Athletes First

She wanted the greenest, grumpiest monster on the menu. 💚🧌🍽 Clara joined Monster Dating Agency for one reason only: to piss off her monster-hating father with a single fake date. On her “ABSOLUTELY NOT” list? Green skin, sports, and men who grunt more than they talk. So of course, she made sure to leave those exact boxes unticked. Then she matched with Thorn. 💘🏒 Seven-foot-six of tusks, grit, and barely leashed aggression. Silent. Staring. Built like sin in a hockey jersey. Hands like shovels. A growl that makes her knees go soft. One fake date. One family dinner. With an...

The only thing more brutal than a body check is falling for the one man who can end your career. A Steamy MM Enemies to Lovers Hockey Romance featuring a Grumpy Veteran Captain and the Sunshine Rookie who's after his job. Full of forced proximity, high-stakes action, and a hard-won happily ever after. Liam "Sully" Sullivan is the heart, soul, and ticking time bomb of the Brooklyn Blades. As team captain, his legendary career is on thin ice, his temper is wearing thin, and the trade deadline is breathing down his neck. He’s built walls around his heart for a reason, and he's not about to ...

Get twenty-six of Connor Jax's hottest straight-to-gay stories in one giant collection! This anthology exclusively tells the stories of guys going gay for the very first time! From enemies to lovers and friends to lovers, to age difference and boss and employee trysts, you are sure to find your most private fantasies come to life in explicit and naughty detail! Every story is full of graphic, exciting scenes with a guaranteed HEA! This bundle collects: Pumped Up Big Hike Coming Home Go Deep Best Enemies Bossed Guy Next Door Dad Bod Man Cave Bro Code Hazed Bound Deadlift Lectured Crammed All...

I inherited my boss's ranch, and his niece comes with the territory. James From the moment I saw her, Kate got under my skin. She's feisty, pretty, and her body is hotter than the fireworks in July. But I find out her late uncle Hank left his ranch to both of us. There's just one catch: we both have to live at Hank's homestead for at least six months to get our share of the inheritance. After that, half of Hank's ranch is mine. I soon find out that the two of us under one roof isn't just hot, it's combustible. I'll have a hard time keeping my hands off her, but come hell or high water, I ...

People are less in touch with their bodies - and especially their breathing - than ever before. Ironically, athletes and others who pride themselves on taking care of their bodies actually put themselves at greater risk. Why? Because they’re asking their body to take on next-level demands, but failing at life’s most essential skill: efficient breathing.

Making the yuletide gay JT Cox never quite fit into Hart’s Landing. Playing on the boys’ hockey team and coming out young didn’t help. Now, thanks to an Olympic gold medal, JT’s name is on a sign greeting visitors to her hometown. Her family of artists still treat her as an odd duck...

Some lines should never be crossed. Until they are. Alex Torres lives by rules. Win the game. Protect the legacy. Never lose focus. As Ridgeway’s golden boy quarterback, he carries a town’s expectations on his shoulders and a father who demands perfection breathing down his neck. There is no room in his world for distractions. Then there is Emily Wilson. The chaotic, combat-boot-wearing flute captain from rival Northgate High who believes football is just physics with extra bruises. She is everything Alex is not. Loud where he is quiet. Art where he is order. And absolutely off limits. ...

Known to millions as simply "Sister Jean," the Loyola Chicago matriarch and college basketball icon invites you into her remarkable memoir filled with history, wonder, and common-sense wisdom for this century and beyond. As the late Sister Jean wisely says, "I've seen so many changes in the last...

Two rivals. One secret. A love that could cost them everything under the Friday night lights. Noah Price lives in a town where football is a religion and the star quarterback is expected to be a saint. His future, his family’s business, and his entire identity rest on a D1 scholarship that feels more fragile every week. The last thing he needs is a distraction. Especially not Maya Torres, the rival school’s head cheerleader and the girl he is supposed to hate. Maya has spent years trapped in a football dynasty she wants nothing to do with. To her town she is a Torres first and a girl ...

If there's one thing Micah can't stand at the gym, it's all the influencers who hog the equipment for hours to take the perfect selfie. After a long day Micah wants to hit the squat rack and forget all about work. Enter Blaze Bradley. He's Gainsborough hottest fitness influencer. As soon as Micah sees him at the gym, he knows he has to confront Blaze, otherwise, he'll never get the squat rack. Blaze accuses Micah of checking him out, but that can't be true: Micah's not gay! Blaze asks Micah to take his picture, and when Micah takes a really sexy picture of Blaze flexing, the fitness ...

