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Guarded

by Eden Sloane

Tropes: forcedproximity, dualpov, foundfamily

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For a chance to save his daughter, he’ll do whatever it takes… Sebastian Voss has spent the last three years fighting for custody of the little girl who means everything to him. Between a narcissistic ex-wife, her polished new fiancé, and a steady stream of damaging headlines painting him as the NHL’s favorite womanizing disaster, Sebastian is running out of options. Then he lands on one reckless, desperate solution. He needs a wife. Kat Morrison should be the last woman he asks. She’s a sharp-tongued journalist he barely knows, a woman with storm-gray eyes, a guarded heart, and more secrets than anyone should carry. But Sebastian has been gone for her since the moment they met, and if marrying Kat gives him a better chance at keeping his daughter safe, he’ll risk everything. Even his heart. Kat knows saying yes is a mistake. Not because she doesn’t love him. Because she does. For three years, she’s been forced to write the lies that have damaged Sebastian’s reputation and cost him chance after chance in court. Blackmailed into obedience to save her brother’s life, Kat has become the weapon aimed straight at the only man who’s ever made her feel safe. Now she’s living in his house, wearing his ring, loving his daughter, and falling deeper for the family she was supposed to help destroy. But the closer Sebastian and Kat get, the harder it becomes to tell where the lie ends and forever begins. And when the truth finally comes out, Sebastian could lose more than custody of his daughter. He could lose the woman he’s loved all along. Guarded is a spicy contemporary hockey romance featuring fake marriage, a devoted single dad, a morally gray heroine, found family, secret betrayal, and a hero who falls first and hard. [Read More]

Top Shelf

by Nate Winslow

Tropes: sports, hockey, mm

My smile works on everyone in the league. Then they traded for Grant Hale, and he looked at me like he already knew exactly what I was hiding behind it. I'm Ollie Reyes — golden boy, top-line winger, the guy the whole room angles toward. Being loved is my superpower and my survival plan; you don't get bounced through seven foster homes without learning how to be easy to keep. It has worked my entire career. It does not work on Grant Hale. He's thirty-three, freshly traded, growls one word at a time, and comes with a locker-room-problem reputation I'm ninety percent sure is bad press. Coach has forty-three days to get him integrated before the trade deadline — so he bolts us together. Same line. Same road room. Every hotel between here and March. The trouble isn't that Grant won't buy the smile. The trouble is what's under it: a guy who's terrified he's one bad season from being sent back, who has never once shown anyone the real thing and gotten to stay. And somehow the grumpiest man in the building is the first person to look straight past the sunshine and actually see me — and not leave. Turns out getting solved by Grant Hale feels a whole lot less like losing and a whole lot more like being found. Top Shelf is a bright, low-angst M/M hockey romance: grumpy-sunshine, forced-proximity linemates, a golden boy with a secret and a gruff closeted vet who says everything with an assist, banter for days, and found-family warmth. Standalone with a guaranteed happy ending. Steamy and swoony. Book 1 of the Northport Sentinels. [Read More]

Hellebore Fields: A Dark Academia Hockey Romance

by Rivkah Plume

Tropes: darkromance, newadult, grumpysunshine

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He says I'm his light. But loving him feels like drowning in shadows. At UC Wisteria, I'm supposed to be chasing my future: books, scholarship, and a life I've fought tooth and nail to earn. But instead, I'm being chased by Branwen Atthill, the campus hockey star with sharp edges, hidden scars, and ice-blue eyes that track my every move like I belong to him. When his obsession transforms into something that looks like love, I fall headfirst into the dark fairytale I always craved—until I start losing myself in its twisted pages. Branwen is dangerous. Possessive. Beautiful in ways that make me forget to breathe. When the violence starts, I convince myself I can fix him. That if I love him hard enough, my light will chase away his darkness. But as secrets unravel and the campus grows more dangerous, I'm forced to confront the question I've been too terrified to ask: if I survive loving him, will I still recognize the girl I was before he consumed me? He's everything I was warned about, and the only boy I've ever wanted to burn for. Trigger Warning & Tropes: Contemporary, Dark Romance, Erotic Thriller, Dark Academia, Hockey Romance, Stalker, Grumpy/Sunshine, Dubious Consent, Possessive, Tortured Past, Rags-to-Riches, Murder [Read More]