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  • Brie Learns Restraint by Red Phoenix

    Brie Learns Restraint by Red Phoenix

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Brie Learns Restraint, #5 in the AG series:. Brie is given the opportunity to work under the mastery of another Dom - an expert in bondage. During the unique arrangement she discovers truths about herself and several of her past trainers. A new passion is ignited when she participates in an erotic class of Kinbaku. Loyalties are challenged, but a clear winner emerges...
  • The Grace in Darkness by Melissa Andrea

    The Grace in Darkness by Melissa Andrea

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Every part of me yearns for Ryland and there hasn’t been a day that’s gone by that I don’t question if I made the right decision. Adjusting is something I should be used to by now but how can I do that when life has other plans? When darkness consumes you, only true light can free you...
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  • His Midnight Virgin by Sadie King

    His Midnight Virgin by Sadie King

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I was always the good girl, until I met Quinn…. What do a law student and a smuggler have in common? Nothing, absolutely nothing. So I should leave the straight-laced, curvy Coraline alone. But I can’t. I’m no good for her. Every minute she spends with me, she’s risking her career, her future. I should let her go. But I can’t. My need to have her, to possess her, drives me to complete selfishness...
  • Christmas with the McCarthys by Jane Henry

    Christmas with the McCarthys by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Spend a Christmas evening with the McCarthys in this heartwarming novella featuring all of your favorite characters.
  • Baby, I Do by Fiona Davenport

    Baby, I Do by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Aurora Dawson loved helping happy couples have their perfect wedding and happily ever after. Even if she never found one for herself. When a divorce office opened shop right next to her, she was livid that someone would help tear apart the couples she brought together...
  • Eden High Series 2 Book 1 by Jordan Silver

    Eden High Series 2 Book 1 by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Things are heating up in the little town of Eden, where one young girl has been attacked and no one has the answers. Now with Jace's main suspect in some trouble of her own, everything is up in the air...
  • Holding Her in Madness by Kimber S. Dawn

    Holding Her in Madness by Kimber S. Dawn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Leo's Story of loving A Woman Gone Mad. Fuck first love. Fuck fate. And Fuck You. I'm Leo and this is my side of the story. This is where I came from, where I've been, and where I'm at. .. this is the story of a man that loved A Woman Gone Mad...
  • Gage by Cami Carlisle

    Gage by Cami Carlisle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gage Montgomery learned early that life is a battle. Now, he's a warrior for those he is called to protect, and ready to fight for the Little one who was taken from him years ago. The one he is no longer willing to live without. Breezy Boucher knows loss. Intimately. Now all she wants is to live her Little life in peace. When that peace is shattered, her long-lost daddy takes charge...
  • Call Sign: King by Livia Grant

    Call Sign: King by Livia Grant

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He got cocky. Let his guard down. Now the love of his life is paying the price. For a moment he'd forgotten there were men who wanted him dead. Men who lived their lives in the dark, who could reach out of the shadows he used to live in, and he'd been naive to think the light inside her would keep her safe...
  • Hold Me If You Can by Jordan Silver, R+M Photography

    Hold Me If You Can by Jordan Silver, R+M Photography

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Mancini finds himself in the stickiest situation yet. After hunting down the worse criminals known to man, he finds himself caught by the special agent who’d been hand picked to bring him down. No sooner had he staked his claim than he was being called away to take down the man responsible for the biggest child trafficking ring in South East Asia...
  • When Worlds Collide by Jordan Silver

    When Worlds Collide by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He was the son of an old family, a family not only of wealth but a great history going back hundreds of years. As such his future had been mapped out at birth. He knew his duty and had never given it much thought. Until his years in the marines showed him a different world. Still, he was more than happy to follow the status quo, until he met her...
  • Heat by C.M. Steele

    Heat by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In a mad dash to get through her hectic sweaty morning and make it to work on time, Violet finds herself struck by. .. a limo. Dazed but mostly unharmed, she's surprised when the passenger in the limo swoops her up and is shirtless. What kind of limo did she collide with? Pain and agony strikes Micah when he sees his little Violet in the middle of the street...
  • Enraptured By You by Jordan Silver

    Enraptured By You by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    This story contains strong subject matter between consenting adults. If you're easily offended please do not read. Hunter Sheridan is at the end of his rope. The woman he loves has just been promised to someone else in marriage, but that's not what's got the tattooed racecar builder in a tizzy...
  • Gabriel's Promise by Jordan Silver

    Gabriel's Promise by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Gabriel Sweeney is about to fulfill a promise long overdue; a promise made to an old army buddy who had been cut down in the same firefight that had put him in a coma for three months of his life...
  • Pinch Me by Tymber Dalton

