From the New York Times bestselling author of the Dream Man and Rock Chick series comes a brand new story about love, friendship, and the bonds of sisterhood.

Evie is a bonafide nerd and a hyper-intelligent chick who has worked her whole life to get what she wants. Growing up, she had no support from her family and has only ever been able to rely on herself. So when Evie decides she wants to earn her engineering degree, she realizes she needs to take an alternative path to get there. She takes a job dancing at Smithie’s club thinking this would be a quick side gig, where she can make the money she needs. But with her lack of dancing skills and an alpha bad boy who becomes overly protective, Evie realizes this might not be as easy as she thought.

Daniel “Mag” Magnusson knows a thing or two about pain, but the mask he wears is excellent. No one can tell that this good-looking, quick-witted, and roguish guy has deep-seated issues. Mag puts on a funny-guy routine so he can hide his broken heart and PTSD. But when Evie dances her way into Mag’s life, he realizes that he needs to come face-to-face with the demons of his past if he wants a future with her.

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Dream Team

Book 1

Can be read as a standalone

Book Type:

Contemporary Romance

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Dream Maker
By Kristen Ashley

Caught up in a storm of her family’s making, a woman struggles to live the life of her dreams in Kristen Ashley’s latest.

DREAM MAKER takes all the wonderful goodness of the Dream Man and Rock Chick books and delivers an exhilarating series starter for a new generation of Rock Chicks.

Evie has big dreams. She wants to earn her engineering degree, to pave the path to the life she’d always hoped. So Evie hustles hard, works two jobs to turn her dreams into reality. But despite crazy smarts and deep initiative, her family continues to weigh her down. Her mother dismisses her, her father is steeped in shady transgressions, and her brother pulls her into his shenanigans time and time again. His latest antic, however, has irrevocable consequences and couldn’t come at a worse time.

Just as her blind date with badass commando Daniel “Mag” Magnusson is about to begin, Evie gets a call that puts her in peril. Thankfully Mag is there as she’s swept into a whirlwind that promises to wreak havoc on her life.

Along the way, however, Evie realizes she has friends—old and new—who show up for her no matter what. And together with Mag, he and she work through the broken pieces of their past to build a beautiful future together.

DREAM MAKER brims with all the things we love about Kristen Ashley novels—romance, sexiness, suspense, sisterhood and brotherhood. And as always, it’s a perfect balance of depth and levity coming together in stories you feel invested in, in a world you know and deeply love.

I loved every second of this can’t-miss, feel-good, adrenaline-fueled romance.

“The people in our lives that we love, if we’re worth anything, anything at all, we bust our asses to make it so they aren’t in a situation where they have to land on their feet ‘cause we made it so they’re always on solid ground.”