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  • A Crying Shame by Rosie Goodwin

    A Crying Shame by Rosie Goodwin

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Claire Nightingale is haunted by the memory of childhood abuse and the painful choices she was forced to make. Longing to find peace, she knows she must first confront her demons.Moving to Solihull with her adopted daughter Nikki, she tries to make amends with the family she left behind...
  • Trust by Riley Edwards

    Trust by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    I have a million reasons to keep running—and one to stay. I’m a dead woman walking; there’s a target on my back and a million-dollar price tag on my head. I shouldn’t have fallen in love, not if I wanted to stay alive. I’m a liar, a con, I’ve changed my name so many times I can barely remember who I am. They’ve found me and I have to leave. I keep telling myself it’s better this way...
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  • Hendrix by Samantha Whiskey

    Hendrix by Samantha Whiskey

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    As one of the best wide receivers in the NFL, I can catch anything...anyone.Except her—the coach’s daughter.Savannah Goodman is the one woman in the world I’m forbidden to touch,and the only one I can’t stop thinking about.She’s fiery, funny, and sexy as sin.We can’t be in the same room without fighting,but her quick wit only brings me back for more...
  • All My Secrets by Lynn Austin

    All My Secrets by Lynn Austin

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Bestselling author Lynn Austin returns with a luminous work of historical fiction set amid the opulence of Gilded Age New York, where three generations of women in one family must reckon with the choices they have made and their hopes for the future.New York, 1898...
  • Destiny's Path by Anna Jacobs

    Destiny's Path by Anna Jacobs

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three Blake sisters remain in the Swan River Colony in 1866 and two are quite happy to forge new lives for themselves there.The third, Xanthe, yearns to see the world. But even if she could afford to travel, could she persuade her beloved twin to let her go? Maia has fallen in love with their employer, and would surely be happiest staying behind with him...
  • Heartbreak & Cupcakes by Shawna Renae

    Heartbreak & Cupcakes by Shawna Renae

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alex VaughnThe last thing I wanted was to be named San Francisco’s Most Eligible Bachelor. The title alone was misleading. I wasn’t a bachelor. I was a widower and single father. One who wasn’t available or interested.Well... there was one person who might have piqued my interest. Cupcake Girl. But interest and intent are two very different things...
  • Private Teacher! 3 by Yuu Moegi

    Private Teacher! 3 by Yuu Moegi

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Rintaro's has been accepted into college and he's finally moved in with Kaede...
    Categorized as:
    anal sex  contemporary  length-short
  • High Street by Anna Jacobs

    High Street by Anna Jacobs

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In 1845 Annie Gibson can finally leave Salem Street. Her dreams of being able to open an elegant dressmaking salon in the High Street of Bilsden, a Lancashire mill town, have come true. And she is going to take her father and his second family with her, away from poverty, away from the Rows. But Annie has not left trouble behind. Someone is trying to undermine her business...
  • Heir to Greyladies by Anna Jacobs

    Heir to Greyladies by Anna Jacobs

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hampshire, 1900. With the sudden death of her father, the life of fifteen-year-old Harriet Benson changes forever. Forced from her home to escape the advances of her leering stepbrother Norris, Harriet is sent into service to provide for the family. Arriving at the grand Dalton House, she meets the owners' crippled son Joseph, with whom friendship soon blossoms...
  • The Grifter by Kimberly Kincaid

    The Grifter by Kimberly Kincaid

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Only one person has ever rocked Detective Shawn Maxwell’s titanium composure.Francesca Rossi, his ex-partner.His ex-everything.He hasn’t seen Frankie since she left him eight years agoand now he has to work with her on an undercover casethat could break them both...
  • Private Teacher! 1 by Yuu Moegi

    Private Teacher! 1 by Yuu Moegi

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Not only is the schoolwork so confusing that Rintarou needs a private tutor, but the maelstrom of emotions he feels when spending time with Kaede-san is weirdly unsettling. But when Kaede-san decides to penalize Rintarou's unsatisfactory progress with some unusual punishment, Rintarou figures out that what he's feeling is love...
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    anal sex  contemporary  length-short
  • Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a prolific writer and reviewer in the Victorian period, and in her lifetime, her reputation as a poet was at least as great as that of her husband, poet Robert Browning. Some of her poetry has been noted in recent years for strong feminist themes, but the poems for which Elizabeth Barrett Browning is undoubtedly best know are Sonnets from the Portuguese...
  • Southern Bombshell by Jessica Peterson

    Southern Bombshell by Jessica Peterson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    The Wedding Planner’s Rulebook:Keep the bride happy.Keep the wedding party out of trouble.Never let anyone know you’ve been in love with the groom for years. I lived by these rules. Until Nate Kingsley. The Capulets and Montagues have nothing on the Beauregards and Kingsleys...
  • Juniper Smoke by Sadia Ash

