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  • Sassy Little Thing by Bella Jewel

    Sassy Little Thing by Bella Jewel

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    IRON FURY MC BOOK 4! !! People, in my opinion, don’t take happiness seriously enough. They go through life, constantly trying to please other people. I do, however, take my happiness seriously. Very seriously. But, when things in my life, go suddenly south, I am left with more than one choice. Do what’s right, or do what’s wrong? That, on any normal day, would be an easy choice for me...
  • Sex. Love. Marriage. by Shey Stahl

    Sex. Love. Marriage. by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Relationships are broken down into categories. I’ll start with the first one. 1. Sex. For Kelly and me, that part was easy. Shhh. Don’t tell her dad. He’s always hated me. No need to give him further evidence. 2. Love. I knew the moment Kelly punched me in the ear for stealing her car that I loved her. Which also leads back to her dad hating me, but whatever...
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  • Maverick's Kitten by Ciara St. James

    Maverick's Kitten by Ciara St. James

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Maverick thinks he has found what so many of his club brothers have found, a woman he can call his own and the key to having a family and a wonderful life. It takes him some time to get her to go out with him, then after one wonderful, unforgettable night, she vanishes. He’s too proud to ask his club brother to look for her and lets his anger say good riddance. He works to forget about her...
  • Sunsets & Second Chances by Rachel Hanna

    Sunsets & Second Chances by Rachel Hanna

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 25 ratings
    He’s standing in front of her…. … after ten long years. No one knows why Dixie’s son is standing there, on Christmas Day, no less. And he doesn’t look happy. Dixie is keeping a big secret that will shake up everyone around her. Julie’s daughter, Colleen, is coming home for a visit, but she’s not alone. Janine makes a new friend, but nobody is thrilled about it...
  • Whispered Promises by Brenda Jackson

    Whispered Promises by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Even a once-in-a-lifetime love…. When Halston Parker calls his daughter Caitlin to his deathbed, she's shocked to discover that her ex-husband, Dex Madaris, has been summoned as well. It's been four years since Caitlin felt the heat of Dex's touch, the urgency of his kisses and the promise of an everlasting love that never was...
  • Cian's Complication by Ciara St. James

    Cian's Complication by Ciara St. James

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Cian O’Sheeran was the second oldest O’Sheeran child. His family was the largest Irish mob family in the US. Well, technically, to the world, they were former mobsters gone straight. The world might speculate and say they still were mobsters, but no one outside the family and their closest people knew the truth. Afterall, it was hard to remove all traces of a hunter from their bloodline...
    Categorized as:
    betrayal  m-f  contemporary  mafia  mystery  length-medium
  • The Millionaire Boys Club: Koda by Natisha Raynor

    The Millionaire Boys Club: Koda by Natisha Raynor

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Koda Perry is a self-made millionaire that can't seem to form his own identity as anything other than a spoiled rich kid. Determined to build his own legacy, he branched out on his own, built a company from the ground up, and became a millionaire before the age of thirty but for his billionaire father, that's not good enough...
  • Bear's Beloved by Ciara St James

    Bear's Beloved by Ciara St James

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Bear has lived more than half his life for his club. He’ll gladly do it again. He has never regretted starting this club with Bull and a few others years ago. However, seeing his brothers finding love and settling down to have families when he knows he’ll never have that is taking its toll on him. He takes off to get his head straight...
  • Home Base by Abbie Zanders

    Home Base by Abbie Zanders

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is the third installment of the 2022 season of The Long Road Home series. No matter the road we travel, we're always heading for our Home Base. After fourteen years in the army, Dylan Grant is more than ready to come home, settle down, and seriously consider starting a family of his own. Thanks to one stolen, forbidden moment long ago, he might already have...
    Categorized as:
    secret child  m-f  suspense  military  contemporary
  • Happy Trail by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Happy Trail by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sometimes you have to talk to work things out. Luckily that works best without clothes. Petal. I’ve loved Luka Fields my entire life. He was my first crush, my first kiss, my first time, and my first heartbreak. Love isn’t like in the movies, or the books you read. It’s hard. Sometimes you give up…. And regret it your entire life. Luka. Petal was the love of my life...
  • Hard by Donna Alam

