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  • Nora Roberts Bridal Quartet Boxed Set by Nora Roberts

    Nora Roberts Bridal Quartet Boxed Set by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 33 ratings
    This boxed gift set from the New York Times bestselling author of more than 190 novels features four books that follow the love lives of four childhood friends who have teamed up to form one of Connecticut's premiere wedding planning companies...
  • Pretty It Up by Cee Bowerman

    Pretty It Up by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    DescriptionSometimes love just isn’t enough, or is it?Lana Gold, one of the Donovan triplets, found her one true love in college but lost him when the life he’d dreamed of became reality. Being an outsider looking in and so far away from her family and hometown took its toll on Lana and her marriage until she’d finally had enough and left it all behind...
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  • A Time to Embrace by Karen Kingsbury

    A Time to Embrace by Karen Kingsbury

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    "Their whole life was a series of miracles. Can they really hope for one more? And as tragedy pulls their lives apart, can they somehow find that all-important time to embrace?" After twenty-one years, John and Abby Reynolds are back together and feeling like newlyweds...
  • A Hero's Chance by Maryann Jordan

    A Hero's Chance by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Ryan Coates does it all. Single dad with an ex who needs a reminder to spend time with their kids. Chief of the Baytown Station of the Virginia Marine Police. Sergeant at Arms for the local American Legion. Son. Brother. Coach. Friend.What he’s not doing is looking for a woman to add to his already busy life.Then he met her. Again.She’s the new doctor in town. And she remembers Ryan...
  • An Island in the Sun by Kate Frost

    An Island in the Sun by Kate Frost

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Pre-order the BRAND NEW escapist read from bestseller Kate Frost!Running away is easy, until saying goodbye becomes too hard…When successful songwriter Tabitha Callahan swaps a summer of sadness for pet sitting around the world, she intends to use the time to heal her broken heart.Tabitha can’t believe her luck when she picks up a housesit on the rugged and beautiful Portuguese island of Madeira...
  • Meet Me at Pebble Beach: The hilarious and feel-good romance fiction read of summer 2020 by Bella Osborne

    Meet Me at Pebble Beach: The hilarious and feel-good romance fiction read of summer 2020 by Bella Osborne

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Regan is holding a winning lottery ticket.Goodbye to the boyfriend who never had her back, and so long to the job she can’t stand!Except it’s all a bit too good to be true… When Regan gets pranked, she finds herself jobless, homeless and boyfriendless in one fell swoop...
  • My Best Friend's Wish: Work Husband Series by Blue Saffire, Natasha Snow Designs

    My Best Friend's Wish: Work Husband Series by Blue Saffire, Natasha Snow Designs

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Award winning, Bestselling, Author Blue Saffire presents My Best Friend’s Wish Work Husband Series DarioWhen I was younger, I believe I heard something I shouldn’t have. After what I overheard, I don’t believe our mother just up and left us. I was a kid. I didn’t have money, power, or respect to get the answers I needed back then. Not until now...
  • Rainbows Over Puddleduck Farm by Della Galton

    Rainbows Over Puddleduck Farm by Della Galton

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Don’t dream your life, live your dreams….Phoebe Dashwood is a passionately committed vet who’s living the dream. She’s about to open her own small animal practice at her grandmother’s animal shelter, Puddleduck Farm in the New Forest. Phoebe is helped by her two oldest friends...
  • Needing You Close by Kennedy Fox

    Needing You Close by Kennedy Fox

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I never expected to see my first love again after he left me twelve years ago. Though I’ve moved on, working with Tyler is no easy task—especially when he focuses his bedroom eyes on me. Flirting with the past is like playing with fire, and considering I’m engaged, I’m bound to get burned...
  • Crave by Adriana Locke

