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The snail doc wants a baby. I volunteered to do the deed. But it isn't long before I realize a “donation” will never be enough. I want to be a dad, but most of all, I want her.

Franky

When confronted with the cold, hard facts of her diminishing chances to be a mom, what's a woman of science to do?

Make a spreadsheet of eligible donors, of course.

Finding a man for life is not in the cards, but one for this singular purpose? I can do that. As the daughter of a Chicago Rebels legend and an expert in the field of gastropods—more commonly known as snails and slugs—I have plenty of choices in the worlds of both hockey and academia. The selection process should be easy, especially as my methodology has already eliminated several options, including Jason Isner, childhood nemesis and recently acquired defenseman for the Rebels. I've always considered him arrogant, cruel, and to be honest, not the brightest bulb.

I'm rarely wrong. But I might have been mistaken about Jason …

Jason

I surprised even myself when I offered to be Franky St. James's baby daddy, but fatherhood has been a dream of mine forever. If I can achieve my goal without the hassle of a relationship, even better. I won't be one of those “pump and dump” donors, though. I want the whole package: nighttime feedings, shopping for cute onesies, teaching my kid to skate. I'm in it for life, and as Franky and I travel this road together, I start to imagine what that life might look like. Not just a baby, but a family of my own.

The thing is, the professor has all sorts of hypotheses about jocks and relationships, and it's going to take a lot of persuasion—sexy and otherwise—to prove her wrong. She might think the mating rituals of her beloved snails are the only “coupling” worth studying, but I'm determined to show her that when it comes to seeking a mate, this player is as driven as any species in the animal kingdom.

It’s Free!

I’ve been texting the wife I lost, the woman I loved beyond measure . . . Now someone else has answered back.

Gunnar Bond is broken.

Three years ago, he lived through the car crash that took his wife and twins away from him—though “lived” barely describes his current state. Giving up professional hockey, going off grid, and drinking himself into oblivion are his coping mechanisms. Another is texting his dead wife about his days without her. Therapeutic? Doubtful. Crazy? Definitely. But those messages into the ether are virtually the only thing stopping him from spiraling to even darker places.

Until someone texts back . . .

Sadie Yates is losing it.

Suddenly guardian to a little sister she doesn’t know and a misbehaving hound she’d rather not know at all, she’s had to upend her (sort of) glamorous life in LA and move back to Chicago. The nanny has quit, the money’s running out, and her job is on the line. The last thing she needs is her sister’s hockey camp counselor, a judgmental Viking type, telling her she sucks at this parenting lark. Thank the goddess for her sweet, sensitive, and—fingers crossed—sexy text buddy who always knows the right thing to say. In the same city at last, they can finally see if their online chemistry is mirrored in real life. She just needs to set up a meeting …

Book Description

The next book in the Hot in Chicago Rookies series features playboy firefighter, Sam Killian!

I might be a rookie Chicago firefighter, but I’m on top of the world. I’ve just earned my spot on Rescue Squad at legendary Engine 6, can get all the action I want both in and out of the bedroom, and am possessed of an enviable sneaker collection. Nothing can harsh my vibe except her—Cassandra Ferguson, my brother’s sister-in-law, or as I affectionately label her: the blister-in-law. Ever since I met her, she’s looked down her perky little nose at me, never mind that I’m a good foot taller. Apparently, I offended her with a few risqué jokes and an offer for a fun, no-strings night—crimes that have relegated me to lower than dirt in St. Cassandra's eyes.

These days we’re at a stalemate. Don’t get along, can’t get along. Only when tragedy strikes, we have no choice but to put our animosity aside for the sake of our hurting niece and nephew, who need us now more than ever. As co-guardians, Cassie and I are enemy combatants in an uneasy truce, flailing around in a no-man’s land of grief and lust, forced to work as a team.

Thing is, when Cassie and I team up—when we really work together—the results are explosive. In a sexy way. In an amazing way. Maybe … in every way. But with stakes this high, we can’t get it wrong.

Even though it feels so, so right.

My Review

5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I love enemies to lovers tropes and this one was fantastic. I devoured it! I will warn you though that this book is emotional, it deals with death and survivor’s quilt after a tragedy that brings Sam and Cass together.

