Release Blitz: Slapshot Summer by G.K. Brady

 

Title: Slapshot Summer

A Playmakers Series Standalone

Author: G.K. Brady

Genre: Steamy Sports Romance

Tropes: Hockey Romance, Fake Dating

Grumpy/Sunshine, On the Rebound, Opposites Attract

Release Date: January 29, 2026

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A jilted bride. A wrecked goalie. An unexpected kiss that changes everything.

I came here to reset.

After a season that pushed me to my limits, I needed sun, quiet, and space—somewhere I could shut out the noise and get my head back under control.

Then Lexi Campbell sat beside me at the bar and asked for my help flirting with another guy.

I said yes because it was supposed to be fake. A distraction. Something with clear lines and no consequences. I’m good with pressure. I know how to stay focused, how to hold my ground when everything’s coming at me fast.

What I didn’t expect was how easy it felt to want her.

One kiss blows past every boundary I set. Suddenly, I’m not playing defense anymore—I’m all in, and I don’t know how to pull back. Lexi’s on a honeymoon she’s taking alone, guarding a broken heart she pretends doesn’t still hurt. I’m standing at my own crossroads, unsure where my future leads or if I’m ready to risk wanting something real again.

It was supposed to be a fling. But wanting her is the one thing I can’t seem to control.

For fans of fake dating, opposites attract, and swoony NHL players who actually like to dance, Slapshot Summer is a heartwarming romance with plenty of spice … and, of course, a guaranteed HEA.

**PLEASE NOTE: This story was originally published as Sunsets, Stick Saves, and a Honeymoon in the Love in Destiny Series. The content has not changed. If you’ve read that version, then you've read this one as well.**

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Since childhood, all sorts of stories and characters have lived in G.K. Brady’s imagination, elbowing one another for attention, so she’s finally giving them their voice on the written page.

An award-winning writer of contemporary romance, she loves telling tales of the less-than-perfect hero or heroine who transforms with each turn of a page. She also writes historical fiction under the pen name Griffin Brady.

G.K. is a wife and the proud mom of three grown sons. When she’s not writing, she might be watching hockey, reading, traveling, drinking wine, listening to music, or gardening—sometimes all at once! She currently resides in Colorado with her very patient husband.

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Book Blitz: The Harbored by G.K. Brady

 

Title: The Harborer

Series: Fall River #4

Author: G.K. Brady

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Forbidden/Off-limits, Small Town Romance

Friends to Lovers, Unrequited Love/Pining Hero

Release Date: October 29, 2025

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He’s the deputy who never breaks the rules. She’s the woman he’s never stopped wanting. When trouble strikes close to home, lines will blur between duty and desire.

Deputy Shane O’Brien has been in love with Amy Caufield since the day she opened her coffee shop. She doesn’t know she’s been the center of his mornings—and the quiet ache he harbors inside. But Amy belongs to someone else, and Shane’s code of honor has always kept him on the sidelines.

Amy’s business is thriving, but her personal life is another story. The man she’s with isn’t the partner she needs, and guilt has kept her from walking away. Until now. Shane is the steady friend who brightens her mornings, the one man she can count on. When trouble strikes her café, he’s the protector she turns to as her sense of safety begins unraveling.

But when the signs don’t add up, Shane can’t ignore the possibility that Amy herself is hiding something. Torn between protecting her and suspecting her, he’s forced to weigh doubt against the pull of his heart. Staying close makes it harder to hide his yearning—and harder still to resist what he’s always wanted.

But in a town where danger lurks behind familiar faces, trusting their hearts may be the biggest risk of all.

For fans of small-town romance with a dangerous twist, friends-to-lovers sparks, and protectors who’ll do anything for the women they love, The Harborer is a steamy romance with passion, peril, no cheating … and, of course, a guaranteed HEA.

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An award-winning writer of contemporary romance, she loves telling tales of the less-than-perfect hero or heroine who transforms with each turn of a page. She also writes historical fiction under the pen name Griffin Brady.

G.K. is a wife and the proud mom of three grown sons. When she’s not writing, she might be watching hockey, reading, traveling, drinking wine, listening to music, or gardening—sometimes all at once! She currently resides in Colorado with her very patient husband.

