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  • It'll Be An Adventure by Cherise Sinclair

    It'll Be An Adventure by Cherise Sinclair

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 28 ratings
    From NYT & USA Today Bestselling author Cherise Sinclair comes an outstanding addition to the beloved Masters of the Shadowlands series. The secret of author Murphy’s success is hands-on research. Murphy loves writing popular Regency thrillers and jumping into new adventures under the guise of research. For one novel, she’d joined a K9 search-and-rescue group—and liked it so much she stayed...
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    m-f  bdsm  alpha male  contemporary  military
  • Brie's Russian Fantasy by Red Phoenix

    Brie's Russian Fantasy by Red Phoenix

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Russian intrigue, startling revelations, and submissive enlightenment… Brie’s trip to Russia exceeds her wildest dreams. The bond between Master and Brie grows deeper as he opens up about his mysterious past. While the Russian Dom, Rytsar Donkova, reveals his true nature, introducing the young submissive to a different side of BDSM...
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    bdsm  alpha male  m-f  menage  contemporary  m-f-m  poly
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  • Brie Submits to Her Master by Red Phoenix

    Brie Submits to Her Master by Red Phoenix

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Brie's Master has special plans for his submissive at the Training Center, giving her the chance to see her former trainers and visit with her best friend, Lea. Brie’s education continues when she scenes with her new Master at The Haven, but the Wolf has returned and will not be deterred. His deception threatens to tear away everything Brie holds dear, but Master is not a man to be trifled with...
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    bdsm  alpha male  m-f  contemporary  m-f-m  poly  length-novella
  • 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...
  • Brie Faces Her Master's Fears by Red Phoenix

    Brie Faces Her Master's Fears by Red Phoenix

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Brie is thrilled by the secret Master reveals. Their D/s relationship and love deepens as he teaches her his preferences and shares another aspect of his past. Tragically, a meeting with her nemesis starts a disastrous chain of events. The aftermath of which leads her Master to make a decision Brie never sees coming...
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    bdsm  alpha male  m-f  contemporary  m-f-m  poly  length-novella
  • Brie Discerns Master's Heart by Red Phoenix

    Brie Discerns Master's Heart by Red Phoenix

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Brie's AG series #6Master has revealed himself in small doses, only hinting about the tragedy in his past. Things are about to shift as Brie comes face to face with Master’s greatest adversary. Huge changes are rushing towards our young submissive. The wolf must be confronted, her documentary is about to discover its fate and Master will bare a part of himself kept hidden until now...
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    bdsm  alpha male  m-f  contemporary  m-f-m  poly  length-novella
  • Brie Surrenders her Heart by Red Phoenix

    Brie Surrenders her Heart by Red Phoenix

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Brie’s submissive journey has been marked with self-discovery, humor, and sexual exploration. To her delight, Brie is about to enjoy the best scene ever with Master, carrying her to heights never imagined. Friendships deepen, a challenge is accepted, and her film career is launched. But life is a balance..
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    bdsm  alpha male  m-f  contemporary  m-f-m  poly  length-medium
  • 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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    alpha male  bad boys  m-f  new adult  contemporary  bikers
  • Good Girl Gone Badd by Jasinda Wilder

    Good Girl Gone Badd by Jasinda Wilder

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Evangeline du Maurier is the definition of a good girl. Attending Yale, raised with the best tutors and etiquette instructors, she's expected to toe the family line and be a trophy wife for a future senator. But when this good girl takes a quick getaway to clear her head, she finds a whole lot more than she'd bargained for. She finds herself in the arms of a bad boy.  Baxter Badd...
  • 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...
  • Daniel Part Two by Tiffany Reisz

    Daniel Part Two by Tiffany Reisz

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    You're invited to New York City's hottest dating event: Kingsley Edge's annual King's Trust Charity Auction.New on the auction block this year is Daniel, a wealthy widower and Dominant. However, he happens to have his eyes on another first-timer in the club's auction: Anya, a strikingly beautiful virgin submissive from his native Canada.Too bad Anya hates him on sight...
  • Entangled by S.E. Hall

    Entangled by S.E. Hall

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 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...
  • Confessions of a Litigation God by Sawyer Bennett

    Confessions of a Litigation God by Sawyer Bennett

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    WARNING, LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND ASSUMPTION OF THE RISK from Matt Connover, Litigation God: Please do not attempt to read my story in public, as my sexual proclivities have been known to cause squirming in your seat, squeezing of your legs together and unintentional moaning, sometimes with spontaneous bursts of laughter at random moments...
  • Butterfly by Cambria Hebert

