Eleven authors. Eleven Novellas. This is one thick . . . book.
Christmas just became a whole lot merrier...
TEAM PLAYER, A Christmas Anthology featuring titles by LJ Shen, Kennedy Ryan, Adriana Locke, Mandi Beck, Emma Scott, Charleigh Rose, Ella Fox, Sara Ney, Meghan Quinn, Kate Stewart and Rochelle Paige is available NOW!
Publication Date: December 14th, 2017 Genre: Contemporary/Sports Romance
Hot jocks. We love them all.
Sexy baseball players. Intense footballers. Sweaty MMA fighters, and sizzling hockey hotties. Score!
The good news? Eleven bestselling authors have gathered to give you a set of stories focused on the men we love most—sports heroes. We bet you’ll love this thick…book.
The bad news? The men in these novellas don’t actually exist.
*This anthology does not contain calories, just eleven original, never-before-seen stories by the following authors: Adriana Locke, Mandi Beck, Charleigh Rose, Kennedy Ryan, LJ Shen, Meghan Quinn, Rochelle Paige, Ella Fox, Kate Stewart, Emma Scott, and Sara Ney. We aren’t responsible for melted devices.
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Meet the authors:
LJ Shen
L.J. Shen is an International #1 best-selling author of Contemporary Romance and New Adult novels. She lives in Northern California with her husband, young son and chubby cat.
Before she’d settled down, L.J. (who thinks referring to herself in the third person is really silly, by the way) traveled the world, and collected friends from all across the globe. Friends who’d be happy to report that she is a rubbish companion, always forgets people’s birthdays and never sends Christmas cards.
She enjoys the simple things in life, like spending time with her family and friends, reading, HBO, Netflix and internet-stalking Stephen James. She reads between three to five books a week and firmly believes Crocs shoes and mullets should be outlawed.
Connect with LJ Shen
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorljshen/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lj_shen
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/authorljshen/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authorljshen/
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Kennedy Ryan:
Kennedy Ryan is a Southern girl gone Southern California. A Top 100 Amazon Bestseller, Kennedy writes romance about remarkable women who find a way to thrive even in tough times, the love they find, and the men who cherish them.
She is a wife to her lifetime lover and mother to an extraordinary son. She has always leveraged her journalism background to write for charity and non-profit organizations, but enjoys writing to raise Autism awareness most. A contributor for Modern Mom Magazine, Kennedy’s writings have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul, USA Today and many others. The founder and executive director of a foundation serving Georgia families living with Autism, Kennedy has appeared on Headline News, Montel Williams, NPR and other outlets as a voice for families living with autism.
Connect with Kennedy
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kennedyrwrites
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kennedyryan1/
Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+KennedyRyanAuthor
YouTube: http://bit.ly/2gsAGkp
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Reader Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/681604768593989/
Adriana Locke:
A contemporary romance author running on coffee and sticky kisses from my rowdy four little boys.
From Indiana, I’m a true Mid-Westerner. Life, for me, is about family, faith, and food. When I’m not running my kiddos around or having a lunch date of fajitas with my husband (and high school sweetheart), you can find me outside. I love a good sunny day almost as much as I love candy, random quotes, and steamy bad boys in fantastic books.
I’m on nearly every social media platform. Please find me on the ones you frequent – I love chatting with readers.
Connect with Adriana
Twitter: https://twitter.com/authoralocke
Amazon Alerts: http://adrianalocke.com/release-day-notifications/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/authoradrianalo/
Mandi Beck:
Mandi Beck has been an avid reader all of her life. A deep love for books always had her jotting down little stories on napkins, notebooks, and her hand. As an adult she was further submerged into the book world through book clubs and the epicness of social media. It was then that she graduated to writing her stories on her phone and then finally on a proper computer.
A nursing student, mother to two rambunctious and somewhat rotten boys, and stepmom to two great girls away at college, she shares her time with her husband in Chicago where she was born and raised. Mandi is a diehard hockey fan and blames the Blackhawks when her deadlines are not met.
Connect with Mandi
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authormandibeck
Twitter: https://twitter.com/authormandibeck
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/authormandi/
Newsletter: https://www.authormandibeck.com/newsletter
Emma Scott:
I write romances with flawed characters, characters with artistic hearts: builders, poets, and writers of various makes and models. I love to write book lovers; those who have found refuge, companionship, and escape in books, much as we do in real life. I like realism, honesty, authenticity in storytelling. I love to write about enduring love, soul-deep love, in as real a setting as I can make, but with big smooshy HEAs. I believe in diversity, open-mindedness, and inclusion. I like sweetness mixed with steam, love conquering all, and above all, hope. Love always wins.
