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  • Savage Kings MC Box Set: Books 1-6 by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Savage Kings MC Box Set: Books 1-6 by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Are you ready to go for a ride with the Savage Kings MC? There's non-stop action in this six-book box set which includes Chase, Abe, Torin, War, Maddox, and Dalton.BOOK CHASE Chase hasn't forgiven himself for hurting Sasha and causing her an unbelievable amount of pain...
  • Censored Soul by Anne Malcom

    Censored Soul by Anne Malcom

    Rated: 4.76 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 11 ratings
    I give myself to strangers. When I'm on stage, and when I'm off it. Whether it's throngs of screaming fans or just one man, it's always outsiders. People who don't know me. Not the real me. It's easier, because then it's not so obvious that there is no real me. Just layers of lies. Then I'm peeled back to the nerve. Showing the world my ugly. Everyone sees me for what I am...
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  • Side Trip by Kerry Lonsdale

    Side Trip by Kerry Lonsdale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    An unforgettable and breathtaking novel of love, loss, and the unexpected routes that life takes from Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kerry Lonsdale.With her deceased sister’s Route 66 bucket list in hand, California girl Joy Evers sets out on a cross-country road trip to meet up with her fiancé, checking off the bullets along the way...
    Categorized as:
    male-pov  contemporary  length-medium
  • Love and Lists by Tara Sivec

    Love and Lists by Tara Sivec

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    Love and Lists is the first book in the Chocolate Lovers spinoff - Chocoholics: The foul-mouthed offspring tell their stories. Twenty-five-year-old Gavin Ellis has always had the love and support of his family ever since he was a little boy and couldn't stop talking about his penis. He's also always had their unsolicited advice and uncanny knack of embarrassing him at all costs...
  • Sacred Hart by A.M. Johnson

    Sacred Hart by A.M. Johnson

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Sleep, it was luxury I didn’t have. I could hear it then, in the dark light of night, in the dusky morning… The click of the trigger, the smell of her blood, the sound of the rain. I never thought I would see her again. She was a ghost. She was dead. When Maggie Wright pushed her way into my life, she brought the phantom with her, and I was helpless to her pull...
  • The Day the Jerk Started Falling by Max Monroe

    The Day the Jerk Started Falling by Max Monroe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    My name is Oliver Arsen, but my mates call me Ollie. I live hard and love harder, and it’s love that usually gets me in the most trouble. According to the greater population, I’m the ultimate jerk. My affection tends to be short-lived—a quality I’ve been assured multiple times by the fairer sex isn’t becoming—and the leaving part of loving and leaving has always come natural...
  • The Chance by Karen Kingsbury

    The Chance by Karen Kingsbury

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In The Chance, New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury delves deeply into a theme that resonates with us all: It’s never too late for those willing to take a chance...
  • More to Give by Terri Osburn

    More to Give by Terri Osburn

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Callie Henderson had to fight to put her tragic past behind her, but now the up-and-coming player in the hospitality industry is well on her way to happiness. She has her sights set on the lead renovation position at the Sunset Harbor Inn - an inn that just happens to be owned by Sam Edwards, the man who comforted her in her grief and gave her one night of passion before walking away...
  • There is No Greater Love Than Creation by Helena Hunting

    There is No Greater Love Than Creation by Helena Hunting

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    male-pov  new adult  contemporary
  • Two Brutes, One Barista by Shaye Marlow

    Two Brutes, One Barista by Shaye Marlow

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    manover MAN-oh-ver | noun 1: a makeover of one’s masculinity Example: “J.D. is such a metrosexual that, at this point, our only option is a manover.” –Zack & Rory Adderack J.D.’s got a problem. He’s an MMA fighter who’s lost his belt, his honor, the mobility in his shoulder, and the sexist pigs he’s been mooching off of have just gone insane… but, that’s not the problem...
  • Delta Rogue by Elle Boon

    Delta Rogue by Elle Boon

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Previously released as part of The Cuffed And Claimed BoxsetHailey joined the Navy as a way to finally have a place to belong. Being a California girl, she always loved the water and saving lives. As a teenager she'd been swimming in the ocean when she'd nearly drowned and had been saved by a Navy SEAL. It was then she'd decided that was what she'd become...
  • Eternal Ride by Chelsea Camaron

