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Noah had only been busking for an hour, but he was restless as hell. Couldn’t help it. He’d been that way every day he played on the street ever since he got himself Kendall’s number. The two of them had texted off and on a couple of nights here and there, but he had no idea if he’d hit the appropriate length of time to ask if she was ready to hang out or not. Noah was a fucking rocket, shooting down the street, blowing the speed limit to smithereens, and he knew that damn well - but something about Kendall seemed way too sensitive for him to go his normal speed.

So, he busked. Because eventually she had to come by and tip him, right?

That time came around 11:30 in the morning. Noah glanced down the sidewalk, eye drawn for a reason he was unaware of, but the moment he caught sight of a familiar face making her way downtown, he lit up like a spotlight. And, because he was quite extra, if he did say so himself, he slid into a song he’d only recently transcribed for his violin: Flaws, the very one she’d said was her favorite.Fingers raced to keep with the chunky, thick harmonies to the best of his ability, while he sang the lyrics softly, his lower tenor voice that he still wasn’t quite used to filling the air on the sidewalk.

Coins and a few bills scattered in his violin case, but he was deadset on keeping his eyes on Kendall’s, looking far more like a mischievous fae than a man. Only when he finished the song, quite expertly if he did say so himself - and he did - he took a little bow.

⭐📖🤖 The Boyfriend Algorithm 🤖📖⭐

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Coming October 22nd

About the Book:

A sexy, feel-good rom-com from New York Times bestselling author Kendall Ryan about the world's most advanced boyfriend—and the one woman he never saw coming.

Ruby Hart’s life is falling apart.

Her bakery is barely staying afloat, her ex just got engaged, and her mother won’t stop sending her dating profiles. The last thing Ruby needs is another problem.

Then a man crashes through her window.

A very confused man.

A very handsome man.

A very naked man.

He has no belly button, no memories, and he might not be entirely... human. According to the control panel hidden beneath his ribs, he’s one of the decommissioned companion synths—obsolete artificial humans with superior intelligence, questionable social skills, and absolutely no understanding of personal boundaries.

Aiden doesn’t understand sarcasm, doesn’t know why he’s not allowed to watch Ruby sleep, and can’t explain why his systems reroute every time she walks into a room. But he’s willing to learn—especially the part where he pretends to be her boyfriend for one weekend.

One wedding. One fake relationship. One synthetic man who’s becoming a little less machine every day. Protective. Possessive. Loyal. And increasingly impossible to resist.

The Boyfriend Algorithm is a funny, heartfelt rom-com with a devoted artificial hero, very real chemistry, found family, and a love story worth rewriting the rules for.

✨ Fake dating

✨ He falls first (and hard)

✨ Socially clueless hero

✨ Learning to be human

✨ Touch-starved (in his own way)

✨ Obsessed with her

✨ Forced proximity

✨ Spice, banter, and heart

🤖💗📖 Synthetic boyfriend. Real feelings. 📖💗🤖

Ice Cold Chemistry

Short Blurb:

The team’s broodiest defenseman meets his match in a sunshine yoga instructor who doesn’t take no for an answer.

Banks doesn’t do relationships. Doesn’t do feelings. Doesn’t do yoga.

Winnie’s about to change all that.

Ice Cold Chemistry is a grumpy-sunshine hockey romance, and oh... it’s going to get spicy!

About the Book:

She’s the distraction the team can’t afford.

He’s the solution no one saw coming.

Winnie Garrett is done with men. After a toxic relationship left her second-guessing everything, she’s focused on one thing: her dream job as the New York Knights’ new yoga instructor.

Banks Callahan doesn’t do relationships. Or feelings. Or anything that requires letting people get close. Growing up in the foster system taught him not to need anyone—and definitely not to want something he could lose.

So when the team’s new yoga instructor becomes an unexpected locker-room distraction threatening their playoff focus, Banks comes up with a solution so ridiculous it just might work.

Fake dating.

If the guys think Winnie is his, they’ll back off. It’s simple locker room code: you don’t touch what’s claimed—like calling dibs on the last slice of pizza.

The problem?

Nothing about Winnie Garrett is simple.

She’s warmth and laughter and everything Banks has spent years convincing himself he doesn’t need. She makes him want things he can’t have. Makes him feel things he doesn’t understand.

He was never supposed to fall for her.

But somewhere between fake hand-holding, pretend nicknames, and very real late-night moments, the line between “just for show” and “dangerously real” starts to blur.

