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I Pucking Love You by Pippa Grant
A hockey/fake date/not-quite-a-virgin very wrong romantic comedyYou know those stories where an adorably misunderstood clumsy girl needs a fake date to a wedding so she asks her brother’s best friend and they accidentally fall in love?I wish that was the kind of life I lead, but it’s not.I don’t need a date to a wedding. I need a date to a funeral... -
![Five Years Gone by Marie Force]()
Five Years Gone by Marie Force
The most brazen terrorist attack in history. A country bent on revenge. A love affair cut short. A heart that never truly heals. I knew on the day of the attack that our lives were changed forever. What I didn’t know then was that I’d never see John again after he deployed. One day he was living with me, sleeping next to me, making plans with me. The next day he was gone... -
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![I Can Be the One by Ellie Blackbourne]()
I Can Be the One by Ellie Blackbourne
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsHe's the hot, cocky hockey player I've always had a thing for...and now he's my fake boyfriend.ALEXISMoney has always been an issue, and if I want to stay enrolled, I need tuition money fast. The school's Cute Couples Contest can be my saving grace--whichever couple is voted most swoon-worthy by Valentine's Day is offered a tuition-free year...Categorized as:
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![Dax by Shannyn Leah]()
Dax by Shannyn Leah
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDax Colyn is one of the bad boys of Willow Valley. A fearless volunteer firefighter and hard ass mechanic, he makes all the woman swoon and he likes it that way. He keeps people at a distance since his mother died. He doesn’t want to let anyone in, much less a woman he knows he could fall in love with. Ava Anderson keeps people away, too... -
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![Over Time by Kyell Gold]()
Over Time by Kyell Gold
Football season is over, and in the wake of a tumultuous year, Lee and Dev decide to take this quiet time to think about their relationship. But as their friends and family draw the couple into their own issues, the offseason becomes anything but quiet... -
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Heart Starter by Michelle Hercules
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsMy plans were simple. Graduate from college, get a job, and not worry anymore if I can make next month’s rent.It turns out I might have a shot at getting drafted to play in the NFL, and nothing will distract me from that goal.I didn’t count on Sadie Clarkson wrecking my plans. Our first meeting was explosive, to say the least. Now I can’t stop thinking about her sassy attitude or sexy mouth... -
![My Beastly Boss by Sofia T Summers]()
My Beastly Boss by Sofia T Summers
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe world believes that I’m dating a star quarterback.But the truth is… I’m using that lie to hide another secret. That big secret has a name… Isaac Shepherd.Manager of the NFL team and one of my father’s closest friends.Let me just say that we tried.We tried really hard to ignore the fire that was brewing between us.Isaac is intense.A workaholic, and extremely accomplished... -
![American Gauntlet by Allie Lewis]()
American Gauntlet by Allie Lewis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwo sisters. Seven teams. One grueling competition.One life-changing cash prize.American Gauntlet is the number one reality TV competition in the nation, and when Dani Di Laurentis gets the call that she and her sister, Lana, have been selected as contestants, she knows this is her one opportunity to change her family's life for the better...Categorized as:
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![Hoping to Score by Ajme Williams]()
Hoping to Score by Ajme Williams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWomen fall in love with me for two reasons: My money and my celebrity status. So when Regan showed up at my doorstep with a child next to her, I thought I was in trouble.Deep, deep trouble.Let’s be clear.That baby isn’t hers.The mother? Her deceased sister.The father? Well, me.And who am I?I’m the injured football star who is unable to play the Superbowl.Apparently, I’m also a new father... -
![Savage Truth by Isla Vaughn]()
Savage Truth by Isla Vaughn
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRejected by a teenage god.Lies so dangerous our lives are at stake.A game worth playing.Cole Savage doesn’t hate anyone as much as he hates me… or the fact that he wants me just as much.We all have issues, and the less he knows about me, the better. I just have to keep him unbalanced, which is harder than I thought it would be.Yeah, he wants me.But I want him just as much...Categorized as:
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![Knocked Up By The Other Brother by Ashlee Price]()
Knocked Up By The Other Brother by Ashlee Price
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy wife has no memory of me. Then again, Grace isn't my real wife... I don't know much about her... Where she's from, how she ended up in Hope Creek, why she has strange marks on her wrists and how she survived The Icebreaker that wiped out a good portion of humanity... -
![Billionaire Beast by Claire Adams]()
Billionaire Beast by Claire Adams