    Butterfly by Cambria Hebert

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Drunken brawls. One-night stands.No-show interviews. Toilet-papering my hoity-toity neighbor’s house.Insulting my fans. Trashing hotel rooms.What’s it take to become public enemy number one?I just told you.I’ve done all that and more.My poor conduct got me on the Celebs Behaving Badly listand ultimately ruined my career.From the world’s number-one popstar to world’s most hated.That’s me...
  • 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...
  • Breaking the Wrong by Calia Read

    Breaking the Wrong by Calia Read

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 27 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...
  • On My Knees by J. Kenner

    On My Knees by J. Kenner

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 36 ratings
    Jackson Steele and Sylvia Brooks continue to thrill in the second novel of a scintillating, emotionally charged new trilogy that returns to the world of J. Kenner’s beloved Stark novels: Release Me, Claim Me, and Complete Me .   I never thought I’d lose control, but his desire took me right to the edge...
  • 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...
  • Total Submission by Roxy Sloane

    Total Submission by Roxy Sloane

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Her secrets are tearing us apart, but I can’t give up on us yet. When I’m with her, the beast inside me is tamed. My every craving sated by her gentle touch.I won’t let her go without a fight.No matter what the cost, I will protect her. She belongs to me now...
  • In the Den: 10th Anniversary Edition by Sierra Cartwright

    In the Den: 10th Anniversary Edition by Sierra Cartwright

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    FROM BESTSELLING ROMANCE AUTHOR SIERRA CARTWRIGHTBook six in the Mastered seriesHis obsession may destroy them both.As, the billionaire owner of the Den, Damien Lowell has no business lusting after Catrina Davidson. After all, as a Dom, he owes the beautiful, vulnerable Domme all of his respect.But when it comes to her, he's a man obsessed.He has to have her under his lash...
  • 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...
  • Lion's First Roar! by Roxie Rivera

    Lion's First Roar! by Roxie Rivera

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    after Nikolai IIFree read from website - http://www.roxieriverawriter.com/news..
  • Learning to Forgive by R.D. Cole

    Learning to Forgive by R.D. Cole

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This isn't your Typical Everyday fairytale. This story isn't sweet or sugary. Instead... It's Raw and Dark It's Rough and Dangerous And It's Definitely not for kids under 17 years of age. So turn back now if you're not ready for Lyric and Blaire's story. Because shit just got Real...
  • Some like It Wild by M. Leighton

    Some like It Wild by M. Leighton

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    First was The Wild Ones. Now, the next book in M. Leighton's Wild Ones series... How far will a good girl go for the bad boy she loves? Laney Holt is a preacher’s daughter. A good girl. Her only goal was to get married, have babies, and live happily ever after, just like her parents. Only that didn’t happen. The two people closest to her betrayed her, and Laney’s dreams came crashing down...
  • Belong to You by Vi Keeland

    Belong to You by Vi Keeland

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    My honeymoon was almost everything I dreamed it would be, a tropical paradise, turquoise water, romantic walks on the beach, and loads and loads of mind shattering sex. The only thing missing was the groom. After seven years of coasting through a relationship with Michael, my senses were numb...
  • Picture Perfect by Ella Fox

    Picture Perfect by Ella Fox

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Flynn Rand spent the last decade as the lead singer of one of the world’s most famous bands. Although he's got a reputation as a player, he’s decided that it’s time to find something real. One look at a photo of Tessa Hamilton had him hooked. Tessa’s teenage celebrity crush was Flynn Rand...
  • Hard to Hold On by Shanora Williams

    Hard to Hold On by Shanora Williams

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    For the past four months, Natalie Carmichael and Nolan Young have been complete. Everything still feels right in their passion-filled world. It still feels natural - that is until Nolan's mother passes away. Things begin to turn for the worst for Nolan and his brother Mills. After losing their father from previous years before, it's a tragedy on top of a tragedy...
  • Damaged and the Cobra by Bijou Hunter

    Damaged and the Cobra by Bijou Hunter

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    New Adult RomanceAaron Barnes has found his muse in Lark Foster. However, his inspiration is saddled with a domineering step-family and the lingering guilt from a childhood loss. Once Aaron claims his muse, Lark embraces the fighter inside her gentle heart. When fate stands in the way of love, the only choices are giving up or taking what your heart demands...
  • Hustle Me by Jennifer Foor

