The league called him the Brick Wall.
Tina Pappas knew better.
The dangerous part was not how hard he was to get past.
It was how safe he made it feel to stay.
Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Hope Mazzola returns to the ice with the next installment in her Shots on Goal: MN Frosthawks series - where love does not erase the past, and moving forward might be the bravest play of all.
Harry Vestergaard has built an entire career out of being impossible to get through.
The Minnesota Frosthawks’ veteran goalie is calm in the crease, brutal under pressure, and stubborn enough to make the whole league regret taking a shot at him. But his body is starting to betray him. His career is closer to the end than the beginning. And for the first time in his life, Harry is not sure what comes next when the game stops loving him back.
Then he meets Konstantina Pappas.
A second-grade teacher. A widow. A single mom doing her best to raise a little boy who is terrified that moving forward means forgetting the father he lost.
Tina is not looking for a love story.
She already had one.
She had the husband. The family. The forever.
But Harry is not easy to dismiss. He is steady when he should be intimidating. Gentle when no one is watching. Patient with Tina’s heart and careful with her son’s. And when seven-year-old Theo starts letting Harry into his small, carefully built world of LEGOs, firehouse patches, and memories he is scared to lose, Tina realizes the most dangerous thing about Harry Vestergaard is not how hard he is to get past.
It is how safe he makes it feel to stay.
Harry knows he cannot replace the man Tina loved.
He would never try.
But loving Tina means learning there might be life after loss.
Loving Theo means understanding some saves do not happen on the ice.
And loving them both might be the one thing that finally teaches the Frosthawks’ brick wall how to let something in.
Brick Wall #30 features:
Widowed single mom romance
Aging goalie hero
Second-grade teacher heroine
Instant attraction with emotional depth
Found family
Soft, steady love after loss
A little boy who slowly trusts
A hero who never tries to replace the man who came before him
And one elderly profanity parrot who absolutely should not be trusted in public
About the Author:
Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Hope Mazzola is a Florida native now happily rooted in North Carolina with her loving husband and two lazy basset hounds. After several years away from publishing, she has returned to the romance world with a renewed passion for storytelling and a bold, reimagined vision for her Shots on Goal universe. She writes every flavor of contemporary romance— from steamy rom-coms to gritty biker tales to emotional, heart-thumping sports love stories.
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THE HONOR SOCIETY
Rachel Van Dyken
Release Date: September 30
Charlie knows three things for certain.
She shot Axel.
He survived.
And somehow, he doesn’t remember she was the one who pulled the trigger.
It should be a relief.
Instead, the man she’s secretly loved for years feels different. Colder. More dangerous. Axel still smiles, still flirts, still looks at her like he might remember exactly how good they were together—but there are pieces of him she’s never seen before.
Secrets beneath the jokes.
Blood beneath the charm.
And a darkness he’s very, very good at hiding.
Because Axel remembers everything.
The bullet.
The betrayal.
The woman he still can’t stop wanting.
What Charlie doesn’t know is that Axel has spent years living two lives. In one, he’s the reckless man everyone underestimates.
In the other, he wears a mask.
The Proctor.
Judge. Jury. Executioner.
With the Convocation approaching, four powerful families are preparing to fight for control of the Honor Society, and someone is willing to wipe out entire bloodlines to take it. They need two things to win:
The Ledger.
And the Proctor.
Axel has both.
Now he has eighteen days to discover who is hunting him, keep Charlie alive, and stop a war without revealing the one secret that could destroy them both.
Because Charlie is searching for the Proctor too.
She just doesn’t know she’s already falling for him.
Again.
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Rachel Van Dyken is the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of over 100 books ranging from new adult romance to mafia romance to paranormal & fantasy romance. With over four million copies sold, she's been featured in Forbes, US Weekly, and USA Today. Her books have been translated in more than 15 countries. She was one of the first romance authors to have a Kindle in Motion book through Amazon publishing and continues to strive to be on the cutting edge of the reader experience. She keeps her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, adorable sons, naked cat, and two dogs.
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I feel like I need to preface this with the fact I love Rebecca Jenshak's writing and I was anxiously awaiting Lucky Shot. Then it released and the blurb just didn't work for me and despite the fact I grabbed it on release day from KU it just kept slipping down my TBR. Then I saw the tropes and teasers for this and HAD to read it. When I realised it was book 3 I knew I had to read the others first so I've had a nice little binge read.
So Conrad I am well acquainted with from the last 2 books. And his nervousness around women made him so endearing. Here he is this famous athlete, who all our previous heroines have made mention of his beauty and he literally can't put a sentence together around women. I couldn't wait to get his POV and back story and it didn't disappoint.
Whitney was a new to us character but i loved her from the beginning. She was so baffled by Conrad's behaviour on their date but she didn't take it onboard as her issue. And she wasn't afraid to call it out or to give him another chance when he tried to explain the problem.
The two of them together were sweet and hot and their couple's journey was fun to watch. It felt real and natural and I was so invested in them. I wasn't sure how the whole Victor thing was going to play out but even that felt authentic. It wasn't perfect, but it felt realistic.
