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Or taking over his every waking thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the middle of her graduate degree, Bree has no time for a dating life. The impossibly handsome hockey player coming back into her orbit complicates everything, and she shouldn’t be focusing on him while her professional future is on the line. But once she hears about Clint’s history with the Northbrook Hockey Elite program, and where that program stands now, Bree just might find a way to bring her career, and something more, to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaceoff is the first book in the Northbrook Hockey Elite series, a clean and uplifting sports romance, for readers who love friends-to-lovers reunions, hockey heroes, driven heroines and interconnected small-world series. Perfect for fans of Sarah Adams, Sally Thorne and Lauren Layne.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for the Northbrook Hockey Elite series\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I loved the Belltown series which was romance with a side of baseball, now we get romance with a side of hockey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Their meet-cute was believable and fun and her roommates were funny and helpful to the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is a clean sports romance that features siblings of the Bell Town Six and more. 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Single-dad warmth, found-team friendship and slow-building chemistry in an uplifting sports romance series.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHe Plays Rough. She Plays for Keeps.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSix professional hockey players once played on an elite club team together. Now they've scattered across the pro leagues. Not all of them were friends, yet circumstances bring them back together, and for the greater good, maybe they can put aside their differences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZane Winchester is a beast on the ice, known for racking up penalties and delivering hard blows. No one would suspect the complicated nature of his personal life, or just what it entails. And no one, not even him, could've predicted what one unexpected encounter with a remarkable woman would do to his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMara Matthews is a regular woman with a regular job and a regular life. Then she meets the father of one of her little students, and regular becomes the last word to describe her world. Zane is intense, funny, charming, and drop-dead gorgeous; he shouldn't pay any attention to someone like her. But Zane isn't giving up, and Mara doesn't want him to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrosscheck is the fourth book in the Northbrook Hockey Elite series, for readers who love clean sports romance, single-dad heroes, teacher heroines and slow-burn chemistry. Perfect for fans of Lucy Score, Lauren Layne and Penny Reid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for the Northbrook Hockey Elite series\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I loved the Belltown series which was romance with a side of baseball, now we get romance with a side of hockey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The plot moved along with fun twists and I kept wanting to read just one more chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is a clean sports romance that features siblings of the Bell Town Six and more. 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