    Crave by Adriana Locke

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Hadley Jacobs is over Machlan Gibson. Sure, she’ll always be a little weak to the dimple in his right cheek and the way his five o’clock shadow makes him ruggedly handsome. But that’s not enough to cover every other thing about him because they all drive her nuts. Like how he won’t admit he’s wrong even when he knows it and how he drives his stupid car a million miles an hour on wet asphalt...
  • A Calm and Gentle Rain: A Christian Romance by Kimberly Rae Jordan

    A Calm and Gentle Rain: A Christian Romance by Kimberly Rae Jordan

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She has lived her life in the midst of a storm.With a demanding, overbearing father dictating her life, Cecelia Albrecht has never been able to stand on her own. Searching for a way to free herself from him has led her into situations that have only added to the turbulence in her life.He knows Cecelia in a way that most don’t and would do anything for her...
  • Without You by Lacey Black

    Without You by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    TuckerI spend my days brewing beer for the popular Brew Crüe Beer Company and my nights devoted to being a dad. Raising a young child with special needs can be tough and stressful, but I wouldn’t change it for the world. He’s everything to me, and the reason I keep going. It’s him and me against the world, and I have no intention of changing that.Then, Kinsley McGregor walks back into my life...
  • Finding Peace in Wishing Bridge by Ruth Logan Herne

    Finding Peace in Wishing Bridge by Ruth Logan Herne

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Creator of the bestselling "Welcome to Wishing Bridge" and "At Home in Wishing Bridge" award-winning author Ruth Logan Herne invites readers back to the little town with the big heart with "Finding Peace in Wishing Bridge". Being a supermodel isn't just hard...
  • Searching the Harbor by Sage Parker

    Searching the Harbor by Sage Parker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A small town with big secrets… 55-year-old Maggie Brooks thought she had found her dream life as an empty nester by moving to Bar Harbor, but when her husband disappears without a trace, her world is instantly turned upside down. With no one willing to believe her, she turns to local detective James Manning for help...
  • Savor You by Kristen Proby

    Savor You by Kristen Proby

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the next sizzling romance in Kristen Proby's New York Times bestselling Fusion series, two celebrity chefs compete in a culinary competition, but resisting each other will prove to be the greater challenge. Cooking isn't what Mia Palazzo does, it's who she is. Food is her passion . . . her pride . . . her true love...
  • Raising Steel: Steel Brothers - A Family Affair by M.J. Fields

    Raising Steel: Steel Brothers - A Family Affair by M.J. Fields

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Josephina Steel has been alone for years. Her husband and father of her children, Jase, Cyrus, Zandor, and Xavier, died in a horrible accident when the family was already going through rough times. Through hard work, love and loyalty in abundance, her sons are the men she and Jonathan, always knew they could be...
  • Second Chance by L.B. Dunbar

    Second Chance by L.B. Dunbar

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Another romance for the over 40. Can one sexy silver fox face the woman he once left behind but never let go? Her. A widow at forty-four, her husband left her a letter. Contact Denton. Once upon a time, the three of them had been best friends. Mati Rath isn’t sure she should look back. Her heart isn’t ready, or so she thinks. Him. A pleading phone call forces him to make a decision...
  • My Last Secret by Weston Parker

    My Last Secret by Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    My brother’s best friend wanted me for a night. Now I have a surprise.And it was years ago we slept together. When we were just kids.Getting pregnant left me with a different life path than I’d expected, but I let him go.He had big dreams and I let him go live them, but now he’s back in my life, as arrogant as ever...
  • Waiting for Willa by Kristen Proby

    Waiting for Willa by Kristen Proby

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Waiting for Willa From New York Times Bestselling Author Kristen Proby comes the newest installment in her beloved Big Sky Series… Max Hull left Cunningham Falls a long time ago. Thanks to his killer instincts and business smarts, he’s come back to town richer than anyone’s wildest imagination...
  • Reputation by Adriana Locke