Ms Meader did a fantastic job with her characters as they navigated their loss, while becoming co-parents with someone they didn’t get along with. And then watching these characters put the children first and come together was such a heartwarming experience. I loved Sam and Cass’s journey!

Sam Killian, took a while to finally settle and figure out his place, but now he knows who he’s meant to be and that is a firefighter, someone who makes a difference. He is a rookie firefighter who just earned a spot on the Rescue Squad at Engine 6 in his hometown of Chicago. But his first day on the job the call to an accident changes his life forever. When he finds his brother and sister-in-law in a fatal car cash and he could do nothing to save them.

Cassandra Ferguson has always had a problem with her sister’s brother-in-law Sam. So when he shows up in New York she doesn’t know why he is there. Until he tells her that her sister and his brother were killed in a car accident. Cass knows that her sister asked her to be the guardian for her niece and nephew but at the will she finds out that she will be sharing that responsibility with the bane of her existence, Sam.

These two have so much to work through as they struggle with survivors guilt and grief. But as they focus on the children and their issues it cements a bond that was never there before. Soon the close proximity to each other as well as the sizzling chemistry between them helps bring them closer still. But will Cass ever give Sam a real shot with his reputation?

I loved this story so much! The gratitude that something beautiful was borne from all the pain knows no bounds.

Product Description

She has her heart set on a hockey player.

Any hockey player.

When the new general manager of the Chicago Rebels tasks Tara Becker with faking it with one of his players to help clean up the naughty jock's act, she's all over it. She'll make that misbehaving hunk of muscle look good and get her dream guy into the bargain.

Only the path from fake to real is riddled with thorns . . .

New Rebels GM Hale Fitzpatrick thinks ditzy blonde and wannabe WAG Tara is the perfect solution to his PR problem - until she isn't. Soon Fitz realizes that maybe he doesn't have control of the strings after all . . . especially when he starts to fall for his pretty little puppet.

A fake relationship hockey romance - with a twist!

My Review

5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Jock Wanted is the sixth book in Rookie Rebels Series by Kate Meader.

I loved this story so hard. It hit me hard with all the feels. Which surprised me because going in I wasn’t too fond of Tara and her gold digger ways. She is quite vocal about marrying a young, hung, hockey jock, to take care of her. But she was completely the opposite of what she portrays herself to be and was such a remarkably genuine, and totally relatable character. I couldn’t get enough of these two.

When the Chicago Rebels new general manager needs someone to help him clean up one of his player’s misbehaving reputation, he asks Tara Becker to start a fake dating relationship with the jock.

Tara Becker has always wanted to get married to a hunky, hockey player, so at the request to have a fake relationship with a hot, hockey player, she is more than willing to help him look good. But she sure didn’t count on him!

Hale Fitzpatrick thinks he has picked the perfect person for his public relations solution, but he so underestimated her. He just can’t get this curvy, beautiful, vivacious blonde out of his head and with every conversation, their sizzling chemistry and sexual tension is getting harder and harder to walk away from. He sees a side to Tara no one else has seen or knows anything about.

This is fun, charming, entertaining and full of sizzling chemistry and sexual tension that jumps off the page. I couldn’t put this down and read this addictive story in one setting. You don’t want to miss this one! Loved it!

Lives are on the line at Engine 6 … and so are hearts.

Running an engine crew in the Chicago Fire Department is my dream job, and between that, my awesome kid, and my nosey sister, I lead a pretty great life. Bruised and burned by my marriage, I don’t have time for dating or drama, but I always have time for pie. And when I share a slice of cherry with a sweet redhead, followed by the hottest, dirtiest, most pulse-pounding kiss of my life, I start to rethink the possibilities.

Until that woman walks into my firehouse and upends my well-ordered world.

Abby Sullivan is now a rookie firefighter on my crew and a threat to my self-control more dangerous than a five-alarm blaze. My job is to watch her six when all I want is to watch her fall into my bed. Lust has no place in the firehouse, and a distraction like Abby with her electric blue eyes, waves of flame-red hair, and freckles I want to map with my tongue, is one I can ill afford.

