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Valentine’s Hearts – OUT NOW!

Valentine’s Hearts

Will broken hearts replace the wedding they dreamed of?

Ryker's heart has space for three things—his family, hockey, and Jacob. As their wedding grows closer, it seems that nothing can stand in the way of an idyllic celebration, surrounded by friends and loved ones. But things appear to be changing; Jacob is forging a future that might take him away from Ryker, and Ryker alternates between pride and fear when a new man comes into his fiancé's life. A hockey season from hell has him doubting his life choices, but worse, he's driving Jacob into another man's arms. How has their perfect life suddenly gone so wrong?

Life has certainly thrown many twists and turns in Jacob's path. Most of the goals he’d set for himself as a teenager had to change, but one has remained constant: finding his heart's desire and marrying him. That aspiration was reached when Ryker said, "I do". Planning their wedding was meant to be the best time of their lives, but Jacob unwittingly puts his trust in the wrong man and finds himself in danger. Is their love strong enough to survive the fallout?

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Series: OWATONNA U (Hockey Romance), Book 5
Tags: Angst, Assault, Hockey Player, Triggers on Page, Valentines, Wedding

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School And Rock – now available on all platforms

School and Rock

Series: ARIZONA RAPTORS, Book 5
Genre: Hockey
Tag: Work In Progress

When Colorado Penn finds an unexpected package on his front step, his life will be changed forever.

Colorado Penn is living the dream. Starting goalie for the Arizona Raptors when in season, lead singer for a hard rock band when summer rolls around. He’s the quintessential free spirit who’s making sure to enjoy all the carnal blessings of his athleticism and gritty singing voice. Now the Raptors are moving into their first playoff appearance in years, but the arrival of an unexpected package means that hockey may have to take a backseat to something way more important. Instead of the usual undergarments from adoring fans, he finds a newborn baby with a small note tucked under her carrier, naming him as the father. He refuses to give up his daughter and is determined to be the kind of father he’d dreamed of having. But to keep Madeline, he’ll need help, and he’ll need it fast. Enter handsome emergency manny, Joseph. They may be opposites, but Colorado starts to see that Joseph’s stable, calm influence makes his chaotic lifestyle choices seem less appealing. There’s something about the man that soothes not only his infant daughter but also the wild child inside Colorado.

Joseph is one year away from getting his degree in planetary science, working cover shifts at the planetarium, and pulling in income with short term manny gigs. Stars collide as he provides emergency childcare for the wild man of hockey, a man who moves so fast through life that he doesn’t know how to stop. Homeless, and caring for his niece, Emma, fate brings Joseph into Colorado and baby Madeline’s life. Madeline is a sweetheart, and Colorado is trying his hardest to make the best decision for his baby girl. He offers his home to Joseph and Emma and an indecent salary, to keep them in his life until summer’s end. Colorado brings mysticism and metal to Joseph’s sanctuary of science, but somehow Joseph needs to tame this shooting star and create a family. Nothing in the contract said Joseph had to fall in love to make that happen, but when it’s time for him and his niece to leave, will the void in his heart ever heal, or will it remain as cold as space itself?

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Baby Makes Three (Railers #10) – OUT NOW!

Baby Makes Three

When baby makes three, Christmas will never be the same for Ten and Jared.

There's not much that Tennant Rowe hasn't accomplished, and all before reaching thirty. Hoisting the Cup, marrying the man of his dreams, and becoming a spokesman for LGBTQ2+ athletes' rights have filled his world with great joy. While his successes on and off the ice have been beyond his wildest expectations, he's now wondering if it's time to add one more tiny addition to his already wonderful life.

Being a dad to Ryker and marrying Ten are the two of the best things in Jared's life, only something is missing. He always wanted more children, but with Ten and the Railers riding a wave of success, how could he even broach the subject of adoption or surrogacy with the man he loves? Jared would give the moon and the stars to his husband, so when Ten reveals his desire to be a father, they start a journey that will fill their Christmas with a new and special kind of love.

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Authors: RJ Scott, V.L. Locey
Series: RAILERS HOCKEY, Book 10
Genre: Hockey
Tags: Age Gap, Children, Coach, Hockey Player, Surrogacy

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Ryker (Owatonna U #1) – SALE!

A little something for the weekend! Ryker (Owatonna U #1) is on sale this weekend for only 99c/99p across all platforms.

Ryker

Ryker is hockey royalty, Jacob is a poor country boy. Can two vastly different people find common ground and become the men they want to be?

Ryker comes from a long line of championship-winning hockey players. Playing college hockey to develop his game is his only focus, and nothing will stand in the way of him working to become the best player. He has no room for relationships, people who point out his flaws, or anyone who calls him on his dreams. He certainly has no place for love, and meeting Jacob is nothing but a useful distraction on the side. After all, trying to get his Owatonna Eagles teammate into bed is less work and more play. When tragedy rocks his family, his charmed life crumbles, and the only person he can turn to is the same one who claims to hate him.

