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  • The Champion by Shey Stahl

    The Champion by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A powerful love story of tragedy, love, and commitment. The fourth book in the Racing on the Edge series submerges you in the lifestyle of a champion of a sport that dominates America. Through smoke and methanol, you learn the good, the bad, and the secrets no one wants you to know...
  • Be My Temptation by Rachel Brookes

    Be My Temptation by Rachel Brookes

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    You met Josh Crawford and Ashlyn Hart in Be My December, now its time to hear their story. One night connected them.One decision separated them. One craving tempted them. Ashlyn Hart was done with men, or at least those outside of her books. After stupidly falling for the charms of her cheating ex and having her heart broken yet again, she decided to create a new life...
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  • Finding Chase by Lacey Weatherford

    Finding Chase by Lacey Weatherford

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Life hasn’t been easy for Chase Walker. He’s experienced tragedy, and at times he’s not sure he wants to continue living. But he made a vow to go on with his life, and he intends to keep it. After getting a college scholarship to play football, Chase heads off to school, hoping his time on the field will help to bury the intense emotions that still linger in his heart...
  • Presently Perfect by Alison G. Bailey

    Presently Perfect by Alison G. Bailey

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Perfection is an illusion fueled by the perception of others. Tweet was my heart, my soul, and my purpose. She was my everything. Neither of us were perfect. We both made mistakes. Looking back, that was okay, because every choice brought us to where we needed to be at the time we needed to be there. The one constant, our love and friendship...
  • Outta My League by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Outta My League by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The way she looks, smells, laughs is killing me.I fell in love with my sister’s best friend. To top it all off, she’s brilliant. And I’m failing Chemistry.Of course, when I get her help, she’s laidback about it. Charming and helpful as always, like she doesn’t know how much I want her. I’ve got to play it cool and let her see a different side of me...
  • Trading Paint by Shey Stahl

    Trading Paint by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A must have companion to Happy Hour that give you an inside look into the characters of the Racing on the Edge series. Step into the magic where the clay met rubber and desire defined greatness. Trading Paint takes you inside the hasty driver’s mind to what led him to a decision that changed the path of two souls...
  • The Fake by Rebecca Jenshak

    The Fake by Rebecca Jenshak

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 29 ratings
    I've made a lot of dumb mistakes but none dumber than losing her.Senior year. I should be partying and living it up with my friends before graduation, but one more mistake and I'm off the team.Enter Chloe. She comes into my life at a low point, but she becomes the bright spot I reach for every day. She's the kind of girl who makes a guy want to be a better man...
  • Fearless by Chris O'Guinn

    Fearless by Chris O'Guinn

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    At fifteen, Justin is already a cynic. He’s experienced too many betrayals, too many disappointments. He doesn’t want to be involved in anything. He doesn’t want to be popular. He doesn’t even want friends anymore, since they only ever let you down. He just wants to get through high school and the best way he can come up with to accomplish that goal is to simply be invisible...
  • 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...
  • Breeze of Life by Kirsty Dallas

    Breeze of Life by Kirsty Dallas

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Bree ‘Breeze’ Delany never imagined her life could sink so deep. That such intense pain could take up residence in her heart and shred her soul to pieces. And all it had taken was one little word to drag Bree to the depths of this despair, cancer. It took just one person to pull Bree from the darkness, her best friend Harper Somerville...
  • Third Time Lucky by R.G. Alexander

    Third Time Lucky by R.G. Alexander

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From Author New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author R.G. Alexander, Book 3 in the Finn's Pub Romance series! Ever had a thing for the man next door? My sexy new neighbor is confusing the hell out of me. Elliot Ransom is a baseball player and a single dad, but he doesn’t know his butter beer from a snozzberry...
  • Delicious by Sierra Riley

    Delicious by Sierra Riley

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    “You’re exactly what I never knew I needed.” “I don’t have time for love.” Gavin Campbell has poured everything he has into starting up his bakery, Delicious...
  • Yesterday by Sarina Bowen

    Yesterday by Sarina Bowen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’s been seven years since John Rikker left his childhood home in Michigan. Surely that’s long enough to scar over the wounds he received there...
  • Fighting Dirty by Stacey Lynn

    Fighting Dirty by Stacey Lynn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Raleigh Rough Riders are back, and this time Super Bowl Quarterback Beaux Hale finds himself playing the most important game of his life. Every woman knows Beaux Hale is nothing but a player. Yet the first time he walks into Paige Halloway’s restaurant and flashes his sexy grin, she feels a heat between them spark. Too bad he opens his mouth and ruins it...
  • Bodychecking by Jami Davenport