Because one wrong move … and it could all go up in smoke.

Up in Smoke is the first in the brand new Hot in Chicago Rookies series about firefighters navigating the trials of new jobs and sizzling romances as they find their place in the world and the love of a lifetime.

My Review

5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This was a four alarm blazing fire! This was the best story taking my breath away, and putting me firmly on the edge of my seat from the very first delicious meet-cute. I will never be able to think of cherry pie again without picturing these two and their witty and smoldering banter as well as a raging inferno of a first kiss that set every part of me ablaze! And every interaction between the main characters pulls you in more as you can’t wait to experience what’s yet to come.

Abby Sullivan has finally graduated from the fire academy. With her father the fire commissioner you would think he would be proud but he isn’t. Her mother died being a fire fighter and he has tried to stop her at every step along the way. But she is not scared this has been her dream to follow in her mother’s footsteps and to work in the same firehouse engine number six! But when she shows up for that first shift she can’t believe that her LT is the man she met over cherry pie at the diner.

Roman Rossi moved to Chicago after a devastating divorce. He has full custody of his daughter and lives with his older twin sister. He has moved up in rank since he arrived in Chicago months ago. But this morning He can’t get the gorgeous red head he met the other night out of his head. But when he is interrupted by his new rookie that starts today, he can’t believe his bad luck when he finally learns his mystery woman’s name, Abby Sullivan.

UP IN SMOKE

Kate Meader

Release Date: February 22

Lives are on the line at Engine 6 … and so are hearts.

Newly-minted firefighter Abby Sullivan is exactly where she wants to be: Chicago Fire Department’s Engine 6, the station where her mom blazed a trail as one of the first female firefighters in the city. The first to fall in the line of duty, too. All Abby wants is to succeed, but that’s a tough proposition when people only see a feel-good story, a token woman failing at a man’s job, or the princess in need of protection. And the man tasked with watching her six?

Lieutenant Roman Rossi, the one person she can’t let close.

Having the daughter of his boss and nemesis under his wing shouldn’t be a problem for Roman—he’s a professional and can treat her like any other firefighter rookie. Except she happens to be the gorgeous woman he once shared a slice of cherry pie with, followed by the hottest, sweetest, most pulse-pounding kiss of his life. He didn’t know her name but he had planned to find out.

Now Roman knows exactly who Abby is: a threat to his self-control more dangerous than a five-alarm blaze. Lust has no place in the firehouse, and a distraction like Abby with her electric blue eyes, waves of flame-red hair, and freckles Roman wants to map with his tongue, is one he can ill afford.

Because one wrong move … and it could all go up in smoke.

Up in Smoke is the first in the brand new Hot in Chicago Rookies series about firefighters navigating the trials of new jobs and sizzling romances as they find their place in the world and the love of a lifetime.

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Meet Kate Meader:

Originally from Ireland, USA Today bestselling author Kate Meader cut her romance reader teeth on Maeve Binchy and Jilly Cooper novels, with some Harlequins thrown in for variety. Give her tales about brooding mill owners, oversexed equestrians, and men who can rock an apron, fire hose, or hockey stick, and she’s there. Now based in Chicago, she writes sexy contemporary romance with big-hearted guys and strong heroines - and heroes - who can match their men quip for quip.

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A holiday entry in the Rookie Rebels series, featuring a player who’s been here from the start . . .

Chicago Rebels goalie Erik gets his shot at love . . . but first he'll have to figure out what he did to offend the woman he's crushed on forever.

Casey Higgins, assistant to the Chicago Rebels owner, has a smile for everyone who comes into the front office—everyone but goalie Erik Jorgenson. And he has no idea why. For the last year, she’s refused to give him a kind word, and finally, he’s had enough. At the Rebels holiday party he’ll uncover the root of their mysterious conflict and show this woman that goalkeepers do their best work . . . on their knees.

Can a little Yuletide cheer get Erik into Casey’s good graces, warm bed, and frozen heart? Or will he fumble the puck and lose his chance? Join the Chicago Rebels this holiday season and find out if Erik is as good at saving Christmas as he is at saving goals!