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  • Rydeville Elite Box Set by Siobhan Davis, Sara Eirew

    Rydeville Elite Box Set by Siobhan Davis, Sara Eirew

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    This box set includes the first three books in the Rydeville Elite series. Complete trilogy with HEA. In the power struggle between two elite groups, one feisty girl will bring them to their knees…. Life is a cruel game where only the most ruthless survive. It’s a truth my mother rebelled against, and she paid for it with her life. Now, I play their game...
  • Happy Trail by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Happy Trail by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sometimes you have to talk to work things out. Luckily that works best without clothes. Petal. I’ve loved Luka Fields my entire life. He was my first crush, my first kiss, my first time, and my first heartbreak. Love isn’t like in the movies, or the books you read. It’s hard. Sometimes you give up…. And regret it your entire life. Luka. Petal was the love of my life...
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  • Collateral Damage by Kaylea Cross

    Collateral Damage by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Pride tore them apart…. Warrant Officer Honor Girard made the worst mistake of her life in walking away from the man she promised to marry—and she knows it. An attack on base unexpectedly pushes them together and in the aftermath she realizes she can’t let him go a second time. Only he’s not willing to let her back in...
  • The Fall by Marie Force

    The Fall by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Dr. Ted Duffy has finally met a woman who makes him ache with desire. Too bad she’s dating his best friend of twenty years. This simple premise has momentous consequences for Ted in “The Fall,” a story that explores the bonds of friendship, the expectations of family, and the power of love to unite and divide. Ted is a third-generation pediatric oncologist in Boston...
  • Rough and Rugged by Hayley Faiman

    Rough and Rugged by Hayley Faiman

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hattie Morris is a young girl with silly dreams and a fantasy she's been holding onto since she was sixteen years old. "Dirty" Johnny Williams is a hard man who rides as a Notorious Devil, known for being filthy between the sheets, yet always wishing for the unattainable more...
  • UNLoved by Jaxson Kidman

    UNLoved by Jaxson Kidman

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I was the dirty, poor girl …. … now I don’t have a care in the world. The ‘new girl’ vibe is wearing off, finally. I’m settling into BFH and what I have over ‘the Rulz’ is going to make them look stupid. I agree on a date with each of them. One by one. Barr first. Then Kip. Finally, Pres. I’m setting them up in a way I never thought possible…. … until I end up getting too close...
  • Her Reluctant Husband by Erica Marselas

    Her Reluctant Husband by Erica Marselas

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I would do anything for my family, including marrying a man who hates me. Not like I had a choice when the person who helped raise me tells me who I must marry in order to save my home. When I came face to face with Alex Wilks again, the man who despises me and wishes I never stepped foot back into Kinder Falls after the day I left, I didn’t know what I was in for...
  • First Touch by Loni Ree

    First Touch by Loni Ree

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Zander Burton. Never trust a woman and make sure you’re never stupid enough to give your heart to one. I’ve always lived by these words, then Rachel Marsh crashed into my life. It only took one night, one touch for the gorgeous blonde to make me ignore the rule I’d followed my whole life...
  • So Wrong by Ajme Williams

    So Wrong by Ajme Williams

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One fake marriage. One big disaster. Everything about Dylan melts me. He’s more than that ripped chest… those strong arms. The best thing about him is his daughter. The daughter that I babysit. He shares Maisie with his ex-wife. But I see the concern in his eyes. He wants his daughter to be loved, to be safe. …and he needs my help. A fake marriage with me would win him the custody battle...
  • To Touch a Sheikh by Olivia Gates

    To Touch a Sheikh by Olivia Gates

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Sheikh's SurrenderNo one gets past Prince Amjad Aal Shalaan's defenses. No one. But when Princess Maram shows up at Amjad's gala in her father's place, destroying Amjad's plans to reclaim what was stolen from his family, Amjad sees red. .. and uses a freak sandstorm to make her his prisoner of passion...
  • The Perfect Neighbor by Nora Roberts

    The Perfect Neighbor by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 39 ratings
    In New York, people were supposed to ignore their neighbours. But that was a rule that Cybil Campbell had never learned. When the sunny brunette knocks on her new neighbour's door, she expected that they would make a connection - after all, she knew everyone else in the apartment block. Preston McQuinn wasn't interested in small talk...
  • Contingency by Paula Wiseman

    Contingency by Paula Wiseman

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Where was God? Bobbi Molinsky's comfortable life is shattered when a forwarded email from her husband's account lands in her inbox. The email teases, "My whole evening is free again. " After an angry confrontation with Chuck, she is left with the broken remains of an eighteen year marriage...
  • Raven's Climb by Tiffany Casper

