A Cocky Hero Club Production

 

Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward are excited to bring you the Cocky Hero Club: original works from various authors inspired by Keeland and Ward's New York Times bestselling Cocky Bastard series.

Arrogant Architect
by Alexa Padgett
 
𝗔 𝘀𝗲𝘅𝘆, 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗯𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗨𝗦𝗔 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗮 𝗣𝗮𝗱𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁.
𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴, 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵…
I want Knox Wright. My best friend’s brother, my boss…the man who breaks my still-shattered heart. 
Knox was a college hockey legend and, now, he’s one of the most successful architects in decades. I was the new hire whose desperate need to move on from that night drove me to succeed. 
I never should have accepted the position, not once I looked into Knox Wright’s eyes and felt the heat deep in my belly…but I did...
*Arrogant Architect is a best friend’s brother/forbidden/workplace romance inspired by British Bedmate. Approx. 72,000 words.

Cocky Gamer
by Lauren Helms
Ben Ford is good at what he does, but his days as a professional gamer are numbered.
His entire pro-team is moving on, and now it's time for Ben to do the same. But when a short gig for a voice-over brings this Chicago native to California, he finds a little more than what he bargained for.
A chance meeting on the beaches of Hermosa soon has Ben falling head over lust for the animal-loving, wave crushing woman...
 
*Cocky Gamer is a missed connections/long distance romance inspired by Cocky Bastard. Approx. 63,000 words.

Arrogant Air Marshal
by Natasha Raulerson
 
The plane took off and I couldn't stop trembling, despite the soothing sound of the pilot singing a Beatles song over the intercom.
My name is Bianca “Binx” Moretti, and I hack from the rich to give to the poor—mostly. Only I hacked from the wrong rich guy and was literally on the flight for my life.
When Xander Hawke took the seat next to me, he tried to charm me with his smooth talking ways and dimpled cheeks. Yeah, he’s drop dead gorgeous, but he's also arrogant as hell.
And I had more important things to worry about. Like the emergency landing our plane made because of mechanical issues.
Oh, and guess what? Xander Hawke? Yeah, not a sexy playboy model. Nope. He’s a sexy playboy Air Marshal who only sat next to me because he pegged me as a threat...
*Arrogant Air Marshal is a protector/romantic suspense inspired by Playboy Pilot and British Bed Mate. Approx. 60,000 words.

Tormented Bastard
by Eliza Peake
I’m organizing New York’s biggest charity event of the year. But when the keynote speaker drops out, the success of my business hangs in the balance.
 
There’s one man who can help me. And no, I’m not above flying to the middle of nowhere to plead with the baseball legend in hiding.
 
All I need is a yes.
 
I didn’t expect his hostility. I didn’t expect a hurricane to trap me alone with him. And I didn’t expect to find that he still owns my heart after all this time...
 
*Tormented Bastard is a second chance/sports romance inspired by Cocky Bastard & Stuck-Up Suit. Approx. 57,000 words.

Bossy Burglar
by A.J. Norris
 
One job. I had one job.
All I had to do was steal a diamond necklace, and I’d be brought into the Hermosa Beach Crime Syndicate’s inner circle. My brother’s murder would not go unpunished. Pull off one heist, and I would be one step closer to bringing down his killers.
The problem is someone else wants my spot on the crew. This dangerously sexy and infuriating man is in my way, threatening my chance to avenge my family. And he’s also a distraction I don’t need. Lincoln is smug and cocksure of himself, and I’m falling for him...
*Bossy Burglar is an enemies to lovers romantic suspense inspired by Cocky Bastard. Approx. 54,000 words.

Seductive Scoundrel
by Olivia Peters & Marlo Lanz
Everything in my life is big from my penthouse to my ego, and I always get what I want. So when a mystery woman at a masquerade party leaves me with only her phone number, I’m annoyed – and intrigued. 
Mia is as smart as she is sexy, and she challenges my dominance in ways no one else has dared. But she’s also been lying to me, and a scandal from her past threatens my lucrative deal with the legendary Dex Truitt. 
I made a mistake letting her in. I might love her, but I can’t risk trusting her...
 
*Seductive Scoundrel is a soul mates contemporary romance inspired by Mister Moneybags. 

12 Days of Christmas ❆ When We Fell Down by Alexa Padgett ❆

Title: When We Fell Down
Author: Alexa Padgett
Publisher: Sidecar Press, LLC
Series: Seattle Sound Series Book 7
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Holiday Romance
Release Date: Dec 1 2017
Blurb/Synopsis:

Love played false
It’s just before Christmas, and Ella Dorsey is pregnant, heartbroken, and miserable. Her husband Simon hasn’t been home in months. There are photos of him snuggled up to his publicist. And just when she thinks things between them are hitting their lowest, divorce papers turn up at her work.

