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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: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 30 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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  • Maximum Risk by Ruth Cardello

    Maximum Risk by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 27 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...
  • 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...
  • 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. .. Trick. My 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...
  • 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 Beach. The 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 secret. Ten 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, and. Two—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. And for the rippling cop, reality meant loving her from afar…...
  • Final Justice by Fern Michaels

    Final Justice by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 25 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...
  • 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: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 13 ratings
    The last book in Rae and Clinton's love story. ..
  • Sweet Revenge by Fern Michaels

    Sweet Revenge by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 31 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...
  • 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 . .
  • 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...
  • Payback  by Fern Michaels

    Payback 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...
  • Promise Me by Rebel Hart

    Promise Me by Rebel Hart

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    CRUEL INTENTIONS meets AFTER. Find out what happens in Rae and Clinton's love story. ..
  • 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...
  • Silent Killer by Beverly Barton

    Silent Killer by Beverly Barton

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 29 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. They are sinners of the worst kind, and they must burn on earth before they burn in hell…. TRUSTING THE WRONG PERSON...
  • 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 read. Silas. He 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. Skyler. She is the girl who wants to be seen,...
  • My Enemy: An Indian billionaire enemies to lovers romance by Sapna Bhog

    My Enemy: An Indian billionaire enemies to lovers romance by Sapna Bhog

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    There is one unwritten rule in every war—do not fall for your enemy…. Sanjana Luthra had a simple mission, to learn as much as she could about her enemy in order to help bring him down. What she hadn’t anticipated was the lure of Aaryan Rajpoot. He was supposed to be her enemy and yet he didn’t feel like one. Her attraction to him was instant, their chemistry red hot...
  • Final Call by Emma Hart

    Final Call by Emma Hart

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 28 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...
  • The Sassy One by Susan Mallery

    The Sassy One by Susan Mallery

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 25 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 페이백 2 by SAMK, 푸죠킹

    페이백 2 by SAMK, 푸죠킹

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    본격적으로 복수를 준비하는 유한, 그는 어째선지 섬뜩함이 느껴지는 정체 모를 남자, 제이로부터 비밀스러운 장소인 ‘앨리스의 미궁’에 초대받는다. 그리고 유한은 기억 저편에 묻어 두었던 ‘지화자 노래방’에 얽힌 한 남자와의 과거를 떠올린다.
  • 페이백 by SAMK

    페이백 by SAMK

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    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...
  • A Woman with Secrets by Inglath Cooper

    A Woman with Secrets by Inglath Cooper

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Kate Winthrop's sizable inheritance was stolen by her ex-husband. So she does what any wronged woman would—she gets even. When she breaks in to his empty house, she stumbles onto a large sum of her money. She takes it and boards a boat destined for the Caribbean. All Kate wants is a place to hide...
    Categorized as:
    vengeance  contemporary  length-short
  • 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...
  • 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
  • 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...
  • Roses Are Red by Miranda Rijks, Helen Day

    Roses Are Red by Miranda Rijks, Helen Day

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    She wanted a second chance at happiness. She got a first-class ticket to hell. Lydia Palmer seems to have it all - a thriving business, a beautiful house, a picture-perfect husband and two wonderful kids. But things are different behind closed doors - Lydia is desperately unhappy and wants a divorce. Then, shockingly, her husband Adam dies...
  • Unexpected Love by Casey Clipper

    Unexpected Love by Casey Clipper

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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 LOSE. The 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. Wish with the Candles...
    Categorized as:
    cruel hero  contemporary  length-long
  • Drawn to You: Boxed Set  (Volumes 1-3)  (Millionaire's Row) by Vanessa Booke, Studio 22 Designs

    Drawn to You: Boxed Set (Volumes 1-3) (Millionaire's Row) by Vanessa Booke, Studio 22 Designs

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Your whole world can change in a single moment. A reckless moment where you let go of your inhibitions and you lose control. I pride myself on never losing control, but somehow, I did with her. I let my desire overtake me, and I took a bite of that forbidden fruit that stood in front of me in nothing but a nightie...
    Categorized as:
    cruel hero  contemporary  length-short
  • 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...
  • Acting Brave by Helena Newbury

    Acting Brave by Helena Newbury

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s spent her whole life acting. But can she make him believe she doesn’t love him? The final book in the Fenbrook Academy trilogy. Three years ago, a terrified girl named Emma fled a world of crime and abuse in Chicago and bought a one-way ticket to New York. She reinvented herself as an actress, enrolled at the prestigious Fenbrook Academy and buried her pain beneath a vivacious new persona...
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