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsAfter Billionaire Aiden Walker lost his entire family in a tragic plane crash fourteen months ago, he wanted nothing more than to be left alone, so much that he fired his entire staff in exchange for his solitude. To make it worse, he mourned his loss by drowning himself in booze at a small bar on the wrong side of town, where the local bartender became his only friend... -
![Should Have Run (Lake Spark Inn) by Evey Lyon]()
Should Have Run (Lake Spark Inn) by Evey Lyon
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsHolden is older and a single dad. And due to a favor owed from his hockey days, he's the man I just moved in with…The moment I walked into the office as the new interior designer for the man my dad used to coach, I knew trouble loomed. Holden is a retired hockey player who now owns a hotel. He’s also trying to balance his single-dad life... -
![Spineless by Autumn Reed]()
Spineless by Autumn Reed
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsEight years ago, I believed I’d finally found a place to call home. My mother’s marriage to Vincent Sharpe meant security and three stepbrothers who were already my best friends. But Mom’s mysterious death one week before the wedding turned my world upside down. The day of her funeral, I was whisked away to live with my aunt in Kansas, and I never heard from the Sharpes again.. -
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![The Bodybuilder's Shy Girl by Haley Travis]()
The Bodybuilder's Shy Girl by Haley Travis
Size doesn't matter. Yeah, right. When a guy a head taller than the other men at the gym, with massive muscles and sexy tattoos, decides to give you a personal tour at your new job, his size is the first thing you notice. Yet Caleb's midnight blue eyes are so gentle when they lock on mine. He's older, funny, confident… and somehow makes me feel a bit less shy. But I'm supposed to be moving soon...Categorized as:
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![Where You Belong by Stacy Williams]()
Where You Belong by Stacy Williams
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhat if you’re lost? What will it take to find your way back?Andie has been hiding, wanting to stay in the past rather than face the uncertainty of the future. When the force of a lie pulls her out of the darkness and into the light – the spotlight she’s avoided – she has to decide if she’ll stand and fight or run for cover. With each step, she has a choice to make...Categorized as:
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![Boy Toys by A.E. Wasp]()
Boy Toys by A.E. Wasp
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratings10 siblings, 7 fish courses, 6 hockey players, 5 cousins, 4 calling birds, 3 spouses, 2 houses & 1 night that changes everything. Betrayed by first his body and then his girlfriend, Liam O’Reilly, assistant coach of the Seattle Thunder, is not having a very merry Christmas... -
![Saving the Beast by Pru Schuyler]()
Saving the Beast by Pru Schuyler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsContemporary fairytale retelling meets hockey romance Blair Adams's dreams are finally coming true– well, almost. Getting accepted into Happily Ever After University is like winning a golden ticket to guaranteed success if you manage to graduate. Having perfect grades isn't one of her problems; however, evading her narcissistic ex-boyfriend and having enough money to keep her enrolled are...Categorized as:
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![Rule Breakers Fall Hardest by Micalea Smeltzer]()
Rule Breakers Fall Hardest by Micalea Smeltzer
Once upon a time, Daire Hendricks was my childhood crush. He was always there, saving me from his annoying brothers. He was my rock, my safe place from my overbearing family.Until he wasn’t.Imagine my annoyance when we end up at the same university and I have to see his smug, too-handsome-for-his-own-good face all over campus... -
![Don't Call Me Cupcake by Tara Sheets]()
Don't Call Me Cupcake by Tara Sheets
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThere's a very special kind of sweetness to life on Pine Cove Island . . . Most families have a favorite recipe or two, handed down through generations. The Holloway women are a little different. Emma Holloway, like her grandmother before her, bakes wishes into her delicious cupcakes, granting the recipient comfort, sweet dreams, or any number of good things... -
![The Rapier Brothers by Megan Derr]()
The Rapier Brothers by Megan Derr
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTales of brothers, swords, and the men they most desire... Main Gauche — Though he was born to nobility, the loss of first his father, and then his mother, has left Dagger a peasant. His stepfather is cruel and greedy, and refuses to claim Dagger as his own. Instead of living the life for which he was meant, Dagger spends his days as the apprentice to a blacksmith... -
![Justice for Puck Bunnies by Becca Fogg]()
Justice for Puck Bunnies by Becca Fogg
When "puck bunny" Izzy catches Captain Brad in a delicate position, she's crushed . . . into the arms of three of his teammates also eager for revenge. They have a goal to knock him off his pedestal, but they may be the ones to fall.Please note this is a human omegaverse standalone novel. Description and content information subject to change... -
![Hard Love by Sara Ney]()
Hard Love by Sara Ney
