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  • Styx by Cee Bowerman

    Styx by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    Katrine Larson hasn’t had it easy. A horrible childhood that evolved into a horrible marriage has changed her. Now, all she wants to do is raise her family in a better world than the one she was born into...
  • Hugo by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Hugo by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Everly Fulton is desperate for a man to come along and sweep her off her feet, giving her a brief reprieve from her hectic life. She’s been anxiously awaiting prince charming or a knight in shining armor for years.What she got instead was a grumpy Savage King who is just passing through town.Hugo Reddick set out in search of an old hookup...
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  • Coyote by Lila Rose

    Coyote by Lila Rose

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Humiliated years earlier when in high school, Channa Edwards never expects to see her knight in shining armour again. In fact, she really doesn't want to, but of course, life wants to mess with her again. It's just by luck he doesn't recognise her, and for a blissful moment, she thinks she's got away with it.That's until another situation brings her knight back into her life...
  • Path To Realization by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Path To Realization by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Asher Pryce hides behind a wall of secrets he's spent most of his life building up. How else is the adopted child whose birth parents run a drug cartel supposed to fit in? He's notorious for his overconfident swagger and total lack of patience for bullshit - a master of masks. The one thing in his life he can't fake? His feelings for his best friend's twin sister...
  • Hello Trouble by Kelsie Hoss

    Hello Trouble by Kelsie Hoss

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    What happens when the eternally single curvy girl becomes the blue-collar bad boy's new obsession?I love my small town and having all my friends and family around. But I'm almost forty and still single. Clearly, my Prince Charming isn't finding me here. Especially with my car continually breaking down and sending me to Hayes Madigan's shop...
  • Hell's Handlers Box Set One: Zach / Maverick / Jigsaw by Lilly Atlas

    Hell's Handlers Box Set One: Zach / Maverick / Jigsaw by Lilly Atlas

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Zach After choosing a path that nearly destroyed her, Toni pledges to find a man who is steady and honorable. Unfortunately, that promise leads to years of bland relationships. Bland isn’t a word anyone would use to describe Zach, the enforcer for the Hell’s Handlers MC. He stirs up every desire Toni has worked so hard to suppress...
  • Hushed Torment by Bella Jewel

    Hushed Torment by Bella Jewel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From USA Today, and international bestseller, comes the second book in the Iron Fury MC! One accident changed my life. One single second changed everything for me. In one terrifying moment, everything I knew was gone. Music is the only thing that keeps me holding on. When the opportunity arises for me to tour with country music star, Scarlett Belle, I take it. An escape. A chance...
    Categorized as:
    bikers  bad boys  new adult  contemporary  alpha male  m-f
  • Hear Me Out by Lila Rose

    Hear Me Out by Lila Rose

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 23 ratings
    Fear keeps the truth away from his brothers. Fear and pain keeps him away from the man he loves. Hawks MC member Maddox “Beast” Lawson had a difficult time growing up. Tired of being ridiculed because of his effed-up brain-to-mouth connection, it was easier to say nothing at all...
  • 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...
  • Unseen by Karin Slaughter

    Unseen by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    Karin Slaughter’s novels featuring detective Will Trent are utterly riveting and masterfully drawn. Her latest thriller, Unseen, pits detectives, lovers, and enemies against one another in an unforgettable standoff between righteous courage and deepest evil...
  • Saint by Nicole James

    Saint by Nicole James

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s a favor, a debt I owe—that’s all.Kami—I’m no longer the little girl he once knew, one who believed in fairy tales.And he’s no longer the white knight I believed him to be.How can he be when he shows up on a black Harley wearing leather and biker boots?I didn’t want this, but the decision is out of my control.Now I’m his.I have to remember this is only temporary...
  • Burnout: The Complete Series by Dahlia West

    Burnout: The Complete Series by Dahlia West

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The complete box set of the Burnout series. Meet the men of Burnout. Five ex-Army Rangers who've settled in Rapid City, South Dakota. Five men who've decided that friends are the family you choose. Shooter (Burnout 1) Chris “Shooter” Sullivan has returned to his home town of Rapid City, South Dakota to pick up the pieces of his life shattered by a roadside bomb in Iraq...
    Categorized as:
    bikers  bad boys  military  contemporary
  • Twisted Mercy by Elaine Levine

    Twisted Mercy by Elaine Levine

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Hope Townsend has spent long years searching for the brother she was brutally separated from when their mother was murdered. Now, thanks to help from a mysterious source, she’s found him deep in the Medicine Bow Mountains on the remote compound of the notorious White Kingdom Brotherhood motorcycle club and prison gang—a viper's nest of drug runners, murderers, and thieves...
  • Aces MC Series Complete Box Set by Nicole Jacquelyn