    Eternal Ride by Chelsea Camaron

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Two people once lost. Two people once broken. Two people who have endured the pain. One love brought them together. One love healed their hearts and made them whole again. One love carries them through both the good times and the bad. Shooter and Tessie have faced the shadows and demons that haunt their souls...
  • From His Lips by Leylah Attar

    From His Lips by Leylah Attar

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Troy Heathgate has it all - brains, brawn and the kind of smile that just begs a ribbon. Everything but the woman he loves. But now he’s back and determined to possess her. There’s just one catch - she’s married to another man. This short story (90 pages) contains spoilers. It is meant to be read after the full length novel, 53 Letters For My Lover...
  • The Baby Clause 2.0 by Melanie Moreland

    The Baby Clause 2.0 by Melanie Moreland

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Richard VanRyan can add another line to his resume—Daddy. How does he handle the new addition to his life?The Baby Clause is a short continuation of Richard and Katy’s story, containing humorous glimpses into his life as a father, and how his world has changed. A must read for all fans of The Contract!A portion of all sales go to charity...
    Categorized as:
    male-pov  contemporary  m-f  length-novella
  • Wind Chime Café by Sophie Moss

    Wind Chime Café by Sophie Moss

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    When single mother, Annie Malone, purchases a quirky Main Street café on Heron Island, she thinks she's finally turned her dream of opening her own restaurant into a reality. Hearing rumors that a developer is about to build a five-star resort on the sleepy Chesapeake Bay island, she plans to transform the café into a premier upscale bistro...
  • Heart of Courage by Lois Walfrid Johnson

    Heart of Courage by Lois Walfrid Johnson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Bree learns that her brother, Devin, her sister, Keely, and her friend, Lil, will set out for Ireland, she longs to go with them. Instead, Mikkel asks her to be a cook for voyage to Greenland. Somehow her excellent food becomes inedible and the Vikings think she's trying to sabotage their voyage. Join Bree and Devin for more adventures in this fourth installment of the Viking Quest series...
    Categorized as:
    vikings  contemporary  length-short
  • Dirty Tricks by Emma Hart

    Dirty Tricks by Emma Hart

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The sexiest, most mysterious Burke brother of all peels back his stage persona to reveal the real man—and the rock-hard body—behind the rockstar in the banging fourth book from New York Times bestselling author Emma Hart’s hot new adult series that began with Dirty Past, Dirty Secret, and Dirty Lies...
  • Up to the Challenge by Terri Osburn

    Up to the Challenge by Terri Osburn

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Opposites attract in a sexy tale of unexpected love When the Dempsey patriarch suffers a heart attack, Lucas Dempsey steps up to keep the doors of the family restaurant open. The proverbial prodigal son returns home to Anchor Island—putting family first and his quest to make partner at his high-powered law firm on hold...
  • Johanna Lindsey Collection 2: Heart of a Warrior, The Pursuit, and A Man to Call My Own by Johanna Lindsey, Michael Page

    Johanna Lindsey Collection 2: Heart of a Warrior, The Pursuit, and A Man to Call My Own by Johanna Lindsey, Michael Page

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Heart of a Warrior (Narrator: Laural Merlington, Director: Ruth Bloomquist, Engineer: Jill Sovis): Brittany Callaghan thinks she's dreaming when a blond, nearly seven-feet-tall Nordic god shows up on her doorstep in her tiny California town. She is taken aback when Dalden, a spectacular Viking who is a long way from home, needs her help - and is willing to pay for it...
  • Holding Her in Madness by Kimber S. Dawn

    Holding Her in Madness by Kimber S. Dawn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Leo's Story of loving A Woman Gone Mad Fuck first love. Fuck fate. And Fuck You. I'm Leo and this is my side of the story. This is where I came from, where I've been, and where I'm at...this is the story of a man that loved A Woman Gone Mad...
  • The Boy Friend by Mika Jolie

