Elise Faber

He's the playboy she shouldn't want. She's the woman he can't live without. Brit has spent her life trying to prove herself, and that's no different when she comes to the Gold. So when she is introduced to Stefan, the Gold's captain, she is determinedly not interested in the well-known playboy. But when management pushes Brit and Stefan together in an effort to gain good press for the beleaguered team, Brit finds that her carefully calculated disinterest doesn't mask her body's desires. She wants him. And the more she falls, the more she risks it all.

Mike Stewart is a bad boy. Sleeping around. Boozing. Fighting with teammates. Name a bad behavior and he's done it-done it so well, in fact, that he almost tanked his career as a starting defensemen for the NHL's San Francisco Gold. But Mike is done with all that. He's starting with a fresh foot forward and putting his past behind him. That is, until his past quite literally reappears before his eyes. Sara Jetty is just as beautiful as she was a decade before, but Mike hasn't seen her since she left for the biggest winter international competition and scored a gold medal in women's figure skating. Now something has put shadows in her eyes, a familiar type of hurt he is all too well versed in. This Sara wants nothing to do with him. Their easy friendship is gone and in its place is a hardened woman who's nothing like the girl from his past. Still, Mike hasn't become a top defensemen in the NHL by being afraid of hard work, and he isn't about to let Sara push him away. Come hell or high water, he's going to crack her tough outer shell and find the sweet, innocent woman he's lusted after and loved, in equal measure, for more than ten years.

This is her shot. Brit has the chance to make history by being the first female goalie to play for an NHL team, the San Francisco Gold. So, when she is introduced to Stefan, the Gold's captain, she is determinedly not interested. Stefan is sexy, charming, and has a publicly documented list of conquests a mile long. But Brit is unwilling to risk mixing business with pleasure, even when that business is wrapped up in a six-foot-plus, gorgeously muscled package. When management pushes Brit and Stefan together in an effort to gain good press for the beleaguered team, Brit finds that her carefully calculated disinterest doesn't mask her body's desires. The more she falls for Stefan, the more she risks her career. Will she be able to have it all-a starting position and the heart of the captain? Or will she lose everything?

train wrecknoun1. A chaotic or disastrous situation.2. An utter catastrophe or mess.3. A devastating calamity or source of trouble.4. Pepper O'Brien. As the daughter of a famed film producer, Pepper O'Brien is Hollywood royalty. Also, her life sucks. Because, unfortunately for her, the old adage is true: money can't buy everything-including grace, true love, or the ability to not screw up every single opportunity her life has brought her. After her latest disaster, Pepper moves across the country to start over but, as usual, her life has other plans, namely in the form of Derek Cashette, her former teenage crush and now ridiculously handsome friend of her older brother. Derek is determined to salvage the train wreck of her life and Pepper's determined not to let him. Her life is her problem and, dammit, why can't she be her own hero? But sometimes fate has other plans. Or maybe it's hormones. Especially when her rescuer comes with a killer smile, a chest Thor would be jealous of, and a butt that any girl just wants to-

The man had seemed so innocent in the bar-okay, not innocent, per say. He'd been hot, hard, and possessed a butt that I wanted to bite like the last chocolate chip cookie in my stash. He'd also skipped out of town faster than a villain in a B movie, leaving me woefully unsatisfied. I'd chalked the whole incident up to a bad night stand and moved on with my life. That was before the news of a failed IUD. Before the plus sign. Before Jordan showed back up determined to make that night up to me. I didn't want a baby or a payday or a sexy, stubborn man in my life. I wanted to go back in time and pretend none of it had happened. Unfortunately, my life had become all about that plus sign . . . and there wasn't a damn thing I could do about it.

I had it all. Two beautiful children. A gainfully employed husband. A successful food blog. The only thing missing from my life was . . . heat. And I wanted to live. To live loudly and without fear. I also wanted my husband to think I was as hot as I was when we were high school sweethearts. More, I wanted what my sister had: love, passion, and a husband whose love was infinite. Because something was happening with Rob. Had he fallen out of love with me? Had he found someone else? Was I not-Sigh. Was I not enough?

I slept with the wrong twin. And all I got for it in return was a broken heart. Oh yeah, and a baby on the way-there's that too. But I'm determined to make it on my own. I don't need a man, thank you very much. Not rich, charismatic, and decidedly flighty Rex Roosevelt, and especially not his twin brother, Justin. No matter that the gorgeous former military doctor makes my heart beat a little faster . . . and all spots lower than that pay careful, careful attention. None of that matters. The Roosevelt men are dangerous and I'm steering clear. The trouble is, Justin refuses to leave me be. And deep down, I don't want to avoid him. Deep down, I want to be even closer.