Showing results for "Win" in Contemporary

Jase Foster is as loyal and committed as a friend can get - when it comes to the guys, that is. But with women he keeps it casual and experiences what one would call a "high turnover rate". Emily Klein is beautiful and confident...and has mile-long legs that have been strutting in and out of Jase's life since adolescence, leaving a wake of destruction. As they get paired up time after time as the best man and maid of honor in the upcoming nuptials of all of their best friends, Emily and Jase find their mutual resentment simmering just beneath the surface.

Tales you win. Heads you lose. And the fighters of Tales never lose. The men my father ruled were his faithful soldiers sworn to protect the club, him, me. Until one day, his most loyal soldier, Beast, makes a decision that changes my story forever. But this is no fairy tale and I don't own a crown. This is real life. Bloody, violent, and filled with alpha men who use their fists to settle every dispute. And if the man who calls me Princess thinks he can break my heart and get away with it, he can think again.

When I agreed to be his roommate, I had no way of knowing that Cole Anderson was one of my father’s star players. Having transferred to Aldridge University for my junior year, I wasn’t familiar with anyone on campus. If there’s one rule I’ve always been supposed to follow, it’s don’t date a basketball player. Cole is different, though, and I don’t want to stay away. But when he finds out I’m the coach’s daughter, I might not have any say in the matter.

You think I'll just lay down and give up? Think again. We're here to win!

Even though I'm the oldest player on the farm team, I'm playing my heart out this year to prove that I have what it takes to compete in the NHL. Everyone expects me to live up to my dying hockey hero dad's legacy, but my chances are receding every season. What I need is to focus, but the team's new yoga instructor is a major distraction; I've had my eye on her from the first time we met. Except she's not interested since I accidentally dumped her into the ocean during our paddleboard yoga class. How can I prove to her - and to the NHL - that I'm worth taking a chance on?

I waited until my 18th birthday to tell my best friend, Nick, that I loved him. That I wanted him to be my first. Even though he was twelve years older than me, I knew he was my person. He'd always been my person. But when I showed up at his apartment, he was with… Sheila. Ugh. I thought we were meant to be. He thought I was a kid with a crush. I did the only thing I could do. I left for school and a new life. Until that life fell apart. Now, six years later, I'm back in Calico Cove living with my parents, broke, jobless, and trying my best to ignore Nick.

Gabriella Bianche strides into a meeting and proceeds to impress a conference table of the Five Families. There's not a man there who isn't charmed by the strong-willed mafia princess… including me. But after a heated night together, Gabriella makes it clear that's all she wants—a one-time thing. The sensual, dark-haired beauty aims to impress, not seduce. So why is my head this messed up from being around her? I've never been this crazy over a woman, least of all one from a semi-rival family.

According to my best friends, five months is too long to nurse a broken heart. They're determined to push me out of my nest made of sweatpants and sadness. I need to date, they say. They have the perfect plan, they say. Maddox Graves is the star center of the Minnesota Rogues, and he's every woman's fantasy. Tall, dark, and broody, he's the guy you picture when you're home alone enjoying some self-care. And after my friends win a date with him at a charity auction, he's all mine for one night.

Nasir Valentine has one thing on his mind: winning a championship title in his first year as head coach of the boys basketball team. But when his team captain’s father is murdered just before the start of the season, he quickly learns coaching high school basketball in the inner city is a lot more than just drawing numbers and arrows on a dry erase board.

Escape with a fun, uplifting romance about a fake relationship and a renewed love from New York Times best-selling author Brenda Novak. Previously published as What a Girl Wants. Tired of being in the center of her parents’ divorce, nuclear physicist April Ashton schemes a getaway to Mexico...

Nach meinem Wechsel zur Aldridge University kannte ich hier niemanden - und die Regeln waren klar: Keine Dates mit Basketballspielern. Als ich zustimmte, Cole Anderson als Mitbewohner zu haben, ahnte ich nicht, dass er einer der Starspieler meines Vaters war. Doch Cole ist anders. Er hat diese magnetische Ausstrahlung, die mich unwiderstehlich fasziniert, und je mehr Zeit wir miteinander verbringen, desto weniger kann ich mich seinem Charme entziehen. Doch wenn Cole herausfindet, dass ich die Tochter des Trainers bin, droht alles zu zerbrechen ...

