Brenda Rothert – лучшие книги

The Vegas heat just kicked up a notch with the arrival of ice hockey’s newest expansion team – the Sin City Saints.

Maverick Hagen’s fall from grace was more like a crash landing. His record-breaking career ended after a fight with an opponent over a woman left him with a broken leg, or so the pundits thought. Returning to the sport he loves as the captain of the league’s new expansion team, the Sin City Saints, his lucrative contract comes with just one rule—no romantic distractions.

Gia Ford also makes her living playing a game—poker. The rounder has hit her stride in Vegas, quietly building her bank account one casino at a time. She’s got a score to settle, and nothing will get in her way—not even the sexy hockey player who’s willing to lose money just to see her in action. Maverick attracts attention, upsetting Gia’s under-the-radar game.Maverick and Gia can’t afford to give in to their magnetic attraction, with his career rebounding and her winnings growing. But the hotter their chemistry burns, the harder it is to deny. So will they or won’t they? In Vegas, there’s only one way to settle it—a bet, of course.

"I want your sperm."

Those were Shelby Grant's first words to me. Didn't even want me to buy her a drink first. See, Shelby isn't like other women. After researching Denver's most eligible bachelors in search of her ideal sperm donor, she chose me.

As a pro hockey player, I'm used to women wanting things from me, but my swimmers? That's a new one. Somehow, though, with her color-coded parenting plan, sales pitch and contract, Shelby sells me on the idea. After my donation, she doesn't want anything more to do with me.

I can't seem to stay away, though. As her belly grows and I get to know the tightly wound mom-to-be, I get attached.

Shelby's jaded about men and I'm not looking to settle down. There are countless reasons why crossing the contractual line between us is a bad idea.

But once Shelby gives birth to our child, all bets are off. Whether I planned for it or not, I have a family now, and I'm not letting go without a fight.

Weston

My world was turned upside down the day Ben Whitmer died. Best friends since junior hockey, Ben was like a brother to me. My voice of reason and a grounding force on and off the ice. But as heartbroken as I am, I don't have the luxury of grieving his loss.

Not only do I have to hold our team together, I was named guardian of the two young children Ben and his wife left behind. Well, not just me-me and his wife's best friend, Hadley. We've been left with the impossible task of deciding which of us will raise the kids, but there's no way I'm letting that uptight ball buster have them.

Lines are drawn, but they begin to blur as I find out there's more to Hadley than I thought. A lot more.

Hadley

I can't take the place of my beautiful best friend in her children's lives. But I love them so fiercely that I'll do whatever it takes to raise them the way their parents wanted.

Wes Kirby is an obnoxious womanizer, and I won't let him take Ben and Lauren's children from me. Deciding to temporarily live together in our friends' home, we attempt to provide the kids stability while we figure out which of us is better suited to raising them.

As we learn parenthood together, my enemy Wes slowly becomes something different. Something more. And I'm left wondering not only if I'm enough for the kids, but if Wes and I are enough to last.

Eine Liebe, die nicht sein darf ...

Anton Petrov, der verschlossene (und unheimlich attraktive) Captain der Chicago Devils ist bekannt dafür ... für nichts bekannt zu sein. Strikte Diät, immer genug Schlaf und vor allem Enthaltsamkeit sind die Geheimnisse seines Erfolgs. Sagt man zumindest. Dem Eishockey-Star ist es völlig egal, ob die ganze Welt denkt, dass er sich freiwillig entschieden hat, wie ein Mönch zu leben - solang niemand die Wahrheit erfährt! Denn es gibt eine Frau, der Antons Herz gehört. Eine Frau, die er niemals haben kann. Denn Mia ist die Frau seines Teamkollegen ...

The tie that binds them together may tear them apart... College senior Kate Camden has learned to adapt - to her last year of school, to the promise of motherhood, to the fact that she's doing it all alone. But just when she's learned to adjust, heartache threatens to break her apart.
Pro hockey player Jason "Ryke" Ryker has it all: adoring fans, a promising career, and a beautiful wife. But when his seemingly perfect life is shaken by tragedy, he's left questioning whether having it all is ever more than an illusion.
When circumstance brings Kate and Ryke together, they discover they don't have to hurt alone. Bound by a grief that haunts them both, they must rely on one another to survive heartbreak. But that grief is more powerful than they realize, and the tie that binds them together may ultimately tear them apart.