UNEXPECTED PLAY

Alexa Padgett

Release Date: September 21





He's my brother's best friend. My new neighbor. And the Providence Forge defenseman who makes me forget I was ever broken.

Coming home to Providence was supposed to be temporary while I finished my master's degree and helped at my family's architecture firm.

I planned to raise my daughter in peace after my ex-fiancé walked away before she was even born.

Then Ryder Mackay moved in next door. The gorgeous pediatrician and part-time Forge enforcer has always been off-limits. He's loyal, steady, and the kind of man who shows up without being asked. Which is exactly why falling for him is such a terrible idea.

Because every time Ryder holds my baby like she belongs in his arms…every time he looks at me like I'm worth more than the wreckage I'm still climbing out of…I start wanting things I swore I'd never risk again: a future and a family. Him.

But Ryder's spent years protecting everyone around him while ignoring what he wants for himself, and if we're not careful, the timing that brought us together might be the very thing that tears us apart.

Previously published as Magnetic Medic, Unexpected Play is a steamy brother's-best-friend hockey romance featuring a protective hero, a single mother rebuilding her life on her own terms, forced proximity, emotional healing, and a fiercely earned happily ever after. Books in the Providence Forge Series can be read standalone — but reading in order deepens the world.





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Meet Alexa Padgett:

USA Today bestseller Alexa Padgett’s books have garnered accolades from prestigious organizations, including Kirkus Reviews, National Indie Excellence Awards, and Publishers Weekly.

Alexa spent a good part of her youth traveling. From Budapest to Belize, Calgary to Coober Pedy, she soaked in the myriad smells, sounds, and feels of these gorgeous places, wishing she could live in them all–at least for a while. And she does in her books.

She lives in New Mexico with her husband, children, and Great Pyrenees pup, Ash. When not writing, schlepping, or volunteering, she can be found in her tiny kitchen, channeling her inner Barefoot Contessa.


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I received a copy of this front netgalley and I was super excited because that blurb was screaming “read me now.” And then I realised how quickly I had to read this, followed by oh crap this is book 3 in the series, and I haven't read book 2. So, I picked up book 2, because my fomo made me.


Full disclosure, I didn't love book 1, which I hate for me, but I find Sara Ney very hit and miss. But I will always read them because I either love them or am a little ambivalent, but I never hate them. Anyway book 2 I liked more than book 1 and book 4 I was loving. Thought for sure it was my favourite and I knew where it was going then if just kind of slowly sailed off a cliff.


Layla and Hayes had wicked hot chemistry and I loved their interactions. It felt natural and flirty and so fun. And then you've got Benny and I couldn't get enough of her. She was the perfect 9 year old and damn did she remind me of my girls. She knew what her dad needed, she knew what she wanted and she had decided Layla fit the bill.


And like I said I had thoughts on where this was going. I was just wrong and the direction it did go I didn't love. I don't necessarily have anything against the detour this took, I just didn't feel it. And it pulled me out of the lust fog I was feeling with Hayes and Layla and I wasn't ready. 


On a side note book 1 and 2 felt like the same series, book 3 felt like a standalone that didn't have much to do with the previous 2. So I really didn't need to read book 2 before this but here we are. 



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Forever After Fall is NOW LIVE


BLURB:

One little mistake tangles me up with a sexy stranger in a dark room. Not that I’m complaining. It’s the most fun I’ve had in forever. At least until the lights come on and I see the single dad, my best friend’s older brother and my sister’s widower, standing in his place.


He’s grumpy as hell when he realizes our mistake, and even grumpier when he finds out the two of us are stuck together for the foreseeable future setting up the fall festival at the family ranch.


Meanwhile, I’m trying to figure out how the man from that night is the same steadfast workaholic who eats the food I cook in silence and barely grunts when I thank him for his latest handyman miracle at my house.


No matter how hard I try, I can’t stop thinking about that night. Especially not when we’re working side by side for long hours every day planning romantic hayrides and decorating a haunted house. When I finally admit as much in a moment of weakness. we’re both making confessions that have my heart pounding.


So what if we finish what we started? A secret friends with benefits agreement that expires at midnight on Halloween. Because if we can just get it out of our minds, we can go back to business as usual. No one ever has to know.


But I’m not ready for all the secrets I uncover playing this game or for the way this man makes me feel.


And neither of us are prepared for just how haunted the house turns out to be.


What to Expect:

Best friend's older brother

Single dad 

Widower x SIL

Grumpy x Sunshine

Secret friends with benefits

Small town holiday

Forced proximity

Touch her and die

Western small town


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 Her Power Play 

by Hayley James

Release Date: September 18th





🏒𝑵𝑬𝑾 𝑹𝑬𝑳𝑬𝑨𝑺𝑬 🏒


𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘 by Hayley James is now LIVE! 





Blurb: 

The only thing sweeter than her cupcakes is the way he falls for her.


Ruby Bennett has three goals for her day…

One: Deliver twelve dozen cupcakes to the charity fundraiser at the arena.

