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  • Deceiving Lies by Molly McAdams

    Deceiving Lies by Molly McAdams

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The irresistible, blazing-hot sequel to New York Times bestselling author Molly McAdams's Forgiving Lies . Rachel is supposed to be planning her wedding to Kash, the love of her life. After the crazy year they've had, she's ready to settle down and live a completely normal life. Well, as normal as it can be. But there's something else waiting—something threatening to tear them apart...
  • Burning Bond by Emma Hart

    Burning Bond by Emma Hart

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    BURNING BOND is book six of the HOLLY WOODS FILES series. While it can technically be read as a standalone, it's advised to read the first five books prior to this for full enjoyment. -- Two men, both determined to protect me. I think I love one. I’m almost sure I’m in love with the other. Ride or die just got a whole lot realer...
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  • Adore Me by Jillian Dodd

    Adore Me by Jillian Dodd

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Join Keatyn on Thanksgiving Break in this Keatyn Chronicles novella. I’ve finally become the kind of girl my little sisters could look up to. Except for the lies. Lying to my friends is killing me. And the longer I’m there—the closer we get—the more I feel like I’m being eaten from the inside out. If I go back to Eastbrooke, I’ll end up nothing but a shell. So I'm not going back...
  • Relentless Biker by Hope Ford

    Relentless Biker by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She’s the pregnant girlfriend of my deceased best friend.I told myself that marrying her was the right thing to do.Of course it’s natural to want to protect herAnd to make sure she’s okay.But the more time I spend with her the more I want this to be real.Her family wants her back.I want her to stay with me.Somehow I have to prove that the three of us are meant to be together… forever...
  • Frayed by Pamela Ann

    Frayed by Pamela Ann

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Trista Stevens Things went quickly sour with the already married Harry when she found out their affair had a bigger repercussion. Heartbroken, she had to do what was best for everyone. Just as planned, she and Lindsey went to visit Emma in Greece. Trista thought this vacation was going to be a way for her to heal and come to terms with of the gargantuan mistakes she’s made in the past...
  • Enraptured by Ginger Voight

    Enraptured by Ginger Voight

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the third and final book of the Fullerton Family Saga, long-simmering secrets explode with disastrous consequences. The fractured Fullertons face their biggest challenges yet, and every single one must rise to their own personal challenges and beat their demons once and for all - no matter what it takes...
  • Break My Fall by Chloe Walsh

    Break My Fall by Chloe Walsh

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 33 ratings
    I was drunk but not drunk enough not to notice him. Good Lord, he was beautiful. Did boys like him really exist? I thought I might be imagining him. “You wanna have a shot with me sweetheart?” he smiled crookedly and lifted the bottle up. The huskiness of his voice made me him sound dangerous, yet he was soft spoken…an enigma...
  • Scorned by Pamela Ann

    Scorned by Pamela Ann

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Brody was determined to win her heart again. Dimitris was hell-bent on getting her back. Will she choose one or none? Fiesty, vindictive and sharp-tongued, Lindsey Mason was always in love with her brother’s best friend, Brody. For years, she watched as he went through the women around her—but never her. When Lindsey started dating another guy, Brody suddenly started to notice her...
  • Jake by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Jake by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Former best friends Jake Rollins and Lucas Bennett used to love competing against each other as kids. Unfortunately, for the past four years they’ve hated each other, all because they fell for the same girl who they both lost...
  • Hammer: An Evil Dead MC Story by Nicole James

    Hammer: An Evil Dead MC Story by Nicole James

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A badass biker and the sexy little sprite that wants nothing to do with him.They're opposites in every way that matters-except one-they can't keep their eyes off each other. Hammer watches Tink strut past him without so much as a glance. His eyes moving over her hot little body-a body that's been driving him crazy and keeping him awake at night...
  • 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...
  • Reckless Rock Star by Victoria Ashley

    Reckless Rock Star by Victoria Ashley

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I was never supposed to want to keep her.She was meant to be borrowed.Mine for six days and not a day longer.She doesn’t belong to me.She belongs to someone else.My brother…The closest person I have outside of the screaming fans and paparazzi—a constant in my new life— other than the whiskey I drown myself in to numb the pain left by someone else...
  • The Unexpected List by Chrissy Anderson

