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Buttons and Despise by Penelope Sky
My father wouldn’t approve of most of the men I’ve dated—but definitely not him. His name is Bones—and he’s an enemy to my family. I thought I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but he planned this moment long ago. He’s taken me captive—and he wants the life that was stolen from him. Killing and torturing me is his best way to accomplish that. But the intensity between us is overpowering...Categorized as:
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Buttons and Blood by Penelope Sky
Crow Barsetti knows about me—and he doesn’t like it. I know he’s paying his top guys to dig up every piece of dirt they can find, but I don’t care what he discovers. There’s nothing I’ve done that he hasn’t done himself. All that matters is I love his daughter—and he’s going to accept it. I get a call in the middle of the night while Vanessa is dead asleep—and it’s him... -
Conflagration by Tessa Teevan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsIt isn't just a few flames; it's an especially large and destructive fire that causes devastation. Branson Wellington? The name, my name, is usually followed by fucking prick or self-serving bastard , and I can't say I haven't earned those titles. It's true. I'm not the good guy. I'm not the boy next door. I'm definitely not your Prince fucking Charming. Not even close...Categorized as:
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The Billionaire's Salvation ~ Max by J.S. Scott
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsBillionaire Max Hamilton thought he was finally starting to find contentment, more than two years after losing his wife Mia in a tragic drowning accident. He'd been reunited with a sister he hadn’t realized existed. Finally he had family again, a reprieve from the pain and loneliness that had haunted him since his devastating loss...Categorized as:
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Deceive Not My Heart by Shirlee Busbee
HER FURY PROMISED VENGEANCE Leonie's only interest in the despicable cad she had been forced to marry was the return of her dowry. She had not seen her husband in five years, and now Morgan Slade angrily denied there had ever been a marriage...Categorized as:
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Assisting the Bosshole by Kristin MacQueen
No hot water? CheckMissed the train? CheckBroke my heel? CheckDropped my coffee? CheckMy first day of my new job can’t possibly go worse, right?Wrong. When I meet Parker Scott, I realize this job is going to be a lot harder than I thought it would be. Quitting isn’t an option; I’ll have to learn to deal with the three Bossholes in one way or another...Categorized as:
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A Touch of Minx by Suzanne Enoch
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWho says crime doesn't pay? A year ago, Samantha Jellicoe robbed from the rich and gave...to herself! Now, though, she's using her larcenous skills for good as a private security consultant, trying to walk the high road for her sexy billionaire boyfriend, Richard Addison, and asking herself if there's anything more torturous than tracking down priceless artifacts (only to give them back!)... -
Unspoken: A Short Story by Stephanie John
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsMy first rule of business–never mix it with pleasure. Ever. One unexpected encounter with a new employee and that fundamental rule was forgotten. With a single touch, Kara Collins obliterated the order of my disciplined life, forcing me to question everything I believed in. Intuition told me I needed her, ensuring I couldn't forget my second rule. Trust my instincts. Always... -
Without Judgment by Aubrey Bondurant
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsDo you know what I got for always being the good girl? A cheating ex, fake friends, and now a scandal that has even my own father ashamed of me. No one believes it isn’t me on the video. My new bodyguard is no exception. Mason is not only my brother’s best friend, but my newly assigned babysitter who wishes he was anywhere but here. He’s both hot and judgmental...Categorized as:
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Late Call by Emma Hart
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsShe’s a high class call girl. He’s taking over his father’s business. Seven years ago, they fell in love in Paris. They walked away at the end of the summer, never imagining they’d meet again.Now he’s her client. We fell in love the way you jump from a cliff. Hard and fast with a reckless sense of abandon. The six weeks we spent together changed my life, but at seventeen, I was naive... -
Flirting With Danger by Suzanne Enoch
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsIn her dazzling romantic suspense debut, USA Today bestselling author Suzanne Enoch brings us a thrilling tale about a thief who needs to prove she's no murderer and the millionaire who loves her. Samantha Jellicoe is a thief and proud of it. Raised to appreciate the finer things in life, Sam has no trouble divesting the wealthy of their treasures...Categorized as:
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Cold and Broken by Nichole Greene
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 15 ratings“No one touches the new girl. No one befriends her. Otherwise they risk the wrath of the Titans.”Moving her senior year of high school was not Lilith’s idea of a great plan. She would have much rather stayed with her best friend Zion for their final year of school. Her dad had different plans though; this new job was too good to pass up, and she knew she needed to go with him... -
