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Kensington Publishing Corp. Pucking Around - by Emily Rath (Paperback)

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  • FOR FANS OF hockey romances by Hannah Grace, Elle Kennedy, Lexi LaFleur
  • Brown, Grace Reilly, Rachel Reid, Helena Hunting, Anna Zabo, Sarina Bowen,
  • Grace McGinty, and Sarah Blue. Readers of sexy, boundary-pushing romances
  • With Tiktok/Booktok-driven fandoms by authors such as Ana Huang, Emily
  • McIntire, Lucy Score, Colleen Hoover, Erin Watt, Penelope Douglas, Claire
  • Contreras, and Lauren Blakely, as well as authors who write complex,
  • Well-developed characters like Liz Tomforde and Elsie Silver flock to Emily Rath's
  • Jacksonville Rays series as well.
  • BONUS CONTENT: This new editon of the first Jacksonville Rays romance
  • Includes the prequel novella "That One Night."
  • PREMIUM PACKAGE & NEW COVER ART with GLITTER lamination, spot gloss
  • And designed chapter headers.
  • HEAT LEVEL: Very, very spicy (4 peppers)
  • BESTSELLING PRINT TRACK RECORD: The Kensington print editions of
  • PUCKING AROUND (1/23/24) and PUCKING WILD (3/26/24) were USA Today
  • And Publishers Weekly bestsellers that put another quarter of a million trade
  • Paperbacks in the market, with the former selling nearly 100k copies in its first 7
  • Months on sale and the latter 40k within 5 months. PUCKING SWEET (9/24/24)
  • Debuted on the New York Times bestseller list and sold nearly 40k copies in its
  • First 2 months.
  • POLYAMOROUS QUADRANGLE: The central romance in PUCKING AROUND is a
  • Polyamorous relationship between one woman and three men. Polyamorous
  • Relationships in romance are vastly underrepresented. Readers seeking romances
  • Featuring unconventional modern relationships portrayed in a way that
  • Normalizes them in a positive light will embrace this book.
  • VIRAL TIKTOK SUCCESS FOR THE JACKSONVILLE RAYS: Within 6 months
  • Of its indie release in March 2023, #PuckingAround had accumulated more than
  • 27 million views. Hashtags related to the Jacksonville Rays series overall have
  • More than 20 million views.
  • INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WITH STRONG PLATFORM: Emily Rath is an
  • Internationally bestselling author with a ton of momentum on Tiktok. As of
  • 8/15/24, she has more than 89.5k followers on the platform and more than 1.6
  • Million likes, plus another 35k followers on Instagram.
  • KINKY, INCLUSIVE, QUEER, POLY, “WHY CHOOSE” (REVERSE HAREM)
  • ROMANCES: The Jax Rays series is an open and inclusive world, celebrating
  • Themes of queer joy, ethical nonmonogamy, kink exploration, and body and sex
  • Positivity. Each book features at least one player on the Jacksonville Rays hockey
  • Team meeting and finding their love(s).
  • HOCKEY ROMANCE: Hashtags associated with the subgenre
  • (#HockeyRomanceBooks, #HockeyRomanceBooksTiktok, etc) have accumulated
  • More than 470 million views (as of 9/22/23) on Tiktok. Driven by this Tiktok
  • Explosion, contemporary romance starring hockey players is one of the hottest
  • And bestselling trends in romance, with mainstream outlets such as the New York
  • Times marveling over its popularity (see: https://tinyurl.com/mu8y88t8).
  • Crucially, it's also a subgenre that's not oversaturated in the market.
  • KENSINGTON IS IN THE EMILY RATH BUSINESS: In addition to the
  • Jacksonville Rays novels, Kensington is publishing paperback editions of Emily's
  • Second Sons historical romances staring with BEAUTIFUL THINGS (4/29/2025)
  • As well as her hardcover adult fantasy duology, Tuonela Duet, starting with
  • NORTH IS THE NIGHT in Dec 2025.
  • PERSONAL CONNECTION: As a queer person who lived for many years in
  • Kensington Reads Title Highlights: May 2025
  • Jacksonville who loves hockey and hockey romances, Emily Rath's joyful passion
  • For this series is apparent on every page.
  • EASTER EGGS: Emily layers in Easter eggs everywhere across all her novels, so
  • Fans of her Regency books will catch references in her Jacksonville Rays novels
  • And fans of the Jacksonville Rays will notice connections in her Finnish fantasy
  • Duet.
  • CAN BE READ AS STANDALONE: Each Jacksonville Rays novel features a
  • Different female main character and can be read as a standalone.

Discover the internationally bestselling, off-the-charts sexy, inclusive, poly,kink-friendly, "why choose" hockey romance that made the Jacksonville Raysa Tiktok sensation - now in a new edition inclu…

Suggested Age: Adult

Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres

Number of Pages: 640

Format: Paperback

Author: Emily Rath

Language: English