    Reputation by Adriana Locke

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Coy Mason is a jerk.If there is one truth that Bellamy Davenport knows, it’s that. Hands-down. (Well, that and the fact that she didn’t mean to hurt him. Physically. Coy can’t be hurt emotionally because he doesn’t have a heart.)Coy is not just the small-town, literal boy-next-door...
  • Why the Star Stands Still by Rose Christo

    Why the Star Stands Still by Rose Christo

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    "Your dad's Indian. Your mom's black. Why are you white?" Skylar St. Clair's been getting questions like these all his life. Skylar's home is the Nettlebush Indian Reserve; his family, the hundreds of Plains Shoshone living there. Skylar can't help it if he better resembles his biological mother, a woman whose untimely death left him with more secrets than memories...
  • Dylan by Apryl Baker

    Dylan by Apryl Baker

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dylan ~Six years ago, Dylan Jenkins lost his daughter in a tragic car accident, and his wife took her own life because she couldn’t live with the guilt of surviving. The loss of his family turned him into a hard, cold man. He quit his job as an LAPD detective and moved to New York where he took a position with Kincaid Security & Investigations. Viktor Kincaid and his company saved his life...
  • Second Chances by D. A. Young

    Second Chances by D. A. Young

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What would you do if you were given a second chance at love? Do you throw caution to the wind and follow your heart, or do you build an unbreakable fortress around your heart that only a special kind of man can penetrate? Meet Ella Kemp and Wyatt Easton. Heartbroken over a devastating loss, Ella is fairly certain that personal happiness just isn’t in her future...
  • Where Forever Ends by K. Street

    Where Forever Ends by K. Street

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    𝑴𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔—𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒘. Then: I was a wife. Married to a man who was my world and the father of my child. Then, one day, half of my heart was ripped out of my chest. Now: I’m a widow. A single mom who has spent the last nine months trying like hell not to drown in an ocean of grief...
  • Truly Mine by Kennedy Fox

    Truly Mine by Kennedy Fox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    𝑻𝑹𝑼𝑳𝒀 𝑴𝑰𝑵𝑬 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒔𝒕𝒚, 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘-𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚. The night we met in the dimly lit bar, she looked like a brunette bombshell, and I wanted to learn her deepest secrets...
  • Pining by Stephanie Rose

    Pining by Stephanie Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A slow-burn, friends-to-lovers standalone holiday romanceThe bad guy never gets the girl. In the eyes of the law, I’ve paid for my youthful mistakes but I know I can never undo the damage I’ve caused. When I stepped out of my cell, I vowed to live a good life, make the right choices, and avoid temptation at all costs. Until her. She’s not a choice, she’s a compulsion. A craving...
  • The I Do Over by Samantha Chase

    The I Do Over by Samantha Chase

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ready to head back to the Meet Me at the Altar office for book #6 and see who's falling in love and heading for their own happily ever after?Find out what happens when a former Navy SEAL comes face to face with his high school sweetheart he hasn't seen in fifteen years - the girl he was married to for less than 48 hours...
  • Snow Place Like Holly Pointe by Cindy Kirk

    Snow Place Like Holly Pointe by Cindy Kirk

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Will love be on their Christmas Lists?Holly Pointe, Vermont might be the Capitol of Christmas Kindness, but when residents learn their beloved Mistletoe Ball has been canceled, goodwill is in short supply. Lucy Cummings feels like a grinch for canceling, but the ball is a financial lump of coal for the Barns at Grace Hollow...
  • The Amish Widow's Rescue by Rachel J. Good

    The Amish Widow's Rescue by Rachel J. Good

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The perfect family awaits...if only he'll risk his heart.Pregnant and recently widowed, Grace Fisher is determined to provide for her family on her own. Thankfully, her jam business is popular in her Amish community. But it's difficult keeping up with her work, her farm chores, and her two mischievous children. Especially now that they've taken to idolizing their neighbor Elijah...
  • Firestorm by Lisa Phillips, Susan May Warren

