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  • Blasphemous by Pamela Ann

    Blasphemous by Pamela Ann

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 30 ratings
    Will they survive the tsunami of trials heading their way? + Bass Cole + Emma Anderson + Carter Mason + expLosive. scOrching. graVitating. intEnse. Emma was beyond glad to escape back to Aspasia and be with Bass again...
  • Finding Infinity by Layne Harper

    Finding Infinity by Layne Harper

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    "Finding Infinity" as described by Colin... "Fine Charlie.” Colin says dropping his hands in defeat. “Here's what I want. I want everybody to back off and let me play football. I want you to go back to practicing medicine because I’m ready for you to be happy again - not this forced shit that you keep trying to sell me...
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  • The Legend by Shey Stahl

    The Legend by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    In a lifestyle of speed, adrenaline and desire, one racer has sacrificed everything for the sport he loved. In turn, he will fight for his name, his family and now his life to be the legend he’s been portrayed to be. You can be everything you set out to be if you want it bad enough. You can be that record breaker you said you’d be. You can be that hero you always thought you would be...
  • Pull by Rachel Van Dyken

    Pull by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Jaded 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...
  • From Now Until Infinity by Layne Harper

    From Now Until Infinity by Layne Harper

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Eight years have passed since Colin and Caroline “Charlie” ended their college romance. A chance meeting reunited them confirming that time had not diminished their love for each other. Now, they have to turn their passionate reunion into a legitimate and sustainable relationship. Charlie’s medical practice is in Houston. Colin is the starting quarterback for Dallas...
  • Open Wheel by Shey Stahl

    Open Wheel by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    How do you choose? How do you keep from hurting the ones you love when you know your heart belongs with both of them? Seven years ago Arie Riley married Easton Levi, current heart-throb of the NASCAR Cup series. She made a commitment to him. She gave her heart and soul to another. Her love is heavy. Consuming. And it’s inherently tied to two people. Arie thought she had made her mind up...
  • Britches Get Stitches by Elicia Hyder

    Britches Get Stitches by Elicia Hyder

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Be brave. Be strong. Be badass. After a two-year struggle to conceive ends with her husband getting another woman pregnant, Grace “Britches Get Stitches” Evans is taking out her frustrations on the roller derby track. Full-contact violence and absolutely no cheating men? Best divorce-support group ever...
  • Trading Paint by Shey Stahl

    Trading Paint by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A must have companion to Happy Hour that give you an inside look into the characters of the Racing on the Edge series. Step into the magic where the clay met rubber and desire defined greatness. Trading Paint takes you inside the hasty driver’s mind to what led him to a decision that changed the path of two souls...
  • Interception by Lisa Suzanne

    Interception by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    All I wanted was a second chance. Chase was still my every fantasy ten years after we broke up. He stepped back into my life the same night Gavin, once my closest friend, confessed his deep-rooted feelings and kissed me like I’d never been kissed...
  • Double Time by Julie Prestsater

    Double Time by Julie Prestsater

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Megan Miller has done the crush thing, had her heart broken and flirted with a close friend to the point of an almost relationship. She is over the drama of her Freshman and Sophomore years and is ready to be single and to mingle. With Keesha and Steph by her side the girls are ready to rock the single hood in their Junior year...
  • Awakening by Ashley Suzanne

    Awakening by Ashley Suzanne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Mira’s broken and battered. She’s fighting to put herself back together while her heart is trying to forget. Can she continue moving forward with one man while in love with another? Skylar’s wrestling demons he never imagined in his wildest dreams. The girl he’s been in love with for years finally has feelings for him. There’s only one problem: her heart might lie somewhere else...
  • Intermission by Lisa Suzanne

    Intermission by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    I’m in love with two men. I’m torn and need to choose which man from my past I want as a permanent part of my future. My heart leads me one way as my brain pushes me toward the other. I want them both, but each of them holds a secret that will change everything...
  • Going All In by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Going All In by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Being the nice guy leaves me open to being a rebound romance.Which I’m not interested in. I’ve got better things to do.Like taking my spot on the NBA draft picks. It’s all that matters to me.Love has never been on the radar. I’m too focused for all that fluff.Then life slows me down. Way down.An injury at the end of the spring semester has me working my way back to full health all summer long...
  • Fixated on You by Pamela Ann

