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  • Bomb: A Day in the Life of Spencer Shrike by J.A. Huss

    Bomb: A Day in the Life of Spencer Shrike by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Spencer Shrike is a plotter. Known for his ingenious, albeit illegal, plans that keeps the Team running efficiently and out of jail, he carries this same love of order into his personal life. He's kept his long-time main squeeze on the sidelines for years as he builds the Shrike Bikes empire. Veronica Vaughn is an explosion ready to happen. Ronnie lives in the here and now. She lives for today...
  • Loving You by Allie Everhart

    Loving You by Allie Everhart

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Since meeting Garret on her first night at college, Jade’s had to overcome many obstacles to be with him, including interference from Garret’s father. Now, months later, it seems that Mr. Kensington has finally accepted Jade dating his son, but the reason for that is unclear. After what Jade witnessed at the Kensington mansion, she’s not sure what his acceptance of her means...
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  • Path To Resolution by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Path To Resolution by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Wolfe Emerson is notorious for two things: being an absolute beast in a boxing ring and being a voluntary mute. His story remains unspoken and he prefers to live his life in silence. That is, until, his world is turned upside down when he meets someone who is louder than life...
  • Beyond Reckless by Autumn Jones Lake

    Beyond Reckless by Autumn Jones Lake

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Blood doesn’t make you family, loyalty does. Marcel “Teller” Whelan, Treasurer of the Lost Kings MC, has always been two things—honest and responsible. At ten years old, he was already taking care of his baby sister. At eighteen, he patched into the Lost Kings MC and took a major role in shaping the club’s future...
  • Path To Realization by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Path To Realization by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Asher Pryce hides behind a wall of secrets he's spent most of his life building up. How else is the adopted child whose birth parents run a drug cartel supposed to fit in? He's notorious for his overconfident swagger and total lack of patience for bullshit - a master of masks. The one thing in his life he can't fake? His feelings for his best friend's twin sister...
  • Hushed Torment by Bella Jewel

    Hushed Torment by Bella Jewel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From USA Today, and international bestseller, comes the second book in the Iron Fury MC! One accident changed my life. One single second changed everything for me. In one terrifying moment, everything I knew was gone. Music is the only thing that keeps me holding on. When the opportunity arises for me to tour with country music star, Scarlett Belle, I take it. An escape. A chance...
  • Entangled by S.E. Hall

    Entangled by S.E. Hall

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Things heat up, and not just the Georgia summertime, when Dane and Laney go head to head over plans for her new duplex. But Laney's got his number, and knows just how to coerce her bossy, domineering man. Spend the summer with the gang and find out...just how many is a crowd? The members of the Evolve Crew are getting older; so is the content. Mature audiences recommended...
  • Good Girl Gone Badd by Jasinda Wilder

    Good Girl Gone Badd by Jasinda Wilder

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Evangeline du Maurier is the definition of a good girl. Attending Yale, raised with the best tutors and etiquette instructors, she's expected to toe the family line and be a trophy wife for a future senator. But when this good girl takes a quick getaway to clear her head, she finds a whole lot more than she'd bargained for. She finds herself in the arms of a bad boy.  Baxter Badd...
  • All He Ever Needed by Tay Mo'Nae

    All He Ever Needed by Tay Mo'Nae

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Finishing her master's degree was the only Indigo was worried about, when she decided to throw caution out the window and succumb to one night of passion she never expected the results following that night.Silas was tired of being controlled and his parents trying to dictate his life. Relationships were never on his radar, enjoying the freedom being single gave him...
  • 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...
  • Southern Heartbreaker by Jessica Peterson

    Southern Heartbreaker by Jessica Peterson

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 26 ratings
    He was the bad boy I fell for in college. Now he’s a sexy single dad and Charleston’s most successful venture capitalist. Dominant and decisive, Ford Montgomery is used to getting what he wants. And he just set his sights on me... Ford Montgomery was my first everything. First love. First guy I slept with. First heartbreak when he dumped me without explanation...
  • Muffler's Mayhem by Elizabeth Knox, Charli Childs

    Muffler's Mayhem by Elizabeth Knox, Charli Childs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I lost her once, and I'll be damned if I lose her again.MufflerBeretta and I had a relationship many years ago, only, we were the only two who knew about it. Now she's been in an accident and is suffering from amnesia. The doctors tell us her memories will come back with time, but to go along with what she thinks. Only, she thinks it's the time period when we're still together...
  • Sweet Little Thing by Renee Carlino

    Sweet Little Thing by Renee Carlino

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Ever wonder what happened after the final pages of Sweet Thing? From his candid and sometimes neurotic point of view, Will tells all in this musical and sexy follow-up novella to Renée Carlino’s USA Today Bestseller. Life is pure bliss for Mia and Will. They have a puppy, a loft in Brooklyn, and a new music studio on the rise...
  • Worth Fighting For by Kirsty Moseley