    The Boy Friend by Mika Jolie

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    According to the law of attraction, women and men can’t be friends. Contrary to this myth, my friendship with Coriander Phillips does not rest on unrequited love or un-actualized lust. We’ve been inseparable since the day I pulled one of her pigtails and she punched me in the gut. She’s hilarious, fun to hang out with...
  • Real Good Duet by Meghan March, Elena Wolfe

    Real Good Duet by Meghan March, Elena Wolfe

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Real Good Man Fall for a woman over text messages? No way in hell.Reality can never be as good as the fantasy, right?Wrong. It's better.Banner Regent is smart, funny, and she's so far out of my league, she might as well be royalty.I'm a mechanic from Kentucky. She's a New York City party girl.We were never supposed to meet, but one text started something neither of us saw coming...
  • In the Cards by Jamie Beck

    In the Cards by Jamie Beck

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Lindsey Hilliard flees her charmed life in New York, searching for answers after her fiancé’s betrayal fills her with self-doubt. Unfortunately, her rented Malibu home is next door to Levi Hardy, the sexy but insufferable man who humiliated her years ago...
  • My Butterfly by Laura Miller

    My Butterfly by Laura Miller

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    If you got a second chance to be with your first love, would you take it? "This is pure romance at its best." ~Romantic Reading Escapes "One of the most beautiful love stories I have ever read." ~Jelena's Book Blog From the author who brought you the national bestselling novel Butterfly Weeds comes the heartwarming story of small-town firefighter Will Stephens...
  • Pieces of Stronghold by Golden Angel

    Pieces of Stronghold by Golden Angel

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The Stronghold Doms and their submissives are anxiously watching as Jared and Leigh, both on the rebound from seven year, emotionally turmoiled, relationships take the first tentative steps towards something more than friendship. Leigh isn't sure she's a submissive, but she's intrigued and spending more and more time in the club...
  • The Day We Met by Roxie Cooper

    The Day We Met by Roxie Cooper

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Stephanie and Jamie are meant to be. The problem is they're both with other people... Stephanie doesn’t believe in fate, true love or living happily ever after. She’s content enough being engaged to Matt. But then she meets Jamie, who understands her more than anyone else ever has. Jamie is happily married to his childhood sweetheart Helen and believes in everything Stephanie doesn’t...
    Categorized as:
    male-pov  contemporary  length-medium
  • The Amish Blacksmith by Mindy Starns Clark, Susan Meissner

    The Amish Blacksmith by Mindy Starns Clark, Susan Meissner

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    New from bestselling authors Mindy Starns Clark and Susan Meissner, The Amish Blacksmith (Book 2 in The Men of Lancaster County series) explores the men of an Amish community in Lancaster County, how their Amish beliefs play out in their unique roles, and the women who change their lives...
  • What The Heart Finds by Jessica Gadziala

    What The Heart Finds by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    * The Stars Landing novels are all independent and stand alone books that can be read as a series. For those interested, this is #3 * When ambitious LENA EDWARDS receives orders from her boss to go to an inn located in a small town called Stars Landing, she follows her orders in the hopes that she will finally receive a well deserved promotion...
    Categorized as:
    male-pov  contemporary  dual-pov  m-f  length-short
  • Broken Arrow by Nicole French

    Broken Arrow by Nicole French

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Two years I’ve been gone. Two years locked in a juvenile detention facility for a crime that took seconds to commit, losing my sense of self and direction. Two years since I’ve seen my family and friends, since I’ve seen New York City and all its chaos.Two years have passed, but some things are still the same...
  • Pity Pact by Whitney Dineen

    Pity Pact by Whitney Dineen

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Who in the world would go on a dating show to find love?Turns out, I’m that person. Paige Holland, lifetime resident of Elk Lake, Wisconsin, and dedicated seventh-grade math teacher.I love my charming town, but there’s seriously no single action here. Unless of course I want to date the painfully boring mailman or the kid at the Quick Mart. Hard pass to both...
  • Undying Love by Nelle L'Amour

