Kate Meader
All Books By Kate Meader
Dear Roomie
- By: Kate Meader
- Narrator: Ramona Master
- Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.09(685 ratings)
Reid Durand isn’t here to make friends. Coming from a legacy of hockey greatness, he has games to win and things to prove. With his focus during his first season as a Chicago Rebel purely on his drive to succeed, every vice is off the table–no booze, no sugar, and definitely no women. Kennedy Clark is the master of the side hustle. She’ll walk your dog, brew your espresso, and pick up your dry-cleaning, all while rocking it in Warrior pose. Standing still is impossible for her because the moment she starts to slow down, it’ll all come rushing back: the memories, the pain, the heartbreak. Their meet-cute is more of a freeze-cute. Besides, they already know each other. He’s the rude, entitled customer at her coffee shop, or what used to be her coffee shop since she just got fired… because of Mr. Extra Shot Americano himself. Reid didn’t intend to get her fired. He also didn’t intend to rescue a dog after the poor thing ended up in the lake. And he definitely didn’t intend to acquire a new roommate–a curvy, chatty, tempting roommate. Now this perfect storm of events is about to wreak havoc on his neatly ordered life, so he’s certainly not going to lose his heart to a puppy, a team, or a chaos agent like Kennedy. But then again, we don’t always get what we want…
... Read moreDown with Love
- By: Kate Meader
- Narrator: Pippa Jayne
- Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 31, 2019
- Language: English
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3.83(7 ratings)
If you ever get married, remember my name: Max Henderson. In my line of work, you acquire a certain perspective on supposedly everlasting unions…
1. Pre-nups are your friend.
2. The person you married is not the person you’re divorcing.
3. And I hope you didn’t spend much on the wedding because that was one helluva waste of hard-earned cash, wasn’t it?
But some guys are willing to take a chance–like my brother, who thinks he’s going to ride off into the sunset with the woman of his dreams in a haze of glitter on unicorns. And the wedding planner–the green-eyed beauty who makes a living convincing suckers to shell out thousands of dollars on centerpieces–is raking it in on this matrimonial monstrosity.
The thing is, Charlie Love is not unlike me. We’re both cogs in the wedding-industrial complex. As the best man, I know her game–and I can play it better than her. But after one scorching, unexpected kiss, I’m thinking I might just want to get played.
... Read moreEven the Score
- By: Kate Meader
- Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: December 31, 2021
- Language: English
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3.8(1128 ratings)
He’ll make her an offer she can’t refuse . . .
Actress Tess McKenzie is performing in the Tenth Circle of Showbiz Hell-dinner theater. All she really wants is to start a theater of her own. Then Tess receives an offer she can’t refuse. She’ll get her funding . . . if she pretends to be the fiancee to her nemesis, Texan property tycoon Hunter Dade. If she’s going to pull this off, she’ll need all the luck she can get. Break a leg, indeed.
On the verge of a big business deal, Hunter needs to hire a fiancee. He hasn’t quite forgiven Tess for ruining his wedding, but when their chemistry goes from combative to straight-up lust, the “no sex” clause in their mutually beneficial arrangement is tested. Which is a serious problem, because if Tess isn’t careful, she’ll go from breaking a leg to breaking her heart . . .
Contains mature themes.
Flirting With Fire
- By: Kate Meader
- Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: February 02, 2016
- Language: English
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3.85(3456 ratings)
Savvy PR guru Kinsey Taylor has always defined herself by her career, not her gender. That is, until she moved from San Francisco to Chicago to be with her fiance, who thought she wasn’t taking her “job” of supporting him in his high-powered career seriously enough and promptly dumped her for a more supportive and “feminine” nurse. Now, as the new assistant press secretary to Chicago’s dynamic mayor, she’s determined to keep her eye on the prize-and she certainly doesn’t have time for men.
But that all changes when she meets Luke Almeida, a firefighter as searingly sexy as he is quick-tempered. He’s also the second oldest of the Firefightin’ Dempseys, a family of foster siblings who have committed their lives to the service-if Luke’s antics don’t get him fired first. When Luke goes one step too far and gets into a bar brawl with the Chicago Police Department, Kinsey marches into Luke’s firehouse and lays down the law on orders from the mayor. But at Engine Co. 6, Luke Almeida is the law, and he’s not about to let Kinsey make the rules.Contains mature themes.
