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  • Don't Forget to Remember Me by Kahlen Aymes

    Don't Forget to Remember Me by Kahlen Aymes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Ryan Matthews has everything he ever wanted. Close to graduation from Harvard Medical School and on the verge of marrying his gorgeous and accomplished girlfriend, Julia Abbott, his dreams are about to come true. Julia is on the fast track as a fashion editor for a big New York magazine...
  • A Love like This by Kahlen Aymes

    A Love like This by Kahlen Aymes

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Settled in New York City, Ryan and Julia Matthews seek to enjoy their idyllic newlywed life together. Julia’s high-profile job at Vogue and Ryan’s promising career in medicine will surely set them up for everything they could ever want. Their only obstacle seems to be finding enough time to spend together...
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  • Romancing Sal Gabrini by Mallory Monroe

    Romancing Sal Gabrini by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Gemma Jones once thought Sal Gabrini could be a keeper. He was, in truth, the man of her dreams. But after she didn’t hear from him when he had promised to stay in touch, she wasn’t thinking about him either. Even when she travels to his turf, to Seattle, to attend a stuffy lawyer’s convention, she’s bound and determined not to give Sal a second thought...
  • Life & Limb by Freya Barker

    Life & Limb by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Growing up a military brat and spending eight years overseas with the Army Medical Corps, clinical social worker, Willa Smith, has had enough of rules and regulations. Still able to work with veterans as she did at the VA Hospital, she is much happier at the new and far more relaxed South Avenue Shelter, until one of its residents is implicated in a murder...
  • The Billionaire's Baby Revelation by Holly Rayner

    The Billionaire's Baby Revelation by Holly Rayner

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    This billionaire thought he didn’t want kids of his own,. Then he found out he already had one…. Liam Bradshaw’s billion-dollar business is the only thing he cares about. One spring day, his world is turned upside down by the news that he has a two-year-old child – and he will now be their legal guardian...
  • 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. Together they will learn that in the end, there can always only be one.
  • Virtue and Vice by Ninya Tippett

    Virtue and Vice by Ninya Tippett

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    "If I'm going down, I might as well pick my poison. I pick you. ". ***. A Cobalt Bay Billionaires story. ***. She couldn’t be sure whether he was her predator or protector. .. but she was doomed to love him either way. ***. It was a summer they will never forget...
  • Where Hope Begins by Catherine West

    Where Hope Begins by Catherine West

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the aftermath of her husband’s act of adultery and abandonment, Savannah must finally face the ghosts that haunt her and discover for herself whether authentic faith, grace, and ultimate healing really do exist. When her husband of twenty-one years leaves her, Savannah Barrington believes she’s lost almost everything she’s ever loved...
  • Reclaim Me by Ann Marie Walker, Amy K. Rogers

    Reclaim Me by Ann Marie Walker, Amy K. Rogers

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    As the heart-pounding Chasing Fire trilogy concludes, a dangerous entanglement leaves Hudson and Allie wondering how much they’re willing to risk for the love they can’t live without…. There’s almost nothing Alessandra Sinclair wouldn’t do for Hudson Chase. He was her first love, and she’s determined that he’ll be her last...
  • Need You for Mine by Marina Adair

    Need You for Mine by Marina Adair

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Every red-blooded male in St. Helena wants Harper Owens…as a friend. Despite her efforts at seduction, Harper seems to be destined to end up alone. The only guy with a knack for unleashing her inner vixen is firefighter and resident rule-breaker Adam Baudouin. Agreeing to a faux-mance could help him secure a promotion—and save her family’s lingerie shop, the Boulder Holder...
  • Perfect by Delaney Diamond

    Perfect by Delaney Diamond

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Does the end justify the means? Cyrus Johnson is rich, powerful, and used to getting his way. When his estranged wife shows up at his office demanding a divorce once and for all, he not only refuses, he makes a demand of his own...
  • The Gambler by Raquel Belle