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Charleigh Rose:
We are a duo of an international best-selling author and a blogger who teamed up to write the taboo, thought-provoking stories we want our audience to have--without filters.
Both Charleigh and Rose are committed to giving you witty, sexy, intelligent novels that will leave you wanting more.
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Ella Fox:
When she’s not writing, Ella indulges the gypsy in her blood and travels the country. Ella loves reading, movies, music, buying make-up, reading Tmz, Twitter and pedicures… not necessarily in that order. She has a wild sense of humor and loves to laugh. Her favorite thing in the world is hanging out with her family and watching comedy movies.
Connect with Ella
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EllaFoxAuthor
Twitter: https://twitter.com/authorellafox
Sara Ney:
Sara Ney is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the How to Date a Douchebag series, and is best known for her sexy, laugh-out-loud New Adult romances. Among her favorite vices, she includes: iced latte’s, historical architecture and well-placed sarcasm. She lives colorfully, collects vintage books, art, loves flea markets, and fancies herself British.
Connect with Sara
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saraneyauthor/
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saraneyauthor/
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaraNey
Meghan Quinn:
A BLONDE AT HEART
Born in New York and raised in Southern California, Meghan has grown into a sassy, peanut butter eating, blonde haired swearing, animal hoarding lady. She is known to bust out and dance if “It’s Raining Men” starts beating through the air and heaven forbid you get a margarita in her, protect your legs because they may be humped.
Once she started commuting for an hour and twenty minutes every day to work for three years, she began to have conversations play in her head, real life, deep male voices and dainty lady coos kind of conversations. Perturbed and confused, she decided to either see a therapist about the hot and steamy voices running through her head or start writing them down. She decided to go with the cheaper option and started writing… enter her first novel, Caught Looking.
Now you can find the spicy, most definitely on the border of lunacy, kind of crazy lady residing in Colorado with the love of her life and her five, furry four legged children, hiking a trail or hiding behind shelves at grocery stores, wondering what kind of lube the nervous stranger will bring home to his wife. Oh and she loves a good boob squeeze!
Connect with Meghan
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authormeghanquinn/
YouTube: https://twitter.com/AuthorMegQuinn
Website: http://authormeghanquinn.com
Kate Stewart:
Kate Stewart lives in Charleston, S.C. with her husband, Nick, and her naughty beagle, Sadie. A native of Dallas, Kate moved to Charleston three weeks after her first visit, dropping her career of 8 years, and declaring it her creative muse. Kate pens messy, sexy, angst-filled contemporary romance as well as romantic comedy and erotic suspense because it's what she loves as a reader. A lover of all things '80s and '90s, especially John Hughes films and rap, she dabbles a little in photography, can knit a simple stitch scarf for necessity only and does a horrible job of playing the ukulele. Aside from running a mile without collapsing, traveling is the only other must on her bucket list. On occasion, she does very well at vodka.
Connect with Kate
Twitter: https://twitter.com/authorklstewart
Rochelle Paige:
Rochelle Paige is the Amazon bestselling author of nineteen books. She absolutely adores reading and her friends growing up used to tease her when she trailed after them, trying to read and walk at the same time. She loves stories with alpha males, sassy heroines, hot sex and happily ever afters. She is a bit of a genre hopper in both her reading and her writing. So far she's written books in several romance sub-genres including new adult, contemporary, paranormal and romantic suspense.
She is the mother of two wonderful sons who inspired her to chase her dream of being an author. She wants them to learn from her that you can live your dream as long as you are willing to work for it.
Connect with Rochelle
Reader Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1436132763270558/
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2n6RkMX
******MY REVIEW ****
Each story may be novella in length but they each somehow felt like a full novel. These are all things sports –what a great anthology I have read which pertains to sports. So hot, so steamy!!
Sin Bin by Mandi Beck – This is Jason & Stella’s story. Jason is a hockey player and Stella is a college student. Their romance is red hot and passionate. OMG I have to say I found their romance so steamy and the HUGE plot twist/surprise a game changer but oh how I loved it. Jason and Stella came off as real people, as people I could relate to. I loved the ending and cannot wait to read more from the secondary characters introduced.