    Worth Fighting For by Kirsty Moseley

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Kirsty Moseley brings us the sequel to Fighting to be Free. Sometimes in life you have to walk away . . .Leaving Jamie Cole was the hardest thing Ellie Pearce ever had to do. Somehow, she moved on. She made a new life in a new city with a new man. So when a family tragedy calls Ellie back home, she believes all her old feelings for Jamie-the hunger, the heat, the heartbreak-are safely behind her...
  • Wilder Love by Emery Rose

    Wilder Love by Emery Rose

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 19 ratings
    I was his weakness. He was my strength. Until I destroyed him. I was infatuated with Shane Wilder since the first time I saw him surfing. But we couldn’t be together. Not yet, anyway. I was too young and screwed up. He was too focused on chasing his dream. So we became friends. We met on the rooftop for late-night confessions under the stars...
  • The Run Around by Bernadette Franklin

    The Run Around by Bernadette Franklin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Arranging a wedding for her brother and a five-time thoroughbride tests Hope’s skills and patience. She’d believed the vows would be the most dangerous part of the ceremony, but a baseball to the head during the photography session proves her wrong and lands her in the sights of her brother’s best friend, Fredrick. He wants her to plan his wedding. She wants to be his bride...
  • Avery by Kat Savage

    Avery by Kat Savage

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Avery Fletcher makes a better friend than a lover—at least he thinks so. Well, him and every woman he’s ever dated. Now his encounters are brief and satisfying. There’s really no need to complicate things.Though, when he sits alone on his porch listening to the cicadas, he has a brief lapse in judgment and yearns for someone to talk to.Helena Davenport doesn’t need a man—nor does she want one...
  • Wrap Up My Life by Hayley Faiman

    Wrap Up My Life by Hayley Faiman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s the holidays in East Texas. The A/C is cranked down. The Old Ladies have decorated the clubhouse with care, hoping big bearded men will adorn them with gifts. She never wants to celebrate Christmas again. He wants nothing more than to meet her beneath the mistletoe. Lies don't just hurt the liar. They destroy every life that is somehow touched by that lie...
  • Bones by the Wood by Catherine Johnson

    Bones by the Wood by Catherine Johnson

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Steve ‘Dizzy’ Disraeli has been the Sergeant at Arms of the Priests MC, Louisiana for fifteen years; he’s been a member for more than twenty. Now his president has a big task for him, Samuel Carter has asked him to travel to move back to his native Texas to head up a new charter of the Priests MC...
  • Back for More by Kayley Loring

    Back for More by Kayley Loring

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    WES When I was a kid, my dad was the gardener for the richest man in town. His daughter, Lily Barnes, told me she could never like a guy like me. Then she kissed me and told me it would never happen again. When it happened again, she told me she could never love me because she was going to leave this place, and I would never leave my dad...
  • Big Pickle by J.J. Knight

    Big Pickle by J.J. Knight

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    He’s kind of a big dill.An enemies-to-lovers, secret boss, gut-splittingly hilarious rom com from USA Today bestselling author J.J. Knight.They call me Big Pickle.It’s not what you think.(Although that’s true too.)I happen to be the oldest Pickle in the family deli business. And we have the best salami.Take that one however you like...
  • Forbidden Desires: The Complete Series by Kendall Ryan

    Forbidden Desires: The Complete Series by Kendall Ryan

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    From New York Times Bestselling Author Kendall Ryan... Forbidden Desires: The Complete Series, containing every title in the sexy and intense bestselling series. This box set includes four bestselling novels: DIRTY LITTLE SECRET, DIRTY LITTLE PROMISE, TORRID LITTLE AFFAIR and TEMPTING LITTLE TEASE...
  • 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...
  • Rock Stars Do It by Jasinda Wilder

    Rock Stars Do It by Jasinda Wilder

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ***Enjoy all three of the Rock Stars Do It stories in one volume!*** Rock Stars Do It Harder Chase Delany is a rock star. Rock stars are expected to rock hard onstage and party even harder offstage. Chase is living up to those expectations, and then some. He leaves everything he's got onstage, and drowns the ache in his soul at the bottom of a tequila bottle. And then there are the girls..
  • Love Resolution by Michelle Mankin

    Love Resolution by Michelle Mankin

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    To forgive or not to forgive… There’s a storm brewing at Black Cat Records and lead singer Marcus Anthony and guitarist Avery Jones are at the center of it. Brutal Strength is leaving Vancouver and heading out on a big stadium tour with the reprobate rockers from Tempest as their opening act...
  • Dirty Debt: A Bad Boy Mafia Romance by Teagan Kade, Sennah Tate

