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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Now We're Even by S.J. Sylvis is now live!
The only thing worse than living with a hockey player? Pretending to date one.
Callahan Grant is the top hockey player at Wilder U and has the entire student body eating out of the palm of his hand. He’s impossible to ignore–and it has nothing to do with his infuriating smirk and everything to do with the fact that he’s my new roommate.
Neither of us is thrilled about it.
Especially me, considering I currently despise hockey players.
But when Callahan and I strike a deal, I start to wonder if maybe I’ve judged him too quickly. He’ll pretend to be my boyfriend long enough to get my ex to back off, and if it works, he gets the room to himself at the end of the semester.
Desperate to move on from the scandal that landed me at Wilder U in the first place, I agree.
The rules are simple.
Fake date. Fool my ex. Survive living together.
And by the end of the semester, Callahan and I will be even.
Except Callahan makes fake dating feel a little too real every time his arm slips around my waist and his mouth brushes my ear. And somewhere between pretending not to want him and desperately trying not to, I forget why I hated him in the first place.
Because the problem with making a deal with Callahan Grant isn’t that he might break it.
It’s that when the semester ends, I’m not sure I want him to keep it.
Maybe that means we won’t be even after all.
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As soon as I got my hands on this I knew I had to read the novella first, expecting that book to introduce this book. And honestly it didn't do that at all. The main characters weren't mentioned or were mentioned in passing and I forgot in the first book. So I started off kind of bummed we weren't getting either of the two characters I was anticipating reading.
Then I got over that and realised I had inhaled half of this book in one sitting and was so invested in Callahan and Nora. I always roll my eyes when the whole mistaken room-mates thing happens. Honestly there's got to be contracts and duty of care and such and I would be losing my naanies in that situation. But the whole thing worked and I very quickly added that to the “who cares these guys are awesome” list.
Callahan had me anticipating all kinds of man whore drama and actions from. But man that boy was locked in on his goals and looking after everyone around him. And despite being her own hero, Nora was soon added to Callahan's list of people. Throw in a heap of chemistry and I couldn't turn the pages fast enough.
The secondary characters were great and I can't wait to see a whole lot more of them. The story kept me guessing and I really enjoyed watching it all play out. And as mentioned the chemistry was smoking. Now I guess we wait for the next one.
SILENT BOND
Nicole Abrams
Release Date: October 29
Frankie Devereaux has spent years wanting the one man she can never have.
Leo is human. She’s a witch. And keeping him at arm’s length is the only way to keep them both safe.
Then Leo dies—and wakes as a vampire.
Suddenly, the attraction they’ve spent years denying becomes impossible to ignore. His hunger knows her blood. Her magic reaches for him without permission. And the closer they get, the more their connection begins resembling the very thing Frankie was raised to fear.
Except vampire bonds aren’t supposed to feel like this.
They take. They control. They destroy.
Frankie and Leo’s seems determined to make them stronger.
And in a world where witches are valuable, vampires are dangerous, and powerful people have spent centuries controlling both, that may make their bond the most dangerous thing of all.
Some bonds are cages. Theirs could start a war.
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Nicole Abrams writes gritty, emotional romance where the broken find healing, the guarded learn to trust, and love never comes without a fight. Her stories are rich with trauma, tension, found family, and slow-burn chemistry that scorches.
She believes in loyalty, redemption, and giving her characters the kind of love that wrecks them before it saves them.
When she’s not writing, she’s probably plotting her next emotional gut-punch or designing a world readers won’t want to leave.
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Give Me Tonight by Jennifer Sucevic is now live!
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Waking up married in Vegas? Not exactly part of the plan.
Especially when the groom is Jax Wilder—Chicago Railers hockey star, shameless flirt, and the most infuriating man I’ve ever met.
I want an annulment.
He wants to stay married.
But with custody of my younger siblings on the line, a stable home—and a husband—might be exactly what I need to keep us together.
Jax offers me a deal: stay married, move into his penthouse, and let him help until everything is settled.
It’s only temporary.
Except Jax doesn’t just make room for me. He makes room for all of us.
And somewhere between family dinners, late nights, and sharing a bed with the husband I never wanted, our marriage starts feeling dangerously real.
Falling for my husband was never part of the plan. Neither was wanting to keep him.
Give Me Tonight is an enemies-to-lovers, Vegas wedding, pro hockey romance featuring a golden retriever hero who falls first—and a black cat heroine who’s spent her whole life standing on her own. He’s determined to prove he’s in it for the long haul… even if she’s terrified to believe him.
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