Out of Formation by Ella Fox—This is Elena (Lina) and Colin’s story. Elena is the head cheerleader while Colin is the new head football coach and Elena’s crush from back home. The heat between these two is one that still burns. I loved how the romance simmers and burns then lights up the pages. I also enjoyed Elena’s relationship with her BFF Miles. This was a fantastic read.
Yard Sale by Charleigh Rose---- This is a sort of standalone from the book Bad Habit. It is about a good girl and a bad boy ski boarder. It is hot, angsty, dirty and a quick read.
Slapped Into Love BY Rochelle Paige--- It’s another hockey romance story. You have a possessive alpha male who falls head over heels for a sassy female. It is a recipe for disaster …or is it? This is a safe read with no cheating and a HEA ending.
Back In the Game by Meghan Quinn—This is one of my favorite stories in this anthology. What happens when a sexy single dad’s fairy wings end up hitting a beautiful woman in the face? Well you ask her out before someone else can, that’s what! This is Calder and Rachel’s story. Calder is a professional hockey player and Rachel is the woman who falls for Calder and his sweet little girl. I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed and loved this story.
Sweeping the Series by Kate Stewart— This is a novella set in Ms. Stewart’s Balls in Play series. It’s a combo 2nd chance and hate to love read. This is Ren and Erica’s redemption love story. It is a professional baseball story full of angst, pain, passion and in the end, HEA. I found myself rooting for both of the H/h. It was an enjoyable read and I have found myself a new series to go immerse myself in.
FULL COURT PRESS by Kennedy Ryan --- This is Mack Decker and Avery Hughes’s story. It’s a tale of tale of missed opportunities and unrequited lust. The now retired star basketball player and the on-air sports reporter meet again 10 years later and what a way their romance starts back up. It is an emotional story of two people who should have been together years before if ego had not gotten in the way and insecurities not played a part. I really liked Mack and Avery. They felt like real people – I had to grab tissues for this story so be prepared. There are some twists in this story that I didn’t see coming but the ending was beautiful.
Switch Hitter by Sara Ney --- This is a little novella about twin sisters –One bad twin gets into a bind this time and ends up with two dates on the same night and now wants her good twin sister to bail her out and go out with one of her dates. The good twin is Amelia and she knows things never go well when she bails out her not so good twin Lucy. But she ends up doing it and she comes to realize the guy she is going out with is the catcher for their college’s baseball team named Dante and he is quite handsome. So look for some fireworks on this read.
One Good Man by Emma Scott --- This is a story set in the 1970s in Vietnam and Paris. This story follows a young woman who is trying to take the world by storm as a photojournalist which is a field women at this time do not dominate. The young woman feels no one wants her to succeed but what if there is… I wasn’t that enamored with this story and felt it was slow and the time piece read wasn’t something I like but others may. My rating : 3.7 stars
The End Zone by L.J. Shen -- What a truly beautiful and heartfelt emotional romance read. This is Jolie and Sage’s story. Sage is a college football player who is very alpha. His BFF is Jolie. Sage sleeps with anything that walks. He never used to see Jolie in that way until one morning…now he wants her and she wont have him that way..why, because she is desperately in love with him and doesn’t want him to sleep with her and walk away and leave her. She would rather be his friend than sloppy seconds. What Jolie doesn’t realize is Sage has always loved her but didn’t know how to express his thoughts. Jolie knows some of Sage’s past and she has always tried to go the extra mile for him because of that heartbreak. She is such a beautiful and loving person. She deserves so much. This story was heartwarming, sizzling and short. I wish it was longer because I really would have loved to have read this as a full length novel. This was another favorite of mine. Ms. Shen wrote a really good story.
Cross by Adriana Locke --- This is a 2nd chance novella in Ms. Locke’s Gibson Boys series set before Crank happens and is a standalone. This is Cross and Kallie story. I enjoyed getting to know this couple but would have liked to know what this argument was about. Maybe it will be featured down the road?? Would have like to know about Kallie before she had left town. This was a short read and is somewhat easy to get into. Because this is a novella, some things aren’t too clear but overall, the characters are intriguing and the plot easy enough to follow
My Rating: 4.7 stars ***** for all in the anthology except when marked
Sin Bin by Mandi Beck – This is Jason & Stella’s story. Jason is a hockey player and Stella is a college student. Their romance is red hot and passionate. OMG I have to say I found their romance so steamy and the HUGE plot twist/surprise a game changer but oh how I loved it. Jason and Stella came off as real people, as people I could relate to. I loved the ending and cannot wait to read more from the secondary characters introduced.
