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  • Handle With Care by Helena Hunting

    Handle With Care by Helena Hunting

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 51 ratings
    HE WANTS TO LOSE CONTROL. Between his parents’ messed up marriage and his narcissistic younger brother, Lincoln Moorehead has spent the majority of his life avoiding his family. After the death of his father, Lincoln finds himself in the middle of the drama. To top it all off, he’s been named CEO of Moorehead Media, much to his brother’s chagrin...
  • Damaged Grump by Nicole Snow

    Damaged Grump by Nicole Snow

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Wall Street Journal bestselling author Nicole Snow returns with a hysterical office romance where the grumpiest boss claims the good girl and loses his scorched heart.Our meet cute was one big sip of ugly.He pushed my hell-no buttons, wearing an indestructible smirk.I offended his warped morals in front of his starry-eyed minions.Then I got my sweet reward for doing the right thing...
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  • Scenes from the City by Penny Reid

    Scenes from the City by Penny Reid

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 36 ratings
    No longer for sale. aka... the Festivus Surprise 100% of proceeds go to Toys for Tots. This book cannot be read as a standalone. It is a collection of short scenes following the ladies from the 'Knitting in the City' series and will only be available in eBook format from December 1 - December 15, 2014...
  • Time by Penny Reid

    Time by Penny Reid

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 58 ratings
    From the New York Times Bestselling Author Penny Reid A (brokenhearted) physicist. Now an infamous (who is LITERALLY EVERYWHERE!! UGH!) musician. The worst has already happened. Mona has learned that she has nothing figured out and plans are meaningless. After leaving her in Aspen, Abram is now breaking sales-records, rising to rock star fame almost overnight. Mona can’t seem to escape him...
  • Your Captivating Love by Layla Hagen

    Your Captivating Love by Layla Hagen

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Logan Bennett knows his priorities. He is loyal to his family and his company. He has no time for love, and no desire for it. Not after a disastrous engagement that left him broken-hearted. When Nadine enters his life, she turns everything upside down. She’s sexy, funny, and utterly captivating. She’s also more stubborn than anyone he’s met. . .including himself...
  • Flirting With Love by Melissa Foster

    Flirting With Love by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Voted BEST BOOK SERIES of 2013 by Supportive Business Moms, UK "...love, loss, lies, grief, finding happiness in the face of adversity, romance, humor, bravery, hot hot hot sex scenes, marriages, births and totally awesome characters." --Supportive Business Moms, UK "Like Nora Roberts, Melissa Foster has captivated me with her fantastic, sexy, romantic stories...
  • The Billionaire's Promise by Ivy Layne

    The Billionaire's Promise by Ivy Layne

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    For two years I held Vance Winters off… Right up until the day my fiancé dumped me for his mistress and Vance kissed me senseless. Vance Winters was six feet of dangerously beautiful mayhem. Wicked blue eyes, tousled blond hair, and golden skin covered in tattoos. Trouble. I should have taken one look and run in the other direction...
  • Serving the Couturier by M.S. Parker

    Serving the Couturier by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Enter the chaotic life of Leah Martin, a shy fashion prodigy with an unassuming charm, always used to playing second fiddle to her vivacious identical twin, Sophie. But when a gnarly ski accident in Aspen sidelines her sister, suddenly, Leah's stepping into Sophie's killer heels, working for the drop-dead gorgeous fashion big shot, Damien Laurent...
  • Say I Do by Cynthia Eden

    Say I Do by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    She hates him.Dexter Ryan is smug. Arrogant. Manipulative. And he is also…Lacey Amari’s new partner. Well, her partner on one case. A case she doesn’t even want to take, but when Dex—CIA super operative and all around puppet-master—basically blackmails her, she has no choice. Then he asks her the big question…Will you marry me?The proposal isn’t real. It’s just an undercover assignment...
  • Time to Bounce by Lani Lynn Vale

