to develop between them...
  • Two to Tango by Fiona Davenport

    Two to Tango by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There was no way Lisa Morisette was going to fall for her celebrity dance partner. No matter how sexy the professional wide receiver was. Or how hard he pursued her.Hale Bucannon wasn’t used to giving up on what he wanted. And he wasn’t about to start when the stakes were the highest they’d ever been. Winning the beautiful ballerina’s heart was the best prize of all...
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    alpha-mc  humor  multi-pov  sports  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • 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...
  • Just One Taste by C.A. Harms

    Just One Taste by C.A. Harms

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’m the jokester, the one who pulls the best pranks. I’m the guy the frat brothers avoid for fear of what they’ll wake up to face the next day. But now, the joke’s on me. Literally on me! In BIG. BOLD. BLACK LETTERS! A tattoo…of another guy’s name. I was branded, and no one else can know. The problem is I don't know how it got there...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  humor  sports  university  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Defending Donovan by Jillian Quinn

    Defending Donovan by Jillian Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He'll do anything to earn her v-card... and her heart. Here’s the thing about Drake Donovan. He’s a hotshot hockey player with a secret the size of his stick, a real monster of a problem. And I’m the only one who can help him. But as we grow closer, I realize there’s more to Drake than good looks and a big stick. If he wants to be the one to punch my v-card, he has to work for it...
  • Face Off by Teagan Hunter

    Face Off by Teagan Hunter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I have two goals this season:1. Stay single.2. Get Rory Sinclair to admit she doesn’t completely hate me.When I find a stray dog roaming the streets of Seattle, the last place I expect to end up is in the office of a grumpy veterinarian—the one woman who can resist my charm. Twin to my teammate’s girlfriend, Rory is full of fire, but I’m not afraid of her flame...
  • Hat Trick by Toni Aleo

    Hat Trick by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Good things happen in threes. D’Artagnan Miklas is a lucky dude. He’s the leading scorer of hat tricks for the Carolina IceCats, he’s got a solid group of loyal friends, and he has a cute little sister he adores.But his friends are all coupling up, and Dart is tired of being the odd man out...
    Categorized as:
    sports  multi-pov  humor  romance  contemporary  athlete  fiction  book
  • Sexiled by Mickey Miller

    Sexiled by Mickey Miller

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Morgan Kennedy: Campus Legend. Ruggedly handsome superstar athlete turned hedge fund manager. My one night stand mistake.And now my boss at my internship. Every staff meeting, I’m taken back to the night I was filled with a need I never knew was possible. Sparks fly between us in the office...
  • Almost Perfect by Jessica Prince

    Almost Perfect by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Devon McMillon wasn't looking for a knight in shining armor. She didn't need a man to rescue her or take care of her. She just wanted someone who would treat her as an equal and love her for who she was. Unfortunately, even in a city as big as Manhattan, finding a guy who wasn't intimidated by a strong-minded, slightly outspoken woman was proving harder than expected...
  • Thrill Ride by Breezie Bennett

    Thrill Ride by Breezie Bennett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Flirty, dirty, and downright irresistible! Breezie Bennett's books sizzle like a steamy Florida night." - Kresley Cole, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Thrill Ride: South Florida Riders Book 4 NFL kicker Dylan Rivera and quirky yoga teacher Melody Hayes have absolutely nothing in common, except they both believe in "one true love...
  • Just One Kiss by C.A. Harms

    Just One Kiss by C.A. Harms

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What do you get when you mix Tequila with a house full of rowdy Fraternity brothers who have no boundaries? A cucumber, a pink thong, and a bottle of lube. Oh yeah, and super glue. There is always super glue… Parties, drinking, and plenty of mornings where you can’t remember what you did the night before...that was my life. Yet, there was one memory that lingered in my mind...
  • Tripp by Alex Wolf, Sloane Howell

    Tripp by Alex Wolf, Sloane Howell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tripp Patton is not the guy you take home to meet your mom.He is the number one sports agent in the world, and he didn’t get there by playing nice.On the verge of signing the biggest player of his career, someone gets in his way.Lennon Edwards, a younger agent trying to make a name for herself. She’s hungry for success, relentless, and drop-dead gorgeous...
  • Sanctuary by L.P. Maxa

    Sanctuary by L.P. Maxa

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    YOUR LOVE Evie James loves to read, gets great grades, and enjoys being a good daughter. But after two days at SMU, she learns the entire university is disgusted that she's not a rock princess. Never one to disappoint, and desperate to fit in, she reinvents herself and becomes the darling of her sorority, and the girl everyone wants to be. Except Evie needs a little help to keep up appearances...
  • Stolen Nights by Renee Harless

