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  • Jake Understood by Penelope Ward

    Jake Understood by Penelope Ward

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Jake Undone, comes a full-length companion novel and sequel. A different side to the story: Jake’s side. “We’re getting a new roommate,” they said. I thought nothing of it...until she walked in the door. Her hand trembled in mine as she looked at me with fearful eyes. My entire world spun on its axis. Nina..
  • Frayed by Pamela Ann

    Frayed by Pamela Ann

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Trista Stevens Things went quickly sour with the already married Harry when she found out their affair had a bigger repercussion. Heartbroken, she had to do what was best for everyone. Just as planned, she and Lindsey went to visit Emma in Greece. Trista thought this vacation was going to be a way for her to heal and come to terms with of the gargantuan mistakes she’s made in the past...
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  • Enraptured by Ginger Voight

    Enraptured by Ginger Voight

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the third and final book of the Fullerton Family Saga, long-simmering secrets explode with disastrous consequences. The fractured Fullertons face their biggest challenges yet, and every single one must rise to their own personal challenges and beat their demons once and for all - no matter what it takes...
  • The Billionaire's Salvation ~ Max by J.S. Scott

    The Billionaire's Salvation ~ Max by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Billionaire Max Hamilton thought he was finally starting to find contentment, more than two years after losing his wife Mia in a tragic drowning accident. He'd been reunited with a sister he hadn’t realized existed. Finally he had family again, a reprieve from the pain and loneliness that had haunted him since his devastating loss...
  • Half My Blood by Lauren Gilley

    Half My Blood by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    It’s summer in Knoxville, and if the outlaw crew at Dartmoor Inc. thought they were getting a respite from the drama…they were kidding themselves. Almost a year ago, Mercy’s dying mother claimed he had a half-brother, sired by the beloved father he’d always thought infallible, raised by another man as his own...
  • Sail by M. Mabie

    Sail by M. Mabie

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    This isn’t just a two-year long one-night stand. It’s my life. This is my life. Our life. It isn’t just some careless affair. I’ve made the worst decisions a woman could, but I’ll earn my second chance. She can try keeping all the guilt for herself, but I’m just as much to blame. Loving Casey wasn’t my biggest mistake. Fighting it for so long was...
  • Hate to Love Him by J. Saman

    Hate to Love Him by J. Saman

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A gorgeous, brooding rock god. An unstoppable chemistry we fight to ignore. Desperate passion I want indelibly inked on my soul...Jobless and financially destitute, I have no choice but to see this tour through. Even with my boss hating my guts.A fact he goes out of his way to prove every chance he gets.Lucky for me, the best part of Jasper Diamond is his daughter...
  • Butterfly by Cambria Hebert

    Butterfly by Cambria Hebert

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Drunken brawls. One-night stands.No-show interviews. Toilet-papering my hoity-toity neighbor’s house.Insulting my fans. Trashing hotel rooms.What’s it take to become public enemy number one?I just told you.I’ve done all that and more.My poor conduct got me on the Celebs Behaving Badly listand ultimately ruined my career.From the world’s number-one popstar to world’s most hated.That’s me...
  • James by Chantal Fernando

    James by Chantal Fernando

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    James Steele leads a complicated life, a life that makes it hard to get close to people. James’ secrets caused him to lose the woman of his dreams, Sasha Crawford. James has now moved on with Tatiana, a lovely woman whom he works with, someone who understands his reasons for secrecy. When Sasha comes back into the picture James will have to make a decision...
  • Girl in Love by Caisey Quinn

    Girl in Love by Caisey Quinn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She's living her dream... Kylie Ryans is the biggest thing to come out of Nashville since, well, since Trace Corbin. With a hit album and a powerful label behind her, she appears to be the girl who has it all. But appearances can be deceiving. Fresh out of rehab, Trace Corbin is ready to take on the world. Just not the girl he walked away from...
  • His Wounded Light by Christine Brae

    His Wounded Light by Christine Brae

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The perfect life. The perfect marriage. The jilted lover. Their worlds collide. Fate intervenes twelve years later and their paths intersect once again. All three will question whether the heart is truly capable of dividing and being divided; each will decide whether it matters who you loved first or who you love last...
  • A Little Like Destiny by Lisa Suzanne

    A Little Like Destiny by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Reserved and responsible Reese Brady refuses to miss her chance with bad boy rock star Mark Ashton. After one steamy night, she's convinced the emotional connection they shared was just a figment of her imagination. After all, he’s a womanizer whose affairs are highly publicized. Reese strives to leave that night behind her after a handsome business mogul asks her to dinner...
  • Forever Red by Carina Adams

