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  • 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...
  • Second Hearts by G.J. Walker-Smith

    Second Hearts by G.J. Walker-Smith

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Second Hearts, book 2 of The Wishes Series. Charli Blake's high tolerance for risk doesn't always work in her favour. After a year of living out her dream of travelling the world, the sunny West African village of Kaimte would be her last stop. She's bound for New York, in search of the boy she'd let go of long ago. For Charli, nothing has changed...
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  • The Golden Hustla by Wahida Clark

    The Golden Hustla by Wahida Clark

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She's the star sales associate of a profitable Atlanta "advertising" firm, WMM. She lives for top-of-the-line everything . . . and making enough money to finally reunite with her children. But Nina Coles is an ex-hood-rat in hiding. And no amount of paper can keep her safe from a ruthless FBI agent who's determined to take down the shady company she works for...
  • Maximum Risk by Ruth Cardello

    Maximum Risk by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Max Andrade: Rich, bold, unapologetic. He is a man who doesn’t hear the word no—until he meets Tara. In his obsession to have her, he’ll offer her anything—except his heart. Tara Holmes: Outspoken, hardworking, levelheaded. She makes her living by exposing unfaithful spouses. She doesn’t believe in love, especially not with a man who sees her as nothing more than a challenge...
  • I Saw Her Standing There by Marie Force

    I Saw Her Standing There by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    There’s a budding romance on Butler Mountain, but in the hornets’ nest known as the Abbott family, keeping a secret is no easy feat… Colton Abbott and Lucy Mulvaney have a secret...
  • Tempting Fate by Pamela Clare

    Tempting Fate by Pamela Clare

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A woman with no roots… Naomi fled the cult-like nightmare of her childhood and learned to rely on one person—herself. Her resourcefulness keeps her alive during a catastrophe in the mountains, but it’s no help at all when it comes to Chaska Belcourt, the sexy EMT who saves her life...
  • Stay With Me by Kristen Proby

    Stay With Me by Kristen Proby

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    From New York Times Bestselling Author Kristen Proby comes Stay With Me, an all new addition to the series that has sold more than a million copies to date, her beloved With Me In Seattle Series! Amelia Montgomery has left her past behind her. With a beauty and fashion career that’s skyrocketing and a loving family around her, everything else is just junk in the rearview mirror...
  • Minutes to Kill by Melinda Leigh

    Minutes to Kill by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    After corporate attorney Hannah Barrett tries—and fails—to stop a kidnapping in Vegas, she can’t shake the haunting image of the terrified young girl she couldn’t save. She tells herself that a visit to her hometown in Scarlet Falls could be a welcome distraction. But soon, Hannah realizes the kidnappers have all the info they need to track her every move...
  • Discovering Harmony by Melanie Shawn

    Discovering Harmony by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Harmony Briggs always knew what she wanted—until she realized she wanted more. The gorgeous Southern beauty knew that only one man would be able to fulfill her wildest dreams and fantasies, but unfortunately, he was just out of reach… Hudson Reed was used to playing by the rules and sticking to reality...
  • Stay With Me by Rebel Hart

    Stay With Me by Rebel Hart

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    The last book in Rae and Clinton's love story..
  • Promise Me by Rebel Hart

    Promise Me by Rebel Hart

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    CRUEL INTENTIONS meets AFTERFind out what happens in Rae and Clinton's love story..
  • Holding On by Pamela Clare

    Holding On by Pamela Clare

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    A hero barely holding on… Harrison Conrad returned to Scarlet Springs from Nepal, the sole survivor of a freak accident on Mt. Everest. Shattered and grieving for his friends, he vows never to climb again and retreats into a bottle of whiskey—until Kenzie Morgan shows up at his door with a tiny puppy asking for his help...
  • Until You Loved Me by Brenda Novak

    Until You Loved Me by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Sometimes starting over means finding everything you’ve been missing… After catching her fiancé cheating—with another man–usually straight-laced, workaholic scientist Ellie Fisher liberates her wild side just long enough to indulge in a passionate one-night-stand with a tall, dark stranger she meets at a trendy Miami bar...
  • Tempting Love - Haley & Eddie by Melanie Shawn

    Tempting Love - Haley & Eddie by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Independent, talented, and beautiful–inside and out–Haley Sloan knew exactly what she wanted out of life. With her designer lingerie business booming, her career was moving forward, but her heart stayed in the same place it had for four years…hopelessly in love with the single father across the street...
  • Dirty Rich One Night Stand: Two Years Later by Lisa Renee Jones

