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  • Grace Note by J. Bengtsson

    Grace Note by J. Bengtsson

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 ratings
    Grace Note Movement at the door caught my attention. I looked over, expecting Elliott to walk back through. But it wasn’t him. My back straightened like a steel rod. Oh my god. It wasn’t him. I bolted to my feet, a breath catching in my throat. I stared in both shock and awe at the man standing on the other side of the doorway. He had always been on the other side, alone and cast out by society...
  • Kade's Game by C.M. Owens

    Kade's Game by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 44 ratings
    We never go after what we want without circling around it at least a hundred times. Instead, we play games, try to work just the right angle, even when it's not necessary. You've heard Raya's version, and now it's Kade's turn. He had everything mapped out. His life was a series of strategy and games, all of which he was mastering...
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  • Forever and Ever Boxed Set Seven: Books 43-51 by E.L. Todd

    Forever and Ever Boxed Set Seven: Books 43-51 by E.L. Todd

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fall into E.L. Todd’s most popular series, with millions of copies sold worldwide! Follow the stories of a group of friends as they experience true love, real heartbreak, and genuine friendship, in this unforgettable series.This collection 43. To Love Again44. All Hope Is Lost45. This Love46. All That Matters47. In My Heart48. There You Are49. Lost In You50. Kiss Me There51...
  • The Good, The Bad, And The Bullied by Rubix Cube 89201

    The Good, The Bad, And The Bullied by Rubix Cube 89201

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    "It's quite simple really," Bennett told me."You'll be our good girl," Declan said.Jordan smiled. "And we'll be your bad boys."I was silent for a moment. I looked at them, at the contract, and back at them. Then I calmly put the papers back on the table. I looked at the three of them and slowly rose from my seat...
  • Adrenaline by Penelope Douglas

    Adrenaline by Penelope Douglas

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 33 ratings
    **You ask. You receive!*** Have you read Bully and the rest of the Fall Away series? Would you enjoy having all the bonus content in one place? Adrenaline is approximately 36, 000 words of bonus scenes, deleted scenes, character conversations, and Q&As shared over the past few years and is mostly material not found in the actual books. Here, you'll find..
  • Forever Driven by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Driven by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Driven to fight for her town, driven to fight for love. Riley Davies never backs down from a fight. She stands up for herself and those who can’t stand up for themselves. But she is just the manager of a farm and can only do so much . . . until a political matter threatens to ruin her farm and the town she loves...
  • Destined for Power by Kathleen Brooks

    Destined for Power by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Mallory Westin was born into power. But when her family’s quest for more power caused her a broken heart, she turned her back on the only life she ever knew. Now a successful owner of a security firm, she’s determined to forge her own path. But sometimes one’s past isn’t so easy to leave behind...
  • High Five by Janet Evanovich

    High Five by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 106 ratings
    What’s Stephanie up to now? Her Uncle Fred has disappeared. A body turns up in a garbage bag. She’s got a nasty bookie following her around town. Grandma Mazur has her hands on the stun gun. Stephanie can’t keep a car for more than forty-eight hours. Two men are trying to get her into bed. She has nothing to wear to the Mafia wedding...
  • Bluegrass Dawn by Kathleen Brooks

    Bluegrass Dawn by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    It's the late 1960's in Keeneston and life is very tense for everyone. War consumes the news and young men prepare themselves for the draft. Jake Davies is fresh out of high school and head-over-heels in love. He’s known she's the one since she hit him in the head with a cheese ball, but then his world crashes around him when his number is drawn in the draft...
  • Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich

    Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 113 ratings
    Stephanie Plum, the brassy babe in the powder blue Buick is back and she's having a bad hair day -- for the whole month of January. She's been given the unpopular task of finding Mo Bedemier, Trenton's most beloved citizen, arrested for carrying concealed, gone no-show for his court appearance...
  • Paradise Kiss, Vol. 1 by Ai Yazawa

    Paradise Kiss, Vol. 1 by Ai Yazawa

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    Yukari wants nothing more than to make her parents happy by studying hard and getting into a good college. One afternoon, however, she is kidnapped by a group of self-proclaimed fashion mavens calling themselves "Paradise Kiss." Yukari suddenly finds herself in the roller coaster life of the fashion world, guided by George, art-snob extraordinaire...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  young adult  contemporary  humor  length-short
  • Liar by C.L. Stone

    Liar by C.L. Stone

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Worse than a thief, is a liar. Kayli Winchester can finally let go of her thieving past and for once walk on the right side of the law. She’s had enough of the hustle and is determined to become the good girl. But her brother, Wil, is still missing. On the hunt for him, she discovers something worse than a missing sibling: Marc, Raven, Axel, Corey and Brandon...
  • Happy Cafe, Volume 2 by Kou Matsuzuki, Matsuzuki Kou