    Pinch Me by Tymber Dalton

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    When Laura Spaulding awakens in a hospital to learn a vicious attack has stolen her memories, all she has are her strong, instinctive emotions for close friends and her fiancé, Rob. Rob Carlton is more than just Laura’s fiancé—he’s also her Master...
  • Obsessed by Hope Ford

    Obsessed by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She’s loved him since high school and now he’s back. First I don’t remember her. Then I insult her. I don’t mean to, but I’m used to being around rough military men,. Not sensitive, beautiful women. She’s been the one that sent me care packages. And she’s the one that caught my eye. I’m obsessed. All I can do is think of her. But no matter how many times I ask,...
  • The Modern Fairy Tale Collection by Aria Cole

    The Modern Fairy Tale Collection by Aria Cole

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Four swoonworthy tales that blend modern romance and syrupy sweet fantasy the way only Aria Cole can. .. Over the top gestures, filthy-sweet dirty talk, and possessive alpha goodness--they may be rough-around-the-edges but these men know exactly how to treat their women...
  • Claimed by Her Sasquatch by Shaw Hart

    Claimed by Her Sasquatch by Shaw Hart

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Emma Fawn has fallen on hard times. Her mom, unable to support them both, had kicked her out when she turned eighteen and she’s been bouncing from town to town and job to job for a few years until she finally lands in Thorp, Washington. She’s trying to stay positive but she’s run out of money, has nowhere to live, and no real options...
  • His Princess by Flora Ferrari

    His Princess by Flora Ferrari

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m the princess of the Irish mob, but there’s a problem…. The leader of the mob, my uncle, killed my father and I hate his guts. So when I get a chance to escape, I take it. The only place I can run is into the arms of Rider Rawson, one of the only cops in the city who isn’t corrupt. He was a friend of my dad’s and I know I can trust him...
  • Lyon's Angel by Jordan Silver

    Lyon's Angel by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Colton Lyon the tough talking pierced, tattooed biker has fallen for the young Kat Sloan as soon as she moves to town and starts working for him. When he finds out about an attack in her past Colt does the only thing a man in his position can do; he handles it. Now all he wants to do is be with his woman, his crew and his bike; but will an old enemy stand in the way of his happiness?
  • Unforgettable Underboss by Cameron Hart

    Unforgettable Underboss by Cameron Hart

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    She’s been following me for days now but I don’t know why. The curvy brunette with deep green eyes and the weight of the world on her shoulders keeps showing up while I’m engaged in Family business, distracting me and throwing me off my game. The woman is a terrible spy and an even worse liar. Even so, I'm hit with a possessive streak a mile wide after I confront my unsubtle stalker...
  • Jealous Savage by Lena Little

    Jealous Savage by Lena Little

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The shadows. The darkness. The underworld has always been my home. But I don’t tolerate any male giving any woman any kind of grief which is why I offer my services discreetly. I’m curious, and can’t resist seeing who requests my help, although I have no interest in interacting with some college kid. Until I see her. And everything changes. But then she flips around and does something foolish...
  • Cream by C.M. Steele

    Cream by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Nicholas Williams has two loves in his life, work and his younger sister Brie. Nothing keeps him away from his business except for Brie. So when she needs his help, he willingly agrees, but that’s all forgotten the instant his eyes land on the woman who just entered the coffee shop. Now he’s found a new love...
  • No Excuses by Nikky Kaye

    No Excuses by Nikky Kaye

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "I want to take the stick out of your a$$, but that's really more of a fifth date thing. ". Maddie's rules for attending a work retreat:. 1 Pack the right clothes. Especially extra underwear. 2 Don’t try to school your insanely hot boss on acceptable trust exercises. 3 Be prepared for the extracurricular ropes course. 4 Make sure there is a safety net when you fall, because you will fall hard...
  • It's Her Love by Tory Baker

    It's Her Love by Tory Baker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sophia needed a vacation to get away from life and the harsh realities of winter in New York. She never dreamed that a mechanical error with the plane she was on would change the course of her life forever. Vince took one look at Sophia and knew she was meant to be his. He didn’t care how long it took to gain her trust, she was worth the wait...
  • Claimed by Her Mafia Man by Sam Crescent

    Claimed by Her Mafia Man by Sam Crescent

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Isabella Drago’s father has trained her to take over and stand in his place as Capo. He made other plans, though, and now she must marry the man he chose or fight for her place in a man’s world. Damon Romano, the Monster as he is called, is intrigued by the woman who’s been trained to take care of herself. This is his chance to finally have a woman at his side, one who isn’t afraid of him...
  • The Love Trials by J.S. Cooper, Helen Cooper