    Fixated on You by Pamela Ann

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Emma Anderson’s career was thriving. Her personal life too—but she knew—it was all a ticking time bomb until everything blows up. What happens then? Even if he’s relationship with Emma was going great, Bass Cole still had a long way to go to make amends after the grief he’d caused Emma last year. No matter what the future held for them, he knew one thing—Emma owned his heart...
  • Coming Home by Laurie Breton

    Coming Home by Laurie Breton

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 23 ratings
    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...
  • Luka by Jane Harvey-Berrick

    Luka by Jane Harvey-Berrick

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I'm not a good man. I'm not a bad man. But I've made some bad mistakes, made the wrong choices. Who hasn't? But the consequences are tearing us apart. I love two people. I love them differently. The world tells me I have to choose. Why? Why do I have to choose? Loving hurts. Dancing heals...
  • Playing the Field by Meghan Quinn

    Playing the Field by Meghan Quinn

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The gang is back and this time there is a wedding to celebrate, except that is the last thing on Molly Meyers’ mind. After losing her fiancé, Luke, two years ago, the last thing on her mind is helping her best friend, Jane Bradley, plan her wedding and celebrate the annoyingly, obnoxious, lovey-dovey relationship Jane has with Braves first baseman, Brady Matthews...
  • Bring The Heat by K.B. Winters

    Bring The Heat by K.B. Winters

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Steamy, Sexy Bad Boys Of Summer! Can It Get Any Hotter? I never claimed to be the greatest pitcher in the world—then again, maybe I did—but I was probably drunk off my ass trying to seduce some chick. I had no intention of ever becoming Cody Wright, the best—or the greatest. That was more my old man’s dream. The REAL Mr. Wright...
  • Picking Up the Pieces by Elizabeth Hayley

    Picking Up the Pieces by Elizabeth Hayley

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    ADULT CONTENT - Only Suitable for 17+ After a myriad of mistakes and a devastating breakup, Lily Hamilton is no longer the impulsive, selfish person she had once been. Now, she longs for the chance to make it up to the one person she knows holds the key to her happiness...
  • Love Me Back by Michelle Lynn

    Love Me Back by Michelle Lynn

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Growing up in small-town Belcrest, Maddy Jennings always thought she was destined to be with her childhood sweetheart, Trent Basso. Throughout the complicated road she has traveled with Trent, someone else has had a strong presence in Maddy's life...
  • Cutter by Stacy Borel

    Cutter by Stacy Borel

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Did somebody say baby? Macie Rosewood was a firecracker, in and out of the bedroom. She lived her life according to her own rules and high standards. When she caught the attention from one of the most eligible Brooks brothers two years ago, Macie had found real love. Dodger Brooks was the sensible brother that played hard and loved even harder...
  • Double Coverage by Meghan Quinn

    Double Coverage by Meghan Quinn

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Unfortunate inconvenience, that is the way Piper describes her encounter with Mason Dashel. From the minute the alpha male interrupts her morning after hangover on the airplane, she can’t stand to be near the egotistical maniac with a booming voice and annoying sex appeal...
  • Broken Fairytales by Monica Alexander

    Broken Fairytales by Monica Alexander

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Emily 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...
  • Finding My Way by Heidi McLaughlin

    Finding My Way by Heidi McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Liam Westbury has the world at his feet. He’s the quintessential golden boy. He’s the superstar quarterback for Beaumont High. His girl, Josie, is head cheerleader. He has his choice of colleges just waiting for him. Except he’s suffocating from all the pressure he’s under and no one understands. Liam Page is the heartthrob he never wanted to be...
  • Falling into You by Lauren Abrams

    Falling into You by Lauren Abrams

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    When 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...
  • Love Untouched by Anne Leigh

    Love Untouched by Anne Leigh

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An athlete on the verge of greatness. A woman who hit the lowest point in her life and fought her way back to the top. Twenty four year-old Kieran Stone, the country's number 1 swimmer, has loved one woman all his life - only to have that love unreturned. He has resigned himself to the reality that when it comes to love, he will never be someone's first choice...
  • Love Unmatched by Anne Leigh

