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Release: Unexpected Play

UNEXPECTED PLAY

Alexa Padgett

Release Date: September 21

He's my brother's best friend. My new neighbor. And the Providence Forge defenseman who makes me forget I was ever broken.

Coming home to Providence was supposed to be temporary while I finished my master's degree and helped at my family's architecture firm.

I planned to raise my daughter in peace after my ex-fiancé walked away before she was even born.

Then Ryder Mackay moved in next door. The gorgeous pediatrician and part-time Forge enforcer has always been off-limits. He's loyal, steady, and the kind of man who shows up without being asked. Which is exactly why falling for him is such a terrible idea.

Because every time Ryder holds my baby like she belongs in his arms…every time he looks at me like I'm worth more than the wreckage I'm still climbing out of…I start wanting things I swore I'd never risk again: a future and a family. Him.

But Ryder's spent years protecting everyone around him while ignoring what he wants for himself, and if we're not careful, the timing that brought us together might be the very thing that tears us apart.

Previously published as Magnetic Medic, Unexpected Play is a steamy brother's-best-friend hockey romance featuring a protective hero, a single mother rebuilding her life on her own terms, forced proximity, emotional healing, and a fiercely earned happily ever after. Books in the Providence Forge Series can be read standalone — but reading in order deepens the world.

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Meet Alexa Padgett:

USA Today bestseller Alexa Padgett’s books have garnered accolades from prestigious organizations, including Kirkus Reviews, National Indie Excellence Awards, and Publishers Weekly.

Alexa spent a good part of her youth traveling. From Budapest to Belize, Calgary to Coober Pedy, she soaked in the myriad smells, sounds, and feels of these gorgeous places, wishing she could live in them all–at least for a while. And she does in her books.

She lives in New Mexico with her husband, children, and Great Pyrenees pup, Ash. When not writing, schlepping, or volunteering, she can be found in her tiny kitchen, channeling her inner Barefoot Contessa.

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Release: Unexpected Play

UNEXPECTED PLAY Alexa Padgett Release Date: September 21 He's my brother's best friend. My new neighbor. And th...