    Undying Love by Nelle L'Amour

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He is Ryan Madewell, a heart stoppingly handsome Harvard grad from one of Manhattan’s wealthiest families, who’s on his way to heading up his father’s media empire. She is Allee Adair, a beautiful but sassy art school grad from the wrong side of the tracks, who dreams of living in Paris. Despite their many differences, Ryan and Allee are instantly smitten with each other over a Picasso nude...
  • The Cocky Thief by Mallory Crowe

    The Cocky Thief by Mallory Crowe

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The best thief in the world may have met his match... Austin Miles can get into any building, safe or vault in the world if he wanted to,but when a former cop obsessed with revenge threatens his most important asset,his reputation, he finds himself accepting a job that even the best would balk at. The only silver lining as he's putting his life on the line is the sexy,mysterious Jennifer Murray...
  • Protecting Rose by Cheryl Yeko

    Protecting Rose by Cheryl Yeko

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Rescuing damsels in distress is all in a day's work for Detective Nate Stone. After saving a beautiful woman from a burning car and an assassin's bullet, he vows to protect her. But the determined assassin always seems to be one step ahead of the game. Suspecting a leak within his Department, Nate takes Rose and runs...
  • Long Drive by Jessica Florence

    Long Drive by Jessica Florence

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    There is a long road in everyone’s journey in life. For some people, it’s a way to get from one place to another. For others, it’s a search for one’s purpose in existence. For me, the road was where I could find peace. When everything in my life had shattered, I turned to the road. And that’s where I met him. Killian Lemarque. A beautiful truck driver, and my salvation...
  • Bedlam Butchers, Vol. 3-5 by Ruby Dixon

    Bedlam Butchers, Vol. 3-5 by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 5 ratings
    In the world of motorcycle clubs, a snitch is a dead man. And the Bedlam Butchers have a snitch who's intent on taking down one of the newest members of their club. Shy knows just who the snitch is, too-it's her older brother. But she can't do anything about it, because Shy's got no one to protect her. If she tells what she knows, her brother's going to sell her out to his new, dangerous buddies...
  • Untamed Hearts by Melody Grace

    Untamed Hearts by Melody Grace

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    It's the last night of summer in Beachwood Bay, but for Brit and Hunter, it's only the beginning … She is: rebellious, wounded, free. He is: handsome, searching, enchanted. One night. Two restless hearts. But what happens when morning comes? A tantalizing new novella from the internationally best-selling Melody Grace. *Untamed Hearts is set 3 years before the events of Unafraid...
  • They Came on Viking Ships by Jackie French

    They Came on Viking Ships by Jackie French

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As a puppy, Snarf is fortuitously rescued by a young girl called Hekja when he is badly injured, their simple but happy lives are changed unrecognisably when their village is raided by Vikings. This work is suitable for children aged 10-14...
  • Breaking Stars: The Celebrity Series by J. Sterling, Pam Berehulke

    Breaking Stars: The Celebrity Series by J. Sterling, Pam Berehulke

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Acting since she was 14 years old, Paige Lockwood finds herself craving a little normalcy after a scandal rocks her otherwise predictable world. With everyone in her life attempting to control her, she takes matters into her own hands and leaves town without so much as a plan or a destination...
  • Unstoppable by Laura Griffin

    Unstoppable by Laura Griffin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A forensic anthropologist and a Navy SEAL find love and danger in this sexy novella, from Laura Griffin’s bestselling Tracers series! Forensic anthropologist Kelsey Quinn goes to a remote Texas border region to dig up ancient bones, but ends up unearthing a deadly secret...
  • One Wild Ride by A.L. Jackson, Rebecca Shea

    One Wild Ride by A.L. Jackson, Rebecca Shea

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Elle Ward, daughter of Hollywood’s hottest director, has sworn off actors for life. She knows their games and she refuses to play them. That is until the day she collides with one of LA’s most promising actors. Kas Cowen isn’t looking for love until it literally runs him down. One look at Elle and he’s hooked. He crashes into her life and flips it upside down...
  • Loving Blackmail by Kylee K. Yount, Kyle Kay

