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  • The Billionaire's Final Stand by Melody Anne

    The Billionaire's Final Stand by Melody Anne

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    When the head of the Anderson family, Joseph, gets into a life-changing automobile accident, his family struggles to find a way to survive if he doesn’t come out of the coma the accident has placed him in. Austin Anderson is used to being single, but slowly he's watched his siblings and cousins find true love, leaving him the final Anderson without a spouse...
  • Yours Actually by Nina Levine

    Yours Actually by Nina Levine

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The playboy and the girl next door.Best friends since forever.This was only supposed to be a wedding season as each other’s plus-one, nothing more.But Callan Black has his hands on me, his eyes on me, and has suddenly become very possessive of me.Callan is the guy I’ve crushed on since I was a teen.It’s totally unrequited.He’s got a type and I’m not it...
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  • Coyote by Lila Rose

    Coyote by Lila Rose

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Humiliated years earlier when in high school, Channa Edwards never expects to see her knight in shining armour again. In fact, she really doesn't want to, but of course, life wants to mess with her again. It's just by luck he doesn't recognise her, and for a blissful moment, she thinks she's got away with it.That's until another situation brings her knight back into her life...
  • Alluring Seduction by Skye Turner

    Alluring Seduction by Skye Turner

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Warning: This book contains explicit language and explosive sex. It is an adult romance and not intended for anyone under the age of 18. Jessie Adams is the womanizing, lead guitarist for the hottest rock band in the country, Bayou Stix. Seduction is his game. He does what he wants, when he wants, and with whom he wants...
  • 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...
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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 Wager by Rachel Van Dyken

    The Wager by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, THE BET THE WAGER Lose a bet, lose your heart... What is it about a junior-high crush that can send an otherwise intelligent woman into a tailspin? TV reporter Char Lynn wishes she knew. Jake Titus is too rich, too handsome, too arrogant: a trifecta that once lured Char into the best night-and worst morning-after-of her life...
  • Play to Win by Ja'Nese Dixon

    Play to Win by Ja'Nese Dixon

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kamal’s an ex-football player. Jayda’s a single mother uninterested in another relationship until she sees Kamal with her daughter.Every rejection will only make his victory sweeter. He plans to lick, taste, and devour her like the delicacy she is until the world, her ex, and Jayda recognizes his name tatted on every inch of her curvy body...
  • Southern Heartbreaker by Jessica Peterson

    Southern Heartbreaker by Jessica Peterson

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 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...
  • Doctor of the Heart by Grace Maxwell

    Doctor of the Heart by Grace Maxwell

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    He’s a billionaire doctor with a supportive family. I’m an artist who can’t keep a day-job while taking care of my little sister. We’re opposites in every way.My BFF and I are going out to meet men. Lots of men!I’ve been focused on other more important things, but when my best friend insists we do something fun, I give in. It’s been a long time...
  • Unconditional by Melody Grace

    Unconditional by Melody Grace

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    "I’ve spent my whole life chasing perfection: perfect looks, perfect man, perfect home. But in one brutal moment, I realized it was all just a beautiful lie…" Carina MacKenzie is fleeing from her past. Picking up the wreckage of her shattered dreams, she seeks comfort in the only place she’s ever felt safe: Beachwood Bay. Garrett Sawyer isn’t looking to be anyone’s savior...
  • Keva's Dream by Elle Madearis

    Keva's Dream by Elle Madearis

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    KevaLife has a way of staying in the unfair lane while waving at you at the same time. Love and loss are connecting themselves to me and I’m over it. I wanted little outside the love of my life and a baby. First, my unconditional love departed, my conditional love followed, and soon after, my body turned on me. The way I view things, partaking in a one-night stand shouldn’t be a big deal...
  • Ladies' Man Exposed by Ali Parker

    Ladies' Man Exposed by Ali Parker

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A serial womanizer ghosted by the hottest woman he’s seen?Yep. That’s my story.There’s nothing I can’t do, and no one I can’t have.Leaving women with a fake number after one hot night is my trick. And yet… this girl bested me.For the first time in a long time, I’m intrigued.She snuck out in the middle of the night while my dumbass was sleeping...
  • The Set Up by Ainsley St. Claire

    The Set Up by Ainsley St. Claire

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    He's a single dad, billionaire CEO, and father to twin terrors. She's desperate to support her daughter. Falling in love with the nanny is complicated.Scarlett:I have less than $2,000 in my checking account and I need a job.My ex took off with his assistant and millions of dollars that he stole in a Ponzi scheme...
  • Alluring Temptation by Skye Turner

