Heather Miller Bookophile

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes:  Enemies to lovers,  Fake relationship,  Forced proximity,  Workplace / forbidden romance,  Media scandal hockey drama,  Grumpy veteran enforcer hero,  Sunshine PR strategist heroine,  Protective hockey hero energy. Beatriz “Bea” Ribeiro,  who is  in college working on finishing her degree. She is  Brilliant. Unflappable. And the youngest PR strategist the NHL organization has ever hired. Will Bea be able to work her magic and help spin Alois in a good light that helps his career? Or will she be torn between her love of working and her new 'fake' romance?  Her first assignment?  Rehabilitate the league’s most notorious troublemaker before he destroys the Frosthawks’ season.  Simple.  Except  Alois Müller refuses to be handled. Alois Müller plays NHL ice hockey for the   Minnesota Frosthawks . He loves hockey and how it makes him feel powerful. However, he is on hi...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  Second Chance Romance,  Football Dynasty,  Family Secrets,  Forced Proximity,  The One That Got Away,  Cliffhanger SACKED is Book 3 in The Coopers series, ends on a cliffhanger, and must be read in order: INTERCEPTED → RUSHED → SACKED → SCORED We left Vee in Rushed at her Father's  remembrance  ceremony at the Cooper's Stadium. Her family is very involved with the Cooper's football team. Its been about six weeks since her father's passing. The reading of the will is coming up. Supposedly her father was changing the will but hadn't signed it yet. Vee isn't sure what is coming that she needs to be worried about. She is worried about her holdings with the Coopers football team.  Fin has been on the injured list from getting the hit on his ribs. He has been resting and healing from that injury. Vee's ex boyfriend, Preston, has been texting / meeting with Fin about some family drama he knows that Vee needs t...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:   GRUMPY ex-NHL player, Black cat energy chef FMC, Boss x employee, Small town, Chronic pain rep, She cooks for him, He takes care of her, Laugh out loud, Pinball machine steamy times!!   Ezra, is grumpy ex–NHL player who owns a cidery. He had a career ending injury in the NHL. Ever since he's been out of the NHL he’s been bitter about his injury. He often works in the office at the cidery preferring to work behind the computer instead of up front with customers / staff. Ezra has a lead foot when he drives, he like to go fast, he misses the thrill of being on the ice and going fast. Ezra just got out of another speeding ticket from Sheriff Turner, as long as he hires Summer to help him at the cidery.   Summer Turner has lived in Port Harbor, Washington, most of her life. She left to go away to culinary school, and to work for a restaurant in Chicago. But, her father, Sheriff Turner had a heart ...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes: naughty enemies to lovers, single dad, single mom, hate to love, sex club, power plays, billionaire romance.  Colson is the next brother on the Westin Family. He has power and wealth. He wants for nothing. He is on good terms with his ex - the mother of his 4 yr old. When he has Sophie at the night club he knows he can’t get enough of her. But when he sees her again across the boardroom 2 months later he knows it her instantly.  How is it she is commanding the boardroom but is not that way in the bedroom. She gives up control where it counts the most, Colson knows he needs to be his true dom self and control her that’s what she needs and craves.  Sophie is a young attorney who is a partner at her law firm. She has 1 true brother and 4 others they consider brothers / family also. Sophie grew up in foster care, and knows how both sides of the world live, she been diet poor and ultra wealthy. When she goes up against the Weston fam...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes: Sports Romance, Forbidden, Secret Hookups, Workplace Romance (Football Player x cheerleader) Opposites Attract, Caretaker Hero, High Stakes Relationship, Sneaking Around,  She’s got a spicy bucket list, Witty banter.  Illegal Formation  is the final book in the  Red Zone Rivals  series  it is an interconnected standalone.  What starts as secret hookups and harmless fun quickly turns into something far more dangerous — because the more time we spend sneaking around behind closed doors, the harder it becomes to pretend we’re not already in too deep. Emily Huxley is a free spirit cheerleader / dancer. She likes getting tattoos and piercings. If she likes an image she gets it tattooed. Her parents are very wealthy and often thought she didn’t belong in their world. She has always thought they didn’t like her or want her around as she didn’t fit their mold.  Emily has just moved from Austin, TX up to Seattle fo...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  MC Romance,  Teacher X Biker,  Banter,  Possessive Alpha Veronica is 35 and a principal at the school Phantom's daughter's go to. Veronica loves working with the parents, kids, facility, the surrounding area and town. She loves to serve and work in her community. Veronica doesn't trust people often, she doesn't throw caution to the wind either. But being with Hawk she can't see to help herself, she wants everything when she's with him. Veronica has a elderly father who she checks on constantly when she isn't at work. And she also has a sister who she's very close with and talks on the phone with her daily also.  We start the story off with Hawk (Nico) babysitting (teen sitting) Phantom's two teenage daughters - Holly & Daisy, while Phantom and his wife and toddler have a few days away. Hawk is responsible for the girls during the day - getting them to and from school. Hawk has no idea how long it takes two teenage gi...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Professional Bull Rider x Mafia Underboss MMC, Criminal Journalist FMC, Second Chance Romance, Childhood Sweethearts, She's Investigating his crimes, She's engaged to another man, All the angst, yearning and heartbreak. Unleashed is a dark cowboy romance with a mafia twist. Unleashed is a standalone romance, but part of the Beneath the Reign series, where each book follows one of the brothers in the Sterling family. This story is Ace & Harper. Ace Sterling, is a world champion bull rider. He loves working on his family ranch in New Falls, AZ and riding bulls during the rodeo season. He loved Harper, and hasn't moved on from her even after 6 yrs of not having her. Ace and his brothers and cousins are also part of a mafia that they work for.  Harper Jones, is now a criminal journalist for the LA Press, who lives in LA. She has been burying the Sterling Families secrets, and now she's back in AZ to uncover a criminal story. Her plan was to ...

