Higgins & Lady

De Jager, Pieter

Absolute Books

Mike Bravo. Knights in shining … camo.\nIris\nI live for adrenaline. The thrill of the chase. And because I work for Mike Bravo, a private black-ops firm, it’s my job to go into dangerous situations.\nBut when we’re called in to extract a military team from a hostile situation, the thrill is so much better. Because one of those men happen to be the golden boy from my basic training days.\nBrock “Saint” Harlow was a walking Captain America in the flesh. The perfect soldier.\nNow my boss wants to recruit him, and I can’t wait to rub it in his face that he was rescued by me. The class clown.\nI’m not called Iris “I require intense supervision” for nothing.\nSaint\nMilitary life is all I’ve known since I was born. I was raised to be a soldier.\nBut when a top-secret mission fails, I find myself suddenly discharged with nowhere to go.\nMike Bravo saved my life, and they want me to join them, but there’s one small problem.\nIsaac “Iris” Griffin.\nHe’s as irresistibly snarky as he always was, only there’s a big difference this time. I’m no longer closeted or scared to live my truth. And the truth is, I’ve always wanted him.\nIt’s against Mike Bravo’s rules to fraternize with other team members, and I always follow orders.\nBut something tells me Iris might be worth the insubordination.

Mike Bravo Ops: Iris

Romance

Finley, Eden

Military

EZRA 
Partying, dudes, and hockey. What more could a gay NHL player want? 
If it weren't for Anton Hayes, my life would be perfect. 
Not that he affects my life in any way. At all. That would imply I care what the winger from Philly thinks of me. 
Which I don't. 
Not even a one-night stand with him can thaw his misplaced animosity toward me. 
He says I'm the one with the ego, but he can talk. He rivals me for most egotistical puck boy in the league. 
I hate him as much as he hates me. Even if I crave a repeat. 
ANTON 
When it comes to hockey, I'm all about the game. 
I've worked for years to be one of the best in the league, and l've done it without splashing my orientation all over the tabloids. 
My hockey image is one I've carefully cultivated, and after one night with Ezra Palaszczuk, I risk it all. 
He's cocky, obnoxious, and has an ego bigger than Massachusetts. And okay, maybe he's the sexiest man I've ever known. 
We'll never get along. Not when we sleep together. Not even when my possessive streak awakens. 
That doesn't stop us from falling into bed together over and over again.

Egotistical Puckboy (Puckboys)

Literature & Fiction

James, Saxon

Genre Fiction

EZRA\nPartying, dudes, and hockey. What more could a gay NHL player want? 
If it weren't for Anton Hayes, my life would be perfect. 
Not that he affects my life in any way. At all. That would imply I care what the winger from Philly thinks of me. 
Which I don't. 
Not even a one-night stand with him can thaw his misplaced animosity toward me. 
He says I'm the one with the ego, but he can talk. He rivals me for most egotistical puck boy in the league. 
I hate him as much as he hates me. Even if I crave a repeat.\nANTON 
When it comes to hockey, I'm all about the game. 
I've worked for years to be one of the best in the league, and l've done it without splashing my orientation all over the tabloids. 
My hockey image is one I've carefully cultivated, and after one night with Ezra Palaszczuk, I risk it all. 
He's cocky, obnoxious, and has an ego bigger than Massachusetts. And okay, maybe he's the sexiest man I've ever known. 
We'll never get along. Not when we sleep together. Not even when my possessive streak awakens. 
That doesn't stop us from falling into bed together over and over again.

Egotistical Puckboy

Eden Finley

Saxon James

Sports

TRIPP\nThe worst part of being in love with my straight best friend is the fact he’s too oblivious to see it.\nYears of pining have left me exhausted, and I need a break from Dex. I need space to get over my feelings. But when his relationship falls apart and he turns to me for comfort, I cave immediately.\nIf there’s one thing I hate more than being hurt, it’s seeing Dex struggle. I can’t leave him in a time of need, even if my friends say it’s my biggest downfall.\nThey say Dexter Mitchale is my weakness, but if that’s true, I don’t want to be strong.\nDEX\nI’ve always been the dumb one. It’s what I’m known for, and usually I don’t let it get to me.\nI have hockey, and I have my best friend, Tripp. What more do I need? To settle down? No thank you. Marriage? Hard pass. According to ex-girlfriends, that makes me “irresponsible.”\nBut the solution I come up with to get over my fear of commitment might be my dumbest idea yet. Not only does it have team management breathing down my neck, but it puts a strain on my friendship with Tripp.\nThis PR nightmare could lose me the only person I’ve ever loved. Losing girlfriends is nothing. Losing Tripp? It’s not an option.\nI’ll do whatever it takes to keep him.