    Time to Bounce by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Loneliness is overwhelming in its intensity. There are times you think you can cope, that you can make it despite the hollow feeling in your chest. Then there are the times when you realize you can’t breathe through the pain of loss. When Gable Buchanan Carter walks into Athena’s life, it’s like a light is switched on inside her chest. Suddenly she can breathe...
  • Brett by Melissa Foster

    Brett by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bad Boys After Dark: Brett is a USA Today Bestseller Indulge your inner vixen with these sexy billionaires! Meet the Bad Boys... Four fiercely loyal, sinfully sexy, uber alpha brothers, about to fall head over heels for their leading ladies. Everything's naughtier after dark..
  • After His Banana by Penelope Bloom

    After His Banana by Penelope Bloom

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What comes after His Banana? Technically, that would be me. Before you assume I’m a potassium sucking harlot, Let me explain… I didn’t have time for relationships, especially not with someone like Miles Chamberson. But considering my circumstances, I didn’t really have a choice. Yes, he was the kind of offspring only generations of exceptionally attractive people could create...
  • Dangerous Exes by Rachel Van Dyken

    Dangerous Exes by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    In #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel van Dyken’s scorching series, revenge is a justified pleasure… Isla made one teeny little mistake. Now she and her PI company, Dirty Exes, are being targeted by one seriously angry and furiously sexy ex-quarterback. Jessie freakin’ Beckett. But there’s no way some NFL superhunk is going to take her business away...
  • The Baby Contract: A Best Friend's Brother, Surrogate Pregnancy Romance by Ajme Williams

    The Baby Contract: A Best Friend's Brother, Surrogate Pregnancy Romance by Ajme Williams

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    The contract clearly stated that I was paying her twenty-five million dollars to have my baby. No love. No sleeping together. Those were the rules, but here’s one thing you need to know about me… I’m a rule breaker. My biggest mistake was having her move into my place. Anne was nothing like the other girls I’d been with. I was drawn to her like a moth to a flame...
  • Tasty Pickle by J.J. Knight

    Tasty Pickle by J.J. Knight

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Surely nobody has ever met their great love while using duct tape to pull cactus needles out of their girl parts on a mountain trail.Except I just did.Let me tell you about Axel Pickle.He’s a bronzed god.Totally outdoorsy.Worth half a billion after selling his nature app.And he hikes naked...
  • Rock Chick Redux by Kristen Ashley

    Rock Chick Redux by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 38 ratings
    In Celebration of 20,000 Likes on Facebook!Bonus Rock Chick footage.Oh yes…it’s always nice to get a little bit more.Download Rock Chick ReduxAnd thank you to my Facebook Rock Chicks for rocking my world!Rock On!See the story using the link in Official url...
  • Show Me Forever by Layla Hagen

    Show Me Forever by Layla Hagen

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    I moved to Chicago six months ago, determined to finally open my own bakery. My landlady was this sweet woman who treated me like her granddaughter. Then she sold the house. Now the devil himself is my landlord and neighbor since I live in the guesthouse on his property. Declan Maxwell is moody, unreasonable, and takes himself far too seriously. Unfortunately for me, he’s also damn sexy...
  • Her Secret by Penelope Bloom

    Her Secret by Penelope Bloom

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    I’ll admit it. I messed up. Mistake #1: Asking Peter Barnidge for a job. Mistake #2: Accepting his offer instead of throwing it in his face like I planned. Mistake #3: In the interest of stopping before #99, I’ll pretend the only other mistake was withholding one, tiny little nugget of truth during my interview...
  • Flirting with the Rock Star Next Door by Nadia Lee

    Flirting with the Rock Star Next Door by Nadia Lee

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 24 ratings
    "The obnoxious drummer neighbor I reported for noise pollution? Turns out he’s the biggest rock star in the country! Oops."I write romance because true love doesn’t happen in real life. My parents’ marriage and a string of failed relationships have taught me that.Then Killian Axelrod moves in next door. He’s a rock star, and hot as hell. Wicked blue eyes. A body made for sin. Cocky attitude...
  • At First Sight by M. S. Parker