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Release Blitz: The Rescuer by G.K. Brady

 

Title: The Rescuer

Series: Fall River #3

Author: G.K. Brady

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Protector Hero/Unrequited Love

Vegas Wedding Gone Wrong/Forced Proximity

Release Date: April 10, 2025

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She’s moving on. He’s running out of time. One reckless night changes everything.

Reece Hunnicutt has spent his life helping others—whether pulling climbers from peril or stringing the town’s Christmas lights. But after walking away from the elite search and rescue squad that gave him purpose, he’s adrift, dodging questions about a future that’s taking him far from home. The one constant? His quiet devotion to his small mountain town and the brothers who don’t yet know he’s leaving.

Town veterinarian Neve Embry has loved Reece since childhood, but she’s done waiting for him to see her as more than a kid sister. Between running her struggling clinic and dating a charming billionaire, she’s ready to move on. But one impulsive night in Vegas changes everything—she wakes up married to Reece. And when her clinic is vandalized, he refuses to walk away until the culprit is caught.

Forced to live under the same roof while trying to untangle their accidental vows, Reece and Neve find their shaky truce cracking under the weight of undeniable chemistry. As danger closes in and secrets surface, they must confront the truth about their desires—and decide if this love can be rescued.

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G.K. is a wife and the proud mom of three grown sons. When she’s not writing, she might be watching hockey, reading, traveling, drinking wine, listening to music, or gardening—sometimes all at once! She currently resides in Colorado with her very patient husband.

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Release Blitz: The Fixer by G.K. Brady

 

Title: The Fixer

Series: Fall River #2

Author: G.K. Brady

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Small Town vs Big City/Enemies to Lovers

Grumpy-Sunshine/Opposites Attract

Release Date: September 30, 2024

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Their biggest project isn’t the building—it’s each other.

Joy Holiday traded small-town life for a fast-paced city career a lifetime ago. She never intended to return to the dusty mining town her estranged mother called home. But when she inherits her mom’s crumbling building, she’s forced to confront the past she thought she’d left behind. The dilapidated structure symbolizes memories Joy would rather bury, and she plans to demolish it and move on for good—so she hires the guy with the best reputation in town.

Charlie Hunnicutt is a hometown boy who has spent years painstakingly restoring each historic building brick by brick. Unbeknownst to Joy, the town’s passionate preservationist sees nothing but potential in the old structure. It’s a treasure, a piece of the town’s soul worth saving. So when Joy, with demolition on her mind, sweeps into town in her sleek BMW, it’s all Charlie can do to keep his cool.

What should be a straightforward business transaction quickly turns into a battle of wills as the two butt heads at every turn. But while they clash over the building’s fate, an undeniable attraction begins to grow between them.

As their connection deepens, Joy and Charlie are forced to face their conflicting visions and decide whether love can bridge the gap between their worlds. Where history clashes with the future, love might just be the blueprint.

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Charlie’s feelings were mixed when it came to Joy. Watching her devour the pastries this morning had made him want to laugh out loud, and it had made her seem human. But then her steely side had taken over, and she’d come at him in full uptight business persona. He needed the job, but did he want the job? Well, yeah, he did—he loved that building—but at the cost of dealing with her? He wasn’t so sure.

If she stuck around Fall River, remodeling Crystal Harmony Haven might not be such a good idea for either of them. She’d be underfoot constantly, which was bad enough if she was pleasant. But she was about as pleasant as a tick burrowing into his ass. He couldn’t remember feeling quite so tangled before, but he did know he didn’t have time for her shit.

Noah leaned way back and gave him an appraising look.

“What?” Charlie barked.

“Maybe you’re attracted to her.”

“You’re out of your mind!”

“Your reaction says otherwise, bro. It’s not like you to get so worked up.” Noah seemed to fight a smile Charlie wanted to knock off his face before it formed. “I mean, I get it. She’s pretty hot, and she’s got this vibe going on with her fast cars—you know, fast cars, fast women? I don’t think Micky’s stopped drooling yet. And let’s not forget, she’s Zoe Saldana’s doppleganger.”

This comment further fueled Charlie’s irritation. “She doesn’t look anything like Zoe Saldana! And Micky drools over any breathing being with female plumbing.”

“Are you implying the same doesn’t hold true for you?” Noah let out a chuckle, the asshole.

“This chick is definitely not my type. She struts around in her high heels with an attitude nastier than a wolverine’s while she’s cutting you to ribbons with that sharp tongue of hers.” He paused a beat. “And she’s too damn skinny. What the hell would you hold on to?”

