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  • A Sign of Affection, Vol. 3 by Suu Morishita

    A Sign of Affection, Vol. 3 by Suu Morishita

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    Does he really see me as a girl? Yuki's a Deaf college student who is at first enchanted by and soon falls in love with an upperclassman in her school named Itsuomi who doesn't care about her lack of hearing but treats her like anyone else. Yuki resolves to face that love head-on and really pursue it proactively...
  • A Sign of Affection, Vol. 8 by Suu Morishita

    A Sign of Affection, Vol. 8 by Suu Morishita

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    “There are still parts of me-words, faces-that I've never shown you…” Emma's relentless pursuit of Itsuomi has hit a wall, and Shin is left to pick up the pieces, if Emma will let him. Meanwhile, Oushi-kun's sudden confession makes Yuki anxious about Itsuomi's feelings...
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  • A Sign of Affection, Vol. 4 by Suu Morishita, 森下suu

    A Sign of Affection, Vol. 4 by Suu Morishita, 森下suu

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    “I WISH ITSUOMI-SAN WOULD TAKE ME INTO HIS WORLD…”. Yuki, a deaf college student who’s led a relatively sheltered life, has just taken a huge step: She’s got a boyfriend! And he seems like a keeper: Itsuomi is a multilingual globetrotter who works hard, and he’s a knockout, to boot...
  • Gentry Boys by Cora Brent

    Gentry Boys by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    “All my life I’d always known what the Gentry boys were. A set of fraternal triplets born to a depraved family, they were rough, sexy and wild as wolves. .. ". DRAW. They called us ‘those white trash Gentry boys’ until we believed that’s what we were. Our people squatted at the edge of a hellhole prison town for generations. The childhood we endured was the stuff of nightmares...
  • Forever You by Allie Everhart

    Forever You by Allie Everhart

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Jade and Garret have a love story like no other. They’ve survived heartache, tragedy, and numerous forces trying to tear them apart, but through it all they’ve developed a love that will endure forever. Now it’s time to celebrate their love with a wedding...
  • Let Me Love You by Megan Smith

    Let Me Love You by Megan Smith

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Will their lives take them in different directions? Jaylinn McCormick is determined to forget that one terrifying night which left her feeling broken and tainted. There is one person who can make her whole again… but he is hell bent on keeping her at arm’s length. She has loved him her entire life but can she wait for him to step up to the plate? Cooper Cahill has loved Jaylinn for years...
  • Raveling You by Jessica Sorensen

    Raveling You by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Ayden Gregory may want to keep running from his nightmares, but he no longer has a choice. His past is catching up with him. And fast. He relies on one person to keep him from crumbling. His best friend Lyric Scott. Lyric feels helpless watching her best friend’s world turn upside down. But she does her best to remain positive and upbeat...
  • Love Me by Kristin Mayer

    Love Me by Kristin Mayer

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Engaged and happily in love, Allison Scott and Damien Wales are looking forward to joining their lives together as one. Coming from a mournful year after losing her parents, Allison is ready to heal and move on to the next chapter with the love of her life. But Damien’s past continues to threaten their future. A man once obsessed with Damien’s sister is now after his one and only love, Allison...
  • All That Remains by Michele G. Miller

    All That Remains by Michele G. Miller

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Storms come and go, but true love remains. Fear, guilt, and jealousy all rear their ugly heads as Jules and West strive to figure out what they want now that they've emerged from the wreckage of the storm. A year has passed since the night Jules Blacklin and West Rutledge were thrown together by a tornado...
  • Riptide by H.M. Ward

    Riptide by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A random hook-up isn't enough for Trystan, not anymore. After everything Trystan went through to tell Mari that he loves her, there is no way that he's letting her walk away without knowing how he really feels. Every mask is stripped away making Trystan completely vulnerable. Mari's the one girl he wants, that he knew he'd never have...
  • Fighter by Tijan