    Raven's Climb by Tiffany Casper

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I wasn’t one of those girls that just rolled over and got over something. No, I could hold a mean grudge, and that was what I had been doing for going on seven years. And I didn’t see that stopping any time soon. Why oh why in all of the hospitals in all of the United States, had this job been the only one available for me to take? Seven years ago something vile and despicable had ruined me...
  • Reckless by Jennifer Loren

    Reckless by Jennifer Loren

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Reckless, the sequel to Finding Ava:. The decision seemed so innocent in the beginning, exciting even. How could I have ever known what was going to happen? How could I have ever know that someone could be so evil, so determined to destroy lives. I chose to ignore the advice of my brother and instead trusted - believed in friendship, believed in a woman I once loved...
  • Forever and Always by E.L. Todd

    Forever and Always by E.L. Todd

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Now that Sean and Scarlet are together, Scarlet couldn't be happier. They were meant for each other and would make any sacrifice to be together. With her greatest friend as her new lover, their relationship was perfect. But when Sean asks her to move back to New York, she hesitates...
  • Afraid to Fall by W. Ferraro

    Afraid to Fall by W. Ferraro

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Jaded and hardened by the ultimate of betrayals, Clearwater Falls Sheriff Gage Dennison is content with his simple, detached life. With only his loyal dog at his side, Gage has successfully maintained the walls he's built around his life and heart for eight years...
  • Long Road Home by J.W. Ashley

    Long Road Home by J.W. Ashley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Bestselling Author J. W. Ashley brings you a heartwarming story with the first book in her Home series, a standalone collection about returning home and finding redemption with those you left behind. ✮A Top 300 Amazon Best Seller✮. They say that time heals all wounds. I'm here to tell you that saying is a steaming pile of bullshit...
  • Return of the Jerk by Andrea Simonne

    Return of the Jerk by Andrea Simonne

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Steamy and fun, an irresistible story of one woman’s obsession and the jerk-like object of her unrequited love. .. Wedding cake baker Blair Thomas loves her life. Her business is thriving, her Seattle condo has a great view of the water, and her refurbished ‘65 convertible Mustang “Isadora” is the coolest car ever. She barely even thinks about that jerk she married five years ago...
  • Reason to Believe by Kathleen Eagle

    Reason to Believe by Kathleen Eagle

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 6 ratings
    Young lovers from starkly different lives and worlds, Clara and Ben Pipestone came together in passion and in tenderness. But their marriage could not endure deception - or the betrayals of a tormented, searching soul...
  • Lady Love by Diana Palmer

    Lady Love by Diana Palmer

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Merlyn had better things to do with her life than fall in love with Cameron Thorpe--like proving to her father that she could survive without his millions or his matchmaking schemes, and convincing herself that it didn't matter that men seemed to covet her money more than her heart.
  • King of Nothing by Jacie Lennon

    King of Nothing by Jacie Lennon

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She’s the one thing he wants nothing—and everything—to do with. Corbin. I’m one of the kings at Almadale Prep. I act the part, put on the mask, do my duty. But lies and betrayal aren’t a game to me, no matter how well my fellow kings play. So, when Landry arrives, invading my life and my thoughts, I try to forget her...
  • Someone to Watch Over Me by Judith McNaught

    Someone to Watch Over Me by Judith McNaught

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 41 ratings
    Leigh Kendall reveled in her stellar Broadway acting career and in her marriage to Logan Manning, scion of an old New York family. When her husband finds the perfect mountain property for their dream house, he decides to surprise Leigh with her first view of the site. Driving upstate on a winter's night, Leigh is run off the road in the midst of a blinding blizzard...
  • The Things We Need to Say by Rachel Burton

    The Things We Need to Say by Rachel Burton

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Sometimes the things we never say are the most important. Fran loves Will with all her heart. They had a whirlwind romance, a perfect marriage and a wonderful life. Until everything changed. Now Fran needs to find her way again and teaching a yoga retreat in Spain offers her just that. Leaving behind a broken marriage she has some very important decisions to make...
  • The Desert King by Olivia Gates

    The Desert King by Olivia Gates

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Their farce of a marriage will save his kingdom. And in return for an heir, Kamal Aal Masood will give his new wife Aliyah anything--except the trust and intimacy she desperately wants. When Kamal abruptly ended their blistering affair years ago, he vowed Aliyah would never ensnare him again. Only a fool allowed his actions to be ruled by his heart...
  • A Lost Love by Carole Mortimer

    A Lost Love by Carole Mortimer

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She 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...
  • Double Standards by Judith McNaught

    Double Standards by Judith McNaught

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 62 ratings
    In the exclusive, glittering world of business superstars, Nick Sinclair was a legend. .. The ruggedly handsome president of Global Industries handled his business the way he handled his women -- with charm, daring and ruthless self-control. A man used to the very best, Nick hired Lauren Danner, and assumed the proud beauty would soon be another easy conquest...
  • The Rare Event by P.D. Singer

