Locke And Key Joe Hill

When you, a nerd, get stood up by your ex and wait all night in a bar on New Year's EveThat's when you meet the hottest hockey team captain who asked you to pretend to be his date so he could dump his latest girlfriend.When you're being pestered by your ex to get back together, he shows up and tells your ex to fuck off.Your ex says, I know this is just a deal and you can't possibly like her.He (kisses you in front of everyone): Deal, Like this?

To avenge her Fiancé, who got hit and fell into a coma a few days before their wedding, Sophia Bret goes to work for the Ice Titans, only to bump into Rhett Whitmore, the man who made her high school a living nightmare, and he hasn't changed a bit. She must tolerate him to dig out the truth. But what happens when she finds out the truth was never the truth? What happens when what she finds shatters her world again?

After my brother, Don Matteo Sabella, finds out I have a crush on our family Consigliere, Lorenzo Gallo, for years, he spikes Lorenzo's wine and has him delivered to my bed. That night, he pushes deep into me, and we lose ourselves in each other. When the sky begins to lighten, Lorenzo stays, kisses my temple, and asks me to marry him. Now that we are married, he is all those things—gentle, perfect, and fiercely possessive—handing me almost everything I desire. I truly believe I've landed the kind of love every woman in our world dreams about. That illusion lasts until the day Matteo gets taken out in an assassination. After that, Lorenzo steps up as the Sabellas' new Don. It isn't long before he says he has family business to handle and disappears overseas for three years. Even on the day I deliver our daughter, Luna Gallo, he can't come home because of some emergency. Then I hear a recording that's blowing up on the family's internal network. His Consigliere chuckles and asks, "Don, what do you think has changed the most since you took over the family?" Lorenzo answers in this offhand tone, "It's definitely the fact that I can finally give those I care about most a home. But it also means I'm even more worried that Eliana and Sofia will be targeted because of me…" My blood runs cold. Eliana Rossi is his adopted sister, and Sofia is her daughter. Turns out every business trip, every absence, every so-called emergency Lorenzo has is about them. He has another home out there. That night, with my hands shaking, I dial the encrypted line. "Matteo, we've found the traitor. Isn't it time you stopped pretending to be dead and came to take Luna and me away?"

Lexus Rodriguez, 29, is a successful businessman who was abandoned by his brideーSteffy Drechsler, on their wedding day. He was even more furious when he found out that the Drechsler family had swapped their twins to take Steffy's place as a substitute brideーStella Drechsler. "The farther you are, the closer I'll be. When you fall, I'll reach out my hand for you. And when you stand tall, I'll always stand up to support you." Lexus Rodriguez. "When I almost impossible to achieve something, you come to offer love and happiness." Stella Drechsler. He was the bad boy with an incomprehensible personality. She was the good girl, who is always being bullied in her family, and she was his. Not only that, Steffy also wanted to return to Lexus when she felt that her life was unlucky living with her mistress. === Genre: [Romance] [R-18] [Rich] [Billionaire] [Handsome Male Lead] [Twins] [Arranged Marriage] [Revenge] [Mature Content] === Note: Hy, Candyliciouz! English is not my primary language. Thanks for understanding.

Lies and broken promises, temporary feelings and ruined relationships. Kelsey's view of love was long tainted after being a product of a broken family. She's never one to patronize infidelity. Third parties and secrets, all bullshit. But she meets Zephaniah Ferriol, and suddenly, everything weren't too normal anymore. She found herself in a position she hated the most. Her views were swayed. Her principles were tested. Her heart was torn.In a chase for dreams and in a battle of principles against emotions, Kelsey fought not to be with him. But all things forbidden are hard to resist.

“We shouldn’t be doing this,” Imani whispered, her voice trembling more from want than from fear of her brother barging in and catching her leaning in to kiss his ex-best-friend now turned enemy. “Then stop me,” he murmured back, his fingers brushing her jaw, his breath hot against her skin. But neither of them moved. The distance between them had already disappeared, along with every rule she’d promised not to break. *** When Imani Grayson, a quiet psychology major, is assigned to mentor the university’s star hockey captain, Nicolas Jameson, she expects arrogance not the kind of chemistry that keeps her up at night. What begins as a simple assignment spirals into late-night tutoring sessions, stolen glances, and kisses that blur every boundary she’s ever set. But with jealous teammates watching, old wounds resurfacing, and a love too intense to hide, the game they started might be the one that shatters them both. Imani will soon learn that some games can’t be won without losing everything, and Nicolas, that even in the game of hearts, the strongest player can fall to his knees.

What are you supposed to do when you find your Alpha mate and he is much older than you and already has a fiancé'? What would you do when you find out he is trying to juggle both of you? When you confront him at a fancy upscale restaurant in the city and meet your hot new neighbors that just happen to be the rival hockey team captains and twins. After that, the hot twins transfer to your college while one has decided to try to bully you. The other asked you to pretend to be his new girlfriend so he can dump his latest girlfriend and help you get rid of your pestering ex. He thinks it's a win/ win. A total no-brainer. However, things quickly take a turn and get extremely complicated. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living, or dead, is entirely coincidental.

This is the first book in an 8 book series of hockey romances. All 8 books have an underlying theme of ‘life after loss’. My first book is about Natasha, a librarian in her 40s who lost a sibling as a teenager and never healed, preventing her from ever finding/committing to love…and the hockey coach who is twice divorced and has given up his dreams of ever finding his match and having a family-until he meets Natasha…. Will Coach Alex's love (along with his superior skills in the sack) be enough to break down the walls Natasha has held firm for over two decades? The 8 books go through the different players of the team, all having their own versions of loss to overcome, with the captain (Adam) being married to a woman (who happens to be a teacher at Natasha's school) who has a terminal illness and will eventually commit suicide in book 6 and the series ends with Adam's own second chance love story….

Cassie Monroe wants nothing more than to survive college, graduate as a medical student and prove to her aunt that she's not the monster everyone claimed she is. But all of that shatters the night she saves her best friend's brother and secret crush on ice, only to spark something terrifying and impossible.  Knox Black, captain of Bridgestone’s Icefang hockey team and heir to the Blackwood pack, has spent years searching for the mate who can save his cursed wolf. He never expects her to be human. Claiming her will cost her life. Rejecting her is killing him.  Cassie doesn't know that werewolves exist and doesn't understand why Knox glares at her with hatred one moment, then protects her with deadly ferocity the next. But the more she tries to stay away from him, the more fate pulls her back into his world and dark family secrets that can destroy them both.  This story is a heart-pounding college romance full of forbidden passion, fated mates, betrayal and a love strong enough to defy fate itself. 

All I ever want was to go back to Woodhill. Where my life started. Where my heart belongs.. I did manage to secretly flee from father, but then got abducted to be fed to a living forest. Just great! And just when I was about to begrudgingly accept my unfortunate fate, my childhood friend saved me.. It was supposed to be a very touching and romantic moment, right!? But all of that delusions crumbled when he rejected me in front of everyone in the middle of his ice hockey game..