    Fighter by Tijan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    All of Dale's brothers help with their bounty hunting business, all except her. Wanting out of that life, she left for college, but on her first morning back home for the holidays, she’s back to chasing after a bail jumper. When she realizes the jumper is her ex-boyfriend, Jax, Dale gets dragged into helping him evade her brothers so he can win an underground fighting competition...
  • A Christmas Wish by Ivy Smoak

    A Christmas Wish by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Julia can't help but be a little bit of a Grinch this Christmas. After a painful break up, her little sister showing up with a surprise fiancé wasn't exactly Julia's Christmas wish. Especially when her mother won't stop reminding her that she is currently single. When Julia's mother notices that she's missing an ingredient for cookies, Julia leaps at the opportunity to get away from everyone...
  • Dead Serious by C.M. Stunich

    Dead Serious by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    "You ever see one of those old western movies where the sheriff and the outlaw face each other in a dusty street? Revolvers at the ready? Good versus evil and all. Well, this is kind of like that. Only more f***ed. ". Naomi Knox is on her way to becoming the world's most worshipped Rock Goddess. I'm so in love with this chick that I could be the King to her Queen, the Devil to her Angel...
  • Promise Me by Kristin Mayer

    Promise Me by Kristin Mayer

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    With her best friend happily married and now pregnant, Sam Matthews should be overjoyed. Instead, she can only see what is missing in her life. Pushing her emotions aside, she retreats to a piece of her past that she’s kept hidden, something that even her best friend knows nothing about. Taking a step into her future, Sam moves to North Carolina where she once again encounters Mark Robertson...
  • Broken Promises (The Secret Life of Trystan Scott) by H.M. Ward

    Broken Promises (The Secret Life of Trystan Scott) by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New Adult novel by New York Times bestselling author H. M. Ward. A TRYSTAN SCOTT NOVEL - BROKEN PROMISESIt's 3 years later and Trystan's life has changed. The Secret Life serials are how Trystan became a rockstar, the novel is what happens after his rise to fame, and his brush with the Ferro family. Cover reveal to come! Genre: New Adult RomanceLength: Novel, ~275 pgs.
  • The Wishes Series Box Set by G.J. Walker-Smith

    The Wishes Series Box Set by G.J. Walker-Smith

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The first three books in the iBooks #1 bestselling Wishes Series. Bonus inclusion: Sand Jewels (novella) and first 11 chapters of Secret North (book 4). Over 350 000 words, 162 chapters! ! SAVING WISHES: For Charli Blake, being seventeen is a tough gig. She's been branded a troublemaker, her reputation is in tatters and she's stuck in Pipers Cove, a speck of a town on the coast of Tasmania...
  • All Broke Down by Cora Carmack

    All Broke Down by Cora Carmack

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 35 ratings
    In this second book in "New York Times" and "USA Today" bestselling author Cora Carmack s New Adult, Texas-set Rusk University series, which began with "All Lined Up," a young woman discovers that you can t only fight for what you believe in sometimes you have to fight for what you love. Dylan fights for lost causes. Probably because she used to be one...
  • Wild Child by M. Leighton

    Wild Child by M. Leighton

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Jenna Theopolis has always known what she wanted. Getting out of her small hometown of Greenfield was number one on her list of priorities. Until she met Rusty Catron. Rusty’s fun-loving personality was the perfect match for Jenna’s inner wild child. But what started off as a summer fling quickly turns into something more. At least it does for Jenna...
  • Girl on Tour by Caisey Quinn

    Girl on Tour by Caisey Quinn

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    An up and comer trying to make a name for herself. .. KYLIE never expected to be stuck on a tour bus with a pampered princess and her boyfriend’s ex. A troubled artist struggling to hold onto his career. .. TRACE thought he was finally getting to do things his way...
  • Raw Temptation by Eve Carter

    Raw Temptation by Eve Carter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    This is Book 2 in the Tempted series. You should start with Book 1 Pure Temptation, on sale for only 99 cents here on Amazon. From New York Times best-selling author, Eve Carter, comes the much-anticipated sequel to Pure Temptation...
  • Liam by Jay McLean

