Best Athlete Stories & Novels Collection

"Wait, she's YOUR mate?" Mark asked, "That's...wow... I did not see that coming..."
"WHO did that to her?!" Andres asked again, still staring at the girl.
Her injuries were darkening with the passing of each minute.
Her skin even seemed paler in comparison to the deep browns and purples.

"I called the doctor over. You think it's internal bleeding?"
Stace addressed Alex but looked back to Lita,...

"Jaden Cole is an eighteen-year-old high school basketball captain. He is loved by all for his perfect image. He doesn't do drugs or smoke but party hard just like every other kid on the block.

His clean boyish attitude is like a magnet that attracts all the girls around him who will stop at nothing to get in his pant but Jaden doesn't keep them around long enough to want to claim the relationsh...

They say men like a lady in the living room and a whore in the bedroom. I never knew the sentiment was reciprocal. Until I met Jax Knight. A gentleman in public, a commanding, dirty talking rogue in the bedroom.Daughter of legendary fighter "The Saint," Lily St. Claire knows firsthand how fighters can be. As the owner of a chain of MMA gyms, she's no stranger to aggressive, dominating, and possess...

He thinks I'm a stuck-up, prudish bitch and I think he is an arrogant, stubborn man whore. I don't like him and he certainly doesn't have many nice things to say about me but I need to make this work. After it's all done I can cut ties with him and never have to see him again.

I never thought I would have to give up my dreams to make up for my father's mistakes but here I am working three jobs to...

Adele Mayfield has spent her entire adult life chasing perfection on the ice as a figure skater. She's closer than ever to qualifying for Nationals, the one competition that could finally launch the career she has always dreamed about.

But when the man she thought she was building a future with squanders the money meant for their lease, her life begins to fall apart.

Evicted and out of options, ...

Melina wanted closure but instead, she got a scandal.

One drunken night with hockey superstar Jace Hamilton turns into the hottest headline on campus, forcing two enemies of fate into a fake relationship neither of them wants.. at least... that's what they keep telling themselves.

With jealous exes on both sides, secret enemies, ruthless paparazzi and dangerous secrets closing in, pretending b...

Six months after watching my mother murder my father, she took the last thing I had left—my boyfriend and f**ked him right before me beneath my dead father’s photo frame.

She pushed me out, and I ran straight into the arms of Hockey Coach Jethro Meyers.

Ruthless and dangerously attractive, the moment our bodies collided on the ice, the mate bond snapped into place with violent force.

But he sho...

I’ve been hopelessly gone for Damon George since I was fourteen and he looked straight through me.

Now I’m a freshman at Blackwood University, and Damon isn’t just my best friend’s older brother anymore. He’s the hockey captain every girl on campus is chasing. The guy with a pro career hanging on his final season. The one person I promised myself I was finally done wanting.

Then one stupid dar...

Lexi Volkova arrives in Chicago as the premier draft pick of a brand-new expansion franchise. The Chicago Vixens are new, underfunded, and invisible. Then Marco Rossi walks into her life with a smile, a genuine love of a game he was never allowed to play, and a last name that owns half the city.

Behind the galas and charitable foundations, Vincenzo Rossi runs Chicago's underworld, and he sees in ...

A falling planter knocked me out after a fight with my lifelong rival. When I woke up, I remembered everything. I just figured pretending otherwise might get me a little compensation.

"Who are you?" I asked.

Nathan Cole stared at me. Then he said, "Your boyfriend. We've been together for eight years."

Eight years?

He glanced at my mouth. "Want a kiss? Might jog your memory."

I'd been after hi...

He is the captain of the Frostfang Wolves. He is cold, famous and feared on and off the ice. I am just a new PR assistant trying to survive my first job at an elite hockey team. But everything changes the moment I meet Ryder Kane.

He is accused of a violent incident that could destroy his career and the team is desperate to fix his image. I am forced to work with him, even though he acts like I d...

Georgia Steele came to Rosethorn Academy to skate.
Nothing more.
She has spent her entire life chasing perfection on the ice, following every rule, every expectation, and every demand placed in front of her. Rosethorn is supposed to be a fresh start. A place where she can finally prove she is more than the girl her mother trained her to become.
Then she meets Puck Hale.
He is Rosethorn's golden bo...

When Bonnie Bennett buried her partner, Evan Mason, she buried her dream with him.