    Dirty Debt: A Bad Boy Mafia Romance by Teagan Kade, Sennah Tate

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One way or another, baby, I always get what I'm owed. MAX "I do my job without hesitation, but Dawn has me questioning everything." If a girl can’t pay her debt, my boss sends her to hook at one of his nightclubs. But I can’t let that happen to Dawn. She’s innocent, pure. She doesn’t know evil like I do. I’ll do anything to protect her. Even if it breaks me...
  • Taste for Temptation by Phyllis Bourne

    Taste for Temptation by Phyllis Bourne

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Only one man can satisfy her craving… No one dumps Brandi Collins! After being left at the altar, the Nashville high school teacher plans to get back at her ex by undergoing a major transformation...
  • Ex Best Thing by Marika Ray

    Ex Best Thing by Marika Ray

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    First rule in the sister’s handbook: don’t date your sister’s ex-boyfriend.Oops.If there was one man on the planet I shouldn’t be looking at twice, it’s Daire Beneventi. Sure, he’s my sister’s ex, but he’s also the leather jacket to my quilt tote bag...
  • Unravel Me by Katherine Bitner

    Unravel Me by Katherine Bitner

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 5 ratings
    She’s the black sheep of a wealthy family; he’s a down-to-earth farmer’s son. She’s running from her past; he’s building his future. It’s just a summer fling...that’s what she keeps saying anyway. Audrey I was born an Elson, which meant two I had more money than I could ever spend, and my entire life was planned before I could even walk...
  • The Tycoon's Vacation by Melody Anne

    The Tycoon's Vacation by Melody Anne

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Drew Titan decides it is time to take a vacation at one of his exotic resorts, and ends up literally running into Trinity Mathews while he is surfing. They end up having a steamy romance over the week long vacation, until she finds out he is the resorts owner, and had lied to her...
  • In This Life by Cora Brent

    In This Life by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    RELEASING MAY 15th!!!! IN THIS LIFE by Cora Brent KATHLEEN Loner. Volatile. Wickedly hot and unforgiving. Probably not the kind of man anyone should trust with an infant. Definitely not the kind of man any woman should trust with her heart. When Nash Ryan returned to town for the sake of his baby brother I thought I already understood who he was...
  • 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...
  • Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts, Angela Dawe

    Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts, Angela Dawe

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 79 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts cordially invites you to meet childhood friends Parker, Emma, Laurel, and Mac — the founders of Vows, one of Connecticut’s premier wedding planning companies. Laurel McBane has always relied on her friends for support, especially when her dream of attending culinary school was almost ruined by her parents’ financial problems...
  • Awakening the Mobster by Amy Rachiele

    Awakening the Mobster by Amy Rachiele

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A breathtakingly beautiful man is standing right next to me-holding me, reassuring me, protecting me. Antonio is my savior. Having him with me makes the ickiness that’s stuck in my stomach tolerable. Megan, Awakening the Mobster Loving Megan and caring for Erin like the sister I never had is dangerous. These feelings cause you to think...
  • Rock and Roll Never Forgets by Barbara S. Stewart

    Rock and Roll Never Forgets by Barbara S. Stewart

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Beth Morgan is a young woman who’s just been given the ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity to meet her favorite band, Traveler. That meeting leads to a chance encounter with her idol, the band’s lead singer, Andy Stevens. What follows is a love story...
  • Hidden Riches by Nora Roberts

    Hidden Riches by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 45 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts unveils the intriguing world of antiques dealing, where an independent woman discovers the price of breathless desire-and the schemes of an obsessed killer... Dora Conroy has a passion for antiques—and any other rarities she can acquire for her quaint Philadelphia shop. A seasoned dealer, she knows all the tricks of the trade...
  • Breath on the Wind by Catherine Johnson

    Breath on the Wind by Catherine Johnson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Charlie “Chiz” Davis is a committed brother of The Priests MC, but even within the world of the outlaw motorcycle club, he’s considered to be a little extreme. His little quirks weren’t an issue in his role as Enforcer; in fact they were downright useful, although, occasionally they caused a problem or two...
  • Enticing Interlude by Michelle Mankin

    Enticing Interlude by Michelle Mankin

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    To the talented vocalist Justin Jones, love is merely a game that he plays by his own rules. But to Bridget Dubois, love and heartache are one and the same. Broken too many times before, the delicate beauty keeps her emotions carefully concealed. Bridget has her own set of rigid rules when it comes to men...
  • This Girl Stripped by Dawn Robertson