    Forever Red by Carina Adams

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Not afraid to speak his mind or make a scene, Nathaniel Kelly has made a name for himself as country music’s ultimate bad boy. Covered in tattoos, singing songs about drugs, drinking and heartache, Nate acts more like an out of control rock star than the grandson of one of the genres most influential and legendary stars. Every man wants to be him...
  • Double Time by Julie Prestsater

    Double Time by Julie Prestsater

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Megan Miller has done the crush thing, had her heart broken and flirted with a close friend to the point of an almost relationship. She is over the drama of her Freshman and Sophomore years and is ready to be single and to mingle. With Keesha and Steph by her side the girls are ready to rock the single hood in their Junior year...
  • How to Kill a Rock Star by Tiffanie DeBartolo

    How to Kill a Rock Star by Tiffanie DeBartolo

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 45 ratings
    Written in her wonderfully honest, edgy, passionate and often hilarious voice, Tiffanie DeBartolo tells the story of Eliza Caelum, a young music journalist, and Paul Hudson, a talented songwriter and lead singer of the band Bananafish. Eliza's reverence for rock is equaled only by Paul's, and the two fall wildly in love...
  • Let Love Shine by Melissa Collins

    Let Love Shine by Melissa Collins

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    What comes after "they lived happily ever after?" Maddy and Reid have seen their fair share of trials and tribulations, of love and loss. Facing down the biggest challenges of their young lives, they managed to survive and endure. With the future stretching out before them, they must learn to navigate new and unfamiliar paths...
  • Storm Front by Lisa N. Paul

    Storm Front by Lisa N. Paul

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Darker the Storm, The Deeper the Pain... Love knows no bounds when two people are destined to be together. One fights to maintain the distance; while the other battles to close the gap. The Brighter the Light at the End… Will they move forward together or finally close the last remaining door to their past? It’s time for Ryan and Ashley to decide...
  • Rose in Bloom by Mia Michelle

    Rose in Bloom by Mia Michelle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Secrets. There are many different reasons for having secrets. Sometimes we choose to keep those secrets to protect people, while other times, they are kept out of deceit and shame. Regardless of their purpose, secrets have the power to hurt us, like nothing else. When we risk losing someone we love, we will stop at nothing, to prevent the truth from ever being known...
  • Metamorphosis by Erin Noelle

    Metamorphosis by Erin Noelle

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 39 ratings
    Scarlett MacGregor has lived a very sheltered life courtesy of her over-the-top controlling parents. Having never been to a co-ed party, much less on a date, Scarlett has relied on her books, her music, and living vicariously through her best friend Evie to keep her sanity as she's patiently awaited her freedom from their rule...
  • Awakening by Ashley Suzanne

    Awakening by Ashley Suzanne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Mira’s broken and battered. She’s fighting to put herself back together while her heart is trying to forget. Can she continue moving forward with one man while in love with another? Skylar’s wrestling demons he never imagined in his wildest dreams. The girl he’s been in love with for years finally has feelings for him. There’s only one problem: her heart might lie somewhere else...
  • Epiphany by Ashley Suzanne

    Epiphany by Ashley Suzanne

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Epiphany, the final installment of The Destined Series, continues the stories of four best friends from college who are making decisions that will set the course for the rest of their lives. Mira and Skylar have had their share of painful pasts, troubled presents and an unknown future...
  • The Devil's Playground by Eliza Freed

    The Devil's Playground by Eliza Freed

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Former U.S. Attorney, Meredith Walsh, took some time off to raise her children. But the time took away everything she once trusted about herself. She’s lost within the mundane confines of her children's schedules of lacrosse, soccer, Cub Scouts, and math facts...
  • The Pope by Jade Marshall

    The Pope by Jade Marshall

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Do second chances exist? Storm has been in love with Colin “Pope” O’Brien since she was thirteen but it wasn’t meant to be. Years later, the opportunity to be together presents itself—but it's stolen away in the blink of an eye. After a near-death experience, Pope decides to bear his heart to Storm and finally claim the woman he loves. But it just doesn’t seem in to be in the cards for them...
  • Rock God by Kat Mizera

    Rock God by Kat Mizera

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    They call me The Rock God. As lead singer of the multi-platinum selling rock band Onyx Knight, I have a life most people can’t even dream of… until it all becomes a nightmare.Our bass player dies.Now we’re tasked with the impossible job of replacing him or hanging it up for good.On top of the world just shy of my thirtieth birthday, I can’t imagine walking away. Not now...
  • Euphoria by Erin Noelle

    Euphoria by Erin Noelle

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    After a series of catastrophic misunderstandings and impulsively poor decision-making, Scarlett MacGregor finds herself once again torn between two loves, as different as they may be. Lacking proper closure with their relationship, accompanied by the overwhelming guilt for her role in his devastating downfall, Scarlett resolves to help Mason recover and reclaim his life as a budding rock star...
  • Reckless Abandon by Andrea Randall

