End Game by Serena Akeroyd w/a G.A. Mazurke

Title: End Game
Series: New York Stars #1
Author: Serena Akeroyd writing as
G.A. Mazurke
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Brother’s Best Friend/Hockey Romance
Release Date: September 7, 2023

ABOUT THE BOOK:

She’s my lifeline, my rock…

When I was billeted with the Bukowskis, I made a mistake.
I didn’t lock Gracie Agnieska Bukowski down.

Instead, like a 16-year-old idiot, I became best friends with her brother, Kow, and now, the family considers me one of their own.

Until her, hockey was my only refuge. So, when I’m traded to the New York Stars, my first move is to change my number to 35. See, we made a vow, one that she might have forgotten, but I haven’t.

Gracie’s about to be swept off her feet.

I’m going to prove to her that not only is she not my sister…
She’s my end game.

US: https://amzn.to/3r4XxLl
UK: https://amzn.to/44FqCdW
CA: https://amzn.to/3PucEHH
AU: https://amzn.to/3RcUP0S
Universal: https://bit.ly/45uCqB3

“Why won’t you come swim with me?”
“Because you’re too beautiful.”
“I’m so not,” she argues, brow furrowing. “Stop messin’ ‘round. S’posed to be in veeeeeeno vertiras—berrytus, veraturas?”
“Think you got that wrong,” I retort, smirking a little because that’s a reminder this is real, not a dream. Reality has never been kinder to me than it is right now. “And you are. You’re so fucking beautiful, Gracie. I can’t even look at you without it hurting.”
She squints at me. “I’m beautiful like this?”
I nod.
She sticks out her tongue. “How about now?”
“You stick that out any farther and I’ll do something with it.”
Rocking back, Gracie gasps. “Liam!”
“What?”
Her eyes blink. Once. Twice. “Do you have…,” she whispers, only it’s loud enough to be a shout. “…a boner?”
I grin at her. “Sure do. Ain’t ashamed of it either. I can see your tits.”
She peers at them. “Huh. You can.”
“That dress wasn’t made for water, but it was made for me,” I sing as I settle my hands on her hips. “You gonna fall asleep on me, Gracie? I’d like that. Maybe it’d make the nightmares stop.”
In an explosion of wet hair and drenched silk, she surges on top of me, her elbows settling on either side of my head, pinning me in place, surrounding me with the scent of lime, tequila, perfume, and her.
Flowers.
She always smells like flowers.
Fuck, I love flowers.
“Liam?”
“Hmm?”
“What if…” She sucks in a breath. “…I don’t want to sleep?”
“What ya wanna do, Gracie?”
She wriggles slightly and suddenly, her core is no longer on my abs but lower. Right there. Where I need her.

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MEET THE AUTHOR: G.A. Mazurke is the crazy lady behind Serena Akeroyd, crafter of smexy heroes you just wanna lick. While Serena has us expecting dark romance with lots of twists and turns … G.A. is her more mainstream/contemporary personality.

She explores her sweeter side while keeping the sexy we love, where the women fall hard but the men fall harder.

Some of G.A.’s books will cross over into Serena’s universes… so expect a cameo or two from beloved characters, while discovering new bands of brothers, with the banter, the laughs and the tears you are used to.