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 33 ratings“HARD TO LOVE.”Hard head. Bad attitude. Terrible boyfriend. That’s what my exes have said about me—but I wasn’t serious about any of them, so what do I care what rumors they spread? What I need is to be left alone; by the press, by the paparazzi, and by women.Too bad I’m about to be surrounded by them for the weekend... -
![Unbreakable by Abby Reynolds]()
Unbreakable by Abby Reynolds
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsFrom Bestselling Author, Abby Reynolds. This is a stand alone novel. It is not a cliffhanger. And it is the first novel in the Forehead Kisses Series. Can there be too many pieces to piece back together? This is a question Keira faces every day. It’s impossible for her to go anywhere unaccompanied by her cousin, the only person who knows what happened on that horrific night a year ago... -
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![Driven Snow: A MM, Nerd loves Jock, Fairy Tale Retelling Romance by Tara Lain]()
Driven Snow: A MM, Nerd loves Jock, Fairy Tale Retelling Romance by Tara Lain
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhat if the poison apple was a martini?Who says fairy tales can’t happen? When chess campion and physics student, Snow Reynaldi, finds himself tutoring his secret passion, quarterback Riley Prince, up close and personal, he starts to believe in happy ever after, but wait. Cosmic joker time... -
![Wish Me Luck: A Secret Baby Billionaire Romance by Raven Blake]()
Wish Me Luck: A Secret Baby Billionaire Romance by Raven Blake
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe bad boy billionaire who left me heartbroken is now my neighbor and my new boss,And I have a two-year-old secret that just got a lot harder to keep…I knew Hayden was danger wrapped in a suit from the moment I met him.That didn’t stop me from giving him my v-card in a nightclub closet.Then just like that, he vanished,Leaving me with a broken heart and a positive pregnancy test... -
![Something Real by J.J. Murray]()
Something Real by J.J. Murray
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThanks to her black mother and her Irish father, Ruth "Penny" Borum is the color of a new penny. Big-boned and notoriously sassy, Ruth is nonetheless the organist and a member in good standing of Antioch, Virginia's most prominent black church--or at least she was until she dragged the popular Reverend Jonas Borum into an ugly divorce... -
![Bitter Lies: A College Enemies to Lovers Romance by Nina Lincoln]()
Bitter Lies: A College Enemies to Lovers Romance by Nina Lincoln
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsI don’t care who you’re with…as long as it’s not me. He was the sunshine I craved. The laughter I couldn’t contain. My first thought when I woke in the morning and the last image I saw before I went to bed.But now Griffin Hathaway hates my guts, and he’s my new roommate. Yes, it’s that painful... -
![Archer's Sin by Amy Raby]()
Archer's Sin by Amy Raby
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsNalica Kelden, war mage and world-class archer, doesn’t need love. She’s come to the imperial city for a single purpose: to win Kjall’s most prestigious archery tournament. Until she meets one of her fellow competitors, and he sends an arrow straight into her heart. Justien Polini is the man she’s always dreamed of. Like Nalica herself, he’s from the rough country in the eastern highlands...Categorized as:
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![Kisses at Midnight by Jen McLaughlin, Samantha Towle]()
Kisses at Midnight by Jen McLaughlin, Samantha Towle
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings3 exciting romances from James Patterson's BookShots Flames, now in one book! THE MCCULLAGH INN IN MAINE by Jen McLaughlin: Chelsea O'Kane escapes to Maine with a gun and fresh bruises. She's ready to begin anew-until she runs into her old flame, Jeremy Holland. As he helps to fix her inn, her heart heals and they rediscover what they once loved about each other... -
![Summer After Summer by Lauren Bailey]()
Summer After Summer by Lauren Bailey
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA woman returns to her family's Hamptons beach house for a final time—and a final chance at the love she's lost before, in this contemporary retelling of Persuasion , perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Rebecca Serle.Olivia Taylor's marriage is in a death spiral when she agrees to come home to the Hamptons to help her father and sisters pack up the family estate... -
![Something Sweet by Megan Derr]()
Something Sweet by Megan Derr
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsIt's just another day at the candy shop for Sherlock: a quiet afternoon spent more on reading his latest fantasy novel than on selling candy. The kind of day he loves, even if the looming New Year's Eve leaves him feeling nostalgic and a little lonely... -
![Shattered Princess by Amber Vant]()
Shattered Princess by Amber Vant
Rated: 3.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI may have lit the match the first time, but I wouldn’t be the one left burned this round. The elites run this town, but they aren’t ready for a girl like me.Especially the boys who made it known from the beginning I wasn’t wanted here that one summer I stayed with my father. I hadn’t belonged—I knew that—but now I was coming back...
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