    Reckless Abandon by Andrea Randall

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    This is the second book in the November Blue series. November Harris is lost. After a failed romance with musician Bo Cavanaugh, Ember is left struggling to regain her true self. The problem is, Bo won’t go away and Ember's stance is firm—she doesn't want him back...
  • Bray by Effy Vaughn

    Bray by Effy Vaughn

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The Sutton Boys - those three words bring a smile to the faces of females of all ages in the small town of Malroy, Alabama. Five brothers who help their momma run their farm during the work week, while seeing how many women they can sweet talk out of their panties on the weekends...
  • Some like It Wild by M. Leighton

    Some like It Wild by M. Leighton

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    First was The Wild Ones. Now, the next book in M. Leighton's Wild Ones series... How far will a good girl go for the bad boy she loves? Laney Holt is a preacher’s daughter. A good girl. Her only goal was to get married, have babies, and live happily ever after, just like her parents. Only that didn’t happen. The two people closest to her betrayed her, and Laney’s dreams came crashing down...
  • Ruined by L.P. Lovell

    Ruined by L.P. Lovell

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ruined is book four in the She Who Dares series, but can be read as a standalone. HugoI like to fuck. A lot. Anywhere, anyway, as long as I’m shooting my load in or on some pretty young thing I’m good. In fact, scrap that, they don’t even have to be pretty. What can I say? I’m an equal opportunities kind of guy...
  • Picture Perfect by Ella Fox

    Picture Perfect by Ella Fox

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Flynn Rand spent the last decade as the lead singer of one of the world’s most famous bands. Although he's got a reputation as a player, he’s decided that it’s time to find something real. One look at a photo of Tessa Hamilton had him hooked. Tessa’s teenage celebrity crush was Flynn Rand...
  • My Brother's Girl by Ali Parker

    My Brother's Girl by Ali Parker

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There’s only one woman I’d give up my bachelor’s lifestyle for… my brother’s girl. But she was mine first. High school. Youth. Innocence. I can still taste her on my lips if I close my eyes. And here she is, back in my life, dating my brother. A brother that doesn’t know my past because I’m a private sort of guy...
  • A Love so Tragic by Stevie J. Cole

    A Love so Tragic by Stevie J. Cole

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Promises. We all make them. Sometimes we break them. But what happens when the promise you break haunts your dreams, when that moment of betrayal echoes within every last beat of your heart? Love. Love is passionate, painful, and all consuming in the most brutal yet beautiful way...
  • A Twist of Fate by T. Gephart

    A Twist of Fate by T. Gephart

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Lexi is a successful PR manager for a multinational firm, based in Melbourne, Australia. She is an energetic and impulsive soul whose passions sometimes control her life. Through a twist of fate she is chosen to represent a famous client, catapulting her into a new life in New York – fulfilling her in a way that she had never imagined. When Lexi meets Alex, sparks fly...
  • The Fault in Forever by Claudia Y. Burgoa

    The Fault in Forever by Claudia Y. Burgoa

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Claudia Burgoa brings you an angst-filled, emotional second-chance romance packed with heartache, longing, and an impossible love triangle. I fell in love with a boy who became my everything.Justin Stone was my first love. I thought I’d grow old with him.We had a future filled with promises, until one fateful night...
  • Broken Fairytales by Monica Alexander

    Broken Fairytales by Monica Alexander

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Emily Cole thought her life was just about as close to a fairytale as it could get. She was on track to graduate from college with honors, had a job lined up in her field, and was about to get engaged to the perfect guy. Then one day she woke up and something just felt . . . off...
  • Everything for Us by M. Leighton

    Everything for Us by M. Leighton

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    When it comes to passion this hot, it’s all or nothing. Olivia Townsend’s wealthy cousin Marissa had everything a girl could ask for—a great job, a privileged life, and all the friends she wanted. Or, at least, all the friends money could buy. But one case of mistaken identity has turned her privileged world upside down...
  • Weight of Regret by K.K. Allen

    Weight of Regret by K.K. Allen

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Anderson Bexley was the love of my life… or so I thought.⁣⁣For years, I convinced myself that one day he would see me as more than the bubbly activities director at his family’s campground. ⁣Sure, he was ten years older.⁣Deeply tortured.⁣And far too devoted to the family business to make time for his own happiness.⁣⁣But none of that mattered...
  • The Baby Mission by Vivian Wood

    The Baby Mission by Vivian Wood

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller Vivian Wood comes a story that is about lust, longing, and the beginnings of love...He wants into my pants. And I want a baby...I want a baby, and I want it bad. But there’s no Mr. Right in sight and I’m tired of waiting around for someone to rock my boat. So I decide that I’m going to have a baby on my own.Then I meet Jett at a party...
  • Hard to Hold On by Shanora Williams

