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Jami Davenport is an American contemporary romance and sports fiction author. She is a USA Today bestselling writer whose novels have topped the ranks on sports and romance categories on Amazon and other marketplaces. Jami was born and brought up in North Central Washington and later graduated with degrees in business and education from the Washington State University. After graduating, she went on to work as a business teacher in high school then worked as an IT expert for the government for several years before becoming an author. Jami has always been a lover of horses since she was little, and once she became successful with her novels, she retired to Puget Sound. She lives on a small farm with former military husband now plumber and together they travel and garden when she is not writing her novels. Davenport has asserted that she loves writing equestrian fiction sports hero romances and romantic comedy since she has always been a fan of sports and romantic novels. She has also spent countless hours boating in the San Juan Islands and has used her experiences to write the settings in some of her novels. “Madrona Island” the first novel of the “Madrona Island” series was published in 2014.
Jami has been writing right from the time she learned the alphabet. By the time she was five or six years old, she had written her first story about a horse she named “Wildfire.” She went on to illustrate the story herself and believes that is when she got the writing bug. In her teenage years, she loved contemporary romances and would often be found reading the likes of “Mirror Image” by Sandra Brown or “The Promise” by Danielle Steele. She also likes the works of Susan Elizabeth Phillips though she believes that most of her works have been influenced by Theresa Scott, Lucy Monroe, Adrianne Lee, Allie K, Adams, and Dawn Calvert. The biggest nudge to become a professional author was when she wrote a fanfiction work that became so popular online that many of the readers said that she should try her hand at publishing. Since Davenport had always dreamed of becoming a published author, she enrolled as a member of several writing groups including the Romance Writers of American Olympia and Peninsula chapter. But she was discouraged by well-meaning authors who told her sports romances did not have an audience. Discouraged, she decided to quit the genre she had been writing for more than ten years and got into contemporary romance.
“Madrona Sunset” was the first novel Jami Davenport completed and published before she wrote several other erotic works under a highly secret pseudonym. Her erotic works were very popular but after several years writing them, she was burnt out and decided to write contemporary romances as Jami Davenport. Siren Publishing published her first novel in 2008. She had submitted to several publishing houses and while waiting thought why not submit to another as more options would not hurt. Within twenty-four hours after submission, she had a contract and published three of her first works with Siren as Jami Davenport and five others under a pseudonym.
Jami Davenport’s “Skating on Thin Ice” is the story of a billionaire determined to sponsor a hockey team in Seattle. But his passion for the team conflicts with the love he has for his lover. Ethan Parker has just signed the deal to purchase a hockey team from another city and relocate it to Seattle. But given how sensitive such deals can be, the League made him sign a confidentiality agreement until the end of the season. Needing to know how his team is faring, he is forced to go undercover and pretend to be a consultant so that he can watch the ongoings at the club. Meanwhile, the Assistant Director of Player Personnel for his team named Lauren Schneider is having a hard time as the mostly male staff does not respect her opinion. Things take a turn for the better when the charming and genuinely interested Ethan comes into the scene and allows her to voice her opinions during which her own weakness is revealed. She finds herself falling for Ethan until it is revealed that he is the man that had just bought the club. She feels betrayed on both a personal and professional level as he starts using the input she had given him to clean house. Lauren hates it but since she has an employment contract, she has to move to Seattle to continue working for her infuriating but sexy boss.
“Crashing the Net” by Jami Davenport opens to the Sockeyes hockey team settling in their new home in Seattle. The lead is a controlling and gorgeous man named Cooper who gatecrashes a party Izzy had been paid to disrupt. Understandably, Izzy his girlfriend is angry at him for nearly ruining her reputation as a professional party crasher and dumps him. She had learned the value of independence from a very young age and not even a pro athlete who is sexy as sin can change who she is. As the season begins, Cooper finds himself saddled with a dour teenage nephew and without a girlfriend. He does not want to play hockey in Seattle neither has he warmed up to the idea of being a stand-in father. He misses his ex-girlfriend Izzy and he turns green with envy whenever he sees her with other men when they go out. He pines for her and is willing to do anything if he is given a second chance. Cooper knows that she is in a tight spot financially and offers to hire her to take care of his nephew when he is out of town with the team. But Izzy believes Cooper is still the same controlling man he was and refuses any efforts to run their financial agreement into a romantic relationship. He is looking for a docile and sweet girlfriend and Izzy is not that girl. But then tragedy intervenes and Cooper now needs her more than ever.
Jami Davenport’s “Melting Ice” is the story of Isaac Wolfe, a man nicknamed ice for his cold as ice heart and a very huge ego. He likes that everyone thinks him cold and egotistical until he meets Avery Maxwell his neighbor. She is unlike any other woman he ever met as his cold heart turns to water whenever she smiles at him. She is the only one that has made him feel something he never felt for years, yet for him, this is not always something positive. Ever since he started playing professional hockey, he has burned every bridge he thought he did not need. But now that he has been sold to the Sockeyes in Seattle, he knows it is his last chance to be a team player even if it is not in his nature. Avery has only been interested in showing and training horses and when she dropped out of college to pursue her dreams, she had a huge blowup with her sister. But she is not going to back down just to please other people. Avery is determined to follow her dreams until she bumps into a dark stranger and his tetchy mongrel. The team captain warns Isaac to stay away from Avery unless he wants to flush his career down the tubes. But what would a life without Avery be even though he also cannot live without hockey.
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