“Not my problem.”

“Not mine either.”

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G.K. is a wife and the proud mom of three grown sons. When she’s not writing, she might be watching hockey, reading, traveling, drinking wine, listening to music, or gardening—sometimes all at once! She currently resides in Colorado with her very patient husband.

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Release Blitz: The Keeper by G.K. Brady

 

Title: The Keeper

Series: Fall River #1

Author: G.K. Brady

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Small Town/Opposites Attract/Forced

Proximity/Grumpy-Sunshine/Black Sheep

Release Date: May 23, 2024

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A mountain blizzard. An injured dog. A romance that caught them both by surprise.

Hailey Bailey craves safety. Raised by an alcoholic father chasing a dream of surfing superstardom, the down-to-earth health inspector just wants a comfortable salary and benefits. But when she attempts to save a lost dog in a blizzard and causes a pickup truck to crash, she’s awed by the handsome driver who protects her from the storm.

Noah Hunnicutt can’t catch a break. Struggling to keep his tavern afloat and impress his judgmental father, the twenty-eight-year-old family pariah is also fending off an obsessed hookup and his money-grabbing, two-timing ex-girlfriend. To top it off, he never expected he’d be rescuing the very woman who made him wreck his truck. But with the gregarious beauty now stranded in town, he can’t say no when she offers to help him out by waiting tables.

Enchanted by the tiny hamlet’s cast of quirky characters, Hailey begins to envision a life there … with the hunky bar owner on her arm. But a series of menacing notes has her rethinking that future. Meanwhile, Noah discovers his troubles aren’t only with vengeful exes when the lovely lady’s smarmy boss arrives to shut his business down. As Noah grapples with doubts about Hailey's honesty, she contends with an increasingly hostile work environment that has her questioning her moral compass.

Can they overcome the outside forces working against them and cultivate a lasting love? Or will they be left to wonder what could have been?

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Hailey leaned against a cluttered credenza Noah needed to clear. “Did you know they call you the ‘keeper’?”

He shook his head. “Why?” He kept his eyes fixed on hers so they didn’t drift down to her neckline and all that skin.

“Well, the most obvious reason is you’re their favorite bartender. But apparently you have a reputation for listening to everyone’s troubles and keeping them to yourself. Your female customers are especially appreciative of your ability to keep a secret. I wonder why?” She sent him a sly wink.

“Oh,” came his witty response. While part of her statement gave him a warm flicker of pride, the other part made him squirm under her amused scrutiny. Or maybe the shots of whiskey sloshing in his empty stomach explained his sudden discomfort.

“I can’t blame them. You do shake a mean martini, barkeep. And the way you toss those liquor bottles. Phew!” She faked a forehead swipe.

For a breath-stealing moment, their eyes locked, and he couldn’t break it.

What is really going through that beautiful head of yours?

She cast her gaze down and pushed away from the credenza in an uncharacteristically jerky way, so different from her usual feline grace. A spray of greenery stuck to the hem of her skirt, and she plucked it off and held it in her open palm. “Oops, I hope I didn’t crush this. What is it?”

He ate up the distance between them, leaving mere inches of space, and lifted the vegetation from her hand. “Mistletoe. I really need to organize that credenza.”

Her pale blue eyes darkened as she scanned his face. “Mistletoe?” The word rolled out of her mouth in a breathless rush. Was it possible she was as hot and bothered as he was?

“It’s left over from Christmas last year. We had it hanging everywhere,” he stammered. “Dixie thought we could save it and reuse it this year, but it’s looking a little ragged.” He held it over his head to see if it would crumble.

“Barkeep, are you trying to get yourself kissed? If so, it’s the wrong time of year.”

He yanked his gaze back to hers. “I thought any time of year was the right time,” his mouth said for him.

A kiss wasn’t what he’d been going for … or was it? Hailey had been dancing in his line of sight and his mind’s eye, dousing him with hits of dopamine for most of the day, and the Jameson had dissolved his restraints into a mellow amber puddle.

He wanted her. Despite knowing he shouldn’t, despite the sirens blaring in his head. It wasn’t only his libido talking, though. Something else was at work, an undercurrent that was as powerful as it was vague and elusive.

For an electrified instant, he swam in the depths of those crystalline eyes, recording every fleck, every nuance of their shading, while a debate escalated in his head. He shouldn’t do this. It was a bad idea. The reason why was a little fuzzy, though, and the alarms faded to a dull noise.

