Bad Boys for Hire: Ryker (Bad Boys for Hire #1) (13 page)

P
layed by Love
, A soccer star dons nerd glasses to score a anime fangirl who won't date jocks.

Playing the Rookie
, A rookie pitcher and a sports intern on the rebound connect to get over their exes.

Roaring Hot
!
A playboy motorcycle racer hires an aspiring actress when he is challenged by his grandmother to bring a real girlfriend to her birthday party.

Playing Without Rules
, A ballplayer's girlfriend hides his daughter from him because she fears he's like his abusive father.

Intercepted by Love
, A quarterback hiding from his Super Bowl losing interception meets a small town librarian with an active fantasy life.

The Remingtons: Leap, Laugh, Love
, A pro surfer on holiday after being attacked by a shark gets tangled up with an Army Ranger on leave with a mission.

Playing Catch
, A baseball catcher meets his match with a troubled bartender who can’t seem to keep her panties on.

Broken Build
, Build engineer Jen Jones falls in love with the man whose life she ruined.

Hidden Under Her Heart
, A young nurse, Maryanne Torres, struggles with a difficult decision over an unwanted pregnancy.

Knowing Vera
, Playgirl Vera Custodio belatedly discovers that her father might have killed her boyfriend's mother many years ago. [2015 Angie Ovation Award Winner]

Taming Romeo
, Medical student Evie Sánchez is recovering from heartbreak when she runs into the boy she left behind.

Claiming Carlos
, Restaurant manager Choco Sanchez finds herself caught between two hot men, an epic food fight, and a war to save the restaurant.

Whole Latte Love
, Carina Chen, a career-oriented young woman, has no time for distractions—especially the sexy, guitar-playing barista she rooms with.

Bad Boys for Hire - Ryker

Terri Martin gets caught in the middle of a motorcycle club vendetta when she tries to hire a biker for her birthday date.

The Remingtons: Blush of Love

A hot New Year's Eve date with bad boy Gunner Gibson leaves Safire wondering if it's love at first blush.

A Father for Christmas (A Veteran’s Christmas #1)
, Sweet romance between a homeless veteran and a single mother whose daughter asks Santa for an unusual gift. [Gold Award Winner, 2015 Readers’ Favorite]

A Pet for Christmas (A Veteran’s Christmas #2)
, A veteran suffering from PTSD fights to return from Afghanistan and give his family their Christmas wishes.

Christmas Stray
, A couple grieving for their son is snowed in with a stray puppy and a little boy. Is there room in their hearts for a Christmas miracle?

Christmas Lovebirds
, Can two little lovebirds and Christmas cheer open Melisa’s heart to giving Rob another chance?

Christmas Flirt
, Bad girl Lacy Reed gets more than she bargained for when her naked selfies turn up on her boss’s phone.

Santa’s Pet
, A brilliant girl genius plays elf to a substitute Santa and turns both their lives upside down when he is charged with a sex crime and she loses her company to hackers.

Valentine Hound Dog

A fashion designer and her basset hound puppy convince a burned ex-firefighter that beauty is never skin deep and neither is love.

Michal’s Window
, The young Princess Michal loves her father's enemy, the upstart David who becomes king.

I
had
a lot of fun with Terri’s story, primarily because of my awesome reader’s club, Club Rachelle Ayala, on Facebook, and my Club Helper, Terri Merkel, who gave me a few insights on what she’d be like if she were a romance heroine. Of course, I applied my artistic license to the pointers she gave me and came up with Terri Martin, who is her own character, and in no way represents any real life person.

I’m grateful to my team of beta readers and members of my reader’s club who helped me through the writing and revising of this story. They gave me good feedback and some shared their experiences with me.

Many thanks to: Amber Douglas McCallister, Corissa Palfrey, Chantel Rhondeau, Evelyn Nathalia, Terri Merkel, Leanna Wallace, Lillian Maddocks-Cummings, Kris Woltzen, Angelica Berglund, Jessica Avancena Cassidy, Deborah O'Connor, Maria Cantu, Kelley Kidder, Dana Anderson, Patricia Conley-Shepard, and Sherelle Ellis.

Much appreciation goes to my awesome proofreader, Kimberly Dawn, who always manages to find the tiniest error.

Finally, I thank all the readers who spent time with me through my stories. It makes my writing truly rewarding.

R
achelle Ayala is
a bestselling author of dramatic romantic suspense and humorous contemporary romances. Her heroines are feisty and her heroes big-hearted. She writes sweet and funny stories, and believes in the power of love and hope. She is the winner of multiple awards, including the 2015 Angie Ovation Award for best Multicultural Romance with
Knowing Vera
and the 2015 Readers’ Favorite Gold Award for best Christian Romance with
A Father for Christmas
.

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