    Stolen Nights by Renee Harless

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Elle’s life seems like one struggle after the next. She’s facing life after a divorce, learns that her ex-best friend is pregnant with her ex-husband's baby, and the house she’s willed after her estranged father’s death comes with a catch. When she thinks her life can’t get any more difficult, her neighbor seems determined to rile her up on a daily basis...
  • Just One Touch by C.A. Harms

    Just One Touch by C.A. Harms

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I should have known this would happen... Nothing about my fraternity was ever simple. Parties, tequila – tons of tequila – and wild souvenirs from our kind of crazy. Never, and I do mean never, did I expect my brother’s girl to target me in a midnight prank. A prank that backfired and left me squealing in pain...
  • Between a Rock and a Hot Mess by Phyllis Bourne

    Between a Rock and a Hot Mess by Phyllis Bourne

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Riley Sinclair has man problems. Trouble is, everyone has one but her. After years on the sidelines at weddings, the head of Sinclair Construction now sits home alone on what used to be girl’s night. Her only companions are television, a bottle of wine and a crush on a stranger she doesn’t have the guts to approach. Too bad she isn’t more like the daring heroine of her favorite show Hot Mess...
  • Fragile by A.K. Evans

    Fragile by A.K. Evans

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As the lead singer of a wildly popular industrial rock band, Cash Morris has never had to work too hard when it comes to women. They’re all falling at his feet before he even opens his mouth. So when he walks into a small-town New Hampshire hotel and spots the manager, he expects her to do the same. Only, she doesn’t, and that leaves him intrigued...
  • Saving the Game by Susan Renee

    Saving the Game by Susan Renee

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Has this ever happened to you?You’re minding your own business after the game, buying drinks at the bar for your teammates when you overhear a woman talking on the phone. You don’t know her, but she’s telling her mother she’s in a serious relationship with you. You decide to play along and ask her when you get to meet the parents...
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    sports  multi-pov  humor  romance  contemporary  fiction  book  adult
  • Hooked by Jacob Chance

    Hooked by Jacob Chance

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Avoiding bad boy hockey player Marshall Winters has been one of my goals since he did me wrong four years ago.However, with both of us attending Boston University and his younger sister being my best friend, it’s damn near impossible.Then he saves me from a dangerous situation, whisking me away to his family’s cabin, changing everything...
  • Crave by Evelyn Sola

    Crave by Evelyn Sola

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sandra Before THAT night, the over the top party and the cake incident, I spent Saturday nights with girlfriends, lamenting my life over margaritas. I wasn’t ready for Jacob Clark. He was sin and dark edges, wrapped in regret. He was my Kryptonite. His words oozed over me like warm honey. His dark eyes pricked my soul, and his touch….those fingers set my skin on fire...
  • No Paine No Gain by McKinley May

    No Paine No Gain by McKinley May

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One thing I've learned from three years as an undergrad?College is all about balance.Juggling a science-heavy course load, weekend bar crawls, and my plentiful dating life is an art form. An art form I've got down to a T...Until the campus Casanova comes barreling into my biology class and throws my mojo for a major loop...
  • Silk and Shadows by Lauren Landish

    Silk and Shadows by Lauren Landish

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sassy, classy, and in no need of a man. That's me. At least, until now. My mouth has been known to get me into trouble, and now is a perfect example. I've been asked to tutor the star of the football team, Zach Knight. To top it off, no one can know, and I have to pretend to be his girlfriend as a cover story. And he’s insufferable, thinking with this other head...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  humor  multi-pov  sports  university  adult  audiobook  book
  • Control by K. Bromberg

    Control by K. Bromberg

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author K. Bromberg comes a new story in her Everyday Heroes series… Control is something Desi Whitman abhors. Why live life in black and white perfection when you can messily color outside the lines? But when she comes face to face with SWAT officer Reznor Mayne, he’s about to show her just how good control can feel...
  • Opposites Attract by Jessica Prince

    Opposites Attract by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ***SPECIAL PREORDER PRICE*** Delilah Northcutt has been described as weird, nerdy. But her favorite term is quirky. The eccentric flower shop owner definitely marches to the beat of her own drum. On the rebound from a cheating ex, she’s not looking to open her heart to someone else any time soon...
  • That Wild Player: A Standalone Bad Boy Billionaire & (Former) Good Girl Romantic Comedy by Nadia Lee