Jacob Benson has only known hard work and stifling conservative values his whole life. Born and raised in the small rural community of Eden Crossing, Minnesota, he’s the only son of a hard-working but struggling dairy farming family. Jacob is using his skills in hockey to finance his way to an agricultural science degree. These four years at Owatonna U. will probably be the only time he has to enjoy life, gain acceptance about his sexuality, and live openly before his inevitable return to the farm. Running into a pretty rich boy like Ryker Madsen is putting a damper on his enjoyment of life away from home. Ryker’s flip, conceited, carefree attitude grates on Jacob’s every nerve. So why, if Ryker is everything he dislikes, does he want nothing more than to explore the sinful dreams that his annoying teammate stars in every night?

This New Adult book is the first in the Owatonna U Series, a spin-off from the best selling Harrisburg Railers Hockey Series.

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Authors: RJ Scott, V.L. Locey
Series: OWATONNA U (Hockey Romance), Book 1
Tags: Family Found, Farmer, First in Series - Hockey, Hate to Love, Hockey Player, Opposites Attract, Paperback - Hockey
ASIN: B07HLRJWWG
ISBN: 9781785641305

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Reading Order for Hockey Romance

The Hockey Romance from RJ Scott & VL Locey is a mix of different tropes but all them cover Athlete, Band of Brothers, Alphas, Family Found, Love at Work, and of course, Hockey

There are two tables showing the reading order. The first is by the cover, the second is a simple list.

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Sugar and Ice – Out Now

Sugar and Ice

Authors: RJ Scott, V.L. Locey
Series: ARIZONA RAPTORS, Book 4
Genre: Hockey

When love is on the line, the worst decisions can end up having the best endings

Tate Collins, an all-American hockey phenomenon, was the highly marketable face of Dallas hockey. Loaded down with endorsements and playing his best game, he was a superstar and a household name. No one ever expected him to fail, but overnight, after the worst decision of his life, everything spirals out of his control. Abruptly, his reputation is in tatters, and he’s traded to the Arizona Raptors in a shocking move. Brushing off the wild and unfounded accusations that he faces on social media, and stuck on the second line, he keeps his head down and works hard to earn his spot. Tate knows he can make a difference if only his teammates would let him. Something has to change for him to earn their respect, but falling for the captain might not be his best move.

Vladislav Novikov has been called many things over his long and illustrious career, but the new nickname of Iceberg seems to fit best. Perhaps it’s due to his icy blue eyes, or the way he rams into opposing players as he defends his goalie. Or maybe it’s because of his cool demeanor when not playing the game he loves. Whatever the reason, it’s why he’s the perfect team captain for this wild bunch of puck-pushers. His perfectly controlled life is smooth as ice until Tate Collins rides into Tucson with his apple pie ways and those damn dimples. The young superstar immediately catches his eye. Despite knowing better than to start something with a teammate, the big, bad Iceberg is about to have that chilly veneer around his heart melted away by Tate one sweet kiss at a time.

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Coast to Coast (Raptors #1) SALE!

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Coast To Coast

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When opposites attract, it’s not just the team that’s in for a shake-up.

When a stipulation in his father’s will throws Mark back into a family that disowned him, he has only two things on his mind; buying his way out of contractual obligations and running in the opposite direction as fast as he can. When neither option pans out, he finds he is now a one third owner of the struggling Arizona Raptors hockey team, and that is just about the worst thing he could have happened to him. Not only does he hate hockey, but the Raptors are a bottom-of-the-league team, rife with jealousies and anger in a locker room that only knows self-pity. How is he supposed to help turn things around when the only way to start fixing things is to form an alliance with the estranged siblings he’d run from fifteen years earlier?

Then there’s Rowen Carmichael, a stubborn, opinionated, irritating man with superiority issues and questionable taste in music. Butting heads with Rowen, who he’d never even wanted to hire in the first place, is one thing, but there is no way in hell that he will allow the growing attraction to the new coach become anything more. Until with everything on the line, he has to make decisions that will change his life forever.

After years of collegiate coaching, Rowen is given an offer that he simply can’t refuse, although perhaps he should. When he’s presented with the chance to take one of the worst teams in the league and mold them into a future cup contender, the challenge is just too alluring to pass up. He leaves his beloved Ontario behind and moves west to the arid city of Tucson where he is faced with a broken team, shoddy management, and players overflowing with resentment and bigotry.

