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Start Your Engines: A brother’s best friend sports romance (Coulter Racing Team Series Book 1) by Rebecca Chase

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He’s hot, a legendary F1 driver, the man who ended my racing career and my brother’s best friend… and now he’s my only hope for survival.

Senna Coulter’s dreams of becoming a race car driver ended after a crash; now, she’s the head of her family’s failing Formula One team.

She’s determined to succeed, even when it means battling the people who think a woman in her twenties can’t be the boss in a male-dominated sport.

Her team’s only chance of survival is her brother’s best friend and her teen crush, Connor Dane. He’s also her team’s new arrogant hotshot driver.

Connor has carried the guilt of causing Senna’s crash for years. Being around Senna is torture especially with the secrets he’s hiding, but he promised her brother he’d protect her at all costs.

They begin the season at each other’s throats, but the undeniable spark between them means they surrender to their wants and cross a dangerous line.

It starts as a secret, steamy relationship, but as their feelings for each other intensify, it becomes harder to hide. So much is at stake: the team, their careers, their friendships, and their reputations.

But maybe it’s all worth it for love.

Fans of Tessa Bailey will enjoy this spicy romance novel that’s Drive to Survive meets Play Along by Liz Tomforde. It features workplace sports romance, enemies to lovers, brother’s best friend, secret relationship, forced proximity, and found family tropes with anxiety representation.

Ms. Fortune by Jay Crownover

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Sometimes the universe has jokes.

Like a woman named Lucky Fortune who has lived her whole life plagued by one mishap and misfortune after another. The catastrophes that regularly derail her life would crush a normal person, but Lucky is stubbornly resilient.
The single constant in her life is the rustic and rundown ski lodge her grandparents built in a small, picturesque Colorado town. And now it belongs to her.
Lucky refuses to let her unending run of bad luck ruin the opportunity to build on her grandparents’ dream and carve out one of her own.

But forces greater than chance are out to sabotage her new life. They’re after the lodge, the land, and they want Lucky out of the way by any means necessary. Danger lurks closer than Lucky knows.

Fortunately, she’s found herself lucky in love for the first time ever, thanks to the secretive drifter she picked up and brought home on a whim. By day, he plays the role of the worst handyman in existence. But when the stakes are raised, and Lucky’s life is on the line, he’ll move mountains to keep her and her legacy out of the wrong hands.

Blood Skye (Skye Druids, #6) by Donna Grant

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The only choice is surrender.

In my world, magic and danger go hand-in-hand. It has from my earliest memory. Magic was currency, and if you have it, you have power. I was shaped by some of the most influential Druids into a lethal weapon. Their weapon.

Until the night they betray me—and I wind up in the hands of my enemy.

He’s nothing but a job for me. To him, I’m the key to finding his father. Too bad I know nothing.

But right now, he’s the only thing keeping me alive, so I’ll do whatever it takes. Yet, if we’re going to survive, it means doing it together.

I’ve never allowed myself to care, to feel. To hope. He shows me a world that was always just out of reach, one I was never meant to be a part of—and a love that burns bright enough to scorch the earth.

Together, we will bring an empire to its knees.

Return to Scotland and New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Donna Grant’s Skye Druids, where magic and danger intertwine and a tale of passion, revelations, and new beginnings unfolds.

Once the Skies Fade (Immortal Reveries, #2) by Vanessa Rasanen

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The law is clear: remarry or lose the throne.
But it says nothing about love.

My husband is dead, and I’m the prime suspect. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the law requires I marry by the end of the season, or I lose my kingdom.

I followed my heart the first time; I won’t do it again.

The old tournament tradition could help me select our next king while protecting my broken heart, but I never expected a close friend of my husband’s family to show up to compete.

I don’t know if he believes the rumors and suspects me of murder, but it’s clear someone wants him out of the competition and me off the throne.

Caught in a tangled web of political games and deadly secrets, I must choose between following my wounded heart and keeping my crown…before more end up dead.

Once the Skies Fade is the second in a fantasy romance collection of interconnected stand-alones set in a magical war-torn world, where secrets have power and allies are few. This tale of love lost and fated mates brings a morally grey queen with shadowy secrets and the sarcastic general who could mend her heart…if he doesn’t put a dagger in it first.

Bad for You by Monica James

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I am Valentina Ricci.

But I wasn’t born with a name.

My mother, Sister Margarette, was a woman of God, but she soon forgot her vows when she was sent by her parish to provide spiritual guidance to death row inmate #39280.

Many havesaid my mother and father’s meeting wasn’t fated in the stars, but rather, it was churned in the bowels of hell.

Because nothing good would ever come from my mother falling in love with convicted and infamous serial killer Patrick
O’Loughlin and having his daughter…me.

The day he was executed was the day I was born.

Again, another cruel twist of fate because I always felt like a part of his soul took over mine on that day. That can be the only explanation for why I do the despicable things that I do and like them…so very much.

I am part monster, part saint.

There is no salvation for a sinner like me.

Saint Maria’s orphanage was my home as a child. And it was nothing but hell until I met him…

Lennon Shepherd.

We found one another in the direst of circumstances, and I thought he was my forever. But forever came with an expiration date when he became the enemy.

Our adoptive mother, Gianna Ricci, has trained us to be her weapons in a war we never wanted to be a part of.

Now grown, Lennon and I are on opposite sides.

The boy I’ve loved since I was ten years old is the man I have to kill because if I don’t…he’ll kill me.

I am hunted.

But I am also the hunter.

This is war…

If You Love Me (Toronto Terror, #4) by Helena Hunting

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Two nights with her ruined me for all other women, but I never got the chance to make her mine.