Ice Cold Chemistry is a slow-burn hockey romance featuring fake dating, a grumpy hero, a sunshine heroine, and the relationship neither of them planned—but both might need.

Buy Links:

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ICE COLD CHEMISTRY 🏒✨

💙 a broody hockey defenseman

💙 a sunshine yoga instructor

💙 explosive chemistry

Tropes:

• Grumpiest of grumpy/sunshine

• Hockey Player x Yoga Instructor

• Fake Dating

• Possessive / protective hero

• Opposites attract

• Brooding hero softened by sunshine heroine

My Review

5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ice Cold Chemistry by Kendall Ryan

Winnie Garrett, after a toxic relationship, has vowed to stay away from men. She’s excited about her new job as a yoga instructor for the New York Knights. However, the hockey players seem immature and dismissive of her, acting as if they’ve never encountered a woman before. Worried that if they don’t take her yoga sessions seriously, she won’t be able to meet her boss’s goals for improved flexibility and reduced injuries. Failing to achieve these goals could lead to her job loss. Her best friend, Tori, steps in to help her find a solution to this problem. But they sure didn’t think of him…

Banks Callahan notices that the team is distracted because they’re all fixated on the gorgeous new yoga instructor, making it difficult for them to concentrate on their jobs. With an important playoff push approaching, someone needs to address this issue, but he doesn’t want to be the one to do it. He tends to not get involved in drama, keeping his head down, doing his job, and going home. That’s how he has survived this long, but the image of her shaking won’t leave his head. However, he soon discovers an option that might work—fake dating. After all, no one would touch anything that belonged to him, right?

“This is what I’ve been waiting for. This is what I didn’t know I needed. Every nerve in my body is on fire, every thought in my head reduced to more, more, more.”

THE WILD CARD

Release Date: Aug 20, 2026

Will be available as an ebook, paperback and audiobook and will be going into Kindle

Unlimited upon release.

Tropes:

• Grumpy/Sunshine

• Fake Dating

• Roommates to Lovers

• Forced Proximity

• Touch-Starved Hero

• Slow Burn

• He Falls First (Realizes Last)

About the Book:

He buried a fake-girlfriend clause in a seventeen-page roommate agreement.

She signed it without reading.

What could possibly go wrong?

FBI agent Crew Jensen thrives on control. His rigid routines keep his anxiety and OCD in check: no chaos, no distractions, and definitely no relationships.

Until his boss threatens to transfer him to Alaska.

Desperate to prove he has "roots," Crew makes a wildly unhinged decision: he slips a fake-girlfriend clause into his roommate contract, hoping his next applicant won't read it carefully.

Emmie Marshall signs on page seventeen without blinking.

Emmie is everything Crew is not—warm, messy, impossibly chatty—and currently racing a cookbook deadline that could make or break her career. She needs stability. He needs a convincing relationship. It's a simple, mutually beneficial arrangement.

Fake dates. Public hand-holding. Mandatory cuddling sessions (her counter-demand—he's just so touch-starved and grumpy).

The more they pretend, the harder it becomes to remember where the contract ends and real feelings begin.

Because she makes the counting in his head stop. He makes her feel like she doesn't have to try so hard.

Suddenly, the arrangement that was supposed to be temporary feels dangerously real.

A grumpy, touch-starved hero, a sunshine heroine who won’t take no for an answer, forced proximity, roommates-to-lovers, fake dating that feels way too real, and one very judgmental cat.

Buy Links:

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Audio: coming soon!

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KNIGHTS LIKE THESE

Release July 23, 2026

Will be available in ebook, print and audiobook

Links:

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Goodreads: https://geni.us/grknights

Blurb:

He was my first kiss. My first everything. And then he married someone else.

I've been in love with Archer Lockwood since I was fourteen years old. I've never told him. I stood at his wedding, held his newborn twins in the hospital, and cried in my car afterward. I smiled through every moment that should have been mine—because that's what best friends do.

Now Archer is divorced, overwhelmed, and raising two three-year-olds alone during an NHL season. When he calls for help, I pack a suitcase and fly to New York.

The plan was simple: help with the kids, keep my distance, and don't fall in love.

The plan lasted about seventy-two hours.

Because his twins have me wrapped around their fingers. His house feels like home. And he keeps looking at me like he's finally seeing something he missed.

I've waited years for Archer to look at me like that.

I just wasn't ready for what happens when he finally does.

