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  • The Langfield Brothers : Box Set by Brittanee Nicole

    The Langfield Brothers : Box Set by Brittanee Nicole

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four billionaires brothers. Four sports romances. Four happily ever afters. And one epic extended epilogue. Enjoy this collection of all four Langfield Brothers.1. Mother Faker (Beckett Langfield)2. Pucking Revenge (Brooks Langfield)3. A Major Puck Up (Gavin Langfield)4...
  • Tempting the Tight End by Lisa Suzanne

    Tempting the Tight End by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A steamy football, coach’s daughter, one-night stand romance from Amazon Top Ten Bestselling author Lisa Suzanne.When fate steps in and I end up sitting right beside star tight end Asher Nash at the annual Vegas Aces charity ball, he has no idea that I’m his new coach’s daughter...
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    sports  humor  romance  contemporary  audiobook  fiction  book  adult
  • Manster: A Rockstar Romantic Comedy by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    Manster: A Rockstar Romantic Comedy by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’m a rockstar on the run from the memories of my past. And pussies in palaces.   Record scratch. Rewind.   My name is Hudson Wyatt, and I raced cars until an injury ended my career. Now I pound the skins in Hammered, a successful rock band. But I still enjoy living recklessly, hooking up and partying all night...
  • Drew by Lulu Moore

    Drew by Lulu Moore

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Let me ask you a question.Have you met your soulmate?I did, then promptly lost her. Because what happens in Vegas stays there, right?Wrong.I’d never been the relationship type, but I’ve spent every spare second of the past twelve months wondering what if. What if I hadn’t slept through my alarm? What if I hadn’t lost her number? What if I’d known her name?But I came up blank...
    Categorized as:
    humor  sports  university  adult  athlete  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Fighting 'round the Christmas Tree by Nikki Ash

    Fighting 'round the Christmas Tree by Nikki Ash

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    On the tenth day of Christmas, the Fighting series gave to me... One grown child in another state, two teenagers about to graduate, and seven more kids growing up way too quickly.Join the Fighting gang along with their families, as they celebrate Christmas in Breckenridge under the same roof, one last time in a Fighting Series Christmas novella: Fighting 'round the Christmas Tree...
  • Chase Lovett Wants Me by Helena Hunting

    Chase Lovett Wants Me by Helena Hunting

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A brand new standalone, opposites attract, college hockey romance. Chase Lovett. Star of my (unrequited) fantasies. Hottest guy on campus. Hockey god. Too bad he has no idea who I am. Literally, I’m so invisible to him that he once sat on me in class.No thanks to a fire in the dorms, he just became my accidental roommate...
  • 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:
    humor  sports  university  adult  alpha-mc  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...
  • Off the Record by Chelle Sloan

    Off the Record by Chelle Sloan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fans of the Nashville Fury come to me for all things regarding their favorite professional football team. Stats, rumors and even what the players like on their pizza. What they don’t turn to me for is information about how their offensive coordinator is in the bedroom. The answer? It’s too hot for print...
    Categorized as:
    humor  sports  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  slow-burn  romance
  • Naughty Wish by J.H. Croix

    Naughty Wish by J.H. Croix

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jana How to seduce a cop for Christmas Flirt shamelessly when said sexy cop pulls you over. Send naughty texts. Sweet-talk him into dinner. Melt… Panties, me, and more. Wait a sec. This was supposed to be just a little harmless fun. He’s in way too deep. So is my heart. Finn A fender bender lands Jana Sparks in my police cruiser...
    Categorized as:
    humor  sports  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  holidays  romance
  • 68 Days And Counting by Nikki20038

    68 Days And Counting by Nikki20038

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ~Sequel to The Bad Boy And The Tomboy~Macy Anderson and Sam Cahill are together in Manchester, England living the new university life. Their relationship is striving as they meet new people and experience different things and strengthen their beautiful relationship. But then again there's soccer, the Cahill family and girls because where there's Sam Cahill there will also be many girls...
  • Behind the Plate: A New Adult Sports Romance by J. Sterling