    Juniper Smoke by Sadia Ash

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In an age of casual hook-ups, can love survive the test of time? (Part I and II of Juniper Smoke sold as one book) "Much more than a simple love story. It’s a saga." (Annette Abernathy's Blog) “I loved this story. This is a must read book!” (Heather - Kinky Kittens Book Blog) “I don’t like it. I love it! This has become my favorite book...
  • The Dowry Of Miss Lydia Clark by Lawana Blackwell

    The Dowry Of Miss Lydia Clark by Lawana Blackwell

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Books 1-3 of The author Lawana Blackwell, The Gresham Chronicles, Bethany House...
  • Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

    Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 46 ratings
    When Rose Campbell, a shy orphan, arrives at "The Aunt Hill" to live with her six aunts and seven boisterous male cousins, she is quite overwhelmed. How could such a delicate young lady, used to the quiet hallways of a girls' boarding school, exist in such a spirited home? It is the arrival of Uncle Alec that changes everything...
  • Private Teacher! 2 by Yuu Moegi

    Private Teacher! 2 by Yuu Moegi

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Kaede-san and Rintaro have become lovers, but even with the frequent assignations during their tutoring sessions, it seems it isn''t enough...
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    anal sex  contemporary  length-short
  • A Bucket of Ashes by P.B. Ryan

    A Bucket of Ashes by P.B. Ryan

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    “As always, the author excels at setting the scene, evoking the time and place by use of the day-to-day details as well as historical events. The resolution of the central mystery is almost secondary to the revelations about Nell’s past and the way the author ties up all the loose ends of her present situation. Longtime readers will enjoy this aspect immensely; I know I did...
  • Royal Rogue by Jessica Peterson

    Royal Rogue by Jessica Peterson

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Releasing July 12, 2018! Dear Jane, You’re a princess. I’m a thief. This isn’t a Disney movie. We never had a chance in hell of a happy ending. But I still wish I could have given you one. When we met, I had you pegged as a snob. All polo and private jets. But you turned out to be the exact opposite. I fell for you the first day we met. I lied to you about a lot of things...
  • Wreck My World by Victoria Ashley

    Wreck My World by Victoria Ashley

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “The feeling I have in this very moment, after not seeing her for so long, will haunt me forever, reminding me why I left to begin with.” For as long as I can remember, Easton Crews has been off-limits. As much as it kills me, that’s never going to change. After his little disappearing act three years ago, then suddenly showing up out of nowhere, I shouldn't want anything to do with him...
  • Murder In the North End by P.B. Ryan

    Murder In the North End by P.B. Ryan

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    “It’s always a good day when a new Nell Sweeney book arrives.” —CA Reviews July 1870: Nell Sweeney’s position as governess for the venerable Hewitts of Boston affords her a unique perspective in an era of sharp class distinctions. Neither servant nor gentlewoman, she can fit in among the denizens of a waterfront tenement or the bluebloods of Colonnade Row...
  • The Trader's Wife by Anna Jacobs

    The Trader's Wife by Anna Jacobs

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Singapore in the 1860s is exotic and yet terrifying for a penniless Englishwoman, alone and vulnerable after her mother's death. Too pretty to obtain a governess's job, Isabella Saunders accepts an offer from a Singapore merchant to teach him English and live with his family. Two years later Bram Deagan arrives in Singapore, determined to make his fortune as a trader...
  • カテキョ! 4 [Katekyo! 4] by Yuu Moegi

    カテキョ! 4 [Katekyo! 4] by Yuu Moegi

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    While living together with Kaede, Rintaro decides to start a part-time job as a private teacher. But he's met with objections from Kaede and in order to ascertain how suitable he is, it's decided that he'll teach Kaede's little brother, Tsubaki! Rintaro suddenly starts going to Kaede's family house, but what will happen..
    Categorized as:
    anal sex  contemporary
  • Concealed Hearts by Nicky James

    Concealed Hearts by Nicky James

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Two closeted men in one rumor-hungry small town have no chance of keeping their love a secret.Chief of Police Windsor Elkhart is a master deceiver. Not a single person in Jasper has a clue he’s gay, which explains the endless suitors all vying for his attention. Happily married to his job, he’s convinced life is good enough...
  • Mr. Picture Perfect by Daryl Banner

    Mr. Picture Perfect by Daryl Banner

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    COLEAll I wanted to do was take my grandma to the crafts festival.Instead, I accidentally save someone’s lifeand end up on the front page of the Spruce Press.That’s not all. The person whose life I save happens to bemy childhood crush Noah Reed.I’m hardly an example of perfection.But now they’re organizing a pageant featuring the town’s hottest bachelorsand I’m number one on the list...
  • Yours: A Dark Mafia Billionaire Romance by Sara Fields

