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  • We Are Family by Beth Moran

    We Are Family by Beth Moran

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    From No. 1 bestselling author Beth Moran comes a story about family, friends and facing your fears. Thirty-three-year-old Ruth Henderson and her daughter Maggie have some hard choices to make. Following the tragic death of Maggie's father, they are left with a mountain of debt and broken hearts...
  • 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...
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  • Loving You by Allie Everhart

    Loving You by Allie Everhart

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Since meeting Garret on her first night at college, Jade’s had to overcome many obstacles to be with him, including interference from Garret’s father. Now, months later, it seems that Mr. Kensington has finally accepted Jade dating his son, but the reason for that is unclear. After what Jade witnessed at the Kensington mansion, she’s not sure what his acceptance of her means...
  • Finding Infinity by Layne Harper

    Finding Infinity by Layne Harper

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    "Finding Infinity" as described by Colin... "Fine Charlie.” Colin says dropping his hands in defeat. “Here's what I want. I want everybody to back off and let me play football. I want you to go back to practicing medicine because I’m ready for you to be happy again - not this forced shit that you keep trying to sell me...
  • Divine by Karen Kingsbury

    Divine by Karen Kingsbury

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Best-selling author Karen Kingsbury weaves another dramatic story of tragedy and redemption! Mary Madison was a child of unspeakable horrors, a young woman society wanted to forget. Now a divine power has set Mary free to bring life-changing hope and love to battered and abused women living in the shadow of the nation's capital. Mary is educated and redeemed, a powerful voice in Washington, D.C...
  • A Surreptitious Relationship by Jordan Lynde

    A Surreptitious Relationship by Jordan Lynde

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Chris and Holly's relationship is finally perfect. With no gangs to harass them, the only thing they have to worry about it keeping their relationship a secret from the student body and faculity at school. Simple enough. However with the appearance of two new students, new troubles arise...
    Categorized as:
    college  length-medium  contemporary
  • Captivating Anika by Freya Barker

    Captivating Anika by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Anika Jones has her future carefully plotted out and is checking the boxes, one by one, despite the bumps thrown in her path. This last one is a challenge, but she manages to stay on track; her salon is thriving, and she just bought a house. Unfortunately, when one of her employees runs into trouble, she inevitably gets sucked in, throwing her carefully paced life off-balance...
  • Alluring Seduction by Skye Turner

    Alluring Seduction by Skye Turner

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Warning: This book contains explicit language and explosive sex. It is an adult romance and not intended for anyone under the age of 18. Jessie Adams is the womanizing, lead guitarist for the hottest rock band in the country, Bayou Stix. Seduction is his game. He does what he wants, when he wants, and with whom he wants...
  • The Rockers' Babies by Terri Anne Browning

    The Rockers' Babies by Terri Anne Browning

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    After the nightmares of our childhoods my guys and I have finally found the happiness we deserve. Shane is getting married, Drake and Jesse are going to be fathers, and I’m making my own career with Nik’s encouragement. It’s taken a lifetime, but finally we have moved on… I should have known better than to think life was just going to be simple from here on out...
  • Girlhood by Melissa Febos

    Girlhood by Melissa Febos

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNational BestsellerLambda Literary Award FinalistNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME * NPR * The Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * Washington Independent Review of Books * The Millions * Electric Literature * Ms Magazine * Entropy Magazine * Largehearted Boy * Passerbuys“Irreverent and original.” –New York Times“Magisterial...
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    abuse  length-medium  contemporary  audiobook
  • Pull by Rachel Van Dyken

    Pull by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Jaded rock star, Demetri Daniels, is in Hell — also known as Seaside, Oregon. Sent to rehab after nearly getting himself killed last year, his record company wants nothing more than for him to lay low, away from the limelight...
  • Memories in the Drift by Melissa Payne

    Memories in the Drift by Melissa Payne

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Melissa Payne, bestselling author of The Secrets of Lost Stones , returns with another haunting and hopeful novel about redemption, the power of memory, and a woman’s will to reclaim her life. My name is Claire. I’m thirty-six years old. It’s September. I know what I’m doing and why I am here…for now...
  • Acer by Lilly Atlas

    Acer by Lilly Atlas

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    After one unforgettable night with a dangerous outlaw, Fia knows she must limit contact with the kind of man who could never fit in her wealthy circle. Unfortunately, she can't keep their brief but passionate encounter far from her thoughts. When she seeks him out for reasons unrelated to their chemistry, the worst happens, and Fia is attacked by a madman...
  • Shattered by H.M. Ward

