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KNIGHTS LIKE THESE

Release July 23, 2026

Will be available in ebook, print and audiobook

Links:

Kindle: https://amzn.to/4nH9QGy

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

Kindle: https://amzn.to/3NIjzyQ

Paperback: https://amzn.to/4sGBKnU

Audible: https://geni.us/AudioHockeyProblem

Goodreads: https://geni.us/hockeyprbGR

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

The Grump Next Door

Kendall Ryan

NEW RELEASE

Dean Whitaker is ready to ruin your peace...in the best way. 😈

😒☀️ Grumpy / sunshine

🔥 Enemies to lovers

🏡 Forced proximity

🌲 Small town chaos

🐐 A naughty goat

PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION

One guest house. One week. One slow-burn disaster waiting to happen.

Dean Whitaker has zero interest in weddings, fairy lights, or the perky woman currently turning his guest house into a scented-candle crime scene.

He’s a divorce attorney. He thrives on prenups, logic, and not getting glitter on his suits.

Poppy Monroe is a wedding planner with a checklist for everything—except how to survive living next door to a hot, brooding, tightly wound lawyer—aka the groom’s brother.

They’re opposites in every way—except for the undeniable chemistry neither of them wants to talk about.

Their mission: survive one week of wedding chaos.

Her vibe: sunshine and glitter pens.

His vibe: whiskey and restraint.

Opposites attract. Then they combust.

LINKS:

Kindle https://amzn.to/4p2O3by

Audible https://geni.us/grumpaudible

Paperback https://amzn.to/4qvMMKJ

Goodreads https://geni.us/GrumpND

About the Author

Kendall Ryan is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of flirty, feel-good romance filled with heart, heat, and plenty of banter. An American author who has lived all over the world, her books have sold millions of copies and been translated into multiple languages. She writes swoony heroes, bold heroines, and stories that make you laugh, blush, and fall in love. When she’s not dreaming up new plotlines, she is a proud mom to two amazing sons and the wife of her real-life hero.

My Review

5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Grump Next Door was pure romantic comedy perfection! This is an opposites attract romance that was full of charm, sparks, bickering, snarky banter, a crazy goat named George, many laugh-out-loud moments, heartfelt emotion and a sizzling attraction that might melt your kindle. I couldn’t get enough.

This is Dean Whitaker and Poppy Monroe’s journey and what a wonderful, chaos filled journey it is!

Dean, a grumpy and emotionally guarded lawyer, has no interest in love, weddings, or happily-ever-afters, except when it comes to prenuptial agreements or divorces. However, he finds himself hosting his brother’s wedding at his own home, and then the wedding planner arrives.

Poppy, a wedding planner, always finds the silver lining in every situation. Her positive attitude, sunshine optimism, determination, and a meticulously crafted checklist enable her to bring her clients’ dream weddings to life. But she doesn’t have a checklist to survive the week with him and their undeniable chemistry!

“ Everything with you is complicated.“

I absolutely fell in love with this book. Poppy and Dean’s slow-burn chemistry is pure perfection, and I was rooting for them from the very beginning. The laugh-out-loud moments, the tension, the push and pull, and the longing had me giggling, sighing, and swooning for these two characters. With a perfect HEA!

Main Character Energy

By New York Times bestselling author Kendall Ryan

Purchase Links:

Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/Main-Character-Energy-Kendall-Ryan-ebook/dp/B0FHF8TWM8/

Paperback: https://bookshop.org/p/books/main-character-energy-kendall-ryan/5ce9adb684308162

Audiobook: https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Main-Character-Energy/dp/B0GD2MXQ3T/

About the Book:

A sizzling, grumpy-sunshine small-town romance with heart, heat, and a hero you will melt for!

Andi Callahan prefers the quiet company of the dead.

As a morgue tech in a sleepy coastal town outside Boston, she lives for silence, predictability, and zero small talk.

Living people? Too loud. Too messy. Too nosy.

The dead don’t interrupt her, meddle in her life, or flirt with her.

Cole Hartley does.

He’s everything Andi avoids—charming, persistent, and entirely too good-looking.