    Hustle Me by Jennifer Foor

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    John (Jammer) Thomas is not one of the good guys your parents want you to end up with. He's been on his own since he was seventeen, traveling from city to city, making enough money to survive by doing the only thing he's ever been good at. Playing pool. He's covered in tattoo's and has a mouth that would make a grandmother cry. He doesn't do relationships...
  • Time Will Tell by Chantal Fernando

    Time Will Tell by Chantal Fernando

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Be spontaneous, they say. That's how I ended up on the back of a stranger's bike. A sexy, tall, tattooed stranger, but a stranger nonetheless...
  • Never Say Never by Scarlett Avery

    Never Say Never by Scarlett Avery

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Previous cover edition for ASIN B00OMDNOMCFor all editions see hereLose yourself in this sensual, sexy and steamy erotic romance between Billionaire, Bryce Van Der Linden, and former real estate queen-turned-escort Sofia Herrera is this sensual and tumultuous billionaire romance.I never imagined I’d be forced in this position, but I really don’t have a choice after my financial debacle...
  • The Boys of Summer by C.J. Duggan

    The Boys of Summer by C.J. Duggan

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    It seemed only natural to nickname them the ‘Onslow Boys’. Every time they swaggered in the front door of the Onslow Hotel after a hard week’s work, their laughter was loud and genuine as they settled onto their bar stools. I peeked through the restaurant partition, a flimsy divider between my world and theirs. I couldn’t help but smile whenever I saw them, saw him... Toby Morrison...
  • Rescue Breathing by Zoe Norman

    Rescue Breathing by Zoe Norman

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Manhattan Psychologist Olivia Burke receives an invitation to present her research on trauma in servicemen in Seattle, she is determined to turn the business trip into the start of healing her own traumatized heart. FDNY Firefighter Owen Maxwell is an unapologetic playboy who spends his days saving lives and his nights breaking hearts...
  • When We Met by A.L. Jackson, Molly McAdams

    When We Met by A.L. Jackson, Molly McAdams

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Today’s premiere New Adult authors combine their talents to tell four original stories from inside one house.   When four girls decide to live off campus together as juniors at a college in Michigan, they expect it to be their best year yet. Little do they know, it’s a year that will change the rest of their lives.   BEHIND HER EYES by A.L...
  • Blacklist Hookup by Sadie Haller

    Blacklist Hookup by Sadie Haller

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Looking to hook up with a kinky fellow celebrity near you when nobody--literally nobody--can know you're the opposite of vanilla?There’s an app for that.Quietly warn a fellow actress not to be alone with a certain producer and… BOOM. I’m dumped from Hollywood’s A-list to everyone’s blacklist in the blink of an upload...
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    bdsm  alpha male  m-f  contemporary  length-short
  • In a Heartbeat by Hilary Storm

    In a Heartbeat by Hilary Storm

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Eaven Bennett is a college student with a passion for photography. She has high hopes of completing college and starting a new life as she moves away from her hometown with her best friend, Ivy Adams. Her last boyfriend ruined any chance of her trusting ever again. Talon Walker is the dark and intriguing drummer for the up and coming band ‘Rebel Walking’...
  • Allure Magnified by N. Isabelle Blanco

    Allure Magnified by N. Isabelle Blanco

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Librarian's note: This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B00ATJSJYQ. It’s been four months since Demitra Davis ended up entangled in the most complicated –albeit gratifying- situation she’d ever thought to find herself in. A situation she isn’t keen to get herself out of. Her now ex-boss, Dorian Sorrenson, is too delicious for her to want to pull herself away from...
  • Whisky On My Mind by Karlene Blakemore-Mowle

    Whisky On My Mind by Karlene Blakemore-Mowle

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Life for Whisky McKenna is no longer hanging in limbo. She’s now part owner of her father’s Bar and Grill and back in college finishing her degree. With Sawyer Riley; all six feet of brooding denim and leather at her side, life should be getting easier…but loving Sawyer was never going to be an easy choice; not when he came with a motorcycle club as a third wheel in their relationship...
  • Shark Bait by Jenn Cooksey

    Shark Bait by Jenn Cooksey

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Previously homeschooled Camie Ramsey is being shoved into the shark-infested waters of public high school, where even helium filled, penguin bespeckled arm floaties likely won’t help keep her inexperienced, fifteen-year old head above water in that rip current of hormones and emotions. Camie’s worldly wisdom might be severely lacking (i.e...
  • Blue Crush by Jules Barnard