    Liam by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Hatred comes in waves. But love? Love is a tsunami. —. Liam Preston was five the first time he laid eyes on Adelaide Baker. Eight by the time he found the courage to actually speak to her. By ten, she’d ruined his entire existence. And at fourteen, he got his revenge—a single decision that drove her out of town for good. Or so he thought. Five years later, she’s back...
  • No Rules by Anita Rigins

    No Rules by Anita Rigins

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    How to win a game where you know neither the rules nor the codes? Barely arrived on her new campus, Iris witnesses a wave of hysteria in the college corridors. The most select group on. campus has issued an invitation. Who wants to try to join? The Pack members rule the everyone knows them, and everyone wants to be part of it. .. Except Iris, who has very...
  • Uncaged Love, Volume 3 by J.J. Knight

    Uncaged Love, Volume 3 by J.J. Knight

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 19 ratings
    An MMA fighter rescues a girl with powerful raw talent of her own in UNCAGED LOVE, an erotic, romantic suspense series. Volume 3 of the series. Colt believes another great love has deserted him during his worst hour. Jo is certain Colt is better off without her. There is only one way Colt can prove to Jo that they are meant to be together...
  • Uncaged Love, Volume 2 by J.J. Knight

    Uncaged Love, Volume 2 by J.J. Knight

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 22 ratings
    Colt McClure’s career as a champion MMA fighter is threatened by his damaged past. Jo believes their love can heal him. To prove it, she trusts Colt with the secret she’s been hiding from everyone. But there's one person who can stand in their way, and he's not about to let anyone interfere with Colt's future.
  • The Beginning: Duet: Ryder / Two Worlds Colliding by Jani Kay

    The Beginning: Duet: Ryder / Two Worlds Colliding by Jani Kay

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    THE BEGINNING - A Duet: Ryder & Two Worlds Colliding is a compilation of TWO books that starts off the Scorpio Stinger Series. It contains:. Ryder (Prequel) Book 0. 5. Two Worlds Colliding Book 1. Bonus Chapters 1 - 5 of Razor & Lexi's story (NEW material never seen before). (That's over 95 Thousand Words). The Princess & The Biker. A modern day Romeo & Juliet story...
  • Chasing River by K.A. Tucker

    Chasing River by K.A. Tucker

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Armed with two years' worth of savings and the need to experience life outside the bubble of her Oregon small town, twenty-five-year old Amber Welles is prepared for anything. Except dying in Dublin. Had it not been for the bravery of a stranger, she might have. But he takes off before she has the chance to offer her gratitude. Twenty-four-year-old River Delaney is rattled...
  • Numb by Xavier Neal

    Numb by Xavier Neal

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Just when Logan Kellar was finally ready to make some changes in his life, his entire world was flipped upside down. Now the pain he is used to burying is fighting back. Refusing to let him slip into his old ways, refusing to let him hide from his mistakes, and refusing to let him become numb.
  • Eden High Series 2 Book 2 by Jordan Silver

    Eden High Series 2 Book 2 by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Mandy has decided to up the stakes now that Jace seems to be getting farther out of her reach. From the safety of her hospital bed, she has devised a scheme to get Jace just where she wants him, but everything and everyone keeps getting in her way. Jace is hell bent on proving that Mandy had something to do with the attack on Sian but can’t seem to get a bead on just what is going on...
  • Pep Talks by Ali Dean

    Pep Talks by Ali Dean

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    (This is the fourth book in the Pepper Jones series, which should be read in order. The first three books in the series may be purchased as a box set for a discounted price, under the title “The Pepper Jones Collection. ”). Pepper’s freshman year at college is a harder transition than she anticipated...
  • Let Me Heal Your Heart by Lily Foster

    Let Me Heal Your Heart by Lily Foster

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    LET ME HEAL YOUR HEART. Book Four in Lily Foster’s LET ME series. First loves are not easily forgotten…. Anna has endured more by the age of eighteen than most do in a lifetime. Unless you know her, you see only the beautiful, privileged, bright college freshman who seems to have it all. Few people know what she’s gone through or know who she really is...
  • Dreams of Us by Brooke St. James