    Hard by Donna Alam

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A man walks into a coffee shop and gets offered a job in p0rn. Sounds like the start of a joke, right? Or every man’s fantasy. Until I remember I’m trying to be a good man. A single father. One who doesn’t do casual relationships,. Let alone get paid for sex. But for those curves and that mouth? Any man might change his mind. ~*~. It was an honest mistake . .
  • The King Takes a Bride by Danielle Bourdon

    The King Takes a Bride by Danielle Bourdon

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Chey's ability to handle diplomatic situations is put to the test by an unexpected visitor to the shores of Latvala. When the visitor makes a startling revelation, it throws the Ahtissari family into a tailspin...
  • Only Her by Allie Everhart

    Only Her by Allie Everhart

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Final book in the series! The dramatic conclusion to the story of Pearce and Rachel. After a tragic loss, Pearce has been forced to go on with his life but he's done so without success. He's consumed with work and is neglecting Garret, the only remaining piece of Rachel he has left...
  • The Rage by Jaci J.

    The Rage by Jaci J.

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    They say love comes in all shapes and sizes, and is found in the most unexpected places. I wasn't looking for anything when I knocked on that big, wooden door, but what I got was a rude ass, leather wearing biker who made me feel, and want things I never thought were possible. Rampage is crude, rude, and tough. He’s everything I’m not, but he’s everything I need...
  • The Ex by Amelia Shea

    The Ex by Amelia Shea

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A failing business, a shady deal, and the ultimate betrayal of her ex-boyfriend has Everleigh Fay doubting everything she knows or trusts. One night out to break free and forget her responsibilities puts her right in the path of a man who is sure to be her next big mistake. Any biker associated with her two-timing ex is the last man she should get involved with...
  • 204 Rosewood Lane by Debbie Macomber

    204 Rosewood Lane by Debbie Macomber

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 39 ratings
    Grace Sherman. 204 Rosewood Lane. Cedar Cove, Washington. Dear Listener,. If you've been to Cedar Cove before we've probably met. You can usually find me either at home or at the public library, where I work. I've lived in this town all my life and raised two daughters here. But my husband and I - well, about six months ago, he disappeared. Just…disappeared...
  • Tycoon Takedown by Ruth Cardello

    Tycoon Takedown by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Melanie Hanna has finally worked up the courage to travel to New York and tell an old flame that he’s the father of her young son. She’s done hiding and apologizing for her one impulsive night. When her best friend asks her brother to watch over Melanie, her emotional trip takes an unexpected and sizzling detour...
  • Nolan by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Nolan by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Nolan Bishop has felt like an outsider in the Savage Kings MC ever since he gave up the nomad lifestyle to try and put down some roots. He’s a convicted felon, searching for his place in the world without screwing up his probation...
  • Betrayed by Kaylea Cross

    Betrayed by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Torn apart by lies and a hail of bullets…. Georgia Randall is a government-trained killer with nothing left to live for except the burning need for revenge. She’s lost everything she cared about, including the only man she ever loved, and now her past has caught up with her. Shadowy enemies are on the move, determined to silence her before she can kill her remaining targets...
  • Oath of Vengeance: by Jane Henry

    Oath of Vengeance: by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It began with a one-night stand. Two lonely strangers. One fiery attraction. Nothing to lose…. Or so we thought. But actions have consequences. And in the morning light, pretty little Detective Emma King will have to face hers. The man she let into her bed, the man she fully submitted to. .. Is none other than Mario Rossi. The player. The mastermind of the family she hates...
  • Taken by a Trillionaire by Melody Anne, Ruth Cardello