    Behind the Plate: A New Adult Sports Romance by J. Sterling

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Chance Carter is the son of local baseball legend, Jack Carter. Now in his junior year at Fullton State, Chance is facing challenges he never saw coming. Failing a class will stop his draft season short, making him ineligible to play and pushing his goal of professional baseball even further away.In steps Danika, a mouthy tutor from New York, who only wants to help him pass his class..
  • Mollify by Xavier Neal

    Mollify by Xavier Neal

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dean "Mr. O" Kellar has been following closely in the footsteps of his famous adopted father for years, but when Megan Davis pops back into his life suddenly he starts following him in a new light. She was the girl who saved Dean when they were children and the girl he needs to save now...
    Categorized as:
    humor  sports  university  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Just For The Summer by Danielle Jamie

    Just For The Summer by Danielle Jamie

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bestselling Author of the Savannah Series brings you a fun summer romance novella showing the ups and downs of a hot summer romance. It's the perfect beach or pool side read! Ages 18+ due to Adult Content & Language. This novella is a prequel to the Chasing Carolina series out next year but can be read as standalone. **BLURB** Chase Kenzington loves two things: fast cars and women...
    Categorized as:
    humor  sports  university  adult  angst  audiobook  book  coming-of-age
  • Mister Dimples: A Hero Club Novel by Lindsay Becs

    Mister Dimples: A Hero Club Novel by Lindsay Becs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is it possible to crush on a voice?My favorite thing to listen to is Juniper Love’s podcast show, Go Sports!. Hearing her uninformed, teasing commentary on every game she watches makes me laugh—even when it’s my team she’s talking about. I might be her biggest fan.I thought Troy Tipton was just a nice guy with a gorgeous smile. Until I learned he was a fan-favorite NFL star quarterback...
    Categorized as:
    humor  sports  adult  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Easton by Ali Parker

    Easton by Ali Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No way in hell. If someone had told me at the end of last year that I would have already fallen hard for one of the Casanova Billionaires, I would have called them a liar. A dirty, dirty liar. But they would’ve been right. Who wouldn’t fall for Joshua? I’m never going to make it through this. It’s the second month in the year, and I’m faltering. Fast...
  • Cooper by Ali Parker

    Cooper by Ali Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Cooper is the ultimate bad boy so Piper has her hands full." -- Amazon ReviewerMy journey with the Casanova Club has been full of wonder and magic and, dare I say, heartbreak.More heartbreak than I ever imagined I could endure.But here I am, suitcases packed, chin held high, ready to march into July to meet my next Bachelor.Cooper Diaz.He’s disgustingly handsome. Abs for days...
  • Playoff Passion by London Casey

    Playoff Passion by London Casey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m pregnant. By a hockey player.My father is the head coach of the team.There’s literally no way I can tell anyone who got me pregnant… right?* * *Don’t ask me ‘how did this happen?’ because I don’t have time to talk about the birds and bees and what goes on between the sheets.The fact of the matter is this - I’m pregnant by the goalie of the Inci Warriors...
    Categorized as:
    sports  humor  steamy  contemporary  romance  fiction  book  adult
  • 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  humor  romance  multi-pov  contemporary  fiction  book  adult
  • Unloved by Peyton Corinne

    Unloved by Peyton Corinne

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The highly anticipated follow-up to Peyton Corinne’s “unputdownable and unforgettable” (Bal Khabra, author of Collide) TikTok sensation Unsteady follows hopeless romantic Ro and player—on and off the ice—Freddy as their feelings for each other grow from strictly friendly to so much more. Matt “Freddy” Fedderic is all smiles—at least on the surface...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Wedding Bells and Wall Street Bros by Alina Jacobs

    Wedding Bells and Wall Street Bros by Alina Jacobs

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Is the bridal lingerie embroidered with dildos too much? It might be too much…Welcome to life as a wedding dress-maker for the rich and entitled of Manhattan. I’ve seen it all—from the most spoiled brides to the most egotistical Wall Street Bros.The worst?Mark Holbrook—Billionaire. Arrogant. Knockout sexy. Certifiable jerk.He hates weddings and I hate him...
  • Blades of Glory by Toni Aleo

    Blades of Glory by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Old vs. YoungExperience vs. AttitudeNo Teeth vs. Also No Teeth…It’s the game some of these players have been waiting a lifetime for. The veterans of the Nashville Assassins versus the new generation of players—their sons.As part of their prewedding festivities, Aiden Brooks and Shelli Adler have invited the retired Assassins to play a friendly game against the Stanley Cup-winning current team...
  • 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...
  • Felix by Lulu Moore