    At First Sight by M. S. Parker

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Sixteen years ago, I lost Belle, the love of my life, in a tragic car accident.Devastated, I left Scotland to work in Uncle Ben's brokerage firm in Manhattan. Dedicating my life to the job, I rose to the top of the ladder, next in line to head the billion-dollar company.Belle, however, never left my heart. Every year––on our anniversary––I dine at the restaurant where we first met...
  • Shawn by M.S. Parker

    Shawn by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Shawn: I’m good with my hands and I’m a quick study. At least that’s what the women say. No trouble in that department, if you know what I mean. Still, it’s best to keep them at arm’s length. I’ve seen how women go after my brothers for money and the family name. I guess you can say I have always been guarded. But then I met Talia, a woman unlike any other...
  • Dirty Vegas Nights by Logan Chance

    Dirty Vegas Nights by Logan Chance

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My body’s made of iron. My muscles are sculpted by God himself.And my green eyes have been described as ‘lady magnets’ by the Vegas Tribune. The Trifecta sensation is only the dirtiest male revue show Vegas has ever seen. We’ve been blazing the stage for a while and have gained quite the fan base. Women travel from across the country just to catch a glimpse of us...
  • Charity Case: The Complete Series by Piper Rayne

    Charity Case: The Complete Series by Piper Rayne

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    These three women are the toughest juries they’ll ever have to plead their case to.THIS BOX SET INCLUDES…Clean Slate (Charity Case #0.5)Moving two thousand miles away wasn’t my plan, but when family needs you, you come. Before I can head back to my hometown of Chicago though, I have two men to say good-bye to. Neither one of them will be happy to hear the news...
  • The Billionaire Is Back by Kayley Loring, Connor Crais

    The Billionaire Is Back by Kayley Loring, Connor Crais

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    People in this small town are whispering…What they’re saying is that the billionaire is back and he’s going after his best friend’s sister.What I’m trying to do is help Claire Sweeney’s bakery business.What I haven’t been able to admit to myself is that in all this time, no matter how hard I tried, I never forgot her.Now she’s all grown up. I can’t stop thinking about her muffin...
  • Her Bush  (Objects of Attraction) by Penelope Bloom

    Her Bush (Objects of Attraction) by Penelope Bloom

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Everything went wrong when I trimmed his bush. And no, it’s not what you’re thinking. I’m a professional. The client hired me to trim a bush in his garden for a party. I accidentally turned it into something that rhymes with “a big rock and walls”. Imagine my surprise when the art world decides it’s a masterpiece...
  • In Hate With My Boss by Lexi Calder

    In Hate With My Boss by Lexi Calder

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    There are three things I know about Owen Bennett: He’s worth billions. He’s smoking hot. He’s a total asshole.Oh, and he’s my new boss. Which, I guess is technically four things. But who’s counting? Not Owen. Because all he can do is stare at my chest and make rude comments. He’s unprofessional, lazy, and the single most infuriatingly sexy man I’ve ever met in my life...
  • Worth the Shots by Heather M. Orgeron

    Worth the Shots by Heather M. Orgeron

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    HE’S COUNTRY MUSIC’S BAD BOY… COULD SHE BE THE GIRL TO FINALLY TAME HIM?Born into a life of wealth and privilege, Veronica Vanderbilt has never wanted for anything. Aside from a man, that is…Thanks to her overprotective father, Ronnie’s lovelife is non-existent. Attending a prestigious music school in Nashville seems like the perfect solution...
  • Kiss Me Forever by Layla Hagen

    Kiss Me Forever by Layla Hagen

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Last night, he was a sexy stranger I couldn't get enough of.Today, he's my new boss, who I can't seem to please.Bad luck seems to follow me. Last night, I grabbed a drink at the bar near my new workplace.I met the most sophisticated man when he “stole” my table. We bantered and danced, and I went home with a stranger for the first time in my life...
  • The Worst Dates Bring Chocolate Cake by Alina Jacobs

    The Worst Dates Bring Chocolate Cake by Alina Jacobs

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    My butt pads are sliding under my shape wear, I had to starve to fit in this dress, and the last place on earth I want to be is on a date with Walker Svensson.Entitled playboy. More money than sense. Abs you could grate cheese on.Damn, I would stab someone for some brie.This is truly the date from hell...
  • His Punishments by Ajme Williams

