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  • Alphas Like Us by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie

    Alphas Like Us by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 51 ratings
    His Bodyguard. His Love. Maverick, know-it-all bodyguard Farrow Keene knows publicly dating American royalty comes with a great cost. Everyone wants a piece of their relationship. And as a protective boyfriend, he’s not here for the malicious hands that grab at their love life and seek to rip them apart...
  • Sweet Temptation by Jaine Diamond

    Sweet Temptation by Jaine Diamond

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 28 ratings
    Bodyguards don’t fall in love.This job comes with benefits.I knew that from the moment I laid eyes on her.Summer Sorensen, party queen. Super-hot DJ and soon-to-be-rockstar. She’s sexy, sassy, strong… But she’s in danger.I know she doesn’t want to hire me.She doesn’t want to need me, but she does.And this job is getting more complicated by the hour.Damsel in distress? Yeah, right.Try ball breaker...
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  • Then & Now by Monica McCallan

    Then & Now by Monica McCallan

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Lily Connor has focused all her energy into becoming a successful wedding planner, and after five years, she’s on the precipice of taking on more responsibility at Southerland Wedding Company. When the chance finally presents itself, it comes with a complication she couldn’t have dreamt up in her worst nightmares...
  • A Light in the Window by Jan Karon

    A Light in the Window by Jan Karon

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    The second book in Jan Karon’s bestselling Mitford series confirms that a trip to Mitford is good for the soul His attractive neighbor is tugging at his heartstrings. A wealthy widow is pursuing him with hot casseroles. And his red-haired Cousin Meg has moved into the rectory, uninvited. As you can see, Mitford's rector and lifelong bachelor, Father Tim, is in need of divine intervention...
  • Shifting Gears by Jazz Forrester

    Shifting Gears by Jazz Forrester

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 ratings
    A spicy, small-town, opposites attract lesbian romance about learning to let go, no matter the cost.Workaholic Eleanor Cromwell blows into rural Canada, laser focused on her real estate development project. Given the locals already hate her father’s company, she plans to hide away in a cabin and conceal her identity to get the job done...
  • Asher by Nyssa Kathryn

    Asher by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    She needs his love. He needs her safe.When a workplace romance becomes something deeper for Lexie Harper, she's devastated to learn Asher Becket is determined to keep their sensual touches and passionate kisses behind closed doors. But that's not good enough. Lexie won't be anyone's dirty little secret...especially when she's harboring a secret of her own that won't stay hidden for long...
  • Love Blossoms at Puddleduck Farm by Della Galton

    Love Blossoms at Puddleduck Farm by Della Galton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The next in the wonderfully warm and uplifting series set on Puddluduck Farm How can life be too busy for love? Phoebe Dashwood is living the dream. She’s running her own successful vet practice, Puddleduck Vets, alongside her grandmother’s animal sanctuary. She’s also dating the gorgeous, yet slightly broken Rufus Holt, the most eligible bachelor in the New Forest...
  • Rocked Bayou by Erin Nicholas

    Rocked Bayou by Erin Nicholas

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    Ex-bodyguard Colin Daly needs three things:To figure out how to have a real job after his longtime client no longer needs him.To find some really good Irish whiskey in the land of homemade moonshine.To stop having dirty dreams every time he hears young, beautiful, recently-discovered-thanks-to-social-media music sensation, Hayden Ross, sing...
  • Ruined by April Wilson

    Ruined by April Wilson

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Finally! Sam and Cooper's long-awaited story is here... a second chance gay romance, with a guaranteed HEA. Sam... Coming out of the closet was easy. Falling in love with a man twice my age was not. Cooper grew up old-school, hiding his true self. He may be the love of my life, but I can’t be his dirty little secret any longer. He needs to man up and claim me if he wants to keep me...
  • Disappearing Acts by Terry McMillan

    Disappearing Acts by Terry McMillan

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    He was tall, dark as bittersweet chocolate, and impossibly gorgeous, with a woman-melting smile. She was pretty and independent, petite and not too skinny, just his type. Franklin Swift was a sometimes-employed construction worker, and a not-quite-divorced daddy of two. Zora Banks was a teacher, singer, songwriter. They met in a Brooklyn brownstone, and there could be no walking away..
  • A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford

    A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    In celebration of its thirtieth anniversary, here is the novel that started it all: New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford’s dazzling saga of a woman who dared to dream—and to triumph against all odds. . . .  On the brooding moors above a humble Yorkshire village stood Fairley Hall. There, Emma Harte, its oppressed but resourceful servant girl, acquired a shrewd determination...
  • Reddest Black: A Billionaire SEAL Story, Book 7 by P.T. Michelle