Dying to Please by Linda Howard, Susan Ericksen
Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins Loyal. Beautiful. Professional. Impeccably organized. Potentially lethal. Sarah Stevens is a woman with many distinct qualities... -
Identity Crisis by Rochelle Paige
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA reclusive author... Delia Sinclair is desperate to hit a looming deadline. With only two weeks to go before her manuscript is due, she heads to a remote cabin in the Smoky Mountains with no internet or cell service. An ex-military security specialist... Blaine West is halfway around the world when he gets a frantic message from his childhood sweetheart...Categorized as:
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Sweet Trouble by Susan Mallery
Jesse Keyes has done some serious growing up. With a steady job and a vibrant four-year-old son, Gabe, she's in a far better place than when she left Seattle five years ago... pregnant and misunderstood by almost everyone in her life. Now it's time to go home and face her demons. But her sisters, Claire and Nicole, aren't exactly impressed with the new and improved Jesse...Categorized as:
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Allegiances by Cynthia Eden
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn old enemy returns…with a new victim in the conclusion of The Battling McGuire Boys by New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Eden Private investigator Sullivan "Sully" McGuire has a reputation for danger. He's spent most of his life tracking the men who murdered his parents. The one woman who sees past Sully's predatorial pursuit is the wife he abandoned years ago... -
Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii, Vol. 1 by Asuka Konishi
Yoshino grew up the sheltered yakuza princess of the largest crime family in Osaka, the Somei. Due to her resting bitch face and dangerous family, no man has ever approached her. When her grandfather signs a truce with the Tokyo-based Miyama crime family, he offers her up as a truce bride to the Miyama leader’s grandson! Kirishima Miyama is popular, charming, and seems totally normal...Categorized as:
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The Innocent Behind the Scandal by Abby Green
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsFrom London to St Petersburg... Everyone is talking about this couple! Photographer Zoe Collins is ready to be awakened at the hands of charismatic billionaire Maks Marchetti. She's been hurt one too many times and is determined to protect her heart, but she's done with protecting her virginity! Maks has never met anyone that intrigues him like Zoe... -
Disrespected by Story Brooks
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsWhat Happens When The Stalker Becomes The Stalked?Chaos? Mayhem? Or a pink haired pixie woman that just might be crazier than you are. Jackson’s going to regret the day he ever laid eyes on Scully. Disrespected is book one in the Unnecessary Intentions series. Each book can be read as a stand-alone and ends with an HEA... -
The Game of Love by Jeanette Murray
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsChris St. James is ready for normal. After walking away from her pro tennis career and a toxic relationship with a star hockey player, she's starting a new life as a teacher and tennis coach in a small town. Now all she needs is an average guy to share it with. Brett Wallace is no average guy... -
His Road Dog by Debra Kayn
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsShe's an unusual girl. Young and more confident than the other women he entertains. For Priest, President of Tarkio Motorcycle Club, everything centers around trust and possession. He's at his strongest when he has total control over his club, his life, his women. So when he finds a free-spirited girl dancing alone at the clubhouse, his dark sexual desires push him to seize her...Categorized as:
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A Lost Love by Carole Mortimer
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsShe didn't have to guess how Rafe felt about his wife... Brooke Adamson knew the whole bitter story. Because she was Rafe Charlwood's wife, or rather she had been, before the terrible car accident Rafe believed had claimed her life... -
Fighting by Cat Phoenix
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsNew Adult Romance Alex is an independent twenty one year old college drop out and reformed thief when she meets Brooks. He wants her to join his team of thieves who fight to avenge the innocent, the wronged. Skeptical, she thinks he's cracked and needs to be taken back to the mental facility he'd broken out of... -
Stormy Vows by Iris Johansen
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFiercely proud of her independence, Brenna Sloan felt her assurance crumble under Michael Donovan's forceful approach. They were both fighters--but Brenna wasn't strong enough to reach out for the love she needed, and Michael knew only how to take--until he met Brenna. With tantalizing persuasion, he overcame her objections, urged her into a sudden marriage, and carried her away...Categorized as:
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The Kingmaker by Selena Laurence
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe's America's golden boy. A power broker. A Kingmaker. She's America's dirty little secret. A sex broker. A scandal maker. Together they are headline news. Lies, deceptions. A Presidency hangs in the balance. Then, there is the chemistry. It's combustible, incendiary, explosive. She. Will. Ruin. Him. He might not care... -
Tempted by Eve Vaughn
