Join the Sockeyes, their friends, and family for a fun-filled, sometimes stressful, sometimes funny, Pacific Northwest Christmas. Anchored by my holiday novel, Blame It on the Eggnog, Hockey for the Holidays features one novel and four novellas. BLAME IT ON THE EGGNOG I'm a single father, and I've had all the change I can handle: Retirement from the sport I love, a crazy ex-wife in prison, and five kids who need me more than ever. I don't have time for a relationship, let alone one with the interfering mother of the best player on the hockey team I'm coaching. She’s annoying as hell, but she’s also equally on my mind. LOVE AT FIRST SNOW Four years ago on Christmas Eve, hockey defenseman Blake Daniels lost his entire family in a floatplane crash. This Christmas, a small gray kitten struggling to survive in a snowstorm, introduces him to the healing power of love. HEARTS ON ICE Drawn together by tragedy and broken apart by practicality, can two lost souls find each other again during a magical holiday season? A WOLFE BROTHERS CHRISTMAS Spending their first Christmas together in years, the Wolfe brothers fumbling attempts to create good memories go awry. CHRISTMAS IN SEATTLE (Bonus college football holiday romance) As a college football star and a waitress fight off cold and loneliness through one hot holiday break, a passion begins that may carry them all the way into the pros.

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.

A trio of seasonal goodies featuring hot hockey players getting their happily-ever-afters during the holidays, including a brand-new Chicago Rebels story! Instacrush Hockey player Theo thinks his prickly neighbor despises him. One chilly Christmas Eve, he’ll learn that maybe the girl next door isn’t such a hater after all . . . Rebel Yule Chicago Rebels tender Erik can’t understand why Casey in the front office won’t give him the time of day. At the team’s holiday party, he’s determined to uncover the root of their mysterious conflict and show this woman that goalkeepers do their best work . . . on their knees. Holly Jolly Rebel A brand-new holiday short story! Fast forward a few years to check in with Theo, Elle, and their boisterous brood. The Kershaws are about to celebrate the season, but a surprise is waiting in their Christmas stockings . . . Note: Instacrush (83k words) and Rebel Yule (40k words) are separately available. Holly Jolly Rebel (12k words) is brand new. This steamy collection of hot hockey romances is available for a limited time.

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The quintessential holiday rom com...[and] the most festive book you’ll read this year.” —Carley Fortune, author of Every Summer After From two bestselling Canadian authors comes a multi-faith holiday rom-com about the delightful havoc that occurs when Christmas, Ramadan, and Hanukkah all fall at the same time, and two strangers-turned-friends are snowbound in the small, charming town of Snow Falls along with the cast and crew of a holiday romance movie, nosy family members, and their lifelong crushes. Three times the holiday magic. Three times the chaos. As strangers and seatmates Maryam Aziz and Anna Gibson fly to Toronto over the holidays—Maryam to her sister’s impromptu wedding, and Anna to meet her boyfriend’s wealthy family for the first time—neither expect that severe turbulence will scare them into confessing their deepest hopes and fears to one another. At least they’ll never see each other again. And the love of Maryam’s life, Saif, wasn’t sitting two rows behind them hearing it all. Oops. An emergency landing finds Anna, Saif, Maryam, and her sister’s entire bridal party snowbound at the quirky Snow Falls Inn in a picture-perfect town, where fate has Anna’s actor-crush filming a holiday romance. As Maryam finds the courage to open her heart to Saif, and Anna feels the magic of being snowbound with an unexpected new love—both women soon realize there’s no place they’d rather be for the holidays.

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Rear ending a reindeer, even a faux one, is a bad start to any morning, especially when that woman in a reindeer costume is your first love, the one you’ve never gotten over.Erik or “Erik the Wall” Engen, formerly one of the most feared and admired goalies in the International Hockey League, now an executive in his family’s holiday ornament company, has returned to his hometown of Noelle, Wisconsin during its annual Nutcracker Festival. It’s his job to evaluate the prospects of the Engen Nutcracker Factory, the company founded by his beloved grandfather. After travelling the world creating murals, artist Stella Larson has returned to Noelle as well. Erik and Stella soon realize the old feelings between them linger, but she can’t seem to forget or forgive him for breaking her heart a decade before. With a little hope and some Christmas magic, can Erik make his way back to the woman he always carried with him in his heart?

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Two steamy hockey stories perfect for the winter holiday THE PLAYBOY He left her behind to chase his dream... Kyle is back in the minors to rehab his career but that's not all he's hoping to fix. He wants to win back the girl he left behind. But convincing Leah to take another chance on this former playboy will be harder than making it back to the NHL. THE COMEBACK KID She’s the one who got away… Wallflower Emma has had a crush on star athlete Nick since high school, but when he left to play professional hockey, she wrote him off. And still dreams of the one who got away. When her college roommate drags her to a Redtails Hockey game, Emma is shocked when Nick tracks her down and asks her out. When Nick sees Emma at the game, he feels like he got an early Christmas present…and a second chance. This time around, he’s not giving up on the wary Emma until he gets his holiday wish… Emma in his bed and in his life. Two steamy contemporary hockey holiday romances for fans of Melanie Harlow, Sarina Bowen and Toni Aleo.

The Cleveland Barons should never have existed. Born when the National Hockey League's California Golden Seals--another team that should never have existed--were transplanted to Cleveland in 1976 and greeted with apathy by the dwindling number of hockey fans in northeastern Ohio, the Barons were an embarrassment to the city and to the NHL. The only thing the team had going for them was the state-of-the-art arena they played in, which was all but empty for nearly every game they played. This book chronicles the Barons' two regrettable seasons--a case study in what happens when an ill-conceived professional sports team created in an expansion splurge is moved, in an effort to save it, to a city that doesn't really want it.