    Dreams of Us by Brooke St. James

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bailey Black was a former college athlete who was now enjoying the beginnings of a successful career in Chicago. Some aspects of her life hadn't turned out the way she planned, but she had slowly come to accept that. She thought she was content with her current lifestyle...
  • No Regrets Book 1 by Aimee Noalane

    No Regrets Book 1 by Aimee Noalane

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    He left you. He's gone. And so are you. If life ever taught me anything, it's that nothing should be taken for granted. One moment. .. is all it takes to break a promise. Friendship becomes love. One second. .. is all takes to end a life. Love becomes pain. One distraction. .. is all it took to change our destiny. Pain becomes hate. One moment, one second, one distraction...
  • Promise Me Once by Paige Weaver

    Promise Me Once by Paige Weaver

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    From the highly acclaimed New York Times and USA Today bestselling Promise Me series comes a new story. A standalone novel. A race for survival and love. Once with him was never enough. I am the girl you dislike. The girl you snub at parties. I am the one who flirts with men and knows no boundaries. I am the one you whisper about. The one who has no rules...
  • Inspiring You by Jessica Sorensen

    Inspiring You by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Ayden knows it’s time to remember what really happened four years ago, so he can help save his sister. With the help of Lyric, he faces his past head on. But dealing with the truth is difficult. Will Ayden finally be free of his past so he can move forward to his future?
  • A Wicked Kiss: An Erotic Thriller by M. S. Parker

    A Wicked Kiss: An Erotic Thriller by M. S. Parker

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Wicked Kiss is the second installment in the Wicked series. You should read "A Wicked Lie" before reading this. There were three men in this world I thought I could trust and two of them had just betrayed me. Everything I'd thought I'd known about my life, about the people I loved, all of it was gone. I found myself staring at a pack of lies with no idea just how deep they went...
  • The Prelude of Ella and Micha by Jessica Sorensen

    The Prelude of Ella and Micha by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    When Ella Daniels and Micha Scott are fourteen, they make a pact to leave the small town of Star Grove and create better lives for themselves. The pact was made as best friends, but over the next six years, their friendship begins to intensify. Feelings change. Grow. Veer towards love. But one tragic night changes everything. Hearts get broken. And the future they had planned changes forever...
  • Finding Us: Jules and Nate by Allie Juliette Mousseau

    Finding Us: Jules and Nate by Allie Juliette Mousseau

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Author Note: 50% of all Sale Proceeds from May14th through the 21st will be donated to the "No More Project" through The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. "When you're lost. .. True North". The North brothers were hell on wheels-adrenaline-junky bad boys...
  • When You Were Mine by Elizabeth Reyes

    When You Were Mine by Elizabeth Reyes

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    When her head was screaming “enough,” her hopeful heart continued to whisper “wait. ”. It's the only way Valerie Zuniga can justify her ongoing addiction to the amazing but ever, elusive Alex Moreno. Mesmerized by the profound connection neither has ever quite understood, Valerie accepts their crazy relationship for what it is—non-exclusive...
  • Good Sensations by S.L. Scott

    Good Sensations by S.L. Scott

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Evan Ashford is sex personified. He makes me feel things I never have and crave things I'm not sure I should. Time doesn't exist when we're together-all of our worries becoming obsolete. Our tongues touch, and as if by memory, they move in harmony, feeling at peace, feeling at home...
  • We Were One: Looking Glass by Elizabeth Reyes

    We Were One: Looking Glass by Elizabeth Reyes

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death. ~Oscar Wilde~. Adoration is not profound enough a word to express the depth of my love for her. From the moment she walked into my life and set my heart and soul on fire, not a day's gone by that she hasn't plagued my every thought. We were each other's completion...
  • True Love: The Trilogy: The Complete Boxed Set by Harper Bentley

