Butting heads leads to knocking boots in this wildly sexy enemies-to-lovers, grumpy/sunshine, small town cowboy romance by Jessica Peterson. My dad and I have been estranged for years. But as his only living relative, it’s no surprise I inherit his massive cattle ranch when he dies. Something that is a surprise? The stipulation in his will, which requires me to live on the ranch and actively manage it for a year before I can access my inheritance money. I haven’t stepped foot in Hartsville, Texas, population one thousand, since my parents split when I was six. Now a city girl through and through, I never imagined having to move back to cowboy country. But I need the money to invest in my company, and a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do. There’s just one giant roadblock to my plan: the ranch’s foreman, grumpy cowboy Cash Rivers. I don’t care how good he looks in his Wranglers and chaps. He’s rude, he’s growly, and he wants me gone. I’d fire him in a heartbeat, but I need this cowboy to teach me the ropes of running a ranch. We’re enemies from the get-go. But turns out, Cash is really good at this ranch thing. He’s got strong hands, an intelligent mind, and let’s just say everything really is bigger in Texas. Working alongside him leads to conversations beneath the stars. Throw in some cheek-to-cheek dancing at the local dive bar, and it all feels so right that I start to fall in love with life on the ranch. And maybe with him, too. But my stay in Hartsville is only temporary. And you know what they say about cowboys: they may break horses, but they also break hearts. If only Cash hadn’t already lassoed mine… CASH is the first standalone book in the brand new steamy, interconnected Lucky River Ranch Series.

Twelve years. Two hearts. One love that refuses to fade. Jake Twelve years ago, I let her walk away.For one unforgettable summer, Charlie and I were inseparable—camp counselors sharing stolen laughs, late-night talks, and a bond so rare it left a mark. But when the summer ended, we said goodbye, thinking the world was too big for us to hold onto each other.I chased my hockey dreams, she built a life oceans away. I thought it was the right thing to do. Turns out, the NHL doesn’t have a trophy for the one who got away.Then one night, I see her in the crowd at my game, and time folds in on itself.She’s back. A single mom starting over, her fire burning brighter than ever. Except this time, she’s got two kids, mile high walls, and a toxic ex who doesn’t deserve to breathe the same air as her.Winning her heart will be the toughest play of my life. But if I fail, I lose the future I've only ever imagined with her.Fate’s handed me a second chance, and I’ll take every shot to prove she’s always been my endgame.I let her go once. Never again.CharlotteMoving halfway across the world with two kids and a mountain of emotional baggage wasn’t exactly on my vision board, but here I am. Fresh start. New city. Zero interest in dating, especially after my ex-husband shredded my self-worth like one of those paper-thin contracts he never honored.But after one mortifying moment involving the jumbotron and a soggy pretzel, Jake Brooks storms back into my life. The boy from summer camp who became an NHL superstar. The boy I never quite got over.Except he’s not a boy anymore.He’s taller, broader, and maddeningly persistent. My kids adore him. My ex loathes him. And my heart? Doesn’t stand a chance.Falling for Jake wasn’t part of the plan, but he looks at me like I’m the only thing that matters. Even though I still house heartache, even though I have deep battle wounds. He’s tasted them, and he wants me anyway. Despite them. Like I was always meant to be his.Jake’s dismantling the walls I built to protect myself, brick by brick with relentless care. But my ex lingers like a shadow, desperate to tear down what little control I have left.But maybe letting go isn’t about losing control—maybe it’s about letting the right person back in, the one who was always meant to stay. Sports Romance | He Falls First | Second Chance Romance | Right Person, Wrong Time | Dual POV | Single Mom x Hockey Player | Protective Cinnamon Roll | MCs in their 30s | Found Family | Spicy

My whole life I’ve come out on top. One of the finest players ever to grace the NHL? Check. Most prolific playboy with an enviable reputation between the sheets? Check. Award for the cockiest athlete in America? Also check, and well deserved I’d say. So why does my life feel anything but the perfect image I project? And why won’t the one woman who came crashing into my life and knocked me on my six-foot four ass take me seriously? She doesn’t even recognize me, let alone worship the ground I walk on. I’m in uncharted territory, tearing up my rule book and unearthing buried demons in my pursuit of her affection. I always get what I want in life but apparently Felicity Thompson didn’t get the memo. I want her in my bed, but all she offers me is her witty British tongue and no-nonsense attitude. It isn’t supposed to be this way. She’s supposed to unravel for me. Yet the harder I pursue her, the more my own layers peel away. Felicity Thompson is fast becoming not just what I want but the very woman I need in my life, and I’m terrified to admit that when it truly matters, I might not be coming out on top after all.