Out of Formation by Ella Fox—This is Elena (Lina) and Colin’s story. Elena is the head cheerleader while Colin is the new head football coach and Elena’s crush from back home. The heat between these two is one that still burns. I loved how the romance simmers and burns then lights up the pages. I also enjoyed Elena’s relationship with her BFF Miles. This was a fantastic read.
Yard Sale by Charleigh Rose---- This is a sort of standalone from the book Bad Habit. It is about a good girl and a bad boy ski boarder. It is hot, angsty, dirty and a quick read.
Slapped Into Love BY Rochelle Paige--- It’s another hockey romance story. You have a possessive alpha male who falls head over heels for a sassy female. It is a recipe for disaster …or is it? This is a safe read with no cheating and a HEA ending.
Back In the Game by Meghan Quinn—This is one of my favorite stories in this anthology. What happens when a sexy single dad’s fairy wings end up hitting a beautiful woman in the face? Well you ask her out before someone else can, that’s what! This is Calder and Rachel’s story. Calder is a professional hockey player and Rachel is the woman who falls for Calder and his sweet little girl. I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed and loved this story.
Sweeping the Series by Kate Stewart— This is a novella set in Ms. Stewart’s Balls in Play series. It’s a combo 2nd chance and hate to love read. This is Ren and Erica’s redemption love story. It is a professional baseball story full of angst, pain, passion and in the end, HEA. I found myself rooting for both of the H/h. It was an enjoyable read and I have found myself a new series to go immerse myself in.
FULL COURT PRESS by Kennedy Ryan --- This is Mack Decker and Avery Hughes’s story. It’s a tale of tale of missed opportunities and unrequited lust. The now retired star basketball player and the on-air sports reporter meet again 10 years later and what a way their romance starts back up. It is an emotional story of two people who should have been together years before if ego had not gotten in the way and insecurities not played a part. I really liked Mack and Avery. They felt like real people – I had to grab tissues for this story so be prepared. There are some twists in this story that I didn’t see coming but the ending was beautiful.
Switch Hitter by Sara Ney --- This is a little novella about twin sisters –One bad twin gets into a bind this time and ends up with two dates on the same night and now wants her good twin sister to bail her out and go out with one of her dates. The good twin is Amelia and she knows things never go well when she bails out her not so good twin Lucy. But she ends up doing it and she comes to realize the guy she is going out with is the catcher for their college’s baseball team named Dante and he is quite handsome. So look for some fireworks on this read.
One Good Man by Emma Scott --- This is a story set in the 1970s in Vietnam and Paris. This story follows a young woman who is trying to take the world by storm as a photojournalist which is a field women at this time do not dominate. The young woman feels no one wants her to succeed but what if there is… I wasn’t that enamored with this story and felt it was slow and the time piece read wasn’t something I like but others may. My rating : 3.7 stars
The End Zone by L.J. Shen -- What a truly beautiful and heartfelt emotional romance read. This is Jolie and Sage’s story. Sage is a college football player who is very alpha. His BFF is Jolie. Sage sleeps with anything that walks. He never used to see Jolie in that way until one morning…now he wants her and she wont have him that way..why, because she is desperately in love with him and doesn’t want him to sleep with her and walk away and leave her. She would rather be his friend than sloppy seconds. What Jolie doesn’t realize is Sage has always loved her but didn’t know how to express his thoughts. Jolie knows some of Sage’s past and she has always tried to go the extra mile for him because of that heartbreak. She is such a beautiful and loving person. She deserves so much. This story was heartwarming, sizzling and short. I wish it was longer because I really would have loved to have read this as a full length novel. This was another favorite of mine. Ms. Shen wrote a really good story.
Cross by Adriana Locke --- This is a 2nd chance novella in Ms. Locke’s Gibson Boys series set before Crank happens and is a standalone. This is Cross and Kallie story. I enjoyed getting to know this couple but would have liked to know what this argument was about. Maybe it will be featured down the road?? Would have like to know about Kallie before she had left town. This was a short read and is somewhat easy to get into. Because this is a novella, some things aren’t too clear but overall, the characters are intriguing and the plot easy enough to follow
My Rating: 4.7 stars ***** for all in the anthology except when marked
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