Shooting the Moon Take a ride with New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak in this touching story of family, forgiveness…and bad reputations. Ten years ago, Harley Nelson got on his motorcycle and drove out of Portland, Oregon, leaving behind a bad reputation, a baby, and the woman...

Ace Townsend is the biggest player on campus. The sexy new quarterback on the football team. I should probably mention he's also a complete flirt. The life of the party wherever he goes. Someone I should avoid at all costs. It's difficult, though, when I'm on the social media crew for the football team, and we're out on the field during practice almost every day, filming them. On the sidelines at games. Hanging out with them at bars. The more I spend time with Ace, the more I'm drawn to him. The attraction is there, but it's more than that. I actually like him.

Bex ist eine Thunderbird und gehört damit zur College-Elite. Leider hat diese Rolle nie wirklich zu ihr gepasst. Sie lebt lieber mit ihren drei Schlangen zusammen, sammelt bei Exkursionen Reptilien aller Art und meidet Partys, wo es nur geht. Das ändert sich, als Loren völlig betrunken in ihr Zimmer in der Studentenverbindung stolpert und halbbekleidet einschläft. Denn eigentlich ist der muskulöse Footballer mit Bex' Cousine zusammen und steht so gar nicht auf Mauerblümchen. Doch Bex macht ihn auf eine Art verrück, wie es noch keine Frau zuvor getan hat.

After being jilted in Kentucky, playing for Calverdale Ladies in England was a chance to escape and spend Christmas alone, avoiding my feelings. Which is how I’ve ended up snowed in at a Welsh pub with a retired rugby player who’s hot enough to thaw me out. But when the snow’s gone, so am I. I won’t let another man in, not even one as gorgeous as Geraint…

Er will sie. Sie will ihn. Ihr denkt, einfacher geht es nicht? Nun, dann kennt ihr Seth & Lou noch nicht! Lou. Was tust du, wenn du mit siebzehn Jahren zum ersten Mal so richtig verliebt bist? Genau, du schleichst dich in sein Schlafzimmer, um für immer mit ihm zusammen zu sein. Schon klar! Ich habe definitiv zu viele Groschenromane gelesen. Aber was ich nicht habe kommen sehen, ist, dass er mir am nächsten Tag das Herz bricht. Weil er sich an nichts mehr erinnern kann, was uns in der Nacht verbunden hat.

Mann will Frau. Frau will Mann.Ihr denkt, einfacher geht es nicht? Dann kennt ihr Cam und Jenna noch nicht. Jenna. Wie reagierst du, wenn dein Ex auf dem Klassentreffen mit seiner Neuen auftauchen wird und du ihm ganz sicher nicht als Single gegenüberstehen willst?Richtig. Du erschleichst dir einfach einen festen Freund. Und zwar nicht irgendeinen.Cameron Murray ist der beste Freund meines Zwillingsbruders, früherer Captain des Basketballteams unserer Highschool, überdurchschnittlich attraktiv - und ein Vollidiot.

Nothing gets by me. Nothing gets to me. On the field, or off. Until I meet Harper. One taste of her, and she brings me to my knees. I'll do whatever it takes to win her. She's brilliant, she's beautiful, and she's so reserved, she becomes the challenge I have to win.

Jodie Slaughter's latest rom-com, Play to Win, is a sizzling romance where a winning lottery ticket is meant to be a new start but instead becomes a second chance at love. Miriam Butler’s life is going nowhere in the slowest, most excruciating way possible. Stuck in the same barely-paying job...

The small town of Belle Haven, Louisiana, is still struggling with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf oil spill, and its residents will do whatever it takes to get it back on its feet. So when local English teacher Carissa Melody Wayne is asked to appear on the weight-loss reality show Losing to Win, she agrees. She doesn't realize that others from her past will be joining her, including her high school nemesis, an acquaintance who's been nursing a long-time crush on her - and most shocking of all, Carissa's ex-fiancé...