My best buddy from high school is marrying my ex and I’m the best man. Talk about awkward. The silver lining is I’m paired for the wedding with the groom's little sister Chloe.
She’s always been adorable...also, off limits - because I’m the small town bad boy, now an NHL star, and she’s the pastor’s daughter. But weddings make people do crazy things and we end up doing each other. It’s our little secret and we’re never repeating it. Except it’s hard to keep an accidental pregnancy secret for long- and when she shows up on my doorstep, I know I’ve messed up her whole life. Is it bad that I’m not upset about this baby? As the only kid of a single mom, I’m going to do whatever Chloe and the baby need me to do, and if that means a fake relationship to keep her family happy, then I’m all in and my hockey family is on board to help me. If only the lines between fake and real weren’t so fucking blurry. I never wanted a family but I’ve always wanted Chloe. Now I just have to convince her that this reformed bad boy is good enough for her and our child... Slip Shot is Book 5 in the Minnesota Raiders series following sexy single hockey player dads on and off the ice. I take my superstitions seriously in hockey; when the Raiders are on a winning streak, I don’t shave my beard.
A woman like Lena Torsten doesn’t want a beast. It doesn’t matter, anyway. She’s off limits. She’s my best friend’s little sister and he’s asked me to watch over her while she’s in town. I’ve never been allowed to want her. I’ve never even let myself think about having her: Until she ends up staying with me at my cabin and I can think of nothing but Lena. If Mark ever finds out what I want with his sister…well, my time is up. Beauty and the Beast is nothing but a fairy tale. Those kinds of happy endings don’t exist, do they? PENALTY SHOT is book 7 in the Minnesota Raiders series. |
There’s nothing wrong with a little sexy foreplay for your Vegas one-night stand, am I right? It only becomes a problem when you get home and realize your hook-up now has naked photos of you in your full glory (and I am glorious, don’t worry about that). Now I have no way to track her down. Maybe she won’t sell the pictures to the press, even if I am a NHL hockey player and she stands to make a mint. There might still be good--and really, really smokin’ hot--people out there. I’m staking my career on a stranger’s moral compass. That’s what I hope for, at least, until I discover that Smithy aka Morgan Smith is now moonlighting as a paparazzi. She needs the money to help her kid and I can’t tell if she’s playing me or if she's actually a decent woman who won’t resort to blackmail. I don’t want to believe she’ll sell my pictures but she’s in a very, very tight spot.So am I: those pictures can ruin my career. Is it wrong that I’m still madly attracted to the one woman who can destroy me? I need a solution to this dilemma so we can both move on with our lives and go our separate ways. Because I am not the kind of guy who falls for anyone, least of all his one night stand. No matter how badly I want her. SNAP SHOT is Book 6 in the Minnesota Raiders Series I take a weekend in Vegas to blow off steam and what happens? Somehow I end up married to a curvy brunette. It wouldn’t be so bad if both she and her overbearing daddy didn’t work for a rival NHL team. They’re Arizona Rattlesnakes, and I’m a Minnesota Raider through and through.
As a true romantic who always thinks the latest girl is the one, I agree to try and make it work to salvage both our reputations. At least, I try. And being with Cassidy is no hardship— in fact, everything about my brainy bride is a delight, though trying to work a long-distance relationship with a woman who doubts herself and my commitment to her isn’t easy. Still, where love is concerned, I say, whatever it takes. Especially with her. Just when I think we’re making progress my past comes back to haunt us. And although Cassidy may not be the first woman I’ve fallen for, I want her to be my last. It may take the biggest sacrifice ever to prove to her this fake marriage is real. Go big or go home right? All I know now…is that home is with Cassidy. Wherever she wants to be. Stolen Shot is book 8 in the Minnesota Raiders series. |