    Taken by a Trillionaire by Melody Anne, Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Three New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors. One wild project. Taken by a Trillionaire is an escapism fantasy that was born at a party at RWA. Over cocktails, J. S. Scott, Melody Anne, and Ruth Cardello laughed as they plotted this book with the help of two industry friends, Chris and Brian...
  • Rook: Billionnaire, bad boy suspense romance by Jo Raven

    Rook: Billionnaire, bad boy suspense romance by Jo Raven

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Pain turns me on. Danger lights me up. But she sets me on fire. It’s my turn to fight the shady Organization that’s dug its goddamn claws into every business in my town. Setting up my trap while keeping my friends safe is a challenge—and my private life shouldn’t interfere with my mission. Except it does...
  • Dearly Betrayed: A Fake Marriage Mafia Romance by B. B. Hamel

    Dearly Betrayed: A Fake Marriage Mafia Romance by B. B. Hamel

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I want to ruin my fake husband. Right up until I sleep in his bed for the first time. I have to marry the man that killed my father. He’s Jayson Costa, mafia prince, obscenely wealthy, emotionally distant, and sinfully attractive. I don’t care how good that control freak looks in a Jayson’s everything I despise...
  • Secret Babies for My Ex's Dad: An Age Gap, Bratva Romance by Liz Archer

    Secret Babies for My Ex's Dad: An Age Gap, Bratva Romance by Liz Archer

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I walked into my ex’s dad’s club to get revenge…. And I walked out pregnant with his babies. After my ex scars me for life,. Roman Ekimov was supposed to be my first taste of sweet revenge…. But there’s one thing I didn’t plan for…. His secret twins in my belly. Fast forward one year later…. And now the big, bad Bratva boss is back on my doorstep. And when he sees what I’ve been hiding from him,...
  • The Beat of My Heart by Avery Maxwell

    The Beat of My Heart by Avery Maxwell

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    One week. No strings. Sexy stranger. What could go wrong? My name is Julia McDowell. I’m not the pretty girl next door, I’m the boss at work who solves all your problems. I’m an awkward genius with the worst taste in boyfriends; the last one left me with a 6-figure debt to prove it...
  • Taking Fire by Cindy Gerard

    Taking Fire by Cindy Gerard

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Betrayal. Retribution. Redemption? Six years ago, tough-as-nails military contractor Bobby Taggart met the woman of his dreams in war-torn Kabul—a sexy, whip-smart war correspondent who approached him at a local bar, took him to bed, made him fall in love…and then mysteriously disappeared...
  • Dirty Liar by Janice Whiteaker

    Dirty Liar by Janice Whiteaker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    𝐃𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐭 𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞. His impossibly improbable act set off a chain of events I couldn’t make up if I tried, each one stealing a little more from me. My relationship. My business. 𝑀𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. But even bad times have to come to an end. I thought that was the case when Valerie slid onto the bar stool next to mine and asked me to buy her a drink...
  • Bad Habits by Sienna Mynx

    Bad Habits by Sienna Mynx

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Simone Livingston wants desperately to start again. She and her husband Keith have both agreed that their marriage is worth saving. Despite the deep betrayal and lies she's suffered thanks to his infidelity. Their arrival in a small town run by the wealthy conniving Hollingsworths tests her faith in her husband and the sacred vows of her marriage...
  • Make You Mine by Niobia Bryant

    Make You Mine by Niobia Bryant

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can two strangers make that lovin' feelin' last? Three months after a first date that ended in a night of explosive passion, Caress Coleman and Julius Jones find themselves somewhere between roommates with benefits and true love. She's smart, beautiful, and one paycheck away from broke. He's smart, handsome, and very successful. But that's just the beginning of their differences. . .
  • Fire and Love by Melanie Shawn

    Fire and Love by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stand-alone Hope Falls romance, complete with HEA--and plenty of heat and heart along the way! Their future was set. He was going to be a firefighter, and she was going to be a filmmaker. They were going to get married and live happily-ever-after with two kids and a dog…She supposed one out five ain’t bad...
  • Leading Conviction by Greer Rivers