    Bodychecking by Jami Davenport

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    As the wild child of the family, Bellani Maxwell isn’t interested in settling down. Between a fledgling party crashing business, teaching self-defense at a martial arts studio, and hitting the bar every night, she has her hands full. She doesn’t need the added responsibility or commitment of a relationship...
  • Curveball by Kate Angell

    Curveball by Kate Angell

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The bad boys of baseball, they are the top power hitters of the Richmond Rogues, and the team's best hope for a shot at the World Series. But when all three have to be benched for brawling, it's the beginning of a whole new ball game, and the opposing team could win something more than a trophy--these ladies are after their hearts...
  • The Effects of Falling by Mariah Dietz

    The Effects of Falling by Mariah Dietz

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I have loved my best friend for eleven years. Eleven years of celebrations. Eleven years of victories and losses. Eleven years of inside jokes and shared smiles. Eleven years of helping him raise his daughter as a single father. He smiles at me and my world brightens. He ignores me and I forget how to function. He holds my hand and takes more of my heart...
  • Love Me Back by Michelle Lynn

    Love Me Back by Michelle Lynn

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Growing up in small-town Belcrest, Maddy Jennings always thought she was destined to be with her childhood sweetheart, Trent Basso. Throughout the complicated road she has traveled with Trent, someone else has had a strong presence in Maddy's life...
  • Accepted Fate by Charisse Spiers

    Accepted Fate by Charisse Spiers

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What do you do when everything you had planned out for yourself gets changed in one summer? Do you embrace the new or fight to keep things the same? For seventeen year old Kinzleigh everything was going just as she always planned. She had great friends, went to a school she loved, and always knew she was destined for greatness...
  • The Kiss List by Maya Hughes

    The Kiss List by Maya Hughes

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    If I were on fire, she’d break out the marshmallows.It’s not that we don’t like each other, more like hate with the fury of a thousand suns. But it wasn’t always that way.I still remember how her lips tasted. How they felt pressed against mine. How I wanted more. How I still crave her...
  • Turn it Up by Kim Karr

    Turn it Up by Kim Karr

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Follow Jasper Storm and Charlotte Lane as their epic love story continues to heat up the pages in this childhood friends to lovers romance that began in Set the Pace. Charlotte Lane was the tomboy who lived next door. Eyes the color of the summer sky. Mounds of curly blond hair. A little bit of sassy and a whole lot of sweet. She was my best friend. My confidant. My salvation...
  • Burn for You by Marquita Valentine

    Burn for You by Marquita Valentine

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Beau Montgomery is *not* the typical single dad for three reasons: 1. He's rich and famous. 2. He needs a nanny, like yesterday. 3. He has no idea if eight month old, Mia, is actually his daughter. Only, number three doesn't matter to him, because he's determined to give up everything to be a standup dad, including racing, partying, and his favorite vice-women...
  • Effortless With You by Lizzy Charles

    Effortless With You by Lizzy Charles

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    School is out and Lucy is ready for the perfect summer: lazy days at the pool, invitations to the most exclusive parties, and romantic dates with her hot new boyfriend. That is, until she lands in trouble one too many times and her parents issue the ultimate punishment: a summer job. Suddenly, the summer can't end fast enough...
  • Oceans Apart by Laura Harner

    Oceans Apart by Laura Harner

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s been two years since Lord Jamie Mainwaring and Detective Remy Remington worked and loved their way through their one and only case before going their separate ways. Now Jamie is once again mixing agency business with pleasure as he and his partner, Agent Ryan Whiteside, are assigned to a case involving piracy in the Caribbean...
  • Addiction by Angela McPherson

    Addiction by Angela McPherson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Despite denying their love for years, in the end no distraction could keep best friends Tristan and Elle apart. Passion and heat explode as the two finally discover what they’ve been missing, needing, wanting for so long. When Tristan and Elle return home for Christmas break, the two are gifted with a few unexpected surprises...
  • Two Weeks and a Day by R.G. Alexander

    Two Weeks and a Day by R.G. Alexander

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s either the beginning of a great porno or a disaster waiting to happen. That feeling when you’re a thirty-year-old gay virgin with a little OCD, nosy neighbors and a lot of awkward, secret fantasies revolving around your straight best friend? Yeah, that’s me right now...
  • Don't Fall In Love With Me by Aiden Wilde

