Bøger af Toni Aleo

Cameron White is the most famous student influencer on the Bellevue campus. Not only that, she is one hell of a gymnast, ready to stick every landing her senior year. It's time to go out with a bang. In order to think outside the box for her final marketing project, she has a proposition for the only other popular content creator on campus, a guy who just happens to be someone she trusts, Benson Jeannott-her lover from her freshman year. Given everything that went down between them three years ago, surely, he won't say yes to her fake-dating idea. Though what she doesn't know is that Benson has been chomping at the bit for a second chance with the one who got away. Benson Jeannott is on his way to the NHL draft, but first, he has to help his Bellevue Bullies win the cup. He is supposed to focus only on his grades and his ice time. But if he thought he couldn't sign up for the draft quick enough, that has nothing on how quickly he agrees to "date" Cameron. Problem is, she wants this to be an arrangement, while he wants to be her forever. Freshman year, the choice was Cameron's to make. Now, can Benson make it clear he'd do anything for her to choose him?

Things are heating up for the Sinclair boys! With one already in the NHL, Jayden Sinclair is hoping to be next!This has been the toughest year of my life. I watched my brother go into the draft without me, my mom got divorced, and the weight of my family's issues is heavy on my shoulders. I feel like it's my job to fix everything while working my butt off in school and trying to make my game better. I have to go into the draft. It will give my family the support they need, and it will prove that I'm good enough. But to get there, I have to show I can be the best captain for the Bellevue Bullies. The spot is mine-no one can take it. First though, Jude is making me go on a brother's weekend. Innocent enough, I guess...until I see her. She's the biggest competitor I've ever faced. Not only for my spot but also my heart. It's hard to ignore someone like Baylor Moore. *** I don't lose. I can't. My dad has bred me to be the best in anything I do. I am driven, I am smart, and I am going to be the first woman in the National Hockey League. No two ways about it. I've worked too hard. I've been through too much not to have what I want. I know I can do it. I will make my dad proud, and no one will stand in the way of that. That is, until I let him in. He scares me. He makes me feel. And he could very well be the one person who can make me want more than just to win. We both have the same goal. Victory. But how do you compete against the person you want to win? It's not easy. Love isn't something you can control. It isn't like a puck that can be handled by a stick. No, it has a mind of its own and does what it wants. Neither of us saw it coming, and we really don't know if there is a way to score, especially when you're being Clipped by Love.

Hi, darf ich mich vorstellen? Ich bin Jude Sinclair, spiele Eishockey für die Bellevue Bullies und liebe die Frauen. Eishockey liegt mir im Blut, und ich auch, wenn ich nicht eingebildet klingen will, bin ich ein guter Spieler ... ein verdammt guter sogar. Die Draft ist für mich in greifbare Nähe gerückt, doch das ist nicht der einzige Grund, aus dem die Leute mich kennen. Sie kennen mich, weil ich ein ziemlicher Weiberheld bin. Die Mädchen stehen einfach auf mich. Das Einzige, was ich versuche zu vermeiden, sind allerdings Wiederholungsveranstaltungen. Mit anderen Worten: Abgesehen von meiner Familie und meinen Freunden gehe ich keine Beziehungen ein. Ich bin glücklich so. Doch ich sollte Euch warnen, denn eine gewisse Rothaarige auf dem Campus meiner Uni wird meine Pläne für die Zukunft bald so ziemlich auf den Kopf stellen. Sie ist schön. Umwerfend. Atemberaubend.Sie verändert alles für mich.***Von unserer ersten Begegnung an weiß ich, dass er Ärger bedeutet. Ich weiß nicht, was mit mir los ist, doch schon, als sich unsere Blicke das erste Mal begegnet sind, wusste ich, dass ich ihm gehöre. Ein ziemlich furchteinflößendes Gefühl.Außer meinem Onkel und meiner Tante habe ich noch nie jemandem vertraut - und selbst das hat Monate gebraucht. Ich hatte keine leichte Kindheit. Meine Mutter war meistens high und hat sich kaum um mich gekümmert. Ihre Drogen und die Typen, die ihr Geld gaben, waren ihr wichtiger als ich. Es war furchtbar, doch heute bin ich stärker. Aufgrund meiner Vergangenheit brauche ich vor allem Sicherheit. Geld gibt mir die Sicherheit, dass ich heute, morgen, und in Zukunft für mich selbst sorgen kann. Ich will nie wieder hungern oder obdachlos sein, darum arbeite ich hart für jeden Cent.Oh, ich bin übrigens Claire Anderson. Ich bin im zweiten Studienjahr an der University of Bellevue, bin im Tanzteam der Uni und Bourlesque-Tänzerin in einem Club, doch das ist mein Geheimnis.Vielleicht glaubt Ihr ja zu wissen, wie unsere Geschichte enden wird, doch Ihr habt ja keine Ahnung. Es ist nicht leicht, sich zu verlieben - ganz zu schweigen davon, glücklich bis ans Ende zu leben. Zuerst mag es zu erscheinen, doch wann bekommt man schon je etwas in den Schoß gelegt? Besonders, wenn man aus Liebe im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes gegen die Bande kracht.