FAKE DATING, ICE HOCKEY, SPORTS ROMANCE After the loss of a family member, hockey star Grayson Crawford ran away from his grief by drowning himself in liquor. But when the threat of his contract not being renewed arises, Grayson realizes that if he doesn't change, he'll lose the one thing he has left--his team. Life seems to only keep kicking Bella Stratford while she's down. Scrambling to find a job that will pay her mother's medical bills, Bella applies for a personal assistant role. Except instead of running errands and taking calls, she finds herself working for a train wreck of a hockey player. Although, to Bella's surprise, the hockey player isn't all he seems. With the stakes rising in both Bella and Grayson's lives, the pair seems to find themselves thrown into a situation where Bella Stratford is saying yes to having a PR relationship with the sweet and shy hockey player.  Both Bella and Grayson agree to keep their fake relationship exactly that: fake. But soon the lines begin to blur, and they discover that the support they get from one another in private is actually the one thing they've been missing. It might even be the key to finding the light at the end of the tunnel. 

A small town firefighter romance. Blurb coming soon.

Love. Sucks. I don’t know where I went wrong. Whether it was letting a man convince me that suddenly, the things I’ve never wanted are right for me, or if simply believing the best in the person who I wasted three years of my life on was what lead me here. To Cherry Peak. A small town nestled in the heart of Alberta, Canada. The hometown of rising country star, Brody Steele. It only takes one brief encounter to mark him as a broody jerk. An all-knowing, arrogant celebrity with a complex I don’t have the energy for. But if I truly dislike him the way I’ve convinced myself I do, then why am I always looking for him in crowded rooms? Why are his surprisingly thoughtful gestures melting the wall of ice I’ve stuck between us? Cherry Peak was supposed to be my fresh start, a place to heal and rebuild. Yet, just as I begin piecing my life back together, Brody’s preparing to leave, as if he hasn’t become a vital part of that journey. The thought of losing him keeps me up at night. I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to find our footing, or if we were just stringing each other along the whole time.

Hudson Hayes, star defenseman for the DC Stars, needs help. He’s been looking for a private chef for months but keeps coming up short. With the NHL season starting and no prospects in sight, he’s close to giving up. Madeline Galloway needs a job. Recently let go from her executive chef position in Las Vegas, she’s desperate as can be when she reaches out to an old acquaintance about a possible job opportunity…. in DC. After hitting it off with her prospective employer, the blond hockey star who seems to have a heart of gold, she and her daughter, Lucy, make the move east. The rules were simple: no personal relationships. No falling for the romantic guy who always made her smile, even if they were living together and spending all their free time with each other. But after a kiss on New Year’s Eve, everything changes. The lines blur. Being Hudson’s friend—and only his friend—is the last thing on her mind. And when Hudson learns American Sign Language for her daughter? It might be a slap shot to the heart. Slap Shot is a spicy slow burn friends to lovers, private chef x hockey player romance with forced proximity and a man who if he wanted to, he would.

From Amazon top 40 best-selling author comes the final instalment of the Cherry Peak series, an angsty, second chance romance. I’ve spent the last seven years trying to forget Darren Huntsly. In a small town like Cherry Peak, it’s been nearly impossible to pull it off. Still, I made it work as best I could. That is until a series of unfortunate events have us face to face for the first time in years with nowhere to escape. Now, not only am I his daughter’s new teacher, but we’ve both been tasked with helping repair the one place in the world that remained unmoved after our breakup. The town’s drive-in was where I fell in love with Darren. A place overrun with memories of us and the relationship we had for the better part of my life. But after a fire burns it to ashes, we’re tasked with restoring it to the way it was back when we spent every night there kissing under the stars. The hardest part of it all, though? Not falling into the trap of revisiting that version of us. It’s no secret that Darren was my one great love and the heartbreak that had me considering running away forever. But this town is important to me, and our shared friend’s aren’t about to let me back out of helping with this restoration. That leaves me with no choice but to shove my feelings away and focus on getting through the next few weeks with as little damage to my heart as possible. After all, Darren already let me go once, surely he can do it again. Second chanceAngstySingle dadforced proximity