    Yours: A Dark Mafia Billionaire Romance by Sara Fields

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    I'm her best friend's older brother.I should have felt like a bastard for making her strip, spanking her bare ass, and making her show me just how soaking wet she was for me before I put her on her knees and taught her how a real man punishes a woman for getting in over her head.Or for bending her over my couch and making her come so hard that she almost passed out.But I didn't...
  • The Trader's Sister by Anna Jacobs

    The Trader's Sister by Anna Jacobs

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ismay Deagan has one wish in the world - to leave Ireland and join her brother, Bram, in Australia. However, her father has other ideas and orders her to marry their vicious neighbour Rory Flynn, even though she loathes him. But after Rory brutally attacks her Ismay realises she has to escape...
  • The Trader's Dream by Anna Jacobs

    The Trader's Dream by Anna Jacobs

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bram Deagan dreams of bringing his family from Ireland to join him in Australia, where he now runs a successful trading business. But when a typhus epidemic strikes Ireland, it leaves the Deagan family decimated. And, with other family members scattered round the world, it is left to Maura Deagan to look after her orphaned nieces and nephew...
  • The Trader's Reward by Anna Jacobs

    The Trader's Reward by Anna Jacobs

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    1871. When Fergus Deagan's wife dies in childbirth, she makes him promise to take their family from Ireland to Western Australia to join his brother Bram, and also to marry again to make sure their children don't miss out on a mother's love. Disowned by her father for becoming pregnant, Cara Payton bears a stillborn baby...
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    victorian  historical  contemporary
  • Tagging Up by Carrie Aarons

    Tagging Up by Carrie Aarons

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    All Anna Callahan wants is her independence.Being the youngest member of her immediate family, and massive network of cousins, she’s always been sheltered. That ends now. After graduating with her masters in nursing, she’s ready to move out of her parents’ house, whether they support that decision or not...
  • The Handyman's Secret Santa: A Small Town Sweet & Steamy Holiday Romance by Kali Hart

    The Handyman's Secret Santa: A Small Town Sweet & Steamy Holiday Romance by Kali Hart

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Handyman’s Secret Santa: Christmas in Alpine Valley Book 6An Age Gap Holiday RomanceThis Christmas, follow four neighbors turned friends to find out whether Santa will finally give them the gift they’ve been wanting most of all: true love.AddisonI have a huge crush on my handyman.It can’t go anywhere.He’s older than me. Old enough that it would give my mom a heart attack...
  • To Enchant a Lady's Heart by Robin Lee Hatcher

    To Enchant a Lady's Heart by Robin Lee Hatcher

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He has nothing to offer. She has everything to lose. Despite the dishonorable circumstances of his own birth, Adam Faulkner has never begrudged his half-brother Sebastian's legitimate position as the Viscount Willowthorpe. Having a title and everything that goes with it never mattered to Adam—until “everything” became the hand of Miss Eliza Southwick...
  • Interlude: Cavatina by Tal Bauer

    Interlude: Cavatina by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Cavatina: A solo in the midst of a larger composition Join the couples from your favorite Tal Bauer novels in Interlude: Cavatina, a collection of stories that brings everyone together in one volume! Jack and Ethan Spiers-Reichenbach are settling into their marriage and enjoying their second holiday season together, this time in Texas instead of the White House...
  • Hidden by Ancelli

    Hidden by Ancelli

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Gum, ice, and a pair of scissors was the beginning of something Ethan Monet or Rayn Taylor weren’t ready for. Having to hide their affair, the young couple find solace in each other's arms away from the ugly reality of the world around them.One violent night led to everything crashing down around them, leading them down a path of chaos and hurt feelings...
  • Her Heart for a Compass by Sarah Ferguson

    Her Heart for a Compass by Sarah Ferguson

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    From one of the most famous former members of the British royal family, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York —a mesmerizing novel of a young noblewoman’s coming-of-age that richly details both high society and low in Victorian England.Queen Victoria’s close friend, the Scottish Duke of Buccleuch, Lady Margaret Montagu Scott is expected to make an advantageous marriage...
  • The Last Queen of India by Michelle Moran

    The Last Queen of India by Michelle Moran

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    1857, India. At nineteen years old, Sita is the shining star of Queen Lakshmi of India's imperial guard, having pledged herself to a life of celibacy in the name of protecting the young ruler. When Sita agrees to train Lakshmi in the art of military combat, a close friendship develops between the two women...
  • Crazy, Stupid Love by K.L. Grayson

    Crazy, Stupid Love by K.L. Grayson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    There’s a special place in hell for a man like me—a man who shamelessly sleeps with his best friend’s little sister, knowing he’ll never be what she needs. A man who takes because the only thing he has to offer in return is a broken past that’s destined to destroy his future...
  • All the Way by M. Mabie

