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  • Hot Summer School Nights by Michelle Mankin, L.A. Cotton

    Hot Summer School Nights by Michelle Mankin, L.A. Cotton

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    All new and exclusive enemies to lovers and bully romance short stories and previews by:. L A Cotton. Siobhan Davis. Ashley Jade. Piper Lawson. Tracy Lorraine. Michelle Mankin. Daniela Romero. Ginger Scott. Ivy Smoak. Becca Steele. Shantel Tessier. This will be a wide release with special preorder pricing...
  • Fame by Jillian Dodd

    Fame by Jillian Dodd

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 25 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Jillian Dodd comes the eighth book in the addictive Keatyn Chronicles series. Discover a breathless fairy-tale romance with swoon-worthy characters set in a glittering celebrity world. Fans of reality TV will devour this pulse-pounding, sexy Hollywood drama. Follow the lives and loves of those who work at Captive Films:...
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  • Protecting Alabama's Kids by Susan Stoker

    Protecting Alabama's Kids by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    At just ten years old, Tommy has already been through more horror than most people suffer their entire lives. So when he’s placed in his latest foster home, under the gentle care of Abe and Alabama Powers, he lashes out. He’s scared, confused, angry…and convinced it won’t be long before these new foster parents send him away, too. No one wants a boy his age, especially one who’s broken, dirty...
  • The Proposition 2: The Ferro Family by H.M. Ward

    The Proposition 2: The Ferro Family by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Blackmail. Sex. Ferro. There's no doubt in my mind that Bryan Ferro is serious—if I don't sleep with him, he'll destroy me. Everything I've earned will be blown away like dust, and my life will no longer be my own. His demand for just one night rolls into days. He doesn't want me for a one-time fling, it's more than that. But as I stand there, ready to tell him off, I hear it...
  • Crew Princess by Tijan

    Crew Princess by Tijan

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 26 ratings
    Being crew is walking between two worlds. One world is normal: Prom. Parties. College. Those are the concerns they worry about. In our world, we deal with other situations. Cops. Drugs. Brawling. That’s a typical day for us...
  • Sleighed by the Farmer's Daughter by Deanna Lilly

    Sleighed by the Farmer's Daughter by Deanna Lilly

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He thought his holidays were ruined until he was rescued by. .. an elf in Santa’s sleigh. Christmas just got interesting. Seth hasn’t been home for Christmas in over a decade, but now his niece and sister-in-law demand his presence. Last-minute complications at the factory mean driving hours through a snowstorm. One wrong turn, and he finds himself stranded on a farm in the middle of nowhere...
  • Reject by Bea Paige

    Reject by Bea Paige

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What’s the saying: keep your friends close and your enemies closer? Guess I’m about to find out just how difficult that really is. I might have my best friend back but his safety and that of my chosen family depends on me doing something I vowed never to do. Join Camden’s crew...
  • Eden High Boxed Set by Jordan Silver

    Eden High Boxed Set by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    This ebook contains the following works. Eden High Book 1. Sian Claiborne is not a happy camper. Just when she was getting into the groove of high school hijinks, her parents decides to pick up stakes. Now the popular cheerleader is off to the ritz and glamor of the Hollywood Hills, where her new school is home to the offspring of Hollywood's elite...
  • Maraschino Cherry by Pepper North, Paige Michaels

    Maraschino Cherry by Pepper North, Paige Michaels

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to Little Cakes, the bakery that plays Daddy matchmaker! Could her frustrating next-door neighbor be the one man who discovers her Little side? No-nonsense detective Nicoya Stevens doesn't tolerate any shenanigans at the police station or in her personal life. After a disastrous work day, the last thing she needs is to find the landscaper planting a neighbor's cherry tree on her property...
  • The Wishes Series Box Set by G.J. Walker-Smith

    The Wishes Series Box Set by G.J. Walker-Smith

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The first three books in the iBooks #1 bestselling Wishes Series. Bonus inclusion: Sand Jewels (novella) and first 11 chapters of Secret North (book 4). Over 350 000 words, 162 chapters! ! SAVING WISHES: 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...
  • More of You by Laura Pavlov

