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Swimming to Lundy by Amanda Prowse
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsA poignant and inspiring story from million-copy bestselling author Amanda Prowse about how it’s never too late to follow your dreams and find your way back to happiness.Tawrie Gunn feels stuck. She’s spent her whole life in the same seaside town with her beloved Nana and grief-stricken mum, all of them still reeling in different ways from the tragic loss of Tawrie’s dad at sea...Categorized as:
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Craving Lucy by Terri Anne Browning
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsUSA Today Bestselling Author Terri Anne Browning’s New Adult series. One kiss can change everything… I wished I’d known that before I’d kissed my best friend. Things are different now. We can’t go back. I’m not even sure I want to go back. I guess the question is…...Categorized as:
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Fall to You by Lexi Ryan
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsTorn between two men… When I woke up after the accident, I couldn’t remember anything from the last year—including my relationship with Max Hallowell or anything about Nate Crane. Now my memories are returning, but instead of answering my questions, they’re leaving me with more. The man who broke my heart and wants to be my future… Max is all I ever wanted, and now he wants to marry me...Categorized as:
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Pull by Rachel Van Dyken
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsJaded rock star, Demetri Daniels, is in Hell — also known as Seaside, Oregon. Sent to rehab after nearly getting himself killed last year, his record company wants nothing more than for him to lay low, away from the limelight... -
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Break My Fall by Chloe Walsh
I was drunk but not drunk enough not to notice him. Good Lord, he was beautiful. Did boys like him really exist? I thought I might be imagining him. “You wanna have a shot with me sweetheart?” he smiled crookedly and lifted the bottle up. The huskiness of his voice made me him sound dangerous, yet he was soft spoken…an enigma...Categorized as:
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Enraptured by Ginger Voight
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn 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... -
Dark Edges by Kane Caldwell
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsI’m not your good ole boy or boy-next-door type of guy. If that’s what you’re looking for, I suggest you move on. I curse a lot, work too fucking much, and keep to myself. My edges are hard, rough, and even dark at times. I never thought I would wind up in the business I’m in. I may not always play by the rules, but I go where the money is, keep my nose clean, and my affairs organized... -
Ashes of Black Oak by Monique Edenwood
I watch the blood as it seeps from him, pooling like crimson flame around his neck, trickling in rivulets of liquid fire onto the dense body below.The body I've touched. I've held. I've kissed. I've felt wrapped around me for so long, holding me possessively, protecting me from those who wanted me lost...Categorized as:
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Ghosts of the Canyon by Michelle Mankin
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsWelcome to the year 1969, a tumultuous year when the world and rock ’n’ roll were changing. Woodstock, war protests, free love, it’s all there, plus a rollercoaster romance that will have you frantically flipping pages to discover who this heroine chooses.What Katelyn Love longs for most of all is a child. Someone to shower with the affection she never received from her parents...Categorized as:
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Drew & Courtney duet by Kennedy Fox
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsDrew Fisher is the type of guy every girl wants.Noble police officer by day, charming prince by night.He has no idea the effect he has on women, especially Courtney—his little sister’s best friend. She’s the blonde Southern belle who lives up to the cliché, except she has her own quirks... -
The Devil's Playground by Eliza Freed
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFormer U.S. Attorney, Meredith Walsh, took some time off to raise her children. But the time took away everything she once trusted about herself. She’s lost within the mundane confines of her children's schedules of lacrosse, soccer, Cub Scouts, and math facts... -
Entangled by Ginger Voight
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe saga continues for Rachel Dennehy, the tenacious small-town teacher caught in between two compelling, powerful brothers. ****This is Book 2 in the series. Blurb may contain spoilers for Book 1.**** In Book 2 of the Fullerton Family Saga, teacher Rachel Dennehy heads back to California to save her favorite little boy from his rapid downward spiral... -
The Lion's Den by Eliza Freed
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn injury stops the bleeding of Meredith and Brad Walsh’s fractured marriage. As Meredith recovers and tries to regain her memory, Brad fights to convince Meredith their marriage was perfect, even if it barely existed. But with Meredith’s memory comes clarity, and Meredith is faced with the reality of a husband and a lover... -
Roman by Lane Hart, D.B. West
