Brooklyn Heat Series by Locklyn Marx

Journalist Alyssa Cotler can’t believe her luck when she scores the assignment of a lifetime – spending a week with the major league baseball team, The Brooklyn Heat. Her objective? Write about the team and let America in on the inner workings of professional sports. Notorious bad boy shortstop Jay Havens is in trouble. Big time. Ticket sales are down, and everyone’s blaming Jay... moreJournalist Alyssa Cotler can’t believe her luck when she scores the assignment of a lifetime – spending a week with the major league baseball team, The Brooklyn Heat. Her objective? Write about the team and let America in on the inner workings of professional sports. Notorious bad boy shortstop Jay Havens is in trouble. Big time. Ticket sales are down, and everyone’s blaming Jay. With his partying ways being public knowledge, and his trysts appearing in the papers daily, he’s not exactly family friendly. When Jay gets an ultimatum from the team’s owner –shape up or ship out – he knows he needs some good PR. And what better way than to befriend the reporter sent to write about the team? He’ll impress Alyssa, and get her to write good things about him. Except that Alyssa’s onto his game. And she’s determined not to let Jay’s infamous charm influence her. She’s come to do a job, and she’s going to tell the truth. No matter what. But Alyssa doesn’t count on just how hot Jay can be. And Jay doesn’t count on the fact that he might just be falling in love… **CAN’T TAKE THE HEAT is the first book in the Brooklyn Heat series, and is a romance of approximately 150 pages** less

A sexy contemporary romance for fans of Rachel Gibson and Kristan Higgins... When twenty-nine-year-old Kenley Mitchell loses her job and her boyfriend all in one week, she decides to cash in her severance pay and book a week-long trip to Florida. A relaxing vacation by the beach is just what she needs – she’ll lose herself in the sand and the sun, doing her best to forget all her problems. But on her first night there, Kenley runs into star baseball player Chad Parnell... moreA sexy contemporary romance for fans of Rachel Gibson and Kristan Higgins... When twenty-nine-year-old Kenley Mitchell loses her job and her boyfriend all in one week, she decides to cash in her severance pay and book a week-long trip to Florida. A relaxing vacation by the beach is just what she needs – she’ll lose herself in the sand and the sun, doing her best to forget all her problems. But on her first night there, Kenley runs into star baseball player Chad Parnell. The only problem? She has no idea who he is -- until after a paparazzi camera catches her in a, uh, compromising position with the hunky first baseman. Chad’s trip to Florida was supposed to be business only. He’s just about to land a multi-million dollar endorsement deal with Expera Footwear, and he doesn’t need any distractions. But when paparazzi pictures of him and Kenley surface in the tabloids, Expera is not happy. They don’t want Chad’s dalliances messing up their family friendly reputation – so Chad does the only thing he can do, and tells them that Kenley’s his girlfriend. Of course, now he has to somehow convince Kenley to go along with his plan. Kenley wouldn’t have even been in those stupid pictures if Chad hadn’t been acting like a manipulative womanizer, and so at first she says no way to his crazy scheme. As far as she’s concerned, he doesn’t deserve her help with anything. But when he makes her an offer she can’t refuse, Kenley somehow finds herself signing up for a stint as his fake girlfriend. She knows it sounds crazy, but whatever. It’ll be strictly business, right? But when the sparks start to fly, Kenley and Chad are going to have to figure out what’s real, and what isn’t. And they just might be surprised at the answer…. less