    Leading Conviction by Greer Rivers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hawk. When my team called, I answered,. But I didn’t know the cost. I didn’t know I would lose everything,. My fiancée, my best friend, my future. .. All for a lie. Hannah was my world. And trusting the wrong people shattered my world. Her father is hunting her. My team is hunting him. But I found her first. I’ll protect her no matter what,...
  • Beyond These Walls by J.L. Berg

    Beyond These Walls by J.L. Berg

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Happily ever after. That was what we were supposed to have. Pudding cups, sandy toes and a lifetime of making each and every one of our dreams come true—that is the future I’d promised her. I could see it in my dreams, hold it in my hands, but then I watched as all of our hopes and wishes suddenly slipped through my fingers like sand...
  • The Playboy's Fugitive Bride - Book Three by Ana E. Ross

    The Playboy's Fugitive Bride - Book Three by Ana E. Ross

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, Ana E Ross, presents The Playboy's Fugitive Bride, Book Three in the Billionaire Brides of Granite Falls series:...
  • Redemption Weather by Christine Michelle, Christine M. Butler

    Redemption Weather by Christine Michelle, Christine M. Butler

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When I married Walker Smithson it was the happiest day of my life. My family was there, we had a bright future ahead of us, and the world was ours for the taking. Then the storms started coming. First, there was the one that took my family. Then, there was the one that took my husband...
  • UNLoved by Jaxson Kidman

    UNLoved by Jaxson Kidman

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I was the dirty, poor girl …. … now I don’t have a care in the world. The ‘new girl’ vibe is wearing off, finally. I’m settling into BFH and what I have over ‘the Rulz’ is going to make them look stupid. I agree on a date with each of them. One by one. Barr first. Then Kip. Finally, Pres. I’m setting them up in a way I never thought possible…. … until I end up getting too close...
  • The Boss Lady by Lolah Lace

    The Boss Lady by Lolah Lace

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Boss Lady is an interracial BWWM erotic romance. This novel is approximately 45,000 plus words long. Paralyzed with grief over a sudden tragic loss, Lukas Hamilton wonders if life is worth living. A chance meeting with a single mother distracts him from his pain. Nicole Nevels is the devil but underneath her harsh demeanor is exactly what Lukas never imagined he needed...
  • Savage Love: A Dark Romance by Jane Henry

    Savage Love: A Dark Romance by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Jane Henry concludes the Savage Island duet with a fast-paced, high-stakes novel of survival, suspense, and heart-breaking passion. The island took everything from me. It won't take her. They created a monster. A savage. They're about to see exactly what that means. Because Harper Lake is mine...
  • Jace : PREQUEL by Addy Archer

    Jace : PREQUEL by Addy Archer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One day. One moment. That’s all it takes for your life to shake on its foundations. When Daniele catches her boyfriend cheating, it jumpstarts a turmoil of events. A straight forward biker ups her standards when he steps in and gives her what she needs to move on. Jace didn’t expect a woman to slip underneath his skin until he meets a feisty doctor...
  • Entangled by J.S. Scott

    Entangled by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    There’s nothing richer than a second chance in the steamy second book of New York Times bestselling author J. S. Scott’s Accidental Billionaires series. Aiden Sinclair was a commercial fisherman before he suddenly came into his billionaire inheritance—not that he’s complaining. Being a Sinclair does have its perks. But things were simpler before the money...
  • Second Chance Lover by Natasha L. Black

    Second Chance Lover by Natasha L. Black

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I swore I’d never ask him for anything. Now I need his help, his protection. Landon’s irresistible--older, experienced, head of a top security firm. We agreed what we had was nothing serious. I fell for him anyway. When I found out I was pregnant, I ran. He told me he never wanted kids,. So I left before he could reject me. My family lost everything. Someone’s making threats on my life...
  • Easy Revenge by L.P. Dover

