One more loss and Ilya Vasiliev's career is over.‎Ten games. That's all the veteran NHL goalie has left to prove he's not washed up at thirty-two. His save percentage is tanking. His PTSD is winning. And management's already shopping his replacement.‎Then rookie winger Leo Marchand shows up at 5 AM with terrible coffee and an impossible offer: train together. Fix what's broken. Save what's left.‎Ilya shouldn't let the optimistic French-Canadian past his walls. But when forced proximity becomes stolen kisses, when Leo's the only thing standing between Ilya and the darkness, he can't walk away.‎Then Ilya's estranged brother arrives needing surgery they can't afford.**‎Then a brick crashes through Leo's window: LEAVE OR WE'LL MAKE YOU.‎Then Ilya tears his MCL in the Stanley Cup playoffs and plays anyway, because that's what you do for the people you love, even if it destroys you.‎Leo thought...

Six years ago, Miles Hartford let fear—and his influential agent father—destroy the only thing that had ever felt right: his secret relationship with his strike partner, Carter Reeves. Miles became the league's golden boy. Carter was left with a tarnished reputation and a career built on others' terms.Now they are back on the same team.On the ice of the Seattle Storm, their chemistry is electric and undeniable; off the ice, a grainy photo turns whispered rumors into the league's biggest scandal. Miles's father goes on national television to brand Carter a manipulative problem and Miles his victim. Careers, endorsement deals, and a playoff run are all on the line.Miles is tired of running away.With a locker room that refuses to turn its back on them and a journalist willing to tell the truth rather than the sanitized version, Miles and Carter step into the spotlight, vying for dominance in the harshest glare professional sports have to...

A Possessive MM Hockey Stepbrother Romance.HE'S THE NHL'S MOST POSSESSIVE DEFENSEMAN. I'M THE ONE MAN HE CAN'T HAVE.Kai Vance is "The Warden." On the ice, he's a discipline machine, protecting his goal with ruthless efficiency. Off the ice, he's a fortress of secrets. I'm Levi Reed, the chaotic photographer hired to document his championship run, and the only crack in his armor.I hate his arrogance. He hates my lack of control. But when our parents' sudden engagement pushes us into a forced proximity nightmare as roommates, the hate starts to feel dangerously like hunger.He's not just off-limits; he's my future stepbrother. Crossing that line could destroy our families and torpedo his million-dollar contract. Yet, Kai looks at me with a possessive heat that burns through every warning sign. He claims me in the shadows of his penthouse, demanding everything I have while refusing to acknowledge me in the light.We're playing a dangerous game of...

A culinary cozy mystery novel.‎A Christmas cozy mystery with murder, mistletoe, and a detective I definitely shouldn't be falling for.‎I came back to Mistletoe, Vermont, for a quiet life running my late grandmother's bakery—not to find the town's wealthiest benefactor dead at the Christmas Eve Gala with poisoned eggnog in his hand. But when the evidence points to my bakery and threatens everything I've rebuilt, I have no choice but to investigate.‎Enter Detective Jack Frost. Methodical. Skeptical. Annoyingly attractive. He thinks I'm an interfering amateur who bakes too many cookies and asks too many questions. I think he's a by-the-book detective who underestimates small-town intuition and the power of my grandmother's secret recipes.‎Together—with my brilliant white Persian cat, Snowball—we uncover thirty years of buried secrets, frame jobs designed to destroy innocent lives, and a killer who'll stop at...