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  • Loving You by Kelly Elliott

    Loving You by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    In the long-awaited conclusion to the Wanted, Broken and Love Wanted in Texas series, New York Times bestselling author Kelly Elliott brings you a story filled with angst, cowboys and fairytale love. Taylor Atwood and Jase Morris finally found their way to one another. Life couldn't have been more perfect for either one of them as they began to build a future together...
  • Nightwork by Nora Roberts

    Nightwork by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts introduces an unforgettable thief in an unputdownable new novel…Greed. Desire. Obsession. Revenge . . . It’s all in a night’s work. Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother’s head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash...
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  • Out of Office by Ruth Cardello

    Out of Office by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A recluse discovers that what he endured and survived was orchestrated by one evil man. With nothing left to lose, Zachary wakes up and chooses vengeance.Charlotte Simmons may pretend to be innocent, but everything she has was bought with money made from my suffering.I intend to uncover her family’s sins and expose them to the world.Lying about who I am? She doesn’t deserve the truth...
  • Phantom's Emblazonment by Ciara St James

    Phantom's Emblazonment by Ciara St James

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Months of getting messages and leads from a mysterious stranger over the internet have Phantom beyond curious. He isn’t ready to say the stranger is a friend. Nothing has led to them finding and eliminating the last two members of the criminal family his club and their friends at Time Served have been battling for three years.He’s afraid to get his hopes up...
    Categorized as:
    vengeance  contemporary  suspense  military  bikers
  • 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...
  • Time for Love by Marie Force

    Time for Love by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 26 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...
  • Maximum Risk by Ruth Cardello

    Maximum Risk by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 25 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...
    Categorized as:
    cruel hero  humor  contemporary  m-f  length-short
  • 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...
  • Ruby Mercy by Naomi West

    Ruby Mercy by Naomi West

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    I’m having my bosshole’s baby.Safe to say that’s not ideal…Especially because he doesn’t even know.As a matter of fact, Kirill is clear across the country, and I’m pretty sure he’s never coming back.That’s fine.My daughter and I will be a-okay without him.At least, that’s what I thought.But five years goes by like pulling teeth.And I learn something:It hurts to do this alone...
  • Trick by Jessica Ames

    Trick by Jessica Ames

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Enjoy this dark motorcycle club romance from USA Today Bestselling MC romance author Jessica Ames... TrickMy life ended in the blink of an eye. Everything I held in my heart was shattered by one bullet. Bound in my anger, I did the only thing I could and took revenge...
  • Rock Bottom by Fern Michaels

    Rock Bottom by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and years of adventure. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until every wrong is made right.Isabelle “Izzy” Flanders and Yoko Akia are beginning a new project—an indoor/outdoor café that will be the cornerstone of a market village...
  • Redeeming Justice by Suzanne Halliday

    Redeeming Justice by Suzanne Halliday

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    Sometimes …Happily Ever After comes with a price Alex Marquez wears many hats. Sometimes he’s the slightly patrician Don of a family with deep Spanish roots. Other times he’s a brilliant tech-God and CEO of an exclusive security agency. He’s also a boss, a musician, and a fierce friend...
  • Home to Me by Ruth Cardello

    Home to Me by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Nick Andrade: Sexy, charming, bad boy. He’s never been a one woman man, but he’s willing to give it a try every Saturday with Rena. Rena Sander: Confident, caring, a woman who plays by the rules. She’s never been in love, and thinks keeping sex with Nick contained to one day a week will protect her heart. He’s the hot fantasy she’s always craved...
  • Coral Celebration by Jan Moran

    Coral Celebration by Jan Moran

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A joyful summer celebration... but old rivalries erupt in Summer BeachThe next heartwarming chapter in the Coral Cottage series.When Marina and her sister Kai volunteer to manage Summer Beach's centennial celebration, they expect a fun parade down Main Street. However, neither of them can imagine the rivalries that erupt or the buried history that comes to light...
  • Tell Me Your Secret by Dorothy Koomson