    Alluring Temptation by Skye Turner

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Warning: This book contains explicit language and explosive sex. It is an adult romance and not intended for anyone under the age of 18. Liam Christianson is the devil-may-care, rhythm guitarist for Bayou Stix, the hottest rock band around. He’s a playboy and likes to do things his way. No regrets. He knows that women love him, and he uses that to his advantage. He’s cocky and shallow...
  • Breaking to Breathe by Lisa N. Paul

    Breaking to Breathe by Lisa N. Paul

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Two people so bent they can no longer stand tall... With his sexy looks, his seductive dirty talk, and his resident bad boy reputation, Kyle Marx was the thrill-ride every woman wanted to experience…at least once. And once is all he’d ever offer...
  • Point of Freedom by Stacey Lynn

    Point of Freedom by Stacey Lynn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Hatred. Desire. Broken Dreams. Jules McAllister has loved and lost. She experienced the gut wrenching pain of grief after her boyfriend, Scratch, a member of the Nordic Lords MC, died on the same night that she told him they were going to have a child. Grief stricken and destroyed, she left Jasper Bay, unable to tell anyone the truth of what really happened that fateful night...
  • Save Me by Amanda Heath

    Save Me by Amanda Heath

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Save Me can be read as a standalone. “I don’t care! Do you hear me? I don’t care Pierce!” She screams at me. She is pissed and breathing fire. She has never looked so beautiful to me. Well when I can see her face and she isn’t turning away from me. “You care. You can pretend you don’t, but you do. You came all the way out here.” I pause grabbing her hand and swinging her around to face me...
  • Unbroken Hart by Ella Fox

    Unbroken Hart by Ella Fox

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    There were reasons why Dante didn't believe in love, reasons why he kept people at bay. For the first time, you will find out how Dante really felt about Sabrina from the very beginning. Catch up with the couple that started the Hart Family series. Dante is as steamy as ever! This is an erotic short story, approx, 19,000 words...
  • Broken Bridge by Nana Malone

    Broken Bridge by Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One miscalculation.One misstep had cost me everything. I lost my sister and my wife.I will burn down the world to get them back. Even if I have to become someone they fear.Forget vows, forget brotherhood. All I have left is rage. I have made promises I intend to keep.I will right the wrongs of The Elite, ensure vengeance for Emma, even if it cost me my soul...
  • Playing With Her by Tory Baker

    Playing With Her by Tory Baker

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I always get what I want and what I want is Amelie. One month after leaving, my only thoughts were of the woman I left to protect. Thoughts of her consumed me night and day, pushing me to work harder and faster in order to have her back in my arms. The need to protect her from my own blood, a father who would ruin me and anyone that means anything to me in order to further his political career...
  • Fake It For Us by Weston Parker

    Fake It For Us by Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I need a fake date and a nanny, so let’s kill two birds with one stone?My billions were made in the family business—high-end jewelry. But with that money comes a reputation to keep. The upcoming gala in London has my parents on my back. I need a beautiful, curvy woman to pretend to be my one and only. And I know just the place to go...
  • A Two Twirl Christmas by Rachel Van Dyken

    A Two Twirl Christmas by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For fans of the Eagle Elite, #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken brings you the heartwarming short, A Two Twirl Christmas.For the first time, Sergio, made man of the Abandonato Family, faces the demons of his past with the help of his cousins.The mafia cries for no one.It justifies everything.But this Christmas, it will honor one of its own...
  • The Sheik's Marriage Contract by Elizabeth Lennox

    The Sheik's Marriage Contract by Elizabeth Lennox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    By law, Sheik Tazir el Mitra knew that time was running out.He had to find a wife. Fast!Unfortunately, he was still infatuated with someone from his past. So he was stunned when that woman walked into his office, even more beautiful than he remembered. The lovely Lila stood in front of him, talking about…something. And all he could think about was how gorgeous she looked...
  • Two Become One by Weston Parker

    Two Become One by Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’m all about the chase.Everything that comes after getting the girl?I’d rather swallow glass.That’s why taken women are my type.Don’t like it?You don’t have to.However, my newest challenge is full of surprises.She’s temptation poured into a silhouette of dangerous curves.And she’s onto me.So is HR at the office.Both quickly become my nightmare as they dare me to change.Me. The forever bachelor...
  • Winter Dads: A Crescent Cove Cozy bundle by Taryn Quinn