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsRoman McNamara is not only the president of the Savage Kings of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina but he’s also the king of one-night stands. Growing up in a tourist town where there’s a party every night means living up the good life with no commitments to anyone but the MC... -
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Coming Home by Laurie Breton
One man became her husband. He had the face of an angel, and a voice that could tear your heart to shreds and leave it bleeding. The year is 1974, and songwriter Casey Bradley is just eighteen years old when handsome, charismatic singer Danny Fiore crashes into her life and her heart... -
Repair Me by Jennifer Foor
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsSky's whole world is turned upside down when she catches her long-time boyfriend cheating. Depressed over the breakup, she decides to drive to the beach to spend time with her friends and drown her sorrows in hot guys and fruity drinks. The only problem with her plan is her piece-of-junk car...Categorized as:
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Tempting Sophia by Jessica Prince
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHaving my heart broken once was enough to make me give up on the idea of love all together. Instead of searching for The One I decided to embrace variety and turn by back on monogamy. I made a living convincing women they didn’t need a man to feel complete. And I totally rocked at it... -
Ruined by L.P. Lovell
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRuined is book four in the She Who Dares series, but can be read as a standalone. HugoI like to fuck. A lot. Anywhere, anyway, as long as I’m shooting my load in or on some pretty young thing I’m good. In fact, scrap that, they don’t even have to be pretty. What can I say? I’m an equal opportunities kind of guy...Categorized as:
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A Love so Tragic by Stevie J. Cole
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsPromises. We all make them. Sometimes we break them. But what happens when the promise you break haunts your dreams, when that moment of betrayal echoes within every last beat of your heart? Love. Love is passionate, painful, and all consuming in the most brutal yet beautiful way... -
Feverish by Jade C. Jamison
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsClayton “Jet” Smith has enjoyed acting the part of rock star god bad boy since his breakup with rock goddess Valerie Quinn. He’s racking up quite a score playing the field, and he has no plans to settle down anytime soon. His biggest problem these days is meeting his obligations, because he’s so busy having fun, he forgets the important things...Categorized as:
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Black Oak Scorched by Monique Edenwood
I did everything in my power to resist Cameron's never-ending need to have me as his own. The heat of his hunger and the fervor of his attacks on my will was merciless, wearing me down as I struggled under the weight of Jack's ceaseless craving and possessive need to reclaim me… as well as his surveillance of my every move... -
Rewrite by Stephanie Rose
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsOnce upon a time, a girl loved a boy and he loved her back. They lived happily ever after. But our story was never that simple. I loved Josh with all I had, right until the day he left. Now, all these years later, he was back—and wanting me the way I’d always longed for him. Except now, I belonged to someone else. Someone who never left me the way Josh had. I figured that was the end of our story... -
Broken Fairytales by Monica Alexander
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsEmily Cole thought her life was just about as close to a fairytale as it could get. She was on track to graduate from college with honors, had a job lined up in her field, and was about to get engaged to the perfect guy. Then one day she woke up and something just felt . . . off... -
Lost in Me by Lexi Ryan
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsLost in Me is the first book in the Here and Now series, a spin-off of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling New Hope series. This sexy amnesia love triangle is intended for mature readers. The last thing I remember is having drinks at Brady’s and trying to avoid eye-contact with my life-long crush—the gorgeous, unattainable Maximilian Hallowell...Categorized as:
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Where the Little Birds Go by B. Celeste
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHigh school heartbreak turned Hollywood affair. Read the exclusive here: When bestselling author Kinley Thomas gets the deal of a lifetime to see her book turned into a movie, the last person she expects to be cast as the leading role is Corbin Callum. After years of living the dreams that tore them apart, Hollywood will soon force them back together...Categorized as:
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Falling into You by Lauren Abrams
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWhen Hallie Caldwell, normal girl extraordinaire, perpetual wingwoman, and queen of the friend zone, accepts her college roommate's invitation to spend winter break in New York, she figures it’s a chance to live out her childhood fantasies of a life in the big city. Instead, thrust into a world of glittering parties and oversized bank accounts, she immediately feels like an outsider... -