    The Gambler by Raquel Belle

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 17 ratings
    Up till now, the most action that Lilly Madison ever got was fooling around in the back seat of some guy’s car. She’s a “nice” girl, and even though she’s turning 25 years old today…she’s holding out for Mr. Right. She’s just a small-town girl from Missouri with modest dreams. The kind of dreams that don’t look like much when you’re constantly being overshadowed by your twin sister...
  • A Kiss Stolen by Georgia Le Carre

    A Kiss Stolen by Georgia Le Carre

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Liliana,. I always wished I'd never told my father about the kiss. The kiss the son of the man who came to do odd jobs around the house gave me. But I was only eleven years old then. I didn't understand the ways of the world. How fathers think. My father ran out of the house and fired the boy's father. His father struck him right in front of me...
  • Played: A Gaming The System Box Set by Brenna Aubrey

    Played: A Gaming The System Box Set by Brenna Aubrey

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The PLAYED trilogy follows the story of tech millionaire Adam Drake and proud geek-girl Mia Strong, from their first scandalous meeting to the love of a lifetime. (Includes never-before-published bonus material, which was previously made available only to newsletter subscribers. ). This boxset contains the first three books in the Gaming The System series. At Any Price...
  • Rose in Bloom by Mia Michelle

    Rose in Bloom by Mia Michelle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Secrets. There are many different reasons for having secrets. Sometimes we choose to keep those secrets to protect people, while other times, they are kept out of deceit and shame. Regardless of their purpose, secrets have the power to hurt us, like nothing else. When we risk losing someone we love, we will stop at nothing, to prevent the truth from ever being known...
  • Taylor Lynne by Jennifer Peel

    Taylor Lynne by Jennifer Peel

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Determined not to repeat the same mistakes as her mother, Taylor Cole left her husband with their toddler in tow fourteen years ago and vowed never to return to Merryton. Now she is finally ready to face her demons and put the past and her ex-husband behind her, but to do that she and her daughter must return to the place that haunts her memories...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  christian  contemporary  clean  length-medium  m-f
  • More Than Pleasure You by Shayla Black

    More Than Pleasure You by Shayla Black

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shayla Black comes a new story in her More Than Words series…. Can I convince her our hot but temporary engagement should last forever? I’m Stephen Lund, confirmed bachelor…and son of a successful billionaire whose sins I can’t forget—or forgive...
  • How to Seduce a Rockstar by Arabella Quinn

    How to Seduce a Rockstar by Arabella Quinn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Get ready to toss your panties on stage — it’s gonna get wild! My life was getting boring. Predictable. I needed to shake things up a bit, so my roommate helped me come up with a plan — we called it O. L. D. Operation Limp… Well, never mind about the ‘D’. Yeah, the limp part sounds yucky, right? Don’t judge — that’s just because of logistics. It’ll work out. O. L. D. is a big success...
  • A Christmas Miracle for Daisy by Jane Porter

    A Christmas Miracle for Daisy by Jane Porter

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Media Mogul, Cormac Sheenan, had no desire to become a family man, but when his two year old goddaughter, Daisy, is orphaned, he adopts her, moving her from Montana to his home in Southern California, and becomes a devoted single father, juggling parenting duties with running his successful publishing, TV, and radio enterprise...
  • Feels Like Home by Jennifer Van Wyk

    Feels Like Home by Jennifer Van Wyk

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Andy Simpson never expected to be raising his teenage twin sons alone. Then again, he also never expected to walk into his house and see his wife with another man. In their bed. Or that it wasn’t her first time. Bitterness threatened to wrap around his heart, darkening every part of his life. But a brightness he wasn’t even looking for entered their lives and wouldn’t let it take hold...
  • Shacked Up With The CEO by Holly Rayner

    Shacked Up With The CEO by Holly Rayner

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After a call telling her to get out of the country ASAP, Paige’s world is turned upside down,. And being on the run is just the start of it…. Paige Howells is a Park Ranger who spends more time with animals than people...
  • Love in a Sandstorm by Zoe York