    Dirty Rich One Night Stand: Two Years Later by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    CONTINUING CAT AND REESE'S STORY (read the beginning of their story in Dirty Rich One Night Stand) Get ready for Cat and Reese’s story to continue in this novel that will test Cat and Reese’s relationship. Reese is preparing and trying the second hardest trial of his career when the past comes back to haunt him and Cat, just as their lives are getting ready to change irrevocably...
  • Message from a Mistress by Niobia Bryant

    Message from a Mistress by Niobia Bryant

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Romance Novel - African American about a group of friends and their husbands, but one of the friends is the mistress...
  • Heartache Falls by Emily March

    Heartache Falls by Emily March

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The healing magic of Eternity Springs continues in this new novel in Emily March’s vibrant series about a very special town and the people who need it most.   Married for more than twenty years, and with her children out of the nest, Ali Timberlake has come to Eternity Springs alone...
  • Brightly Burning Bridges by Ivy Wild

    Brightly Burning Bridges by Ivy Wild

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    From the author of Infamous and The Estate comes a bully romance unlike anything you've ever readSilasHe wasn’t my friend until he became my enemy.His center is freezing cold,and his edges burn me when I get too close.He is everything I want and nothing I am.They say not to burn bridges,but he burned ours to the ground.SkylerShe is the girl who wants to be seen,but hates being noticed...
  • It Must Be Your Love by Bella Andre

    It Must Be Your Love by Bella Andre

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Successful Seattle Realtor Mia Sullivan is nobody’s fool…apart from that one week five years ago when she gave away her heart to a sexy musician who gave her nothing in return but a few sinfully perfect days—and nights—in his bed. Though she swears she never wants to see him again, he’s the one man she’s never been able to forget...
  • Final Call by Emma Hart

    Final Call by Emma Hart

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In the highly anticipated sequel to LATE CALL, Dayton and Aaron learn once more than not everything is as straightforward as it seems, and if they have any chance of getting their long-awaited happily-ever-after, they'll have to work for it... We crashed and burned like a falling plane. Hard and fast with an inevitable explosion. Another few weeks together changed my life the way the first did...
  • Bad Boys After Dark: Dylan by Melissa Foster

    Bad Boys After Dark: Dylan by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Bad Billionaires After Dark are a series of stand-alone romances that may also be enjoyed as part of the larger Love in Bloom series. 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..
  • Somehow, Some Way by Jennifer Probst

    Somehow, Some Way by Jennifer Probst

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Bolivar Randy Heart (aka Brady) knows exactly what he wants next in life: the perfect wife. Raised in a strict traditional family household, he seeks a woman who is sweet, conservative, and eager to settle down. With his well-known protective and dominant streak, he needs a woman to offer him balance in a world where he relishes control...
  • Crazy about Cameron by Katy Regnery

    Crazy about Cameron by Katy Regnery

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Crazy about Cameron is the third of four books about the Philadelphia-based, wildly-handsome Winslow brothers who are all on the look-out for love. (Say what? Not so much...Brooks and Pres are OFF. THE. MARKET, and Chris is so distracted with his campaign, he can't see what - or who - is right under his nose...
  • Styled by Piper Lawson

    Styled by Piper Lawson

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I have a type. Tall. Blond. Sarcastic. Awkward as hell.That’s right, my type is me. Because I’m better off spending my time alone than with a guy.Which doesn't matter since this month, I’m on an open-ended ticket to LA to find a new boutique for TRAVESTY. Not to find a rebound for the breakup that blew my mind. I’m ready to forget all about dicks...
  • Only the Beginning by Laramie Briscoe

    Only the Beginning by Laramie Briscoe

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Princess of Country Music.America’s sweetheart.Survivor of the scrutiny that comes with it all. Hannah 'Harmony' Stewart has lived most of her adult life in the spotlight. It hasn’t always been easy. One heartbreak almost ruined her. Some days it’s hard to keep a smile on her face and stay positive, but there are a lot of people counting on her to keep it together...
  • Trick or Treat by L.A. Cotton

    Trick or Treat by L.A. Cotton

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Calliope James would rather live life through a lens than in the spotlight. So when she reluctantly agrees to go with her best friend to a party, she doesn’t expect to find herself on the other side of the camera.Zachary Messiah left Bay View High School without so much as a word.Now he’s back. He’s not the boy she remembers, but she’s exactly the girl he’s tried so hard to forget...
  • When You're Mine by K. Langston

    When You're Mine by K. Langston

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    For Barrett Shaw, there wasn’t much more to life than his career. Still climbing his way to the top, he could do without the distractions and complications of love. But the road to success is a lonely one, and Barrett was starting to think he would never meet a woman who could capture and keep his attention like a courtroom...
  • Lord of the Desert by Diana Palmer