The town’s beloved firefighter-paramedic has a hero complex the size of Massachusetts and a dangerous talent for cracking Andi’s ice-cold composure.

What starts as a harmless bet to make her smile turns into something neither of them saw coming. Now Cole’s determined to prove that life is worth the mess—and that love might be the riskiest, most rewarding thing of all.

Funny, heartfelt, and impossible to put down, this opposites-attract romance asks what happens when a woman who’s made peace with solitude finally lets herself feel everything.

Perfect for fans of quirky slow-burns, grumpy-sunshine, spicy banter, enemies to lovers, and one very determined golden retriever in human form.

What to Expect in Main Character Energy:

Golden Retriever Hero x Black Cat Heroine

Grumpy/Sunshine

Opposites Attract

Small Town Romance

Workplace Romance

Slow Burn

Found Family

Meddling Friends & Coworkers

Past Trauma/Emotional Wounds

Banter-Heavy Romance

About Kendall Ryan

Kendall Ryan is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of flirty, feel-good romance filled with heart, heat, and plenty of banter. An American author who has lived all over the world, her books have sold millions of copies and been translated into multiple languages in countries around the world. She writes swoony heroes, bold heroines, and stories that make you laugh, blush, and fall in love.

When she’s not dreaming up new plotlines, she is a proud mom to two amazing sons and the wife of her real-life hero..

Website: https://www.kendallryanbooks.com/

My Review

5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Main Character Energy was a well written, entertaining, fun, opposites attract, reverse grumpy sunshine, romance that I couldn’t get enough of.

The characters were perfectly matched, their banter was witty and full of charm, their chemistry full of sizzle and heat. But it was Cole’s warmth and sincerity that helped Andi open up about her past and finally let him in.

This emotional and heartwarming story captured my heart, from their first encounter, and held my attention long into the night until the last word was read.

This is Cole Hartley and Andi Callahan’s journey to a happily-ever-after and I didn’t want it to end!

Cole is the town’s hunky firefighter/ EMT, and he has a problem you see because he has a raging crush on a certain morgue tech…

Andi Callahan loves her job in the town morgue. It’s quiet, she likes it that way, she does her job and mostly everyone leaves her alone except for Cole and his…bet that started at the firehouse.

“THE ANDI BRACKET.“

“Will Cole get Andi to go out with him?”

He even has given her all eight stages of the bet written on a sheet of paper. How’s that for honesty?

And one by one he lets her know when they have reached each stage. Swoon! I giggled, I cried and I swooned hard for Cole as I cheered these two on! Can Cole get Andi to see that there is more to life with him by her side?

“Fear is a survival instinct. But love isn’t something you survive—it’s something you show up for. Over and over. Even when it’s terrifying. Because it’s worth it.”

But there is so much more about this story that I haven’t even told you about that makes it my best read this year. The Gala Auction. The explosion. As well as an added bonus to this story as well, in the form of another romance! My lips are sealed about this one. So hurry and click to get this book because it’s two romances for the price of one!!

THE GRUMP NEXT DOOR is coming February 11th to Kindle Unlimited, audio and paperback!

😈Enemies to Lovers

📚Grumpy x Sunshine

🏠Forced Proximity

🩵Small Town/Nosy Neighbor

🐐 A Naughty Goat

About the Book

One guest house. One week. One slow-burn disaster waiting to happen.

Dean Whitaker has zero interest in weddings, fairy lights, or the perky woman currently turning his guest house into a scented-candle crime scene.

He’s a divorce attorney. He thrives on prenups, logic, and not getting glitter on his suits.

Poppy Monroe is a wedding planner with a checklist for everything—except how to survive living next door to a hot, brooding, tightly wound lawyer—aka the groom’s brother.

They’re opposites in every way—except for the undeniable chemistry neither of them wants to talk about.

Their mission: survive one week of wedding chaos.

Her vibe: sunshine and glitter pens.

His vibe: whiskey and restraint.

Opposites attract. Then they combust.

LINKS:

Kindle https://amzn.to/4p2O3by

Get your copy today!

Description

Fake dating a hockey player for Christmas wasn’t on my bingo card.