    More of You by Laura Pavlov

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Life is sweet until it’s not…. I followed my dreams when I wanted to follow my heart. I spent the summer touring with the band. Cruz Winslow is the love of my life and. being with him 24/7 was amazing, until it came to an end. I needed to go back to school while he finished up his commitment to Exiled. But, that one decision threatened to tear us apart...
  • Secret by Nia Forrester

    Secret by Nia Forrester

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Shayla has a secret. She’s very different than the person she used to be three short years ago; that woman she finally feels like she’s left behind and never wants to be again. And she’s been doing fine so far with her plan to reinvent herself. Trey Denison wasn’t going to put even a dent in those plans...
  • Redeem by Rachel Schurig

    Redeem by Rachel Schurig

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Cash Ransome is a rock star with a bad reputation. When his hard partying lifestyle finally catches up with him, his brothers and band-mates convince him it’s time to get out of the spotlight. A few weeks in the middle of nowhere sounds like the worst kind of punishment to Cash—until he meets Sam. Samantha Warner is looking for something to distract her from the complications of her messy life...
  • Beautiful Assassin by Jordan Silver

    Beautiful Assassin by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Alternate Cover: ASIN B00EJ6D9SG. Shane Flanagan Prince of the City and his young lover Arianna Rossi whom he just learnt is actually Princess of the Underworld syndicate of the country are back in this fast paced tale of mob wars, assassinations and take overs...
  • Raw Temptation by Eve Carter

    Raw Temptation by Eve Carter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    This is Book 2 in the Tempted series. You should start with Book 1 Pure Temptation, on sale for only 99 cents here on Amazon. From New York Times best-selling author, Eve Carter, comes the much-anticipated sequel to Pure Temptation...
  • Liam by Jay McLean

    Liam by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Hatred comes in waves. But love? Love is a tsunami. —. Liam Preston was five the first time he laid eyes on Adelaide Baker. Eight by the time he found the courage to actually speak to her. By ten, she’d ruined his entire existence. And at fourteen, he got his revenge—a single decision that drove her out of town for good. Or so he thought. Five years later, she’s back...
  • How to Ruin Your Boyfriend's Reputation by Simone Elkeles

    How to Ruin Your Boyfriend's Reputation by Simone Elkeles

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Amy Nelson-Barak, 17, is back in this third installment about a Jewish-American teen learning how to live and love in peace. She signs up for 10 days of training with the Israel Defense Force as soon as she finds out that her long-distance boyfriend, Avi, will be on base as well. But things turn out to be different from what she'd hoped for...
  • Blurring the Lines: Nothing Left to Lose, Part II by Kirsty Moseley

    Blurring the Lines: Nothing Left to Lose, Part II by Kirsty Moseley

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Blurring the Lines is a direct continuation of Guarding the Broken. To enjoy this novel, you need to have read the FREE Part 1. With Ashton at her side, Anna begins to feel more like her old self again. Together, they’re rebuilding her life and attempting to heal old wounds. The more time they spend together, the closer they become, but unfortunately this only serves to complicate matters further...
  • SEALs of Winter: A military romance superbundle by Cora Seton, Elle Kennedy

    SEALs of Winter: A military romance superbundle by Cora Seton, Elle Kennedy

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Nine alpha Navy SEAL romance heroes from your favorite NYT & USA Today bestselling authors. Brand new Christmas military romances from Cora Seton, Elle Kennedy, Jennifer Lowery, Elle James, Anne Marsh, S. M. Butler, Delilah Devlin, Kimberley Troutte, and Zoe York! Sequel to the NYT and USA bestselling SEALs of Summer boxed set...
  • Beautiful Dreams by Alicia Rae

    Beautiful Dreams by Alicia Rae

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kyle has mended Lily’s broken heart, and as they have fallen in love, all she dreams of is finally having her happily ever after. But as time goes on, Lily can no longer ignore the desire to know more about Kyle's past. When she learns more, she will discover if she can heal Kyle’s heartache as he has done for her...
  • Hero Book 3 - The Battle: Military Romance by M.S. Parker