Genevieve Stone got her first taste of passion as a teenager on a road trip to Kentucky with the bastard bad boy of the country club. Everyone agreed he was not the one for a girl from her station in life. Ten years later, she's a successful romance novelist and is engaged to be married to the appropriate sort of man. But something is holding her back from finishing her latest book and from joyfully walking down the aisle. On impulse, she takes off for Spring Grove, the site of her youthful indiscretion and the location of most of her happiest times. What she thought was just a short walk down memory lane quickly becomes much more as Gen reconnects with friends from her youth and is welcomed back into the quirky arms of small-town Kentucky. And it isn't long before she starts to realize that the man who was supposedly so wrong is oh so right.

When Lucas Brooks was traded to the Nashville Assassins over a decade ago, he was a brash, brawling hothead without an anchor.Well, four kids and a smokin' hot wife will weigh you down real fast, but Lucas wouldn't change a minute of his happily ever after.During an epic, end-of-season quest for the Cup, changes appear on the horizon, and suddenly, there's a plot twist in Lucas's fairy tale.

Introduced in Toni Aleo's Bellevue Bullies Series, it's the Sinclair brothers' big sister's turn to find love in the next installment of the New York Times and USA Today best-selling series, the Assassins. Lucy Sinclair was no stranger to pain. She grew up with three younger brothers, met a bad boy, got pregnant by him, married him, and then suffered through a nasty divorce from him. Pain. That was pain. To top it off, she even had to go through the heartbreaking divorce of her parents. Through it all, she survived. All she cared about was making sure her daughter was happy and taken care of. Despite an ex-husband hell-bent on ruining her life, she fought to overcome. She's gotten to the point that she's okay with being just okay. She never cared about herself because she never had the time. It was Angie and only Angie she focused on, but that all changed when Benji Paxton offered to help her daughter on the ice. Benji knew the moment he saw Lucy, he'd never be the same. Especially when she came with the bundle of crazy that was her daughter. His heart wasn't ready for them. After years spent sobering up and finding who he was without the alcohol, he never forgot he was being punished for not appreciating the love he had when he was younger. Because of his past, he had gotten used to being alone, a recluse, but even he had to admit it was getting old. He was lonely. Hockey wasn't enough anymore. He wanted a family; he wanted his true love, and Lucy and Angie were just that. Benji and Lucy were just two lost souls. Floating through life with no purpose. But finding each other gave them direction, a chance at a future. And that had them both Rushing the Goal to be together.

One chalet in the Smokies.Four loving families.While all the grandbabies are on Santa's Nice List, a few of the adults are getting coal in their stockings. But no matter their status with the man in the red suit, Elli Adler will spoil each and every one of her favorite people with love and holiday cheer.It'll be a Christmas to remember for some, but for one...this will be a Christmas he'll want to forget.

Wells Lemiere knew the moment he saw Matty Haverbrooke, he had to have him. Matty was quiet, he was talented, he was beautiful, and Wells couldn't stay away.As the youngest and most talented son of the NHL Commissioner, Matty had found the burden of family expectations almost too heavy to carry on even his broad shoulders. He had no intention of getting involved in a relationship with Wells. But the heart he'd given up for dead had other ideas.Their affair was intense and overwhelming, but when Matty couldn't bring himself to come out and admit he wanted a public future with the man he loved, Wells had no choice but to honor his vow to live openly...and leave Matty behind.But then he learns Wells is marrying another, and Matty knows he can't let that happen. Can he throw down his gloves and embrace his future with both hands? Or will he pull the door to his closet shut once more?

For better or worse, for richer or poorer, 'til almost death do they part... Amberlyn Reilly took a risk and found a new life in Ireland. She did something drastic and jumped in front of a loaded gun for the one she knew she couldn't lose. And with her mother's last request, she did more than fall in love. She fell into Declan O'Callaghan-with her eyes wide open and her damaged heart and soul leading the way. When Irish-born Declan O'Callaghan spotted Amberlyn across the lake, he knew his life was about to change. And it did. Now he has everything he's ever dreamed of -he's marrying for love, and with that love, the family distillery will now be his as long as he marries before the deadline. Things are moving fast. It's now or never. And as their beautiful relationship grows, time is something these two don't have a lot of. Declan's and Amberlyn's souls are tightly tethered, but will the questions and second thoughts of others prevent them from having a life they've both only begun to dream of? Will family and the obligations that come with the O'Callaghan name push them to their breaking point? Or has the Whiskey Prince truly found his happily ever after taking Amberlyn as his Princess?

