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The boy next door isn't next door anymore. He's in Vegas, preparing for the upcoming NFL season, and I'm still stuck in the small Midwestern town where we grew up. We should be together, but people wanted us apart. They won. Secrets are uncovered, and lives are forever torn apart.

After years of trying to get back home to be closer to my daughter, I finally secured a spot on the newly expanded San Francisco Shockwaves. Juggling being the newly appointed Captain of the team and taking on full-time fatherhood to a teenager sends my life into chaos. I quickly find myself needing someone who can pick up the pieces and keep my life in order as I certainly can't do it alone.

I think I'm screwed. Seriously. Why, you ask? Because when one of the first warnings you get after joining the Chicago Red Tails hockey team is to never even think about touching Dex Foster's sister, you abide by your teammate's wishes. You do not find her adorably attractive. You do not befriend her. You certainly do not kiss her, And for the love of hockey, you Do. Not. Sleep. With. Her. See where I'm going with this?

Kyla MacIntosh was always like a little sister to Tag growing up. She followed Tag and his hockey players everywhere, trying to be one of the guys, and now she’s killing herself trying to make partner at her old-boys-club law firm. But she's not little anymore and Tag’s feelings aren't sisterly at all. Will a hot week at the lake be enough to show them that they were meant to be forever?

A young sports journalist soon learns the toughest hits occur off the field. Fresh out of journalism school, Blake Kirk lands her dream job as a reporter for her hometown pro football team—the job sure to propel her to the sidelines on network television. But from the first day, double standards and old-school entitlement smack her with the intensity of a defensive line.

I had it all: A great job. Fame. Wealth. I didn't have her. She's the one I let slip away—from my bed on vacation. She didn't know who I was or what my batting average was. I got to be myself with her and now I wish I'd gotten her number. Until fate brought her back to me.

Maddy Wolfe’s life has just capsized. After her twenty-year marriage suddenly implodes, she heads to Brighton to search for her estranged son, Jamie. But he’s nowhere to be found and for the first time, she’s totally alone. That is, until she meets the Salty Sea-Gals, a group of feisty sea-swimmers. Seventy-two-year old Helga is determined not to slow down, while thirty-something Tor is still figuring out who she is. Bereaved Dominica is trying to find a reason to carry on, and busy mum Claire is learning to put herself first for a change.

Childhood crushes reunite in this spicy friends-to-lovers hockey romance. Daniel “Bellzie” Bellamy should be on top of the world—a Stanley Cup is the perfect topper to his fourteen-year NHL career. But despite the post-win high, something’s missing. When the chance to play for his...

For Minnesota Glaciers captain Scott Walters, skating on a bum knee--and self-medicating to keep skating on it--is all part of the game. That the painkillers he's eating prevent him from having meaningful relationships is just one more sacrifice in a lifetime of them. He’s worked too hard to...

Minnesota Glaciers’ starting defenseman Henrik Grenick is good at two things: hockey and sex. He’s got it all the career, the biceps, the babes. But the steady parade of women through his bedroom just leaves him wanting more, hunting for the next distraction. Until he meets Jacqui, who...

Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in Africa. It is no ordinary juggernaut. Longer than a football pitch, weighing 550 tons, and moving at just five miles per hour, its job – and that of troubleshooter Neil Mannix – is to move a giant transformer across an oil-rich African...

All work and no play makes Adeline Kendrick a dull girl, so when she heads to a casino resort for a friend's bachelorette weekend, she's ready to have a good time. Until she runs into Brendan Quinn, professional fighter and the one who got away—the one her family drove away—and things take a...

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“Fast Girls is a compelling, thrilling look at what it takes to be a female Olympian in pre-war America...Brava to Elise Hooper for bringing these inspiring heroines to the wide audience they so richly deserve.”—Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics and The...

In einem Trailer Park irgendwo in den Ozarks wächst Billy Lowe mit einer alkoholabhängigen Mutter und einem gewalttätigen Stiefvater auf. Seine Wut und seinen Schmerz trägt Billy auf das Football-Feld, wo sie ihn zu einem sehr guten, aber unberechenbaren Spieler machen. Schon bald verliert Billy beim Training die Kontrolle. Als dann auch noch sein Stiefvater tot aufgefunden wird, nimmt eine unaufhaltsame Verkettung von Ereignissen ihren Anfang, die geprägt ist von Gewalt, Vorurteilen und Hoffnungslosigkeit.

As a thirty-five-year-old hockey player, I've learned a lesson in loyalty. I was supposed to be a lifer for the Chicago Tigers, but the team left me out in the cold, choosing to protect younger players. The next thing I know, I'm in a strange city with a fledgling team, and my estranged wife has served me with divorce papers. As the team struggles to find its identity and win games, I struggle with my role as team captain, proving I'm not too old to play at a high level, and getting beyond my failed marriage. All this is complicated by an undeniable attraction to the owner's granddaughter.

Shaynas Traum wird wahr: Sie hat einen Job als Physiotherapeutin bei den San Francisco Kingsmen ergattert. Der Haken? Ihr Ex Lee Burrows ist der Quarterback des Footballteams. Im College hat der heiße Footballspieler Shaynas Herz in tausend Teile zerbrochen. Und jetzt soll sie mit ihm zusammenarbeiten. Shayna ist sich sicher, dass sie mit Lee endgültig fertig ist. Doch der sieht das nicht ganz so. Kurz vor dem entscheidenden Touch Down versucht er ihr Herz zurückzuerobern ... Band 1 der neuen College-Football-Serie von Piper Rayne: eine spicy Second-Chance-Romance, die jedes gebrochene Herz heilt!

Schwimmen ist Bewegung. Schwimmen ist Veränderung. Schwimmen ist Musik. Denn ein Schwimmbecken ist mehr als ein physischer Ort. Wer es betritt, dem kann es erlauben, Altes loszulassen, die Gedanken zu sortieren und neue Perspektiven zu entdecken. Es scheint, als würde mit dem ersten Schwimmzug eine innere Reise beginnen, die zu neuen, noch unbekannten, teils unerwarteten Optionen führt. Eine faszinierende Sammlung von Geschichten über Menschen, die die Leidenschaft an der Bewegung im Wasser und die Freude am Leben eint.

Jess Singer, pitching prodigy and son of the infamous Jewish Joe Singer—who starred on the mound for the same MLB team twenty-five years earlier—is blessed with a plus-plus curveball, possesses immense athletic abilities, and is on the fast-track to stardom. But he's harboring perhaps the most potent secret a professional athlete can possess: his sexual preference.

Wenn der Boss etwas will, bekommt er es auch. Und zwar immer. Ausnahmen gibt es nicht. Reeve Rockwell ist Multi-Milliardär und CEO der Miami Flames. Seinen Erfolg verdankt der Big Boss vor allem seiner Hartnäckigkeit und Zielstrebigkeit. Was er will, nimmt er sich. Egal zu welchem Preis. Aktuell will er vor allem eins: Das Ausnahmetalent Tommy Santana. Dem sechzehnjährigen Wunderkind wird eine goldene Basketball Zukunft vorausgesagt und alle Profiteams reißen sich um ihn. Umso besser, dass Tommy der Sohn von Reeves Jugendliebe Gia ist.