    Happy Cafe, Volume 2 by Kou Matsuzuki, Matsuzuki Kou

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 19 ratings
    Inside Café Bonheur, the pursuit of happiness continues... When two mysterious young men walk into the café to declare war, Uru’s passion gets the best of everyone, and they accept the challenge--with one condition: The loser will have to quit the industry for good...
  • Fashioned for Power by Kathleen Brooks

    Fashioned for Power by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Allegra Simpson is the Vice President of Simpson Fashion and she's always handled life like her mother taught her — with manners and a smile. But Allegra learns being nice can get you in trouble as someone haunts her from the shadows and turns her life to one of secrets. She fears she’ll never be able to have a relationship with Finn, because it would put everyone she loves in danger...
  • That Wedding by Jillian Dodd

    That Wedding by Jillian Dodd

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    The gorgeous engagement ring on my finger mimics my happiness. I feel so sparkly, glittery, and full of promise, because I absolutely know he's that boy. The boy I want to marry. My prince. My happily ever after. But then our pastor starts asking lots of questions. His parents say I haven’t dealt with my past.  I have horrible wedding disaster dreams. I can’t find the perfect dress...
  • Painless by Devon Hartford

    Painless by Devon Hartford

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    At last! The exciting, steamy, action packed conclusion to the Story of Samantha Smith. Painless follows Samantha through the remainder of her first year in college at sunny San Diego University. Oh, and what about that hot hunk Christos Manos? When we last left him, his life balanced on the brink of disaster...
  • Hoax by C.L. Stone

    Hoax by C.L. Stone

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Someone tried to kill Kayli Winchester. That someone is going to pay. After going overboard and nearly drowning, Kayli regroups and joins Axel, Corey, Brandon, Marc, and Raven back on board the Lucienda. This time, she's brought reinforcements. Liam and Henry join the team in an all-out hunt for a killer. It can't be too hard; there's only so many places to hide on a cruise ship...
  • An On Dublin Street Christmas by Samantha Young

    An On Dublin Street Christmas by Samantha Young

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Braden Carmichael and Jocelyn Butler share their first Christmas together as a couple, exchanging meaningful gifts and spending time with family...
  • The Insiders by Tijan

    The Insiders by Tijan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 42 ratings
    The Insiders is the first in a brand new, page-turning romance trilogy from New York Times bestseller, Tijan!Bailey is as normal as could be, with a genius IQ and a photographic memory. But still, normal for her. Then, things happen—a guy breaks into her house in the middle of the night to take her hostage...
  • Lay Your Hands On Me by Blair Babylon

    Lay Your Hands On Me by Blair Babylon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Brand-new Rock Star Romance from USA Today-Bestselling Author Blair Babylon! Xan Valentine, the rock star that Rolling Stone called “sex incarnate,” stands in the spotlight every night and sings love songs to the women in the audience. They swoon. They scream. They believe him. Those women don’t know him like Georgie does...
  • Nothing Else Matters by Blair Babylon

    Nothing Else Matters by Blair Babylon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Georgie broke up with Xan Valentine, the lead singer for the rock band Killer Valentine, the guy that Rolling Stone calls “sex incarnate.” The magazine isn’t wrong, but they don’t know the half of it. He’s the alpha-est male who ever walked onto a stage or into a bedroom and might be crazy, and Georgie is definitely in love with him...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  humor  young adult  contemporary  length-long
  • Broken Hill Hurt by Sheridan Anne

    Broken Hill Hurt by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 24 ratings
    We had it all until we didn’t.Nate Ryder has been the center of my world for the past few months. He’s cared for me, cherished me, and shown me a love I never even imagined could be real.He was my rock when my father left and my voice when I didn’t have one. He was once my bully but now holds my heart in the palm of his hands, along with it, the power to destroy me...
  • Reckless by Devon Hartford

    Reckless by Devon Hartford

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Now that Samantha Smith has confronted the demons from her dark past in Fearless, she’s excited to jump into adulthood with newfound confidence and friends Romeo, Madison, and Kamiko. Samantha passionately hopes that her dreams of becoming an artist are more than girlish fancy...
  • Playing With Her Heart by Lauren Blakely

    Playing With Her Heart by Lauren Blakely

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    From the NYT & USA Today Bestselling romance author, a sizzling and addictive story of a woman with a broken past and the man who can’t fight his attraction to her… Twenty-three year old rising theater star Jill McCormick has built a life out of pretending. Pretending she’s happy, pretending she’s not haunted by the dark secret that shattered her world six years ago...
  • Just the Way You Are by Pepper Basham

