SERGEI DRAKONOV. The newest left wing for the Washington Eagles hockey team is a triple threat: muscle, roughed-up good looks, and a dangerous tabloid reputation. Not the kind of guy who fits into Jael Pereira’s five-year plan. Jael doesn’t have time for a relationship, between her challenging senior-year course load and her stiflingly dull internship at the FBI. But for one steamy night, she gives in to Sergei and his smooth-talking ways. Sergei wants more than just another one-night stand. But his brother—a high-ranking member of the Russian mob—wants him to help the family business. He can use Sergei as an easy way to launder money, or to smuggle drugs on the Eagles team plane. And if Sergei doesn’t agree, he can kiss his skating career goodbye. The FBI’s been watching Sergei. When they learn about Jael’s fling, they want her to persuade him to inform on his brother. But the more Jael sees the real Sergei, beyond the role he plays on the ice and in front of the cameras, the more she wants him in her life. How can she win his trust, though, when she’s playing a role of her own? And how can she protect him from his mobster brother when she can’t even protect her own heart? Body Checked is a standalone HEA sports romance (m/f) in the Center Ice series of interconnected hockey athlete stories. It contains explicit language and sexual content between consenting adults.

MARCUS WRIGHT has a lot to prove. To the Washington Eagles—and to himself. That his kinks don't make him a monster. That what happened two years ago wasn't his fault. FIONA CALLAHAN has a lot to prove—to her mother and to the world. That being a real journalist means chasing the hard, elusive stories. Even if they might cost her Marcus.

He was the one that got away, but now he's back on the ice. Six years ago, Brian Osbourne and Stephane Carson were two rookie hopefuls, thrown together at training camp. Together, they burned hot and bright–on the ice and off. But Stéphane broke things off before they could go public. Now, Brian’s star is rising in the League, the Washington Eagles goalie on a blazing hot streak. Only Stéphane, playing for the Pittsburgh Forge, can break past his defenses. Only Stéphane knows Brian better than he knows himself. Then they’re assigned to the same team for the All-Stars Game, forced to share a room. Brian and Stéphane must confront their past and the feelings they thought they left behind. With every moment spent in each other's company, the heat between them grows stronger, the tension palpable. As the stakes get higher both on and off the ice, they must decide whether to give in to their passion for a second chance at love, or play it safe once again.