After losing the only person who ever believed in her, Bonnie is ready to leave the ice behind.
Until she’s forced to pair with Mael Laurent—the arrogant golden boy who made her teenage years hell.

When his own partner suffers a career-ending crash, he needs a replacement fast. She needs to pay her mother’s medica...

Melanie Sanders earned her spot as the first female point guard in elite college basketball, but her past is a weapon in the wrong hands. When Ken—the captain of her rival team—discovers her brother’s dangerous, criminal life, he uses it to back her into a corner. Protect her brother and her career, or let everything burn.

​Trapped, Mel gave in to his coercion and spent one night with him to buy ...

Two years ago, a brilliant scientist died under mysterious circumstances inside the locked gates of Levi's Sports Academy.

To uncover the truth, eighteen-year-old Thalia cuts her hair, binds her chest, and infiltrates the country’s most exclusive, boys-only football academy under a false identity as Renn Willow.

But when the Captain, Evander Manchester finds out her true identity as a girl, be d...

“What did you just say?”

“You heard me, Ronan! I. Am. Done!” Ava’s body shook hard with the sobs she tried but failed to hold back.

“And I would be proclaimed dead before I ever let you go… Sunshine!”

As one of the most talented skaters on the ice, Ava has spent her whole life chasing one thing. Being the best. Skating has always come first for her. Before love, friendships and everything.

Ro...

Born into a wealthy family obsessed with its lacrosse legacy, Chase has spent her life under her mother's ruthless pressure to become the first woman in the family to dominate the sport. She finally does, until one game, with scouts watching, leaves her with a shattered leg and a career hanging by a thread.

Her abusive mother gives her one month to recover and return to the field, hiring a young ...

He was supposed to be a stranger.

A bruised, scarred, filthy-mouthed stranger who pinned me against a bathroom wall and made me forget the boy who broke my heart 20 minutes earlier.

I walked away first without his name or number, and I didn't look back.

Then I found out my mom was engaged. To his dad.

Rhys Maddox. Number seventeen. 6'3" of tattoos, bruised knuckles, and the kind of jaw that ma...

Lois Luther has spent years chasing one dream, and that was earning a place on the national team. But when her twin brother, Landon, dies in a suspicious crash after the biggest championship of his life, everything changes.
The school calls it an accident. Lois knows better.
Determined to uncover what really happened, she enrolls at Landon’s university, where she continues training for her own ath...

Aliya is the only female quarterback on her college’s elite football team, and she’s used to working twice as hard to prove she belongs.

But when her coach forces her to move into the team’s off-campus house for the rest of the season, things get complicated fast.

Her new roommate is Daemond, the team’s star cornerback, her brother’s obnoxious best friend, and the last person she wants to share ...

Sabrina Daniels has spent years quietly pining for her older brother’s closest friend—the star forward and team captain, Ronan Dickson. When her parents leave the country for several months, she’s more than happy to move into the house her brother shares with Ronan… until the night she finally confesses how she feels and he turns her down.

Shattered and embarrassed, Sabrina does her best to st...

My brother came home from Ashgrave twenty pounds lighter with two small scars on his throat and no memory of the winter.
Everyone said mono. Everyone said burnout. Everyone said hockey.
I took his scholarship. I took his number. I am the only girl on the roster and the first thing they told me is that nobody skates after midnight.
So obviously I skated after midnight.
The Night League is real. The...

My childhood sweetheart, Philip Mitchell, was a hockey prodigy.
When he wanted to throw away his Olympic qualifiers to take care of his sick girlfriend, I told his coach and his mother.
Because of me, he was dragged back to the ice. He won the Olympic gold, secured a spot at Harvard, and eventually became a billionaire sports agent.
I, however, ended up with nothing.
During a public practice, h...

A year after losing her father, Hailey moves with her mother, Camille, to the small town of Ashton Hollow, a place where everyone knows everyone, rumors travel faster than truth, and the boys’ basketball team is the closest thing the town has to royalty. Hailey isn’t running toward a new life. She’s running from an old one. But basketball, the one thing her father gave her, refuses to let her go, ...

I've always only liked my neighbor/childhood bestfriend who's also a big jock since like forever, but despite his platonic love for me, his looks and popularity had always gotten in the way of me getting any closer to him than a friend. Things got complicated when in my depression and desperation I gave my virginity to a stranger who after a week turned out to be a new teacher in my school and the...