    Firestorm by Lisa Phillips, Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He thought his life was over…and then she walked back in. Charlie Benning has always been a rescuer—first with the Last Chance County Fire and Rescue team, and now as a firefighter with the Jude County Hotshots. But this summer isn’t about saving lives—it’s about hiding his own terrible secret. A secret he’s keeping from his estranged daughter, Alexis. But fate is about to intervene...
  • Bram Baxter Marries the Wrong Sister by Latisha Sexton

    Bram Baxter Marries the Wrong Sister by Latisha Sexton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    First comes a lifelong crush, then comes . . . a marriage of convenience to her sister?Marrying Lois Jones was the only future Bram Baxter ever planned for. Until she returns home from Europe with another man’s ring on her finger. Devastated, Bram struggles to envision a different future for himself...
  • Truly Yours by Kennedy Fox

    Truly Yours by Kennedy Fox

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I knew within moments of meeting Mason Holt that he would change my life forever. I just didn’t realize how much. As my world spirals out of control, he continues to stay by my side, protecting and taking care of me. Being just friends is all he’s been able to offer, that is until both of our lives are threatened...
  • Think Twice by Stephanie Rose

    Think Twice by Stephanie Rose

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    One couple risks it all, while the other may lose everything... At eighteen, PJ was full of dreams. She was on her way to becoming a serious artist and moving across the country, away from the unrequited, tortured dream of her much older brother’s irresistible best friend, Dylan. But when she forced herself to let that dream go, she never expected it to bounce back and refuse to let her...
  • The Two of Us by Taylor A. Torres

    The Two of Us by Taylor A. Torres

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Sometimes holding on to pain means letting go of love.If there’s no place like home, that’s more than okay for Mara Makinen. In fact, she prefers it that way. Going back to the place where she made the worst mistake of her life? Not ideal...
  • Cross by Adriana Locke

    Cross by Adriana Locke

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Cross Jacobs was a screw-up. Everyone knew it, especially him, and the point was hammered home when Kallie Welch drove herself right out of his life. But, she’s back. Seeing Cross wasn’t on Kallie’s to-do list. She didn’t think she could avoid him forever but trying never hurt anyone...
  • Grinding by Sean Ashcroft

    Grinding by Sean Ashcroft

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Two childhood best friends. One accidental fake engagement. One Labrador puppy. One week to fall in love.When Harvey runs into his childhood best friend—literally—on the way into Otter Bay for his cousin's wedding, he doesn't plan to end up playing the part of the guy's fiancé...
  • Cross your Heart by Haley Jenner

    Cross your Heart by Haley Jenner

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Boys and girls can’t be just friends. A lie made up by overprotective fathers afraid of the illustrious teenage boy and his uncontrollable hormones. Reid and I were the exception to the rule. Best friends. A friendship bound with the spit in our palms and the gospel of a crossed heart. I lasted four years before the cliche caught me...
  • Second Wind by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Second Wind by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Second wind: a new strength or energy to continue something that is an effort. After an amicable divorce, Lincoln Huxley is ready to embrace the sexuality he repressed for more than two decades. Rush Holden is no longer willing to settle for closeted men or those who don’t share his dreams of marriage and fatherhood. A chance encounter on a lakeside pier is the second wind they both need...
  • Dangerous Games by T.K. Leigh

    Dangerous Games by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Asher York. Talented musician. The voice of an angel. The body of an Adonis. And the man I happened to have a one-night stand with in Vegas. No big deal, right? What happens in Vegas… Well, you know how the saying goes. Did I mention I was once engaged to Asher’s brother? I walked away, hoping my momentary lack of judgment would stay in the past. I should have known it wouldn’t...
  • Only You by Stephanie Rose

    Only You by Stephanie Rose

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Only You is a STANDALONE novel in the Second Chances Series. I spent my life searching for love, but Evan was right there all along. As gorgeous on the inside as he was on the outside, I never had to wonder if he loved me. He showed me with every glance, every sweet touch, every scorching kiss. I wanted nothing more than to give him my forever—until I found out I may not have one...
  • Not You Again by Ali Parker

