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  • The Original Crowd by Tijan

    The Original Crowd by Tijan

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    This is the original version of A Whole New Crowd. It has only gone through one round of edits so it is rough. I make no apology for this. The edited version was released as A Whole New Crowd. This is being published at readers' requests. They want to own the original version as well so here it is in all its gritty and monstrously long glory. There is lots of sex so the reader is forewarned...
  • Stay by B.A. Wolfe

    Stay by B.A. Wolfe

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Fate took Cassandra down a path she never expected. Then a small town in Colorado gave her exactly what she needed—until tragedy left her heartbroken and devastated. Alone with only her child and her memories, Cassie struggled to put her life back together, one day at a time, piece by piece. Finding love again was something she never thought possible...
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  • Coast by Jay McLean

    Coast by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    One life-changing summer. One boy. The boy. The boy who offered me safe touches and heart-stopping smiles - smiles he shared with his son. We filled our days with porch-step kisses, filled our ears with laughter, filled our hearts with love. Deep, soul-aching, desperate love. But love is misleading. It's an invisible, fleeting moment...
  • Art & Soul by Brittainy C. Cherry

    Art & Soul by Brittainy C. Cherry

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    I had always been the invisible art student in high school. Passed by. Glossed over. Unnoticed. Now I was Aria Watson…that girl. After one bad decision, and being labeled a slut, I was no longer unseen. I was the whore. The ignoramus. The tramp. I would never be invisible again. Particularly to Levi Myers...
  • Next to Never by Penelope Douglas

    Next to Never by Penelope Douglas

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 62 ratings
    New York Times bestseller Penelope Douglas introduces Quinn, younger sister to Jared, Madoc, and Jaxon, in the latest novella in the series that began with Jared and Tate in Bully.... Quinn Caruthers has several problems. Her father, Jason, and her three older brothers, Jared, Madoc, and Jaxon...
  • Reckless Obsession by Samantha Christy

    Reckless Obsession by Samantha Christy

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Music is my life.It's kept me breathing.Even when I couldn't eat, sleep, or sing, I could still write songs.It's the only thing that has saved me from going crazy. Until the day Reckless Alibi decides to hire a girl.Suddenly, everything from my past comes rushing back to me.And now she's there. For every rehearsal. Every show. Every moment. Every song. We were supposed to be a boy band...
  • Asa by Jay Crownover

    Asa by Jay Crownover

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 64 ratings
    Jay Crownover’s New York Times and USA Today bestselling Marked Men series continues with the much anticipated story of southern charmer and certified criminal Asa Cross. Starting over in Denver with a whole new circle of friends and family, Asa Cross struggles with being the man he knows everyone wants him to be and the man he knows he really is...
  • My Unexpected Forever by Heidi McLaughlin

    My Unexpected Forever by Heidi McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    I expected a life of music. I expected to raise my son. It took one look to make everything change. I never expected happiness. I never expected to find her. I never expected to feel desire. I never expected I’d be a family man. I never expected to be loved. I never expected to fall in love...
  • You Were Mine by Abbi Glines

    You Were Mine by Abbi Glines

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    From #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Abbi Glines comes a brand-new Rosemary Beach novel about Tripp Newark and his hidden romantic past with Bethy Lowry. In the eyes of the wealthy playboys who frequent Kerrington Country Club in Rosemary Beach, Tripp Newark is a hero...
  • Always Us by Allie Everhart

    Always Us by Allie Everhart

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Final book in The Jade Series! Includes an extended epilogue! The countdown has begun. Garret’s running out of time and he’s losing patience as he waits for his father to take action. It’s getting harder to keep this a secret from Jade, and he may not be able to after an unexpected visitor stops by...
  • The Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski

    The Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 65 ratings
    Twenty-year-old Camryn Bennett had always been one to think out-of-the-box, who knew she wanted something more in life than following the same repetitive patterns and growing old with the same repetitive life story. And she thought that her life was going in the right direction until everything fell apart...
  • More Than Him by Jay McLean

    More Than Him by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 49 ratings
    "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us." - Marianne Williamson. We live in a world of darkness and shadows, where monsters hide and aim to ruin. And they did. They ruined us and turned our dreams into nightmares. But now we're back. And we're fighting...
  • The Deception You Weave by Tracy Lorraine

    The Deception You Weave by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    I never could hide from him.Kane Legend always finds me.And now he’s found out the truth.The dark secret I’ve been hiding, the one that’s been slowly poisoning me from the inside out.The pain of the words falling from my lips, is nothing compared to the look of devastation in his eyes. Or the rage that follows.The way I thought he hated me back then is nothing compared to the damage he can do now...
  • The Proposal by J. Lynn, Jennifer L. Armentrout