Sable Voss was never supposed to exist in the ring. For eighteen years she watched from the outside while her twin brother Silas carried a name and a future he never wanted. He dreamed of the military. She dreamed of gloves, blood, and a crowd screaming a name that was never hers.
When Silas’s acceptance letter to Iron Crown Academy arrives on the same night he decides to run, Sable makes a choice...

I should have stepped back.

But I didn’t.

His face was so close to mine that I could feel his breath against my lips.

Then I noticed something on his arm.

“Wait.”

I grabbed his wrist before he could move.

He frowned. “What?”

I pushed his sleeve up.

And then I saw it.

My stomach dropped.

“I'll ruin and destroy you just like you did to me years ago, Evie Faye.” He growled against my ear.

“May the best player win, Asher Blackwood.” I retorted.


A: Arrogant.
S: Savage.
H: Heartless.
E: Exasperating.
R: Ruthless.

That's what Asher Blackwood should mean.

At least, that's what I tell myself whenever I'm forced to stand in front of the man who once owned my heart and now want...

Elara Bennett was a rising figure-skating star—until her most trusted partner, Nick, assaulted her at a team party and refused to listen when she said no.
At Northlake, she wants one thing: to get back on the ice and stay away from men.
Then she walks in on Declan Hayes, the hockey captain, with another girl.
Perfect.
Confident, reckless, and impossible to ignore, Declan is exactly the kind of guy...

Laura Jean was never just a ballerina.
She was the paycheck. The perfect daughter. The girl whose bruised feet and forced smiles kept her family afloat… until one bad accident shattered everything.
Six months in a coma cost Laura more than her career. When she wakes up, her boyfriend has moved on with her best friend who stole her spotlight , and her own parents care more about the money she can n...

I was born the Vampire King’s daughter and became the kingdom’s greatest young athlete, until my stepsister stole my power and framed me for attacking her. My father believed her and banished me from the kingdom. Then I met the Werewolf Prince everyone had forgotten, a prince cast aside because his own power never awakened. We were both supposed to stay powerless, but together, something changed. ...

Moving to the city was supposed to give me a fresh start. New team. New apartment. New season. No distractions. Then I moved in with my best friend and met her brother.

Ethan is everything I shouldn’t want—confident, charming, annoyingly attractive, and completely off-limits. He’s the kind of guy who can make me forget my own name with one smile, and unfortunately, he’s also the person I find mys...

Nessa Calder has spent her entire life skating in her father’s shadow.

One more competition could earn her a place on the Olympic team—and finally prove her success belongs to her, not the powerful sports executive who has controlled every part of her career.

Then she tears her ankle.

The federation assigns the only specialist they trust who isn’t on her father’s payroll:

Brennan Kessler.

Hoc...

We used to ride every wave together. Until the one that destroyed us.

Tyler Brookes was my best friend before he became the one person I swore I’d never trust again. We grew up on the water, chasing waves, chasing wins, and believing nothing could ever come between us. Then one kiss changed everything.

The next day, one decision changed even more. He abandoned our plan in the middle of a competi...

Eighteen months ago, Chiara Romano had it all: captain of the national volleyball team, an unstoppable spike, and a promising future. Then came the ultimate betrayal. Sabotaged on the court by her bitterest rival, Bianca, and abandoned by her cheating ex, Lorenzo, Chiara suffered a catastrophic knee injury that left her in a wheelchair and her career in ashes.
Now, every doctor in Italy claims sh...

Vanessa Reed didn’t come to the ultra-elite Hudson College to make friends, attend wild varsity parties, or fall in love. Coming from the working-class streets of East London, her full athletic scholarship isn’t a status symbol—it’s her family’s only financial lifeline. She knows exactly how to survive: keep your head down, keep your grades up, and stay focused.

But Vanessa has already painted a ...

When Fairview University abruptly cuts the women’s hockey program, Ava Hale’s Olympic dreams are practically dead. Her only shot at staying on the ice is taking an unprecedented walk-on tryout for the brutal, championship-hungry men’s Division 1 team.
Walking into an all-male locker room is bad enough. Dealing with Liam Reed, the arrogant 6’2” captain determined to run her off the ice, makes it wo...

Ariel has spent years surviving the monster she calls home. Behind the perfect family facade lies a nightmare: a violent father who rules with fists and fear, a predatory stepbrother who offers “protection” at a sickening price, and a household that treats her like an unwanted stray. She hides the bruises, smiles for the world, and clings to the only bright spots in her life — her fierce best frie...

