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  • Time for Love by Marie Force

    Time for Love by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Dr. David Lawrence has spent the last two years atoning for his sins and recovering from the devastating breakup with Gansett Island golden girl Janey McCarthy. As the island's only doctor, he's had ample opportunity to show his fellow island residents that there's more to him than the guy who disappointed Janey so profoundly...
  • Second Hearts by G.J. Walker-Smith

    Second Hearts by G.J. Walker-Smith

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Second Hearts, book 2 of The Wishes Series. Charli Blake's high tolerance for risk doesn't always work in her favour. After a year of living out her dream of travelling the world, the sunny West African village of Kaimte would be her last stop. She's bound for New York, in search of the boy she'd let go of long ago. For Charli, nothing has changed...
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  • The Golden Hustla by Wahida Clark

    The Golden Hustla by Wahida Clark

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She's the star sales associate of a profitable Atlanta "advertising" firm, WMM. She lives for top-of-the-line everything . . . and making enough money to finally reunite with her children. But Nina Coles is an ex-hood-rat in hiding. And no amount of paper can keep her safe from a ruthless FBI agent who's determined to take down the shady company she works for...
  • Maximum Risk by Ruth Cardello

    Maximum Risk by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Max Andrade: Rich, bold, unapologetic. He is a man who doesn’t hear the word no—until he meets Tara. In his obsession to have her, he’ll offer her anything—except his heart. Tara Holmes: Outspoken, hardworking, levelheaded. She makes her living by exposing unfaithful spouses. She doesn’t believe in love, especially not with a man who sees her as nothing more than a challenge...
  • Levi's Blue by M. Leighton

    Levi's Blue by M. Leighton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Four beautiful days. Three steamy nights. One breathtaking love. Levi Michaelson. He wanted four dates. Four opportunities to prove I could trust him. Four chances to change my mind about him. I agreed. Probably not my smartest decision. He was everything I knew to avoid—gorgeous, charming, sexy as hell—but I couldn’t help myself. When he touched me the whole world disappeared...
  • Life & Limb by Freya Barker

    Life & Limb by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Growing up a military brat and spending eight years overseas with the Army Medical Corps, clinical social worker, Willa Smith, has had enough of rules and regulations. Still able to work with veterans as she did at the VA Hospital, she is much happier at the new and far more relaxed South Avenue Shelter, until one of its residents is implicated in a murder...
  • Discovering Harmony by Melanie Shawn

    Discovering Harmony by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Harmony Briggs always knew what she wanted—until she realized she wanted more. The gorgeous Southern beauty knew that only one man would be able to fulfill her wildest dreams and fantasies, but unfortunately, he was just out of reach… Hudson Reed was used to playing by the rules and sticking to reality...
  • Stay With Me by Rebel Hart

    Stay With Me by Rebel Hart

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    The last book in Rae and Clinton's love story..
  • Promise Me by Rebel Hart

    Promise Me by Rebel Hart

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    CRUEL INTENTIONS meets AFTERFind out what happens in Rae and Clinton's love story..
  • Virtue and Vice by Ninya Tippett

    Virtue and Vice by Ninya Tippett

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    "If I'm going down, I might as well pick my poison. I pick you." *** A Cobalt Bay Billionaires story. *** She couldn’t be sure whether he was her predator or protector... but she was doomed to love him either way. *** It was a summer they will never forget...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  contemporary
  • Love in a Sandstorm by Zoe York

    Love in a Sandstorm by Zoe York

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 6 ratings
    A standalone military romance in the gripping Pine Harbour series of small town romances from ten-time USAT bestselling author Zoe York. Captain Sean Foster came back from war broken from the inside out. And he doesn't care about being fixed. Not even by a woman who followed him halfway around the world due to some misguided loyalty...
  • Where Hope Begins by Catherine West

    Where Hope Begins by Catherine West

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the aftermath of her husband’s act of adultery and abandonment, Savannah must finally face the ghosts that haunt her and discover for herself whether authentic faith, grace, and ultimate healing really do exist. When her husband of twenty-one years leaves her, Savannah Barrington believes she’s lost almost everything she’s ever loved...
  • Redemption by Georgia Cates

    Redemption by Georgia Cates

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 10 ratings
    I was on my way to having everything that I wanted… until I opened that door. That’s when my entire world shattered. In a single second, my happy life was gone. She broke my heart. There, I admit it. But a Fellowship man doesn’t mourn the loss of a woman. He moves on to the next one. And the next. But what I quickly discover is that it doesn’t matter how many women I’m with...
  • Tempting Love - Haley & Eddie by Melanie Shawn

