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  • Out of Office by Ruth Cardello

    Out of Office by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A recluse discovers that what he endured and survived was orchestrated by one evil man. With nothing left to lose, Zachary wakes up and chooses vengeance. Charlotte Simmons may pretend to be innocent, but everything she has was bought with money made from my suffering. I intend to uncover her family’s sins and expose them to the world. Lying about who I am? She doesn’t deserve the truth...
  • The Don by Stella Andrews

    The Don by Stella Andrews

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Most fairy tales include a dark figure. The wicked stepmother dressed all in black wearing her anger for all to see. I. n my story she is dressed in innocence and fragility. Soft, gentle, sweet and loving, hiding her black heart beneath perfection. She came into the family and seduced three brothers. Then she married their father who sent them away...
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  • The Don by Stella Andrews

    The Don by Stella Andrews

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Most fairy tales include a dark figure. The wicked stepmother dressed all in black wearing her anger for all to see. I. n my story she is dressed in innocence and fragility. Soft, gentle, sweet and loving, hiding her black heart beneath perfection. She came into the family and seduced three brothers. Then she married their father who sent them away...
  • Bottom Line by Abbie Zanders

    Bottom Line by Abbie Zanders

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Control. Aidan Harrison likes it. Needs it. As CEO of the hugely successful Celtic Goddess franchise, he wields it as skillfully in the boardroom as he does the bedroom. It’s made him millions and put him at the top of his game. He wants for nothing. Except a woman who is more interested in him than his bottom line...
  • Trick by Jessica Ames

    Trick by Jessica Ames

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Enjoy this dark motorcycle club romance from USA Today Bestselling MC romance author Jessica Ames. .. Trick. My life ended in the blink of an eye. Everything I held in my heart was shattered by one bullet. Bound in my anger, I did the only thing I could and took revenge...
  • Redeeming Justice by Suzanne Halliday

    Redeeming Justice by Suzanne Halliday

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    Sometimes …Happily Ever After comes with a price. Alex Marquez wears many hats. Sometimes he’s the slightly patrician Don of a family with deep Spanish roots. Other times he’s a brilliant tech-God and CEO of an exclusive security agency. He’s also a boss, a musician, and a fierce friend...
  • Smokey by L. Wilder

    Smokey by L. Wilder

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    From NYT and USA Today Bestselling Author L. Wilder comes book five in the Satan's Fury Series, a standalone MC romance. Smokey. You can't fight fate, especially when it brings you a girl like MJ Thompson. She wasn't just beautiful. No, she was so much more than that. She was smart with a smile full of magic and curves that drove me to distraction...
  • Savage Roses by Sienne Vega

    Savage Roses by Sienne Vega

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I made her a promise I’ll destroy the world to keep…. Revenge is the only thing that stands in my way. Then Delphine and I can finally be together. My father has no idea the hell he’s in for. I’ll savor the moment I get to play in his blood. But when he reveals what he’s really capable of,. I realize I may have underestimated the devil. I’ll never leave his side no matter how dark it gets…...
  • Breaking the Wrong by Calia Read

    Breaking the Wrong by Calia Read

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 28 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...
  • Rough and Rugged by Hayley Faiman

    Rough and Rugged by Hayley Faiman

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hattie Morris is a young girl with silly dreams and a fantasy she's been holding onto since she was sixteen years old. "Dirty" Johnny Williams is a hard man who rides as a Notorious Devil, known for being filthy between the sheets, yet always wishing for the unattainable more...
  • Fallen by Madhuri Tamse

    Fallen by Madhuri Tamse

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Khushi Thakur. Have compassion for your family and be heartless towards your enemies. This has been my only slogan since I became the backbone of the RS Group of Companies where I am in charge of dealing with their tricky competitors. This time our focus is on the AR Group, which has rattled to its core ever since its CEO, Aarav Raichand allegedly stepped down from his position...
  • Final Call by Emma Hart

    Final Call by Emma Hart

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    In the highly anticipated sequel to LATE CALL, Dayton and Aaron learn once more than not everything is as straightforward as it seems, and if they have any chance of getting their long-awaited happily-ever-after, they'll have to work for it. .. We crashed and burned like a falling plane. Hard and fast with an inevitable explosion. Another few weeks together changed my life the way the first did...
  • The Playboy's Fugitive Bride - Book Three by Ana E. Ross

    The Playboy's Fugitive Bride - Book Three by Ana E. Ross

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, Ana E Ross, presents The Playboy's Fugitive Bride, Book Three in the Billionaire Brides of Granite Falls series:...
  • Tempting Sophia by Jessica Prince