Never in his twenty years of hockey has he ever seen such a raging dumpster fire of an organization. Yet there’s something about this team and this city that compels him to roll up his sleeves and start dismantling. He has his eye on a new associate coach that’s bound to makes waves, and several key players who should be sent packing. Now all he has to do is convince the new owners of the team that his choices are for the best. If only Mark Westman-Reid, one of three siblings who now own the Raptors, wasn’t so damned rock-headed, so damned snooty, and so damned appealing his job might be a bit easier.

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Authors: RJ Scott, V.L. Locey
Series: ARIZONA RAPTORS, Book 1
Genre: Hockey
Tag: First in Series - Hockey

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Hockey Romance leaving KU and moving to wide release

Do you specifically read books by using Amazon Kindle Unlimited? If you do, then I have news.

From the dates listed below the VL Locey / RJ Scott series’ of hockey romance books will be leaving Kindle Unlimited and moving wide for at least a year, available on Kobo, Apple, & Smashwords.

If you haven’t caught up with the books yet, the buy links for each book in the series are at the bottom of the post – just click on a cover 🙂

HARRISBURG RAILERS – leaving KU

18 July – Railers Volume 1, Railers Volume 2, Railers Volume 3
20 July – Changing Lines, First Season, Deep Edge, Poke Check, Last Defense, Goal Line, Neutral Zone, Hat Trick, Save The Date

OWATONNA U HOCKEY – leaving KU

26 June – Ryker, Scott, Christmas Lights
21 July – Benoit

ARIZONA RAPTORS – leaving KU

23 June – Shadow and Light
20 July – Coast to Coast
14 August – Across the Pond

Arizona Raptors books 4 (Sugar and Ice) and 5 (Title not yet shared) will launch wide for four weeks (Amazon, Kobo, Apple, etc) then move into Amazon Exclusive / KU as normal for a limited period of three months, before moving wide again, so KU readers will not lose out!!!

Harrisburg Railers

Changing Lines

First Season

Deep Edge

Poke Check

Last Defense

Goal Line

Neutral Zone

Hat Trick

Save the Date

Baby Makes Three

Railers Volume 1

Railers Volume 2

Railers Volume 3

Owatonna U

Ryker

Scott

Benoit

Christmas Lights, An Owatonna Christmas Novella

Valentine’s Hearts

Arizona Raptors

Coast To Coast

Across The Pond

Shadow And Light

Sugar and Ice

School and Rock

in College Hockey· Interview· Owatonna U

Fast Five – Hayne Ritter

Welcome to this month’s Fast Five post!

We hope you’ve been enjoying our new monthly feature here on the MM Hockey Romance blog. In case you’re new to Fast Five, what we’re doing is picking one of our characters/secondary characters and setting them down for a furious, fast-paced round of five questions. These questions can range from serious to bizarre and will hopefully give us all a deeper look into the minds of our guys from the Railers, Eagles, and Raptors.

This month’s man in the hot seat is Hayne Ritter, artist boyfriend of ex-Owatonna U hockey player, Scott Caldwell. You met Hayne and Scott in the second OU trilogy book, Scott.

And away we go!

Question One – If you woke up and had two thousand emails but could only open three, which three would you open and why?

Oh man. I…uhm. Well, I’d open up any from Scott, not that he ever sends emails because he’d be like, “What is this, 2002 or something?” which always makes me laugh when he says it. But yeah, I’d open up anything from Scott because if he sent an email it would be an imminent death message. Second would be from my Mom and Grandma because they’re so funny and are my everything. Third would probably be from any art gallery that reached out to me. Maybe the Louvre is looking for one of my paintings. It could happen…

Question Two – Where is your dream vacation?

See above reply about the Louvre. I totally have dreams about visiting France with Scott, walking hand-in-hand along the Seine, dining in artsy little cafes, kissing under the Eiffel Tower, and walking through the Louvre and seeing the Mona Lisa in person. There is no other place on Earth I want to see more than France.

Question Three –What is your current/latest painting?

It’s a fractured sort of mythical imagery, something that came to me in a dream after watching some freaky horror movie with Scott. Masked warriors astride fiery winged horses. Very hounds of hell, apocalyptic sort of painting. Lots of carmine and cinnamon colors, splashes of charcoal and ebony, bright papaya. It’s scary to be honest but I can’t leave it alone.

Question Four –What’s the biggest decision you’ve made in the past year?

Oh wow there have been a lot of big decisions for Scott and me. Probably to invest in a bigger, better website so people can find and purchase my art. I’m wired weird. I want to sell art and become famous but every time I list a painting I hide under the covers for fear of bad comments. I hear it’s the same way for all creatives. Artists, musicians, authors. We put so much of ourselves into our work. It’s a wobbly high wire to walk.

Question Five – If you could have one exotic pet what would it be and why?