    The Rare Event by P.D. Singer

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hedge fund trader Ricky Santeramo has it all: money, looks, and fellow trader Jonathan Hogenboom. The two couldn't be more different: Jon is from old money, while Ricky clawed his way out of blue-collar New Jersey. Jon hedges his positions; Ricky goes for broke. Jon likes opera and the Yankees; Ricky prefers clubbing. Jon drinks wine with dinner; Ricky throws back a beer...
  • After The Music by Diana Palmer

    After The Music by Diana Palmer

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    It all started as a joke. Sabina was only pretending to be engaged to her best friend, millionaire Al Thordon. Al had talked her into this scheme as a way to trick his older brother, Thorn. Al had no choice but to lie. And to make Sabina his accomplice. Sabina thought that it would be for just one night. When Thorn accused her of being a gold digger, Sabina just laughed it off...
  • Angel's Rest by Emily March

    Angel's Rest by Emily March

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Welcome to Eternity Springs, a little piece of heaven in the Colorado Rockies. Gabriel Callahan has lost everything that mattered. All he wants is solitude on an isolated mountain estate. Instead, he gets a neighbor. Vibrant, no-nonsense Nic Sullivan is Eternity Springs' veterinarian, and she has an uncanny plan to lure this talented architect back to the world of the living...
  • Loving Glory by Joleen James

    Loving Glory by Joleen James

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The citizens of Fortune, WA are shocked when former town bad boy Jace Stone buys the small town. Everyone wonders how Jace can come back, especially after getting Fortune’s golden girl Glory Moon pregnant, then leaving her alone to raise their autistic son. No one is more shocked than Jace when he discovers that Glory kept the baby she’d promised to give up for adoption ten years ago...
  • Reinventing Mel by J.A. Hornbuckle

    Reinventing Mel by J.A. Hornbuckle

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Because of a chance meeting with members of the Hellion MC, Mel Davis's life was reinvented. One that gave him, his teenaged brother and a much younger sister a new life and hope their world would become better. Taken under the wing of Trey Jackson and Dare Gentry, Mel finds there isn't one area of his life that the Hellions aren't willing to help him overcome, resolve and obtain victory in...
  • Woman Hater by Diana Palmer

    Woman Hater by Diana Palmer

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    MOUNTAIN MAN. Everyone in the office described the boss's mysterious older brother as a real woman hater -- an absolute bear of a man. So, when Nicole White had to travel with her ailing employer to his brother's home in Montana, she was prepared for the worst. What she found was a man more roughly masculine than any she'd ever met...
  • Saving Forever by Jasinda Wilder

    Saving Forever by Jasinda Wilder

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Ever and Cade,. Sorry I vanished like I did. I’m not sure I can even explain things. I don’t know when I’ll be back. IF I’ll be back. I’m not sure of anything, except that I love you, Ever. You’re my twin, my best friend, and leaving you was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I know you don’t understand. Maybe you never will. I hope you don’t, honestly. It would be easier that way...
  • Loveplay by Diana Palmer

    Loveplay by Diana Palmer

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    THE SETTING: New York. THE CAST: Bett Cambridge, aspiring actress. She had devoted her entire professional life to escaping her backwoods past and was now a Broadway star. The one blot on her resume an ill-fated affair with Americas most promising playwright, Edward Cul McCullough, hot new author. He left Bett behind when his career took off, but now they were working together again...
  • Some Enchanted Season by Marilyn Pappano

    Some Enchanted Season by Marilyn Pappano

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Sometimes miracles do happen. When Maggie left her husband Ross that fateful Christmas Eve, their marriage was over.   But a near fatal accident on an ice-slick road changed everything. Now another Christmas approaches.   While Maggie hasn't regained all her memory, she's ready to test her strength at home--with Ross as her only companion...
  • The Taming by Cary West

    The Taming by Cary West

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He 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...
  • Fighting Hard by Marysol James

    Fighting Hard by Marysol James

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Nick Spencer has a pretty great life: hefty tips from hot women at the bar, lots of devastating flirting and come-ons, followed up by sex with no strings. Quick, casual, easy, gone with the sunrise – that’s his life and that’s how he likes it. Until the night that Mia Ferris walks in to the bar. Nick doesn’t know it, but this night is going to change everything...
  • Sweet Surrender by Naima Simone

    Sweet Surrender by Naima Simone

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Killing the messenger is frowned upon. Okay, then. .. What about laying the messenger on the nearest flat surface and making her scream with pleasure? From the moment Hayden Reynolds approaches Griffin Sutherland in the local, Florida dive bar, all he can think about is fisting her dark curls and stroking those gorgeous curves...
  • Nothing Special by Anne Storm