    Aces MC Series Complete Box Set by Nicole Jacquelyn

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Over 400,000 words. Four complete novels. Four never before seen bonus scenes. Four protective men. Four strong women. Four stories that will break your heart and then piece it back together again...
    Categorized as:
    bikers  bad boys  contemporary  secret child  abuse
  • Green by Nicole James

    Green by Nicole James

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Can a face from my past change my future?When an invitation shows up out of the blue, I’m reminded of a promise I made to a girl twenty years ago and suddenly my heart is pounding.Do I dare keep it?She’s the one girl that ever meant a damn to me, and the one girl that got away. She walked out of my life once and it devastated me...
  • Detroit by Jessica Gadziala

    Detroit by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’d always liked her from afar.Sure that nothing could ever happen between them, though, he kept that to himself.Until one morning, when Detroit witnesses his estranged brother arresting Everleigh for a crime he knew she didn’t commit. Determined to prove her innocence, and protect her from the real criminals, Detroit jumps into action to get her free, then move her into the clubhouse...
  • Mad Max by S.J. Rowe

    Mad Max by S.J. Rowe

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Cheyanne —I don’t have friends. And I’m not crazy, my mother had me tested. I have my uncle, but he’s in prison. While I’m not great with social cues, I do know it’s not a good dinner topic to bring up I’m related to someone charged for treason. But that doesn’t seem to bother him. A beast of a man who takes me for what I am and doesn’t question. Or at least not till his club thinks I’m the enemy...
  • Niro by Jessica Gadziala

    Niro by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    * You do not need to read the OG Henchmen to read this new series *Joining the MC had never been a question.Raised by an ex-cage-fighting member, Niro hadn’t seen any future for himself that didn’t involve bikes, guns, violence, and the brotherhood he’d learned to revere above all else. But joining the Henchmen meant he couldn’t have the only other thing in life he wanted.Andi...
  • Protective by K.E. Osborn

    Protective by K.E. Osborn

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I always felt different.Like I never quite fit.The moment I found the club, it felt like home, even though it was 1600 miles from Jersey.As the joint SAA for the Houston Defiance MC, my job is to be protective. Keep my brothers at the club safe—be the first line of defense against those who seek to do us harm...
  • Illicit – A Sizzling Boxed Set by Calinda B., Sylvie Stewart

    Illicit – A Sizzling Boxed Set by Calinda B., Sylvie Stewart

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Over 20 illicit romances with the sexy heroes and strong heroines you crave!Lose yourself in the world of hot hookups, where the stories run from sexy to downright scandalous and the characters will leave you breathless. In these pages, you’ll find tantalizing romance, rekindled flames, and forbidden trysts...
  • Ravished by Desire by Brenda Jackson

    Ravished by Desire by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    A LITTLE DARE When Shelly Brockman walks into his office, Sheriff Dare Westmoreland can almost taste the sweet, steamy passion they'd once shared. Then she informs him that he's the father of her son, the unruly preteen Dare arrested earlier that day, and his fantasies turn to fury...
  • Rookie by Amy Davies

    Rookie by Amy Davies

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    RookieWhen I came to the US from Ireland, I thought my life was panned out: become a police officer and help people. One incident changed all of that, and I became a Rugged Skull. My path in life changed. Being a member of the club has its perks, mainly women and booze. But we like something sweet from time to time, and one visit to Coffee Cove had me finding that sugary craving...
  • Beast by Carol Dawn

    Beast by Carol Dawn

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Beast: I'm instantly judged at first sight because of my size. Women back away in fear, which isn't a good thing when my job is to protect them. And men tread water carefully for fear of a broken face. Which works in my favor. I'd rather not break their faces unless I deem it necessary. Then I meet Callie. Wonderful, beautiful, curvy, Callie, and I know that my life has just shifted...
  • Wicked by E.M. Lindsey

    Wicked by E.M. Lindsey

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Hawke doesn’t talk about his past—and it’s not because he has a stutter that rarely lets him speak more than three words at a time. The shadows of what was haunt his every waking hour, but the Broken Chains MC have been a sanctuary he never expected.And Hawke is the sort of man who knows better than to cross lines, especially when it comes the safety of his brothers...
  • Point of Freedom by Stacey Lynn

    Point of Freedom by Stacey Lynn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Hatred. Desire. Broken Dreams. Jules McAllister has loved and lost. She experienced the gut wrenching pain of grief after her boyfriend, Scratch, a member of the Nordic Lords MC, died on the same night that she told him they were going to have a child. Grief stricken and destroyed, she left Jasper Bay, unable to tell anyone the truth of what really happened that fateful night...
  • Not Today, But Someday by Lori L. Otto