    The Proposal by J. Lynn, Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Twitter fiction story of Cam and Avery.http://www.iheartbigbooks.com/2014/03...http://www.scribd.com/doc/231133105/T..
  • The Forever Trilogy by Sandi Lynn

    The Forever Trilogy by Sandi Lynn

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The New York Times Bestselling Trilogy is now in a complete set. 3 books: Forever Black, Forever You, Forever Us. Forever Black : When Ellery moved to New York with her boyfriend, she thought they’d live happily ever after in their small New York apartment. She never thought he’d pack his bags and leave because he “needed space...
  • The Man I Love by Suanne Laqueur

    The Man I Love by Suanne Laqueur

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    "You never got over her. You just left." From author Suanne Laqueur comes an astonishing debut novel: a young man's emotional journey to salvage relationships destroyed in the wake of a school shooting. As a college freshman, Erik Fiskare is drawn to the world of theater but prefers backstage to center stage...
  • Myles by Lisa Helen Gray, Elisia Goodman

    Myles by Lisa Helen Gray, Elisia Goodman

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    I’m Kayla Martin... I was once sweet and innocent, saw the world bright with colour, but now all I see is black and white. He not only ripped my innocence away from me, tortured me and made my life a living hell, but he stole the very soul that made me who I am. I’m a shell of the girl I once knew. But it’s all about to change. I’m ready to face my fear...
  • The Betrayal You Serve by Tracy Lorraine

    The Betrayal You Serve by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    You can’t outrun the truth...It changes everything.Her secrets might have been exposed, but mine are still hanging over us.A betrayal that sends her straight into the arms of another.It’s like a knife to my heart.But I was holding the blade.Scarlett gave me an ultimatum, one that I need to take seriously.Walk away from the only life I’ve ever known, everything I’ve worked for...
  • Four Seconds to Lose by K.A. Tucker

    Four Seconds to Lose by K.A. Tucker

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 54 ratings
    When a gorgeous young dancer walks through his door, a strip club owner must decide whether to follow his rules or his heart in the third novel by the author of One Tiny Lie and Ten Tiny Breaths . Owning a strip club isn’t the fantasy most guys expect it to be...
  • The Girl I Once Loved by C.R. Jane, Ivy Fox

    The Girl I Once Loved by C.R. Jane, Ivy Fox

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 26 ratings
    Someone once told me that there's a fine line between love and hate. They forgot to mention how that line, once broken, can never be mended. Skylar Ames. My stepsister. The very embodiment of all I’ve ever desired. She’ll forever hold my heart in her hands. I played my part and pushed her away, preferring to sacrifice my dreams, for hers...
  • Adrenaline by Penelope Douglas

    Adrenaline by Penelope Douglas

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 33 ratings
    **You ask. You receive!*** Have you read Bully and the rest of the Fall Away series? Would you enjoy having all the bonus content in one place? Adrenaline is approximately 36, 000 words of bonus scenes, deleted scenes, character conversations, and Q&As shared over the past few years and is mostly material not found in the actual books. Here, you'll find..
  • EDGE by Cora Brent

    EDGE by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    **99¢ only on release day!** ROSLYN It was him. Conway Gentry. The boy I'd known years ago - the one who'd loved my best friend and was left shattered by her death - was now a macho adrenaline junkie, an arrogant, womanizing hustler. There was not a single good reason on this earth to fall for him. But no one told my heart that. CONWAY She didn't seem like my type...
  • Endless Possibility by Emma Scott

    Endless Possibility by Emma Scott

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Noah Lake describes his arduous journey across Europe, learning to cope with his blindness, and his life now with the one woman who never gave up on him...
  • Enamor by Rachel Van Dyken

    Enamor by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    *This short novella IS included in the back of Elicit (book 4) but many people have been requesting it be set apart, if you own Elicit, you don't need to purchase this novella* Trace is about to ask her mob boss husband to do the unthinkable...allow his enemy Phoenix De Lange to train her in combat, the very same enemy who nearly killed her the year before...
  • Enchant by Rachel Van Dyken

    Enchant by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Stand Alone Prequel to the Eagle Elite Series In the mafia...only the strong survive. Joyce loves Luca. Luca loves Joyce. Frank loves his family and will do anything to protect it, even if it means taking away his brothers reason for existing. Falling, only takes one step, one movement of the chess piece, and in Joyce's fall she took more than just one heart with her...
  • Forever You by Allie Everhart