    Hero Book 3 - The Battle: Military Romance by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is the final book in MS Parker's HERO series. No more cliffhangers! The series is now complete. Haze Welch has done something stupid. He's fallen for the girl he's being paid to protect. Worse than that, while he's home for a family emergency, his charge is kidnapped. As he races back to LA, he's determined to do whatever it takes to find Leighton and make sure she's safe again...
  • Wild Thing by Blair Babylon

    Wild Thing by Blair Babylon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The music calls Georgie. Every night, she stands offstage, watching Xan Valentine set fire to the crowd with music until they would burn down the city for him. His music wraps her until her fingers dance, desperately wanting the piano, but her terrified legs could never walk onto a stage...
  • Hold on Tight by Nicola Haken

    Hold on Tight by Nicola Haken

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A figure from Dexter’s past has uprooted all the memories he has tried so desperately to bury… to forget. The terrible events of his past have been blown wide open once again, immersing him a pool of guilt deeper than he’s even experienced before. Dexter feels powerless. The future he foolishly allowed himself to conceive is falling apart around him and there’s nothing he can do about it...
  • Return To Me by Jill Sanders

    Return To Me by Jill Sanders

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Becca and Nick were destined to be together. He was the love of her life, or so she thought. Then tragedy strikes and Becca is left heartbroken and devastated. The road to recovery seems almost hopeless at times, but with love and support from the good people of Pride, she's looking forward to putting the past behind her...
  • No Regrets Book 1 by Aimee Noalane

    No Regrets Book 1 by Aimee Noalane

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    He left you. He's gone. And so are you. If life ever taught me anything, it's that nothing should be taken for granted. One moment. .. is all it takes to break a promise. Friendship becomes love. One second. .. is all takes to end a life. Love becomes pain. One distraction. .. is all it took to change our destiny. Pain becomes hate. One moment, one second, one distraction...
  • Journey's Peace by Ember Davis

    Journey's Peace by Ember Davis

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    JOURNEY. Living in a small town is great…until one moment causes everyone you care about to turn their back on you in disappointment. The entire town of Christmas Falls can look down at me because I was a teen mom, but I wouldn’t trade my Shiloh for anything. Being her mom gave me a purpose while making me grow up...
  • Out of Control by Jinsey Reese, Victoria Green

    Out of Control by Jinsey Reese, Victoria Green

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Three years have passed since Dare Wilde walked out of Reagan McKinley's life. Three years of radio silence. Three years of regrets. But she’s not the same girl anymore. Now, at twenty-two, Reagan has big plans to change her life, and it all starts with a trip to Europe...
  • A Wicked Kiss: An Erotic Thriller by M. S. Parker

    A Wicked Kiss: An Erotic Thriller by M. S. Parker

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Wicked Kiss is the second installment in the Wicked series. You should read "A Wicked Lie" before reading this. There were three men in this world I thought I could trust and two of them had just betrayed me. Everything I'd thought I'd known about my life, about the people I loved, all of it was gone. I found myself staring at a pack of lies with no idea just how deep they went...
  • Make Mine A Ranger by Kate Aster

    Make Mine A Ranger by Kate Aster

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It's not him. It can't be him. .. ". 24-year-old Bess Foster has a three-year-old daughter she cherishes. .. friends she adores. .. and an Army Ranger she's been fantasizing about for nearly four years. But she also has a past that haunts her: an abusive ex-boyfriend she fled to protect her child. She thought she was free of him. .. till she saw his face again...
  • Revenge by Meli Raine

    Revenge by Meli Raine

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    MY HEART WANTS A KIND OF JUSTICE THE LAW CAN’T GIVE. Everything I know about my life is a lie. The more I dig into my father’s death the more I find myself in peril. Mark turns out to be a liar, someone I thought I could trust. He’s not what he seems, and worst of all, a part of me can’t let go...
  • Only for Her by Cristin Harber

    Only for Her by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 26 ratings
    First loves never die but Grayson Ford comes close. Bleeding out in a war zone, he barters with God. Bring him back alive, and he'll make it right with his girl. All I want is Emma. I need her, and I fight for her memory. A story. A smile. Anything. But it's all blank. . Emma is not his girl anymore. Time has skipped by and life's been hard...
  • True Love: The Trilogy: The Complete Boxed Set by Harper Bentley