    Lord of the Desert by Diana Palmer

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 23 ratings
    Sheltered, small-town girl Gretchen Brannon was out of her element when she aligned herself with Sheikh Philippe Sabon. They came from two different worlds, yet she found a soul mate in the powerful, sensual man who'd suppressed his passions for far too long —and harbored a secret anguish. Nevertheless, he made Gretchen aware of her courage..
  • Baby By Accident by Caro LaFever

    Baby By Accident by Caro LaFever

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A bad boy. An ice princess. And a secret she won’t reveal. When a pirate playboy takes over her family’s financial company, Lise Helton can find nothing to like about the man. Except for the inconvenient lust she feels every time she’s in a room with him...
  • Year's Happy Ending by Betty Neels

    Year's Happy Ending by Betty Neels

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Could she settle for less than love?Professor Gideon Beaufort tried Deborah's good nature severely. He reviled her future as a trained nanny, destined to settle for a permanent post caring for other people's children.But was his proposal any more enticing, when all he wanted was a substitute for his young daughter and nothing more? "I won't pretend," he told her candidly...
  • A Kiss in the Shadows by Eve Kincaid, Lily Danes

    A Kiss in the Shadows by Eve Kincaid, Lily Danes

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Erin Grady is used to taking care of people. That’s why she’s thrilled to finally realize her dream of opening a clinic…and why she’s willing to overlook where the money came from—until a determined prosecutor comes sniffing around. Will Patton is desperate to leave the small fogbound town of Lost Coast Harbor and build a real career for himself...
  • Crave by Megan O'Brien

    Crave by Megan O'Brien

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I didn’t realize I was falling, not until my heart was lost in love with him. After years of close friendship with former Marine and security specialist, Sid Masters, Samantha McAllister finds herself grappling with feelings far beyond friendship. After a line is crossed, Sam’s heart is broken in the process...
  • Hailey's Truth by Cate Beauman

    Hailey's Truth by Cate Beauman

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hailey Roberts has never had it easy. Despite the scars of a tragic childhood, she’s made a life for herself. As a part-time student and loving nanny, she yearns for a family of her own and reluctant Austin Casey, Ethan Cooke Security’s best close protection agent. Hailey’s past comes back to haunt her when her long lost brother tracks her down, bringing his dangerous secrets with him...
  • The Sassy One by Susan Mallery

    The Sassy One by Susan Mallery

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 24 ratings
    For the Marcelli sisters of California wine country, the season is ripe for romance! Francesca Marcelli married at eighteen -- right on schedule, according to her warm, colorful family, who have always said a beauty like Francesca need never worry about finding love...
  • Payback by Sofia Daniel

    Payback by Sofia Daniel

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’ve been beaten, bullied, and isolated. And now I’m ready to right all wrongs. The truth is out and secrets uncovered. I’m mad and hell-bent on getting payback. I’ll make them hurt. Make them bleed. Make them wish they’d never messed with me or my boys. But first, I have to let go of past hurts. Heal my broken heart and reunite my harem...
    Categorized as:
    cruel hero  contemporary  poly  m-f  length-short
  • Calamity Jena by Janet Elizabeth Henderson

    Calamity Jena by Janet Elizabeth Henderson

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jena Morgan, Atlantic City’s favorite go-go dancer, may have overreacted when she found her boyfriend balls deep in a stripper called Candy. Instead of washing her eyeballs with bleach, she drank a bottle of tequila and bought a house off the internet. A house far away from her cheating, criminal of an ex-boyfriend. A house in Scotland...
  • In Harmony by Helena Newbury

    In Harmony by Helena Newbury

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She's shy, sheltered and inexperienced...now an Irish bad boy's about to rock her world.From New York Times bestselling author Helena Newbury, the second in the Fenbrook Academy New Adult trilogy.Karen is one of the top musicians at Fenbrook Academy, but a life spent playing the cello has left no time for anything else. At 21, she's still completely inexperienced in love...and sex...
  • The Truth by Karin Tabke

    The Truth by Karin Tabke

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Will the truth set her free...or break her heart? Since meeting the enigmatic Simon, Katrina Winslow's life has been one roller coaster ride after another. Deep down, she's certain the man who rocks her world in bed just might be the one to save her career and earn her love...
  • Harbour by Penelope Louleas

    Harbour by Penelope Louleas

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After finding her boyfriend, Derek, between the thighs of another woman, she was forced to re evaluate her life. When an offer to uproot and move to New York is presented to her, she grabs it with both hands and runs with it. Lincoln Whitmore's engagement to model Rachael started with fireworks, but soon the love they shared diminished...
  • Priceless by Sherryl Woods