    Love in a Sandstorm by Zoe York

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 7 ratings
    A standalone military romance in the gripping Pine Harbour series of small town romances from ten-time USAT bestselling author Zoe York. Captain Sean Foster came back from war broken from the inside out. And he doesn't care about being fixed. Not even by a woman who followed him halfway around the world due to some misguided loyalty. Jenna Kowalczyk had two weeks with a man who stole her heart...
  • Primal Need by Piper Davenport

    Primal Need by Piper Davenport

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    18+ for language and sexual situations. .. Sundance. I’m the president of the Primal Howlers out of Monument, Colorado. My wife was taken from me ten years ago, leaving me to raise our three children alone. I’ve been diagnosed with a disease that I’m not sure I’ll beat, and to make matters worse, I’m now in the crosshairs of a rival club...
  • Tethered by Emma Louise

    Tethered by Emma Louise

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    It was supposed to be one night. One night to let my hair down and forget all the heartbreak, all the disappointments. One night to forget that the guy I thought I loved is marrying someone else. One night, just for me. He was supposed to be a stranger. An escape. No strings attached. Instead, he made me believe we could be more...
  • The Broken Beginning - Part One by Christine Michelle

    The Broken Beginning - Part One by Christine Michelle

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    For the readers who asked, and then asked again, and again! You guys are gluttons for punishment, and this is the book you wanted, so you got it! Welcome to Merc and Tiger Lily’s story. It starts where all stories should, in the beginning. This is the very broken beginning that won’t feel much at all like a romance, because it isn’t...
  • Mr. Cold Casanova by Jacob Parker

    Mr. Cold Casanova by Jacob Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Women. Nothing but trouble and pain there. I should know. They’ve done me dirty before, chasing my fortune and looks. So now? I’m not interested in what I can offer. I’m playing for what I can get. And my sexy new receptionist? She’s everything a man could want in a pair of heels. I need her. She’s a single mother with a heart of gold. Perfect for corrupting. But she’s not so easily swayed...
  • Mr. Cold Casanova by Jacob Parker

    Mr. Cold Casanova by Jacob Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Women. Nothing but trouble and pain there. I should know. They’ve done me dirty before, chasing my fortune and looks. So now? I’m not interested in what I can offer. I’m playing for what I can get. And my sexy new receptionist? She’s everything a man could want in a pair of heels. I need her. She’s a single mother with a heart of gold. Perfect for corrupting. But she’s not so easily swayed...
  • The Broken Beginning - Part Two by Christine Michelle

    The Broken Beginning - Part Two by Christine Michelle

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    YOU MUST READ: THE BROKEN BEGINNING - PART ONE PRIOR TO THIS BOOK! Tiger Lily. When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of my wedding. I dreamed of my husband, my children, my future. When I developed a crush on the gorgeous boy who was my neighbor, he became the man in those dreams...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  contemporary  length-short
  • His Last Chance by Ellie R. Hunter

    His Last Chance by Ellie R. Hunter

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Zachery witnessed his sister’s murder and there wasn’t anything he could do to save her. His parents are barely surviving their grief and his old lady sprung she’s pregnant on him on the morning of his sister’s funeral. The club is all he’s known and it’s his brothers he leans on when his personal life becomes too much. Nina fell hard for Zachery and he’s been her world since they got together...
  • Breathe Again by Rachel Brookes

    Breathe Again by Rachel Brookes

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    For Savannah Rae, the thought of living in her picture-perfect world was almost too much to comprehend. With her dream job, a family she could finally call her own, and the beginnings of the best chapter of her life, she still couldn't shake the unnerving feeling that it was all too good to be true. The thought of a life without Savannah was incomprehensible to Tate Connors...
    Categorized as:
    tycoon  contemporary  m-f  length-medium
  • 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...
  • Pure Lust Vol. 3 by M.S. Parker, Cassie Wild