    Tell Me Your Secret by Dorothy Koomson

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The gripping new emotional thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls, My Best Friend's Girl and The Brighton Mermaid. Pieta has a secretTen years ago, Pieta survived a weekend with a sadistic serial killer. She never told anyone what happened and instead moved on with her life...
  • Run by Janet Elizabeth Henderson

    Run by Janet Elizabeth Henderson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Elle Roberts wants two things in life:One—to find out everything there is to know about the mysterious spy who keeps kissing her, andTwo—to stay off her mob family’s radar.That isn’t too much to ask, is it? It’s not like she wants to win the lottery, or live in a Star Wars movie, or be Chris Hemsworth’s personal bather...
  • 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...
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    cruel hero  humor  contemporary  length-short
  • Final Justice by Fern Michaels

    Final Justice by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Sisterhood - Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle - have risked everything in the name of justice, including their own freedom. Their most recent mission promised to reward them with the ultimate prize - a presidential pardon and a chance to leave their enforced exile. But as they've learned too many times before, life doesn't always turn out as planned...
  • Rocking Kin by Terri Anne Browning

    Rocking Kin by Terri Anne Browning

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Terri Anne Browning. With one promise her life was changed… Saying goodbye to my mother also meant saying goodbye to my life in Virginia. After reluctantly making a promise to my mom, I was California bound with the father who I haven’t seen since I was four years old...
  • I Choose You by Weston Parker

    I Choose You by Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The ugly duckling from my high school is back in my life and she’s all I can think about.Unfortunately, she’s off limits. Work rules.Tell that to my naughty thoughts and constant raging desires.When my dad decides he’s getting married, I need a date for the event.She’s the only one I’d want on my arm, in my bed, my lap… you get the picture...
  • 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..
  • Sweet Revenge by Fern Michaels

    Sweet Revenge by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    PULL A FAST ONE? NOT ON THE SISTERHOOD'S WATCH ... There are some things that a group of gracious ladies just can't overlook --- and doing one of their friends dirty is at the top of the list. That's the mission of the Sisterhood, seven women who would do anything to help out one of their clan, especially when it means righting a wrong. And Isabelle Flanders has definitely been done wrong...
  • 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..
  • Cross Roads by Fern Michaels

    Cross Roads by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The Sisterhood Will Not Be Broken It's been a year and a half since the women of the Sisterhood received their presidential pardons, but the freedom they craved has come at a high price...
  • Lethal Justice by Fern Michaels

    Lethal Justice by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    SMART WOMEN ... BRILLIANT CHOICES The women of the Sisterhood are fun, smart, sassy, and determined to get their way every time. But most of all, they are the best friends a woman wants by her side in good times and bad. Meeting once again in Myra Rutledge's beautiful Virginia home, they're ready to face a new challenge and right a vicious wrong ..
  • Game Over by Fern Michaels

    Game Over by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    With yet another successful assignment behind them, the ladies of the Sisterhood have enjoyed a relaxing break together and celebrated the wedding of Myra and Charles on Big Pine Mountain. But as soon as the newlyweds return from their shortened honeymoon, they are hit with some exciting yet unsettling news...
  • Payback by Fern Michaels

    Payback by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    SOME WOMEN GET ANGRY...THE SISTERHOOD GETS EVEN. Meet the Sisterhood seven very different women who found one another in their darkest days and formed an indelible friendship, strong enough to heal their pasts and bring laughter and joy back into their lives...
  • Sweet Agony by Terri Anne Browning, Sara Eirew

    Sweet Agony by Terri Anne Browning, Sara Eirew

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Vengeance was something I’d been waiting all my life to deliver. It would be sweet and worth every risk I’d taken to get to this point. I was moments away from pulling the trigger, taking the life of the man who’d cost my father his… And then she was dragged into the room, struggling and fighting for freedom. The moment I set eyes on Tavia, everything changed...
  • Mr. Romantic Romeo by Jacob Parker

    Mr. Romantic Romeo by Jacob Parker

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Did Juliet stab Romeo in the back? Mine did.Love is a fickle thing. You think you find it while on a beach on a business trip, and you’re wrong.The beautiful girl that’s captured your attention has been sent there by her father, a rival of the great Manhattan family—my family.She laid the trap real good, and thanks to the her curves and beautiful smile, my dumbass fell right into it...
  • Buck by Helen Hardt

