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Playing for Keeps - Book 1

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Parts 17
Time 5h 56m

AmandaCowenAuthor

Mature

He's gorgeous.

He's reckless.

And he's every woman's dirty fantasy in the state of California.., except one... Quinn Ashby.

Recent graduate of Penn and top of her class, Quinn is whip smart, ambitious and interning as the new marketing coordinator for the Bexley Bruisers American Hockey League team. The last thing she needs is to waste her time on guys...especially one as lethal to her focus as Cash Brooks.

But once the bad boy hockey star tempts her into his world, threatening her professional future, she's forced to decide whether to let him into her heart...or to leave him behind forever.All Rights Reserved

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