    Pure Lust Vol. 3 by M.S. Parker, Cassie Wild

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I'd always thought the stepmothers in fairy tales were supposed to be the evil ones, not the mother-in-law. Even Snow White's wicked stepmother had nothing on Claire Bouvier. Gabriella Baine is going to marry the man of her dreams. .. if her monster-in-law-to-be doesn't drive her away first...
  • Complete Fixed: The Complete Fixed Series: #1-5 by Laurelin Paige

    Complete Fixed: The Complete Fixed Series: #1-5 by Laurelin Paige

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An emotional, searing love story that swept the world, all in one bundle. Includes Fixed on You, Found in You, Forever with You, Hudson, and Fixed Forever. Stalking and restraining orders are a thing of Alayna Wither's past. With her MBA newly in hand, she has her future figured out--move up at the nightclub she works at and stay away from any guy who might trigger her obsessive love disorder...
  • Mending by J.B. McGee

    Mending by J.B. McGee

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Gabby has finally started to break down the walls she has worked so hard to build up from all of the heartache she has felt through the years, just as ghosts from Bradley's past begin to show themselves. Will Gabby find healthy ways to cope with the new heartache she experiences or will she go back to running from the people who pose a risk of hurting her?
  • The Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress / To Tame Her Tycoon Lover by Maya Banks, Ann Major

    The Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress / To Tame Her Tycoon Lover by Maya Banks, Ann Major

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Tycoon’s Pregnant Mistress by Maya Banks. When Greek hotel magnate Chrysander Anetakis found out his former mistress was pregnant and had amnesia, he didn’t waste time. Marley Jameson didn’t remember betraying him or that he’d thrown her out of his life. So he told her they were engaged and swept her away to his Greek island to await the birth of his baby and enjoy her devotion…...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  contemporary  pregnancy  m-f  length-medium
  • Her Unexpected Hero by Melody Anne

    Her Unexpected Hero by Melody Anne

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Would you recognize true love if it sat down next to you? In this unforgettable new spinoff of the Billionaire books from New York Times bestselling indie author Melody Anne, two strangers must look past their painful memories to make way for everlasting love. Alyssa's modeling career came to an abrupt end when her manager boyfriend emptied her bank account and ruined her professional reputation...
  • A Taylor-Made Life by Kary Rader

    A Taylor-Made Life by Kary Rader

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    They lived the life they were given; they loved the life they made. Cheerleader Taylor Smith doesn’t want to die a virgin. Unfortunately, if the terminally-ill leukemia patient doesn't find a lover or a stem-cell match within months, her fear will become reality. When her cancer mentor is revealed to be a hottie entrepreneur from California, it seems fate might finally be on her side...
  • Forever Kisses by Loni Ree

    Forever Kisses by Loni Ree

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The Kane Triplets try their hand at matchmaking…. Harris Kane. When my nephews ask me to help out a friend who needs a job, I make them promise that this girl won’t turn out like the firm’s last three secretaries—husband-hunting, gold-diggers. Just to be sure, I cover all my bases and create a new office policy, no fraternization, no exceptions...
  • The Duke's Runaway Princess by Elizabeth Lennox

    The Duke's Runaway Princess by Elizabeth Lennox

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Her destiny wasn’t to be a man’s arm candy! Zarah Andromeda Busain had known what her role as a princess of Tasain would be since she could first walk and talk. That didn’t mean she agreed with it. From the beginning, she fought against those expectations, challenging them and asking why. So when it came down to the point of choosing a husband from a group of ten, she chose none...
    Categorized as:
    tycoon  contemporary  sheiks  length-novella
  • House Of Payne: Scout by Stacy Gail

    House Of Payne: Scout by Stacy Gail

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    There’s no doubt that Scout Upton earned her nickname. From the time she was an orphan bouncing from foster home to foster home like an unwanted stray, she’s had an uncanny ability to scout out trouble. Now an integral part of House Of Payne’s dominance in the world of ink, her “trouble” alarm triggers every time world-renowned fashion photographer, Ivar Fournier, comes around...
    Categorized as:
    tycoon  contemporary  m-f  length-medium
  • The Vizard Mask by Diana Norman

