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  • It'll Be An Adventure by Cherise Sinclair

    It'll Be An Adventure by Cherise Sinclair

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 28 ratings
    From NYT & USA Today Bestselling author Cherise Sinclair comes an outstanding addition to the beloved Masters of the Shadowlands series. The secret of author Murphy’s success is hands-on research. Murphy loves writing popular Regency thrillers and jumping into new adventures under the guise of research. For one novel, she’d joined a K9 search-and-rescue group—and liked it so much she stayed...
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    bdsm  alpha male  m-f  contemporary  military
  • 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...
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  • Savage Love by Lisa Renee Jones

    Savage Love by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The third and final book on the Savage Trilogy...They say all is fair in love and war, but I really don’t give a damn about fair. In fact, when protecting those I love, fair is the last thing on my mind. Because they also say all is fair in love and war. Now that I’m back in Candace’s life, those who have used her to try to control me, may well put up a final fight, but they will not win...
  • Bottom Line by Abbie Zanders

    Bottom Line by Abbie Zanders

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Control. Aidan Harrison likes it. Needs it. As CEO of the hugely successful Celtic Goddess franchise, he wields it as skillfully in the boardroom as he does the bedroom. It’s made him millions and put him at the top of his game. He wants for nothing. Except a woman who is more interested in him than his bottom line...
  • Loving His Submission by PrinceKenzie

    Loving His Submission by PrinceKenzie

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Twenty-one year old Lane Wilder lives up to his name. A young college student that has fun in life and only worries about his next lay. With painful past memories, he's striving to make something of himself. He's got back on his feet, slowly, and now he's got a good life. Lane isn't perfect though, he makes mistakes like everyone else...
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    bdsm  alpha male  queer  spanking  lgbtqia hate
  • 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...
  • The Deliverance of Dilan by Kathy Coopmans

    The Deliverance of Dilan by Kathy Coopmans

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dilan Levy. The mysterious man The man with a war to end. The man who was put behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. The man who disappeared after he was shot. The man who fell for the woman. The innocent woman. He’s back to deliver his rightful revenge. Anna Drexler. He saved her life. Took a bullet for her. Then left. For six long months, she’s tried to forget him...
  • Exquisite Karma by Ann Mayburn

    Exquisite Karma by Ann Mayburn

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ~Author's Note-Exquisite Karma is part 2 of Beach and Sarah's story. Part 1, Exquisite Redemption, should be read first for the most enjoyment.~SarahLife as the old lady of Carlos 'Beach' Rodriguez, National President of the Iron Horse MC, was everything I never knew I wanted...
  • Total Submission by Roxy Sloane

    Total Submission by Roxy Sloane

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Her secrets are tearing us apart, but I can’t give up on us yet. When I’m with her, the beast inside me is tamed. My every craving sated by her gentle touch.I won’t let her go without a fight.No matter what the cost, I will protect her. She belongs to me now...
  • 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...
  • Serving HIM Vol. 1 by M.S. Parker, Cassie Wild

    Serving HIM Vol. 1 by M.S. Parker, Cassie Wild

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    “I moved to New York from Iowa to find a life that I didn't know I was looking for. I expected to have to work hard and barely make ends meet. But…I never expected to meet HIM.”For twenty-one year-old Aleena Davison, it was a life-long dream coming true when she said goodbye to her dreary small-town life in Iowa and moved to Manhattan...
  • The Last Dance by Angelica Chase

    The Last Dance by Angelica Chase

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    RhysI was on my way out of the life when she came barging in with her new appetite and unrealistic expectations of what a Dom should be. All I had left to do to break free was sell the club and walk away. Now I found I had something to walk toward. And for the first time in my life, I hoped I’d be enough for a woman.Caring for a woman was easy for me...
  • Bedlam by Raven Dark

    Bedlam by Raven Dark

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s big, he’s bad, and he’s going to turn my life completely upside down. I came back to my small town to escape a dangerous past. I was a good girl who made a hell of a mistake. The moment I meet Gar, I know I’m about to make an even bigger one. Gar says I’m his. As a member of the Hell’s Heathens Motorcycle Club, he’s as bad as they come...
  • A Twist of Fate by T. Gephart

    A Twist of Fate by T. Gephart

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Lexi is a successful PR manager for a multinational firm, based in Melbourne, Australia. She is an energetic and impulsive soul whose passions sometimes control her life. Through a twist of fate she is chosen to represent a famous client, catapulting her into a new life in New York – fulfilling her in a way that she had never imagined. When Lexi meets Alex, sparks fly...
  • Dad's Possessive Friend by Lena Little