    True Love: The Trilogy: The Complete Boxed Set by Harper Bentley

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From USA Today Best Selling Author Harper Bentley comes all three True Love books together in one boxed set! True Love, Book 1 - Discovering Us. They wanted forever. .. but sometimes forever's not that easy. Ellen has loved Jagger since she was five and he was seven when they kissed through the chain link fence at school...
  • Chasing Allie by Meli Raine

    Chasing Allie by Meli Raine

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    It turns out my stepfather has plans for me. Plans that make dying look like a walk in the park. He’s selling my virginity to a Mexican drug lord to get out of debt. Chase just found out and is here to take me away to safety. To the ocean. To my dreams. But while I’m gone, a murder takes place back home. I receive a phone call. It’s the police. I’m the prime suspect...
  • The Code Girls by Daisy Styles

    The Code Girls by Daisy Styles

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    **A heart-warming and inspiring story of incredible women on the home-front during World War II from the author of The Bomb Girls**. Can four girls protect a whole country? It's 1941 and the country has been turned upside down. For the aristocratic Walsingham family this means being pushed unceremoniously upstairs while their grand home is taken over by the Army...
  • Disorder by J.L. Weil

    Disorder by J.L. Weil

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 19 ratings
    Return to Elmwood Academy. My douchebag of a stepbrother is blackmailing me. Carter thinks he can use me to steal something from the Elite, something he is desperate to bury. Reckless. Frantic. Violent. I didn’t ask for this life, and yet I’m caught in the middle of a dangerous game. And the stakes are deadlier. The Elite, four damaged, gorgeous, arrogant guys, think they own me now...
  • Only for Us by Cristin Harber

    Only for Us by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 25 ratings
    The third installment of the Only series. Must be read in order. Grayson and Emma. First love. True love. And. .. they have a daughter. Abandonment is his curse. He left his woman, survived his team, and missed the moment most precious to a father. Until now. "I didn't know you were killing yourself with work. I didn't know you're raising our daughter...
  • The Art of Loving a Greek Billionaire by Marian Tee

    The Art of Loving a Greek Billionaire by Marian Tee

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Once upon a time, there was an ordinary girl who grew up listening to bedtime stories where there were no knights in shining armor or Prince Charming. Instead, it had Greek billionaires and this little girl dreamt she’d one day have Her Own Greek Billionaire to live happily ever after with. When this little girl grew up, she found what she was looking for...
  • Reunion by Meli Raine

    Reunion by Meli Raine

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    MY HEART WANTS A KIND OF JUSTICE THE LAW CAN’T GIVE. You can think you’ve had everything stolen from you. That there’s nothing left to lose. You would be wrong. My best friend’s been kidnapped. I was just captured. What I thought was a massive drug operation run by a man who killed my father turns out to be ten times more horrific. I’m trapped. My best friend may be dead...
  • Wild at Heart by Jinsey Reese, Victoria Green

    Wild at Heart by Jinsey Reese, Victoria Green

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    With his dad hell-bent on destroying him, Dare's life hangs in the balance. Fearing the worst, Reagan rushes from Paris to New York, hoping to get to him in time, only to find their entire world collapsing around them. The threat is too real, risk too high, death too possible. Unfair doesn't even begin to cover it...
  • SEAL The Deal by Sharon Hamilton

    SEAL The Deal by Sharon Hamilton

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Special Operator Nick Dunn gets the call he has been dreading since before his last deployment. His sister is in her final stages of cancer. He and his Team 3 roommate drive up to Sonoma County from Coronado to help her shut down her failing nursery business and tie up her final affairs. Nick only vaguely remembers Devon Brandeburg, his sister’s best friend, but boy has she grown up...
  • Defying Kurosaki-kun, Vol. 5 by Makino