    This Girl Stripped by Dawn Robertson

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    My innocence was shattered one steamy October night, when I sold my soul to the devil to pay for a week in a dirty motel room. Thinking I could rid myself of him, I fled the safety of the nomad lifestyle I had embraced my entire life for the security of a small upstate New York town, alongside my big sister Star...
  • (Not) The One by Donna Alam

    (Not) The One by Donna Alam

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Three reasons why rebound s-e-x with my hot neighbour is a very bad idea. 1. My life is already complicated enough 2. He knows I wear Batman undies (please don’t ask) 3. He’s older, sophisticated and so hot he makes me go weak at the knees I know that’s more than three. But it still didn’t stop me. On paper, we’re the worst kind of match. He’s rich. I’m . . . not...
  • Sexting the Don by K.C. Crowne

    Sexting the Don by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    When I slipped a note to the ruthless billionaire...I never expected a text back—or his dangerous list of demands. Years in the mafia hardened me. Made me untouchable.Until her.Mandy—a waitress with curves that could bring a man to his knees,And a fire in her eyes that sparks something primal in me.She’s in over her head, tangled in a mess she can’t escape.She wants my help...
  • Destined to Change by Lisa M. Harley

    Destined to Change by Lisa M. Harley

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Destiny…it’s really an interesting thought isn’t it…destiny. Loralei Harper’s destiny was determined before her birth. It was very simple. She was expected to graduate from high school, marry Declan Sharp, and have two kids. She would stay at home with them, while her husband worked on the family farm. But the funny thing about destiny is…it can change in the blink of an eye...
  • Chase the Moon by Dinah McCall, Sharon Sala

    Chase the Moon by Dinah McCall, Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Elijah Moon, his sons, his beautiful daughter Gracie and their families are trying to dwell simply in this modern world. Living off the land in rural Kentucky, they adhere closely to the words of the Bible. But there is more going on at their compound than either Elijah or Gracie realises. In fact, a man has been killed for knowing too much...
  • For the Love of Gracie by Amy K. McClung, Cover Lust Designs

    For the Love of Gracie by Amy K. McClung, Cover Lust Designs

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    **This book will be part of a New Adult Series. Each book will have an ending though, no Cliffhangers! They will all be New Adult and have similar themes with crossover characters*** Gracie Walker doesn't have much luck with finding Prince Charming. Hudson James enters her life, the bad boy who gives her a reason to hope that he is Mr. Right...
  • Rescue Breathing by Zoe Norman

    Rescue Breathing by Zoe Norman

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Manhattan Psychologist Olivia Burke receives an invitation to present her research on trauma in servicemen in Seattle, she is determined to turn the business trip into the start of healing her own traumatized heart. FDNY Firefighter Owen Maxwell is an unapologetic playboy who spends his days saving lives and his nights breaking hearts...
  • Troublemaker by Jo Raven

    Troublemaker by Jo Raven

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hailey moves to a new city, leaving her past behind and starting a new life. All she wants is to forget about her cheating ex and be happy. The last thing she expects is to fall for a local bad boy with an even worse reputation, no matter how handsome he is and how he can't stop undressing her with his eyes...TROUBLEMAKER is the prequel to my novel CAVEMAN, but it is also a standalone short story...
    Categorized as:
    bad boys  m-f  contemporary
  • Stars in Their Eyes by Lauren Blakely

    Stars in Their Eyes by Lauren Blakely

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A sexy and swoony new adult romance... Celebrity photographer and college senior Jess Leighton desperately needs to crash the wedding of the year. Snapping just one pic of the A-list Hollywood couple tying the knot will pay her way through grad school...
  • Whisper Falls by Toni Blake

    Whisper Falls by Toni Blake

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Welcome to Destiny, Ohio—where coming home means finding your true heart and maybe even your true love. Tessa Sheridan came crawling back home to Destiny after her big city interior design career crumbled. Now not only must she struggle to make ends meet, she has to contend with a biker next door and the roar of Harleys shattering the serenity of her cabin in the woods...
  • Cowboy Dark by Tess Oliver

    Cowboy Dark by Tess Oliver

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cowboy Dark is the first 40,000 word novella in the Summer Romance Collection. When sixteen-year-old Sterling Mayfield learns that her dad has booked a family vacation at a dude ranch, she is less than thrilled. It is their first vacation since the tragic death of her mother two years earlier...
    Categorized as:
    bad boys  m-f  contemporary  cowboys  length-short
  • Dream of You by Kate Perry

    Dream of You by Kate Perry

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Love sucks. Lola Carmichael's known it since her boyfriend broke up with her the night she expected him to propose. Only with a deadline looming for her next romance novel, she better find inspiration fast. Enter arrogant sports radio DJ Sam Touchdown Taylor. Who'd have thought a playboy ex-jock would be just what she needs to get her creative juices flowing…and her heart beating again...
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