    Dad's Possessive Friend by Lena Little

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I have no idea what I expected to find when I opened the door. But not this…not Andrea. I’m not prepared to find the most beautiful woman I’ve ever laid eyes on on my doorstep. Arms wrapped around her body, shivering from the cold. Clothes clinging to her skin. Taut buds pressing against the thin fabric of her shirt. In that moment, something rushes to the surface. DESIRE. HUNGER...
  • Her Master's Kiss 5 by Vivien Sparx

    Her Master's Kiss 5 by Vivien Sparx

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Six months after the tragic loss of their baby, Renee and Stefan are struggling to hold together their fragile romance. Renee is desperate to return to a lifestyle of BDSM, but Stefan steadfastly refuses."We can't go backwards.""No - but we can come full circle!" Renee pleads...
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    bdsm  alpha male  pregnancy
  • Merciless Sinner by E.M. Gayle

    Merciless Sinner by E.M. Gayle

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Part 1 of the Alex and Harper DuetI thought one night would be enough, but I was wrong.HarperAn anonymous invitation, sex with strangers... What was I thinking?Hell yeah. I need to get a life. That's what I was thinking.But I didn't plan on getting addicted.AlexI knew she wouldn’t say no. No one ever does.I have more in my life than any one man should...
  • Sizzle by Gina Watson

    Sizzle by Gina Watson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    SIZZLESt. Martin Family Emergency Responders*Can be read as standalone* A Louisiana fireman, Clay St. Martin liked his hoses bound tight and his women bound tighter. He’d not had a traditional relationship in years and was positive he’d found the answer to all his needs and The Hoodoo Pot—Baton Rouge’s elite members only sex and bondage club...
  • Talk of the Town by Joan Smith

    Talk of the Town by Joan Smith

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 8 ratings
    Daphne Ingleside's visit to her Aunt Effie in London was meant to add a little spark to her placid country life. And it did--once the two women decided to write Effie's memoirs. For Effie, a faded divorcée, had been the beauty of London in her day, and many of the town feared their misbehavior would be disclosed. The Duke of St...
  • Never Say Never by Scarlett Avery

    Never Say Never by Scarlett Avery

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Previous cover edition for ASIN B00OMDNOMCFor all editions see hereLose yourself in this sensual, sexy and steamy erotic romance between Billionaire, Bryce Van Der Linden, and former real estate queen-turned-escort Sofia Herrera is this sensual and tumultuous billionaire romance.I never imagined I’d be forced in this position, but I really don’t have a choice after my financial debacle...
  • Resolutions by Teri Riggs

    Resolutions by Teri Riggs

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    DEA agent Eve Taylor has had her fill of alpha males. When Resolutions' operative and former lover, Dillon "Mac" McKenna, threatened her hard-earned independence, she ran. On a mission to gather evidence against a Colombian drug-lord, Eve discovers the drug-lord is helping terrorists plan an attack on American soil...
  • 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...
  • 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...
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    bdsm  alpha male  contemporary  length-short
  • 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...
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    bdsm  alpha male  contemporary  length-medium
  • The Alphabet Game. The Complete Serial: A to X, Y, Z. by Andie M. Long

    The Alphabet Game. The Complete Serial: A to X, Y, Z. by Andie M. Long

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Now all in one addictive edition, THE ALPHABET GAME, the complete serial: A to X, Y, Z.Book 1: A to E. Stella Mulroney is playing a game.It's taken her two years -- but she finally has an interview at Gregory & Sons, the top London law firm that looks after her stepfather's interests. She plans to discover what her multi-millionaire stepdaddy really invests in and bring him down...
  • Constant Craving by Tamara Lush

    Constant Craving by Tamara Lush

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Let go of the past to have any chance at a future... I'm shocked when Rafael Menendez de Aviles -- my first love, my one downfall -- appears at my business, offering to save it from bankruptcy. I'm even more stunned when Rafael, looking hotter than ever, makes a proposition: spend the next month together, allowing him to do anything he desires with me...
  • Love & Hate by Mia Carson

    Love & Hate by Mia Carson

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens in Vegas should really stay in Vegas but not when you’re an instant bride and the groom doesn’t want a divorce! MackenizeMackenzie has the sleazy job of keeping tabs on shady billionaires, and she’s done more than her share of messing up her most recent assignment by accidentally marrying the enemy...
  • Crossfire Boxed Set by Sylvia Day

    Crossfire Boxed Set by Sylvia Day

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Experience the passion of Eva and Gideon—in the first three intensely sensual Crossfire novels by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Day—Bared to You, Reflected in You, and Entwined with You...
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    bdsm  alpha male  contemporary  suspense  erotica  m-f
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