Jensen Monroe is a unicorn. As handsome as any model, as polite as can be, a goalie of unmatched skill, and the best friend anyone could ask for. But he longs for a particular special someone to make his life complete. He's been in love with Wren since he was a teenager, but as his best friend's sister, she's always been off-limits.Wren Lemiere has prided herself on being a love 'em and leave 'em girl her whole life. She's all about equal opportunity in the battle of the sexes. Why should guys like her brother and his best friends get to be the only ones allowed to play the dating game? One wrong move, however, and she finds herself in violation of her own rules.In need of a fake husband and baby daddy for her unexpected bundle of joy, Wren finally accepts Jensen is the logical one to ask for help. Except he has a counteroffer...one with so many strings attached, they may just find themselves wrapped up in ties that bind. Forever.

NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BEST SELLING AUTHOR TONI ALEO PRESENTS THE NEXT INSTALLMENT IN THE ASSASSINS SERIES... It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas - with eight stories featuring your most beloved characters and their families - it's time to get comfy with a cup of hot cocoa and take a sneak peek at the holidays, Assassins' style. Join Lucas and Fallon along with Tate and Audrey as they await life-changing gifts; Erik and Piper, and Phillip and Reece who have decisions to make that could lead to exciting developments ahead in their lives; and Claire as she makes a Christmas wish and choices for her future. Spend Christmas morning with the Adler family and see what the New Year has in store for Karson and Lacey, as well as Kacey King. The King family faces significant changes and resolutions that will leave readers alternately cheering and maybe a little heavy-hearted...all wrapped up in a big bow. Join in on the holiday cheer and see who's been naughty or nice in New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Toni Aleo's novella - A Very Merry Hockey Holiday.

I have to make the pain stop.I want to feel alive, and I do when I'm drinking and partying the way I should have when I was a teen. Instead, back then, I was preparing to become the Whiskey Princess, a role assigned to me from birth.A lady never drinks to the point of blacking out, nor does she go home with men she meets in bars. But I went home with him...Jackson.He was more than just a one-night stand, but I learned that a wee bit late and he was gone. Or so I thought.For when I return home, Jackson is there, and he finds out very quickly who I am.Problem is, I'm not sure that I've ever known who I really am.***I can tell by looking into her blue depths that she's absolute trouble, but I have to have her. It's only for one night. Some fun, and I'll be on my way. My time here is done, and I'm ready to move on to my next adventure.What I don't realize at the time is that she is my next adventure.Lena excites me. She blows my mind. And her brogue? It has me in knots. I don't even care about the rumors that surround her.She's hurting. I want to help her, but then my time is up.Can I leave her?I have to leave. I have no choice.But I love her.

In New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Toni Aleo's exhilarating Loveswept debut, the first in a series featuring the hockey hunks of the Nashville Assassins, a reformed bad boy helps a charming, willful woman face off against the demons of her past. No matter how hard she tries, Elleanor Fisher never thinks she's good enough, from her job to her weight to her love life. After enduring years of abuse at the hands of an ex-boyfriend, Elli has been drifting through life in a daze. Until, that is, she meets Shea Adler on a promotional shoot for the NHL's Nashville Assassins. Before Elli knows what's happening, the gorgeous Shea breaks the ice and shatters her world. A brilliant athlete inside the rink, Shea Adler is tired of the life he's living outside of it: the women, the money, the drinking. But everything changes when he meets Elli. After laying eyes on this feisty, witty, beautiful woman, he feels like he's just taken the hardest hit of his life. No matter how skeptical she is, Shea knows they are meant to be together-if only he can convince Elli to put her insecurities aside before she misses out on a shot at love.Praise for Toni Aleo's Nashville Assassins romances "Aleo melts the ice and hits it into the net with her Assassins series."-Award-winning author Jami Davenport "Taking Shots is really the whole package. You get romance, humor, steamy sex, drama, and then it all wraps up with a great conclusion. I am amazed that this is Toni's first book. She has come out in a huge way. I can't wait to read more from her. Don't hesitate for a moment to grab this book."-Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews "A little steamy, a little heartbreaking, and a whole lot of fanning yourself are in order this time around, readers. Are your cheeks feeling a little pink yet? Get used to the feeling."-Dreaming in the Pages, on Trying to Score "Empty Net is an honest, heartwarming, endearing story. . . . Toni Aleo doesn't just write a story. She gives you the ability to experience the journey of her characters right along with them. Her stories are enveloped with passion, emotion, humor, love; and let me tell you, that girl knows how to write a sex scene that just makes you sweat!"-Guilty Pleasures Book Review "Sexy and riveting . . . the perfect combination of love and lust."-USA Today bestselling author Heidi McLaughlin, on Blue Lines "Funny, charming, sweet, sexy . . . [Falling for the Backup] has everything you want in a story."-Blushing Reader