Champion Valley

3 total works

Winner Takes All

by Erin Kern

Published 30 August 2016

The bigger they are...

Life as a professional football player was a dream for Blake Carpenter. Money. Fame. Endorsements. A championship ring for his team. But then a career-threatening injury ended all that faster than you can say ready, set, hike. The next thing he knows, Blake's back in his home town of Champion Valley, Colorado accepting a job coaching a bunch of rag-tag, down-on-their-luck high school football players. Blake knows he has his work cut out for him if he's going to whip this team into playoff shape. But he never imagined that involved working with an overly opinionated physical therapist who's hell-bent on telling him how to do his job.

The harder they fall

Annabelle Turner agreed to help out the Champion Valley Bobcats as a favor to the district's athletic director. But then the team's new coach opens his mouth and tries to fire her on the first day. Blake is difficult, to say the least, even if he is easy on the eyes. And almost immediately Annabelle senses that Blake has some very deeply buried demons. One of which can threaten the team's season if Blake doesn't face it head on.

Back in the Game

by Erin Kern

Published 31 October 2017

Brandon West runs a successful business building custom homes, while raising a teenage son. But he and his son Matt don't always see eye to eye, like where Matt should go to college. But the college debate may be off the table if Matt can't snag the eye of a big time college recruiter, especially if the Blanco Valley Bobcats don't make the state championships. In order to help his son get in top shape, Brandon goes out on a limb and enlists the help of former professional ballet dancer Stella Davenport. Ballet training is unconventional and becomes downright inconvenient when the instructor gets in Brandon's head with her clear blue eyes and secrets that lurk just beneath the surface.

Changing the Rules

by Erin Kern

Published 26 April 2018

This alpha athlete is about to meet his match...

Cameron Shaw knows exactly what he's doing when it comes to coaching high school boys on the football field, but caring for a six-year-old girl is a whole different ballgame. When a gorgeous, highly opinionated woman shows up with his niece in tow and claims he's Piper's new guardian, Cameron's first response is "hell no." But he can't abandon a little girl who just lost her mother....

Audrey Bennett wasn't planning to stick around town, but Piper's gruff, way-too-good-looking-for-his-own-ego uncle clearly needs help. The longer she stays-watching Cameron teach Piper to make pancakes and tie her sparkly pink shoelaces-the harder it is to leave. Especially when he stops arguing and gives Audrey the most toe-curling kiss of her life. But just as she thinks he might be the one, a secret he's been keeping threatens to tear apart their happy little family.