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsBroke but not broken… Down on her luck, Jasmine Brooks is thrown a lifeline in the form of a much-needed job. The job? A nanny position for two precious children. What she thought would be a piece of cake becomes a challenge in the form of their intimidating and very sexy father. Frustrated and falling… Victor Meade never claimed to have all the answers, especially when it came to his children...Categorized as:
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Married to a Mistress by Lynne Graham
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsRace to the altar: Maxie, Darcy and Polly are The Husband Hunters. The terms of the will: the late Nancy Leeward has left each of her three god-daughters a share of her estate if they marry within a year and remain married for six months.... The hunter: Maxie Kendall, who, because of her father's compulsive gambling, is faced with a debt she can't settle... -
Midnight Fire by Lisa Marie Rice
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJack Delvaux is alive Summer Redding thought the blindingly handsome jock who'd loved and left her years ago had died in the Washington Massacre. She grieved for her lost golden boy as the rest of the country mourned their dead—until she comes home to find a very alive Jack Delvaux waiting for her with a devastating secret that turns her life upside down...Categorized as:
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Castle of Kings by Betty Shreffler
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsJake F*cking Castle When he walks into a room, he owns it. He consumes my very breath and melts my delicate little panties. From the moment he set eyes on me, he decided I was his. No one – not even my brother, Nix – was going to tell him otherwise. It doesn’t matter that Nix is President of the Kings MC Club. Jake wants what he wants, and he’ll set out to get it, whatever the cost...Categorized as:
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The Taming by Cary West
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe was a one night stand kind of guy… She was a forever kind of girl. Kate Harris was starting over. After a failed marriage, she was leaving Santa Cruz and moving to Virginia City to work on the fifty acre horse ranch before taking a teaching position in the fall. She needed to find herself again, but that was before she met the wild stallion, Black Thunder, and the overbearing Jack McBride...Categorized as:
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Jilted by Sally Wentworth
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAlexa's heartache was an age-old story Alexa's best friend had married Mark, the man Alexa had loved. Suddenly all her dreams were shattered, and she no longer wanted to live, But she was not allowed that refuge. Scott Kelsey, Mark's brother, would not have such scandal affect their family's proud reputation. I'm taking you with me, he informed her, preparing to return to South America... -
Untouched Until Marriage by Chantelle Shaw
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsWhen infamous Raul Carducci learns that a little baby may challenge his inheritance he will stop at nothing —a new Carducci heir will not take away what is rightfully his. To safeguard baby Gino, unassuming Libby Maynard has been forced to pretend she is his mother—but she hasn't counted on having to convince the wolfish Raul Carducci of her deception... -
Intangible Dream by Patricia Wilson
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA devil's bargain James Sanderson is domineering, handsome and cold as black stone. But beneath all his polish, gloss and sophistication, Gemma knows there lurks a savage, untamed jungle cat who takes what he wants. And he wants her. Her father's death and mitigating circumstances give James the upper hand... -
The Guarded Heart by Robyn Donald
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsHis was a terrible vengeance Alannah's thoughtlessness when she was sixteen had caused an accident with tragic consequences. Then, three years later, when she'd finally come to terms with the past, she was painfully reminded of her guilt. Nicholas Challoner, haunted, brooding for his dead wife and unborn child, was not a man to forget--or to forgive... -
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Strangers in the Desert by Lynn Raye Harris
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIsabella, the wife Sheikh Adan thought was dead, has just walked back into his life on the eve of his wedding to another woman.Now Adan is to be crowned King, Isabella must be his Queen—sharing his desert throne and the royal bed. But gone is the dutiful, pure girl he once knew; in her place is a defiant, sultry woman who makes Adan's blood run hot. A woman who has no memory of being his wife…... -
Love Conspiracy by Susan Napier
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe uncertainty was unnerving. Kat had cheerfully accepted her friend Todd's invitation to stay at the family home for the weekend -- during which his Uncle Daniel was to announce his engagement. Only slowly did it dawn on Kat that she was the pawn in another game altogether. A game complicated by the incandescent flame that erupted between herself and Daniel Bishop... -
For the Win by Sara Rider
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat happens when you fall for your biggest competition? Sara Rider scores with this charming romance about soccer stars battling their tough opponents and playing the field of love.Lainey Lukas has sacrificed everything—sleep, family, carbs, a life—to earn her spot as the top player and captain of the Seattle Falcons women’s soccer team... -
Expectant Bride by Lynne Graham