Tropes:

Single dad x Nanny

Hockey goalie x ballet dancer

Childhood best friends

Forced Proximity

Touch Starved Hero

Slow Burn

THE HOCKEY PROBLEM is out now! 💙 🏒✨

Description

He’s the NHL’s most guarded single dad.

She’s the one woman who can’t afford to fall for him.

Tori Wells didn’t fight her way into the NHL just to become another cautionary tale. As a team physical therapist, she lives by strict rules: heal the players, protect her career, and never—ever—cross the line with a hockey player.

Then she’s assigned to Zayden Bishop.

On the ice, he’s untouchable—a French-Canadian superstar with a reputation for being cold, private, and impossible to read. Off the ice, he’s a devoted single father running on discipline, stubbornness, and too little sleep. Until a serious shoulder injury threatens his season—and the stability he’s built for his six-year-old daughter.

Tori is in charge of his rehab. Full oversight. Daily sessions.

No room for mistakes.

No room for attraction.

Except Zayden isn’t what she expected.

The more time they spend together—early mornings, quiet road trips, late-night conversations—the harder it becomes to pretend this is just professional. Because Zayden doesn’t just need his shoulder fixed. He needs someone who sees the man behind the jersey.

And Tori is dangerously close to becoming that someone.

Crossing the line could cost her everything she’s worked for. And Zayden can’t risk bringing anyone into his daughter’s life unless he’s certain they’ll stay.

What You're Getting:

🏒 Hockey romance

💙 Single dad

🩺 Team physical therapist

🚫 Forbidden

🔥 Slow burn tension

🇨🇦 French-Canadian hero

💘 He Falls First / He Falls Harder

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My Review

5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Hockey Problem, the first book in the new Off The Ice Series by Kendall Ryan, is a glorious, entertaining, emotional, and exciting start to the series.

I couldn’t get enough of these two in this tense and slow-burn workplace romance. It’s between single dad, French-Canadian superstar NHL player Zayden Bishop and physical therapist Tori Wells. Tori knows the rules after witnessing what happened to her friend, so she lives by a strict work ethic. She focuses on healing the players, protecting her career, and never crossing the line with a hockey player. However, she wasn’t expecting an instant attraction to Zayden, who has a reputation for being cold and impossible to read.

This is a slow-burn romance at its finest—charming, emotional, heartfelt, and filled with tension and forbidden longing. I couldn’t help but swoon, fall, and cheer for these two as I fell in love right along with them. And Maisie, Zayden’s daughter, captured my heart as well!

This story was so captivating that I couldn’t put it down until I finished it. It’s definitely worth the read.

Ice Cold Chemistry

**** Releasing June 25, 2026 from Author Kendall Ryan ****

Will be available as an ebook, paperback and audiobook and will be going into Kindle Unlimited upon release.

Tropes:

• Grumpiest of grumpy/sunshine

• Hockey Player x Yoga Instructor

• Fake Dating

• Possessive / protective hero

• Opposites attract

• Brooding hero softened by sunshine heroine

• Physical tension (yoga moments!)

About the Book:

She’s the distraction the team can’t afford. He’s the solution no one saw coming.

Winnie Garrett is done with men. After a toxic relationship left her second-guessing everything, she’s focused on one thing: her dream job as the New York Knights’ new yoga instructor.

Banks Callahan doesn’t do relationships. Or feelings. Or anything that requires letting people get close. Growing up in the foster system taught him not to need anyone—and definitely not to want something he could lose.

So when the team’s new yoga instructor becomes an unexpected locker-room distraction threatening their playoff focus, Banks comes up with a solution so ridiculous it just might work.

Fake dating.

If the guys think Winnie is his, they’ll back off. It’s simple locker room code: you don’t touch what’s claimed—like calling dibs on the last slice of pizza.

The problem?

Nothing about Winnie Garrett is simple.

She’s warmth and laughter and everything Banks has spent years convincing himself he doesn’t need. She makes him want things he can’t have. Makes him feel things he doesn’t understand.

He was never supposed to fall for her.

But somewhere between fake hand-holding, pretend nicknames, and very real late-night moments, the line between “just for show” and “dangerously real” starts to blur.

Ice Cold Chemistry is a slow-burn hockey romance featuring fake dating, a grumpy hero, a sunshine heroine, and the relationship neither of them planned—but both might need.

Buy Links:

Amazon: https://amzn.to/4b7EHYj

Audio: coming soon!

Goodreads: https://geni.us/ICCGR