    All the Way by M. Mabie

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I’m a man’s man. A bro. A pal. A dude. And I love women.Am I a saint? Far from it.Do I go out with a lot of women? You’re damn right.I date them all. Shy. Loud. Too busy. Lonely. High maintenance. No confidence. No filter. Bad habits. Naive. Beautiful ones. Pretty ones—and believe me there is a difference, but that’s another soap box. Point is, I don’t discriminate...
  • Cashelmara by Susan Howatch

    Cashelmara by Susan Howatch

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    There were two subjects which lonely widower Edward de Salis never discussed: his dead wife and his family home in Ireland, 'matchless Cashelmara'. So when he meets Marguerite, a bright young American with whom he can talk freely about both, he is able to love again and takes her back to Ireland as his wife...
  • 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...
  • Only You by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Only You by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Two completely different men and one powerful attraction. Sebastian Blake is a cynical, self-made billionaire who has only known rejection and abandonment in his personal life. Adam Johnson is a closeted gay man who works for the law firm representing Sebastian in a civil lawsuit filed against him by a former employee...
  • Murder on Black Friday by P.B. Ryan

    Murder on Black Friday by P.B. Ryan

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    “A mesmerizing mystery. Not only does Ryan provide readers with a tightly wound, suspenseful novel peopled with multidimensional characters, she writes about an era whose problems mirror our own. This is a historical period she knows and brings to life so clearly that readers are totally immersed. Nell is an ideal heroine: smart, intrepid and human. Be on the lookout for her return...
  • A Better Man by Carrie Elks

    A Better Man by Carrie Elks

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s his addiction. He’s her escape.Logan Hartson is gorgeous, successful, and has a smile that’ll knock a woman off her feet. And from the moment Courtney Roberts meets him on a dirt road, the chemistry sizzles between them.Everything about them is wrong. He’s city, she’s country.He owns expensive restaurants. She runs a small farm...
  • Baby for Dr. Billionaire by Aimee Bronson

    Baby for Dr. Billionaire by Aimee Bronson

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A wealthy billionaire returns to his hometown with his little girl to spend the summer with his family. His best friend's family still lives next door and he finds his best friend's sister all grown up. Follow Tristan and Arya's adventures as they navigate their summer fling...
  • Something About Us by Riley Hart

    Something About Us by Riley Hart

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Falling in love was the easy part.   Lucky and Saint are head-over-heels for each other. It doesn’t matter that they met only a few months ago. It also doesn’t matter that this is Saint’s first real relationship and Lucky’s first with a man. They’re infatuated, happy, and excited to start their life together in LA.   It isn’t as easy as they thought...
  • Murder at the Dressmaker's Salon by C.J. Archer

    Murder at the Dressmaker's Salon by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    As fashion designer to London’s elite, she had an eye for detail and a flare for the dramatic. But there’s nothing stylish about her cold-blooded murder.With the social season just around the corner, the women in Cleo’s family are having new outfits made by the most sought-after designer in the city. Madame Poitiers is bold, self-absorbed and not French, despite her claims...
  • The Proposal Playbook by Samantha Chase

    The Proposal Playbook by Samantha Chase

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 10 ratings
    He’s a former Navy SEAL from the school of hard knocks.She’s a cheery wedding planner writing a guide to happily ever afters.Who knew cupid’s arrow could come in the form of a five-pound bag of flour?When Daisy Sinclair gleefully offers to help her brother come up with the perfect proposal, she has no idea how time-consuming the project will become...
  • The Fix by Sylvie Stewart

    The Fix by Sylvie Stewart

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    How do you take a chance on love when every other decision you’ve ever made has been the wrong one? Laney Monroe’s life looks nothing like she’d planned. She certainly hadn’t pictured herself as a twenty-five-year-old single mom with a boring job, a freeloading brother, and an exhibitionist son who worries more than Shaggy and Scooby Doo put together...
  • Chances by Carolyn Brown

    Chances by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Adelida Broussau took a big chance by saying she was Rueben Hamilton's new bride. But even a rat will stand up and fight when it's cornered and she was surely feeling the pinch of being pushed in the corner. Her sister, Maria, was dead...
  • Unconditional Love by Andrew Grey

    Unconditional Love by Andrew Grey

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "A Seven Days Story" Can a person's life change in just one day? How about seven? Donald Pottier and Jason Greene are barely more than boys when they meet on Chincoteague Island, Virginia. A day of crabbing soon turns them from strangers to friends, then to something more, but the boys' time is limited: at the end of the summer, Jay will leave Don and the island behind...
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    anal sex  contemporary  m-m  angst  queer  length-short
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