Biker Faith by Ellie R. Hunter
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsJason 'Sparky' Carter is the new Vice President of the Lost Souls MC. All he wants is to enjoy life his own way, with no drama. Just as his club is settling down and putting the betrayal by their former president behind them Bonnie Hamilton stumbles into the club and into his life. She declared the war wasn't over with the Raging Riders and it becomes a personal war of his own... -
Pure Abandon by Jeannine Colette
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKathryn Grayson has it all—a beautiful husband, new baby, and a life most women would dream of. But after putting her career on hold for her family, Kathryn sets out to reclaim the woman she once was...Categorized as:
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MY BROTHER, MY RIVAL by Eve Rabi
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDescription: Years ago, Cody Garrett’s heart was ripped to shreds when Bridie ditched him and married his brother, Scott. With great difficulty, he moved on and rebuilt his life without her, severing all ties with his brother because of their betrayal. Now, Scott, his brother, is ill and a threat to his wife and children. Cody is forced to step in and move them into his house...Categorized as:
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The Consequence by Giana Darling
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsDoes everyone deserve a happy ending? Giselle Moore has been through a lot in her short life but things are looking up; her premier art showing in New York City is on the horizon, she has been reunited with her family and, most of all, she is deeply in love with the mysterious Frenchman she met on vacation in Mexico... -
Replacing Harley by Lila Fox
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHarley spent months trying to get away from her abusive boyfriend. The last time he got his hands on her, she knew he wouldn’t stop beating her until she died—until Rage showed up. He took her back to the club to be cared for, and she found out she fit right in. A bonus was her feelings for Rage...Categorized as:
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Circle of Hurt by Lauren Campbell
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsFor years, infertility followed me like a cloud. But finally, the sun has risen. Finally, I am pregnant.Except now a new storm rages in the distance - one I have no choice but to pass through. I have no idea if the child I'm carrying belongs to my husband... or to the man I've betrayed him with - a man I've come to love but whose name I don't know.What I do know is that I'm a cheat. A liar...Categorized as:
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Rock Star by Ginger Voight
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"Rock Star" is the highly anticipated sequel to Ginger Voight's Rock and Roll Rubenesque saga, which began with the sizzling debut of "Groupie." For those who have been anxious to see what has become of Andy, Vanni and Graham... buckle your seat belts. You're in for a thrilling new ride right through the dark underbelly of fame... -
Me After You by Mindy Hayes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWidowed at twenty-five, Sawyer Hartwell has no choice but to return to her hometown. Broke and alone, the intention was to heal and find herself again, but how can she heal in a place filled with so much sorrow and memories she yearns to forget? Dean Preston has regretted leaving Willowhaven since the day he rode off on his motorcycle six years ago, destroying the only love he had ever known... -
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Stone Broke Heiress by Danielle Owen-Jones
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsSix months ago, I was the heiress to a soup empire worth millions. Now, I’m standing in a giant dumpster.Bella Whittington’s caviar-and-Cristal life comes crashing down when she walks in on her fiancé and best friend tangled up in page 34 of the Kama Sutra, limbs everywhere. But her plan to dull the pain with Daddy’s credit card is totalled by the news that they’ve lost the family business... -
Between the Stars by Shey Stahl
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFrom USA Today bestselling author Shey Stahl comes a gripping, emotional, brother’s best friend romance that will leave you desperate for more.My life is perfect. Dream wedding days away, a mansion in the hills of Nashville, a promising career in pediatric nursing. And not to mention, a wealthy southern groom willing to do anything for me. But he’s not the one who paints a scene of passion...Categorized as:
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Hourglass by K.S. Smith, Megan C. Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBest friends since birth, Brooke Reid and Savannah Prescott, spend their days working together at top fashion magazine Hourglass, while enjoying all that the Denver nightlife has to offer – but sharing a man – no way. One of Denver’s most eligible bachelors, Luke Wellington, can have any woman he wants and he knows it... -
Got the Life by Jade C. Jamison
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNicki Sosebee wants her first headline, but she doesn’t want it to read “Reporter found dead.” Nicki Sosebee has been working low-paying jobs ever since she finished school, but now that she’s older, she wants more. She’s a novice reporter trying to learn the ropes. Just as she’s getting her career goals on track, though, her love life gets worse and worse... -
