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virgin heroine  bad boys  forbidden love  college  angst  m-f

  • Rescuing Rosalie by Ellie Masters

    Rescuing Rosalie by Ellie Masters

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In the Nicaraguan jungle, I'll battle dangerous wildlife, treacherous terrain, and my growing attraction to Rosalie as we outrun a madman and survive.When a hostage rescue mission intended to save innocent lives takes a devastating turn, Hayes, a Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialist, leaps into action and plunges headlong into danger to save Rosalie...
    Categorized as:
    angst  m-f  military  suspense  contemporary  audiobook
  • Time for Love by Marie Force

    Time for Love by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Dr. David Lawrence has spent the last two years atoning for his sins and recovering from the devastating breakup with Gansett Island golden girl Janey McCarthy. As the island's only doctor, he's had ample opportunity to show his fellow island residents that there's more to him than the guy who disappointed Janey so profoundly...
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  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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..
  • I'll See You in My Dreams by Sable Hunter

    I'll See You in My Dreams by Sable Hunter

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Zane Saucier is handsome, brilliant, powerful, a practicing cowboy and a successful attorney, but he cannot see. Presley Love is smart, intrepid, and attractive, but she wants not to be seen. Through legal battles, family affairs, and a fight to make it in the world, these two unlikely partners discover a true love greater than any obstacle...
  • Blush by Anne Mercier

    Blush by Anne Mercier

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    You know how people say they woke up in Vegas married and you're like, how the hell could that possibly happen? Who does that? Well, us apparently… and the press is having a field day. Let's not even get started on the topic of my mother. Then there's my grandpa wanting to meet my new husband--that's not scary at all...
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    bad boys  m-f  rockstars  reverse harem  poly  audiobook
  • Down To You by Jayne Frost

    Down To You by Jayne Frost

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every story deserves a soundtrack. And ours is epic. She started from perfect. A star who shone brighter than the rest. But then fate took it all away. Now she's broken. A beautiful song with a fractured beat.  But I'm still on the rise. Chasing a dream that she's already left behind. If I'm lucky, I can find my redemption in the spotlight. Destiny brought us together. Put her in my path...
  • Revealed by H.M. Ward

    Revealed by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Fame has a price and Trystan doesn't want to pay it. Everything he worked so hard to hide is about to be revealed. Nothing he can do will stop it. Within a few short hours everyone will know about his father and the sordid details of his past. Brie is by his side, sputtering things that she shouldn't know...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Whispered Prayers of a Girl by Alex Grayson

    Whispered Prayers of a Girl by Alex Grayson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Her whispered prayers break her... At night, as she’s drifting off to sleep, I press my ear to the door and listen to her heart wrenching pleas. Her words are agony to my healing heart, but I cherish the sound of them, for that’s the only time I ever hear my beautiful daughter speak. Since her father died two years ago, she’s grown quiet and withdrawn...
  • The Moonstone Marquess by Meara Platt

    The Moonstone Marquess by Meara Platt

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    What happens when a battle-scarred hero bent on destroying himself meets an irresistible force by the name of Phoebe?Lady Phoebe Killigrew is appalled by the scandalous country parties their new neighbor, a war hero marquess, is holding at his estate in Moonstone Landing. She has every intention of keeping well away from him, until a governess arrives at her door with his two nieces...
    Categorized as:
    virgin heroine  m-f  regency  historical  audiobook
  • The Grace in Darkness by Melissa Andrea

    The Grace in Darkness by Melissa Andrea

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Every part of me yearns for Ryland and there hasn’t been a day that’s gone by that I don’t question if I made the right decision...
  • Cyrus by M.J. Fields

    Cyrus by M.J. Fields

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Meet Cyrus, the oldest of the Steel brothers. He's strong, independent, and damaged. But don't feel sorry for him, Cyrus likes his life just the way it is. No rules, no commitments, and no more than 3 times with the same woman. TRUTH. Until Tara. A child of the foster care system who can't remember ever being loved or feeling safe, Tara brings out the protective alpha male in Cyrus...
  • The Rocker That Loves Me by Terri Anne Browning

    The Rocker That Loves Me by Terri Anne Browning

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    The Rocker…. I was the fun loving, easy going, different girl—okay, different girls every night—Demon. One look into a pair of violet eyes and all of that changed. She doesn’t even realize how beautiful she is and that makes me want her even more. Realizing that she is just as damaged as I am breaks my heart. Harper is a part of me, my other half...
  • Flat-Out Matt by Jessica Park

    Flat-Out Matt by Jessica Park

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Matt is a junior at MIT. He’s geeky, he's witty, he's brilliant. And he’s also very, very stupid. When beautiful, cool, insightful Julie moves in with Matt’s family, why (oh why!) does he pretend to be his absent brother Finn for her alleged benefit? It seems harmless enough until her short-term stay becomes permanent. And until it snowballs into heart-squeezing insanity...
  • Ever Over After by J.A. DeRouen