I’m the pinnacle of control. I protect the net, my team, and my daughter.
It’s my final season and I can’t afford any distractions.
Except our new assistant coach just walked in.
And I would know her face anywhere.
She’s the one I dream about.

That weekend, I was just a man—not the legend, the dad, the mentor.
I didn’t care that I was a decade older.
For the first time in my life, I was ready to risk everything if it meant having her.
Until I woke up to an empty bed and no note.
Three years of wishing I knew how to find her, now she’s my new boss.

I can be patient.
But for her—I want to break all the rules.

 

Beautiful Collide: A Standalone Hockey Romance by Ava Harrison

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From USA Today bestselling author Ava Harrison comes a new standalone hockey romance.

Hudson Wilde.
Star right wing for the Redville Saints.
Cocky, infuriating, and the bane of my existence.

Oh, and as of last night, my brand-new husband.

It was supposed to be a wild Vegas celebration for my brother’s hockey championship win.
Instead, I wake up with a splitting headache, a cheap ring on my finger, and my sworn nemesis pounding on my door.

Now, we’re stuck in a secret marriage until we can get it annulled.

These are the rules:
Pretend everything is normal around the team.
Avoid the media at all costs.

But the hardest rule of all?
Fighting the urge to turn “I do” into “forever.”

Hit Me With Your Best Shot by Sara Ney

 

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USA Today bestselling author Sara Ney sizzles with a fast-paced, sexy romp about a sassy fan-girl and flailing hockey star in this hilarious stand-alone…

I didn’t mean to roast Gio Montagalo, goalie and crown jewel of The Houston Baddies hockey team. Honestly, I was screaming at the TV in a sports bar like any self-respecting sports junkie does when their team is on a losing streak! So when his twin sister sidles up on the stool beside me, laughing at my commentary, I figured I’d made a fan, too. What I didn’t expect? For her brother—the guy I called “a flashy ice peacock with the reflexes of a sloth”—to hear about it.

Yikes. What were the odds?!

Next thing I know, Gio is in my DMs with a challenge: “Hold up a sassy sign at my game and hit me with your best shot. Roast me in front of everyone.” For him, it’s fun. For me, it’s humiliating. But I did it. Glitter included. And because the universe thrives on chaos, the Baddies won.

Now Gio thinks I’m his good luck charm, begging me to show up with more signs. He also wants to see me—off the ice.

What does a hot, hockey hunk want with a bookish girlie like me?

I try to keep my distance. Mostly.

Soon, Gio is showing up at my job for swoony kisses and trying to charm my dog—also named Gio—and failing because my dog hates him at first sight. I wonder if this whole “lucky charm” thing has less to do with hockey and more to do with the overwhelming, undeniable pull I feel toward him. Or maybe it’s fate’s way of showing me that sometimes, the guy you roast on national TV can be the one you accidentally fall for.

Fast-paced and hilarious, Hit Me With Your Best Shot is full of electric chemistry—and tons of spice. Austin Adam’s life just went from shouting at the TV screen—to becoming part of the show.

 

Vicious Addictions by Ivy Fox

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Vicious Addictions is the first installment in this action-packed, drama-filled mafia romance series from USA Today Bestselling Author Ivy Fox.

“Enter the dangerous world of power, passion, and forbidden love in The Next Vicious Generation—where blind loyalty always comes at a price.”

Everyone in Chicago knows my name.
I’m Jude Adamo Romano—the eldest son of the Romano clan and the heir to the Outfit crime syndicate.
Power, control, and loyalty are my family’s legacy, the only things I hold dear.
As for love? Love is a weakness.
I’ve witnessed how it twists, destroys, and corrupts even the most honorable men, and I vowed never to let it ruin me.
Not again.
I kept that promise—until she walked back into my life.
Mina Crane… the one woman who ever made me question everything. The only one I’d risk it all for, even my birthright.
But in my world, something as fragile as love always comes with a steep price.
As loyalties shatter and enemies close in, I find myself at a crossroads, faced with an impossible decision.
Will I fight for the woman who brings me to my knees with just a smile, or will duty and honor chain me to a fate I no longer desire?
For what is a throne without a queen to rule by my side?

What can you expect from Vicious Addictions:
– Forbidden Romance
– Second Chance Romance
– Slow Burn
– Small Age Gap
– Coming of Age – First Love
– Touch her and die vibes
– Boy Obsessed
– Strong heroine
– Revenge, drama and lies
– And a whole lot of ANGST!

Author’s note: The Next Vicious Generation is an interconnected standalone series that serves as a spin-off to the Rotten Love Duet. Each book in this series will focus on one of Selene’s children, now grown up and just as fierce and fearless as their fathers. While reading the Rotten Love Duet is not essential before starting this series, it is highly recommended for a deeper understanding of the characters and their backstory.

Rydeville Elite Epilogue (Rydeville Elite #8.5) by Siobhan Davis

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Get another Rydeville Elite fix with this optional epilogue novella. Catch up with all your favorite couples and characters from the series and meet their children! Family and friends are everything to the Rydeville crew and it’s one thing that will never change.

What to Expect:

Kai and Abby are worried about their eldest son Oli.Drew and Athena have a potentially heartbreaking issue to contend with.Demi and Charlie are reeling from the sudden death of a family member.External forces are trying to interfere in Nessa’s and Jackson’s marriage.Xavier and Sawyer have a difference of opinion that’s hurting them both.Zayn finally tells Emery what’s been troubling him.Rick is on the warpath when Shandra explains what’s been happening at work.The whole crew gets together for a special celebration.

Find out everything that is going down in this multi-POV novella. 35k words and 14 chapters.