Belong: A Seven Year Itch Book by Jennifer Foor
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTen years ago I fell in love with a married woman. I walked away so she could be happy, moving across the country to make sure I put space between us. We severed ties, and I promised myself I wouldn't look back. Since then I committed to someone else, and we have a child and a life many would wish for. Except, it's never been enough for me... -
Thick & Thin by Eden Butler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy love was thick. Her faith was thin. Somewhere in the middle is where life found us. I claimed her when I was a boy. I held her until I was a man. She was my first thought every morning, my last smile at night, and a million memories in between. Then one night, with her warmth still lingering on the sheets, Aly King walked away from me, from us, from our life...Categorized as:
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Winter Blues by Jade Goodmore
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWinter Blues is not a story of a love beginning, but a love surviving. It’s a story of imperfections and frustrations. A story that’s rarely told but often lived. A sometimes unpretty story, but then real stories normally are... Away from all that they know, all that brought them together, Darlene and Reid find the only troubles their marriage has ever faced in their new home of Chicago... -
So Much It Hurts by Melanie Dawn
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsLife is full of uncertainty, so what happens when a what-if from your past collides with your present? Kaitlyn Thomas, a weary wife and mother, is taking a much needed getaway with her friends. All she wants to do is relax and rejuvenate on her weekend escape to the beach. Having a drink at the bar with the girls sounds like the perfect way to unwind...Categorized as:
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Trying by Heather MacKinnon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsMackenzie’s marriage is falling apart. After two years of heartbreaking infertility, her and her husband, Bryson, are more like roommates than the best friends that were once madly in love. While Mackenzie is desperately trying to pick up the pieces of her broken relationship, her colleague, is trying to get her attention... -
Conflicted by Lisa Suzanne
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Be a good little assistant and go get me some coffee.” Comments like this are why I hate my boss. Since taking over as CEO of Benson Industries, Cole Benson has been demeaning, arrogant, and infuriating. For as much as I hate him, I can’t stop thinking about him. A captivating attraction passes between us each time his dark eyes meet mine... -
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The Solitude of Passion by Addison Moore
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhen old love and new love collide an impossibility is born. When Lee Townsend’s husband leaves on a community outreach to China, the last thing she expects is for him to never come back—for him to have tragically met his demise. Lee goes on to marry his adversary and settles into life and business with him, merging her vineyard with his and creating a worldwide conglomerate... -
Until Joe: Happily Ever Alpha by CP Smith
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSometimes the greatest love comes in the middle of your life.Joe Rouger (Uncle Joe from the Until Series by Aurora Rose Reynolds) is ready for a woman who completes him...Categorized as:
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I See You by Molly McAdams
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsNew York Times and USA Today bestselling author Molly McAdams’ powerful new novel offers one of the most memorable love triangles in fiction since Twilight —perfect for fans of New Adult fiction like Jamie McGuire, Abbi Glines, and Tamarra Webber. Futures are uncertain, unpredictable—like ink spilled across the purest surface...Categorized as:
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Racing Outside the Line by Kimberly Montague
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAlexis Winston has been obsessed with famous race car driver Seth Keller ever since her older brother became best friends with him. After her parents pass away, Seth’s father becomes her legal guardian, and Seth begins referring to her as “kid sister...Categorized as:
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Burning Desire by Heather Leigh
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsJeremy Moretti and Chase DeLuca have grown up together and into different MCs. Their lives were promised and destined to the Condemned Angels and Hell's Rebels. As they grew, so did Chase's feelings for Jeremy's younger sister, Roxanne. Stemming from separate clubs, they have all the stakes against them...Categorized as:
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Sophie's Turn by Nicky Wells
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSlapper? Slut? Adulteress? Sophie Penhalligan's life and moral universe is turned upside down when rock star Dan proposes to her in full knowledge that she is already engaged. She has always loved Dan, in a remote-crush kind of way. She thinks she loves her fiancé, Tim. What is she to do? It's all happening because her past has come to tempt her...Categorized as:
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