    Tempting Sophia by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Having 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...
  • Smoke and Shadows by Victoria Paige

    Smoke and Shadows by Victoria Paige

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When someone close to Viktor Baran becomes a target of an assassin, he vows a hellfire of a payback. But the enemy is cunning and avoids the trappings of the digital web, preferring to strike out from the shadows. Drawing on old-fashioned cloak and dagger methods to investigate the enemy’s hatred for the Guardians, he uncovers a link to a past he is reluctant to revisit...
  • First Touch by Loni Ree

    First Touch by Loni Ree

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Zander Burton. Never trust a woman and make sure you’re never stupid enough to give your heart to one. I’ve always lived by these words, then Rachel Marsh crashed into my life. It only took one night, one touch for the gorgeous blonde to make me ignore the rule I’d followed my whole life...
  • His Wood, Her Curves by Haley Travis

    His Wood, Her Curves by Haley Travis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A canoe builder, a poet, a sudden storm… lightning is going to strike! I'm great with my hands. People? Not so much. Then I met sweet little Margot. Delicate and thoughtful, with no idea how sexy she is. She needs a man to admire every inch of her soft, curvy figure. And it's going to be me. My writing retreat was supposed to be a solo venture...
  • So Wrong by Ajme Williams

    So Wrong by Ajme Williams

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One fake marriage. One big disaster. Everything about Dylan melts me. He’s more than that ripped chest… those strong arms. The best thing about him is his daughter. The daughter that I babysit. He shares Maisie with his ex-wife. But I see the concern in his eyes. He wants his daughter to be loved, to be safe. …and he needs my help. A fake marriage with me would win him the custody battle...
  • To Touch a Sheikh by Olivia Gates

    To Touch a Sheikh by Olivia Gates

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Sheikh's SurrenderNo one gets past Prince Amjad Aal Shalaan's defenses. No one. But when Princess Maram shows up at Amjad's gala in her father's place, destroying Amjad's plans to reclaim what was stolen from his family, Amjad sees red. .. and uses a freak sandstorm to make her his prisoner of passion...
  • The Baby Mission by Vivian Wood

    The Baby Mission by Vivian Wood

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller Vivian Wood comes a story that is about lust, longing, and the beginnings of love. .. He wants into my pants. And I want a baby. .. I want a baby, and I want it bad. But there’s no Mr. Right in sight and I’m tired of waiting around for someone to rock my boat. So I decide that I’m going to have a baby on my own. Then I meet Jett at a party...
  • Fight Me by Lacey Black

    Fight Me by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Jake Stevens has it made. A local police officer with an open invitation to any number of beds around town, Jake has no desire to settle down with any of the ladies he entertains by night. After watching his best friend fall in love with his little sister, Jake is certain that love and marriage just aren’t in his cards. Heck, he’s not even playing with the same deck...
  • Filthy Puckboy by Elise Faber

    Filthy Puckboy by Elise Faber

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I never expected to fall for a puckboy. I certainly never expected to fall for Axel Finnegan, star of the Rush. But the hockey player charmed his way into my life, made himself indispensable, and now I was all in for my filthy puckboy. Except…my life had other plans...
  • Claim by Megan O'Brien

    Claim by Megan O'Brien

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Emerly Greer has been living a low-key life, content with her multiple jobs and her books. People are complicated; animals and kids are much easier to understand. As owner of Talon Security, Travis McAllister has seen success beyond what he ever expected—causing the boundaries he's set around himself to grow ever thicker...
  • MY BROTHER, MY RIVAL by Eve Rabi

    MY BROTHER, MY RIVAL by Eve Rabi

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Description:. 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...
  • Double Betrayal by Ada Frost

    Double Betrayal by Ada Frost

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Emily’s life had three basic rules, love her family fiercely. Never expect forever and most importantly, shield her heart from pain. At a tender age she had learned love is not forever, sex destroys and if you don’t invest your heart, it can never be broken. She played life safe. All it takes though, is one moment, a defining light in the perpetual darkness to bring life into your heart...
  • Raven's Climb by Tiffany Casper

    Raven's Climb by Tiffany Casper

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I wasn’t one of those girls that just rolled over and got over something. No, I could hold a mean grudge, and that was what I had been doing for going on seven years. And I didn’t see that stopping any time soon. Why oh why in all of the hospitals in all of the United States, had this job been the only one available for me to take? Seven years ago something vile and despicable had ruined me...
  • Reckless by Jennifer Loren