    The Unexpected List by Chrissy Anderson

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When she was just sixteen, Chrissy Anderson made a life list… …It’s been abandoned. Now she’s got an ex-husband, a satisfied lover and a thriving new business. She’s rebuilding. Then out of nowhere…a baby. You think you know who the father is? Think again. Follow Chrissy as she deepens her understanding of how to be truthful to herself and those that she loves...
  • EROS by Stephanie Nicole Norris

    EROS by Stephanie Nicole Norris

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    They said my presence changed the atmosphere in any room I entered. According to my mother—it was in my name. According to my twin brother—it was in my soul. The truth could be found somewhere in between. I led with love in all of my endeavors...
  • 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...
  • Afflicted by Sophie Monroe

    Afflicted by Sophie Monroe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Fresh off tour Blake Potter, the sexy bassist for Battlescars, is in Smithville, Ohio to work on their next album ‘Coming Clean’. Still pining after Aubrey’s best friend, Piper, it’s going to be harder than he expected to see her back with her long-­‐ term boyfriend, Cole...
  • Sail by M. Mabie

    Sail by M. Mabie

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    This isn’t just a two-year long one-night stand. It’s my life. This is my life. Our life. It isn’t just some careless affair. I’ve made the worst decisions a woman could, but I’ll earn my second chance. She can try keeping all the guilt for herself, but I’m just as much to blame. Loving Casey wasn’t my biggest mistake. Fighting it for so long was...
  • Fall to You by Lexi Ryan

    Fall to You by Lexi Ryan

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Torn between two men… When I woke up after the accident, I couldn’t remember anything from the last year—including my relationship with Max Hallowell or anything about Nate Crane. Now my memories are returning, but instead of answering my questions, they’re leaving me with more. The man who broke my heart and wants to be my future… Max is all I ever wanted, and now he wants to marry me...
  • His Wounded Light by Christine Brae

    His Wounded Light by Christine Brae

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The perfect life. The perfect marriage. The jilted lover. Their worlds collide. Fate intervenes twelve years later and their paths intersect once again. All three will question whether the heart is truly capable of dividing and being divided; each will decide whether it matters who you loved first or who you love last...
  • September Again by Hunter S. Jones

    September Again by Hunter S. Jones

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    September Again finds Liz Snow Savage leaving England. She follows her daughter Zelda Savage back to America after Zelda’s betrayal of her. More drama ensues as Liz looks for meaning in life while Zelda finds her direction after losing Jack O. Savage, The Poet. Set mainly in Chattanooga, Tennessee, September Again chronicles the rhythm of life's cycles...
  • Shattered by H.M. Ward

    Shattered by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    After Mari's attempt to help Trystan goes horribly wrong they are both forced to deal with the consequences...
  • A Little Like Destiny by Lisa Suzanne

    A Little Like Destiny by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Reserved and responsible Reese Brady refuses to miss her chance with bad boy rock star Mark Ashton. After one steamy night, she's convinced the emotional connection they shared was just a figment of her imagination. After all, he’s a womanizer whose affairs are highly publicized. Reese strives to leave that night behind her after a handsome business mogul asks her to dinner...
  • Girl in Love by Caisey Quinn

    Girl in Love by Caisey Quinn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She's living her dream... Kylie Ryans is the biggest thing to come out of Nashville since, well, since Trace Corbin. With a hit album and a powerful label behind her, she appears to be the girl who has it all. But appearances can be deceiving. Fresh out of rehab, Trace Corbin is ready to take on the world. Just not the girl he walked away from...
  • Cruel Dynasty by Geneva Lee

    Cruel Dynasty by Geneva Lee

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I made a deal. One year of my life pretending to be a rich aristocrat in exchange for ten million pounds. Enough money to start over somewhere new. Enough money to disappear forever. It sounded simple, but being Kerrigan Belmond is more dangerous than I expected. Her world isn’t as perfect behind closed doors as it is on paper...
  • Undeniably Yours by Pamela Ann

    Undeniably Yours by Pamela Ann

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 23 ratings
    “You’re passionate nature matches mine. Your promise reflects my own. If something was to happen, it’s comforting to know that your dead heart will be intertwined with my lifeless own.” I vowed with ferocity. “My heart for yours, Emma.” ~Blasphemous Falling. Losing. Risking. Everything. ALL for one woman...
  • Her So Called Husband by Chenell Parker

    Her So Called Husband by Chenell Parker

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    D'Andre "Dre" Mack is torn between two women. Cherika, his wife and mother of his kids, has held him down through thick and thin. However, Alexus, his side chick, is the one who holds his heart. Cherika loves Dre with every fiber of her being and she is not going down without a fight. Meanwhile, Alexus questions if loving Dre was a mistake from the start...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Indelible Love - Jake's Story by D.W. Cee