    Love Unmatched by Anne Leigh

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Love Unmatched Fate brought them together. Love kept them together. Life could tear them apart. 23 year-old Zander Zobowski, football wonderkid and only son of a tech giant and a well-known philanthropist, fell hard for one woman and never got back up...
  • Fly by Molly McLain

    Fly by Molly McLain

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Meet Colton Wade, FMX rider... I’m just a small town guy who caught a lucky break. Now I’m living the dream, on the brink of high-flying super-stardom. But something’s missing. That something is Taylor. She’s my best friend. The one who makes me want to push harder and higher. The one I fall back on when shit gets tough. The one I’d give it all up for. I’d do anything to protect her...
  • Burn for You by Marquita Valentine

    Burn for You by Marquita Valentine

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Beau Montgomery is *not* the typical single dad for three reasons: 1. He's rich and famous. 2. He needs a nanny, like yesterday. 3. He has no idea if eight month old, Mia, is actually his daughter. Only, number three doesn't matter to him, because he's determined to give up everything to be a standup dad, including racing, partying, and his favorite vice-women...
  • Looking to Score by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Looking to Score by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I’ve been called many things, but “unlucky” isn’t one of them. Being the President of the largest fraternity on campus makes that part easy. Like me. And I wear that badge proudly. Might as well own yourself, right?But like most guys, I have two sides to me. One I project, and one I reject...
  • When We Were Us by Tawdra Kandle

    When We Were Us by Tawdra Kandle

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Trio. That’s who we’ve been since birth: Nate, Leo . . . and me, Quinn, the token girl. Our mothers met in prenatal yoga and became best friends, which meant that the three of us hit every milestone together, from the first day of school to the very first kiss. We’ve always known that Nate’s a little different...
  • Manservant by Shari J. Ryan, Lisa Brown

    Manservant by Shari J. Ryan, Lisa Brown

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A (standalone) HOT ROMANTIC COMEDY I just wanted an easy summer job… That didn’t happen. Now, I’m in a living nightmare as I work alongside this monster of a man with mesmerizing emerald eyes that look at me inappropriately every time I see him. To add insult to injury, he has a tan I just want to lick, and a butt worth drooling over every time he purposefully walks by me...
  • Bring Me You by Ryleigh Andrews

    Bring Me You by Ryleigh Andrews

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Pro quarterback, Ethan Christopher thought he had found his home when he met rock musician, Mia Devereux. She was the welcomed distraction in his football-focused life. Things may not have been perfect. Their individual careers made being together difficult. Her touring. His away schedule. As her success grew, they spent more extended periods apart...
  • The Kissing Game by Jillian Quinn

    The Kissing Game by Jillian Quinn

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    They say you never forget your first kiss with a hot hockey player…When my sorority sisters gave me a checklist to complete, I never expected the last item to say Kiss a Hot Jock. I’m new to campus, clueless about sports at Strick U.And then I see him in the Quad—Trent Kane.With his muscular arms, confident strut, and killer smirks, I know he’s the right man for the job...
  • Game On by Tracy Solheim

    Game On by Tracy Solheim

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 22 ratings
    The only way to win is to score… With a reputation for fast moves on the gridiron and even faster moves off the field, Shane Devlin was a player in every sense of the word. Unfortunately, his bad-boy persona has made him a risky prospect as a quarterback, and only the Baltimore Blaze are willing to give him a chance. And he’s about to take a hit he never expected...
  • Choices by Sydney Lane

    Choices by Sydney Lane

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Fate brought her here, but will her choices destroy her dreams? Quincy Priest made all the right choices in her small town, black-and-white life. But being perfect is tiring. So. Very. Tiring. Wanting desperately to step out of her sister's shadow, Quincy jumps at the opportunity to attend college with her best friend. The quiet bookworm with family secrets comes out of her shell...
  • Assumptions by Melanie Codina

    Assumptions by Melanie Codina

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What happens when a girl set on playing by the rules …Finds a guy worth breaking them for? Leeann Bradley is a college graduate who has achieved many of her personal goals, all because she follows the rules she’s set for herself. It’s simple. You work hard, enjoy life, surround yourself with friends and family, avoid jumping to conclusions … and oh yeah, don’t date jocks...
  • Worth The Fall by Mara Jacobs

