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Small town Texan Claire enlisted in the Marine Corps, survived an IED in Iraq, went through rigorous physical therapy, and made it through med school. After she thought she had endured it all, she had to cope with the loss of her beloved husband and struggle to rebuild her life and raise their twins. Her friends rally around, but it's up to Claire to pick up the pieces and open herself up to love and to truly live once again.

Welcome to the NFL. The Seattle Knights have the hottest players in the game. On and off the field. Logan Price is getting a second chance. Claire Thornton is going to make sure it counts. Logan Price was living his dream. After years of hard work he finally made it. Starting running back for the Knights. After only a few games, he was a fan favorite. There were whispers of a rookie of the year award. It all ended with a devastating injury to his leg that sent him back to Oklahoma. A failed attempt at a comeback sent him into a deep depression.

Kaitlin Reynolds is used to fearlessly flying off mountains. But nearly two years after a devastating injury has ended her ski jumping career, Kaitlin is still struggling to put one foot in front of the other and find her new life. A chance meeting with a handsome stranger begins to put life into perspective. Dashing figure skater, Declan McLoughlin has just returned from the Olympics amid a swirl of publicity and fanfare.

Dallas Cole loathes football. That's what happens when you spend your whole childhood coming in second to a sport. College is her time to step out of the bleachers and put the playing field (and the players) in her past. But life doesn't always go as planned. As if going to the same college as her football-star ex wasn't bad enough, her father, a phenom in Texas's world of high school coaching, has decided to make the jump to college ball…as the new head coach at Rusk University. Dallas finds herself in the shadows of her father and football all over again.

Minnesota Glaciers' starting defenseman Henrik Grenick is good at two things: hockey and sex. He's got it all - the career, the biceps, the babes. But the steady parade of women through his bedroom just leaves him wanting more, hunting for the next distraction. Until he meets Jacqui, who awakens a hunger for something he never knew he craved.

NHL player Tim Hollander lost his temper one time and threw a water bottle at an abusive fan. After "Bottlegate", he's traded to the San Diego Barracudas, where he'll need to keep the bad publicity to a minimum while proving he can still compete with the younger guys on the ice. Erin Collier is a pediatric nurse who's never seen a hockey game but gets in line for Tim's autograph at a PR event in hopes of impressing the doctor she has a crush on. When an obnoxious fan gets pushy toward Erin, Tim rushes to defend the pretty stranger.

For Minnesota Glaciers captain Scott Walters, skating on a bum knee - and self-medicating to keep skating on it - is all part of the game. That the painkillers he's eating prevent him from having meaningful relationships is just one more sacrifice in a lifetime of them. He’s worked too hard to let his image be ruined by injury or dependency, so he hides the pain and fakes the rest - a girlfriend would only complicate matters. High school teacher Rachel Fielding never needed a man in her life, but she also never intended to grow old alone.

When Bristol Criswell travels to St. Lucia for an Enduring Life retreat, she hopes to discover encouragement and support from like souls. A vacation fling is the furthest thing from her mind, especially not with a cocky-mouthed, arrogant jerk like Davis McKay.

Edgar Award-winner Bruce DeSilva returns with Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island. Mulligan knows every street and alley, every priest and prostitute, every cop and street thug. He knows the mobsters and politicians - who are pretty much one and the same. Inspired by a true story, Providence Rag finds Mulligan, his pal Mason, and the newspaper they both work for at an ethical crossroad.

Reporting for his first day as a Boston Red Sox player, Mickey Rawlings discovers a faceless body in the empty stadium. When police name him as their suspect, he knows he must clear his name or give up baseball and his freedom. But nameless foes are trying to silence him with warnings that become increasingly dangerous. A member of the Society for American Baseball Research, Troy Soos creates delightfully authentic ballplayers and places them in believable, colorful settings.