Too cold to be true
Simon’s music career is finally starting to bring in the admiration and cash that he’s chased for years. But his wife is keeping secrets and freezing him out. His son believes rumors over his own father. And someone has been telling lies—to him, and about him. Ella’s annual trip to visit her parents in England couldn’t have come at a worse time…

An answer for always…
Simon has until Christmas to discover the truth, decide what matters, and win his wife back. But there’s more to Ella’s life than him. For their love to last, he’ll have to learn her heart all over again…

Review Between Breaths by Alexa Padgett

Title: Between Breaths

Author: Alexa Padgett

Series: Seattle Sound Series (Book 2)

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Publisher: Self Published

Release Date: TBA

Edition/Formations: eBook & Print
Rating:  

Blurb/Synopsis:
Grief brought them together

A hospice center is no place to fall in lust. But with his world cracking during his estranged mother’s last days, Hayden Crewe needs something sweet to focus on. It doesn’t matter that he’s the backbone of Australia’s hottest international rock group—here, watching his mother die, he’s more alone than ever. So when he meets long-legged, clear-minded Briar Moore, he suddenly knows exactly what will fill the hole inside.

Fortune will drag them apart

Briar has just escaped a job and relationship that nearly crushed her. Crawling out of the wreckage of her previous life, she’s done playing it safe. Sexy, vibrant Hayden is what she wants, and Briar is going to take him.  For as long as she can…

Out of heartbreak comes hope

With their time short and the ghosts of their pasts haunting every moment, Briar and Hayden know they’ve fallen too deep. While those few, intense days changed them both forever, everyone knows a connection this intense should burn out as fast as it ignited…

Spotlight The Magician's Ruins by Alexa Padgett

Title: The Magician's Ruins
Author: Alexa Padgett
Series: The Echo Series Book 2
Genre: Contemporary/ Fantasy/ with Paranormal and SciFi Elements
Publisher: Sidecar Press, LLC
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Blurb/Synopsis:

She's the hope of the world … or its destruction.

The portals to the underworld are unguarded, and demons roam free in the Southwest. To return the world to balance Echo Maria Ruiz must survive enough trials to meet with the Magician in his ruined city and learn the secrets he holds. Secrets like the location of her best friend.

Alone and unprepared, Echo must trust Honani, her spirit guardian, and Zeke, the handsome, mysterious warrior who carries her on the back of his motorcycle, battling demons and monsters at her side. In her darkest moments in the Magician’s ruins, Echo discovers betrayal lurks, and her warrior may not be her hero after all.

Spotlight The Spirit Seducer by Alexa Padgett

Title: The Spirit Seducer
Author: Alexa Padgett
Series: The Echo Series Book 1
Genre: Contemporary/ Fantasy/ with Paranormal and SciFi Elements
Publisher: Sidecar Press, LLC
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Blurb/Synopsis:

The dream comes every night: A warrior clad in leather and wielding a
spear, fighting off demons with the heads of jackrabbits and pumas.
Defending her.
Echo Ruiz knows it’s ridiculous. There’s no one in Santa Fe less likely to need defending. Thanks to the migraines, she’s confined to her mother’s house.

Her Native American Studies classes are online, and she hasn’t made a new friend in a decade.

Until her twenty-first birthday party, when trickster Coyote himself shows up. An hour later, Echo is on the run from the power-hungry god. Her headaches are gone. Her mother is a hostage, and she’s been thrust into a mirror-world of deadly loveliness to fight or die.

Her dream warrior? He’s as real as the sweat on her skin. His name is Zeke, and he remembers a lot more about Echo than she does about him. So does her best friend, Layla, who has secrets Echo’s never guessed.

But if Echo wants to defeat Coyote—if she wants to survive—she’ll have to discover the way herself. Because that’s one ending the legends have never told…

Spotlight Sweet Solace by Alexa Padgett

Title: Sweet Solace
Author: Alexa Padgett
Series: The Seattle Sound Series Book 1
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Sidecar Press, LLC
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Blurb/Synopsis:

She Knew Him When


When they first met, she was far too young—seventeen, and already in love with the man who would break her heart. Asher Smith was an up-and-coming songwriter, but he knew better than to show his fascination. He wrote a song for Dahlia. And then he moved on. His whiskey-rough voice made him a star, even as fame extracted its price.


He Never Forgot Her


When she sees Asher next, Dahlia Dorsey is the widowed mother of a teenager, a reclusive writer. She’s given up on happy endings—she can’t even script them for her characters. But a moonlit beach and the touch of an old friend turn loose her pain and her desires, whether she’s ready or not.


They’re Risking It All


Dahlia’s career is on the rocks. Asher’s family is falling apart. Neither can chase a passing attraction. But for two souls wounded worse than they can admit, the connection between them is a balm too precious to refuse—and a thrill too exhilarating to resist…