    Forever You by Allie Everhart

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Jade and Garret have a love story like no other. They’ve survived heartache, tragedy, and numerous forces trying to tear them apart, but through it all they’ve developed a love that will endure forever. Now it’s time to celebrate their love with a wedding...
  • Paper Hearts by Claire Contreras

    Paper Hearts by Claire Contreras

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 56 ratings
    I lost her. No, I didn't lose her. I threw her away. She was my best friend. I was never supposed to fall in love with her. I was careless. She was heartbroken. I thought I was doing fine. But here she is, years later, forced to work with me, reminding me why I fell in love with her in the first place. And this time I'm going to do everything in my power to never let her go...
  • Fallen Crest Christmas by Tijan

    Fallen Crest Christmas by Tijan

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    This is a very very short Fallen Crest High novella consisting of one scene that has three parts, and an additional bonus scene. Happy Holidays from Tijan...
  • Enjoying the Chase by Kirsty Moseley

    Enjoying the Chase by Kirsty Moseley

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Nate Peters is living the playboy life. He has great friends, a great job, no responsibilities, no girlfriend, and he loves it. Nate, being incredibly skilled with a pick-up line, has never failed to get a girl in his life… until one day he meets Rosie York. Rosie is completely uninterested in him. Being unable to stand a dented ego, Nate makes it his mission to win her over...
  • Love, Lust & Liam by Sandi Lynn

    Love, Lust & Liam by Sandi Lynn

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    My name is Liam Wyatt, and my brother, Oliver and I are the founders and owners of Wyatt Enterprises. He found love and I was still trying. After dating a countless number of women throughout the years, I was ready to have a real relationship with the possibility of settling down. I could have any woman I wanted. So what’s the problem you ask? I didn’t want just any woman. I wanted the one...
  • Orlando by Kylie Kent

    Orlando by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 13 ratings
    OrlandoWhen you’re a Valentino, shit comes easy. When you’re a teenage rock icon, it comes even easier.There’s only ever been one thing in life I couldn’t grasp hold of. She was there, for a brief moment in time. And then… poof. Like a little ghost, she vanished.Until she turns back up at New York Prep, the school I rule over...
  • Kick, Push & Coast Duet: Includes Kick, Push and Coast by Jay McLean

    Kick, Push & Coast Duet: Includes Kick, Push and Coast by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Box set includes exclusive never before seen bonus short story told from Tommy Warden’s ten-year-old mind. ★SYNOPSIS for Kick, Push There’s a single defining moment within every skater. It lasts only a second. Two if you're good. Three if you’re really good. It’s the moment you’re in the air, your board somewhere beneath you and nothing but wind surrounds you...
  • Crew Princess by Tijan

    Crew Princess by Tijan

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 24 ratings
    Being crew is walking between two worlds. One world is normal: Prom. Parties. College. Those are the concerns they worry about. In our world, we deal with other situations. Cops. Drugs. Brawling. That’s a typical day for us...
  • Trust Him by Caitlyn Dare

    Trust Him by Caitlyn Dare

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝗺. 𝗛𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻.Hadley Rexford wasn’t supposed to get under my skin. But I thought she was like me, until I push her too far, and destroy everything we had.I want to hurt her.Consume her. In the end, I’ll make sure she’s only ever mine.Cole Jagger wasn’t to supposed to become everything to me...
  • Holding Her Hand by Tammy Falkner

    Holding Her Hand by Tammy Falkner

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Girl falls in love with boy… SCREECH! No. It can’t be that easy. (You knew that, right?) Boy meets girl. Boy can’t fall in love with girl, because girl comes from a different culture. She also has secrets. Lots of secrets he’s determined to uncover. He’ll try to uncover all her secrets...
  • More Than Enough by Jay McLean

    More Than Enough by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 36 ratings
    There’s no emotion greater than fear. No ache greater than grief. No sound greater than silence. I’m grateful he showed up on my doorstep, pissed off and angry at the world. If he hadn’t, I wouldn’t be here. And I don’t just mean here on this journey with him. I mean here, in this world...
  • Scarlett by Ivy Smoak

    Scarlett by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Hi, I’m Scarlett Hunter and I’m addicted to my best friend Axel Stevens.Yeah…it’s a huge problem. I’ve been in love with him basically my whole life, and I’ve been friend zoned. Hard.But I’m nothing if not good at solving problems. The solution to my Axel issue: I reinvented myself over the summer...
  • Eden High Boxed Set by Jordan Silver

    Eden High Boxed Set by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    This ebook contains the following works Eden High Book 1 Sian Claiborne is not a happy camper. Just when she was getting into the groove of high school hijinks, her parents decides to pick up stakes. Now the popular cheerleader is off to the ritz and glamor of the Hollywood Hills, where her new school is home to the offspring of Hollywood's elite...
  • Low Over High by J.A. DeRouen