    Indelible Love - Jake's Story by D.W. Cee

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After 30 years of playing the field, Dr. Jake Reid meets the perfect woman in the cereal aisle of a grocery store at midnight. Emily Logan is stunning, thought provoking and utterly frustrating with her reserved demeanor and guarded heart. Regardless, Jake believes Emily is it even before their first date and works overtime to win her heart...
  • Break Me by Tiffany Snow

    Break Me by Tiffany Snow

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Just a few weeks ago, computer prodigy China Mack’s typical night in involved Endor Star Wars pajamas and a sensible bedtime. Now she’s dating gorgeous tech guru Jackson Cooper—one of Forbes’s Top Ten Eligible Billionaires—much to the Twitterverse’s delight. Turns out, going from socially inept hermit to poster girl for geek chic has its challenges...
  • All the Pieces by Angela Richardson

    All the Pieces by Angela Richardson

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When so much love has been built from lies and manipulation, how much of that love is real? In ALL THE PIECES, the third and final installment in the Pieces of Lies series, we find Norah in a dangerous and heart pounding situation in London with the Lappell. It will be the collision of two worlds that have done nothing but tear Norah down the middle, and love that has torn her apart...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Repair Me by Jennifer Foor

    Repair Me by Jennifer Foor

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Sky's whole world is turned upside down when she catches her long-time boyfriend cheating. Depressed over the breakup, she decides to drive to the beach to spend time with her friends and drown her sorrows in hot guys and fruity drinks. The only problem with her plan is her piece-of-junk car...
  • Euphoria by Erin Noelle

    Euphoria by Erin Noelle

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    After a series of catastrophic misunderstandings and impulsively poor decision-making, Scarlett MacGregor finds herself once again torn between two loves, as different as they may be. Lacking proper closure with their relationship, accompanied by the overwhelming guilt for her role in his devastating downfall, Scarlett resolves to help Mason recover and reclaim his life as a budding rock star...
  • Emancipating Andie by Priscilla Glenn

    Emancipating Andie by Priscilla Glenn

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Ever since the one time Andie Weber threw caution to the wind - and paid the price for it - she’s learned that it’s safer and smarter to live life playing by the rules. Now she’s got a great apartment, a steady job, and a wonderful boyfriend in Colin; he’s sweet, stable, and essentially perfect – except maybe for the fact that his best friend is Chase...
  • The Wild Ones by Michelle Leighton

    The Wild Ones by Michelle Leighton

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    **MATURE CONTENT ADVISORY: May not be suitable for younger readers** Passion as hot as midnight in the South and love as wild as the horses they tame. Camille “Cami” Hines is the darling daughter of the South’s champion thoroughbred breeder, Jack Hines. She has a pedigree that rivals some of her father’s best horses...
  • You Are Mine by Alla Kar

    You Are Mine by Alla Kar

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Hustler. Layla's hustling days have come to an end. Hospitalized after a deal gone wrong, she's ready to leave that life behind. But sometimes your past can come back to haunt you. Her parents' killers is back, and Layla's his next target. But Layla refuses to back down. This time, she will fight back...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Finding Me by S.K. Hartley

    Finding Me by S.K. Hartley

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Librarian's Note: This is an alternate cover for ASIN B00I2CPY4U Book Two of The Bad Boy Series The lines are blurred between what is real and what isn't, the darkness that was once a place I feared was now a place of safety. If I stayed in the darkness, the hellish reality of what was truly happening no longer seemed real...
  • 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...
  • A Beautiful Kind of Love by Ellie Wade

    A Beautiful Kind of Love by Ellie Wade

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Every choice has a consequence. I believe in soul mates. Why? Because I have one and his name is Jax Porter. I have known Jax my whole life and I have loved him with every breath I’ve ever taken. The fact that we were born a mere month apart to mothers that are best friends has made us inseparable since birth...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Beautiful Goodbye by Chandin Whitten

    Beautiful Goodbye by Chandin Whitten

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Gage Tucker and Jenna Reylan have been best friends since their diaper days, they would do anything for each other. Gage has a love for football and for Jenna, too bad she doesn't know this. Jenna's life was perfect until she started dating Jacob, he destroyed her and Gage was there to pick up the pieces. Jenna vows to herself she would never let another man into her heart...
  • 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...
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