    Don't Fall In Love With Me by Aiden Wilde

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    EDDIE Everyone knew Max was a bad boy, but everyone fell for him all the same.When I returned back home to live, he said we should hang out a bit.And that's what we did, except we started to hang out a lot.Because now I was falling for Max, too. MAX No one has ever understood me like Eddie. I was so stoked when I heard he was coming back...
  • Boys of Summer by A.E. Wasp

    Boys of Summer by A.E. Wasp

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Teammates, roommates, friends with benefits. What could go wrong? Boys of Summer is a book about finding the perfect person to ride shotgun with on the crazy road trip called life. It contains a Dolly Parton lookalike, an unfortunate deer versus car incident, and poorly-timed epiphanies. Everybody leaves. That was the first lesson Thunder goalie James McVicker ever learned...
  • Taboo For You by Anyta Sunday

    Taboo For You by Anyta Sunday

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Sam’s freaking out. He’s 30 in three weeks. And what has he done in his twenties? It’s pretty simple math: nothing exciting at all. But hey, he has three weeks right? Maybe that’s just enough time to tick his way through a 20s Must Do List . . . Luke’s freaking screwed. He’s come out to his family, and his friends...
  • Falling From The Sky by Nikki Godwin

    Falling From The Sky by Nikki Godwin

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    All stability in sixteen-year-old Ridge McCoy’s life crashed and burned in the plane crash that killed his dad. This summer-long basketball camp is his chance to improve his skills and escape his problems back home...
  • Checked Out by Sean Ashcroft

    Checked Out by Sean Ashcroft

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Librarian Charlie Jules really needs to stop falling for straight guys. Every man he’s been attracted to over the past year has turned out to be straight—including Scott, a cute new library patron who comes complete with an adorable puppy. Charlie was almost ready to give up on ever finding love in Hope Springs, but when Scott kisses him… ..
  • It Was Me by Anna Cruise

    It Was Me by Anna Cruise

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    All West Montgomery wanted was a vacation. A week-long stay in Tucson with Abby and her parents, a chance to get away for the week, the opportunity to get to know her family a little better and maybe carve out a little alone time with his girlfriend. What he doesn't count on is finding a way to resume his baseball career...
  • The Right Time by Lane Hayes

    The Right Time by Lane Hayes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Right and Wrong Story Workaholic Nate Erickson is a successful real estate developer who thrives on long hours and stress. When a Los Angeles project prompts him to relocate to Santa Monica, he welcomes the change of scenery. Nate has always considered romantic entanglements trouble, but his sexy next-door neighbor isn’t easy to ignore...
  • Tell Me Why by Sydney Snow

    Tell Me Why by Sydney Snow

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Anna Vasquez has had enough. Torn after finding out her best friend committed suicide, she's determined to find out why this horrible thing has happened. But when she falls for her best friend's brother, she learns a terrible secret. Suddenly she's left with questions, and wondering if love really can conquer all...
  • Forever Us by Caylie Marcoe

    Forever Us by Caylie Marcoe

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    **This is a short story, a little over 11,000 words. It is a 'sequel' to Choose Us.** Two years ago, Riley Logan agreed to go on a reality dating show with her best friend, Travis Grayson. She didn't expect to fall in love with him. One year ago, Travis asked Riley to marry him. She said yes. Now in the days building up to the wedding Riley and Travis navigate through the finishing touches...
  • The Last Summer by Ruthie Luhnow

    The Last Summer by Ruthie Luhnow

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "It's not even really a first kiss if you're practicing on a friend." Trapped in a conservative prairie town, Alfie Alder has spent his whole life enduring bullying from his classmates and indifference from his teachers. Only one person has ever seen past Alfie's sarcastic, standoffish exterior—his best friend and the love of his life, Wynn...
  • Playing With Fate by Ava Thorpe

    Playing With Fate by Ava Thorpe

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    “My future’s been planned for me for as long as I can remember, but I’ve never felt this alive until I met you.” "I shouldn't want Carter, but I can't get him out of my mind." Luke Bailey doesn't have time for a boyfriend. Between dog-walking, law school applications, and trying to get his music career off the ground, love doesn't stand a chance...
  • Chulito by Charles Rice-González

    Chulito by Charles Rice-González

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “Hilarious, unique, heartfelt and sharp. A wonderful read.”— Sandra Cisneros Set against a vibrant South Bronx neighborhood and the queer youth culture of Manhattan's piers, Chulito is a coming-out, coming-of-age love story of a sexy, tough, hip hop–loving, young Latino man and the colorful characters in his vibrant neighborhood...
  • Personal Secrets by K.C. Wells

