About the Author

Wendy Hawthorne is a MM romance author who brings the spice and everything nice: star-crossed lovers, soulmates, and second chance romance. Whether you're looking for earned happy endings or swoon-worthy steam, Wendy's writing is sure to sweep you off your feet!Learn more >

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Snapshots in San Diego
(Hearts in Play Book One)

Snapshots in San Diego is a best friends to lovers MM romance featuring photography and a deep bond forged through hockey.

Coming soon to Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Paperback.

Cover of Snapshots in San Diego by Wendy Hawthorne. Features a man cresting from the water with the title text overlaid above him. Tagline text reads: Two Best Friends, One Shared Dream.

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Hearts In Play

Hearts in Play is an MM romance series featuring globe-trotting pairings navigating the challenges of life, love, and professional hockey. Each book in the series builds on the previous and highlights a particular location as the backdrop!

Snapshots in San Diego (Hearts in Play Book One)

OliverEver since his family moved in across the street from mine, Gareth Galloway has been my best friend. We used to believe we would play in the NHL together one day. He knows my secrets better than anyone else.Or, at least that’s how it was until an injury ripped me from his side on the ice in high school.We’ve managed to salvage our shared dream in what ways we could. He’s a professional hockey player for the San Diego Starbirds, and I’m a member of his team’s marketing department, selling his story to hungry and eager hockey fans online. Some would say we’ve made it, but for me, there’s still something missing before I can call this happily ever after.I want Gareth to be my forever, but the last thing I want is to risk rejection and ruin what remains of our friendship. Some days it already feels as if we’re drifting apart. I can’t lose him.GarethI’ve been in love with my best friend Oliver Owen for years, but I’m notoriously shy. I play one of the world’s roughest sports, but I can’t manage to put my feelings into cohesive words.One desperate read through a self-help book later, I’ve realized I can’t keep harboring this secret any longer. I need to find a way to tell Oliver how I feel or risk losing him forever to some other guy who’s capable of saying the words he’s longing to hear.I just hope I’m not too late.Snapshots in San Diego is a best friends to lovers MM romance featuring photography and a deep bond forged through hockey.

Cover of Snapshots in San Diego by Wendy Hawthorne. Features a man cresting from the water with the title text overlaid above him. Tagline text reads: Two Best Friends, One Shared Dream.

Coming soon to Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Paperback.

One Shots

The Rival

Competition runs through my veins. I work hard, I play hard. Maybe I’m not headed for the NBA anytime soon, but I take my local basketball league seriously.So when the final game of the season is a rematch between my team and our cross-town rivals, I’m not going to let us experience another heartbreaking loss. Tonight’s game is about revenge.It doesn’t matter if Jason Alvarez, the other team’s captain, is sexy beyond belief and a little bit my type. He’s been my rival in every sense of the word since I started playing in this league.And it’s going to stay that way.The Rival is a MM rivals to lovers short story featuring a second chance romance.

Cover for "The Rival" by Wendy Hawthorne. Cover features a shirtless man holding a towel around his neck with a small smirk. Cover image is in black and white with a yellow complementary color.

Available now on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.

About The Author

Wendy Hawthorne is a California native who has spent her whole life writing. Wendy considers herself a fan of life's small pleasures, especially enjoying the view of sunsets from her writer's room window.She writes all manner of romance, but she prefers to write M/M relationships. She focuses on developing characters as much as the chemistry between them. Characters may go through the ringer over the course of a story, but Wendy specializes in earned happy endings. Readers will laugh from witty dialogue and then have their heartstrings pulled only a few pages later. Her stories often feature requited unrequited love, mutual pining, soul-crushing angst, humor, and emotional hurt/comfort. Wendy isn't afraid to experiment with her style and genres to subvert reader expectations.Wendy often battles with her torbie cat named Penny who enjoys sitting on keyboards and head-butting phones while her owner is trying to write.

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