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA wedding, a baby... but what about love? Ellie Morgan hoped to buy the bookshop where she worked, so evenings she moonlighted as a cleaner at Alexiakis International... Until she overheard Dio Alexiakis discussing a top-secret deal, and he insisted that Ellie was an industrial spy! Ellie was unnerved by her confrontation with Dio Alexiakis. However, Dio knew just how he would deal with her...Categorized as:
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Twice the Temptation by Suzanne Enoch
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsTwo unforgettable tales. One dazzling diamond! Summer 1814... When Evangeline Munroe inherits the exquisite but supposedly cursed Nightshade Diamond, she considers it a bit of good fortune. Then she literally runs into Connoll Addison, Marquis of Rawley, the most sought after bachelor amongst the ton. Surely her immediate attraction to the rogue is bad luck...Categorized as:
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Meeting Mr. Mogul by Mel Ryle
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“Just because you’re the boss does not mean you can just treat me however you want!” With those words, Andy Peterson made an enemy out of William Maxwell. If it were up to her, she wouldn’t have to deal with him at all. Unfortunately, he is one of the most powerful men in the city, which means he can crush her like a bug if he wants to... -
Embrace and Conquer by Jennifer Blake
Young and beautiful Felicite is the toast of New Orleans, her kindness and virtue an example to other young women. Daughter of an outlaw merchant, sister to the dangerously handsome swashbuckler Valcour Murat. Felicite's honor is well protected, father and brother the only men in her life. However, such a beautiful and prominent young woman cannot remain sheltered forever. The ruthless Lt...Categorized as:
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Ruthless Magnate, Convenient Wife by Lynne Graham
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsRussian billionaire Sergei Antonovich was famous for being knee-deep in stunning supermodels and aspiring actresses. But not one was suitable bride material... -
Christakis's Rebellious Wife by Lynne Graham
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsNine months to save their marriage! Nik Christakis had once been her Prince Charming, the indecently rich and devilishly handsome tycoon who took Betsy away from her life as a waitress and did the unimaginable—made her his wife! But married life wasn't the fantasy she'd envisioned... -
A Whirlwind Marriage by Helen Brooks
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsZeke Buchanan had swept Marianne off her feet, and their two-year marriage had been perfect—until recently….Their physical passion was as strong as ever, but was Zeke starting to regret their impulsive wedding? The beautiful Liliana was clearly interested in more than a business relationship with Zeke... -
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Crime of Passion by Lynne Graham
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsHer crime was to have loved him... "You go to pieces when I touch you.." However had she tried, Georgie Morrison couldn't deny how physically attractive she found Rafael Bernaza. But four years ago he had devastated her emotions and her pride, and she vowed to never let him get that close again... -
Rafaello's Mistress by Lynne Graham
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn outrageous proposition! Glory Little's fantasies became reality when the irresistible Rafaello Grazzini chose to embark on a passionate liaison with her. Rafaello's charms and social graces made Glory feel like a princess. But his father cast a disapproving eye over the relationship and used blackmail to bring the fairy tale to an abrupt end...Categorized as:
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Wife By Contract, Mistress By Demand by Carole Mortimer
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGabriella Benito fell for wealthy Rufus Gresham the first time she saw him. But Rufus believed Gabriella only wanted a rich husband-- just like her mother. Five years later, Rufus and Gabriella must marry to obtain their inheritances... -
Passionate Scandal by Michelle Reid
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRead this classic, passionate romance from USA Today bestselling author Michelle Reid, now available for the first time in e-book! The Taming of Madeline Wild and wilful, Madeline had run rings around the besotted men who fell for her wicked blue eyes and black mane of hair. Until she met Dominic Stanton...Categorized as:
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Sale or Return Bride by Sarah Morgan
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe bride may be getting married in white... It's the wedding of the year--two of Greece's oldest dynasties are uniting. Their feud is over and Sebastien Fiorukis is to marry Alesia Philipos. But she has been purchased for her husband's pleasure! Alesia is not a willing wife--she's been bought by Sebastien! He needs an heir...but a child is something she will never give him..Categorized as:
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A Vengeful Passion by Lynne Graham
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Desperate Plea Ashley Forrester had no choice but to plead with Vito di Cavalieri to drop the charges that would put her brother in prison. She expected Vito to exact a high payment in return. But what shocked her was his asking price.... A Demanding Proposition He wanted Ashley... in his bed, as his wife. And passion surged beneath her shaking defenses and betrayed her like never before...
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