A sapphic, fake dating, small town romance from Amazon top 50 best selling author, Hannah Cowan.It was always the plan to come back home to Cherry Peak. But after being gone for four years, it’s apparently not as easy as I expected for things to go back to the way they used to be. Instead, they get beyond complicated the moment I realize my brother’s house has paper thin walls and a general lack of privacy. Desperate for someplace else to stay, I move in with one of my brother’s friends. The only problem with that? Bryce can’t stand me. Everyone in town calls her the Ice Queen, and over the first few days of living with her, I begin to understand why. She’s blunt, broody, and even cruel at times. But when I learn she could use some help in the dating department, I offer mine without a second thought. It’s supposed to be a harmless favour, but somewhere along the line, Bryce stops being the woman who barely tolerates me, and starts becoming the one person who understands me best. The walls of ice she’s built up around herself start to crack, and the more I get to know what lies behind it, the more I realize how wrong I’ve been about her this entire time. She might be frosty to everyone else, but to me . . . I think she’s the warmest person I’ve ever known.

I came to Cherry Peak to find answers. Ones that could change the entire trajectory of my life forever. The idea of searching for the sister I never knew existed was simple enough, but I should have known better than to expect something with such high stakes to go according to plan. It only took one night of dancing between tables in a small town bar for all of said plans to turn to ash. I wasn’t here to fall into the arms of a man who wears his heart on his sleeve and a grin on his all-too handsome face, yet there’s something about Johnny that keeps tugging me closer. He claims it’s a sign from the universe. I say he’s too big of a dreamer. I’m caught between seeking the answers I need to move on with my life and spending every spare moment I have learning more about the man who considers me his. The tangled vines of my family tree seem to drape over every corner of Cherry Peak. Once I cut one, two more grow in its place. What was supposed to be a quick trip of discovery has turned into something that has me considering staying forever. I’ve been chasing a home for so long, but do I really fit in this small town, or have I just grown too blind to see a life without it?

When Garrison Beckett stumbles into Cherry Peak, it isn’t by choice. As the CEO of Swift Edge Records, his presence here is like a storm cloud in our clear blue sky. They say he’s here for the next two months to grow as a person while waiting for the dust to clear back home, but he sees his stay as a punishment wrapped in small-town charm. He’s everything I’ve always avoided in men: rude, conceited, and utterly infuriating. Yet, while the spark between us is impossible to ignore, it’s also a giant pain in my ass. We fall into a simple arrangement. Friends with benefits. No strings, just the thrill of the moment and undeniable sexual chemistry. It was supposed to be easy. I wasn’t supposed to fall for him. As the end of his two month exile approaches, the reality of our situation sinks in. Garrison’s life is in Toronto, and my roots are buried deep in Cherry Peak. We’re worlds apart, but surely I can’t just let him walk away…right? Is our love enough to bridge the distance between two entirely different worlds? Or are we destined to be just another Cherry Peak legend?

Love. Sucks. I don’t know where I went wrong. Whether it was letting a man convince me that suddenly, the things I’ve never wanted are right for me, or if simply believing the best in the person who I wasted three years of my life on was what lead me here. To Cherry Peak. A small town nestled in the heart of Alberta, Canada. The hometown of rising country star, Brody Steele. It only takes one brief encounter to mark him as a broody jerk. An all-knowing, arrogant celebrity with a complex I don’t have the energy for. But if I truly dislike him the way I’ve convinced myself I do, then why am I always looking for him in crowded rooms? Why are his surprisingly thoughtful gestures melting the wall of ice I’ve stuck between us? Cherry Peak was supposed to be my fresh start, a place to heal and rebuild. Yet, just as I begin piecing my life back together, Brody’s preparing to leave, as if he hasn’t become a vital part of that journey. The thought of losing him keeps me up at night. I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to find our footing, or if we were just stringing each other along the whole time.