Troy Soos' sparkling Mickey Rawlings Baseball mysteries pack early 1900's baseball lore and colorful period details into baffling whodunits. Hunting a Detroit Tiger vividly brings to life the turbulent post-World War I days when the nation partied with bootleg liquor and labor unrest swept the nation with violence.

Starting for the first-place Cubs and hitting a career high of .274, for the first time in his life, Mickey Rawlings is feeling comfortable enough to buy furniture. But it is a time of mixed blessings; ominous battles are brewing at home and abroad. On the homefront, Major League baseball may be suspended for the duration of the war, anti-German sentiment is running high, and Mickey's best friend - a rookie named Willie Kaiser - has just been shot right on the diamond.

Marc Moreau, a professional cyclist with a military past, is part of a top Tour de France team led by his best friend, an American star favored to win this year’s Tour. But the competition takes a dark turn when racers begin to drop out in a series of violent accidents. Marc begins to have the sickening realization that his own team has been most favored by the murderer’s actions, and in the final stages of the race Mark himself emerges as the only cyclist left who could possibly beat his best friend and win the Tour. Whom can Marc trust? Whom should he protect?

Honor Tierney just wants one night with the playboy. One hot, steamy, meaningless hookup, and then she'll happily go back to reading her favorite books, studying to be an accountant, and writing for the campus-paper-nobody-reads. Too bad she ends up in the wrong bed, with the wrong brother . . . who gives her the hottest night of her life.

London, 1887: schoolteacher Minnie Newton is horrified when her female pupils placidly accept the limitations Victorian society puts on their ambitions and their lives. To show them women can do anything, she places a newspaper ad, seeking women to join a football team. From a handful of replies, she puts together a motley collection to form a squad that’s keen but mostly hopeless. Soon the women fall in love with the game and decide to play in public and their matches begin to draw big crowds.

Che fare quando il tuo migliore amico e il tuo primo amore decide di abbandonarti senza una spiegazione e senza alcuna pietà? Des ha lavorato su sé stessa, cercando di dimenticare quanto accaduto, ma andare avanti con un cuore spezzato non è facile. Il giocatore di football, Byron, sembra non pensare più a lei, alla magia che esisteva tra loro. Ma lasciarsi tutto alle spalle sembra impossibile, a causa di una serie di complicazioni i due sono destinati a incontrarsi nuovamente. Des si ritrova costretta a dare ripetizioni a Byron.

The Boxer from the Riguero Neighborhood is a story of effort, courage when facing life, discipline to fight every day for personal dreams, and the determination to take from life everything that is needed to live. It is the development of a life project of a poor adolescent from one of Managua's neighborhoods, El Riguero. There he lives with his mother, grandmother and his younger brothers. He learns to defend himself with blows, there was no other way for someone of his economic condition, abandoned by his biological father.

The five members of an elite commando group nicknamed “the Stone Wolves” once raged against Creterakian rule. Now, four decades after their heyday, they each try to stay alive and eke out a living. But a friend from the past won’t let them move on, and neither will their bitterest enemy. Hopscotch, RedWire, the Killer, Lulz and Recoil will soon wish their pasts could stay dead.

Cuando Carrie se retira del tenis, es la mejor jugadora que el mundo ha visto jamás. Seis años después de retirarse, Carrie se encuentra en las gradas del US Open de 1994, viendo cómo una tenista británica brutal e impresionante llamada Nicki Chan le arrebata el récord. Con treinta y siete años, Carrie toma la decisión de salir de su retiro para entrenar con su padre un último año, con la intención de recuperar su récord.

Jermaine "JD" Walker, a young man from the gritty streets of Philadelphia, grapples with the harsh realities of gang violence that permeated his childhood. Raised by a hardworking single mother, he finds solace and purpose in the local boxing gym, a haven that provides an escape from the violence that surrounds him. Tragedy strikes from gang-related violence. This profound loss fuels a deep-seated rage within Jermaine, solidifying his resolve to never resort to guns and instead dedicate himself to honing his fighting skills.