She was trained to be his destruction. Fate made her his mate.
Crown Prince Knox never expected his new royal guard to be the same woman who tried to infiltrate his court two years ago. He certainly never expected her to be his destined mate. But Aubrey Houston is both—and she hates him almost as much as he wants to resist her.
Aubrey has one mission: get close to the crown prince. It should be si...

MM | Stepbrothers | Enemies to Lovers | Forced Proximity | NROTC | Straight-to-Bi | Secret Identity | Forbidden Romance

Theo
I had a plan.
College. NROTC. Commission. Naval Special Warfare.
Then Eden Brooks became my stepbrother.
Black hair, green eyes, a guitar permanently attached to his hand, and absolutely no respect for rules—or me.
Now we share a university, an NROTC unit, and, thanks to ou...

After five years of rebuilding her life, star basketball player Ava Carter believes she has finally escaped the shadow of her abusive ex, Ethan Cole. Her career is at its peak, and her relationship with Dylan Brooks, the league's golden boy, is the picture of happiness. That picture shatters when she wakes to find Dylan murdered in her apartment, with all evidence pointing to her.

As Detective M...

She buried her name, bound her chest, and became the brother who saved her life, the same brother whose legacy she now has to carry onto the ice. The Hockey Tournament is her only chance to free her father from the prison cell he was wrongfully thrown into, and she's not about to let anyone stand in her way. Not the cold, calculating Xavier. Not the reckless, infuriating Hunter. Not even the ghost...

Nyla Carter came to Blackwood University for one reason—to run.
Track has been her life since she was seven, but after a devastating injury and years of pressure from her father to chase Olympic gold, Nyla isn’t sure whose dream she’s running toward anymore.
The last thing she needs is a distraction.
Especially not Isaiah “Zay” Reynolds—Blackwood’s cocky star quarterback who’s used to getting ever...

The whole school watched Riley Sharpe fall. Two years later, they played the footage again.

Riley wants the video gone, the track behind her, and everyone to stop turning her worst moment into an inspirational comeback story. Instead, she gets paired on a school sports project with Cole Mercer—Westbridge's star quarterback, her childhood almost-friend, and the last person she trusts to stay out o...

I’m thirty-four, a literature professor, and I’ve spent my entire life following the rules.

Then Liam Brown walks into my classroom.

He’s twenty-one, devastatingly attractive, captain of the university hockey team—and my student. I know exactly where the line is. I also know crossing it could cost me the tenure I’ve worked years for and destroy his future just as professional scouts begin watchi...

“Your injury report says you need to learn self-control.”

I stared at Cade Blackwood.

“You’re my team doctor. Not my therapist.”

His eyes dropped to the hockey stick in my hand.

“After what you did on the ice, I’m not sure there’s a difference.”

I hated him instantly.

Unfortunately, I also wanted to kiss him.

I’m Harper Reed, the powerhouse of Blackridge University’s women’s hockey team.

M...

Everyone knows Rox Gale.

America's golden swimmer. Record breaker. Billionaire playboy heir.

He lives by three rules.

Never fall in love.
Never get attached.
Never touch the same woman twice.

Until Liora Hale.

Desperate to save her dying mother, Liora accepts a deal she can't afford to refuse: pretending to be Rox's girlfriend for one night.

It was supposed to end after that night.

Instead,...

“Jude,” I said, putting my shorts on. “Did we by any chance get married last night?”
Maybe I was just losing my mind, and it connected the dots in the stupidest way.
“We did."


After four years of giving her heart to the same man, Millie thought she knew exactly where her life was headed until she caught her boyfriend cheating on her—with the daughter of the very man who owned the hockey team...

Briella, a freshly graduated high school student, is now ready to enter the Wolf Academy. A new chapter, a new promise for her to let all the troubles of the past behind. That's what she thought, until she stumbles face-to-face with her old, not-so-favorite person, Medea, her forever bully, the one who tortured her, berated her for not having a wolf. All hopes of being free are now shattered. But ...

“You look soft, Pretty Boy. Like one hard hit on the ice would break you in half.”
“Then don’t hit me, Captain.”
A slow, dangerous smile curved his lips. “Who said anything about hitting you?”


My twin brother lived for hockey.
He was the university’s star winger, and the boy everyone expected to go pro but then he died.
Everyone called it an accident. I didn’t.
The last person seen with him w...