    Felix by Lulu Moore

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I have a secret. Twelve years ago I crushed on my teammate’s little sister, before firmly putting her in the friend zone. Which then became the best friend zone. And my teammate became more of a brother.But now we have two problems.1. I just found out she’s been crushing on me too, and my feelings have come hurtling back like a puck heading for the net2...
  • 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...
  • Snow by Brittanee Nicole

    Snow by Brittanee Nicole

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Camden Snow finally gets his book...
  • Ain't Happenin' by Shandi Boyes

    Ain't Happenin' by Shandi Boyes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lorenzo Ricci is a big-shot footballer known for his talents both on and off the field. In his hometown of Milan, he’s the divinity of all men. Women want to be bedded by him, men want to be him. However, during his one-off visit to the land of the free, he can’t even get final-year college student Skylar Maine to talk to him...
  • Going Too Fast by Mari Carr

    Going Too Fast by Mari Carr

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zac Lewis has just finished medical school and is about to embark on his five-year residency to become an orthopedic surgeon. Before it starts, he decides to take some time off to relax and “ramble about.” He borrows an old RV from a friend and heads west with no definite direction. He decides to let the highway take him where it will. Fate puts him in Sapphire Falls during festival week...
    Categorized as:
    humor  sports  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  new-adult  romance
  • Sweet Susie Sweet by Katie Graykowski

    Sweet Susie Sweet by Katie Graykowski

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From International Bestselling author Katie Graykowski comes a hilarious tale of love, laughter, and a high velocity potato cannon. Susie Sweet is out for her early run, she comes across a stranded motorist. When she knocks on the driver’s side door to see if she can help, the driver rolls down the window and she staring into Hollywood’s favorite romcom leading man, Dane Bennett...
    Categorized as:
    sports  humor  romance  contemporary  celebrity  fiction  book  adult
  • Face Off Flirting by London Casey

    Face Off Flirting by London Casey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My best bud asks me if I can let his younger, forever pain-in-the-you-know-what sister crash at my place while she gets settled into a new job. I say yes. Why not? Except I forget it’s been ten years since I’ve seen her dorky, mouth-full-of-braces face… and what shows up at my door is a beautiful WOMAN who is about to ruin my life…* * *My personal life is a disaster...
    Categorized as:
    sports  humor  romance  contemporary  fiction  book  adult
  • Wild Ride by Kate Meader

    Wild Ride by Kate Meader

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Chicago Rebels hockey player Dex O'Malley has been a naughty boy ... again.Only his latest stunt isn’t quite like when he was caught with his pants down at a nightclub or was cited for drag-racing on Lake Shore Drive or even that time he said a few critical things about his teammates on a hockey podcast. Oops...
    Categorized as:
    sports  humor  romance  contemporary  fiction  age-gap  book  adult
  • Breathless by Elise Faber

    Breathless by Elise Faber

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Professional hockey players weren’t supposed to get their hearts broken.But that’s precisely what happened to Marcel Aubert, forward for the Breakers. He’d fallen hard for his ex, and then she’d cheated on him with a truly reprehensible teammate.Because she’d been bored. Of him. Not life. She’d made that fact crystal clear.So Marcel had moved on . .
    Categorized as:
    sports  humor  romance  contemporary  steamy  fiction  book  adult
  • Third Period Temptation by London Casey

    Third Period Temptation by London Casey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The hottest ice hockey player I ever met and I just got snowed in together! A weekend of temptation and passion? Yes, please. Of course... it all comes crashing down when I find out he's engaged..
    Categorized as:
    sports  humor  comedy  fiction  romance  contemporary  book  adult
  • Home Run Heart by Hailey Gardiner

    Home Run Heart by Hailey Gardiner

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There have only ever been two things that Brooks Alden can say he truly baseball and Nora Foster, the girl he dated in high school.Returning home in the off-season gives Brooks an opportunity he never thought he’d get a second chance encounter with a now-divorced Nora. Suddenly, the hometown he’s avoided for so long becomes a place to make new memories together...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Golf Widows' Club by Emily Harvale