She probably thought he had lost it as he stood there, holding the damn mistletoe in the air while he stared down at her. But if she did, she didn’t show it. Instead, she tilted her chin up and glanced at the desiccated plant, murmuring, “So are you just going to hold it there all night?”

Again, his mouth took over for his short-circuited brain. “Until I can invent a different reason why you should let me kiss you, then, yeah, I probably am.”

Her eyes flared and lowered to his mouth before slowly leveling with his again. “Who says you have to invent anything?”

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Since childhood, all sorts of stories and characters have lived in G.K. Brady’s imagination, elbowing one another for attention, so she’s finally giving them their voice on the written page.

An award-winning writer of contemporary romance, she loves telling tales of the less-than-perfect hero or heroine who transforms with each turn of a page. She also writes historical fiction under the pen name Griffin Brady.

G.K. is a wife and the proud mom of three grown sons. When she’s not writing, she might be reading, traveling, drinking wine, listening to music, or gardening—sometimes all at once! She currently resides in Colorado with her very patient husband.

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Release Blitz: Love Rinkside by G.K. Brady

 

Title: Love Rinkside

A Playmakers Series Standalone Novella

Author: G.K. Brady

Genre: Contemporary Sports Romantic Comedy

Tropes: Co-worker's Brother/Secret Love

Release Date: October 31, 2023

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She’s given up on men. He has no time for love. When a Halloween party turns into a night of outrageous costumes and police chases, can they score a forever goal?

Drew Foster is trapped in a one-man operation. Focused on building his small IT consulting business, the workaholic thirty-one-year-old has no time for close relationships except with his sister and widowed mom. But at a Halloween bash hosted by his brother-in-law’s hockey teammate, he hits it off with an unknown woman in an outrageous mascot costume.

Katie Denning is done with men. Burned by past boyfriends using her to get close to the professional sports team, the loyal dog-lover leaves the party with a guy dressed as a giant banana slug… only to be pursued by police. And after a night of adventure and fun with the cute guy running from the cops, she plucks up the courage to ask him on a date.

Though their romantic rendezvous is cut short by her Chow-mix attacking him, a determined Drew asks for a second chance. A cautiously optimistic Katie begins falling hard, but she fears Drew’s work demands could result in her facing another painful rejection.

Are they about to get stuck on the sidelines before they can score a forever goal?

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The entire scene was hilarity on steroids. “Hmm, interesting offer, but let’s put a pin in it for now, shall we?” She tapped her forefinger against her chin. “I’d like to know a little bit more about the banana slug I’m contemplating taking on as my prison break buddy.”

“Good call. My parents always warned my sister not to trust just any old banana slug.”

A laugh rolled from deep in her belly, and the fact that he had caused it shot warm tingles through his bloodstream.

He chuckled. “Tell you what. Hit me with twenty questions—no holds barred—so you can get to know me better.”

“All right. Cats or dogs?”

“Definitely dogs.”

“Vanilla or cookies and cream?”

“Mint chocolate chip.”

“Thinking outside the box. I like that, Sammy. Beach or mountains?”

“Mountains. That’s why I live here.”

She paused a beat. “Women, men, both, or none of the above?”

He didn’t hesitate. “Women. Always.”

“Hockey or baseball?”

“No contest. Hockey.”

“Favorite season?”

“Fall.”

“Missionary or reverse cowgirl?” Her voice was suddenly breathy, sultry, and it made his dick go from semi to full mast in a nanosecond.

“You just got more interesting.”

“Clever, but that doesn’t answer my question,” she said in a school teacher voice. “Your go-to position?”

“All of the above. In all variations. I’m flexible that way.”

“Phew! It’s getting hot out here.”

The snowflakes were turning to virtual bursts of steam as they hit the atmosphere sizzling between them. “Keep going. You have eleven more questions by my count.” And he couldn’t wait to hear every single one.

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An award-winning writer of contemporary romance, she loves telling tales of the less-than-perfect hero or heroine who transforms with each turn of a page. She also writes historical fiction under the pen name Griffin Brady.

G.K. is a wife and the proud mom of three grown sons. When she’s not writing, she might be reading, traveling, drinking wine, listening to music, or gardening—sometimes all at once! She currently resides in Colorado with her very patient husband.

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