Books

Making the Play

Hockey is life. That’s Hunter Thompson’s motto. With a dad who played in the NHL, and a NCAA Championship fresh under his belt, a future in professional hockey is all he wants. But he defers it for his senior year to play with the Griffins one last season. He doesn’t expect to get distracted by the team’s gorgeous new Social Media Coordinator. Positive and upbeat, she’s everything he doesn’t need right now. When his season doesn’t go as planned, will he make the right play?

Family is number one. That’s Natalie Rios’s top priority. She's at Harrison to get her degree and secure their future. But when they must replace the roof, she needs a new job immediately. She knows nothing about hockey, but thanks to her fashion blog, she’s a shoo-in for the Social Media Coordinator role. It’s a great fit—except for the grumpy team captain who makes her job more difficult with every slash of his stick. When she sees him for who he truly is, will she let him in?

Between bus rides, interviews, and hockey games, their growing attraction threatens everything they’ve built. When the unthinkable happens, is their love strong enough to survive? 

Taking the Shot

Jasmine Turner hates boyfriends. She learned the hard way that a relationship is the last thing she wants. As a Harrison University chemistry student, she’s focused on her goals—take the GRE, go to grad school, and save the world through pharmacology. The male undergraduate population is there for fun when she needs a break from her tight schedule, but nothing more than that. Dating a jock is absolutely not on her to-do list, even if she does like flirting with cute cowboy Cooper Edwards. 

A star Harrison Griffins hockey player, Cooper Edwards doesn’t believe in love. After his parents’ messy divorce back in Texas, he vows to avoid everything that resembles a serious relationship. The little lie he tells his momma about having a girlfriend doesn’t count. She lives a thousand miles away and will never know it’s not true. But when his mom shows up at his door to meet the mystery woman, he convinces Jasmine to pretend to be his girlfriend. 

It’s fine, right? Neither one of them wants a relationship. But when things turn real during Valentine's Day dates and Marvel movie marathons, they have to decide… is it worth it to take a shot at love?

Taking the Shot is a New Adult contemporary romance novel of 80,000 words. A stand alone novel in a developing series, it’s comparable to The Deal by Elle Kennedy. It’s dual POV, alternating between the hockey player hero and the STEM heroine.