    Reddest Black: A Billionaire SEAL Story, Book 7 by P.T. Michelle

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Passion, betrayal, and heartache collide in an emotionally charged and dangerous chain of events that could unravel everything Sebastian and Talia have worked to overcome...
  • Threat of Danger by Dana Marton

    Threat of Danger by Dana Marton

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Falling in love can be a deadly proposition in this pulse-quickening Mission Recovery novel from the New York Times bestselling author. Jess Taylor and Derek Daley were in the throes of first love in a small Vermont town when they were kidnapped by a serial killer. They escaped his clutches—but not the trauma of the unsolved crime...
  • Just Ella by Annette K. Larsen

    Just Ella by Annette K. Larsen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Ariella was only looking for a distraction, something to break up the monotony of palace life. What she found was a young man willing to overlook her title and show her a new and vibrant way of life...
  • Jayden: Heroes at Heart by Maryann Jordan

    Jayden: Heroes at Heart by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jayden Chapman may have always been the quieter twin, but deep inside lay the heart of a protector. When he came upon a young woman stranded on the side of the road, he recognized her as someone he had seen before…and not been able to help. Determined to not let history repeat itself, he befriended her, as well as took care of her car...
  • Dangerous Ties by Jenna Gunn

    Dangerous Ties by Jenna Gunn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To save the woman who treats him like he's the enemy, he'll have to risk his life against an army of criminals. The former Force Recon Marine knows that his teammate’s younger sister-in-law-to-be is the definition of off-limits.Not to mention he’s breaking protocol and could lose his new job...
  • The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Kate Rorick, Bernie Su

    The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Kate Rorick, Bernie Su

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 43 ratings
    Based on the Emmy Award winning YouTube series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries .Twenty four year old grad student Lizzie Bennet is saddled with student loan debt and still living at home along with her two sisters, beautiful Jane and reckless Lydia...
  • Awakenings by Susan X. Meagher

    Awakenings by Susan X. Meagher

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Despite the questions of her roommates and the objections of her fiance, Jamie Evans persists in enrolling in a college course that seems an odd choice for a young woman of her background. What no one can know is that the course, The Psychology of the Lesbian Experience, will propel Jamie onto a journey of self-awareness and realization...
  • A Taste of Christmas: An M/M Holiday Romance by Jaclyn Quinn

    A Taste of Christmas: An M/M Holiday Romance by Jaclyn Quinn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Mitch Jensen has just missed the most important interview of his career. An outrageous suggestion to meet Everett Remington at his family’s home in upstate New York irrevocably changes Mitch’s life...
  • The Run Around by Bernadette Franklin

    The Run Around by Bernadette Franklin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Arranging a wedding for her brother and a five-time thoroughbride tests Hope’s skills and patience. She’d believed the vows would be the most dangerous part of the ceremony, but a baseball to the head during the photography session proves her wrong and lands her in the sights of her brother’s best friend, Fredrick. He wants her to plan his wedding. She wants to be his bride...
  • Bad For You by Weston Parker

    Bad For You by Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    His mother hates me with a passion. No peasant for her perfect son.She made sure to boot me out of his life when we were in high school and falling quickly in love. So I did what any respectable girl would do—I broke his heart and let him leave. Now the handsome billionaire is all grown up and back in our hometown where I never left. Seems the military did some good with him...
  • Guarding Her Body by Ella Goode

    Guarding Her Body by Ella Goode

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Child actress Sadie Monroe grew up under the hot lights of Hollywood. Her good girl image takes a hit when it's revealed her mom-ager has been stealing from Sadie for years. The scandal sites are ablaze again when semi-nude photos of her are released. Her new manager wants her to take advantage of this and pivot to a daring new role, but Sadie longs for a normal life with a husband and kids...
  • All Bets Off by Jeannette Winters

    All Bets Off by Jeannette Winters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Beckett Davis served in the Marine Corp and has the scars inside and out as a constant reminder. They say he’s a hero, but he wishes he’d died along with those he lost from his platoon. It’ll take a special kind of woman to heal this wounded warrior. Danielle McKesson understands survivor’s guilt. She's raising her nephew after he witnessed the death of his parents...
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  • The Moonlight Wedding by Lucy Kevin, Bella Andre

    The Moonlight Wedding by Lucy Kevin, Bella Andre

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Meg Ashworth has always lived her life by the book, until she finally breaks away from her family’s strict rules to be a wedding designer at Married in Malibu. But she never expected that part of her job description would mean working day — and night — with one of the biggest rock stars on the planet. Lucas Crosby desperately needs Meg’s help to create a music video for his new single...
  • The Sleeping Dictionary by Sujata Massey