    Ever Over After by J.A. DeRouen

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Over Duet is a story first loves, second chances, and hard truths. Marlo … wild-eyed, untamed, and every single thing I’ve ever wanted from this life. I wasn’t ready for her back then. I was a stupid boy with adult feelings and no idea what to do with them. I squandered away every chance she gave me. Yes, a love like ours either burns white hot or crumbles under the pressure...
    Categorized as:
    angst  m-f  christian  new adult  length-short  audiobook
  • 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...
  • Loyalty by Bethany-Kris

    Loyalty by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Fresh out of prison after serving a three-year sentence, Johnathan Marcello wants to get back to normal business as a mafia capo. The rules set out for him are clear—keep out of trouble, maintain a low profile, and stay stable. But stability is a delicate balance for a man like John, and shaky ground is only a single step away...
  • Clipped Wings and Inked Armour by hunterhunting

    Clipped Wings and Inked Armour by hunterhunting

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Haunted by her past, Bella is broken and alone. Starting over in a new city, can she let go of the guilt that consumes her when she meets a beautiful tattoo artist, or will his own personal demons destroy them first? Rated: NC-17Genre: Romance/Angst/Hurt/ComfortFandom: Twilight AUCharacters: Edward and BellaStatus: CompleteNow published as the Clipped Wings Series...
    Categorized as:
    angst  bad boys  length-epic
  • Wolf by Nicole James

    Wolf by Nicole James

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The Evil Dead Motorcycle Club gave Wolf his nickname. They said it was because women stood about as much chance with him as Little Red Riding Hood stood against The Big Bad Wolf. And maybe that was true. For Wolf, when it comes to his club, he’s all about loyalty. He loves his brothers, he loves the freedom of the road, and he loves his independence...
  • faire l'amour by Jessica Gadziala

    faire l'amour by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    She’s a woman who has never done anything like this before… Disaster had her world uprooted, her plans for her life going in a direction she could have never seen coming. Shackled with a debt she has no way to pay off, she makes a decision she never could have seen herself making. One contract. Three months. Complete financial freedom...
    Categorized as:
    forbidden love  m-f  contemporary
  • 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...
  • Shattered Hart by Ella Fox

    Shattered Hart by Ella Fox

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Damien Hart will never allow himself to fall into a committed relationship. He's seen the worst of the worst, and he knows that there isn't a woman on earth that will ever change his mind. All of that changes the moment he meets Brooke Tyler. Damien's entire view of women and relationships is rocked by her, and though he tries, he can't make himself stay away...
  • Claim by Piper Lawson

    Claim by Piper Lawson

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    He showed me a side of myself I never dreamed existed. Olivia’s professor promised her lessons she couldn’t learn in class.What he didn’t expect was to find peace from his tormented past in her arms. Now, that past has caught up to both of them, ripping them apart even when he vowed she was the person who mattered most...
  • Breaking the Wrong by Calia Read

    Breaking the Wrong by Calia Read

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Emilia Wentworth would do anything for her sister. For three years, Emilia has lived in the past, feeling her sister's pain and hating those who are to blame, including one of the Sloan brothers. Finally, she has had enough. The only way to be free is to create a Burn List with all the people who have ever hurt her sister...
  • Her Hometown Hero by Melody Anne

    Her Hometown Hero by Melody Anne

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Dr. Spence is searching for the perfect woman…but how will he know when he’s found her? From New York Times bestselling author Melody Anne, the second steamy romance in a new breakout series based on her beloved and bestselling Billionaire novels...
  • Listed: Volume VI by Noelle Adams

    Listed: Volume VI by Noelle Adams

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    This is Volume VI of a six-volume serial novel. A marriage of convenience has never been like this. Just before her eighteenth birthday, the doctors tell Emily she has three months to live. Not much time to complete the bucket list she's had since she was twelve. The first item is the hardest--"Get married"--so she turns to the only man she knows who can help...
  • Listed: Volume III by Noelle Adams

    Listed: Volume III by Noelle Adams

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    This is Volume III of a six-volume serial novel. A marriage of convenience has never been like this. Just before her eighteenth birthday, the doctors tell Emily she has three months to live. Not much time to complete the bucket list she's had since she was twelve. The first item is the hardest--"Get married"--so she turns to the only man she knows who can help...
  • Adore You (Love on the Clock) by Nichole Rose

    Adore You (Love on the Clock) by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A chance meeting and a mechanical bull will unravel a former detective in the blink of an eye.JasonMiranda Dawes is the sweetest little thing I've ever seen.I was obsessed with her the minute I met her…and then she disappeared without a trace.Imagine my surprise when I found her at work the next morning.And my horror when I realized something I said in the heat of the moment chased her away...
    Categorized as:
    virgin heroine  m-f  humor  age difference
  • What's Left of Us by Amanda Maxlyn

    What's Left of Us by Amanda Maxlyn

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The heartwarming conclusion to What's Left of Me. Love found me three years ago. I’m cancer free, happily married to the love of my life, and working toward my dream career. Our life is complete. Perfect, really. Or is it? I’ve always wanted a family of my own, but never dreamed I could have one. Now Parker’s ready to make my dream our reality...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Bad Boy Summer by grraciie_