    His Punishments by Ajme Williams

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Repeat after me… No one can find out. No one. Especially not the press. My boss broke her heart… and now it’s become my job to protect her. Protect her body, not her heart. Although, I’m up for the other task as well. But first, I’ll punish her if she gets herself into trouble. Punish her in a way that she’ll love. In a way that she’ll never forget. Her curves beg for me to teach her a lesson...
  • Making You Mine by Elizabeth Reyes

    Making You Mine by Elizabeth Reyes

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Always in control, the meticulous and professional Salvador Moreno is thrown for a loop when the newly hired bartender Grace Zendejas suddenly invades his family’s restaurant, and infuriatingly, his every thought. For the first time in his life, Sal is fumbling. But after recovering from a few blunders he discovers his feelings for Grace run much deeper...
  • Tapped by the Rockstar by Christina Hovland

    Tapped by the Rockstar by Christina Hovland

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Internet fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.As a teenager Samantha Johnson wrote a song that went viral in all the wrong ways. A pop song about her love of mozzarella sticks. She hoped for adoration but instead became a joke for an entire generation. She absolutely does not want to be in the limelight ever again. Or even near it. Since then, she's kept mostly to herself...
  • Rival Desires by M. S. Parker

    Rival Desires by M. S. Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to Rival Desires, where the rivalry is fiery, but the romance? It's downright scorching.Meet Cory charming, socially awkward, and co-owner of the established Palo Alto finance firm Gracen & McCrae. Enter Rylee Palmer, the brilliant, enigmatic head of the new game-changer in town, Palmer Money Management...
  • T.Y.P.O.: Take Your Pants Off by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook

    T.Y.P.O.: Take Your Pants Off by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A typo in a text brought us together.Auto-correct gone wrong? It's never been so right! Aylee is scared of a couple things: Being in the water for one and being with a man for another. Good thing I'm the guy who got the message because I can kill two birds with one stone. Alpha-hole much? Let's call it confident. I know what Aylee needs because I have my own demons to conquer...
  • Playboy's Heart by Nana Malone

    Playboy's Heart by Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Playboy Prince has lost his princess…The hell I have.It took me this long to find her, so I’m not letting her go without a fight.Everyone will know just how far I’m willing to go for love.Just how far I’m willing to go for…her.As it turns out, love is a stronger motivator than vengeance...
  • Third and Long by K.T. Quinn

    Third and Long by K.T. Quinn

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    THIRD AND LONG is a scorching sports romance filled with humor, suspense, and football-related excitement...
  • Tripp by Alex Wolf, Sloane Howell

    Tripp by Alex Wolf, Sloane Howell

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Tripp Patton is not the guy you take home to meet your mom.He is the number one sports agent in the world, and he didn’t get there by playing nice.On the verge of signing the biggest player of his career, someone gets in his way.Lennon Edwards, a younger agent trying to make a name for herself. She’s hungry for success, relentless, and drop-dead gorgeous...
  • Nailed by Cora Brent

    Nailed by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A scorching ‘enemies to lovers’ office romance proves hazardous in this new stand-alone from NYT and USA Today bestselling author Cora Brent. The good news: Audrey Gordon has just received a dream assignment managing one of the city’s largest construction projects. The bad news: She’ll be teamed up with cocky office rival and former lover Jason Roma...
  • The Hunt by Alice Ward

    The Hunt by Alice Ward

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When I began the hunt, I didn’t know I’d find her. Confined to a hospital with a rare chromosomal disorder, my little brother began sending me on scavenger hunts to uncover the world for him when we were kids. When one of his quests brings me to a greasy Connecticut diner, my life is completely altered...
  • Since I Fell For You by Bella Andre