    Not Today, But Someday by Lori L. Otto

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Librarian's Note: This is an alternate cover for ASIN B009562YFO In December of 1994, when she was a junior in high school, Emi Hennigan discovered her father's infidelity. Forced to transfer schools mid-year, she wasn't trying to make new friends. In that same month, sophomore Nate Wilson's girlfriend broke up with him...
  • May's Ride with Thunder by Eve London

    May's Ride with Thunder by Eve London

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He’s the protector she didn’t know she needed; she’s the love he never thought he deserved.AshleyWhen the Savage Bones MC targets my family’s ranch, I’m desperate for help. I turn to Thunder, a much older member of the Mustang Mountain Riders, and offer him the only thing I have. When he turns me down, I’m left questioning everything...
  • November's Ride with Viper by Eve London

    November's Ride with Viper by Eve London

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Get ready for Viper and Marlowe's MC club romance!Welcome to Mustang Mountain, where engines roar and loyalty reigns supreme. Beneath the shadowy peaks of the mountain, the Mustang Mountain Riders defend their ground against a dangerous gang trying to take over their small town. Forged in fire and steel, these bikers face threats head-on, riding hard and fighting even harder...
  • Loving The Biker by Glenna Maynard

    Loving The Biker by Glenna Maynard

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Save the date.Bianca put Sandman under her spell. This December will they say I do?Sandman knows she’s the one, so why is making a commitment so hard?Given an ultimatum to pop the question or let her go, he has a choice to make...
  • My Hero by Winter Travers

    My Hero by Winter Travers

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The cameras are rolling…The Iron Fiends never wanted trouble. Yarder had signed on for the reality TV show to make life easier for them. Line their pockets with money in exchange for putting their day-to-day life on TV. Easy.Or not.Trouble is barrelling down on them, and if Yarder doesn’t figure out who is after them, the whole world will see their downfall play out on TV...
  • Muffler's Mayhem by Elizabeth Knox, Charli Childs

    Muffler's Mayhem by Elizabeth Knox, Charli Childs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I lost her once, and I'll be damned if I lose her again.MufflerBeretta and I had a relationship many years ago, only, we were the only two who knew about it. Now she's been in an accident and is suffering from amnesia. The doctors tell us her memories will come back with time, but to go along with what she thinks. Only, she thinks it's the time period when we're still together...
  • Van: SBMC Missouri #2 by Erin Trejo

    Van: SBMC Missouri #2 by Erin Trejo

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “He isn’t worth the tears, darlin’. No man is. Especially one that can hurt somethin’ as precious as you.”Van is and has always been a player, never wanting to settle down or have a family. Growing up with a houseful of sisters, he appreciates women, and one thing he won’t ignore is men hurting women.Chyanne is pregnant and escaping an abusive relationship...
  • Prez by Rae B. Lake

    Prez by Rae B. Lake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He thought he had lost his world...She was there to pick up the pieces... Alex-I was the president of a small motorcycle club, Wings of Diablo. My word was law and I had a crew that would put their very lives on the line if I asked. I did, and I was wrong. I was blinded by my own pride. I couldn't see that I was in over my head and that hubris was enough to cost me everything. My club. My brother...
  • Dark Destiny by Avelyn Paige, Geri Glenn

    Dark Destiny by Avelyn Paige, Geri Glenn

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He's an inmate.She's a free spirit.Delilah believes animals can heal anyone. But she's never come up against someone like the hardened biker who rarely speaks. With Stone Face part of her inmate rehabilitation program, she's got her work cut out for her.Stone Face isn't there to be rehabilitated. Her program is the only way to get to the man that murdered his twin sister...
  • Maverick and Mistletoe: A Hell's Handlers Short Story by Lilly Atlas

    Maverick and Mistletoe: A Hell's Handlers Short Story by Lilly Atlas

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Maverick and Stephanie are riding to Florida for the holidays. Expect plenty of spice, Maverick's typical Christmas shenanigans, and bikers galore.Don’t expect their vacation to go according to plan...
  • Royal by Amy Davies

    Royal by Amy Davies

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Being the son of the Rugged Skulls MC president, I was always held to a high standard in life, in the club. But when me and my brothers set out to start our own club business, things got a whole lot better.I’m the type of guy who gets what he wants, when he wants it. I’m a club brat, and a fully patched member, but what I live for is the hunt.Women usually throw themselves at me...
  • Extended Stay by Mia Monroe

    Extended Stay by Mia Monroe

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    I’ve never been interested in a man before. So why do I want to kiss this one?Promising my sick uncle I’d help fix his rundown hotel in San Diego was just the beginning of my problems. I plan to do what I can, convince him to sell, and then take off, returning to my calm and structured existence back east. I double down on that plan when I arrive to find it in worse shape than I expected...
  • 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...
  • Epiphany by Ashley Suzanne