    Tempting Love - Haley & Eddie by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Independent, talented, and beautiful–inside and out–Haley Sloan knew exactly what she wanted out of life. With her designer lingerie business booming, her career was moving forward, but her heart stayed in the same place it had for four years…hopelessly in love with the single father across the street...
  • Need You for Mine by Marina Adair

    Need You for Mine by Marina Adair

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Every red-blooded male in St. Helena wants Harper Owens…as a friend. Despite her efforts at seduction, Harper seems to be destined to end up alone. The only guy with a knack for unleashing her inner vixen is firefighter and resident rule-breaker Adam Baudouin. Agreeing to a faux-mance could help him secure a promotion—and save her family’s lingerie shop, the Boulder Holder...
  • Perfect by Delaney Diamond

    Perfect by Delaney Diamond

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Does the end justify the means? Cyrus Johnson is rich, powerful, and used to getting his way. When his estranged wife shows up at his office demanding a divorce once and for all, he not only refuses, he makes a demand of his own...
  • A Kiss Stolen by Georgia Le Carre

    A Kiss Stolen by Georgia Le Carre

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Liliana, I always wished I'd never told my father about the kiss. The kiss the son of the man who came to do odd jobs around the house gave me. But I was only eleven years old then. I didn't understand the ways of the world. How fathers think. My father ran out of the house and fired the boy's father. His father struck him right in front of me...
  • Heartache Falls by Emily March

    Heartache Falls by Emily March

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The healing magic of Eternity Springs continues in this new novel in Emily March’s vibrant series about a very special town and the people who need it most.   Married for more than twenty years, and with her children out of the nest, Ali Timberlake has come to Eternity Springs alone...
  • Taylor Lynne by Jennifer Peel

    Taylor Lynne by Jennifer Peel

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Determined not to repeat the same mistakes as her mother, Taylor Cole left her husband with their toddler in tow fourteen years ago and vowed never to return to Merryton. Now she is finally ready to face her demons and put the past and her ex-husband behind her, but to do that she and her daughter must return to the place that haunts her memories...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  christian  contemporary  clean  length-medium  m-f
  • How to Seduce a Rockstar by Arabella Quinn

    How to Seduce a Rockstar by Arabella Quinn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Get ready to toss your panties on stage — it’s gonna get wild!My life was getting boring. Predictable. I needed to shake things up a bit, so my roommate helped me come up with a plan — we called it O.L.D. Operation Limp… Well, never mind about the ‘D’. Yeah, the limp part sounds yucky, right? Don’t judge — that’s just because of logistics. It’ll work out.O.L.D. is a big success...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  new adult  contemporary
  • Feels Like Home by Jennifer Van Wyk

    Feels Like Home by Jennifer Van Wyk

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Andy Simpson never expected to be raising his teenage twin sons alone. Then again, he also never expected to walk into his house and see his wife with another man. In their bed. Or that it wasn’t her first time. Bitterness threatened to wrap around his heart, darkening every part of his life. But a brightness he wasn’t even looking for entered their lives and wouldn’t let it take hold...
  • Primal Need by Piper Davenport

    Primal Need by Piper Davenport

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    18+ for language and sexual situations... Sundance I’m the president of the Primal Howlers out of Monument, Colorado. My wife was taken from me ten years ago, leaving me to raise our three children alone. I’ve been diagnosed with a disease that I’m not sure I’ll beat, and to make matters worse, I’m now in the crosshairs of a rival club...
  • Tethered by Emma Louise

    Tethered by Emma Louise

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    It was supposed to be one night.One night to let my hair down and forget all the heartbreak, all the disappointments.One night to forget that the guy I thought I loved is marrying someone else.One night, just for me.He was supposed to be a stranger.An escape.No strings attached.Instead, he made me believe we could be more...
  • Brightly Burning Bridges by Ivy Wild

    Brightly Burning Bridges by Ivy Wild

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    From the author of Infamous and The Estate comes a bully romance unlike anything you've ever readSilasHe wasn’t my friend until he became my enemy.His center is freezing cold,and his edges burn me when I get too close.He is everything I want and nothing I am.They say not to burn bridges,but he burned ours to the ground.SkylerShe is the girl who wants to be seen,but hates being noticed...
  • The Broken Beginning - Part One by Christine Michelle

    The Broken Beginning - Part One by Christine Michelle

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    For the readers who asked, and then asked again, and again!You guys are gluttons for punishment, and this is the book you wanted, so you got it! Welcome to Merc and Tiger Lily’s story. It starts where all stories should, in the beginning. This is the very broken beginning that won’t feel much at all like a romance, because it isn’t...
  • Ethan by Delaney Diamond

    Ethan by Delaney Diamond

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    At the age of seventeen, Skye Thorpe lost her parents and yearns for a family of her own, and she’s certain Ethan Connor is the one to give it to her. After all, they’ve been together for seven years. One night she broaches the subject of marriage and learns the devastating truth. Ethan has no intention of marrying her...
  • The Broken Beginning - Part Two by Christine Michelle