Well for sure not a tiger! That show is just…wow. I’d really not ever have an exotic pet because they should be out in the wild where they belong. But if I had to own one it would be something small and not the least big aggressive. A sugar glider maybe! They’re super cute. Scott would look adorable feeding one grapes. He’d be an excellent sugar glider daddy.

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Scott is struggling. Grieving the loss of his brother, carrying the weight of his father’s expectations, and getting his ass kicked in the rink, he’s in a downward spiral. He needs a solution and fast, but when his steroid use is exposed, he’s close to losing his place at Owatonna and more importantly, on the Eagles Hockey team. Thrown out of his house, with nowhere to go and no future in sight, he only has one choice; agree to mandatory counseling, random drug tests, and get his act together. Only then will he have a chance at normal. Meeting Hayne, a senior connected to the world through his art, is a shock to the system. Moving in with him is his only option, but falling for the shy artist leaves Scott in an impossible situation, and one he can’t escape.

Hayne has always been that quiet, creative kid who sat in the back of class drawing instead of listening to the teacher. A talented artist, the shy and sensitive young man is struggling with the loss of his childhood friend. Seeing his sadness reflected in his usually colorful paintings, he decides to attend grief counseling and meets Scott, a lost soul in desperate need of light and color in his life. Taking in a homeless hockey player certainly was never part of his carefully orchestrated ten-year plan. But now that Scott is in his life, he’s discovering the joy of this man’s loving smile and tender touch is one of the most beautiful palettes on earth.

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Authors: RJ Scott, V.L. Locey
Series: OWATONNA U (Hockey Romance), Book 2
Tags: Addiction, Angst, Artist, Friends to Lovers, Hockey Player, Homeless, Hurt/Comfort, KU - Hockey, Mental Health, Opposites Attract, Paperback - Hockey, Uncaring Parents
ASIN: B07PKXSRSB
ISBN: 9781785641459

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Railers Volumes Out Now!

Lose yourself in the passion and romance of the Railers, where sexy hockey players find love, on and off the ice.

9 books, over 400,000 words, available in 3 volumes.

Railers Volume 1

Series: RAILERS VOLUMES, Book 1
Genre: Hockey
Tags: KU - Hockey, Most recent e-Book releases

Changing Lines

Can Tennant show Jared that age is just a number, and that love is all that matters?

First Season

Layton wants success, Adler wants family, how can love make both these things possible?

Deep Edge

Trent's passion, Dieter’s lies. Can love fix even the darkest of hearts?

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Railers Volume 2

Series: RAILERS VOLUMES, Book 2
Tag: KU - Hockey

Poke Check

One scorching summer in each other’s arms could never be enough for Stan and Erik.

Last Defense

Max and Ben are afraid to feel, but have to make choices that could end up breaking down their defenses and leading them back to love.

Goal Line

Fear and sadness mark Bryan’s life, can Gatlin show him that you have to trust before you can love?

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Railers Volume 3

Series: RAILERS VOLUMES, Book 3
Genre: Hockey
Tag: KU - Hockey

Neutral Zone

Jared and Ten’s love is forever, but the rocky path to the romantic Christmas Jared had planned may be hard to travel.

Hat Trick

When Stan and Erik's family expands from three to five, the journey won’t be easy, but love can always find a way.

Save The Date

Adler organizing the bachelor party, Trent supplying the wedding planner, and Stan writing a speech. What can possibly go wrong?

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Fast Five – Layton Foxx

Question One – Tell me what you do for a career.

I’m the guy at the team who cleans up social media messes, works with the team on marketing, makes sure things run smoothly with the players in their public and personal lives. A fixer is what Adler calls me.

Question Two – What was the last TV show you watched?

Homeland. It’s the final season, and I’m hooked. I just wish I could get Adler to shut up when it’s on, but he won’t stop trying to guess what is happening next. I’ve started watching it in the bathroom on my phone.

Question Three – You are organizing a dinner party with any three people alive or dead, who will you invite?

I’m assuming Adler will be there anyway, so I won’t count him. The man on the grassy knoll. Because, I mean, who wouldn’t? Leonardo DaVinci because I have so many question. And, James Dean because I had this old poster of him on my wall when I was a teenager, and he was this bad boy and… yeah…

Question Four – What the last album you listened to?

Do people still listen to albums straight off? I’m so behind on current music but I have Spotify, and I have a ton of nineties playlists, does that count?

Question Five – You’ve been given a sealed box. What is inside it?

Probably a present from Adler. But if it wasn’t, then it’s probably a consignment of T-shirts from Stan. For some unknown reason he’s taken it upon himself to make up T-shirts with slogans for what he calls team morale. The last box I got contained one hundred and twenty purple small size T-shirts,with a picture of a cookie on the front, and the slogan ‘Not right kind of chip’. Seriously, I have no idea.