Foreplayer
- By: Kate Meader
- Narrator: Ramona Master
- Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: January 12, 2021
- Language: English
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4.13(822 ratings)
She’s got game everywhere but the bedroom. Enter the player who knows exactly how to grade her curves… After a very public breakup and a viral post that declares him the villain, power forward Cal Foreman is taking a timeout from women and relationships to focus on hockey. When Chicago Rebels captain and old friend, Vadim Petrov, “volunteers” him to help train Vadim’s sister Mia, Cal figures he can do a favor for a pal and get ready for the season with his new team. But the imperious Russian would slice a skate blade through Cal’s internal organs if he knew what lessons Mia really wants. Yeah, not that kind of stickhandling. Hockey phenom and Olympics hopeful Mia Wallace needs help seducing the man of her dreams. That man is most definitely not Cal Foreman: notorious playboy, thorn in her side, and her brother’s bestie. But surely a guy with his reputed skillset has a few tips on how she can nail her target–which makes him the perfect foreplayer. Cal knows Mia sees him as merely the warm-up act in her grand plan to win another man, but as they spend more time together, he wonders if that’s enough. If they could be more. And if he could convince her he’s worthy of the starting line-up…in her heart?
... Read moreGood Guy
- By: Kate Meader
- Narrator: Ramona Master
- Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 03, 2019
- Language: English
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3.93(2388 ratings)
Fans can’t get enough of Levi Hunt, the Special Forces veteran who put his NHL career on hold to serve his country and fight the bad guys. So when his new Chicago Rebels bosses tell him to cooperate with the press on a profile, he’s ready to do his duty–until he finds out who he has to work with: flame-haired, freckle-splashed, impossibly perky Jordan Cooke…the woman he should not have kissed the night she buried her husband, Levi’s best friend in the service.
Hockey-stick-up-his-butt-serious Levi Hunt might despise Jordan for reasons she can’t fathom–okay, it’s to do with kissing–but her future in the cutthroat world of sports reporting hangs on delivering the goods on the league’s hottest, grumpiest rookie. So what if he’s not interested in having his life plated up for public consumption? Too bad. Jordan will have to play dirty to get her scoop and even dirtier to get her man. But if she wins the story, she might just lose her heart…
... Read moreIllegally Yours
- By: Kate Meader
- Narrator: Pippa Jayne
- Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: February 11, 2020
- Language: English
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3.92(2 ratings)
I’m the kind of guy who believes that everyone deserves the best legal representation money can buy–which just so happens to be me, Lucas Wright. Give me your henpecked, your cuckolded, your irreconcilable differences yearning to break free! And if you’re the bad guy in your marriage, that’s cool too. Your green is as good as anyone’s.
Tell that to Trinity Jones. It’s my job to destroy her sister–the soon-to-be ex-wife of my a-hole of a client–and Trinity’s “big sis” instincts are dialed up to the max. I admire that. I admire her. But she won’t stop me from representing my client to the best of my ability.
Not even if my chemistry with Trinity is undeniable. Not even if we can’t keep our hands off each other. Not even if she injects life into a heart assumed to be long dead.
Because when faced with a choice between love and duty, the job will always win–or at least that’s what I thought before I met Trinity…and suddenly conflict of interest never felt so right.
... Read moreInstacrush
- By: Kate Meader
- Narrator: Ramona Master
- Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: February 25, 2020
- Language: English
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3.98(1358 ratings)
Roaring back from a life-threatening injury, Theo has the world at his skates as defenseman for his new team, the Chicago Rebels. Everyone adores his big personality, his on-ice talent, and his killer smile. Everyone but his prickly neighbor–or so he thinks. One chilly Christmas Eve, Theo will learn that maybe the girl next door isn’t such a hater after all…
Elle Butler is the most embarrassing person on the planet.
How else can the ex-military-now-bartender explain her crush on the hot jock who lives across the hall? True, he has gorgeous green eyes and perfect cheekbones, but the filter between his brain and too-sexy mouth is permanently malfunctioning. Yet she can’t stop checking out his Instagram antics or sneaking looks at him when he’s at her bar. It’s absolutely mortifying. Running from a past filled with damning secrets, Elle’s determined that this guilty pleasure will remain buried in her deepest fantasies–because she couldn’t possibly indulge with the Theo Kershaw…or make a mistake that draws attention to her under-the-radar life. And she especially couldn’t be a mom to a professional athlete’s baby…could she?
... Read moreIrresistible You
- By: Kate Meader
- Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: October 17, 2017
- Language: English
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4.03(3107 ratings)
Harper Chase has just become the most powerful woman in the NHL after the death of her father Clifford Chase, maverick owner of the Chicago Rebels. But the team is a hot mess-underfunded, overweight, and close to tapping out of the league. Hell-bent on turning the luckless franchise around, Harper won’t let anything stand in her way. Not her gender, not her sisters, and especially not a veteran player with an attitude problem and a smoldering gaze designed to melt her ice-compacted defenses.