    Reckless by Jennifer Loren

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Reckless, the sequel to Finding Ava:. The decision seemed so innocent in the beginning, exciting even. How could I have ever known what was going to happen? How could I have ever know that someone could be so evil, so determined to destroy lives. I chose to ignore the advice of my brother and instead trusted - believed in friendship, believed in a woman I once loved...
  • One Night with a Cowboy by Elizabeth Otto

    One Night with a Cowboy by Elizabeth Otto

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    One night is never enough. .. Jobless, broke, and struggling to support herself and her. invalid mother, paramedic Sophie Miller doesn’t have time or. energy for a relationship. Especially with her mother’s clock. ticking down. So when the sexy cowboy she meets at a carnival. proposes a no-strings, one-night stand, she’s all over it...
  • UNTamed by Jaxson Kidman

    UNTamed by Jaxson Kidman

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I still am the dirty, poor girl…. …with everyone staring right at me. Look. I took on ‘the Rulz’. Those who do that never get a happy ending in life. So why would I expect anything less? Secrets from my past come to the surface, and the last person I expect to see shows up. I have to question who is a friend, who is fake, and who is an enemy. I’m not rich...
  • The Perfect Neighbor by Nora Roberts

    The Perfect Neighbor by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 39 ratings
    In New York, people were supposed to ignore their neighbours. But that was a rule that Cybil Campbell had never learned. When the sunny brunette knocks on her new neighbour's door, she expected that they would make a connection - after all, she knew everyone else in the apartment block. Preston McQuinn wasn't interested in small talk...
  • A Piece of Heaven by Shivani A. Singh

    A Piece of Heaven by Shivani A. Singh

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Aloka was the headmaster's sixth daughter. Her mother died the night she was born. Her step mother hated the sight of her. Her father could not bear to even look at her. When she was ten, her mother's friend Amrita came and took her away with her to Delhi. Aloka was catapulted into a whole new world of wealth, power and luxury. In this world people loved her and cared for her...
  • Forever and Always by E.L. Todd

    Forever and Always by E.L. Todd

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Now that Sean and Scarlet are together, Scarlet couldn't be happier. They were meant for each other and would make any sacrifice to be together. With her greatest friend as her new lover, their relationship was perfect. But when Sean asks her to move back to New York, she hesitates...
  • Afraid to Fall by W. Ferraro

    Afraid to Fall by W. Ferraro

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Jaded and hardened by the ultimate of betrayals, Clearwater Falls Sheriff Gage Dennison is content with his simple, detached life. With only his loyal dog at his side, Gage has successfully maintained the walls he's built around his life and heart for eight years...
  • Long Road Home by J.W. Ashley

    Long Road Home by J.W. Ashley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Bestselling Author J. W. Ashley brings you a heartwarming story with the first book in her Home series, a standalone collection about returning home and finding redemption with those you left behind. ✮A Top 300 Amazon Best Seller✮. They say that time heals all wounds. I'm here to tell you that saying is a steaming pile of bullshit...
  • Return of the Jerk by Andrea Simonne

    Return of the Jerk by Andrea Simonne

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Steamy and fun, an irresistible story of one woman’s obsession and the jerk-like object of her unrequited love. .. Wedding cake baker Blair Thomas loves her life. Her business is thriving, her Seattle condo has a great view of the water, and her refurbished ‘65 convertible Mustang “Isadora” is the coolest car ever. She barely even thinks about that jerk she married five years ago...
  • BOSS by Tara Oakes

    BOSS by Tara Oakes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everybody expects something of Dom, they have his entire life. His family expects HIM to lead, provide, and support them. His company and employees expect him to keep their business successful, intact. His wife, V, expects him to be the beST man he can be. And then there are the expectations of his father and his "associates. "...
  • Taming the Beast by Lucy King

    Taming the Beast by Lucy King

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Once upon a time, Mercedes ‘Mercy’ Hernandez had the most enormous crush on her best friend’s older brother, Seb Madison. Now, though, she can’t stand the beast. Forget that he’s as spine-tinglingly gorgeous as ever. He’s a lousy brother and a manipulative bastard, not that she ever thinks about that disastrous one night stand they once had…...
  • Say You'll Be Mine by Carter Blake

    Say You'll Be Mine by Carter Blake

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Wesley. I love a challenge. And my curvaceous little PR rep is definitely that. I hired her because she was the best candidate for the job, but her skill sets aren’t her only appealing attributes. She’s drop dead gorgeous, and I want her, which makes it difficult for me to keep my work and private life separate...
  • Lady Love by Diana Palmer

