LOVE'S A CALCULATED RISK Atlanta Skyline's benched goalkeeper Brendan Young would have been happy to ride out the end of his contract after his gambling addiction was splashed all over the news media. Instead, his teammates' injuries have unexpectedly put him back in the game. A new face in his weekly Gamblers Anonymous meeting provides another surprise spike—of pure attraction. Why is Erin Bailey, former world champion women's soccer player, at this meeting? And why can't he stop thinking about their red-hot one-night stand? Six months ago, one reckless night in Vegas ended with Erin in Brendan's bed. She's sworn off dating athletes, especially those whose reputations could destroy her new career as the Championship Soccer League's Director of Ethics and Advocacy. But the secret they share—and the crazy heat they generate—makes it impossible to keep her distance. Both have choices to make about the future, but no matter...

Contemporary Romance

Regan Hunter came to tennis late in life, but she's worked hard to become one of the world's top players. Beating the odds has made her unstoppable on the court and neurotically controlling off of it. So when her manager hires a new coach, a has-been who left the sport after a scandal, Regan wants him gone, fast.Ben Percy, a former Grand Slam winner, is well aware of Regan's reputation for driving coaches away--usually screaming. But working with the notoriously mercurial Regan could be just the break he needs to take his career to the next level, and he's never been one to scare easily. He must stick to only one rule: hands off Regan.Keeping his distance from Regan is more difficult than Ben ever imagined. Behind her tough, sexy exterior is a woman he wants to get to know better. And Regan feels a connection with her patient, easy-on-the-eyes coach that's hard to ignore. But with the biggest championship of all on the line, romance may be completely out of bounds...

If they can get their hair-trigger defenses to stand down, love might stand a chance.Homefront, Book 3Military life may have subdued the wild child in Staff Sergeant Chance McKinley, but when he's home on R&R, all bets are very much on at Kansas City's casinos.He's barely back from Afghanistan before he volunteers to return—right about the time he's reminded he won something more than money on the roulette wheel the last time he was Stateside. A wife.Bartender Tara Lambert could have gotten an annulment right after she and Chance wove their tipsy way down the aisle, but she's never been one to let a man off the hook. Even if he disappeared right after their nuptials.When Tara finally tracks Chance down, he's as irresistible as ever—and on the verge of leaving for another deployment. Their individual fires collide to burn bright and hot, but when it comes to changing the blazing paths of their lives, which will...

WHEN THE PITCH GETS PERSONAL Atlanta Skyline's star Swedish wingback Oz Terim—or as the fans call him, the Wizard—has an airtight plan for his life, his career, even his meticulously renovated house, but he barely gives a thought to the Islamic faith he inherited from his Turkish parents. So no one's more surprised than he is when he's the victim of anti-Muslim hate crime. Refusing to take the threat seriously, he resists the security detail Skyline insists on . . . until he meets Kate Mitchell. There's no room for her in his plan and she's the exact opposite of what he wants. Then why can't he keep his hands off her? After ten years in the military—and getting fired from her first post-Army job in Saudi Arabia—Kate Mitchell has slunk home to her Georgia roots. Private security isn't the career she dreamed of, nor is she thrilled to work with an uptight professional athlete who plays a sport she has no interest in. She never...