    Shattered by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    After Mari's attempt to help Trystan goes horribly wrong they are both forced to deal with the consequences...
  • Releasing Keanu by Siobhan Davis, Robin Harper

    Releasing Keanu by Siobhan Davis, Robin Harper

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A friends-to-lovers second-chance romance from USA Today bestseller Siobhan Davis. Standalone with HEA and no cliffhanger. Keanu Selena played me. Confirming I wasted years loving someone who didn’t love me back. It should be easy to move on, but since she dumped me, I can’t shake her from my thoughts, no matter how hard I try...
  • Forgive Me by Melanie Walker

    Forgive Me by Melanie Walker

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    There are very deep issues at play in this book and it is not for the weak. The twist in this book leaves you devastated and you will need to absorb it. You will get mad, cry your heart out, be crushed, smile, and lose it by the end of this book. Forgive Me is about Forgiveness. All the things you think you know are only a fraction of the big picture...
  • Be My Temptation by Rachel Brookes

    Be My Temptation by Rachel Brookes

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    You met Josh Crawford and Ashlyn Hart in Be My December, now its time to hear their story. One night connected them.One decision separated them. One craving tempted them. Ashlyn Hart was done with men, or at least those outside of her books. After stupidly falling for the charms of her cheating ex and having her heart broken yet again, she decided to create a new life...
  • Here Comes the Sun by Marie Force

    Here Comes the Sun by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Wade Abbott is one and done. One look, one conversation, one weekend, and he knows who he wants. Except, Mia Simpson is not free to return his affection. In fact, he suspects she's in an abusive marriage, but she never confirms that, and he has no choice but to mind his own business where she's concerned...
    Categorized as:
    abuse  length-medium  contemporary  audiobook
  • Hold Me Close by Rosalind James

    Hold Me Close by Rosalind James

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Kayla Chambers knows what love is—and what it isn’t. When her boyfriend turns abusive, she and her son escape to a new life in a place where he’ll never find them. The idyllic town of Paradise, Idaho, has everything she needs to get back on her feet. Survival is her only goal, and the last thing she wants is another man in her life...
  • Kennedy by Addison Jane

    Kennedy by Addison Jane

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    I was paying off a debt. One that wasn’t mine. But when your father screws over an outlaw motorcycle club and then disappears with their money, you have two choices. Pay with your body, or pay with your blood. With a little sister to protect, I did what I had to. I gave them me. REPO I was born a protector. Whatever it took, I did it...
    Categorized as:
    abuse  length-medium  suspense  bikers  contemporary  m-f
  • Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

    Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 97 ratings
    The author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be delivers her most ambitious and powerful novel to date: a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to questions no one has ever thought to ask...
  • Aces MC Series Complete Box Set by Nicole Jacquelyn

    Aces MC Series Complete Box Set by Nicole Jacquelyn

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Over 400,000 words. Four complete novels. Four never before seen bonus scenes. Four protective men. Four strong women. Four stories that will break your heart and then piece it back together again...
    Categorized as:
    bad boys  abuse  contemporary  secret child  bikers
  • Saving Wishes by G.J. Walker-Smith

    Saving Wishes by G.J. Walker-Smith

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    *** iBooks Best Of 2013 AU/NZ Breakout Book Of The Year*** For Charli Blake, being seventeen is a tough gig. She's been branded a troublemaker, her reputation is in tatters and she's stuck in Pipers Cove, a speck of a town on the coast of Tasmania. Thankfully, it's temporary. Her lifelong dream of travelling the world is just months away from becoming reality...
    Categorized as:
    college  length-medium  contemporary
  • 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...
  • St. Clair by Rose Christo

    St. Clair by Rose Christo

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    "I never want to hurt you. You get that, right?" Skylar knows Rafael wants something very specific from him--and Skylar wants him to have it. Convincing Rafael is going to take some serious innovation. Skylar lost his voice twelve years ago to the Nettlebush Indian Reserve's first and last serial killer. That serial killer was Rafael's father. Rafael's father, Skylar learns, isn't the problem...
  • Cruel Water by Freya Barker

    Cruel Water by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    *100,000+ words* Innocence marked her… Violation crippled her… Love left her raw… The life she carefully rebuilt is challenged when she is confronted with the sins from her past. The carefully applied protection is at once ripped away, leaving her exposed and vulnerable. Her single night of indulgence with the silver-eyed stranger is only the beginning...
    Categorized as:
    abuse  length-medium  suspense  contemporary
  • Third Chances by Ivy Smoak