    Lady Love by Diana Palmer

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Merlyn had better things to do with her life than fall in love with Cameron Thorpe--like proving to her father that she could survive without his millions or his matchmaking schemes, and convincing herself that it didn't matter that men seemed to covet her money more than her heart.
  • Mountain Man's Healer by Sadie King

    Mountain Man's Healer by Sadie King

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She’s trespassing on my land, and that makes her mine…. Rowan. From the moment I see the woman picking wildflowers on my property, I must have her. I watch, and I wait, and when she falls, I’m right there, ready to be her hero. But I’m damaged goods; ex-military with too many wounds, the kind you can’t see. I let down everyone in my life and this sweet honeybee deserves better than that. Jenny...
  • A Lost Love by Carole Mortimer

    A Lost Love by Carole Mortimer

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She didn't have to guess how Rafe felt about his wife. .. Brooke Adamson knew the whole bitter story. Because she was Rafe Charlwood's wife, or rather she had been, before the terrible car accident Rafe believed had claimed her life...
  • An Heir to Make a Marriage by Abby Green

    An Heir to Make a Marriage by Abby Green

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A legacy maid in Manhattan. In desperation to save her father, housekeeper Rose O'Malley thinks she can trap a man...
  • Game On by Avery Kaye

    Game On by Avery Kaye

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I play fast and dirty, both on the field and in the bedroom. It's all a game. And this is one game I will win. Ava Bennett is stubborn, smart. .. and has a body that makes grown men weep. I haven't stopped thinking about her since that night. Five years ago. Now that fate has brought her back into my life, I know I'm the man for her--the only man. She just doesn't know it yet...
  • Double Standards by Judith McNaught

    Double Standards by Judith McNaught

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 62 ratings
    In the exclusive, glittering world of business superstars, Nick Sinclair was a legend. .. The ruggedly handsome president of Global Industries handled his business the way he handled his women -- with charm, daring and ruthless self-control. A man used to the very best, Nick hired Lauren Danner, and assumed the proud beauty would soon be another easy conquest...
  • One Night with the Enemy by Abby Green

    One Night with the Enemy by Abby Green

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In Argentina’s breathtaking vineyards … Nicolás de Rojas and Madalena Vasquez had a stolen affair amongst the Mendozan vineyards – until Maddie discovered a devastating secret about Nic, and left without another word. He will have her once again! Now Maddie is back, having inherited her family’s struggling vineyard, and she’s at Nic’s mercy – right where he wants her...
  • After The Music by Diana Palmer

    After The Music by Diana Palmer

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    It all started as a joke. Sabina was only pretending to be engaged to her best friend, millionaire Al Thordon. Al had talked her into this scheme as a way to trick his older brother, Thorn. Al had no choice but to lie. And to make Sabina his accomplice. Sabina thought that it would be for just one night. When Thorn accused her of being a gold digger, Sabina just laughed it off...
  • Angel's Rest by Emily March

    Angel's Rest by Emily March

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Welcome to Eternity Springs, a little piece of heaven in the Colorado Rockies. Gabriel Callahan has lost everything that mattered. All he wants is solitude on an isolated mountain estate. Instead, he gets a neighbor. Vibrant, no-nonsense Nic Sullivan is Eternity Springs' veterinarian, and she has an uncanny plan to lure this talented architect back to the world of the living...
  • Loving Glory by Joleen James

    Loving Glory by Joleen James

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The citizens of Fortune, WA are shocked when former town bad boy Jace Stone buys the small town. Everyone wonders how Jace can come back, especially after getting Fortune’s golden girl Glory Moon pregnant, then leaving her alone to raise their autistic son. No one is more shocked than Jace when he discovers that Glory kept the baby she’d promised to give up for adoption ten years ago...
  • Reinventing Mel by J.A. Hornbuckle

    Reinventing Mel by J.A. Hornbuckle

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Because of a chance meeting with members of the Hellion MC, Mel Davis's life was reinvented. One that gave him, his teenaged brother and a much younger sister a new life and hope their world would become better. Taken under the wing of Trey Jackson and Dare Gentry, Mel finds there isn't one area of his life that the Hellions aren't willing to help him overcome, resolve and obtain victory in...
  • Woman Hater by Diana Palmer

    Woman Hater by Diana Palmer

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    MOUNTAIN MAN. Everyone in the office described the boss's mysterious older brother as a real woman hater -- an absolute bear of a man. So, when Nicole White had to travel with her ailing employer to his brother's home in Montana, she was prepared for the worst. What she found was a man more roughly masculine than any she'd ever met...
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