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Don’t Go Breaking My Heart by Sara Ney

Rating: 4 out of 5.

This is a sweet and spicy hockey romance with plenty of witty banter between the couple. Poppy moves for a new job and her best friend arranges for her to share a house with two pro hockey players. Poppy and Turner are instantly attracted to one another, but they fight their feelings, until they don’t.

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Playing for Keeps (Seattle Hawks Ice Hockey #4) by Dakotah Fox

Rating: 4 out of 5.

This is another sweet romance in an awesome hockey romance series and is available on Kindle Unlimited.

Tropes of the book.
🏒Hockey romance
🏒Best friends little sister
🤡Class clown MMC with troubled past
🏒FMC quits corporate world to teach yoga
❤️Resisting temptation
❤️Friends to lovers
❌Off limits
🎲What happens in Vegas…
🏒Playboy turned good boy
☀️Sunshine/mostly sunshine
Nicknames
🔥Mine
🕺Sexy dance
👼Good girl

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Pucking Enemies (Night Hawks Hockey Series Book 5) by Katie Strong

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Book 5 of this series features photographer Rylee and NHL player Zander. They have a rocky first meet, a less than stellar second meet, and a scorching hot third meet. Too bad Rylee doesn’t seem to remember any of them. Rylee is a photographer for a sports magazine. She lives in Nashville but is assigned to feature the Stanley Cup winning Night Hawks in Denver. She’s friends with the wives of a couple players and is offered an apartment in Denver to stay at during her assignment. Problem is, Zander’s building is undergoing renovations and he’s got to move out during it. He’s offered the same apartment until the repairs are done. The couple’s fourth meeting is the most awkward of all.

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Writing Mr. Wrong by Kelley Armstrong

Rating: 3 out of 5.

This is a cute hockey second chance rom com. Gemma is an author and wrote a romance featuring a jerk based on her first crush. He just happens to be bad boy NHL player Mason. They knew each other growing up and after he allowed his friends to embarrass her, he was dead to her. Gemma and Mason are both going through their own crisis with their future, and are struggling with how to get through it. When Gemma appears on a tv talk show with a former classmate and she ambushes her with Mason, pointing out that he must be her inspiration for her new book, their publicists jump on the chance to help further their careers. They end up fake dating, and we all know what happens next.

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Wanting the Winger (Love on the Line, #2) by Brenda Rothert

Rating: 4 out of 5.

This is book 2 in the Love on the Line series but can be read as a standalone. This time NHL winger Bash finds love with Lainey, the little sister of his childhood best friend. She’s moving to Cleveland to work on a 4 month research project and he offers her his home to live in while she’s there. Lainey had a huge crush on Bash when she was younger (he’s 4 years older than her). When she was 17 and he was 21 and already in the NHL she asked him to take her to her prom. He naturally said no and her heart broke. Now Lainey is engaged to marry Shane, a worthless POS not worthy of her. Bash has no trouble reminding Lainey every chance he gets that he’s not worthy of her. He thinks he’s being a good friend. Until he can’t deny he’s actually got feelings for her. Now, just to make her believe his feelings are real.

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Make the Play (Nashville Rampage, #1) by Kaylee Ryan

Rating: 4 out of 5.

This is a sweet sports romance between Corie and her brother Landry’s best friend Knox. Landry and Knox are professional football players and have several fellow players in their small friendship group. When Corie returns home from college, she and her best friend Sloane are welcomed into the group.

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The Bad Boy Rule (Hellcats Hockey #1) by Maren Moore

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Saint is the hockey bad boy of Orleans campus. He hits ’em and quits ’em, never kissing, cuddling, spending the night, or sleeping with the same girl twice. His life is hard and complicated and his sole focus is protecting his mother and making it to the NHL to give them both a better life. So the last thing he needs is a privileged do-gooder ice skater barging into his life and making him constantly think about what’s underneath that cute skirt.

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The Girlfriend Zone (Love and Hockey, #4) by Lauren Blakely

Rating: 4 out of 5.

This is a fun and flirty hockey rom com that will have you feeling all the feels. It’s book 4 in the Love and Hockey series, but can be read as a stand alone. This book centers on Leighton, the coach’s daughter, and Miles, the older hockey player that was given a second-chance by the coach after a bad injury. Leighton is just starting out her photography career and hires Miles as a last-minute model stand-in when her model bails, at the suggestion of Mile’s grandmother. Sparks fly when the couple are alone and they spend one fantastic, perfect day together. Reality hits the next day when they discover that Leighton’s father is Miles’ coach, who Miles greatly respects. They decide that despite their attraction, they have to leave it at the one perfect day. To their credit, they last one year with this “one day only” plan, until they eventually can’t fight their attraction.

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No Ordinary Love by Myah Ariel

BOOK FEATURE

I’m excited to feature this heartwarming contemporary romance between a MLB baseball player and a pop star. It’s out today, April 1, 2025, and I’ve got not only the official book “blurb”, but an excerpt of the book from the author Berkley Publishing Group.

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