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,...

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...

"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...

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...

The summer I turned eighteen, Ethan took my virginity.

It hurt, but I lay awake all night, secretly happy. I thought my six-year crush had finally paid off.

Until the next day, when I stood outside the hockey team's locker room and heard the guys inside whooping.

"Damn, Captain, you finally slept with Ava."

I froze. I was about to slip away quietly when Ethan's careless voice drifted out:

"I ...

"Get rid of it. Or I'll tell the world it isn't mine."

That's what my husband said, three hours after I showed him the pregnancy test.

Nobody knew Chase Holloway was married. His father, a Hall of Fame quarterback, said a secret wife from a trailer park would ruin his draft stock. So for five years I stayed hidden.

That same afternoon, Chase signed a $300 million contract and announced his enga...

Skylar Scott is the only girl quarterback in top college football. She has no money, no family name, and one shot to go pro. Lose this season, and she goes back to nothing. Then her coach moves her into the team house with Owen Caldwell. The star player. The campus golden boy. Her brother's arrogant best friend. And the boy she just humiliated in front of the whole team.
Owen sets the rules. Don't...

Description: Wren Ashford has spent Larkwood High School being useful instead of known the girl teachers wheel out for academic decathlon and nobody invites to anything else. Dashiell "Dash" Bellinger is the opposite problem: everyone knows him, nobody looks past the letterman jacket, and that suits him fine, because what's underneath is a secret he's protected since freshman year words that swim ...

"Get the fuck away from me.."

"J-Jace, please. Your shoulder is badly hurt. Let me help. That's my job."

"Don't touch me, witch," he spits out bitterly without looking at her, his resentment toward her palpable.

They're both exes with a messy history. But one happens to be the injured star player, while the other is the team's physical therapist.

Bailey attempts to touch him despite his initia...

For nineteen years, Avery Hale has been invisible—just a worthless, oversized, wolfless girl surviving on a scholarship at Ravenhood Academy. Tossed away by her own parents and raised by her struggling aunt, she learned early on that love wasn't meant for someone like her.

Until the Red Moon Ceremony changes everything.

Fate plays the ultimate cruel trick, pairing her with Lucas Ravengod: the co...

I’m a miracleless werewolf who gets laughed at during the biggest hockey selection in the kingdom—until I pull the legendary Crown Stick from the moonstone, something generations of champions have failed to do, and silence the entire arena.

All Adeline Monroe wants is one chance to play hockey.
For years, her stepsister Sloanne has made sure she never gets that chance by destroying her equipment...

"Pack your bags and get out."
"Not a chance, Captain. I paid for this room, and I'm not leaving."
Rose Murphy just walked into her worst nightmare: a double-booked apartment with Drake Morvane, Toronto’s star hockey captain, resident golden boy, and the most frustratingly handsome man she has ever laid eyes on.
Drake is a man of rules, ice, and absolute focus. He doesn't do roommates. He definitel...

He needs a fake girlfriend. She needs a way onto the cheer squad. Neither of them expected to fall in love.

Tamara Gracìa never thought college would be her escape.

As the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy family, she has spent her entire life being treated like a mistake that should have never existed. But Aurelius University is supposed to be different. A fresh start. A chance to finally beco...

I thought having one reckless night of revenge sex with a gorgeous stranger seemed like the perfect way for me to break out of my "good girl" mold.
I was wrong.
​I ran before he could even know my name, promising myself it would stay a secret. A mistake buried so deep that neither my overprotective brother nor my boyfriend would ever find out.
Then I walked onto campus for my first day of college....

Elena returns home from London to find her sick brother Ethan risking his life in a boxing match against their ruthless rival, Marcus Miller. Racing against time, she reaches the arena just in time to stop a deadly blow. With no fighting experience, Elena steps into the ring herself, challenging Marcus to protect the only family she has. In a city built on strength, she proves that love and courag...

“Look at yourself, Aurora. You’re thirty. You’re not the queen of hockey anymore.”

