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Riley Bauer writes love stories for people who think they’re too complicated for love stories. They are fascinated by the intersection of high-stakes environments and intimate character growth, a passion that fuels their sports romance projects and they firmly believe that every found family deserves a championship seasons. Riley currently lives in the Southeast, where they are hard at work on their next novel.

Atlanta Firebirds

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Prequel Novella

Before they fell in love, they built a team. Four rookies, two captains, one stray cat, and the training camp that turned strangers into family.

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A loudmouthed NHL winger and the team physical therapist who absolutely can't date him discover that some professional boundaries are easier to cross than ignore.

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Bonus novella

Five happily-ever-afters. The winning is done. This is the part where they get to keep it.

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A sunshine center experiencing a bisexual awakening and a grumpy, closeted captain are forced together as co-captains, igniting a slow-burn romance neither of them can afford.

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A loudmouthed NHL winger and the team physical therapist who absolutely can't date him discover that some professional boundaries are easier to cross than ignore.

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When two enemies on an NHL expansion team are forced to co-parent a pair of inseparable kittens, their rivalry slowly unravels into something far more dangerous.

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Two goalies, one who fills every room, one who's spent his life shrinking , fall into a first love neither of them has words for, right as the Cup run demands everything they have.

Atlanta Firebirds German Editions

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Before The Fire

German Edition

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Fresh Ice

German Edition

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Face Off

German Edition

Open Play

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When a Czech hockey star and his brother's best friend find themselves adrift in Atlanta together, old feelings become impossible to ignore.

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A Czech footballer who's spent two years showing up at a Neapolitan man's door and never once staying till morning has to mark him for ninety minutes in a World Cup quarterfinal, and finally decide if he'll choose him in daylight.

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Two Czech soccer stars who've been pretending their something-more-than-friendship isn't real run out of room to hide it when the World Cup semifinals come calling.

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