Playing For Keeps Series by Blakely Stone

I can’t imagine anything worse than running into my hot hockey star ex in Italy. Until a one-night-stand ups the ante with a + pregnancy test.I expected to never see Benton Jeffries again after our messy split. A decade passes before I lay eyes on him again at a friend’s destination wedding.He sure knows how to knock a puck in the hole. Those piercing blue eyes and chiseled jaw should be a hooking penalty.With all willpower officially gone I let him in my hotel room after a day in Sorrento... moreI can’t imagine anything worse than running into my hot hockey star ex in Italy. Until a one-night-stand ups the ante with a + pregnancy test.I expected to never see Benton Jeffries again after our messy split. A decade passes before I lay eyes on him again at a friend’s destination wedding.He sure knows how to knock a puck in the hole. Those piercing blue eyes and chiseled jaw should be a hooking penalty.With all willpower officially gone I let him in my hotel room after a day in Sorrento. My walls come down along with my panties.As the sun rises, reality creeps in. I get up and book the first flight out of there.It’s a no-go with his pro hockey career in Canada, and my life in Atlanta. But somethings gotta give when I get two pink little lines. less

I hire my best friend’s daughter as an intern to get her away from a toxic ex.What isn’t in the job description is sleeping with her and getting her pregnant.Being the owner of a pro hockey team, I'm accustomed to heat on the ice. But this woman brings the fire, burning the clothes right off my back.If her father finds out we are sleeping together, he will cut my pucks off. Every time I try to block the shot it finds a way to slide in... moreI hire my best friend’s daughter as an intern to get her away from a toxic ex.What isn’t in the job description is sleeping with her and getting her pregnant.Being the owner of a pro hockey team, I'm accustomed to heat on the ice. But this woman brings the fire, burning the clothes right off my back.If her father finds out we are sleeping together, he will cut my pucks off. Every time I try to block the shot it finds a way to slide in. As a single father with a daughter at home, this can’t continue. Especially considering I’m twice her age and we still have to work together. I make the call to end it once and for all. And then she lands up pregnant, letting me know it is just beginning.Publisher's This is the second book in the Playing For Keeps Seires. Each book is a stand-alone book, although each story is connected in some way. You do not need to read one to understand another, although reading them in order will be like one big story unfolding chronologically while focusing on different characters. There is NO cheating at all, and each book has its own happily ever after. less