Title: False Start Series: Beautifully Brutal #1 Author: Casey Hagen Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance Release Date: February 16 BLURB I'm used to being an outsider, full of self-doubt, pain, and a longing to belong. Until I found this family, my own band of derby sisters. But when the most notorious coach in roller derby sets his sights on me, my life is thrust into chaos. He’s a perceptive, cocky hard-ass, who's made me his enemy, and his student. Despite being my adversary, he’s the only man I can trust when faced with insurmountable odds, even if I hate every second he tries to bend me to his will. Our proximity brings with it a forbidden attraction. One that can destroy everything my team has built. One that threatens to break me down, piece by piece I won't let Cain Bishop break me...at least not on the track. But maybe...I’ll let him break my bed. One night home and I’m obsessed with the track. Maybe not the track itself, but her. The most compellin...

Title: False Start Series: Beautifully Brutal #1 Author: Casey Hagen Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance Release Date: February 16 BLURB I'm used to being an outsider, full of self-doubt, pain, and a longing to belong. Until I found this family, my own band of derby sisters. But when the most notorious coach in roller derby sets his sights on me, my life is thrust into chaos. He’s a perceptive, cocky hard-ass, who's made me his enemy, and his student. Despite being my adversary, he’s the only man I can trust when faced with insurmountable odds, even if I hate every second he tries to bend me to his will. Our proximity brings with it a forbidden attraction. One that can destroy everything my team has built. One that threatens to break me down, piece by piece I won't let Cain Bishop break me...at least not on the track. But maybe...I’ll let him break my bed. One night home and I’m obsessed with the track. Maybe not the track itself, but her. The most compellin...

Talk Derby to Me R.H. Tucker Publication date: August 2020 Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult As the editor-in-chief of his high school newspaper, Evan Maldonado is right on track for college next year and pursuing his dream of being a journalist. To put the finishing touch on his college applications, he’s taking an intern position with a well-known newspaper where he’ll receive a letter of recommendation from the editor. There’s just one little problem. The business intern spot he was expecting to get is taken. The only other position they have available is covering the local roller derby league. Mari Valdez isn’t worried about getting into college. All she’s concerned with is getting through the repulsive world of high school. Sure, she has her best friend, but she still has to put up with teasing because of her multi-colored hair or bruises. The bruises are from roller derby, by the way, the only thing that Mari looks forward to. It’s been her safe haven since h...

Review: On A Roll - #Volume 9: Lumberjanes - Various Authors - July 2018 In Volume #9 we have the Lumberjanes solving one mystery of the melting ice-cream as they learn that someone is stealing the camp's power supply. The girls travel along and find Yetis and Sasquatches. The yetis have been kicked out of their treehouse by the Sasquatches. Mal finds an old roller rink and decides to set up a competition for the Yeti's to get their house back. The Roanoke cabin aka the Lumberjanes will challenge the Sasquatches to a game of roller derby . Meanwhile, during this book, Jo is off in her little world as she has received a letter asking her to come to a Science camp and though this could change her life forever , it would mean leaving all her friends behind which she could never do. The other thing that happens in this book is that the Zodiac cabin is complete with Diane and Barney becoming more accepted of the Lumberjanes camp. I did enjoy this ...