    Defying Kurosaki-kun, Vol. 5 by Makino

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 17 ratings
    “I want to figure out if this is love. ” The summer trip’s whirlwind of events has left Yu in a daze, with barely any summer vacation left. But it’s not over yet, and she’s eager to move on and find a new love while the Black and White Princes remain at the summer home! When Yu gets an invitation to a middle school reunion, could she find the romance she wants where she least expects it?
  • Concealed by Selena Laurence

    Concealed by Selena Laurence

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two years ago, Gabe Thompson stood in the desert of Afghanistan and watched the love of his life drive away. When his tour of duty ended six months later, she wasn’t waiting. Now Gabe’s ready to go after the one thing his life is missing – the woman he’s never been able to forget. Twenty-year-old Alexis Garcia rues the day she decided to volunteer for a UN mission to Afghanistan...
  • Scorch (A Soldiers of Fortune Romance) by Aubrey Irons

    Scorch (A Soldiers of Fortune Romance) by Aubrey Irons

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Why fall for Prince Charming when the villain is so much more tempting? Because it feel so good to be so bad. .. The dark, dominant, tattooed Spaniard has all the arrogant machismo of a bullfighter and a body carved out of steel. In my sister’s fairytale romance, he almost destroyed my family. He’s the devil, and I hate him. Until he saved my life, and changed everything...
  • All is Lost by Marie Wathen

    All is Lost by Marie Wathen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Recommended for ages 18+ (sexual content and language). Bang. .. One second: loud music, dancing, laughing, fun, family, friends, love and everything. .. Bang. .. Next second: screaming, running, crying, fear, pain, blood, loss and nothing. .. Bang. .. . The events of one night on Willow Island will irrevocably change the lives of so many forever...
  • Twisted Affair Vol. 5 by M.S. Parker

    Twisted Affair Vol. 5 by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Don't miss the final installment in the bestselling Twisted Affair series! I didn't want to believe it when my PI told me that everything I'd thought I'd known about my wife and my lover was a lie. But he'd had proof. Now I needed to decide what I was going to do with the knowledge I had...
  • Twisted Affair Vol. 4 by M.S. Parker

    Twisted Affair Vol. 4 by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My life was almost back on track. I actually enjoyed my job. I had a gorgeous wife who my family loved, and an equally gorgeous girlfriend who I loved. But I couldn't shake this feeling that it was all going to hell soon. As Blayne Westmore tries to juggle the woman he's married to and the woman he's in love with, he begins to see that things aren't as simple as he'd hoped...
  • The Girl of Tokens and Tears by Susan Ward

    The Girl of Tokens and Tears by Susan Ward

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “I should never had fallen in love with Alan. He is like a drug, my secret addiction, and I am trapped in the hold of him. ” ~Chrissie Parker. “When I call, you’ll come. You won’t be able to stop yourself. We’re spending the rest of our lives together in bed, Chrissie. Get used to the idea. ” ~Alan Manzone. “We’re both in love with people who are not good for us. People we can’t be with...
  • Because of His Future by Kellt Favor

    Because of His Future by Kellt Favor

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    **Books 1-10 of this New York Times bestselling series are currently available as a boxed set for only 99 cents! **. Book 26 of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series For His Pleasure has arrived, and it's sexier and hotter than ever. .. Grace Knowles isn’t the type of girl to have sex in exchange for money...
  • ONE by Heidi McLaughlin, Jillian Dodd

    ONE by Heidi McLaughlin, Jillian Dodd

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Blind Date by Emma Hart ~ Blind Dates are the work of the devil… especially when your date could be the devil. My name is Bee Donnelly, and I’m a serial one-nighter. Carter Hughes is tonight’s Kryptonite. One Night with Harrison by Heidi McLaughlin ~ Alicia Tucker has had her eyes set on Harrison James from the beginning and all she wants is one night to prove she’s the one for him...
  • Annihilate Me Vol. 3 by Christina Ross

    Annihilate Me Vol. 3 by Christina Ross

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Jennifer's life is reeling out of control. Now, there is no denying her feelings for Alex--or his for her. After spending one night together, he took her to heights she never thought was possible. The passion they shared in that one moment is something she can't shake, and it consumes her, throwing her off her game. But this is no game. What they have is real...
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