    Loving Blackmail by Kylee K. Yount, Kyle Kay

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    What Ruxin Novak wants he gets by any means necessary. When he finds himself wanting sweet innocent Eva Thorpe, he resorts to blackmailing her. With every second he spends with her he feels more drawn to her.With a new possessive fake boyfriend Eva finds herself getting lost in her feelings for Ruxin...
  • Stay with Me by Samantha Chase

    Stay with Me by Samantha Chase

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Was a little peace and quiet too much to hope for? Mac Montgomery spent two years watching his father play matchmaker for his brothers and their wives and as the last Montgomery standing, he knew it wouldn't be long until all eyes would be on him. While he couldn't deny that things had worked out well for his siblings, the last thing that Mac wanted was to get married and settle down...
  • Perfectly Messy by Lizzy Charles

    Perfectly Messy by Lizzy Charles

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Popularity isn't everything it's cracked up to be. Justin Marshall knows this better than most. For the captain of the basketball team, small business owner, and son of Minnesota's next governor, life can get pretty overwhelming. But Justin can handle anything as long as he has Lucy, the girl who fell for the man he’s trying to be...
  • Unwrapped by Melody Grace

    Unwrapped by Melody Grace

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    You are invited to join friends and family in Beachwood Bay for the wedding of the year… Lacey James is wild, spontaneous and up for anything. Daniel Sullivan is careful, sensible, and mending his broken heart. It’s a match nobody saw coming, but when the unlikely pair get stranded together on the way home for the holidays, Lacey finds her long-term crush impossible to ignore...
  • The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick

    The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 85 ratings
    Meet Pat. Pat has a theory: his life is a movie produced by God. And his God-given mission is to become physically fit and emotionally literate, whereupon God will ensure a happy ending for him -- the return of his estranged wife Nikki. (It might not come as a surprise to learn that Pat has spent time in a mental health facility.) The problem is, Pat's now home, and everything feels off...
  • Night Sky by Jolene Perry

    Night Sky by Jolene Perry

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After losing Sarah, the friend he’s loved, to some other guy, Jameson meets Sky. Her Native American roots, fluid movements, and need for brutal honesty become addictive fast. This is good. Jameson needs distraction – his dad leaves for another woman, his mom’s walking around like a zombie, and Sarah’s new boyfriend can’t keep his hands off of her...
  • Legal Action 2 by Kimball Lee

    Legal Action 2 by Kimball Lee

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The rock your world sequel to Legal Action !!!!! This is Legal Action in extreme overdrive!!!! Charlotte will make her choice between riveting, gorgeous billionaire Bly and back-from-the-dead, too-hot-to-handle, Special-Ops hunk Finn and her decision will mean sweet, sweet, savage love for Charlotte and the man of her dreams...
  • Legal Action 4 by Kimball Lee

    Legal Action 4 by Kimball Lee

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    THIS IS IT… THE FINAL BOOK IN THE LEGAL ACTION SERIES!!! Alexander Bly is missing, Finn and JP are caught on a mountain wracked by avalanches, Amanda is a basket case, and Natalie isn’t offering any information… Will Charlotte surrender to despair??? Absolutely NOT!!!! There are good choices, bad choices and hard choices in every life, and they lead straight to the heart of...
  • A Bride for Christmas by Charlotte Grace

    A Bride for Christmas by Charlotte Grace

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My fiancé cheated on me. With his PA. So I did what any jilted bride would do... The wedding might be cancelled but the luxury accommodation was still booked. I decided I didn’t need a man. I’d marry myself, have the honeymoon, celebrate me. I’m alone in the lodge in the Rocky Mountains I’d booked for our Christmas wedding. But when I wake the next morning, there’s a man in my kitchen...
  • Friends with Bang-ifits by Lili Valente

    Friends with Bang-ifits by Lili Valente

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Something is rotten in the state of Denmark... Or in the state of Kirby Lawrence, a woman who is NOT attracted to her best friend, bad boy rock star, Colin Donovan. Not even a little bit! No matter how good his butt looks in those jeans... Crap, I'm looking at his butt. Colin's butt! And the butterflies in my stomach are discoing now. Discoing! I avert my eyes, but it's too late...
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