    Since I Fell For You by Bella Andre

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Millions of readers have fallen in love with the San Francisco and Seattle Sullivans. Now get ready to fall in love with the New York Sullivans! BOOK DESCRIPTION: Suzanne Sullivan doesn't need a bodyguard. After all, she's one of the most successful digital security specialists in the world―so she can most certainly take care of herself despite the problems she's been running into lately...
  • All the Wright Moves by K.A. Linde

    All the Wright Moves by K.A. Linde

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A sexy brother's best friend roommates romance set in the world of the Wrights from USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde…When I moved in with my brother’s best friend, I thought it was temporary.Weston Wright would be in LA with my brother for six months. I’d get the place to myself to get back on my feet. A perfect plan.Until he comes back and asks me to stay...
  • Her Cherry by Penelope Bloom

    Her Cherry by Penelope Bloom

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    How’d I meet her? Well, a gentleman never brags. Thankfully, I’m no gentleman. First, I paid for her cherry (pie, but that’s not the point), Next, I deflowered her. After that? I left my business card and walked out like I owned the place. Yeah, you could say we hit it off...
  • Bedding the Billionaire by Ruth Cardello

    Bedding the Billionaire by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Lil Dartley's life is upside down. Her previously steadfast and predictable sister is marrying an influential billionaire and needs help planning the wedding of the century in less than a month. Years of middle class rebellion have not prepared Lil for handling diplomats or paparazzi. Jake Walton knows a train wreck when he sees one...
  • Through the Lens by K.K. Allen

    Through the Lens by K.K. Allen

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "He thought I was his muse. Turned out, he was mine too."Maggie Stevens is done feeling objectified.After spending her entire life in the spotlight and climbing the high fashion ranks as a model in LA, she’s willing to leave it all behind for a fresh start. Moving to Seattle seems like the perfect solution.A clean slate.New adventures.Endless opportunities.All is going according to plan...
  • Never Kiss the Bad Boy by Lauren Landish

    Never Kiss the Bad Boy by Lauren Landish

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 28 ratings
    Survival Mode is how I live. My ghost kitchen is the place to be for every work crew in the city, and I bust my butt from sunup to sun down, while rubbing every nickel and dime together to scrape by. And it’s going fine. Until he shows up. Kyle Harrington parks his truck right in the middle of my drive-thru line and acts like the trouble he’s causing is no big deal...
  • Borrowed by Victoria Ashley

    Borrowed by Victoria Ashley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I was never supposed to want to keep her.She was meant to be borrowed.Mine for six days and not a day longer.She doesn’t belong to me.She belongs to someone else.My brother…The closest person I have outside of the screaming fans and paparazzi—a constant in my new life— other than the whiskey I drown myself in to numb the pain left by someone else...
  • Wright Together by K.A. Linde

    Wright Together by K.A. Linde

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A sexy opposites attract romance set in the Wright world about Whitton & Eve from USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde.Whitton Wright is too good to be true.And I learned long ago that things that are too good to be true…usually are.When he danced into my life, I accepted that this wasn’t going anywhere...
  • Bossy Rockstar by Roxy Reid

    Bossy Rockstar by Roxy Reid

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ten years ago he took my v-card,Now he's my billionaire rockstar boss.A decade after dumping me without warning or explanation,He's back in my life.Annoyingly, he's grown up to be extra hot,With muscular arms I want to be wrapped up in,And a cocky grin that really could stop the world from turning.For the first time in my life,I understand the urge to throw my underwear at a rockstar...
  • Always Mine by Ruth Cardello

    Always Mine by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    All new couples, still set in the world of Dominic Corisi. Move over Andrades—it’s time to hear from your cousins. This project is especially meaningful to me because I'm plotting it along with my sister, Jeannette Winters. The books in her series (Barrington Billionaire World) will release between mine. Our characters will make cameo appearances in both series...
  • A Very Wicked Arrangement by Scarlett Avery

    A Very Wicked Arrangement by Scarlett Avery

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    The commanding CEO with the sexy Texan twang has no idea he’s dating the wrong identical twin…My predictable life is turned on its head when my reckless identical twin sister announces she borrowed an ungodly amount of money from a scary looking loan shark with an unpronounceable name...
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