    Winter Dads: A Crescent Cove Cozy bundle by Taryn Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Snuggle in with 7 hot single dad or dad-in-the-making tales to keep you warm this winter.Seven different dads from suited heroes to cops to mechanics and race car drivers to tech geniuses to contractors to teachers—all full-length stories with sigh-worthy happily-ever-afters and small town shenanigans! Along with a baby...or seven...
  • Van: SBMC Missouri #2 by Erin Trejo

    Van: SBMC Missouri #2 by Erin Trejo

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “He isn’t worth the tears, darlin’. No man is. Especially one that can hurt somethin’ as precious as you.”Van is and has always been a player, never wanting to settle down or have a family. Growing up with a houseful of sisters, he appreciates women, and one thing he won’t ignore is men hurting women.Chyanne is pregnant and escaping an abusive relationship...
  • Dark Destiny by Avelyn Paige, Geri Glenn

    Dark Destiny by Avelyn Paige, Geri Glenn

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He's an inmate.She's a free spirit.Delilah believes animals can heal anyone. But she's never come up against someone like the hardened biker who rarely speaks. With Stone Face part of her inmate rehabilitation program, she's got her work cut out for her.Stone Face isn't there to be rehabilitated. Her program is the only way to get to the man that murdered his twin sister...
  • Shadow of a Doubt by Tiffany Snow

    Shadow of a Doubt by Tiffany Snow

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Ivy Mason has it all: beauty, a plush apartment, a fancy car, and a debonair British spy boyfriend who pays all her bills. If only her boyfriend was in her life—and her bed—more than just sporadically. Part of an underground British agency called the Shadow, Devon Clay knows that secrecy is what has kept him alive...
  • A Beautiful Sight by Sandi Lynn

    A Beautiful Sight by Sandi Lynn

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    At the age of eight years old, I lost two things: my parents and something that most people take for granted. It was at that moment I began to experience the world differently from everyone else. I accepted my fate, living my life to the fullest and the best way I know how. Giving up on love was something I had to do because men couldn’t cope with my condition...
  • The Hunt by Alice Ward

    The Hunt by Alice Ward

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When I began the hunt, I didn’t know I’d find her. Confined to a hospital with a rare chromosomal disorder, my little brother began sending me on scavenger hunts to uncover the world for him when we were kids. When one of his quests brings me to a greasy Connecticut diner, my life is completely altered...
  • Listed: Volume III by Noelle Adams

    Listed: Volume III by Noelle Adams

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 16 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...
  • Bedding the Billionaire by Ruth Cardello

    Bedding the Billionaire by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Lil Dartley's life is upside down. Her previously steadfast and predictable sister is marrying an influential billionaire and needs help planning the wedding of the century in less than a month. Years of middle class rebellion have not prepared Lil for handling diplomats or paparazzi. Jake Walton knows a train wreck when he sees one...
  • More Than Sexy by Carly Phillips

    More Than Sexy by Carly Phillips

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He’s sexy and brooding. She’s sweetness and light. Owning a nightclub has its advantages, and for alpha billionaire Jason Dare, the perks of enjoying a woman's company without any expectations works perfectly for him . . . until he rescues Faith Lancaster from the side of the road and is tempted by more than just her sweet treats...
  • Blackmailing the Billionaire by Melody Anne

    Blackmailing the Billionaire by Melody Anne

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Cassandra, or Cassie, as everyone calls her is trying to get her big break into the journalism world. She wants an exclusive interview with the famous Max Anderson. But, the man refuses to return her calls. She isn’t willing to give up, but fate steps in and helps her out. She’s out taking a walk one afternoon, when everything goes dark...
  • 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...
  • Going In Deep by Carly Phillips

    Going In Deep by Carly Phillips

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    He isn't Mr. Nice Guy… Julian Dane thought he'd hit rock bottom — until he met a woman (isn't that what they all say?). He used her and broke her heart. Now he wants to turn things around but the damage he dealt stands in his way. Kendall Parker's unique issues have made it hard to live a normal life...
  • Playing with Fire by Tory Baker

    Playing with Fire by Tory Baker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A wife. Happily ever after. That was never in the cards for me, not with a past like mine. Everything changed when Millie entered my life. The no labels I demanded on our heated encounters became meaningless when she threatened to walk away. There’s only one thing a man can do when he realizes the woman he loves is going to leave forever.I have to fix not only myself, but our relationship...
  • Holiday Treats: Holiday Heroes & Furry Friends by Mink