    That Wild Player: A Standalone Bad Boy Billionaire & (Former) Good Girl Romantic Comedy by Nadia Lee

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I'm a good girl. I work hard, follow the rules, and only want a future with Mr. Right, complete with a white picket fence, 1.5 children and a dog. What do I have instead? A "Dear Jane" email from my ex, who CCd it to my best friends and their fiancés. My friends realizing that I've never had an orgasm is the cherry on the train-wreck cake of my love life...
  • Misadventures of a Rookie by Toni Aleo

    Misadventures of a Rookie by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Winning has always come naturally for stud ice hockey defenseman Gus “the Bus” Persson. On the ice or off, he’s never had any trouble scoring, racking up goals—and girls. As the best player in his rookie class and the number-one draft pick of the Malibu Suns, he’s taking his game to the next level and is justifiably full of swagger...
  • Fallen Crest Extras by Tijan

    Fallen Crest Extras by Tijan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    These were written for a promo tour I did for Fallen Crest Home’s book release. I added a few extra surprises in here, and wanted to make them available for everyone. This is done as a thank you to the readers...
  • Desperately Seeking Roommate by Micalea Smeltzer

    Desperately Seeking Roommate by Micalea Smeltzer

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    WANTED: A ROOMMATE Requirements 1. Don’t be a smoker. That’s gross. 2. Don’t be a jerk. I have no time to deal with your mood swings. 3. Clean up after yourself. Is it really so hard to put dirty clothes where they belong? If you meet these qualifications, call me...
  • JOCK by Jacob Chance

    JOCK by Jacob Chance

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When the dean of students asked me for a favor, I had no idea it would mean tutoring Owen Dawson. Me, forced to spend time with Boston University’s notorious quarterback? With his dark hair, chiseled body, and a promising future playing in the NFL, every guy on campus wants to be him. Every girl wants to be under him. Every girl, except me...
  • First Flight, Final Fall by C.W. Farnsworth

    First Flight, Final Fall by C.W. Farnsworth

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    What do you do when you encounter the famous footballer voted “Sexiest Athlete Alive” three years running on a soccer field in Germany? If you’re Saylor Scott, you challenge him to a shoot-out. And win. Saylor’s goals have always involved the literal kind constructed from posts and netting...
  • Tripped by Jacob Chance

    Tripped by Jacob Chance

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Eight hundred and eighty days. That’s how long it’s been since my no good ex broke my heart. And I was doing just fine without him. But now, with both of us playing hockey for Boston University and running in the same circles, I can’t seem to avoid him—no matter how hard I try. And boy do I try.It seems my former boyfriend is cockier than ever—if that’s even possible...
  • Come Undone by Penny Dee

    Come Undone by Penny Dee

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    JAKE She’s annoying and tenacious.And so damn beautiful it’s distracting.She’s also my new agent. And even though I don’t want a new agent, Mackenzie Eden is pretty determined to be mine.Did I mention she’s annoying?So of course I get snowed in with her at my grandfathers logged cabin. For four days.Four long, secluded, hot days…MACKENZIEI’ve never met anyone so damn stubborn in my life...
  • Player's Kiss by Sienna Blake

    Player's Kiss by Sienna Blake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I'm his new favorite game.It was supposed to be my big break—landing the coveted spot as the All Ireland Rugby team's new PR assistant.Instead I've become a glorified babysitter, lumped with the heinous job of keeping their star winger out of trouble and out of the papers.Eoin O'Sullivan.Cocky. Charming. Outrageous. Destined to drive me feckin crazy.Party boy.Ladies man.An absolute PR nightmare...
  • Hollywood Ball by Annie Dyer

    Hollywood Ball by Annie Dyer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He plays to win; only she changed the rules....As Manchester Athletic’s record signing, I should be basking in the adoration of fans and enjoying the perks that come with the job.Only that’s never been my style. I keep a low profile and stay focused on doing my job.A chance one-night stand on my way back from the States is about as anonymous as I can make it...
  • Checking It Twice by Claire Hastings

    Checking It Twice by Claire Hastings

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She's made a list of her own, and he's just the man to help...Haven Taylor is tired of being called a Goody Two-shoes, and her brother's best friend might be the key to fixing that.DB Elliot is seriously sexy and without a doubt someone she can trust for a no-strings-attached secret fling. After all, she's known him her entire life...
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    alpha-mc  humor  multi-pov  sports  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Comeback Pact by E.M. Moore