    The Vizard Mask by Diana Norman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Penitence Hurd and the Plague arrived in London on the same day. .. Bound up in righteousness as tight as a parcel, she journeys from Puritan America to find her aunt, and steps into a city full of rogues, hell-fire and fleshly pleasures. When she discovers her aunt is running a brothel in St Giles-in-the-Fields, Penitence has no option but to point out the wickedness...
  • The Protective Groom by Lucy McConnell

    The Protective Groom by Lucy McConnell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Noah Baker is about to meet the toughest woman in Texas—right before he marries her. Harley Wilson, of the Texas Wilsons, is being stalked by an unscrupulous creeper who is intent on doing her harm. In order to protect herself, Harley asks Pamela Jones to find her a groom. She needs someone who can hold his own in a firefight and happily sign annulment papers when this nightmare is over...
  • Hesitate by Anna Brooks

    Hesitate by Anna Brooks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When I opened the file and saw her face, I knew I was in trouble. The first time she put her hand in mine, I should have simply taken her home and continued to keep her safe from a distance. But her pull was too strong, her beauty too irresistible, and before I knew it was happening, she’d brought me to my knees. I wasn’t the only one who was falling, though...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  suspense  contemporary
  • UnExpected by T.C. Matson

    UnExpected by T.C. Matson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Paige. Turns out he was everything I ever wanted—charming, loving, and super sexy. But I knew being with Levi, the gorgeous MMA fighter every woman wanted, was going to be difficult. Especially since he’s so far away training a beautiful up-and-coming female fighter, teaching the very thing he thrives on. I just didn’t realize how damaging and strenuous this would be to our relationship...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  contemporary  length-medium
  • Because I Said So by Sable Hunter

    Because I Said So by Sable Hunter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This book will break your heart…then mend it back together again. BECAUSE I SAID SO crosses the world of the TEXAS HEROES with the beloved characters of Hell Yeah! to teach the eternal lesson that everyone deserves a second chance at love. As far as Brodie Walton is concerned, his life was over the day his beloved fiancé was killed in a senseless mass shooting. He doesn’t deserve happiness...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  contemporary  length-medium
  • Bright Lights Billionaire by Ali Parker

    Bright Lights Billionaire by Ali Parker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    It’s all a bunch of bullshit. Nothing I say or do is real anymore. And I get paid for it. My whole life has been lived behind the bright lights of Hollywood. And I’m living proof that money can’t buy love. My situation is complicated enough, but then a sweet girl from the local college scores a part as my co-actor in a new blockbuster film. These people are going to eat her alive...
  • Anarchist: Book 5 by Jordan Silver

    Anarchist: Book 5 by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In this final book in the first season Law is having a hard time resisting his pretend bride who seems hellbent on changing his mind. He's not in the market for a wife for all that she's already wearing his ring. She's too soft and sweet for a man like him and he knows it, but he won't stop pushing...
  • Beautiful Surrender by Priscilla West

    Beautiful Surrender by Priscilla West

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    “What gives you a thrill Kristen? ”. The conclusion to the Surrender Series by Priscilla West. No one is who they seem to be. Kristen let Vincent into her heart because he seemed so different from everyone in her conservative world of wealth management. She thought they shared something special, but when she realizes that Vincent has been playing her the entire time, her heart is crushed...
  • One Man's Art by Nora Roberts

    One Man's Art by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 29 ratings
    “When it comes to true romance, no one does it better than Nora [Roberts],” (Booklist). And in The MacGregors’ novel One Man’s Art, the #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers a story of how one woman’s love gives a man the strength to let go of his haunted past...
  • Exposed - Part Three by Deborah Bladon

    Exposed - Part Three by Deborah Bladon

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Hunter changed Sadie’s entire life. After discovering his connection to her past, she was ready to let go and embrace her new life. That one fateful night in Manhattan changed it all. After seeing Hunter for who he really is, Sadie must face painful truths about his past and their present. Her heart is pushing her in one direction. Her mind is pulling her towards a different path...
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