    The Love Trials by J.S. Cooper, Helen Cooper

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Loves Trials Box Set includes The Love Trials 1, 2, and 3. The Love Trials. She thought she knew what was between the sheets, but she really had no idea. I thought I knew what I was getting into when I received the invitation from the lovers academy. I thought I was going for love...
  • Dirty Puck by Cassi Hart

    Dirty Puck by Cassi Hart

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Harley. Hockey is my nemesis. The game. The players. And most of all, my hockey-obsessed father. If it weren’t for the evil sport, I might have had a normal childhood. My parents might have stayed together. When I come to visit my father, hoping to repair our relationship, I have just one rule: No dating any of his players. Easy …. Right? Scott. Hockey is my life. My obsession...
  • His by Aria Cole, Mila Crawford

    His by Aria Cole, Mila Crawford

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Catherine. Parker Knowles is twenty years older than me and hotter than sin with flecks of salt and pepper at his temples and a arrogant grin that makes my heart spin. It was supposed to be a little fun for the summer. I never imagined it would be so much more. Parker. Discipline has always been the key to my success, and frivolous things like love and dating never figured into the equation...
  • Beauty and the Recluse by Cassi Hart

    Beauty and the Recluse by Cassi Hart

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Bailey Caught in a blizzard on a mountain pass, I’m left with no choice but to seek shelter in the opposing mansion tucked into the forest. I find myself immediately ensnared by Liam, the master of the house. He’s as mysterious as he is gorgeous, and the more time we spend together, the further I fall. But he’s hiding something...
  • The Notary by Cheryl Yeko

    The Notary by Cheryl Yeko

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Adrianna Morgan’s life takes a dangerous turn when she’s given an incorrect address for a notary assignment, ending up in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Attempting to take down a local drug ring, Lucas Hunter’s cover is blown when he goes to the aid of a beautiful woman during an undercover operation...
  • Blacklist Hookup by Sadie Haller

    Blacklist Hookup by Sadie Haller

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Looking to hook up with a kinky fellow celebrity near you when nobody--literally nobody--can know you're the opposite of vanilla? There’s an app for that. Quietly warn a fellow actress not to be alone with a certain producer and… BOOM. I’m dumped from Hollywood’s A-list to everyone’s blacklist in the blink of an upload...
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    bdsm  alpha male  contemporary  m-f  length-short
  • Arrogant Bastard by Jennifer Dawson

    Arrogant Bastard by Jennifer Dawson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I’m Cat McKay, and I’m in desperate need of a man. My farm manager deserted me six weeks before our grand opening that will help put my family’s business on the map. Now I need to find a replacement, because I’m not about to be the reason we fail. Unfortunately, Caden Landry— whose arrogance, evasions and good looks rub me the wrong way—is my only option on a list of zero candidates...
    Categorized as:
    bdsm  alpha male  contemporary  length-medium
  • Happily Ever Alpha: Until Mallory (Kindle Worlds: Happily Ever Alpha) by Ella Fox

    Happily Ever Alpha: Until Mallory (Kindle Worlds: Happily Ever Alpha) by Ella Fox

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Mallory McDonald might have bitten off more than she could chew when she moved to Nashville. That could be because the temporary rental she's in is a dump, or it might be that the police just kicked in the door of said rental and came in with their weapons drawn...
  • Cole by C.M. Steele

    Cole by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Always the protective brother, Cole Bennett found himself storming into a bar in Hawaii to warn some woman to stay away from his brother. The second he sees her, he wants her to stay away from Bishop for an entirely different reason. She belongs to him. Aviana has had a lousy couple of years and just wanted her shift to be over at a tiki bar. Then in walks the hottest man she’d ever seen...
  • Careless by Michelle Horst

    Careless by Michelle Horst

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From International Bestseller Michelle Heard, comes a new, sexy standalone novel in the Enemies To Lovers series. Irony - when life f@cks you over. Jaxson. She's the one girl I can't forget. She's as innocent as a saint, with the mouth of a sinner. After taking her virginity, it's taken me four years to get rid of the guilt...
  • Theo by C.M. Steele

    Theo by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I came to collect on a debt. Money. Nothing else. By the time I left, I had something so much more valuable than money—his beautiful daughter. From one look, I was determined. From one taste, I was obsessed. I ran into the arms of my father’s enemy. He came for me and had no intention of letting me go. From one look, I was mesmerized. From one taste, I was his.
  • Worth Dying For by Beverly Barton