    Holiday Treats: Holiday Heroes & Furry Friends by Mink

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Happy Holidays from MINK! Holiday Treats includes:Snow AngelShe wants to beat him in the holiday lights competition; he just wants her.Christmas CrushChristmas in Reindeer Valley has never been hotter. Will their second chance lead to happily ever after?Santa MaterialA big bear of a Santa and the handy woman he loves. He's more than ready to fill her up with Christmas cheer...
  • Boone by Elizabeth Knox

    Boone by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I was never good at love, but damn if I didn’t want to try when I met her.BooneAll my life, I’ve never been good at love. My wife literally decided out of the blue that she was going to up and leave me, and our two boys. She acted like she was going to the grocery store to grab a few things and never came back...
  • Chains (Northern Grizzlies MC) by M. Merin

    Chains (Northern Grizzlies MC) by M. Merin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Iron Savages rule Boise. Or they did. Their numbers decimated, the President on his deathbed, the club becomes unrecognizable. When his cousin and her son are threatened and secrets are exposed, Chains must make a choice. Protect his family or stand with his sworn Brothers. The words that are burned in his mind are 'Blood in, Blood out'...
  • The Everest Brothers: An Alpha Billionaires Series by S.L. Scott

    The Everest Brothers: An Alpha Billionaires Series by S.L. Scott

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Everest Brothers is a compilation of contemporary romance, royal romance, and romantic suspense bestselling novels. These alphas fall hard and love harder while sweeping the women in their lives off their feet.You will fall head over heels for these billionaire heroes with hearts of gold while cheering for the confident women who steal their hearts...
  • Bad Boy Bachelor Summer by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Bad Boy Bachelor Summer by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The lake might be cold, but this thing between us is white hot.My best friend’s little sister. You know, the one that’s off limits.And she has been since we were kids. But that ain’t saying I wasn’t looking.She’s all grown up now and hotter than sin.The lake house we all grew up at is located on a larger piece of property that I own now. And I’m looking to demolish the whole neighborhood...
  • Pike: SBMC Missouri Book 3 by Erin Trejo

    Pike: SBMC Missouri Book 3 by Erin Trejo

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Men aren’t supposed to make women cry, Jailbait.”With his birthday around the corner, Pike is a man questioning what he wants in life. His brothers in his club are his family, but maybe it’s time to find someone to share his life with.A bullet from an unknown assailant leaves Pike in the hospital, where he meets Feather, an ER nurse who he immediately recognizes as a kindred spirit...
  • Final Call by Emma Hart

    Final Call by Emma Hart

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In the highly anticipated sequel to LATE CALL, Dayton and Aaron learn once more than not everything is as straightforward as it seems, and if they have any chance of getting their long-awaited happily-ever-after, they'll have to work for it... We crashed and burned like a falling plane. Hard and fast with an inevitable explosion. Another few weeks together changed my life the way the first did...
  • Hold Me If You Can by Jordan Silver, R+M Photography

    Hold Me If You Can by Jordan Silver, R+M Photography

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Mancini finds himself in the stickiest situation yet. After hunting down the worse criminals known to man, he finds himself caught by the special agent who’d been hand picked to bring him down. No sooner had he staked his claim than he was being called away to take down the man responsible for the biggest child trafficking ring in South East Asia...
  • Noble by Jordan Silver

    Noble by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I left the hustle and bustle of the city to visit the small town where my late father was born, to offload the ancestral home that had been sitting empty ever since my grandfather died. I had no intentions of staying in the little backwater town any longer than was necessary...but then I saw her...
  • Claiming What's Mine by Jordan Silver

    Claiming What's Mine by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I wanted her the first moment I laid eyes on her, but she was already taken. For two years I stood by, dying inside each time I saw them together but I’m not the kind of man to dishonor another, so I walked away. Now he’s gone, taking the easy way out and leaving her to clear his debt. I will take care of it, with one condition. That she becomes completely mine...
  • Revenge, Volume 2 by J.J. Knight

    Revenge, Volume 2 by J.J. Knight

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Dylan Wolf is more than just a street musician with a body and voice to die for. He holds the key to Jess Rivera's future, and her heart. The mystery unfolds in Revenge #2...
  • Serving HIM Vol. 1 by M.S. Parker, Cassie Wild

    Serving HIM Vol. 1 by M.S. Parker, Cassie Wild

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    “I moved to New York from Iowa to find a life that I didn't know I was looking for. I expected to have to work hard and barely make ends meet. But…I never expected to meet HIM.”For twenty-one year-old Aleena Davison, it was a life-long dream coming true when she said goodbye to her dreary small-town life in Iowa and moved to Manhattan...
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