    The Comeback Pact by E.M. Moore

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s everything she hates… So, why can’t she say no to him? Introducing Book 1 in the Warner University Bulldog series...KennaWest Brooks stands for everything I despise. He’s a meathead jock whose silence says it all: He only cares about himself and his football season.So, why can’t I say no when he offers me his help?I should run the other way...
  • Puck Happens: A Hockey Romance by Hailey Shore

    Puck Happens: A Hockey Romance by Hailey Shore

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hockey players and ice skaters do not mix.Tell that to the new bane of my existence, Olivia Tyler-Branch, figure skater turned NHL skating coach. She knows her stuff, but I can't let her past my defenses.I fell hard for her once before...Now I need to be focused on the game not on Olivia’s soft honey blonde hair, her feisty competitive streak, or the heartbreak behind her eyes...
  • Cap by Elise Faber

    Cap by Elise Faber

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s the one he wants.And he’s not going to give her up without a fight.As the newly named captain of the San Francisco Gold, Josh is used to pressure and hard work.What he’s not used to?Women despising him.Jess, however, has taken an instant dislike to him, and no matter what he tries to do, he can’t seem to get beyond her prickly exterior...
  • Playing Fate by Leigh Ann Lunsford

    Playing Fate by Leigh Ann Lunsford

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Deacon Douglas has it all. A loving home, good looks, a fast track to the major league. But then he makes a mistake. A mistake that would derail most, but not him. He takes the challenge, turns the mistake into another accomplishment. His life it altered – for the better. Saylor Lewis is just a girl. A girl she doesn’t even know...
  • The Professor by Luke Prescott

    The Professor by Luke Prescott

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’m Professor Drake Grayson. I’ve been teaching Psychology for the last few years at Fox University. It’s a great university, filled with a wide variety of students. Some eager to learn, some eager to get in my pants. I’ve never crossed that line. I’ve never taken advantage of the power I have. I’ve never wanted to bend a student over my desk like I have with Emma Bower...
  • Nude Awakening by Penny Clarke

    Nude Awakening by Penny Clarke

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rylie swears she’s not a prude.How was I to know the art course my best friend signed me up for meant I’d be sketching a nude model? I should have checked the fine print. Then I never would have―quite literally―bumped into Levi Hart moments before he dropped trou in class...
  • Henry & Ivy by J.B. Salsbury

    Henry & Ivy by J.B. Salsbury

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I have the neighbor from hell.The shared wall of our duplex holds no secrets to his wild Las Vegas lifestyle. He’s late nights and pizza for breakfast. I’m early mornings and deadlines. I’ve never met him. I’ve never even seen him. But his dog has delivered the ultimate blow, and I’m forced to confront him.My neighbor is a buttoned-up priss...
  • Hate, Rinse, Repeat by Whitney Dineen, Melanie Summers

    Hate, Rinse, Repeat by Whitney Dineen, Melanie Summers

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Christmas is a time for hate... Maisy Moore is not looking forward to the holiday season. As owner of the only hair salon in Gamble, Alaska, she’ll be run off her feet helping her clients get dolled up for Christmas and New Years Eve parties. Parties she’ll never be invited to.But that’s not the worst of it...
  • Twincerely Yours by Eden Finley

    Twincerely Yours by Eden Finley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    EMMETTMy twin brother and I have gotten ourselves into a lot of messes growing up. We would constantly switch places to escape consequences while protecting each other at every cost.But sleeping with Ben’s professor is a whole new level of mess, because there’s something Jonah doesn’t know. He might have been Ben’s professor last semester, but the person he was lecturing wasn’t Ben. It was me...
    Categorized as:
    university  humor  multi-pov  sports  romance  mlm  contemporary  lgbtq
  • Blindside Sinner by Mariah Wolfe

    Blindside Sinner by Mariah Wolfe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bad boy hockey players don’t fall in love.Especially not with their assistants.And they ESPECIALLY don’t get them pregnant.Beckett Daniels is hockey’s hottest bad boy.He’s also my newest assignment.A chance encounter with his ex-handler gets me a job I need to pay off the dangerous debts I inherited...
  • Finally, Forever by Katie Kacvinsky, Katie Ray

    Finally, Forever by Katie Kacvinsky, Katie Ray

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Author's Note: Can be read as book three of the First Comes Love series, or as a standalone .College baseball player, Gray Thomas, had to go far out into left field to find a girl like Dylan, the ex-love-of-his-life. More than a year later, literally at a crossroads, they find each other together on a journey that is a pause between a painful past and an uncertain future...
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