    True Love: The Trilogy: The Complete Boxed Set by Harper Bentley

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From USA Today Best Selling Author Harper Bentley comes all three True Love books together in one boxed set! True Love, Book 1 - Discovering Us. They wanted forever. .. but sometimes forever's not that easy. Ellen has loved Jagger since she was five and he was seven when they kissed through the chain link fence at school...
  • Starless Nights by Kathryn Andrews

    Starless Nights by Kathryn Andrews

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Beau Hale. She said that she was my best friend and then one day she wasn’t. Every day I live with the visible scars, but it’s the invisible ones that hurt the most. They are a constant reminder of everything I’ve lost as well as all the things that I’ll never have. I should be over this by now, it’s been years, but I can’t escape the memories that haunt me...
  • Chasing Allie by Meli Raine

    Chasing Allie by Meli Raine

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    It turns out my stepfather has plans for me. Plans that make dying look like a walk in the park. He’s selling my virginity to a Mexican drug lord to get out of debt. Chase just found out and is here to take me away to safety. To the ocean. To my dreams. But while I’m gone, a murder takes place back home. I receive a phone call. It’s the police. I’m the prime suspect...
  • The Winning Side by CM Doporto

    The Winning Side by CM Doporto

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Lexi’s determined to keep her word and stand by Raven’s side because her love for him is too strong to deny. As Raven learns to deal with the issues that are destined to destroy him and their relationship, their love is taken to a new level. As doors are closed and new ones are opened, Lexi and Raven find themselves in a heavenly bliss, but not without the challenges from Raven’s past...
  • Fight for Her, Volume 4 by J.J. Knight

    Fight for Her, Volume 4 by J.J. Knight

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The dramatic conclusion to the bestselling MMA series arrives with Fight for Her #4. Maddie has left me again, and I can’t blame her. I failed to protect her. I don’t even know if I deserve her and Lily. But I’m determined to make things right. First, I’m going to find her father. He’s been living on the streets too long. That has to end. Second, I’m going to give up this career...
  • Let Me Go by Michelle Lynn

    Let Me Go by Michelle Lynn

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My name is Rob Winters, aka, Jackass. Even to my closest friends. I wasn’t always so arrogant and condescending. It only took one night to change me—one point twenty-seven seconds, to be exact. When tragedy struck, I promised myself, no matter what, unbreakable chains would lock my heart. If one veers too close or digs too deep, the cruel and mean bastard many hate is unleashed...
  • Wild at Heart by Jinsey Reese, Victoria Green

    Wild at Heart by Jinsey Reese, Victoria Green

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    With his dad hell-bent on destroying him, Dare's life hangs in the balance. Fearing the worst, Reagan rushes from Paris to New York, hoping to get to him in time, only to find their entire world collapsing around them. The threat is too real, risk too high, death too possible. Unfair doesn't even begin to cover it...
  • Zack by M. Malone

    Zack by M. Malone

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Zack Marshall may look like a thug but underneath he’s all about family. His popular older brother, Gabe, has always had his back and he’s never envied anything he has. Except for Josephine Harlow. As the daughter of a congressman, Josie's family is appalled when she ends her engagement to work at a local mechanic’s shop. They all assume she’s still in love with her high school boyfriend...
  • The Same Side by C.M. Doporto

    The Same Side by C.M. Doporto

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The engagement's off and with Collin behind her, Lexi has decided that the temptations of Raven Davenport are too strong to be ignored. It doesn't take long for Lexi and Raven to find themselves wrapped in each other's affection, but not without the challenges that life poses...
  • Thirty-Eight Days by Len Webster

    Thirty-Eight Days by Len Webster

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Ask yourself, how many days does it take to fall in love? Nolan Parker and Clara Lawrence never saw eye to eye. In fact, if you asked Clara she would tell you that Nolan hated every thing about her. They never shared any form of connection besides Alex Lawrence. She was Alex’s bratty sister and he was Alex’s best friend, they never stood a chance...
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