    Hard to Hold On by Shanora Williams

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    For the past four months, Natalie Carmichael and Nolan Young have been complete. Everything still feels right in their passion-filled world. It still feels natural - that is until Nolan's mother passes away. Things begin to turn for the worst for Nolan and his brother Mills. After losing their father from previous years before, it's a tragedy on top of a tragedy...
  • Emancipating Andie by Priscilla Glenn

    Emancipating Andie by Priscilla Glenn

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Ever since the one time Andie Weber threw caution to the wind - and paid the price for it - she’s learned that it’s safer and smarter to live life playing by the rules. Now she’s got a great apartment, a steady job, and a wonderful boyfriend in Colin; he’s sweet, stable, and essentially perfect – except maybe for the fact that his best friend is Chase...
  • Pure Abandon by Jeannine Colette

    Pure Abandon by Jeannine Colette

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kathryn Grayson has it all—a beautiful husband, new baby, and a life most women would dream of. But after putting her career on hold for her family, Kathryn sets out to reclaim the woman she once was...
  • Always You by Zoe Dod

    Always You by Zoe Dod

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Some secrets were never meant to stay hidden…Seven years ago, Star made a deathbed promise that changed the course of her life.Keeping it a secret from the man she loved, she lied and drove him away.Now he’s back and the past is about to catch up with her.Star Roberts has spent years working hard as a single mum to forge a career and life for herself and her daughter...
  • Someday, Somehow by Claudia Y. Burgoa

    Someday, Somehow by Claudia Y. Burgoa

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Men and women can be friends. At least that’s what I’ve been telling myself since George walked into my life.We bicker as much as we have each other’s backs. We’re inseparable. So, she left to find herself and I feel like I can’t breathe without her. It’s okay, it’s only temporary.But when she walks back into my life, it’s on the arm of a stranger.Her fiancé...
  • Falling into You by Lauren Abrams

    Falling into You by Lauren Abrams

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    When Hallie Caldwell, normal girl extraordinaire, perpetual wingwoman, and queen of the friend zone, accepts her college roommate's invitation to spend winter break in New York, she figures it’s a chance to live out her childhood fantasies of a life in the big city. Instead, thrust into a world of glittering parties and oversized bank accounts, she immediately feels like an outsider...
  • A Little Bit Dirty by Willow Winters

    A Little Bit Dirty by Willow Winters

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling romance author, Willow Winters, comes a second chance with a filthy mouthed, possessive hero, not willing to lose the love of his life again. I've got a thing for men who work with their hands. I thought I learned my lesson years ago. But here I am, back in the small town I grew up in, staring down the man who broke my heart years ago...
  • Bet on Us by Rachel Higginson

    Bet on Us by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Bad luck. Bad boyfriends. Bad boys. That about sums up Ellie Harris’s life. As if getting cheated on and dumped weren’t enough, her roommate suddenly disappears after stealing Ellie’s identity and half her furniture. Now Fin Hunter insists Ellie owes him seven thousand dollars and he won't leave her alone until he collects it...
  • The Edge of Us by Veronica Larsen

    The Edge of Us by Veronica Larsen

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    " Veronica Larsen ripped my heart out! This book is so well written with absolutely emotional, raw, and beautiful characters."  ~ Alta Hensley, USA Today Bestselling Author Eight years ago, Cole Van Buren left me at the altar without a single explanation. My heart's been at a standstill ever since, the anger keeping me from moving on...
  • The Boys of Summer by C.J. Duggan

    The Boys of Summer by C.J. Duggan

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    It seemed only natural to nickname them the ‘Onslow Boys’. Every time they swaggered in the front door of the Onslow Hotel after a hard week’s work, their laughter was loud and genuine as they settled onto their bar stools. I peeked through the restaurant partition, a flimsy divider between my world and theirs. I couldn’t help but smile whenever I saw them, saw him... Toby Morrison...
  • Everyone Loves a Hero by Marie Force

    Everyone Loves a Hero by Marie Force

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Fame has its perks... Reluctantly famous, First Officer Cole Langston finds being in the spotlight has its advantages-until he meets Olivia. Having women throw themselves at him everywhere he goes becomes a serious problem when he's trying to convince her she's the one... And its price... Olivia has trouble trusting a guy like Cole, and everywhere she turns she sees reasons to run...
  • Anticipation by Sarah Mayberry

    Anticipation by Sarah Mayberry

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Blue Sullivan knows a player when she sees one. And Eddie Oliveira—charm and sex personified—was born to play. She never wanted him to say goodbye, so for the last ten years she’s ignored the sizzling attraction between them and focused on being the best sidekick a guy could have. Smart girl, right? Then Blue has a serious accident, and overnight Eddie changes...
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