Sass and Steam

The best shot of these Olympic Games is coming from Cupid's bow.Competitive archer Cora Maxwell will let nothing stop her quest to compete at the 1904 Olympic Games. Not even a devastating injury to her arm. With the help of a mechanical device known as the Electro-Flex, Cora has worked her way back to top form-and she's found a long-distance friend in the machine's inventor. She's ready to shoot for gold and she's thrilled to have a fan to cheer her on.Inventor Adam Levett harbors a secret love for his athletic friend, but he values their friendship too highly to risk revealing his feelings. When they meet in person for the World's Fair and the Olympics, he plans to cheer her to victory, but he won't allow himself to hope for more. Until a searing kiss makes him suspect the attraction might not be as one-sided as he'd believed.As the days tick down to Cora's competition, strange disturbances at the Fair threaten both Adam's career and her Olympic dream-as well as their evolving relationship. But these friends are no quitters, and together they square off against rogue dragons, electrical mishaps, and vicious competitors. Because in these Games, only true loyalty can win the heart of a champion.

Football, mechanical dragons, industrial espionage, sexy romance. Welcome to fall in Ann Arbor.Eden Randall has her life under control. Sure, people call her weird for having a mechanical dragon with her at all times, but she's content. All she needs are her studies and her sports-and for the football team to have another undefeated season. What she doesn't need are nosy men from out-of-town poking into her business.Spending months in a tiny town shadowing the football team is the last thing Boston reporter Bruce Caldwell wants to do, but the tedious job could be his ticket to something bigger and better. When he meets a sports-mad spitfire on the sidelines, he realizes the town may hold stories far more interesting than he expected.With dragons running loose in the laboratory and a ruthless New York industrialist threatening their budding friendship, Eden and Bruce find themselves players in a game far more dangerous than the one on the gridiron. Never ones to quit, they know the only way to emerge as The Victors is to become a team. This football season, winning might mean losing their hearts.