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Release Spotlight- No Ordinary Love by Myah Ariel

March 31, 2025 by Angela Leave a Comment

No Ordinary Love by Myah ArielBlack & African American Romance / Sports Romance/ Contemporary RomanceApril 1, 2025- Berkley About the Book In NO ORDINARY LOVE, popstar Ella Simone has a life that others could only dream of. On paper, she is at the height of her music career and married to the perfect man, a renowned music producer who has helped her garner record hits, awards, and adoring fans. In reality, Ella is undergoing divorce proceedings with the powerful Elliot Majors Continue Reading

Release Blitz- Hockey Wife by Kate Meader

September 16, 2024 by Angela Leave a Comment

Title: Hockey WifeSeries: Rookie Rebels #10 Author: Kate Meader Genre: Contemporary RomanceTropes: Accidentally Married/Age Gap/Grumpy xSunshine/Forced Proximity/Hockey Player Release Date: September 16, 2024 BLURB “I need us to stay married, Big Guy.”Recently traded to the Chicago Rebels, hockey veteran Dylan “Banks” Bankowski is adjusting to what might be his last team and his final year in the NHL. That means taking care of his battered body while he strives for the one goal that’s Continue Reading

Review: Pole Position by Rebecca J. Caffery 

May 30, 2024 by Angela 1 Comment

Pole Position by Rebecca J. CafferyLGBTQ Contemporary/Sports RomanceMay 30, 2024- One More Chapter/HarpercollinsARC Review by Angela There seem to be several racing romances set to hit new release shelves this year. Pole Position is a queer F1 romance, and the blurb and cover caught my eye while putting together the New Release post. I don't know much about this part of the sports world, but I decided to dive in anyway. This is one of those books that while I read straight through Continue Reading

Release Blitz – Will by Kat Baxter

April 17, 2023 by Angela Leave a Comment

Title: WillSeries: The Bad Boys of Saddle Creek #3 Author: Kat Baxter Genre: Steamy Romantic ComedyTropes: Bad Boy/Fake Relationship Release Date: April 17, 2023 BLURB WillAs a rule, I don’t trust people. I’ve learned the hard way that people will take advantage. Especially when you’re a multi-million dollar salaried professional athlete with your face and body plastered all over magazines. I break that rule though, the minute I meet Esther Dubois. Bookish and shy with curves for days, Continue Reading

Release Blitz- Superstar by Kate Meader

April 11, 2023 by Angela Leave a Comment

Title: SuperstarSeries: Rebel Rookies #2 Author: Kate Meader Genre: Contemporary RomanceTropes: Only One Bed/Snowbound/Hockey Romance Release Date: April 11, 2023 BLURB He never saw her coming …After almost a year away from hockey, Bastian Durand’s return to the game should be a triumph.Instead he’s taken down by the Chicago Rebels mascot.It can’t get worse. Or maybe it can. Because the human inside the Rowdy Rebel costume is none other than Pepper Calhoun.His friend’s sister.His coach’s Continue Reading

Release Blitz- The Playing Game by Ainsley Booth

March 13, 2023 by Angela Leave a Comment

Title: The Playing GameSeries: Off the Ice #1 Author: Ainsley Booth Genre: Contemporary RomanceTropes: Second Chance/Hockey RomanceFriends to LoversRelease Date: March 9, 2023 BLURB NHL veteran player Kieran Marsh has had more relationships than trips to the sin bin, making him a player on and off the ice. And two years ago, I had a one night stand with him when I thought I would forever stay the anonymous girl in the hockey jersey. But now my city has an expansion team, and guess who's Continue Reading

Contract Season by Cait Nary

September 8, 2022 by Kate H. 1 Comment

Contract Season by Cait NaryLGBTQIA RomanceSeptember 6, 2022 by Carina Review by Kate H. Contract Season is the second book by Cait Nary, whose debut, Season’s Change, came out earlier this year.  This novel expands the universe of her Trade Season series by including not just the world of professional hockey, but also country music.  Brody Kellerman is trying to get over the end of his three-year relationship when the novel starts.  His Continue Reading

Review: Fire Season by KD Casey

July 19, 2022 by Kate H. 4 Comments

Fire Season by KD CaseyUnwritten Rules #2LGBTQ RomanceJuly 19, 2022 by Carina Press Review by Kate H. Baseball might be my least favorite sport to read about, but I loved this book. Now I have to go back and read Unwritten Rules, the first in this universe. Fire Season can standalone, I will attest to that. I just want to read more KD Casey. Two divorced men, both professional baseball players, meet during the fire season in the Bay Area of California.  Through the course of a Continue Reading

Review: Season’s Change by Cait Nary

February 2, 2022 by Kate H. 5 Comments

Muscled, shirtless hockey player looking to the side

Season's Change by Cait NaryContemporary Romance, LGBTQ+February 1, 2022 by Carina PressARC Review by Kate H. I am not a hockey fan, but I am a fan of hockey romances.  I can’t explain it.  I’ve never even seen a game.  Maybe it’s the way the sheer physicality of hockey juxtaposes with the more intimate aspects of the romance that makes it such a great setting for romance.  Season’s Change, by Cait Nary, is my new favorite in this Continue Reading

Review: I Promise You by Ilsa Madden-Mills

November 12, 2020 by Jen 3 Comments

I Promise You by Ilsa Madden-Mils

I Promise You by Ilsa Madden-MillsSports RomanceOctober 12, 2020, Self Published Bringing you part two of the books that got me through election chaos, presenting, I Promise You by Ilsa Madden-Mills. This is a standalone book, HOWEVER, there are other books set in this world. If you like it, which I did, you can go back for more deliciousness. Our story begins in college with young freshman hottie and future football star, Dillon McQueen. Every time I read that name, I did indeed think of Continue Reading

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