    Personal Secrets by K.C. Wells

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Blake Davis and husband Will are delighted when Ed Fellows turns up at the hospital the night their daughter is born—even if he is covered in mud from playing rugby and drunk out of his skull. Team-mate Colin is the Good Samaritan who drives him there, and when Colin takes Ed home, Colin finds himself on the receiving end of a blow-job. He has no problem with that whatsoever...
  • Pretending Hearts by Heather Topham Wood

    Pretending Hearts by Heather Topham Wood

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Delia Bridges is done living in the shadows cast by her ex-convict father and her football star brother. Attending Cook University will finally give her the chance to be her own person and hopefully find love at the same time. When she meets Wyatt Johnston, she knows immediately he’s the one...
  • The Ex Trials by Heather Topham Wood

    The Ex Trials by Heather Topham Wood

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One dream vacation in paradise. One co-ed bachelor and bachelorette party.One week marooned with my ex. Six months ago, Casey Silvers ended her scorching romance with sexy rocker Cole Caldwell. None of her friends know the true reason behind her sudden change of heart. Despite her claim of their chemistry fizzling out, her feelings for Cole had never gone away...
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  • White Noise by Ann Grech

    White Noise by Ann Grech

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everything he didn’t know he wanted, and now couldn’t live without… Paramedic and mountain rescuer Stratford ‘Ford’ Wallace fell hard and fast for pro-snowboarder, Reef Reid. For a ‘straight’ guy, falling in love with a dude was not what he expected, but his explosive attraction to Reef is undeniable. Neither of them have uttered those three little words yet, but Ford knows Reef feels the same...
  • Undeniably Yours by Brittany Cournoyer

    Undeniably Yours by Brittany Cournoyer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Friend-zone: a place where feelings are buried after they aren’t returned. Solomon yearned to be more than Brody’s best friend. But when there was no hope of Brody feeling the same way, Solomon took his place in the friend-zone and stayed there for thirteen years.Serial dating was only ever a sport to Brody, but even then, he sucked at it...
  • Mondays with You by K.J. Lewis

    Mondays with You by K.J. Lewis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    High-school teacher West Connors struggled to put the pieces of his heart back together after the sudden departure of his best friend, Blake Thomas, from his life ten years ago. While loves have come and gone, West has never quite filled the hole in his heart Blake left behind. Blake Thomas gets things done...
  • Never Too Late by Sloan Johnson

    Never Too Late by Sloan Johnson

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Dax: My life ended six years ago. No, really. I was dead on the side of the road following a gruesome motorcycle accident. From what I've been told, it's only because of one stubborn man that I have another chance to make something of my life. I no longer hate him for screwing up what I thought I wanted. I want to thank him. NEED to tell him what his actions mean to me...
  • Wasted Time by Angelia M. Swan

    Wasted Time by Angelia M. Swan

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Penelope Sweeten is ending her twenties on the lowest note of her life.After her almost decade long, tumultuous relationship comes to an end, Penny is heartbroken, devastated, and utterly lost. Feeling more alone than ever, Penny relies on her group of trusted, chaotic friends to help her navigate through this next chapter...
  • Wanting Reed by Antoinette Candela

    Wanting Reed by Antoinette Candela

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Love is giving someone the power to destroy you, but trusting them not to.” How do you live with yourself when you are the reason you lost the one thing that meant the most to you. Timing is everything and for Reed, he can never seem to catch a break. When Reed returns to Boston to redeem himself he finds that Elle has already moved on, building a new life, a new beginning...
  • The Right Moves by Emma Hart

    The Right Moves by Emma Hart

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Her past is wrought with demons. His past is full of heartbreak. Yet he's the one person that can remind her what it means to live. Abbi Jenkins never thought she would leave the walls of the mental institution that's housed her for the last year. Now she has, but that doesn't mean she's forgotten everything Pearce put her through...
  • AnguiSH by Lila Felix

    AnguiSH by Lila Felix

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Anguish was the status quo, until she walked in. Breaker James Collins is confined in a prison of his own making. Scarred doesn’t begin to define his hell since finding out his girlfriend had cheated, stolen, and lied two years ago. It led to a single event—one that would blacken his days and his nights from then on...
  • Return Policy by Hailey Dickert

    Return Policy by Hailey Dickert

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    SophiaAfter being abandoned by the closest people in my life, I made a promise to myself: Don’t let anyone in and you won't get hurt.Then I went against my better judgment and allowed myself to fall in love. I was tricked into thinking he was my sunshine, but in a single unforgivable moment he became a dark, unrelenting cloud over my head who ruined me completely...
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