    The Sleeping Dictionary by Sujata Massey

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From an award-winning novelist, a stunning portrait of late Raj India—a sweeping saga and a love story set against a background of huge political and cultural upheaval.YOU ASK FOR MY NAME, THE REAL ONE, AND I CANNOT TELL. IT IS NOT FOR LACK OF EFFORT. In 1930, a great ocean wave blots out a Bengali village, leaving only one survivor, a young girl...
  • Back for More by Kayley Loring

    Back for More by Kayley Loring

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    WES When I was a kid, my dad was the gardener for the richest man in town. His daughter, Lily Barnes, told me she could never like a guy like me. Then she kissed me and told me it would never happen again. When it happened again, she told me she could never love me because she was going to leave this place, and I would never leave my dad...
  • Death by the Riverside by J.M. Redmann

    Death by the Riverside by J.M. Redmann

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Among the moss-covered trees and wrought-iron balustrades of southern Louisiana, Detective Michele Knight (Micky to her friends) takes on the seemingly simple job of shooting a few photos for a client, but the going gets rough as Micky finds herself slugging through thugs and slogging through swamps in an attempt to expose a dangerous drug ring...
  • Touch and Go by Aiden Bates

    Touch and Go by Aiden Bates

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The doctor can heal me, but can he keep me safe?My brother has been embezzling from his employers. Unfortunately, when I accidentally discover that information, I end up hurled straight into the Potomac. If it weren’t for Dr. Derek Carlisle, I’d be fish food.When he offers more than medical help, I bolt. It’s not his job to protect me, even if the older man is everything I’ve ever wanted...
  • 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...
  • Negotiation Tactics by Lori Ryan

    Negotiation Tactics by Lori Ryan

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Jennie Evan's heart broke when she lost her high school sweetheart and husband just after college graduation. She's found some semblance of a new life with good friends and a job she loves at Sutton Capital, but she knows she'll never love again. That part of her died with Kyle. Chad Thompson sees the heartache Jennie hides from the world...
  • Henrietta's Own Castle by Betty Neels

    Henrietta's Own Castle by Betty Neels

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    An Unexpected Inheritance! When Henrietta was left a house in a Dutch village, she decided to make her home there, and settled happily into her new abode. She thought she would like everything about Holland -- except Marnix van Hessel...
  • Fractured by Rosalind James

    Fractured by Rosalind James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What do you do with a person who’s out of control and won’t listen to reason? Especially if that person might be you? When I’d taken Hope Sinclair and her sister to New Zealand to meet my grandfather, I’d known I’d be making the return journey as her husband. I hadn’t reckoned, though, on the demons of my past coming back to threaten our future. And, as always, I hadn’t reckoned on Hope...
  • Poison Kisses: Part 3 by Lisa Renee Jones

    Poison Kisses: Part 3 by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Those you love, know how to hurt you. Those you love, know what to hide, because they know what is unforgivable to you. Now that I know what Seth hid from me, I want the secret to be the lie. I don't want to kill him. I don't want to leave him. I guess that is why they say there is a fine line between love and hate. I love and hate that man with such passion, that it damn near hurts...
  • Worlds Away by Alexa Land

    Worlds Away by Alexa Land

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Does love stand a chance between two men from different worlds, when they’re both being pulled in opposite directions? Sawyer MacNeil is looking for answers. His time in the Army didn’t go as planned, and he’s still reeling from the end of a relationship that never should have happened in the first place...
  • Imperfectly Delicious by Mary Frame

    Imperfectly Delicious by Mary Frame

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Scarlett Jackson is anything but perfect. The first time she met famous chef and entrepreneur Guy Chapman, she set him on fire. As a result, she was blacklisted from every restaurant in New York City to the point where she couldn’t get hired at a taco stand. But she didn’t give up. She got busy. Now she’s running her own food truck and things are taking off. Except..
  • When Bruce Met Cyn... by Lori Foster

    When Bruce Met Cyn... by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 30 ratings
    A Lori Foster book is like a glass of good champagne--sexy and sparkling! --Jayne Ann Krentz You first met Bruce Kelly in Lori Foster's steamy novel, The Secret Life of Bryan. Now, Bruce comes into his own--and a whole lot of trouble--when he falls for a woman who is nothing like he is, but she's everything he wants. . . When Opposites Attract. .
  • Incognito by Francis Ray

    Incognito by Francis Ray

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Erin's terrifying nightmares begin the day she witnesses a horrifying crime and lives to tell about it. Now, a dangerous killer who has escaped the law swears revenge, and Jake Hunter is hired to protect her. Soon, as a web of danger tightens around them, Jake realizes that he will risk anything, even his life, for this woman...
  • Taste for Temptation by Phyllis Bourne