Veteran center Remy “Jinx” DuPre is on the downside of a career that’s seen him win big sponsorship’s, fans’ hearts, and more than a few notches on his stick. Only one goal has eluded him: the Stanley Cup. Sure, he’s been labeled as the unluckiest guy in the league, but with his recent streak of good play, he knows this is his year. So why the hell is he being shunted off to a failing hockey franchise run by a ball-buster in heels? And is she seriously expecting him to lead her band of misfit losers to a coveted spot in the playoffs?
He’d have a better chance of leading Harper on a merry skate to his bed . . .
Contains mature themes.
Jock Wanted
- By: Kate Meader
- Narrator: Ramona Master
- Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: July 26, 2022
- Language: English
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4.16(344 ratings)
When the new general manager of the Chicago Rebels tasks Tara Becker with faking it with one of his players to help clean up the naughty jock’s act, she’s all over it. She’ll make that misbehaving hunk of muscle look good and get her dream guy into the bargain. But the path from fake to real is riddled with thorns… New Rebels GM Hale Fitzpatrick thinks ditzy blonde and wannabe WAG Tara is the perfect solution to his PR problem–until she isn’t. Soon Fitz realizes that maybe he doesn’t have control of the strings after all…especially when he starts to fall for his pretty little puppet.
... Read moreMan Down
- By: Kate Meader
- Narrator: Ramona Master
- Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 08, 2020
- Language: English
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4.14(1836 ratings)
Gunnar Bond is broken. Three years ago, he lived through the car crash that took his wife and twins away from him–though “lived” barely describes his current state. Giving up professional hockey, going off-grid, and drinking himself into oblivion are his coping mechanisms. Another is texting his dead wife about his days without her. Therapeutic? Doubtful. Crazy? Definitely. But those messages into the ether are virtually the only thing stopping him from spiraling to even darker places. Until someone texts back…Sadie Yates is losing it. Suddenly guardian to a little sister she doesn’t know and a misbehaving hound she’d rather not know at all, she’s had to upend her (sort of) glamorous life in L.A. and move back to Chicago. The nanny has quit, the money’s running out, and her job is on the line. The last thing she needs is her sister’s hockey camp counselor, a judgmental Viking type, telling her she sucks at this parenting lark. Thank the goddess for her sweet, sensitive, and–fingers crossed–sexy text buddy who always knows the right thing to say. In the same city at last, they can finally see if their online chemistry is mirrored in real life. She just needs to set up a meeting…A ruined man who claims to have used up all his love is surely a bad bet, but Sadie’s never been afraid of a challenge…even one that might shatter her heart into a million pieces.
... Read moreMelting Point
- By: Kate Meader
- Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: January 17, 2023
- Language: English
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3.92(1253 ratings)
Things are heating up at Engine Co. 6 in this original e-novella from Kate Meader’s sizzling Hot in Chicago series! Superhot playboy firefighter Gage Simpson has one particular man on his mind: Brady Smith, a recalcitrant, moody chef who makes Gage melt from the inside out.
Firefighter Gage Simpson has it all: the job of his dreams, the family of his heart, and no shortage of hot guys lining up to share his bed. “Fun and easy” is his motto-and it’s kept him sunny through a painful upbringing and steered him away from trouble. But when trouble comes knocking in the form of a sexy, scarred, tattooed chef with a harrowing past and zero communication skills, Gage can’t help but be drawn to the flame.
Brady Smith isn’t fun. And easy isn’t in his vocabulary. When cocky Gage swaggers into his restaurant kitchen, the former Marine-turned-five-star-chef is blindsided by the firefighter’s beauty. Then confused that this golden guy with the sparkling blue eyes and the body of a god might be interested in him. As desire flares and temperatures rise, Gage and Brady will have to figure out if the heat between them is just a temporary flash-or the beginning of something real.
Contains mature themes.
One Week to Score
- By: Kate Meader
- Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: February 15, 2022
- Language: English
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3.87(745 ratings)
He’s the man she loves to hate . . .
Olivia Kane’s wedding day has just imploded spectacularly. Shots lined up at the bar? Bring it. Hot stranger on the hook? Come on down. What this party does not need is six feet and change of home-grown Texas cockiness in the form of her brother’s best friend, the man who broke her heart seven years ago.
She’s the woman he has to have . . .
Flynn Cross won’t stand by while Liv finds sensual solace in the arms of a stranger, not when his own hard-for-her body is more than up for the task. For one week, he’ll make her honeymoon-for-one a sizzling party for two.
Breaking the rules, one steamy night at a time . . .
But the taboo they’re breaking is only the beginning . . . and Flynn’s part in Liv’s wedding debacle could bring about their end.
Contains mature themes.