    Third Chances by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When your first chance passes you by, sometimes you regret it your whole life. But what if you're given a second chance? Daphne lives a life of structure and routine. It's the only way to keep her demons at bay. But when she has to let lose at her friend's bachelorette party, her demons prove to be a little closer to the surface than she realizes...
  • Better Man by Karen Cimms

    Better Man by Karen Cimms

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Whoever said change is good should have their head examined. As far as Billy McDonald is concerned, he’s changed enough for one lifetime. He’s been clean and sober for two years, he’s learned to manage his anger, and he’s uprooted his life and relocated to Maine to reunite with his wife, Katie...
  • Heaven's Hell by Takerra Allen

    Heaven's Hell by Takerra Allen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Heaven's Hell is the gripping tale of the striking beauty Heaven Jacy, and the hell she endures in the cold cruel world, at her young, tender age. Suffering at the hands of abuse from her father and her older, controlling, boyfriend Khalil, Heaven yearns and dreams of the day of her escape...
  • Ravished by Desire by Brenda Jackson

    Ravished by Desire by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    A LITTLE DARE When Shelly Brockman walks into his office, Sheriff Dare Westmoreland can almost taste the sweet, steamy passion they'd once shared. Then she informs him that he's the father of her son, the unruly preteen Dare arrested earlier that day, and his fantasies turn to fury...
  • The Day Shelley Woodhouse Woke Up by Laura Pearson

    The Day Shelley Woodhouse Woke Up by Laura Pearson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Brand new from the #1 bestselling author of The Last List of Mabel Beaumont comes a powerful story of memory, loss, love, and new beginnings…When Shelley Woodhouse wakes up in hospital from a coma, the first thing she says is that her husband must be arrested.He’s the reason she’s in here. She knows it. She remembers what he did. Clearly as anything...
  • Light in Morning by Adriane Leigh

    Light in Morning by Adriane Leigh

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    They say that madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results...but what happens when the very person that brought your heart back to life has the ability to shatter it with one confession? After an explosive affair left their hearts battered and scarred, Georgia and Tristan are trying for a fresh start...
  • Unconditional by Melody Grace

    Unconditional by Melody Grace

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    "I’ve spent my whole life chasing perfection: perfect looks, perfect man, perfect home. But in one brutal moment, I realized it was all just a beautiful lie…" Carina MacKenzie is fleeing from her past. Picking up the wreckage of her shattered dreams, she seeks comfort in the only place she’s ever felt safe: Beachwood Bay. Garrett Sawyer isn’t looking to be anyone’s savior...
  • Conflicted by Sophie Monroe

    Conflicted by Sophie Monroe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    When you think about your life are there things you would reverse? Derek Scott is the twenty-six year old drummer of Battlescars. With a past marred by tragedy, he has a hard time letting people in. He's also made his share of mistakes. Now, he's trying to come to terms with the choices he has made recently and what they mean for him...
  • Backdraft by H.M. Ward

    Backdraft by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    When Mari realizes that Trystan is the internet megastar, Day Jones, she can’t speak. Every time she listens to his song, it leaves her feeling so much. That song is bewitching. Everyone she knows heard it. As soon as it appeared on YouTube, it went viral, and then the guy who wrote it disappeared. Despite agents and record labels trying to lure Day5705 out, he remains anonymous...
  • Butterfly by Cambria Hebert

    Butterfly by Cambria Hebert

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Drunken brawls. One-night stands.No-show interviews. Toilet-papering my hoity-toity neighbor’s house.Insulting my fans. Trashing hotel rooms.What’s it take to become public enemy number one?I just told you.I’ve done all that and more.My poor conduct got me on the Celebs Behaving Badly listand ultimately ruined my career.From the world’s number-one popstar to world’s most hated.That’s me...
  • Break My Fall by Chloe Walsh

    Break My Fall by Chloe Walsh

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 35 ratings
    I was drunk but not drunk enough not to notice him. Good Lord, he was beautiful. Did boys like him really exist? I thought I might be imagining him. “You wanna have a shot with me sweetheart?” he smiled crookedly and lifted the bottle up. The huskiness of his voice made me him sound dangerous, yet he was soft spoken…an enigma...
  • The Path to Sunshine Cove by RaeAnne Thayne

    The Path to Sunshine Cove by RaeAnne Thayne

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    “Thayne is a master at creating richly dimensional and kind characters from different generations who find themselves facing difficult challenges.”— Booklist With the emotional pull of Debbie Macomber, Barbara Delinsky and Susan Wiggs, RaeAnne Thayne brings readers an uplifting, brand new story told with her trademark charm and heart...
    Categorized as:
    abuse  length-medium  contemporary  audiobook
  • Double Threats Forever by Julie Prestsater