    The Broken Beginning - Part Two by Christine Michelle

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    YOU MUST READ: THE BROKEN BEGINNING - PART ONE PRIOR TO THIS BOOK!Tiger LilyWhen I was a little girl, I always dreamed of my wedding. I dreamed of my husband, my children, my future. When I developed a crush on the gorgeous boy who was my neighbor, he became the man in those dreams...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  contemporary  length-short
  • His Last Chance by Ellie R. Hunter

    His Last Chance by Ellie R. Hunter

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Zachery witnessed his sister’s murder and there wasn’t anything he could do to save her. His parents are barely surviving their grief and his old lady sprung she’s pregnant on him on the morning of his sister’s funeral. The club is all he’s known and it’s his brothers he leans on when his personal life becomes too much.Nina fell hard for Zachery and he’s been her world since they got together...
  • Final Call by Emma Hart

    Final Call by Emma Hart

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In the highly anticipated sequel to LATE CALL, Dayton and Aaron learn once more than not everything is as straightforward as it seems, and if they have any chance of getting their long-awaited happily-ever-after, they'll have to work for it... We crashed and burned like a falling plane. Hard and fast with an inevitable explosion. Another few weeks together changed my life the way the first did...
  • The Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress / To Tame Her Tycoon Lover by Maya Banks, Ann Major

    The Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress / To Tame Her Tycoon Lover by Maya Banks, Ann Major

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Tycoon’s Pregnant Mistress by Maya Banks When Greek hotel magnate Chrysander Anetakis found out his former mistress was pregnant and had amnesia, he didn’t waste time. Marley Jameson didn’t remember betraying him or that he’d thrown her out of his life...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  contemporary  pregnancy  m-f  length-medium
  • Only the Beginning by Laramie Briscoe

    Only the Beginning by Laramie Briscoe

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Princess of Country Music.America’s sweetheart.Survivor of the scrutiny that comes with it all. Hannah 'Harmony' Stewart has lived most of her adult life in the spotlight. It hasn’t always been easy. One heartbreak almost ruined her. Some days it’s hard to keep a smile on her face and stay positive, but there are a lot of people counting on her to keep it together...
  • Trick or Treat by L.A. Cotton

    Trick or Treat by L.A. Cotton

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Calliope James would rather live life through a lens than in the spotlight. So when she reluctantly agrees to go with her best friend to a party, she doesn’t expect to find herself on the other side of the camera.Zachary Messiah left Bay View High School without so much as a word.Now he’s back. He’s not the boy she remembers, but she’s exactly the girl he’s tried so hard to forget...
  • When You're Mine by K. Langston

    When You're Mine by K. Langston

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    For Barrett Shaw, there wasn’t much more to life than his career. Still climbing his way to the top, he could do without the distractions and complications of love. But the road to success is a lonely one, and Barrett was starting to think he would never meet a woman who could capture and keep his attention like a courtroom...
  • Proposing to Preston by Katy Regnery

    Proposing to Preston by Katy Regnery

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Proposing to Preston is the second of four books about the Philadelphia-based, wildly-handsome Winslow brothers who are all on the look-out for love. (Except Brooks... he's probably sailing around the world with Skye by now. And Christopher, who's only on the look-out for a congressional seat and absolutely. nothing. else...
  • The Senator's Son by Anna Albo

    The Senator's Son by Anna Albo

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    College is just like her old life . . . bleak. Surviving it won't be easy, especially when the girlfriend of the guy she's loved her entire life would rather see her dead. So much for that clean slate. Instead she's constantly looking over her shoulder, watching, waiting and worrying. Lucky for Emma she met The Senator's Son. Zach Walker is the typical rich kid . .
  • Hopeless Vows by Rachael Duncan

    Hopeless Vows by Rachael Duncan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It was a social experiment that was supposed to lead to my happily ever after. The rules were simple: 1. Marry a complete stranger chosen for you by a panel of experts. 2. Live together as man and wife for eight weeks. 3. Make a decision to stay together or get a divorce. Call me crazy, but I had complete faith in the process, until I saw who was waiting for me at the end of the aisle...
  • Forever Kisses by Loni Ree

    Forever Kisses by Loni Ree

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Kane Triplets try their hand at matchmaking…. Harris Kane When my nephews ask me to help out a friend who needs a job, I make them promise that this girl won’t turn out like the firm’s last three secretaries—husband-hunting, gold-diggers. Just to be sure, I cover all my bases and create a new office policy, no fraternization, no exceptions...
  • Year's Happy Ending by Betty Neels

