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Jack Scratch is the star player for his high school basketball team, on the fast track to a college scholarship and perhaps a career in the NBA. Jack's journey takes a detour after single mother Janet is saved from a mugger by two boxers: Karl "Sweet Sugar" Brown, a former heavyweight contender who now trains fighters, and Paveli "Punch" Pangora, a Slovenian slugger seeking US citizenship.

My path to success never included an enemy as a teammate, especially one as infuriating as Quinton de Haas. Clawing under my skin is his favorite pastime, only feeding the animosity between us as the years pass. We’re as completely opposite as two people can be; the golden boy and the black sheep. Constantly at odds or at each other’s throats. The only thing we can agree on is hockey is our true love, and we’ll do whatever it takes to come out on top. I never imagined that drive would lead me to do the unthinkable: falling into bed with my not-so-straight rival.

Heidi and I have been trading hungry looks all year, and everything she does makes me smile. But I don't do girlfriends, and I certainly can't get involved with the league commissioner's daughter. I need shots on goal, not a hookup and a widely misunderstood paparazzi photo. Can I resist her, though? The way she teases me should be a game penalty for interference with my libido.

He (was) the hottest player on the ice. She's a (struggling) sports journalist looking for her big break. Charlie Denton has been handed the most impossible assignment from her stick-in-the-mud boss: get an exclusive interview with the NHL's golden boy, Duke Harrison. The catch? She's got eight days or she'll be demoted. Fired. Kicked to the curb - no way is she letting her future rest on the broad shoulders of a goalie who is at least three seasons past his prime.

For best-selling romance novelist Jillian Grayson, writer's block is a thing of the past now that her clandestine relationship with her son's best friend, Brian Nash, has lifted her out of a postdivorce funk. The prospect of breaking the news to her son seems daunting, but it's nothing compared to the nightmare of meeting Brian's superstrict, off-the-wall, disapproving parents.

It’s high-stakes, win-or-die football action in the far future, as aliens and humans fill positions based on physiology and leave their blood, sweat, and tears on gridirons across the galaxy. Last season, 19-year-old rookie quarterback Quentin Barnes overcame his racism and unified his team. He led the Ionath Krakens to a lower-tier championship, a championship that earns them promotion into the meat grinder known as “Tier One.”

Er hat sie zurückgewiesen. Sie hasst ihn. Können sie eine Beziehung vortäuschen? Der Fußballer Tanner Harris ist dafür bekannt, mit sämtlichen Damen Londons ins Bett zu steigen, doch die attraktive Neonatalchirurgin Dr. Belle Ryan ist tabu für ihn. Als er von den Paparazzi erwischt wird – splitterfasernackt und mit seinem besten Stück in der Hand – ist ausgerechnet sie die Einzige, die er um Hilfe bitten kann. Belle dachte einst nach einem heißen Flirt mit Tanner, dass der bärtige Bad Boy perfekt wäre, um mit ihm Stress abzubauen.

В этом сборнике вас ждут четыре рассказа "Старейшины" о судьбах людей, которые позволили гольфу "въесться в их души, как какому-то злокачественному новообразованию". Ну, и как вы уже, наверное, догадались, в случае с Вудхаусом игра истинных джентльменов и утонченных леди в его историях приобретает элементы увлекательной комедии полной интриг, авантюр и любовных приключений.

К Сэму Стюбнеру – менеджеру по боксу попадает молодой и никому неизвестный боксер Пат Глендон. Юноша очень амбициозен и вне всякого сомнения у него есть все шансы стать чемпионом мира в тяжелом весе. Он побеждает всех своих противников практически сразу, одним ударом. Но профессиональный спорт – это не только медали и восхищение толпы. И похоже Глендону предстоит познакомиться и с еще одной, не самой приятной, закулисной стороной спорта.

Set against the backdrop of a professional American football franchise seven centuries in the future, the Galactic Football League puts huge humans on the field with five alien races to create a game that is faster, stronger and deadlier than anything we know today. Quarterback Quentin Barnes has grown from a racist, small-town standout into a proven leader, a uniter of peoples, and the Galaxy’s most-famous being. Willing to do anything for his team, his Ionath Krakens have bound together through shared sacrifice, tragedy, devastating losses and thrilling victories.