    Double Threats Forever by Julie Prestsater

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Librarian's Note: This is an alternate cover for ISBN-10: 1481016881, ISBN-13: 978-1481016889 High school eventually comes to its end. After three years of broken hearts, parties, exams and fights, Megan Miller and her crew, have finally made it to their senior year...
    Categorized as:
    college  length-medium  contemporary
  • Tap & Gown by Diana Peterfreund

    Tap & Gown by Diana Peterfreund

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Fans of Cora Carmack (Losing It) and Tammara Weber (Easy) will devour the original New Adult novels: Secret Society Girl, Under the Rose, Rites of Spring (Break), and Tap & Gown. At an elite university, Amy Haskel has been initiated into the country's most notorious secret society...
  • Actually Love - Jessie & Zach by Melanie Shawn

    Actually Love - Jessie & Zach by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Real or fake. As VP of public relations for SPC, the beautiful and talented Jessie Sloan, knew the difference. The order and control she had in her life was real. Love was fake and she didn’t have time for fake. Win or lose. Sexy, sculpted boxing champ Zach Courtland has had his share of losses in life, but inside the ring, he knew nothing but wins...
  • Breaking to Breathe by Lisa N. Paul

    Breaking to Breathe by Lisa N. Paul

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Two people so bent they can no longer stand tall... With his sexy looks, his seductive dirty talk, and his resident bad boy reputation, Kyle Marx was the thrill-ride every woman wanted to experience…at least once. And once is all he’d ever offer...
  • How Much I Want by Marie Force

    How Much I Want by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Marie Force comes a steamy new contemporary romance in her Miami Nights Series that brings two people together who have nothing in common except their feelings for each other…NicoMy reputation with women stinks. I’ll admit I haven’t always treated them with the respect they deserve. That’s not to say I’m a bad guy or anything...
  • Point of Freedom by Stacey Lynn

    Point of Freedom by Stacey Lynn

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Hatred. Desire. Broken Dreams. Jules McAllister has loved and lost. She experienced the gut wrenching pain of grief after her boyfriend, Scratch, a member of the Nordic Lords MC, died on the same night that she told him they were going to have a child. Grief stricken and destroyed, she left Jasper Bay, unable to tell anyone the truth of what really happened that fateful night...
  • Learning to Heal by R.D. Cole

    Learning to Heal by R.D. Cole

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "If Fools rush in, then most people in love are idiots. And I'm the biggest one of all." -Jazz Meet Jasmine Coleman. She's the girl that's outgoing, beautiful, and full of self-assurance- a confidence that’s forced to cover the scars she hides. When rushing into love becomes a heartbreaking mistake the last piece of it disappears...
  • Snared by L.L. Collins

    Snared by L.L. Collins

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    BEAU has never known a good life, only the torment that lives inside his head every day. The only way to block out the darkness that shrouds him is through the rhythmic beat of his drums. Knowing what happens when he opens up to anyone, Beau buries his pain deep inside, keeping it all to himself. APRIL has lived a life of wealth and privilege, full of love and support...
  • Awakening by Ashley Suzanne

    Awakening by Ashley Suzanne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Mira’s broken and battered. She’s fighting to put herself back together while her heart is trying to forget. Can she continue moving forward with one man while in love with another? Skylar’s wrestling demons he never imagined in his wildest dreams. The girl he’s been in love with for years finally has feelings for him. There’s only one problem: her heart might lie somewhere else...
  • Epiphany by Ashley Suzanne

    Epiphany by Ashley Suzanne

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Epiphany, the final installment of The Destined Series, continues the stories of four best friends from college who are making decisions that will set the course for the rest of their lives. Mira and Skylar have had their share of painful pasts, troubled presents and an unknown future...
  • Learning to Forgive by R.D. Cole

    Learning to Forgive by R.D. Cole

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This isn't your Typical Everyday fairytale. This story isn't sweet or sugary. Instead... It's Raw and Dark It's Rough and Dangerous And It's Definitely not for kids under 17 years of age. So turn back now if you're not ready for Lyric and Blaire's story. Because shit just got Real...
  • Convincing Constance by Tabatha Vargo

    Convincing Constance by Tabatha Vargo

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    As the only survivor of a tragic accident, Tony Russell, aka Tiny, is mentally and physically scarred for life. Years later, he finds himself addicted to the gym and prescription drugs. Relationships and sex are the furthest thing from his mind, but when a replacement guitarist steps in for his band Blow Hole, Tony can’t help his physical reaction to her...
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