Irresponsible Puckboy (Puckboys)

TRAV\nI remember the first time I met Dylan Rodriguez. It was one sweaty encounter I’ll never forget.\nThe second time we met, he arrested me. I can still see the hot scowl on his beautiful face as he slapped handcuffs on me and realized I was … me.\nDylan’s main goal in life is to forget he ever met me. My goal is to make him mine.\nTurns out, I'm better at this game than he is.\nDYLAN\nWhen my law enforcement career falls to pieces in front of my own eyes, I don’t know who I can trust.\nI have nowhere to go. No one to turn to.\nAsking Trav for help is a last resort, but I’m desperate.\nIf he can’t get me out of this mess, I may as well turn myself over to the guys hunting me down.\nI’m not sure which will be more difficult: protecting my life or my heart.\nBecause when it comes to love, my heart wants what my brain doesn’t. It wants Travis West.

Mike Bravo Ops: Rogue

Contemporary

If you never fooled around with someone of the same gender, did you even go to high school?\nPEYTON\nMy whole life I’ve had the pressure of being Marcus Talon and Shane Miller’s football prodigy. I’ve been destined to follow in my NFL-playing fathers’ footsteps since the day I was born. I usually thrive under pressure, but as senior year looms, it all gets too much, and I need an outlet. The last place I thought I’d find my release is at Levi Vanderbilt’s graduation party. In his bed. With him.\nIt’s a one-time thing. An experimentation. And while it was fun, we agree that being with guys isn’t for either of us. I’m happy to accept that until he turns up in California.\nI haven’t had to think about him for four years, but now I can’t get him out of my head.\nLEVI\nComing to Franklin University for grad school to follow a boy I hooked up with once is the stupidest thing I could have done.\nWe said that high school didn’t mean anything, but the truth is, that night made me realize who I truly am, and since then, I’ve been trying to find that sense of freedom again.\nI’m hoping it can be with him, but everything I’ve heard around campus points to Peyton not having the same life-changing revelation I did.\nAnd if that’s the case, did I just move across the country for a straight guy?\nKill me now.

Football Royalty (Franklin U)

Shameless Puckboy (Puckboys)

LGBTQ+ Romance

FOSTER: 
“Look out for Zach and don’t hit on him.”My brother’s request sounds easy enough. Keep an eye out for his best friend on campus and keep my hands to myself.Easy.Even if Zach is a quintessential nerd, who I’ve always thought was cute, I don’t have the time to think with my … stick.There’s only one stick I should be focused on this year, and that’s my hockey stick. My goal once I graduate is to get an NHL contract.The last thing I need is a distraction. On or off the ice.Only, keeping to the rules is harder than I thought it would be.\nZACH: 
People confuse me.And no one more than Foster Grant.I’ve barely spoken two words to him in the whole time I’ve known him, but the second I step foot on campus, he’s impossible to shake.I can never anticipate his next move. And whenever we’re together, my next move is a total mystery as well.I want to give in to him, but that might mean coming clean about something I’ve never been bothered about before.I’m still carrying my V-card.And I think it’s time to turn it in.

Power Plays & Straight A's: Special Edition

JACOBS: For the last three years, I’ve lived and breathed hockey with one goal: team captain. There’s only one thing standing in my way. TJ Beckett. Beck is irresponsible and immature, and I’ve hated him since the moment we met freshman year. Yet, the coaches see something in him I obviously can’t, and they refuse to choose between us. The captain spot is going to a team vote. And the team thinks that what we need are a bunch of challenges to prove our worth. Challenges that have nothing to do with hockey. Challenges that are throwing me and Beck together. And he’s still as infuriating as ever. BECK: I have no idea why Christopher Jacobs hates me, and I can’t say I care. I like pushing his buttons, but the guy needs to loosen up. I’m going to win these stupid challenges easily and spend my senior year as hockey king on this campus. Tormenting Jacobs at the same time will just be a bonus. Even if I’m getting confusing feelings toward him, I won’t let it hold me back. When it comes to competing, I’m all in, and nothing will get between me and the W.

Face Offs & Cheap Shots: Special Edition

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