    Priceless by Sherryl Woods

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Charismatic playboy Mack Carlton lit up a room - even a hospital room - like no one else. Dr. Beth Browning had to admit Mack's visits were a tonic for her young patient, but her own reaction was much more confusing... Although Beth didn't ask for a second opinion on her future with Mack, his aunt Destiny offered her prognosis: marriage...
  • Punished into Submission by Holly Carter

    Punished into Submission by Holly Carter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Growing up with a drug dealer and a whore was never easy. I saw things that a child should never see. I felt things as a teenager that one should never feel and there are things that I heard that one should never hear. I was grateful when Sailor saved my life.” Kat was determined to get away and become someone else after her tragic childhood. Become someone people would fear. Become invincible...
    Categorized as:
    cruel hero  contemporary  length-long
  • Contingency by Paula Wiseman

    Contingency by Paula Wiseman

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Where was God? Bobbi Molinsky's comfortable life is shattered when a forwarded email from her husband's account lands in her inbox. The email teases, "My whole evening is free again." After an angry confrontation with Chuck, she is left with the broken remains of an eighteen year marriage...
  • Unexpected Love by Casey Clipper

    Unexpected Love by Casey Clipper

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From International Best-Selling Contemporary Romance Author Casey Clipper, The Love Series delves into Ryan's story. Ryan Millen. Notorious playboy. Forever a bachelor. Never one to settle. Loves his one-night-stands. Ryan has loved his single status without any desire to settle down into a permanent relationship. Why would he? To be in a relationship requires work and sacrifice...
  • Countdown to Midnight by Katy Regnery

    Countdown to Midnight by Katy Regnery

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After a busy Christmas surrounded by the wedded bliss of their three married sisters, still-single Elizabeth and Jane Story deserve a little fun for New Years!Heading to the ultra-exclusive Point on Saranac Lake, they expect a week of ski, snow and socializing . . . what they get is a computer glitch that double-books their luxury slopeside condo to handsome Bostonians, Merit and Amity Atwell...
  • Mistress to a Monster by Sam Crescent

    Mistress to a Monster by Sam Crescent

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For decades, war has raged between the Russo and De Luca families.When Damon De Luca finally brings the head of Russos to his knees, he demands to have Milah Russo at his beck and call. Not as his wife, but as his mistress.Milah will never go to Damon willingly. Caged up in his home, she fights him, but her days are numbered...
  • Spiteful Lies by Nora Cobb

    Spiteful Lies by Nora Cobb

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I CAME FROM NOTHING.NOW I HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO LOSEThe stakes have never been higher.And backing down now means paying an unthinkable price.I thought I could never be broken.I thought I could handle whatever came my way.The Kings of Stonehaven taught me how wrong I was.They used me. They humiliated me. They broke me.But there was something they couldn’t do...
  • Britannia All at Sea by Betty Neels

    Britannia All at Sea by Betty Neels

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Britannia All at Sea It's love at first sight for Britannia Smith when she meets Professor Jake Luitingh van Thien. She even follows him to Holland, hoping to see more of him. To her joy, he proposes! But just when all seems perfect, she becomes convinced that to go ahead with their wedding might ruin Jake's life...
    Categorized as:
    cruel hero  contemporary  length-long
  • Come Away with Me by Ruth Cardello

    Come Away with Me by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Author! Gio Andrade:Rich, powerful, sexy. A man who thinks he has everything...until he meets Julia. Julia Bennett:Sweet, spontaneous, and desperate to sell her jewelry line in New York City. She takes a job as a night security guard to pay the rent. Sparks fly when she mistakes her boss for an intruder. He can’t get her out of his head...
  • Weddings in White: Unlikely Lover/The Princess Bride/Callaghan's Bride by Diana Palmer

    Weddings in White: Unlikely Lover/The Princess Bride/Callaghan's Bride by Diana Palmer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Unlikely Lover Mari Raymond's matchmaking aunt had pulled a fast one. She'd tricked oilman Ward Jessup into inviting her young niece to his ranch--and persuaded Mari to accept the invitation and help the elderly rancher write his memoirs. But Mari quickly discovered that Ward was anything but old...and Ward found out that Mari was hardly a helpless young girl...
    Categorized as:
    cruel hero  contemporary  m-f  length-long
  • Reckless by Jennifer Loren

    Reckless by Jennifer Loren

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Reckless, the sequel to Finding Ava: The decision seemed so innocent in the beginning, exciting even. How could I have ever known what was going to happen? How could I have ever know that someone could be so evil, so determined to destroy lives. I chose to ignore the advice of my brother and instead trusted - believed in friendship, believed in a woman I once loved...
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