    Taste for Temptation by Phyllis Bourne

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Only one man can satisfy her craving… No one dumps Brandi Collins! After being left at the altar, the Nashville high school teacher plans to get back at her ex by undergoing a major transformation...
  • Make Me Yours by Charity Ferrell

    Make Me Yours by Charity Ferrell

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Stella 
Love sucks hard. 
 Which is why I’ve sworn it off.
 No men. No relationships. No sex. 
Killing it with my career is my new orgasm. 
 That's my plan ... until he walks through my door and takes the open position of being my new bodyguard. He's callous but gentle. Dominating yet makes me feel safe. He's a small town boy. The opposite to my LA life...
  • The Rogue by Celeste Bradley

    The Rogue by Celeste Bradley

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 18 ratings
    A gambler and a liar? Ethan Damont’s legendary gambling skills have earned him a place at the gaming tables of London’s most exclusive homes. He has used his dubious place in Society to aid the Liar’s Club. But his latest favor to the group has not only put his life in danger—it has thrown him together with the woman who tempts him to forgo his rakish ways...
  • Snowfall by Sharon Sala

    Snowfall by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    An ex-cop protects a beautiful mystery author from a killer fan in this romantic suspense novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Remember Me.   As an heiress to a broadcasting fortune, successful mystery author Caitlin Bennett is used to people saying she bought her way into fame. But the taunts become terrifying when she starts receiving menacing letters from a deranged fan...
  • Taking Fire by Radclyffe

    Taking Fire by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    After two years and too many lost troops, Navy medic Max de Milles is ready to go home. Her last tour is up in four days and she will soon be catching a transport to the States. Life is looking good until she gets detailed to evacuate a humanitarian group in south Somalia...
  • The Wedding War by Liz Talley

    The Wedding War by Liz Talley

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Save the date for this funny and poignant novel of family, friendship, letting go, and moving on by the award-winning author of Room to Breathe.Once upon a time, Melanie Layton and Tennyson O’Rourke were inseparable—but their friends-4ever promises were shattered when an explosive secret was revealed at Mel’s wedding, a secret that destroyed her family...
  • Bodyguard by C.D. Reiss

    Bodyguard by C.D. Reiss

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 25 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author CD Reiss: Protecting a celebrity in Hollywood isn’t easy, but protecting Emily could break his heart. Emily enjoys all the perks of fame—the parties, the glamour, the tours—but they’ve brought her back to the attention of a dangerous ex-boyfriend hell bent on getting her back. Enter Carter Kincaid, a bodyguard so crushingly sexy he takes her breath away...
  • Beautiful Dreamer by Melissa Brayden

    Beautiful Dreamer by Melissa Brayden

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Who says you can’t go home again? Philadelphia real estate broker Devyn Winters is at the peak of her career, closing multimillion-dollar deals and relishing it. She’s pretty much blocked out her formative years in Dreamer’s Bay, where the most exciting thing to happen was the twice a year bake sale. Unfortunately, a distress call hauls her back home and away from the life she’s constructed...
  • Half Life by Jillian Cantor

    Half Life by Jillian Cantor

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The USA Today bestselling author of In Another Time reimagines the pioneering, passionate life of Marie Curie using a parallel structure to create two alternative timelines, one that mirrors her real life, one that explores the consequences for Marie and for science if she’d made a different choice...
  • Silent Threat by Dana Marton

    Silent Threat by Dana Marton

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A former Navy SEAL, Cole Makani Hunter has returned home from a disastrous black ops mission without his best friend, his hearing, or the use of his right arm. So when his ex–commanding officer assigns him to an undercover mission at a rehab center for vets to discover who leaked sensitive military information to an enemy, he’d rather be anywhere but there...
  • On Deadly Ground by Susan Vaughan

    On Deadly Ground by Susan Vaughan

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A desperate sister Museum director Kate Fontaine made two promises to her dying father—protect her ne’er-do-well brother and return a stolen statuette of the Maya god of earthquakes to its temple. But when her brother is kidnapped and the price to save him is the priceless artifact, keeping one promise means breaking the other...
  • His Uptown Guy by Felice Stevens

    His Uptown Guy by Felice Stevens

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Jesse Grace-Martin loses his father on 9/11, his charmed life is gone forever. People look menacing, and the streets no longer seem safe. After experiencing a brutal mugging, Jesse retreats to his apartment in the landmark Dakota building...
  • The Promise by Felice Stevens

    The Promise by Felice Stevens

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A promise made:When Ezra Green sits next to Monroe Friedman in their high school English class, friendship blooms into first love, and even Ezra moving to California won’t keep them apart. Ezra promises Roe that once he finishes college, he’ll come home and the two will be together. In the meantime they’ll write and keep in touch. Nothing has to change...
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