  Book Rating:    Book Tropes: Sports Romance, Football romance, found family, enemies to lovers, small town romance, forbidden romance. Knox  is the youngest son in the  Bradford football dynasty. He is the new quarterback with the New Orleans Saints Football team. He is new to the team, and feeling out the players and what they can do / he can do in his first & second season. Knox has a lot riding on him from his family, trying to keep up the family sports traditions. Melody, is a sports podcaster who zero-ins on Knox and his struggles. Melody grew up in a football household also. Her father played in the NFL, and they would always go over games and plays, she knows more about football than most people. Melody does do Uber rides every so often, when she needs some extra cash. Melody did have a partner who she was doing the sports podcasting with. Except they did part ways. Her old partner wanted to do black mail in a way on players and see their reaction, ...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Baseball Romance, Small Town Romance, Grumpy x Sunshine,  City Girl FMC, Country Boy MMC, PR x Player, Opposites Attract Jake McKinney is a young up and coming catcher for Sweetwater Mavericks AA baseball team. He thinks he may have been skipped over by the scouts as he hasn't been called up yet. His dad Roddy McKinney has been a catcher in the Major League baseball for awhile, and he thinks people skip over him due to his dad, Roddy McKinney.  Campbell wants to be a sports public relations specialist. She got on with the Sweetwater Mavericks, much to her fathers dismay. He wants her to put her law degree to use in his law firm, but that's not what Campbell wants.  Campbell sees that Jake struggles with the media. They all show him in a brute way. Campbell wants to work with Jake and show he's able to give back to the team, and help the younger  players out. Campbell wants to do a interview with Jake and his Dad Roddy, and she ...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  Enemies to Lovers,  Small Town,  Fake Marriage,  Roommates,  Polo Romance,  Reformed Playboy This is the fourth book in the series. You can read each as a stand alone. The characters are described who is who in each book. The characters are throughout each book in the series.  Miles,  Lord Burlington , has always been the playboy of the family. He is a polo player, and a player in real life. Never really holding onto anyone longer than a one night stand, no one has ever caught his attention. Miles and his family have never wanted / needed for anything. They are very wealthy, and spending money isn't something they have a problem with. Miles has always wanted to be a top Polo player. He is currently ranked number 9 and wants to move up further over the summer. Ruby Lanson is from Iowa, she is American. She has always wanted to be a polo player, for the past few years she has been a groom for a few different p...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: S mall Town,  Enemies to Lovers,  Fake Engagement,  Best Friends Sister,  Slow Burn This is book #4 in the series. You don't need to read them in order or before as they are each standalones. But knowing who is who in the books makes reading the series amazing.  We met both Elliott and Dilynne back in book #1. Here book #4 we have a bit of a repeat of what is going on as it shows Elliot's side of and of Dilynne's from the time of the wedding up to current day.  Elliot Thorne is a lawyer who was just left at the alter. He turns to   alcohol   to help him get through the pain and tries to forget the wedding and Tori who left him at the alter. Dilynne is there at the beginning of his struggles to help him get ahold of himself and he starts to heal thanks to her.  Dilynne is the small towns mechanic. She works in a  specialty  auto shop where she works on classic cars working to restore them to w...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  Crime syndicate,  Tension,  Action,  He falls first & hard,   Deputy FMC,  Ex-military/Cowboy MMC,  Found family RECKLESS COWBOY is a dark cowboy romance featuring enemies-to-lovers tension, morally gray heroes, and a love story that breaks every rule. Deputy Sheriff Harper Garrett has always lived in the small town. Her father is the Sheriff although now that he is getting closer to retirement she isn't sure how much longer he will be on the job. Some town folks have been run off their ranches or killed, the Sheriff says there is another to investigate, but, after one of her friends dad was killed and her father swept it under the rug she knows something is going on.  Luke Bennett was part of the special forces squad in the military. Now he lives in a small town with a few military brothers. They still do their special ops things, just for the civilian world, of helping those who have been traffic and n...