    Worth The Fall by Mara Jacobs

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Book Three in the Worth contemporary romance series. Alison is way too smart to be this dumb about a guy. Alison Jukuri is the smart one. But it hasn't seemed to help her much in her relationships with men. And now she's on the verge of making one, big stupid move. Again. Petey Ryan has spent his life hitting and being hit as a defenseman in the NHL...
  • Me After You by Mindy Hayes

    Me After You by Mindy Hayes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Widowed 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...
  • Just Watch the Fireworks by Monica Alexander

    Just Watch the Fireworks by Monica Alexander

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For Courtney McKellen, the idea of marriage is just short of terrifying. Unfortunately, Courtney just said yes when her boyfriend asked her to marry him. Call it a moment of panic, insanity, or blind fear, but she now finds herself engaged, and couldn’t be less excited...
  • Got the Life by Jade C. Jamison

    Got the Life by Jade C. Jamison

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Nicki 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...
  • Thick & Thin by Eden Butler

    Thick & Thin by Eden Butler

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My 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...
  • Forever Love by Melissa Johns

    Forever Love by Melissa Johns

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Emily and Eric tried to tolerate everything that was thrown at them but they couldn’t survive it. They both made mistakes that lead their paths to take different directions. Emily found comfort in the arms of her friend, Alex. He was what she needed and he was trying to help her achieve her dreams of being an artist...
  • The Ex Trials by Heather Topham Wood

    The Ex Trials by Heather Topham Wood

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One dream vacation in paradise. One co-ed bachelor and bachelorette party.One week marooned with my ex. Six months ago, Casey Silvers ended her scorching romance with sexy rocker Cole Caldwell. None of her friends know the true reason behind her sudden change of heart. Despite her claim of their chemistry fizzling out, her feelings for Cole had never gone away...
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  • The Perfect Distraction by Melissa Rolka

    The Perfect Distraction by Melissa Rolka

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Katherine “Kate” leaves for her freshmen year at college, a grounded and stable piece of her is missing. She pushes away the ghosts of her past, determined to start her college life single, carefree and distracted. Throughout high school Kate was reserved and shy, with little experience. Now, on her own, with little holding her back, Kate is ready to branch out...
  • The Absence of Olivia by Anie Michaels

    The Absence of Olivia by Anie Michaels

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    My name is Evelyn. I met Devon and instantly fell for him. Weeks later he fell for my best friend. Never one to make waves, I watched as they started a life together. I stood by as their family grew, was the maid of honor at their wedding and the godmother to their children. All the while, I was longing for him, watching as he became the perfect husband and father. I was never jealous...
  • Wrong Twin by Roxanne Tully

    Wrong Twin by Roxanne Tully

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    AugustHarper Maxwell knows what she wants…and that has always been my twin brother Troy.He doesn't deserve her. Never has. Not for the minute and a half they dated in high school and certainly not now. When the only thing on his mind is his pro hockey career and all the women jumping him at every corner.Yet here she is, hoping to run into him at the season opener party. I wasn't gonna show...
  • Wanting Reed by Antoinette Candela

    Wanting Reed by Antoinette Candela

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Love is giving someone the power to destroy you, but trusting them not to.” How do you live with yourself when you are the reason you lost the one thing that meant the most to you. Timing is everything and for Reed, he can never seem to catch a break. When Reed returns to Boston to redeem himself he finds that Elle has already moved on, building a new life, a new beginning...
  • Slow Twitch by Liz Reinhardt

    Slow Twitch by Liz Reinhardt

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Summer scatters three friends, ties them back together, and makes them question who they have been and who they want to be in the future. Brenna expected to soak up the knowledge of great Irish writers at her summer workshop in Dublin...
  • One Chance by T. Renee Fike

    One Chance by T. Renee Fike

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Haley has always lived in the shadows of her identical twin Kenzie. Moving on to different colleges, Haley decides to show people who she is and who she wants to be. Setting her sites on Liam, the boy she's always wanted, she takes a chance that can cost her everything. Liam Masters, the football jock known by many, is cocky, stubborn, and gorgeous...
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