Two: Avoid making a complete fool of herself in front of hot hockey players who will likely already be there.

Three: Get home without any injuries.

Unfortunately, she only checks off two. 

One runaway puck, one spilled iced coffee, and one devastatingly handsome hockey player later, Ruby finds herself face-to-face with Liam Fichtner–the Houston Lonestars charming left defenseman. 

Liam has always kept life simple. Hockey comes first. Women come second. And relationships? Those are for other people. He’s perfectly happy keeping things casual… 

Until Ruby 

She’s sweet and easy to fall for. She isn’t chasing him and doesn’t do the limelight. She’d rather stay in the shadows, behind the scenes. The more time he spends with her, the harder it becomes to remember why he ever wanted casual to begin with. 

What begins as an accidental collision quickly turns into something neither of them expected.

Because sometimes the sweetest things in life aren't on the menu—they're the ones you never saw coming.


If you love instalove, extra-steamy romance, protective hockey players, sizzling chemistry, and heroines who know exactly what they want, the Houston Lonestars series is ready to steal your heart.


Get ready for high-octane passion, locker-room tension, and happily-ever-afters that score every time. 🏒💙





What to expect: 

💕Meet Cute 

🏒Alpha Hockey Hero 

🧁Bakery Owner 

🐶Golden Retriever Hero 

🌸Shy Wallflower
🔥Outgoing Playboy

💘He Falls First






𝐎𝐍𝐄-𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐊 𝐓𝐎𝐃𝐀𝐘!

𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝!

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Never Pucking Ending by B. Celeste is now live!




Jesse Clarkson has always held two things close to his heart -- hockey and his stepsister Belle.

Except the friendship that blossomed between the two over the last fifteen years has grown into more, and so does the protectiveness he feels for the woman who suffers from chronic migraines and who's been his number one fan for over a decade.

To the world, Belle is part of the family who rarely misses his games. 

But to Jesse, she's his whole world. 

And the two must fight the potential backlash of admitting their true feelings or risk losing each other for good.




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B. Celeste is a new adult and contemporary romance author that gives voices to raw, realistic characters with emotional storylines that tug on the heartstrings.

She was born and raised in upstate New York where she still resides with her four-legged feline sidekick, Oliver “Ollie” Queen. Her love for reading and writing began at an early age and only grew stronger after getting a BA in English and an MFA in English & creative writing. When she’s not writing, she’s working out, binge-watching reality game shows, and spending time with her friends and family.


 

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Well, welcome back to Purgatory Falls, please fasten your seatbelts we are in for a bit of a bumpy ride. First, I need to confess I don't really remember Bristol or Anson. I don't think that matters. This book is an awesome standalone with some characters I know and love popping in with opinions and I loved it.


Bristol and Anson were great characters and I loved them together. I enjoyed the book, but I personally feel a little ripped off. I expected and honestly was looking forward to some drama and angst. This is a younger sibling falling for their deceased sisters ex, who is raising their child. She also happens to be best friends with his sister.


So, I was expecting there to be a whole thing with the child and family members. And I thought it was set up for exactly that. Then it swerved another way, there was drama I wasn't anticipating. Cool, I thought we were going to steer into that. Instead, out of all these juicy little nuggets we could have run with Bristol finds issue with the one thing I was like who even cares about that.


Then we hit the epilogue without any of the things I want a resolution (or fireworks) for, and it was just cute fluff. Excuse me ma'am where is the rest of the book? I was expecting some drama with the truck and a MC club. A certain someone's mother having an actual cow or some angst over the child being eww gross my step mum can't be my aunty. Nope just a sweet little honeymoon present, which I loved but still. 


Guess I have to wait to see what is coming next from this author and hope she ruins me a little then.



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I came across an ALC of this on netgalley and got instantly invested and then I signed up thinking I probably wouldn't be accepted. Then I got offered a review copy and had a massive dilemma. Do I try to read book 1 first, in the very limited time I had or do I just listen to this one and circle back later. But I know me, so I picked up book 1 and loved it and I am so glad I did.


I honestly think you could easily and happily read this as a standalone, but I loved getting that little bit of history between Silas and Vesper through the eyes of their friends. Plus, book 1 was a pretty good read on its own.


So, the history between Silas and Vesper was still pretty current in this book and I loved it. Vesper was such a realistic, easy to relate to character and I loved how determined she was to fix her own mistakes and not jump into new ones. But even more I loved how fiercely Silas loved her and how he fought to win her over while also being so considerate of her needs and pace.


He never pushed her even when you could almost physically feel how badly he wanted to throw her over his shoulder and lock her in a castle. He just laid himself bare and let his actions show his sincerity. And I couldn't get enough of them.


The audio was really easy to get lost in. The narrators were awesome and I am so glad I requested it. I can't wait to see our other Rogues family members get their stories. All through the book I kept hoping for a different character to get their book next and honestly, I'm going to forget and be happy regardless. 



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