    Blue Crush by Jules Barnard

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    My cheating ex has me swearing off men. Until Lewis comes along, stealing my breath and my good sense.I've never been one to lust after guys. But Lewis is six and a half feet of rugged man, and he's... eye-catching. Sexy. And silently brooding in all the best ways.The more time I spend with him, the naughtier my thoughts are of us together, and he's not helping put a stop to it. It's infuriating...
  • Kill Devil Hills by Sarah Darlington

    Kill Devil Hills by Sarah Darlington

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    He’s twenty-four. She’s eighteen. His life is exactly the way he’s always wanted it to be...stable. She’s quite possibly the very definition of unstable. Noah saved her. Georgina never wanted to be saved. Growing up, Noah Clark was passed from one relative to the next until he finally ended up living with his abusive, alcoholic uncle in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina...
  • Shattered by C.C. Brown

    Shattered by C.C. Brown

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When it rains it pours…. Hard-nosed and self-reliant Dallis O'Brien has had her fair share of devastation. Her father's tragic accident sparked what seemed like a domino effect of heartbreak and loss. Unable to shake the fear of enduring any more pain, she builds walls around her heart, hoping to heal on her own...
  • True North by Liora Blake

    True North by Liora Blake

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    What happens when a bad-boy celebrity rocker meets a small-town bestselling novelist? Find out in this first book in the sizzling new True series by Liora Blake! While most novelists would consider jetting off to Hollywood for a TV interview rather exciting, small-town Montana writer Kate Mosely finds it all a bit exhausting...
  • Innocent Ink by Ranae Rose

    Innocent Ink by Ranae Rose

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Book 2 in the Inked in the Steel City Series. Photographing exceptional tattoos for the Hot Ink Tattoo Studio turns into much more than just a job when Karen meets Jed, the sexy-as-sin owner. With attraction sizzling between them, each photo shoot is a labor of love … and a chance to get closer to the man of her increasingly naughty dreams...
  • Tattoos and Tangles by Melinda A. Di Lorenzo

    Tattoos and Tangles by Melinda A. Di Lorenzo

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After years of heartache, Cass is ready to begin a new life. She’s free of the man who brought her financial and emotional ruin, and she’s healing from the loss of her sister. But she never thought her new life would begin with a tattooed stranger who turns her world upside down. For six months, John’s been living only to find his brother’s murderer, and he’s getting close...
  • Prodigal Son by Jayna King

    Prodigal Son by Jayna King

    Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In Jayna King’s debut, Troubled Son, the Savage Sons MC was devastated by the death of Moses Hall. When Luke Callaway rolls into town, everything changes. Luke has found far more than he expected in Denver. He came looking for his birth parents, and he found the Savage Sons MC … and the sexiest woman he’s ever met...
  • Misguided Heart by Amanda Bennett

    Misguided Heart by Amanda Bennett

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    What if with one choice you could change your whole life in a matter of seconds? Aston Boyd has always put everything into her work. She has never needed anyone in her life and has survived on her own since she was 18, never looking back. When she gets her dream promotion and becomes the new editor at one of the biggest publishing houses in Arizona, she thinks she has finally figured it all out...
  • Love Me by Bella Andre

    Love Me by Bella Andre

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    It's been five years since Lily and Travis fell in love in Take Me ....now it's finally time for Janica and Luke to get their very own happy ending. If there's one thing that Janica Ellis is absolutely certain of, it's that she and Luke Carson are totally wrong for each other. She's a wild, artistic and outspoken fashion designer...
  • Cake by Lauren Dane

    Cake by Lauren Dane

    Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Dane She won't be satisfied with just one bite.... Art student-slash-bike messenger Wren Davis pursues what she wants. And what she wants now is Gregori Ivanov, rock star of the Seattle art scene. With his tattoos, piercings, and sensual sneer, Gregori is the ultimate bad boy...
  • Beneath Him by Komal Kant

    Beneath Him by Komal Kant

    Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Sometimes love can start with a little hate. When Sky Hudson first has a run-in with tall, dark, and handsome Nicholas Ruggarson, she wants nothing more than to throw her coffee at him. He is rude and arrogant, and she is glad she never has to set eyes on him ever again. Or so she thinks. It turns out, not only does she have to see Nick again, she also has to live with him...
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