Eight years, three kids, and one cross-country move. Can love alone bring their marriage back from the brink? Dylan Sorrento fell in love with Jeanine Wendlock the moment he saw her singing karaoke in a dive bar in Santa Monica. An unplanned pregnancy, a quick wedding, and three babies later...

Having a baby wasn’t in my five-year plan. Then again, neither was sleeping with a hockey player who hates my guts. Star forward for the Grizzlies, Leo Wilson is my least favorite person on the planet. Unfortunately, after a night of drinking and debauchery—on both our sides—we end up in...

Als Social-Media-Managerin der L. A. Dragons kontrolliere ich jedes Bild, jede Schlagzeile und jede Krise. Dann stehe ich vor laufenden Kameras und erkläre, ich sei Ethan Vaughns Freundin. Ausgerechnet Ethan. Defense-Star der Dragons. Playboy. Red Flag. Die Fake-Beziehung ist beruflich brillant und persönlich brandgefährlich. Ich weiß genau, wie es endet, wenn man sich auf einen Profisportler einlässt. Single ist kein Zustand, sondern meine Lebensphilosophie.

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's schooldays, now with a Victoria Cross, has three main talents - horsemanship, facility with foreign languages and fornication. A reluctant military hero, Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the nineteenth century despite trying his utmost to escape them all. Flashman, soldier, duellist, lover, imposter, coward, cad, and hero triumphs in this first installment of The Flashman Papers.

Havana Heat transports readers to 1911 America, where real-life pitcher Luther "Dummy" Taylor is trying to work his arm back into fighting shape. Though deaf, Taylor helped lead John McGraw's New York Giants to the pennant, winning 115 games between 1900 and 1908. But an injury relegates him to the minors, and he dreams of one last shot at the big barnstorming trip to Cuba.

Maddox - The reason I rarely go home is three simple words: I'm a liar. When the pressure to marry my childhood sweetheart became too much, I told her I was gay and then fled to New York like my ass was on fire. Now, five years later and after a drunken encounter, I find myself invited to her wedding. And I have to bring my boyfriend-the boyfriend who doesn't exist because I'm straight. At least, I think I am. Meeting the guy I'm bribing to be my boyfriend for the weekend makes me question everything about myself.   

Want to know the fastest way to get screwed out of a football career? Get photographed in a compromising position in a gay bar. Yep, welcome to my life. My agent says he can fix my image. He wants me to become the poster boy for gay football players. Me? I just want back on the field. I'll do anything to play for the NFL again, even pretend to have a steady boyfriend. If only my fake boyfriend wasn't Noah Huntington III - the most arrogant, entitled rich guy in the world. 

Cora Monroe has always hated the media attention that her family's name has brought, and when her last relationship explodes spectacularly, and she's press fodder again, all she wants to do is lay low, be single, and focus on her career. Then her brother buys a hockey team. Nathan Talbot is a solid second-line hockey player who's finally getting his shot as captain of the new expansion team. He's determined to prove he's up to the task of leading a team.

Perfect for readers who love emotional, uplifting stories in the spirit of Field of Dreams and The Art of Fielding. Narrated by the author, Kyle Shoop. You can't outrun home. A game-winning hit. A mysterious inheritance. One journey that changes everything. After the sudden death of his father, major-league all-star Buck Boone is forced to return to the hometown he left behind years ago.

SUDDEN DEATH is a murder mystery set in the world of football. More than a whodunit, the novel spans from 1966 to 1997. Kendall Harris, a brilliant law student from Georgia, and Duke Astin, a star quarterback from Hawaii, meet at UCLA, fall in love, and marry. Kendall practices law and Duke plays in the NFL, then becomes a college coach. Juggling two careers and moving from state to state puts pressure on their relationship, but through the joys and stresses of life, they stay loyal to one another.