    Year's Happy Ending by Betty Neels

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Could she settle for less than love?Professor Gideon Beaufort tried Deborah's good nature severely. He reviled her future as a trained nanny, destined to settle for a permanent post caring for other people's children.But was his proposal any more enticing, when all he wanted was a substitute for his young daughter and nothing more? "I won't pretend," he told her candidly...
  • Fat Cat Liar by Ahren Sanders

    Fat Cat Liar by Ahren Sanders

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The night I met Greer Palmer was no coincidence. The plan was perfect. Everything was in place. All I had to do was get her attention and the rest would take its course. What I didn’t plan was my reaction the first time she spoke. “Are you okay?” Three little words… That’s all it took for her to steal my breath and shatter every thing I’d expected...
  • Hesitate by Anna Brooks

    Hesitate by Anna Brooks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When I opened the file and saw her face, I knew I was in trouble. The first time she put her hand in mine, I should have simply taken her home and continued to keep her safe from a distance. But her pull was too strong, her beauty too irresistible, and before I knew it was happening, she’d brought me to my knees. I wasn’t the only one who was falling, though...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  suspense  contemporary
  • First Touch by Loni Ree

    First Touch by Loni Ree

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Zander BurtonNever 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...
  • UnExpected by T.C. Matson

    UnExpected by T.C. Matson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Paige Turns out he was everything I ever wanted—charming, loving, and super sexy. But I knew being with Levi, the gorgeous MMA fighter every woman wanted, was going to be difficult. Especially since he’s so far away training a beautiful up-and-coming female fighter, teaching the very thing he thrives on. I just didn’t realize how damaging and strenuous this would be to our relationship...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  contemporary  length-medium
  • Because I Said So by Sable Hunter

    Because I Said So by Sable Hunter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This book will break your heart…then mend it back together again. BECAUSE I SAID SO crosses the world of the TEXAS HEROES with the beloved characters of Hell Yeah! to teach the eternal lesson that everyone deserves a second chance at love. As far as Brodie Walton is concerned, his life was over the day his beloved fiancé was killed in a senseless mass shooting. He doesn’t deserve happiness...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  contemporary  length-medium
  • Bright Lights Billionaire by Ali Parker

    Bright Lights Billionaire by Ali Parker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    It’s all a bunch of bullshit. Nothing I say or do is real anymore. And I get paid for it. My whole life has been lived behind the bright lights of Hollywood. And I’m living proof that money can’t buy love. My situation is complicated enough, but then a sweet girl from the local college scores a part as my co-actor in a new blockbuster film. These people are going to eat her alive...
  • Say You Do by Weston Parker

    Say You Do by Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    My brother is an idiot; he's getting married. And I’m in charge of getting things together since our folks are gone. Lucky me. The guy who thinks love is for the birds and worn-out 80s songs. I honestly don’t have time for this drama. I run a billion-dollar company, have women to entertain, and am working on my plans to rule the world. No, seriously...
  • Anarchist: Book 5 by Jordan Silver

    Anarchist: Book 5 by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In this final book in the first season Law is having a hard time resisting his pretend bride who seems hellbent on changing his mind. He's not in the market for a wife for all that she's already wearing his ring. She's too soft and sweet for a man like him and he knows it, but he won't stop pushing...
  • Crave by Megan O'Brien

    Crave by Megan O'Brien

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I didn’t realize I was falling, not until my heart was lost in love with him. After years of close friendship with former Marine and security specialist, Sid Masters, Samantha McAllister finds herself grappling with feelings far beyond friendship. After a line is crossed, Sam’s heart is broken in the process...
  • Hailey's Truth by Cate Beauman

    Hailey's Truth by Cate Beauman

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hailey Roberts has never had it easy. Despite the scars of a tragic childhood, she’s made a life for herself. As a part-time student and loving nanny, she yearns for a family of her own and reluctant Austin Casey, Ethan Cooke Security’s best close protection agent. Hailey’s past comes back to haunt her when her long lost brother tracks her down, bringing his dangerous secrets with him...
  • The Sassy One by Susan Mallery

    The Sassy One by Susan Mallery

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 24 ratings
    For the Marcelli sisters of California wine country, the season is ripe for romance! Francesca Marcelli married at eighteen -- right on schedule, according to her warm, colorful family, who have always said a beauty like Francesca need never worry about finding love...
  • Payback by Sofia Daniel

    Payback by Sofia Daniel

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’ve been beaten, bullied, and isolated. And now I’m ready to right all wrongs. The truth is out and secrets uncovered. I’m mad and hell-bent on getting payback. I’ll make them hurt. Make them bleed. Make them wish they’d never messed with me or my boys. But first, I have to let go of past hurts. Heal my broken heart and reunite my harem...
    Categorized as:
    cruel hero  contemporary  poly  m-f  length-short
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