    Just the Way You Are by Pepper Basham

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Single mom, Eisley Barrett, prefers to keep romance safely housed within a centuries-old mystery, but when she travels to England to unearth the secret, an actor with a sordid past offers her reluctant heart a very different type of discovery. Wes Harrison has a past he’s ashamed to confess...
  • Merry Random Christmas by Julia Kent

    Merry Random Christmas by Julia Kent

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It all started with a game of Truth or Dare… It’s bad enough I got arrested for prostitution on Christmas Eve. Alleged prostitution, mind you. I didn’t do it. Of course I didn’t. The cops say I offered up a certain sex act for a $5 gasoline gift card, but honey? My sex acts are worth way, way more...
  • Linc by Lane Hart

    Linc by Lane Hart

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 21 ratings
    Hi, my name's Linc, and I'm an MMA fighter who’s in love with a porn star. Okay so maybe I'm not in love with Eve Kelly, but I'm completely freakin' obsessed with her, addicted even. Hell, I know that for years I've been using Eve as an escape from reality...
  • Pure Lust Vol. 4 by M.S. Parker, Cassie Wild

    Pure Lust Vol. 4 by M.S. Parker, Cassie Wild

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    ** 270 Sizzling Pages. ** Get ready for the thrilling conclusion to PURE LUST. It was almost here. My wedding day. The happiest day of my life. Or at least that's what it should have been, but when Cody brought news that something bad had happened to Edward, I felt my world crashing down...
  • A Side Character's Love Story, Vol. 1 by Akane Tamura

    A Side Character's Love Story, Vol. 1 by Akane Tamura

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Growing up, Nobuko Tanaka was always a "side character" standing off in the corner. Now in her 20s, she's fallen in love for the first time. While she isn't any good at being assertive, she will muster her courage bit by bit as she tries her best to close the distance between herself and her crush -- because even side characters fall in love...
  • Deadly Little Scandals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Deadly Little Scandals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    "Think of the White Gloves like the Junior League-by way of Skull and Bones?"Reluctant debutante Sawyer Taft joined Southern high society for one reason and one reason alone: to identify and locate her biological father. But the answers Sawyer found during her debutante year only left her with more questions and one potentially life-ruining secret...
  • Somethin' About That Boy by Lani Lynn Vale

    Somethin' About That Boy by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Banner Spurlock knew the moment that he walked into Kilgore High School and saw Perry Street that life was about to get interesting.Forced to move due to a problem at home, a problem in the form of his ex-best friend hating him for something that Banner’s father did, Banner doesn’t think very much could improve in his life...
  • 今日、恋をはじめます 1 by Kanan Minami, Kanan Minami

    今日、恋をはじめます 1 by Kanan Minami, Kanan Minami

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Hibino Tsubaki is a young girl starting her freshman year of high school who is addicted to one thing - doing hair. Although she does not have the confidence to make herself look cute wearing "in style" clothing and great hairstyles, she enjoys creating cute hair styles for her little sister...
  • The Dealmaker by Jessica Peterson

    The Dealmaker by Jessica Peterson

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    Hating and dating: I didn’t realize they’re two sides of the same coin until I meet him. Theo Morgan.One of Wall Street’s highest-paid traders, he may be hot as sin in his five-thousand-dollar custom-made suit and six-figure SUV. But Theo is the bane of my existence. He’s arrogant, rude, and as brash as they come.As our bank’s newest star hire, he’s also after the same promotion I am...
  • Tame This by Hadley Quinn

    Tame This by Hadley Quinn

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    KISS THIS continues with Jay’s story, a rebel of his own sort with the need for freedom and unfiltered opinions. His days of unruly behavior and risky decisions have dealt him a hand that he’s still trying to overcome as he seeks to accomplish his business dreams. But the hits keep adding up...
  • Sinful Desires Vol. IV by M.S. Parker

    Sinful Desires Vol. IV by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    How could I have been so stupid? Anastascia had told me that Brock was bad news but I'd never dreamed what he was capable of. First Reed, then Brock. Was my taste in men really that awful? When Piper Black finds out the truth about her first encounter with her boyfriend Brock Michaels, she's devastated, but things only get worse when a familiar face shows up at the wrong moment...
  • 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...
  • Burning Bright by Blair Babylon

    Burning Bright by Blair Babylon

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Anything worth burning is worth burning down. Lizzy has broken her contract with Mannix and destroyed her growing relationship with Theo, but now Mannix is stalking her, trying to get her back. She wants time away to think, so she manages to get past the sports reporters stalking her at her dorm, where Georgie has received a text from Rae telling them to get on a plane to Paris...
  • Callous by Xavier Neal

    Callous by Xavier Neal

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    C.J. and Erin have a complicated relationship. They do three things very well together. Argue, have sex, and keep secrets from each other. However, when C.J.'s past comes to tear him away, it not only threatens to destroy the new life he has built, but the relationship with the only woman who has ever been his match...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  humor  young adult  contemporary  length-short
  • On the Rocks by Gillian Jones, Book Covers Ashbee Designs

