Playing

As the rookie goalie for the Pittsburgh Fury, I have one job: keep my eye on the puck. I finally made it to the pros, like my father before me, and I have to prove I belong here. But lately, I've been distracted. There's this woman. I met her after a game in Vegas, and we got a little drunk-and married. My new wife is stunning, a cellist whose music breaks down my defenses. Amazingly, she's moved to Pittsburgh to be with me and she even fits in with my rowdy family. Everything should be perfect. But while I fight to keep my spot between the pipes, she's struggling to find a path away from her controlling family. And now, her father is feeding nasty rumors to the press and I think my coaches believe them. The team is icing me out. Was this marriage a reckless gamble after all? Playing for Keeps is a sizzling sports romance with a tight-knit hockey family, a marriage of convenience, and two people learning to trust their hearts.

Opposites attract, right? Wrong. They EXPLODE with combustible chemistry and danger in the case of Charline & Trent...Charline is a serious research doctor running a drug trial for a miracle serum. The serum could heal her crippled mother, but she desperately needs funding.Trent Lockheed is a superstar NFL quarterback. Football is his life. He needs to hang onto his career to win one more Super Bowl, but his injured shoulder could end everything. He desperately needs a miracle cure. They make an unholy bargain when Trent gives Charline money to fund her drug trial and she allows him to participate and take the miracle serum. But it all has to remain a poisonous secret between them.To get what they want, they both need to break cardinal rules of their professions. They make the dark bargain knowing that if the secret between them was ever exposed, it could destroy them. But how do they trust each other as complete strangers in spite of their scorching attraction? Or will that uncontrollable attraction be their real undoing?What readers are saying about the Playing series:"Getting your mind in the game, or interest in this book, will be extremely easy and excitingly enjoyable!"--InD'Tale Magazine "I enjoyed every page from the start to the end. I will keep this story in my heart and pray that Stephanie Queen writes more of these HOT SIZZLING SCORCHING novels. The plot was exciting and characters were absolutely delicious. I read it in on setting as I was unable to put it down. I will absolutely read more of hers."--Amazon Reviewer"The characters were full of personality that jumped off the page and into my mind easily"--Amazon ReviewerPlaying Until the End is over 400 pages of captivating, sizzling romance between two mesmerizing characters with an HEA. Mature content.

Sometimes, the best defense is a passionate offense. The ref stops the puck in the middle of a playoff game, and I look up from the ice ... to see my boyfriend making out with another guy on the kiss cam. My humiliation goes viral and suddenly my entire life-from my back pass to my bisexuality-is tabloid fodder. To make matters worse, the jerk making out with my guy turns out to be the live-in boyfriend of Lena Sinclair, the brand new team dentist for the Pittsburgh Fury. When Doc finds herself homeless after confronting her ex, I offer her my guest room while we both lick our wounds. Revenge sounds sweet to both of us, so we craft the perfect plan: a "summer fling" that'll show our exes exactly what they've lost. Somehow the line between fake and real grows blurry, and the game becomes dangerously personal. With Lena's job on the line and the whole world watching my every move, we're not just playing for payback. We're fighting a connection neither of us saw coming--one that might be worth risking everything. Playing for Payback is a hockey romance with a curvy heroine, a two-way defender who excels at protecting what matters, and body checks straight from the sin bin.