    Not You Again by Ali Parker

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The last time I saw my new colleague, she was on top of me.Literally. She’s my best friend’s sister.It might have been a hot one-time fling at his wedding. Maybe.And the preacher from the church might have been the one to wake me up with my pants around my ankles.What? It was worth it.Years later she’s pissed that we’re working together...
  • Cocoa Kisses: a Holiday Rom-Com by Melanie Jacobson

    Cocoa Kisses: a Holiday Rom-Com by Melanie Jacobson

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Two old friends, a snowed in cabin, and a mission to save Creekville’s Christmas…Taylor Bixby is content running her café and watching her customers fall in love, even though she’s dodged Cupid and mistletoe for years. It helps that the love of her life—her best friend—has no idea how she feels. he’s been gone for four years reporting from war zones, so she’s never had to risk him finding out...
  • Cherish by Evelyn Sola

    Cherish by Evelyn Sola

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    AlexandraI thought I finally had my life figured out. Fate? Destiny? I know mine. But one afternoon questioned everything I thought I knew.Then it happened. Dr. Jason Dupree crashed into my life.His eyes linger on me longer than they should in polite company. You see, there is nothing polite about him. He’s arrogant and overconfident. His touch? It’s my undoing...
  • The Billionaire's Christmas Bride by L. Steele

    The Billionaire's Christmas Bride by L. Steele

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Never play bedroom games with Santa...!Weston bloody KincaidThe rick prick who wore £7000 suits like he was doing them a favor.When he wasn't filling out his doctor's scrubs like they were tailormade for him.Exactly the kind of a'hole who needed to be taken down a notch.Definitely not the kind you want to spend an extended period of time with...
  • Waking Up Married by Reese Ryan

    Waking Up Married by Reese Ryan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Will these friends’ temporary Vegas marriage lead to forever? Find out in this Bourbon Brothers novel from Reese Ryan!What’s wrong with a little fake marriage between friends?Their night on the town is a blank, but when Zora Abbott and Dallas Hamilton awaken in a Vegas hotel room, they’re man and wife...
  • The Devoted Groom by Cami Checketts

    The Devoted Groom by Cami Checketts

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A grieving football player hoping his son will speak again; a speech pathologist with a dark secret; and an unexpected love that sparks danger from the past. After Ryder Quinn’s wife died, his four-year old son stopped speaking. Desperate for a solution, Ryder hires Bree Stevens, a spunky speech pathologist to be his son’s nanny and therapist. Bree moves in, breathing new life into their home...
  • Forget the Stars by Kelsey Kingsley

    Forget the Stars by Kelsey Kingsley

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Guitarist Chad Wilcox's life isn't going according to plan. At thirty, he never thought he'd still be unmarried and living with his parents. And with the added stress of his poor health, he's convinced the only thing within his control is the success he's found as a rock star...
  • Smitten in Lake Mistletoe by Amber Kelly

    Smitten in Lake Mistletoe by Amber Kelly

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After my fiancée left me at the altar, humiliated and heartbroken, I threw myself into my career. Ironically, the girl who no longer believes in Happily Ever After is now the go-to wedding planner in Las Vegas, but I made it my mission to help the fairytale come to life for the poor unsuspecting brides before reality slaps them in the face. One perfect day...
  • A Lova' Like No Otha' by Stephanie Perry Moore

    A Lova' Like No Otha' by Stephanie Perry Moore

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When thunder and lightning strike on the morning of Zoe Clark's wedding, her seemingly perfect world is turned upside-down as she loses her fianc to a pregnant girlfriend she never knew he had. Withher engagement shattered, all her life's plans seem over. Unemployed, sinking deeply into depression, and wrongly blaming God for her troubles, Zoe seriously contemplates ending her life...
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