    On the Rocks by Gillian Jones, Book Covers Ashbee Designs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Braunwyn Four years ago losing the love of my life almost destroyed me. Years of being labeled and looked upon with disdain by everyone in my hometown almost wrecked me. Four years ago I became a mother and together we were enough...Until I met him. He wanted to rebuild my broken–I just didn’t know how to let him...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  humor  young adult  contemporary  length-short
  • Sugar and Spice by Shari L. Tapscott

    Sugar and Spice by Shari L. Tapscott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fueled by love and determination, twenty-one-year-old Harper took a great leap of faith and transferred home from college to finally declare her feelings to Brandon, the boy who's adored her since they were children. There was only one thing that could derail her perfect plan, and that was Brandon showing up with a new girlfriend the very same weekend...
  • Tamon's B-Side Vol. 2 by Yuki Shiwasu

    Tamon's B-Side Vol. 2 by Yuki Shiwasu

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 11 ratings
    When the F/ACE members compete against each other to determine the new face of the band, Utage helps self-doubting Tamon defend his position...
  • Shopping for a Billionaire Boxed Set by Julia Kent

    Shopping for a Billionaire Boxed Set by Julia Kent

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Ever meet a hot billionaire while your hand's in a toilet in the men's room of one of his stores? No? So it really is just me. Hmm. When you're a mystery shopper, you get paid to humiliate yourself, all in the name of improving customer service. Romance isn't in my job description. But the day I met Declan McCormick it was love at first flush.  Until I nearly castrated him with my EpiPen...
  • Guarding the Goalie by Jacob Chance

    Guarding the Goalie by Jacob Chance

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    The first time I met Murphy, the goalie of the Coyotes hockey team, I thought he was the most attractive man I’d ever seen.The second time, we shared a wild night and I never planned to see him again.Imagine my surprise when I showed up for a work meeting only to find out Murphy was my new client.He needed a bodyguard to pose as his live-in girlfriend, and I was perfect for the job...
  • Rain Shadow by Tess Oliver

    Rain Shadow by Tess Oliver

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Rain Shadow Book 4 of 5-- books should be read in order. Dreygon Sharpe is more determined than ever to get Angel back to the Bedlam MC compound. Even if it means killing a few people along the way. Luke is willing to risk anything to keep Angel safe. And he soon discovers that sometimes rather than trying to outrun a madman, it's easier just to face him head on...
  • Shopping for a Billionaire 3 by Julia Kent

    Shopping for a Billionaire 3 by Julia Kent

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    I don't turn every date into a medical emergency, but when I do, I nearly castrate my man... Shannon and Declan's first real date ends with an ambulance trip and yet another test of their madcap relationship...
  • Looking to Score by Carrie Gray, Coralee June

    Looking to Score by Carrie Gray, Coralee June

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    He’s like literally the worst. Oakley Davis is the star running back at our University, and the reason I’ve broken my vow to avoid the college party scene. Thanks to a mixup with my advisor, I’m now serving my Public Relations internship as a glorified babysitter to the party-hard football players.Specifically, Oakley.He’s impossible to manage...
  • The Lover's Promise by J.C. Reed

    The Lover's Promise by J.C. Reed

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Meeting Jett was like lighting a match. Dangerous. Scorching. And better left untouched. In his game, some secrets can be deadly. Brooke Stewart, a realtor in New York, is sure of one thing. She has to stay away from the one man who betrayed her. He fooled her once, and she won’t let it happen again...
  • Sinful Desires: Vol. II by M.S. Parker

    Sinful Desires: Vol. II by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I wasn't entirely sure why I'd accepted Brock's invitation to be his date for his sister's wedding. A wedding to a man who'd confessed that he didn't love his wife-to-be. All I knew was that I didn't belong in that world. When Piper Black returned to Philadelphia to attend the wedding of the man who'd broken her heart, she never imagined that she'd end up falling for her date..
  • The Cajun Doctor by Sandra Hill

    The Cajun Doctor by Sandra Hill

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    New York Times Bestselling Author Sandra Hill delivers another Tante Lulu Adventure as twin brothers leave Alaska to discover their Cajun roots Dr. Daniel LeDeux and pilot Aaron LeDeux travel to the swampy bayous of Louisiana, where they discover a long-lost family...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  contemporary  humor  death  young adult  length-long
  • Sinful Desires: Vol. III by M.S. Parker

    Sinful Desires: Vol. III by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I was shocked when Brock asked me to move back to Philadelphia and even more so when he'd declared that he'd choose me over his family. Reed, the man I'd thought had honor had turned out to be a bastard, but the guy who everyone said was bad news was starting to look a lot like a white knight...
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