    Buck by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’ll do anything to get revenge…Aspen Davis is on a mission. She’s determined to find out how and why she ended up captive on a South Pacific island where she was hunted and tormented for over five years. She’s following the clues…even when they lead to some very dark places.Buck Moreno vows to protect Aspen no matter what...
  • The Dying Game by Beverly Barton

    The Dying Game by Beverly Barton

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Play To Win... It's the ultimate game--the adrenaline surge of the hunt, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat. For in this game, the rules are simple: To win, you only have to kill. To lose, you will have to die... Play To Scream... The victims are former beauty queens found with a single rose beside their bodies...
  • 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...
  • Payback (Sisterhood) by Fern Michaels

    Payback (Sisterhood) by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until every wrong is made right...
  • The Jury by Fern Michaels

    The Jury by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    The Jury Even reeling from the loss of one of their own, the Sisterhood is always prepared to rally behind a new friend. For years, Paula Woodley has suffered the broken bones and shattered self-esteem caused by an abusive marriage. But what can she do? Her high-profile, Washington power-broker husband is not a man to be crossed. Or so he thinks...
  • Fast Track by Fern Michaels

    Fast Track by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    It’s been years since the members of the Sisterhood first banded together, with the help of their mentor Charles Martin, to exact their own form of justice on those whose crimes had gone unpunished by the legal system...
  • Master by Sam Crescent

    Master by Sam Crescent

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is a The Skulls and Chaos Bleeds MC crossover novel “I want to play a game.” Master has plagued The Skulls and Chaos Bleeds MC for a long time. He has sent Gash to Prison, taken Paris, raped and murdered innocent men and women. Now after a mass shootout ordered by Master injures many and even kills a couple of their people, Lash is done waiting...
  • 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: Special Edition by Ivy Wild

    Brightly Burning Bridges: Special Edition 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...
  • Before Highland Sunset by Kait Nolan

    Before Highland Sunset by Kait Nolan

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I should never have touched her. I didn't know she's my best friend's little sister. When I found out... well... My life went off the rails, and we didn't see each other again.Now three years later, we're in the same small town, and she hates my guts. But when her ex won't take no for an answer, it's me she improbably reaches out to for help...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Wednesday by E.L. Todd

    Wednesday by E.L. Todd

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It took me a long time to forgive Hawke—a very long time. But now that I have, I feel nothing but unbridled joy. Everything is exactly as it should have been two years ago. He’s just what I need, and not just now, but forever. Until disaster strikes...
  • Silent Killer by Beverly Barton

    Silent Killer by Beverly Barton

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    IN A TOWN FULL OF SECRETS To most people, men like Mark Cantrell are fine, upstanding pillars of the community, completely beyond reproach. But their killer knows better...
  • 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...
  • Blindsided by Fern Michaels

    Blindsided by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Ladies On Fire Myra Rutledge isn't ready to mothball the Sisterhood just yet. When Maggie Spitzer, former editor-in-chief of the Post and an honorary member of the Sisterhood, arrives with a new mission in mind, the Vigilantes are soon gathering in their war room once more...
  • Tea Party Teddy by Dianne Harman

    Tea Party Teddy by Dianne Harman

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tea Party Teddy is a political tell-all novel about Sacramento, California politics - the public corruption, infidelity, and greed. Teddy, a newly elected Assemblyman, is elected because of his hateful anti-immigration platform. When he gets to Sacramento, he struggles with the temptations that ultimate power affords. His world slowly unravels as he succumbs to the power of his office...
  • 페이백 by SAMK

    페이백 by SAMK

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    vengeance  queer  m-m  angst  contemporary  length-epic
  • A Night of Revelry and Envy by Mallory Fox

    A Night of Revelry and Envy by Mallory Fox

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    They can't save me, no one can.My life has never been my own, my childhood was stolen from me by wicked men with greedy hands. Forced to play into their dark depraved desires, my body is no longer my own.Then one night they arrive, the sons of my captors, the ghosts of my past, desperate to prove themselves worthy of the tarnished crown that one day they will inherit...
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