I've rebuilt my life from the ground up. My business is thriving, my best friends and family stand by my side, and I'm healing, day by day, from a devastating breakup. I don't need love. I don't need distractions. I want a sweet, simple life.Then there's Beau "Big Daddy" Boone. Tall, dark, devastatingly handsome, a professional football player, and a single dad who worships his little girl, he's everything women dream about. But not me. At least, that's what I tell myself....

ClaudiaI swore I would never fall for another hockey player. Not after a fling turned into a pregnancy, and when I offered him a chance to walk away, he took it. I can raise my daughter alone. I'd been raising myself for years. PhD completed and a job lined up, I didn't need him or his money. She was almost four months old when he demanded to meet her in New York. I flew out, only to find he had forgotten to book the hotel room he promised, and every room in the ci...

Jillian: My whole life, I've been a planner. Every aspiration I've ever had was on a spreadsheet, chart, or graph that flowed from one step to the next, all leading to my goal. I, Jillian Hart, younger sister of two professional athletes, would be the first in my family to hold a Doctorate. After graduating with honors in both of my majors, I was sure I'd soar to the top of all the acceptance lists of my dream colleges. When I received my first acceptance letter t...

Noelle: By day, I sell stories in my bookstore. By night, I'm writing my own spicy romcoms. My books are my escape.In college, athletes were never my type. Not when the risk of letting someone that close always outweighs the reward. Which is why Dash Sterling, the hockey player who made lit class bearable, the guy whom I introduced to my then-best friend, was never even on my radar.Now, one spilled coffee, one ruined dress, and he's suddenly everywhere. And...

Before starting my NFL career, I flew into the city closest to the town I'd call home. I booked a room, went out to grab a bite, and ended up talking football with the locals, who had no clue who I was. Oh yeah, and I had a few too many drinks.As the night wore on, everything became a little bit blurry. Deciding to use the men's room before grabbing a ride back to the hotel to catch some ZZZs, the door to the stall behind me swung open and a chick with an ...

GwenLeland Locke is everything I always knew he would be. Professional baseball player and F-boy extraordinaire, Locke's the kind of man that no woman would ever give up a chance to call him theirs, even if for one night.He's just that good, and I hate that about him.LockeOn the first day of my sophomore year of high school, I saw h...

She lost all hope, and he found it standing amongst the wildflowers.PhoebeMoving to a new place is not something a girl like me is unfamiliar with. My beat-up old suitcase has more miles than good memories. I have long since given up hope that changing schools will somehow change my life. I just want to blend in and get by until I age out.AlexNo one ever told me silence sounds like crushed metal and...

From USA Today bestselling author MJ Fields comes a steamy, single-mom, second-chance hockey romance.Claudia: I swore I would never fall for another hockey player. Not after a fling turned into a pregnancy, and when I offered him a chance to walk away, he took it. I can raise my daughter alone. I'd been raising myself for years. PhD completed and a job lined up, I didn't need him or his money. She was almost four months old when he demande...

I grew up somewhere that assumes your future will look exactly like your past. Scholarships, discipline, and more late nights than I can count are the reason mine won't. I'm within reach of finishing my PhD and building the kind of life where stability isn't something you hope for. It's something you create. Then Lucy arrives. A little girl who's already seen more dysfunction than any child should, and suddenly, the future I've been working toward carries a lot more weight. Finishing my do...

TRAEIt's a call that changes my life--and my little girl's. Years ago, playing for the NBA was the dream, but the Seattle Stallions suck. Worse than that, my old teammate is now the star center--not to mention my number one rival. There has to be a catch, some sort of agenda. Before I was injured, I was the best. Now? There's no way they want me.But when I see the roster and salaries, it all comes together. It's a chance to get on the court again and change our lives. And I...

All my life when I have been told I couldn’t do something; I have fought to prove them wrong.When I have been told I have to comply, mold, kneel to authority, it has been a struggle.Men like me don’t kneel to anyone, it is not in us to submit and if we give off the false pretense that we are, you can bet your ass it’s for our betterment or something bigger than us as an individual.Sweet, sexy, Mary Ward, my Little Lamb, has been deemed off limits to me.For m...

A stand-alone novel in the Norfolk SeriesNot all officers are gentlemen—some are villains.Not all protectors care for your heart — some shatter it.He was all of that and more.One look at him and something inside of me woke from a three-year slumber.One realization and I knew I would never be able to unleash that desire.My world started to cru...