    Epiphany by Ashley Suzanne

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Epiphany, the final installment of The Destined Series, continues the stories of four best friends from college who are making decisions that will set the course for the rest of their lives. Mira and Skylar have had their share of painful pasts, troubled presents and an unknown future...
  • Kyle by T.O. Smith

    Kyle by T.O. Smith

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    K Y L EI'm not interested in settling down. I get what I want from a woman, and I kick them out of my bed right after.But Skylar Woods is different. And it's just my luck that she's in desperate need of a job and a place to stay.But women always come with some kind of problem, and Skylar was no exception.Before I know it, I'm offering her protection within the club . .
  • The Progress of Sherlock Holmes by Ivy Blossom

    The Progress of Sherlock Holmes by Ivy Blossom

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sherlock FanficSherlock is head over heels for John, but you wouldn't know it by looking at him. First-person present-tense series of short scenes from Sherlock's point of view, borrowing heavily from Arthur Conan Doyle's stories...
  • Fancy Free by Mia Monroe

    Fancy Free by Mia Monroe

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The last thing I need is a curious straight guy sniffing around me. So why is he so hard to resist?My life is everything I ever wanted - by design. Being one of the nation’s most sought after wedding planners has led to a life of traveling to glamorous locations, bumping elbows with the rich and famous, and sampling every handsome hunk the world has to offer...
  • Boone by Elizabeth Knox

    Boone by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I was never good at love, but damn if I didn’t want to try when I met her.BooneAll my life, I’ve never been good at love. My wife literally decided out of the blue that she was going to up and leave me, and our two boys. She acted like she was going to the grocery store to grab a few things and never came back...
  • Chains (Northern Grizzlies MC) by M. Merin

    Chains (Northern Grizzlies MC) by M. Merin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Iron Savages rule Boise. Or they did. Their numbers decimated, the President on his deathbed, the club becomes unrecognizable. When his cousin and her son are threatened and secrets are exposed, Chains must make a choice. Protect his family or stand with his sworn Brothers. The words that are burned in his mind are 'Blood in, Blood out'...
  • Travis: Rugged Skulls MC -Next Generation #3 by Amy Davies

    Travis: Rugged Skulls MC -Next Generation #3 by Amy Davies

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    When you belong to the Rugged Skulls MC you have everything at your fingertips. Money, women, and whisky. Club life isn’t always easy, but it’s filled with love, loyalty, and respect.People always told me that one day a special woman would come along and ruin me for all others. Then one day I saw Willa and she took my breath away. I knew from the moment I saw her that I had to have her...
  • Wrap Up My Life by Hayley Faiman

    Wrap Up My Life by Hayley Faiman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s the holidays in East Texas. The A/C is cranked down. The Old Ladies have decorated the clubhouse with care, hoping big bearded men will adorn them with gifts. She never wants to celebrate Christmas again. He wants nothing more than to meet her beneath the mistletoe. Lies don't just hurt the liar. They destroy every life that is somehow touched by that lie...
  • The Biker's Bunny by Glenna Maynard

    The Biker's Bunny by Glenna Maynard

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Wall Street Journal & USA Today Bestselling Author Glenna Maynard is back with another gritty and addictive story set in the Royal Bastards MC: Charleston, WV series She knows her role.Brothers of the club don't fall for girls like her.She's a club bunny.Disposable.Easy replaceable.Until she meets him.Static is a nomad with a mysterious past.This is his story...
  • Pike: SBMC Missouri Book 3 by Erin Trejo

    Pike: SBMC Missouri Book 3 by Erin Trejo

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Men aren’t supposed to make women cry, Jailbait.”With his birthday around the corner, Pike is a man questioning what he wants in life. His brothers in his club are his family, but maybe it’s time to find someone to share his life with.A bullet from an unknown assailant leaves Pike in the hospital, where he meets Feather, an ER nurse who he immediately recognizes as a kindred spirit...
  • Jett by Mackenzy Fox

    Jett by Mackenzy Fox

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 ratings
    From best selling author Mackenzy Fox comes the highly anticipated MC spin-off series from the Bracken Ridge NOLA Rebels MC - (New Orleans Series Book 2) Jett is a gritty, 1-bed trope, forced proximity, damaged hero and heroine, MC romance with all the feels...
  • In the Cards by Jamie Beck

    In the Cards by Jamie Beck

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Lindsey Hilliard flees her charmed life in New York, searching for answers after her fiancé’s betrayal fills her with self-doubt. Unfortunately, her rented Malibu home is next door to Levi Hardy, the sexy but insufferable man who humiliated her years ago...
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