    Worth Dying For by Beverly Barton

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sometimes love is stronger than death. .. Security agent Dante Moran can't afford the luxury of love - in his line of work, emotions can get you killed. Besides, he's never recovered from the pain of losing his high school sweetheart to a serial rapist and killer. As far as Dante is concerned, his heart died the day her body was discovered...
  • Taming the Notorious Sicilian by Michelle Smart

    Taming the Notorious Sicilian by Michelle Smart

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Francesco Calvetti. He has the face of a god and a body made for sin! Francesco doesn't do nice, and he doesn't do damsels in distress. Apart from that one time. He never thought he'd see Hannah Chapman again. A woman like her, pure and untouched, has no place in his world...
  • Rebellion by Serena Grey

    Rebellion by Serena Grey

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "Isn't enough that I can't stop thinking about you Sophie? " he says, his voice low and persuasive. "What else do you want from me? Now available in a single volume, Serena Grey's A Dangerous Man series bundle includes:. AWAKENING (A Dangerous Man #1). Sophie Bennett has virtually no experience with men...
  • A Baby for the Bad Boy: The Novel by Olivia Long, Olivia Hawthorne

    A Baby for the Bad Boy: The Novel by Olivia Long, Olivia Hawthorne

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    INTRO price of 99 cents, will go to 2. 99 soon so get it now! Desperation for money made her do desperate things. But what would happen when the bad boy stole her heart? Linden Walker knows sacrifice, she knows pain and she knows the desperation that having a dying father can bring...
  • Stormspell by Anne Mather

    Stormspell by Anne Mather

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Ruth was young, she was beautiful, she was ripe for love. .. but she was innocent,until Dominic invaded her island home,and her heart. .. Dominic was rich and powerful, bored and world-weary,fighting a temptation he had never before had to face. .
  • All I Want Is You by Candace Havens

    All I Want Is You by Candace Havens

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Hawke Vance will do whatever it takes to protect the family business, even if it means protecting it from his own father, a man who’s just gotten hitched in Vegas to wife number nine. Growing up seeing how much chaos wedded bliss creates, Hawke’s sworn never to fall into the matrimony trap. But to get the all-important controlling shares of the company, he does need a wife...
  • Possessive Daddy by Lena Little

    Possessive Daddy by Lena Little

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I feel a surge of heat rush through me at the sight of her. Jewel, her name tag reads. There’s a reason I come here every day, making sure there are no other little boys her age looking at my Jewel. Making sure everyone around here knows who she belongs too. Even if I’m too old for her, and forty-one is way too old for an eighteen-year old, as I keep reminding myself, I still need to be here...
  • Sweet Tarte by Dani Wyatt

    Sweet Tarte by Dani Wyatt

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Dimitri Dolce Cossack is a huge jerk. The whole world knows it’s true. Except, he’s not being a jerk to me. Not after I got jilted on a date which, at least to my mother, might have been the chance of a lifetime—for a girl like me to land the legendary financial white whale. Not what happened. Instead, I end up in the private dining room of one of the most famous restaurateurs in the world...
  • His First and Only by Alexa Riley

    His First and Only by Alexa Riley

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    His First and Only by Alexa Riley ~ After they were torn apart as teenagers, he became obsessed to the point of insanity and built an empire just to find her. When he sees her on a casino’s billboard, he drops everything to claim her, and their story finally begins.
  • Her Bodyguard by Sam Crescent

    Her Bodyguard by Sam Crescent

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Lucas Evans is a personal bodyguard, and he’s been called in when a world-famous pop star was stabbed on live television. No one knows who did it, and it’s up to him to protect the beautiful young woman. He’s a professional, but when it comes to Kate Swanson, all he wants to be is unprofessional...
  • Bought: The Greek's Innocent Virgin by Sarah Morgan

    Bought: The Greek's Innocent Virgin by Sarah Morgan

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    At Angelos Zouvelekis's command, café waitress Chantal will play the part of his bride-to-be. He will shower her with exquisite jewels and silks…and she will repay him in kind! He wants his recompense in the bedroom! Angelos worships Chantal's body, although he thinks she's a devious gold digger. But his arrogance is shattered when he discovers Chantal is a virgin…...
  • Rebellion: A Dangerous Man #2 by Serena Grey

    Rebellion: A Dangerous Man #2 by Serena Grey

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Sophie and David's story continues in this Sequel to Awakening! !! "Don't you want this Sophie? Don't you want me to touch you? To make love to you, over and over again? " His lips make a trail from my neck to my shoulder. "Isn't it enough? ". David Preston came into Sophie's life and changed it in ways she could never have anticipated...
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