Clare Johnson’s job is handling PR for the Dallas Stampede—not getting tangled up with one of the players. But when Mitchell Drake—charming forward, fan favorite, and very off-limits—asks her to pose as his girlfriend for one week in small-town Minnesota, she reluctantly agrees. What’s the worst that could happen?

Mitchell’s had six months to get over his very public broken engagement, and his family is done waiting. The last thing he needs is pitying smiles and whispered gossip. Clare is smart, sharp, and strong enough to hold her own with both fans and family—the perfect fake girlfriend.

But holiday lights and snowy nights have a way of blurring the line between pretend and real. Clare fits too easily into his world—bonding with his grandma, winning at pond hockey, and looking unfairly good in his flannel. The more time they spend together, the less fake it feels.

Full of small-town holiday magic, meddling relatives, and sizzling chemistry, Checking It Twice is a hockey romance about second chances and falling in love when you least expect it. Perfect for fans of fake dating, one-bed tension, forced proximity, and happily-ever-afters wrapped in Christmas lights.

Because sometimes the best gifts aren’t under the tree—they’re standing right in front of you.

My Review

5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A magical Christmas romance filled with small-town charm, a wonderful found family, effortless conversations, stolen kisses, heated moments, and increasingly dangerous closeness. There’s also a hockey hottie who desires more than the fake relationship he asked her to portray.

The butterflies will flutter in your stomach as you smile and giggle at their effortless witty banter. The tension and the realization that every touch is blurring the lines they’re supposed to maintain.

This is Clare Johnson and Mitchell Drake’s journey and I loved every second, unable to put this down! Absolutely addictive!

“It’s about not letting the past define your future. Taking risks even when you’re scared of getting hurt.”

Claire and Mitchell’s relationship may have begun as a facade, but as they gradually open up and their attraction and feelings for each other intensify, I find myself rooting for them. This heartwarming, addictive, and slow-burn romance takes an unexpected and exhilarating turn. Every interaction left me grinning, swooning, or kicking my feet in delight. It’s a beautiful and emotional Christmas romance that I couldn’t bear to end!

Overview

She doesn’t believe in love. He doesn’t believe in losing. Let the games begin.Scarlett “Scottie” Calloway built her career writing books about why women don’t need men. Romance? Overrated. Soulmates? A marketing ploy. The last thing she wants is to spend a summer co–hosting a romance book club with an arrogant, insufferably handsome hockey player who thinks he knows a thing or two about love. Immediate no. Chase Remington lives for three things: hockey, winning, and pushing Scarlett’s buttons. He’s never met a challenge he couldn’t charm his way through—until her. The queen of anti–romance loathes him, and frankly? He’s having the time of his life getting under her skin.But when a PR stunt forces them together, their battle of wits turns into something far more dangerous—an attraction neither can afford. She swears she won’t fall. He bets she will. By summer’s end, only one will be right.And if there’s one thing they do have in common? Neither likes to lose.

The Book Club Boyfriend is a slow burn, enemies–to–lovers sports romance featuring professional athletes, shameless flirting, and a hero who falls first—and hard. Expect banter, chemistry, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

My Review 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is the ultimate slow-burn romance in this enemies-to-lovers tale. It has the perfect blend of heart, charm, and witty banter that crackles and sizzles. The chemistry between the characters is palpable, and the hero, along with his four-legged companion Rip, is utterly smitten with the woman who makes a living writing books about why women don’t need men.

This is Chase Remington and Scarlett ”Scottie” Calloway’s journey to a HEA and I fell so hard for these two along the way!!

Scottie Calloway, struggling with writer’s block, embarks on a month-long vacation at a lake cottage in Michigan. However, her peaceful retreat is disrupted when she encounters her neighbor, a charming and arrogant hockey player for the Dallas Stampede.

After a month of avoiding and fantasizing about her charismatic neighbor, she unexpectedly finds herself paired up with Chase in a Stampede book club PR stunt when she returns home.

Entertaining with lots of witty banter between Scarlett and Chase, as well as enough sexual tension to melt the pages. Every interaction, every snarky remark, every stolen glance… it was all so perfect. I giggled. I smiled. I laughed, and I fell hard for these two and so will you!