    Nothing Special by Anne Storm

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    They were the perfect couple until Ridge broke her trust. Violet wasn't sure he could earn it back. Violet became my whole world when I met her on my 25th birthday. She became my wife on my 26th. It wasn’t until my 35th that I managed to screw it all up. Then I had the fight of my life to get back everything I took for granted. . 💙. Ridge Westover is the love of my life...
  • Against the Ropes by Carly Fall

    Against the Ropes by Carly Fall

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Winning the next fight will mean nothing . . . if he can’t win back the heart of the woman he loves. Five years ago Dylan Gomez had it all. He was an up-and-coming boxer with a loving girlfriend, and his sights were set on the big league. Then he let the hype of the fans inflate his ego—he thought he was invincible. That all changed when an alcohol-fuelled decision altered the course of his life...
  • The Savakis Mistress by Annie West

    The Savakis Mistress by Annie West

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From society queen. .. Only hours ago she was a tempting stranger. Now Damon Savakis knows who she really is - Callie Manolis, society ice-queen and duplicitous niece of his arch enemy…. . .. to his unwilling mistress! Yet when Callie's avaricious uncle loses the Manolis money, she is at Damon's mercy and is forced to become the Savakis mistress...
  • The Proposal by Martha Silver

    The Proposal by Martha Silver

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tully’s first marriage ended badly, and then she lost the true love of her life in a motorcycle accident. She longs to have a family, but knows she won’t get a third chance at happily-ever-after. Mack’s wife died two years ago, and he’s determined to never love again. He has everything money can buy, but what he wants most is a mother for his three-year-old son, Cody...
  • Homestands by Sally Bradley

    Homestands by Sally Bradley

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A broken marriage. A fatherless boy. A past that won't let go. When baseball star Mike Connor stumbles across his ex-wife six years after their divorce, he’s stunned to find that she's the mother of a kindergartner who wears his jersey. And shares his last name. The last thing Meg Connor wants is to be around Mike. After all, he was the one who hurt and abandoned her...
  • Bully Boss by Mia Luxe

    Bully Boss by Mia Luxe

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His eyes aren't soft like they were when he was pretending to love me. Now they're full of hate. When your rent's past due and your dad is about to go to jail, you take any job. .. Even a last-minute temp position. Even as a secretary for a man who fired four in a year. I was expecting a jerk to be my boss. I wasn't expecting. .. him. Luke. I haven't seen him since Greenshore High...
  • The Guarded Heart by Robyn Donald

    The Guarded Heart by Robyn Donald

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    His 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...
  • Enamored by Diana Palmer

    Enamored by Diana Palmer

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Diego Laremos had never forgotten the last night he'd spent with Melissa Sterling five years before. She'd fled their home after a bitter dispute, hoping to escape their unhappy marriage. He hadn't forgiven her for leaving, though he'd hated himself even more for driving her away. Seeing Melissa again had renewed his hope for a possible future together…...
  • The Way Home by Linda Howard

    The Way Home by Linda Howard

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Three classic, heartwarming stories about belly bumps, babies and baby daddies! The Way Home by Linda Howard. Anna Sharp risked her heart on a man who told her upfront he would never be more than her lover. But when Saxon Malone learned she was pregnant with his child, he found himself suddenly a father…and wanting more of Anna than he had ever imagined possible...
  • All About You by Joanna Mazurkiewicz

    All About You by Joanna Mazurkiewicz

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    I start hating Oliver just after his older brother Christian’s death. I drag him down a road of humiliation and pain to try to cope with what his brother did to me. A few months after Christian’s passing, Oliver leaves town, and for the next two years, he is absent from my life. The demons claw their way back in, and I must learn to live with the secret that has destroyed me...
  • The Procedure by Tabatha Vargo, Melissa Andrea

    The Procedure by Tabatha Vargo, Melissa Andrea

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    SAMANTHA ALDRIDGE. I went to his office expecting to change myself. I wanted to be someone else—look like the girls my husband was spending his nights with, but I got a different kind of procedure… one that left me wanting things I shouldn’t and seeing myself in a new light. Now everything I thought I wanted doesn’t matter anymore, and Dr. Roman is all I can think about. ROMAN BLAKE...
  • Temptation by Charlotte Lamb

    Temptation by Charlotte Lamb

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 18 ratings
    Nothing would ever be the same again! Linden had only been seventeen when Joss crashed into her life. Naively, she offered him her friendship and trust. In return, he had aroused emotions in her she was too young to handle, wrenching her from childhood to womanhood in a few startling days. When he left her, Linden realized that she been ruthlessly used...
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