Ten years ago, Aurora Vale stood on the Olympic podium, a rising legend with the world at her feet. Then she fell in love with Liam Harrington and gave up her dream to become his wife and the mother of their son, Ethan.

She thought love and sacrifice would earn her a lifetime of happiness.

She was wrong.

After t...

This is a sequel to Ignition and Ice: A Racer's Forbidden Blueprint. It can be read as a stand alone but references to events in the aforementioned book would be made.

By day, Nora Mercer lives at 200 miles per hour. As the only female driver on the F1 grid, she carries the weight of the Mercer Racing dynasty on her shoulders. Her father watches her every move, ensuring no one gets close enough t...

I was Russia’s unstoppable champion, untouchable in the ring and the heir to my parents' billion-dollar company.

But in a single day, my whole world shattered. My career was ruined in front of hundreds of flashing cameras, my family's empire was torn down, and I was left holding my dying mother on the floor, betrayed by people I had trusted the most.

Then Dimitri Rossi walked into my life like t...

At five years old, Seraphina Ardyn disappeared with her twin brother.

At ten, she was found barely alive.

She came home expecting her family to be grateful she had survived. Instead, she discovered they had adopted another girl while she was missing, and Elara had become the princess of the family.

For fourteen years, Sera has been treated like an unwanted burden while Elara gets everything she...

“Your brother’s death was an accident. Stop digging before you get yourself killed.”


Scarlett was a powerful young werewolf and the captain of Mooncrest High’s figure-skating team, with a place on the national team almost within reach. Then her twin brother, Darkridge’s star hockey player, died in a mysterious crash during a nationwide championship.

The academy called it an accident. Scarlett...

Three years ago, pro-wrestler Valerie Ruiz was framed for a failed drug test right before her championship match...a setup orchestrated by her ruthless teammate, Roxanne. When Valerie's sister, Sofia, stepped into the ring to defend their family name, Roxanne delivered a dirty hit that ended Sofia's career forever.

Now, with her father’s gym facing foreclosure, Valerie has one final chance to sav...

Eighteen-year-old Emery Collins has spent most of high school wishing people would notice her. Curvy, insecure, and usually hidden beneath oversized clothes, she watches Northbridge High’s popular crowd from the outside, convinced that if she could just become one of them, maybe she wouldn’t feel so invisible.

Especially to Rhett Callahan.

Star quarterback. Most popular guy in school. And the bo...

Five years ago, Lucia Delgado told her idol exactly how much she admired him, but Jeremiah Scherbatsky, the tennis champion she'd worshipped for years, looked straight through her and walked away.

She was humiliated and she never forgot that day.

Now Lucia is one of the country's best professional players, and she's going to the Olympics. Then the committee adds one more thing to her preparation...

Lila Vale has always been the slow one.

In a family where everyone is strong and fast, Lila is the one who never seems to measure up. She trains every morning, comes home with bruised knees, and works harder than anyone. Still, she always finishes last.

After six years of trying, she finally gets a chance to compete at the National Pack Championships. All she wants is to prove that she is not as...

Three days before her wedding, Wren Delacroix discovers that the powerful family she is about to marry into has built its empire on lies, bribery, and blood. With evidence that could destroy them tucked inside her bag, she runs, leaving behind her perfect life and a fiancé who will do anything to keep her silent.

Her escape leads her straight into the arms of Cage Malone, the dangerously attracti...

Maya Carter spent years being mocked and underestimated for being a woman in college football, but after fighting her way onto an elite team and becoming the one player capable of challenging her brother’s arrogant best friend and star cornerback, Jace Williams, she finally proves she belongs,until she is framed for destroying the team’s prized trophy, and Jace unexpectedly protects her, drawing t...

A year ago, elite figure skater Elena Vance was the crown jewel of national athletics. Then came the terrifying jump, that ended with a surgical steel holding her right ankle together. Now, battling chronic pain and terrifying anxiety, she’s returning for one last shot at the World Championship qualifiers. She has zero room for error and zero patience for distractions.