Playing with Fire
- By: Kate Meader
- Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: February 23, 2016
- Language: English
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3.97(2849 ratings)
As the only female firefighter at Engine Co. 6, Alexandra Dempsey gets it from all sides: the male coworkers who think she can’t do the job, the wives and girlfriends who see her as a threat to their firefighter men, and her overprotective foster brothers who want to shelter their baby sister at all costs. So when she single-handedly saves the life of Eli Cooper, Chicago’s devastatingly handsome mayor, she assumes that the respect she’s longed for will finally come her way. But it seems that Mr. Mayor has other ideas . . .
Eli Cooper’s mayoral ratings are plummeting, his chances at reelection dead in the water. When a sexy, curvaceous firefighter gives him the kiss of life, she does more than bring him back to the land of the living; she also breathes vitality into his campaign. Riding the wave of their feel-good story might prop up Eli’s flagging political fortunes, but the sizzling attraction between them can go nowhere; he’s her boss, and there are rules that must be obeyed. But you know what they say about rules: they’re made to be broken.Contains mature themes.
Rookie Rebels Bundle, Books 1-3
- By: Kate Meader
- Narrator: Ramona Master
- Length: 29 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: July 21, 2022
- Language: English
This bundle includes the first three books in the Rookie Rebels series. In the first book of the series, Good Guy, Levi makes his pro-hockey debut. Jordan is a dogged sports reporter determined to get a scoop. She’s also his best friend’s widow. In the second book, Instacrush, Elle’s hot hockey player neighbor, Theo, is the most annoying man in the world. But one sexy Santa visit and one dinner later, she’s pregnant. In the third book, Man Down, Gunnar has been texting the wife he lost, the one he loved beyond measure, but someone else answers back. Each book is completely standalone and features one primary couple, a guaranteed happily-ever-after, and no cliffhangers!
... Read moreSo Over You
- By: Kate Meader
- Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: December 04, 2017
- Language: English
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3.99(2655 ratings)
Three estranged sisters struggle to sustain their late father’s failing hockey franchise in Kate Meader’s sizzling Chicago Rebels series. In this second entry, middle sister Isobel is at a crossroads in her personal and professional lives. But both are about to get a significant boost with the addition of a domineering Russian powerhouse to the Rebels . . .
Isobel Chase knows hockey. She played NCAA, won silver at the Games, and made it thirty-seven minutes into the new National Women’s Hockey League before an injury sidelined her dreams. Those who can’t, coach, and a position as a skating consultant to her late father’s hockey franchise, the Chicago Rebels, seems like a perfect fit. Until she’s assigned her first job: the man who skated into her heart as a teen and relieved her of her pesky virginity. These days, left-winger Vadim Petrov is known as the Czar of Pleasure, a magnet for puck bunnies and the tabloids alike. But back then . . . let’s just say his inability to sink the puck left Isobel frustratingly scoreless.
Contains mature themes.
Taking the Score
- By: Kate Meader
- Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: January 25, 2022
- Language: English
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3.87(1186 ratings)
His office temptation is now his full-blown fantasy . . .
Paying down her sister’s debts has left personal assistant Emma Strickland with little more than the thrift store suit on her back. And as if the suckfest couldn’t get worse, she’s forced to get a second job as a waitress to support herself and her cat. At a strip club. Her uptight, sexy-as-hell boss Brody Kane can never find out.
Texas property tycoon Brody Kane hired Emma for her spreadsheet skills, but her prim and proper demeanor sealed the deal. There’s no room in his life for a sexy distraction . . . and yet, he can’t stop lusting after the delicious Ms. Strickland.
But then he takes an important client to a Chicago strip club and gets the worst lap dance in adult entertainment history. From Emma.
Now that he knows his office good girl has a naughty streak, Brody makes it his mission to uncover her secrets, one illicit, over-the-desk encounter at a time. But Emma is hiding more than her side job, and her final secret could end up destroying them both.
Contains mature themes.
Then Came You
- By: Kate Meader
- Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 28, 2020
- Language: English
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3.94(2 ratings)
Aubrey Gates is the hottest divorce lawyer in Chicago, a barb-tongued stiletto with legs that go on for miles. When her cool gray eyes meet mine across the battlefield, I want her like I’ve never wanted anyone or anything. Then I remember who she is: the woman who brought me to my knees, the woman who destroyed my faith in relationships, the woman I used to call…wife.
And now she needs a favor from me, Grant Lincoln.
It seems my ex forgot to mention the demise of our marriage to her dear old grammy, and now we’re both expected to attend her ninetieth birthday party…in Boston. And because it isn’t already awkward enough, Aubrey and I are driving there together from Chicago. That’s more than a thousand miles of tension, heartbreak, and barely concealed lust.
A little piece of paper might say we’re over, but this road trip is the true test. I intend to get my wife back…and I won’t stop until “I do.”
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