Peyton is in a tough spot. He's lost his scholarship, and that means he may have to drop out of college. As a country boy, he's handy with all sorts of tools, so his fraternity loans him out to the president of a rival fraternity who might be willing to pay his tuition, so long as Peyton can fix all his problems. Silas is that fraternity president. The sexy surfer and rich party boy recently got dumped by his girlfriend, the Homecoming queen. He accepts Peyton on loan in order to have the country boy make repairs at his beach house, but what he really needs is help fixing his broken heart. ...

In Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?, physicist and award-winning journalist Alex Hutchinson tackles dozens of commonly held beliefs and looks at just what research science has - and has not - proven to be true. This myth-busting book covers the full spectrum of exercise science and offers the latest in research from around the globe, as well as plenty of practical tips on using proven science to improve fitness, reach weight loss goals, and achieve better competition results.

All our lives they treated us like brother and sister, but our hearts knew the truth. Annelise is one of the most straitlaced, overachieving, perfect-at-everything snobs with whom I’ve ever had the unfortunate luck to share breathing space. She hates me as much as I hate her. Just because we share a couple of half-sisters doesn’t mean we have to like each other. But every holiday and birthday and family event has forced us to exist in the same room! Miss Perfect and The Troublemaker. Then three weeks stuck together at a beach house changes everything, especially our hearts. Who would ...

Two alpha athletes. One football field. Zero self-control. I was the king of the backfield. Fast, focused, unstoppable. Then Marcus showed up. All hulking muscle, raw power, and speed to boot. He was great at everything. Especially getting under my skin. We didn’t get along on the field. So why couldn’t I stop looking at him after practice? When we stayed behind for extra drills, I told myself it was just competition. But the way Marcus stripped off his sweaty shirt, the way his eyes held mine... I felt something I’d never let myself feel for another guy. Now we’re facing off under ...

Taylor Scott is the hot shot quarterback of the Allman University Bulldogs. An All-American good old boy, Taylor is both excellent at his sport and demanding of his teammates. He accepts nothing less than perfection. Travis is the freshman tight end. New to the team, he's having trouble getting along with Taylor. In fact after a few dropped passes, Taylor and Travis quickly become enemies! Travis wants to be a good teammate, but he can't stand Taylor's cocksure attitude. When coach locks them in the film room to study plays, they have no choice but to get to know each other. As their walls ...

Easton and Marc have developed a bitter rivalry as they compete for the last remaining spot as a full fledged fraternity brother in Alpha Sigma Sigma. The president of the frat gets sick of their bickering and gives them an ultimatum: they have to stay up all night guarding a beloved campus statue from a rival fraternity. The first guy to fall asleep loses. Neither Easton or Marc wants to stay up all night, so late in the evening Marc proposes a game: strip poker where the loser goes home and leaves the fraternity forever. How do you lose at strip poker? The first guy who has a hard time ...

"Narrator Adam Lazarre-White conveys Cooper's youth and aspirations in a rich, steady voice that suggests emotional authenticity and humor." -- AudioFile Magazine Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio The moving true...

In this hilariously spicy romance, a librarian and an ex-NFL player fake a relationship to get over their first loves. Librarian Marcela Ortiz has been secretly in love with her best friend for years—and when he gets engaged, she knows it’s long past time to move on. But before she gets the...

Friday night lights. Bitter rivals. One secret that could ruin everything. Noah: My life has one playbook: win the scholarship, save my family, and never show a single crack in the armor. Then I’m forced into a PR nightmare—planning the fall festival with Maya Torres. She’s the head cheerleader for our rivals, and she looks at me like I’m everything wrong with the world. She’s not wrong. Maya: My escape plan is flawless: graduate, get into my dream school, and never look back at this town or its football obsession. My first obstacle? Being shackled to Noah Price, the star ...

A journalist hunting the truth. A hockey star hiding it. One week that changes everything. Megan Wright built her career by exposing athletes who hide their worst sins behind perfect smiles. Her latest assignment is supposed to be simple. Christopher Hall is the Summit Ridge Outlaws’ charming, reckless star forward, a walking headline she is meant to turn into her next big story. Her editor wants dirt. Megan has a vendetta. She never mixes business with belief and she never falls for the lies of men like him. But Christopher refuses to play her game. Instead, he makes a daring counter-...