Julian Cruz: star center an...

Once, I was a gymnast who knew exactly what it felt like to fly.
Until one mistake sent me crashing down and cost me everything.
For years, I stayed away from the arena. Until an opportunity came along and brought me onto the ice.
The problem?
I could not even skate.
To make matters worse, I was paired with Joseph Morgan, a figure skater known for being cold, perfectionistic, and completely unwill...

The night before the West Coast League Championship, Logan's childhood sweetheart Maddie tried to dump a packet of cold medicine into his water bottle.

I snatched it away and warned her it contained a banned substance. He was a pro player heading into the draft. One positive test, and it's a lifetime ban.

She just smiled, sweet as sugar, and said I was only jealous of what she and Logan had.

Sh...

"Do I seem like an idiot to you princess?" he sassed taking another agonizingly slow step towards me.

"N-no." I stuttered out a blabbering mess, unable to think straight with his sudden closeness.

"Do I have to show who you belong to again Bella?"

"I-don't know." I whispered out too far gone within the eyes of the silver eyed God like boy standing before me.

"Then why do you defy me princess, ...

She is Europe's most beloved innocent star

He is the world's most hated football god.

One desperate kiss changes everything.

ZIZO

They call me an arrogance-fueled nightmare. A reckless Brazilian star who races Ferraris and breaks the rules. They don't know about the quiet graveside promises, the hospital visits, or the grief that seems to have made my mind it's home. I don't care what the Br...

I stopped letting people get close to me a long time ago. It was cleaner that way. I would not hurt anyone, and no one would get the chance to hurt me.

Ryder Kane never got that memo.

I am not here for his smile, his charm, or the way half the city seems to be in love with him. I am here because guarding him pays well. One contract covers two years of tuition. I protect him, finish the job, get ...

“Did you really think a human girl like me could fall for your little game, Roman?”

Ella was supposed to be the pathetic human girl the Alpha boys could toy with. A scholarship student among wealthy, pureblood werewolves, she had neither their power nor their status. But when she discovers Roman’s cruel bet to make her fall for him, she decides to turn his game against him.

With a carefully craf...

I was born an Alpha.

Unfortunately, everyone seems to think that means I should act like a lady.

My father wants me in dresses, behaving politely, studying harder, and staying out of fights. The racing world wants me to prove that a woman can survive on a track built for men.

And I’m tired of proving myself to people who already decided I can’t.

Then my father gives me an ultimatum: raise my g...

Vanessa Miller has spent two years proving she belongs in the water.

At Sterlingview University, she’s a star swimmer with one goal: win the BUCS Couples Challenge and earn a place in the Championship competition.

There’s only one problem.

She needs a partner. And the best person for the job is Seth Ellis, the last person she would ever work with. He holds a secret that could ruin her swimming ...

Marin "Mars" Kessler scored the goal every athlete dreams about. Four seconds left in sudden death overtime, eighteen thousand people on their feet, a championship in her hands. Eleven minutes later, her best friend was dead.

The school calls it a heart condition. Mars knows better. She saw the rival goalie's glove drop half an inch too early. She saw Tess tap the crossbar twice, their secret sig...

I’ve spent years chasing the same finish line as Caleb Hayes.

Every moto race, every championship, every damn victory. He’s the only rider who pushes me to my limits, and the only one I refuse to lose to.

I’ve fought my way to the top, earned every podium, every trophy, and every scar that came with it.

We’ve been rivals for as long as I can remember. I am that one rival he couldn't beat. In...

“I spent twenty-five years loving him. So why am I the last woman to know the truth about my own marriage?”

Chloe has spent years teaching women how to recognize love, betrayal, and the lies men tell. As a successful relationship streamer, she can untangle everyone else’s heartbreak—except her own.

Rhys was her childhood sweetheart, her first love, and the man who once promised to love her forev...

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...

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 ...

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...

“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...

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...