Overall, I couldn't be happier, except for if the other books were available so I could just keep right on with the Moonshot boys. And then maybe throw in Victor's book just to keep the party going.
The Decoy
(Gridiron Legacy Book 4)
by Ava Sutton
Release Date: September 25th
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐲 (𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟒), the final standalone in the Gridiron Legacy series by Ava Sutton is now LIVE!
BLURB
Ellis Renwick and I are barely more than acquaintances—connected only by mutual friends and the endorsement deal I signed with her company. Her baby isn’t mine, and minding my own business should be easy.
But when the baby’s father walks away, I step up. Raised by a single mom, I know the weight Ellis is about to carry, and there is no way I’m letting her do it alone. But somewhere between midnight cravings, stolen kisses, and tiny heartbeats, the woman behind my endorsement deal becomes my whole world. Now I’m falling hopelessly in love with a future that was never meant to be mine.
When her father discovers I’m not the biological dad, he wants to expose the ex publicly, threatening to shatter the quiet haven Ellis and I have built. He wants justice from a ghost. But they've become mine to protect.
What her dad doesn’t understand is that her ex walked away …
But I never will.
What to expect:
🍼Not His Baby
🍼Fake Relationship
🍼Pro Football Romance
🍼They Fall Together
🍼Protective Hero
🍼Found Family
𝑶𝑵𝑬-𝑪𝑳𝑰𝑪𝑲 𝑻𝑶𝑫𝑨𝒀!
𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑲𝑰𝑵𝑫𝑳𝑬 𝑼𝑵𝑳𝑰𝑴𝑰𝑻𝑬𝑫!
Paperback: https://geni.us/thedecoyppbk
Read The Trade, book one of the Gridiron Legacy series today with Kindle Unlimited or listen on Audible: https://geni.us/TheTrade
Trying Not to Need You
Moran Sisters #2
Kaylee Ryan
Release Day: September 22, 2026
Blurb:
From NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan comes a new standalone small-town series about four sisters finding love. Trying Not to Need You is a he-falls-first, opposites-attract romance featuring a retired bull rider and the woman he’s never stopped loving.
Baylor
I thought I was living my happily ever after.
But after five years in New York, building my life around a man who stopped choosing me, I realized our future was nothing more than a dream.
So I walked away.
From the city. From him. From the family I thought we’d build together.
Now I’m back in Magnolia Ridge with my sisters, trying to figure out who I am without the life I planned.
I didn’t come home looking for love.
But somehow, love has been waiting for me all along.
Macklin
I’ve loved Baylor Moran for years.
The timing was always wrong. Until now.
She’s back in Magnolia Ridge with a bruised heart and walls higher than ever. But that's okay. I'll be here when they’re ready to come down.
Baylor can take all the time she needs.
I’m not going anywhere.
And while she’s trying not to need me, I’ll keep loving her until she realizes she’s not falling apart anymore.
She’s finally falling—straight into the future we were always meant to have.
Tropes:
Small Town
Opposites Attract
He Falls First
Retired Bull Rider
Childhood Crush
My Review
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Amazon & KU Release
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Amazon AU: https://amzn.to/3Rw3Rc1
Amazon CA: https://amzn.to/4yMbjR0
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Ok seriously this has to be one of the sweetest books I have read in a while. I was kind of expecting a little bit of angst and drama after where we left off with Baylor in the last book. But it just didn't play out that way. And it was just sweetness and falling from the start.
Add in the fact I listened to the audio version and I wasn't able to put it down. The voices were perfect for the books and getting it in duet was awesome.
Anyway this book picked up from Ellison's baby shower with Baylor returning home. And like I mentioned, I expected Baylor to be sad about the circumstances she was returning home under. And that wasn't really the case, which was great. Because boom, along comes Macklin ready and waiting to shoot his shot.
And I couldn't get enough of Macklin. Every time I thought he couldn't get swoonier he went right along and proved me wrong. It was almost to the point where I had to sit back and wonder if his devotion was veering into creepy stalker territory. But then i realised if it was i didn't care, i am so here for it.
Baylor and Macklin were perfect and sweet and then very hot together and I devoured this in one sitting. I am loving the Moran sisters and I can't wait to see the next one fall.
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Until I Remember by Karla Sorensen is now live!
She has no memory of choosing him. Her heart, apparently, didn’t get the memo.
I wake up in a hospital with a year of my life missing—and Grant Hastings at my bedside. I remember him, all right. He’s wealthy. Arrogant. British. And my late brother’s best friend. The last man I’d ever want to marry.
Except apparently I did.
Now I’m living in a beautiful house I don’t recognize, wearing a ring I don’t remember receiving, and expected to play the devoted wife while his aristocratic family, unaware of the gaps in my memory, descends for his birthday. Grant is patient and attentive, dropping hints about an explosive relationship that makes my pulse race. He’s nothing like the cold, haughty man I remember.
Torn between suspicion about this inconvenient marriage of convenience and an attraction to my husband I’m not ready to name, I have to make a choice: leave the past buried or trust Grant to help me find my way back to a life I can’t remember choosing.
The terrifying part? I’m starting to think past me knew exactly what she was doing.
My Review
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