    Easy Revenge by L.P. Dover

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Clara and Zac thought they were headed for their happily ever after, until a break-up slathered in betrayal left them both jaded and vindictive. Twelve years have passed since they left Wyoming, and during that time Clara found her calling at a prestigious PR firm in California while Zac moved to New Orleans to join his Boudreaux cousins at Bayou Enterprises...
    Categorized as:
    betrayal  m-f  contemporary  length-short
  • Tattooed Love by Simone Elise

    Tattooed Love by Simone Elise

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    When your heart rules your mind, you don’t get to choose who you love. But what if that love could lead to your own destruction? Amber is a rebellious high school senior and the only girl in a family of outlaw bikers...
  • Love Me? by K.E. Osborn

    Love Me? by K.E. Osborn

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the first book of The Trust Me? Trilogy, Jeni Taylor finds the love of her life, but as the second book begins, she finds herself lost without Aiden O’Connell, who’s been wrongly convicted of embezzlement charges and incarcerated. She must find the strength within to help prove he’s innocent while dealing with other issues...
  • To Touch a Sheikh by Olivia Gates

    To Touch a Sheikh by Olivia Gates

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Sheikh's SurrenderNo one gets past Prince Amjad Aal Shalaan's defenses. No one. But when Princess Maram shows up at Amjad's gala in her father's place, destroying Amjad's plans to reclaim what was stolen from his family, Amjad sees red. .. and uses a freak sandstorm to make her his prisoner of passion...
  • The Surprise by Alice Ward

    The Surprise by Alice Ward

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    One night. One moment in time can change everything. One night is all we have together before I leave the country for a year to serve as a physician with Doctors Beyond Borders-mostly to avoid real life obligations. Meeting her, being with her is like nothing I've ever experienced before. .. and probably never will again...
  • Rainy Day Friends by Jill Shalvis

    Rainy Day Friends by Jill Shalvis

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 36 ratings
    Following the USA Today bestseller, Lost and Found Sisters, comes Rainy Day Friends, Jill Shalvis’ moving story of heart, loss, betrayal, and friendship. Six months after Lanie Jacobs’ husband’s death, it’s hard to imagine anything could deepen her sense of pain and loss. But then Lanie discovers she isn’t the only one grieving his sudden passing...
  • Sweet Trouble by Susan Mallery

    Sweet Trouble by Susan Mallery

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 36 ratings
    Jesse Keyes has done some serious growing up. With a steady job and a vibrant four-year-old son, Gabe, she's in a far better place than when she left Seattle five years ago. .. pregnant and misunderstood by almost everyone in her life. Now it's time to go home and face her demons. But her sisters, Claire and Nicole, aren't exactly impressed with the new and improved Jesse...
  • 10 Signs You Need to Grovel by Kelly Siskind

    10 Signs You Need to Grovel by Kelly Siskind

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A grumpy bartender learns he’s a dad in Kelly Siskind’s latest Bower Boys romance full of second chances, small-town charm, and steamy, slow-burn heat. For the last ten years, I’ve been living a lie in witness protection. But the drug cartel that put me there isn’t a threat anymore, so I can have my life back. I should be thrilled, right? Wrong...
  • The Hitman by Jordan Silver

    The Hitman by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Drake Cisco is a hit-man with an agenda. Ten years ago, his dad offed himself when he was accused wrongfully of stealing from the town's leading citizen. The fact that the black Drake was dating the man's white debutante daughter at the time had a lot to do with the way things went down, and once Drake figures this out, he's out for blood...
  • SEAL'd Heart by Alice Ward

    SEAL'd Heart by Alice Ward

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Fate is twisted, and karma's a bitch. Maybe destiny will give us a second chance. I've been best friends with Skye since we were ten years old. She was my life. We did nearly everything together. Until graduation night. The night I f'cked it all up. Escaping to the Navy, I found a new home with the SEALs. Then tragedy struck, and I lost it all, again...
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