    Bad Boy Summer by grraciie_

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Hayden Jones has been through a lot. a lot more than someone her age should. now finished her second year of college, Hayden needs a break. Lucky for her, her fabulous cousin Spencer is celebrating his twenty-first birthday in Hayden's hometown...
    Categorized as:
    college  bad boys  friends to lovers
  • Restless Rockstar by Gina Azzi

    Restless Rockstar by Gina Azzi

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Derek Reiner is an epic, consuming, forever, kind of love.He’s also at the center of my deepest heartache.While he focuses on his personal growth, I figure out my future.As much as I want him in it, I won't choose Derek at the expense of myself.Not anymore.My rockstar may be desperate and restless, but I’m calm and decisive.Some epic loves burn out before they have the chance to blaze...
  • Savage's Honor by E.C. Land

    Savage's Honor by E.C. Land

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There’s nothing you can’t do without honor.SavageThere’s only one thing I live for and that’s the club. They gave me a purpose when I needed it most, and there’s nothing I won’t do for any of my brothers.When the call comes in that a brother's sister is missing, I realize my club family is all that matters...
  • Perfectly Imperfect by Tiffany Casper

    Perfectly Imperfect by Tiffany Casper

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    DaemonWhen you learn at the young age of nine that words have the same impact as a fist, it shapes you into the man you grow up to be.It makes you hard.Unshakable.And sometimes… Cold.That was until he saw her in a classroom being the kind of mom that he wished he had. Being the kind of mom that all women should aspire to be...
    Categorized as:
    angst  m-f  contemporary  new adult  sports  length-medium
  • Heated Caress by E.C. Land

    Heated Caress by E.C. Land

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’ve wanted her for longer than I should’ve. She’s off limits and I know it.ChristianBlood coats my hands and I don’t regret them being stained. Not when it comes to the reason behind it. Being who I am, I’m as cold-hearted as they come. I only care for those close to me. But even still I keep them at bay. There’s only one who gets under my skin, and she knows it...
  • 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...
  • Light Me Up by Cherrie Lynn

    Light Me Up by Cherrie Lynn

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Candace Andrews is dreaming of a little sparkle in her Christmas stocking this year, and now that she and Brian Ross have been living together for over a year, her overbearing family is getting impatient for him to pop the question...
  • Defiant Heir by Michelle Heard

    Defiant Heir by Michelle Heard

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From International Bestseller Michelle Heard comes a new friends to lovers novel in The Heirs series. The man of my dreams is nothing short of perfect. Kao Reed is a hermit who loves to live in the shadows. With striking blue eyes and a gentle nature, he won my heart years ago. I’ve woven all my dreams and future around him. But then the worst happens...
  • More Than a Duke by Christi Caldwell

    More Than a Duke by Christi Caldwell

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Polite Society doesn’t take Lady Anne Adamson seriously. However, Anne isn’t just another pretty young miss. When she discovers her father betrayed her mother’s love and her family descended into poverty, Anne comes up with a plan to marry a respectable, powerful, and honorable gentleman— a man nothing like her philandering father...
  • Fortuity by Rochelle Paige

    Fortuity by Rochelle Paige

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The only kinds of luck I knew were bad and worse...until my life hung in the balance. I finally caught a break in the form of a second chance. I vowed not to let it go to waste. To make a difference. But I didn’t start really living until I met him. Dillon Montgomery. My complete opposite—except for our matching tortured souls. I couldn’t resist him for long...
  • 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...
  • Happy New Year in Virgin River by Robyn Carr

    Happy New Year in Virgin River by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Neujahrs-Melancholie ist gar kein Ausdruck für das, was Sunny Archer gerade fühlt: Schließlich war sie genau vor einem Jahr vor dem Altar sitzen gelassen worden. Nicht mal der Besuch bei ihrem geliebten Onkel Nathaniel in Virgin River kann die düsteren Wolken aus ihrer Seele vertreiben. Äußerst widerwillig lässt sie sich dazu überreden, mit zur Silvesterparty in Jacks Bar zu kommen...
    Categorized as:
    virgin heroine  m-f  length-novella
  • 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..
  • Watch over Me by Tara Sivec

    Watch over Me by Tara Sivec

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Due to heavy subject matter, this book is recommended for ages 17+. From the USA Today Best Selling Author of A Beautiful Lie. Addison Snow is your typical teenager. She has a family that loves her, friends that make her laugh, and she's wrapped up in the excitement of graduating high school and going off to college to pursue her dream of becoming an author...
  • Damaged 2 by H.M. Ward

    Damaged 2 by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLER Home isn't supposed to be dangerous, but for Sidney it is. Returning home means that she has to face her past. It's not just the man who hurt Sidney that makes it horrible, but the family that didn't believe her. They were dead to her, but now that her mom is really dying things seem different. It's a chance to set things right...
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