    The Golf Widows' Club by Emily Harvale

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Love doesn’t play by the rules. Jenna Baker needs a job but work isn’t easy to find in the small seaside town of Claremont so when she’s offered a position at the prestigious, Green Miles Golf Club, Jenna should be thrilled but she isn’t – until she discovers she’ll be working for thirty-four year old, Robert Miles...
    Categorized as:
    humor  sports  romance  contemporary  female-mc  fiction  book  adult
  • Ice Cold Heart by Nikki Hall

    Ice Cold Heart by Nikki Hall

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Good boys don’t date the coach’s daughter, but a date isn't what she wants...ColeHockey is my life. I play hard, and I don’t lose. The Frozen Four is at my fingertips, but my eligibility is at risk thanks to one frustrating class. Enter Avery Dalton—beautiful, independent, and utterly off limits. She’s my coach’s daughter and his choice for a tutor...
  • 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  sports  romance  mlm  contemporary  lgbtq  multi-pov
  • Playing Deep by Beth Bolden

    Playing Deep by Beth Bolden

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kenyon Ellis knows getting involved with Julian Anderson is an enormous mistake—but from the very first night, he finds him annoying, intriguing and ultimately, irresistible.One, Kenyon is a player, and Julian is a reporter, so hooking up with him, no matter how spectacular the nights are, is a terrible idea.Two, he’s falling for him, even if Julian continues to be prickly and impossible...
  • 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...
  • Touchdown Baby by Tabatha Kiss

    Touchdown Baby by Tabatha Kiss

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When my football coach father transferred me to Chicago North University, he asked for two things:1. Pretend to be one big happy family to shine up his tarnished public image.2. Don’t date his footballers.Easy enough. Football was his world. Theatre was mine.But when the star quarterback starts showing up everywhere I go, it gets harder and harder to resist his charms.Enter, Junior Morgan...
  • Foundations by Kate Canterbary

    Foundations by Kate Canterbary

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fall in love. Get married. Have a baby. Live happily ever after.That was how it was supposed to go, right? Love and here comes the bride and babies and forever.But sometimes, forever has a strange way of sorting itself out.Like a post-baby dry spell with no end in sight—unless a naughty schoolteacher pulls on her fancy panties and takes matters into her own hands...
  • Teaching Tucker by Jillian Quinn

    Teaching Tucker by Jillian Quinn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After a drunken hookup, I never thought I would see Tucker again... Until he strolls into my classroom like he owns the school. He handed out orgasms like it was his job. Now, it’s my turn to grade him. I’m a teaching assistant until the end of the semester. A position I scored because I’m a goody-two-shoes. Not the girl who sleeps with smoking hot hockey players...
  • Chess Not Checkers by Annah Conwell

    Chess Not Checkers by Annah Conwell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She thinks he’s an arrogant jerk. All Jasmine Chamberlain wants is to make her family proud. She owes them everything and intends to pay them back by being the best student, cheerleader, and chess player the university has ever seen.Unfortunately for her, on her first day of chess club, she gets paired with an arrogant, flirty, hotshot quarterback with an affinity for pushing her buttons...
  • Hard As Steel by McKinley May

    Hard As Steel by McKinley May

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Becoming a sports reporter isn't just my dream job--it's my calling.I've been sketching the blueprint for my future since I was an overly ambitious ten-year-old: Get accepted into Windhaven University's journalism program? Check.  Score the sports section of the campus paper? Easy as pie.  Snag a once-in-a-lifetime internship? Currently in progress...
  • Tackle by Jacob Chance

    Tackle by Jacob Chance

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Trevor Lincoln is the legendary tight end for Boston University’s football team. As the youngest son of a former NFL player, he lives a life of privilege with an endless stream of girls vying for his attention. He always gets his way. Until I come along. Everything about him irks me. From his crooked smile and sexy, dark hair, to his obscenely large trust fund...
  • Big Man's Second Chance (Big Men Series) by Penny Wylder

    Big Man's Second Chance (Big Men Series) by Penny Wylder

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Football star. Massive body. Big smile. Big... everything.That's the guy I fooled around with in college and never expected to see again.Years later, and there he is, the famous football pro. He strolls back into my life with his deliciously huge body crammed into a suit that looks ready to split apart...
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