    Low Over High by J.A. DeRouen

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    I fancy myself a purveyor of truth, a sifter of lies, a cutter of bullshit. It’s not a gift, but rather, all skill, honed to a razor’s edge after one too many trips down the rabbit hole. Some may dismiss my talent as misplaced and misguided cynicism, but they’d be wrong. Cliches about hope and faith in mankind are concocted unicorn farts, an effort to keep the dreamers dreaming...
  • Before We Were Strangers by Renee Carlino

    Before We Were Strangers by Renee Carlino

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 74 ratings
    From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House...
  • Playing With Her Heart by Lauren Blakely

    Playing With Her Heart by Lauren Blakely

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    From the NYT & USA Today Bestselling romance author, a sizzling and addictive story of a woman with a broken past and the man who can’t fight his attraction to her… Twenty-three year old rising theater star Jill McCormick has built a life out of pretending. Pretending she’s happy, pretending she’s not haunted by the dark secret that shattered her world six years ago...
  • Come to Me Recklessly by A.L. Jackson

    Come to Me Recklessly by A.L. Jackson

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 24 ratings
    His heart was turned off…Until she turned him on… Christopher Moore gave up on the idea of love years ago. Now, his life is an endless string of parties and an even longer string of girls. Enjoying the physical perks with none of the emotional mess, hes convinced everyone that hes satisfied—everyone but himself. Samantha Schultz has moved on with her life...
  • Promise Me by Kristin Mayer

    Promise Me by Kristin Mayer

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    With her best friend happily married and now pregnant, Sam Matthews should be overjoyed. Instead, she can only see what is missing in her life. Pushing her emotions aside, she retreats to a piece of her past that she’s kept hidden, something that even her best friend knows nothing about. Taking a step into her future, Sam moves to North Carolina where she once again encounters Mark Robertson...
  • Breathe Me by C.R. Jane, Ivy Fox

    Breathe Me by C.R. Jane, Ivy Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    They say that true love only comes once in a lifetime.In my case, they were wrong.I gave my heart away three times.To the blue eyed sensitive soul, who read poetry when he thought no one was looking.To the green eyed jock, who made you laugh as hard as he made you cry.And to the dark eyed boy, whose dark heart only ever beat for me.They were my everything, until suddenly they weren’t...
  • Always You by Scarlett Avery

    Always You by Scarlett Avery

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 14 ratings
    Just like in the fairytale, my time with my prince is measured in breaths… It all started with a party at an exclusive member’s only club where rich LA movers and shakers have fun. The kind of party that requires a signed non-disclosure agreement… and that has a no-phone policy...
  • Brothers by L.A. Casey

    Brothers by L.A. Casey

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Loyalty. Respect. Wit. Aggression. Heart. Each word describes the Slater brothers and how they were moulded into the men they are today … but what did it take to get them where they are? Pain. Disregard. Fear. Anger. Love. Peeling back each layer to find the brothers’ core means looking at their past to see how they got their future...
  • Fumbled Futures: A Sports Romance Collection by Meagan Brandy

    Fumbled Futures: A Sports Romance Collection by Meagan Brandy

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The cocky quarterback and his friends have come together in a boxset! This collections includes Fumbled Hearts, Defenseless Hearts, and the exclusive short story no longer available anywhere else, Fourth Down! Follow new girl, Kalani Embers, and friends on their journeys to forever ... One big book, three addictive love stories! Fumbled HeartsHe’s the persistent playboy who refuses to walk away...
  • Merry Random Christmas by Julia Kent

    Merry Random Christmas by Julia Kent

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It all started with a game of Truth or Dare… It’s bad enough I got arrested for prostitution on Christmas Eve. Alleged prostitution, mind you. I didn’t do it. Of course I didn’t. The cops say I offered up a certain sex act for a $5 gasoline gift card, but honey? My sex acts are worth way, way more...
  • Pelvic Flaws by Nikki Ashton

    Pelvic Flaws by Nikki Ashton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lesley Jones, best-selling author of Carnage and CowSex said of Pelvic Flaws - "A realistic and hilarious take on starting over when you're in your 40's. Toss in a sexy silver fox and you've got yourself a great read"Chloe Walsh best-selling author Humorous, heartfelt and grippingly original, Pelvic Flaws is Nikki's best work to date...
  • Finding Cinderella by Colleen Hoover

    Finding Cinderella by Colleen Hoover

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 97 ratings
    This novella is a companion novel to the Hopeless series, but can be read as a standalone. A chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other. But this love comes with conditions: they agree it will only last one hour and it will only be make-believe...
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