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  • Sylvia Day Crossfire Novels 1-4 by Sylvia Day

    Sylvia Day Crossfire Novels 1-4 by Sylvia Day

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    There's nothing more romantic than Valentine's Day...except Sylvia Day. Now in one deluxe set, the first four novels in the Crossfire series. The #1 New York Times bestselling author. The #1 worldwide phenomenon. Bared to You He was beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in my life...
  • Lilac: A Sound Love by Asia Monique

    Lilac: A Sound Love by Asia Monique

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    "Ezra wasn’t picture perfect, but he was perfect for me.” —Lilac Lilac Baker wasn’t against finding love, but love never seemed to be close enough for her to grasp. With her big sister pregnant and living out her happy ending, Lilac has high hopes for her own fairytale beginning...
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  • Levi's Blue by M. Leighton

    Levi's Blue by M. Leighton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Four beautiful days. Three steamy nights. One breathtaking love. Levi Michaelson. He wanted four dates. Four opportunities to prove I could trust him. Four chances to change my mind about him. I agreed. Probably not my smartest decision. He was everything I knew to avoid—gorgeous, charming, sexy as hell—but I couldn’t help myself. When he touched me the whole world disappeared...
  • Jester by Lilly Atlas

    Jester by Lilly Atlas

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Thrust into a world of danger and fear, first grade teacher, Emily, is forced to comply with a terrifying MC president’s demands in order to save her only brother’s life. Her only port in the storm is Jester, a member of a rival MC she’s supposed to use and betray. Jester proves to be the opposite of everything Emily expects, and before long she’s in his bed and he’s in her heart...
  • Bottom Line by Abbie Zanders

    Bottom Line by Abbie Zanders

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Control. Aidan Harrison likes it. Needs it. As CEO of the hugely successful Celtic Goddess franchise, he wields it as skillfully in the boardroom as he does the bedroom. It’s made him millions and put him at the top of his game. He wants for nothing. Except a woman who is more interested in him than his bottom line...
  • Happy Trail by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Happy Trail by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sometimes you have to talk to work things out. Luckily that works best without clothes. Petal I’ve loved Luka Fields my entire life.  He was my first crush, my first kiss, my first time, and my first heartbreak.  Love isn’t like in the movies, or the books you read.  It’s hard. Sometimes you give up… And regret it your entire life...
  • Life & Limb by Freya Barker

    Life & Limb by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Growing up a military brat and spending eight years overseas with the Army Medical Corps, clinical social worker, Willa Smith, has had enough of rules and regulations. Still able to work with veterans as she did at the VA Hospital, she is much happier at the new and far more relaxed South Avenue Shelter, until one of its residents is implicated in a murder...
  • Serving the CEO by M. S. Parker

    Serving the CEO by M. S. Parker

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 21 ratings
    If someone had told me three months ago that I would walk down the aisle to marry my boss, Derrick Thomas, the hot as hell but super demanding and arrogant CEO of Broker Publishing, I would have called them a damn lunatic. But here I am, all dressed in white, ready to tie the knot with the man of my dreams. Or so you would think...
  • Marcus by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Marcus by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    When Marcus De La Cruz volunteered to sponsor the next prospect for the Savage Kings MC, he never expected to have a female candidate. Instead of being intimidated by him, she gives as good as she gets.Teagan Allen knows the dangers of being a member of an outlaw MC all too well since her father was killed while wearing the bearded skull king patch...
  • Virtue and Vice by Ninya Tippett

    Virtue and Vice by Ninya Tippett

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    "If I'm going down, I might as well pick my poison. I pick you." *** A Cobalt Bay Billionaires story. *** She couldn’t be sure whether he was her predator or protector... but she was doomed to love him either way. *** It was a summer they will never forget...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  contemporary
  • Find Me by Tiffany Snow

    Find Me by Tiffany Snow

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As the head of the government’s secret Vigilance spy program, computer guru China Mack already has her hands full when her billionaire boyfriend, Jackson Cooper, asks for one of them in marriage. Thrown for a loop by the sudden proposal, China’s usually well-ordered life takes another hit when someone tries to assassinate the president...
  • Smokey by L. Wilder

    Smokey by L. Wilder

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    From NYT and USA Today Bestselling Author L. Wilder comes book five in the Satan's Fury Series, a standalone MC romance. Smokey You can't fight fate, especially when it brings you a girl like MJ Thompson. She wasn't just beautiful. No, she was so much more than that. She was smart with a smile full of magic and curves that drove me to distraction...
  • Outplayed by Lila Rose

    Outplayed by Lila Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Violet Marcus’s life is settled. She has it all: a place of her own, a business where her temper has its uses, and great people who work for her. But something is missing. The problem is, her stubbornness refuses to admit how lonely she actually is...
  • Where Hope Begins by Catherine West

    Where Hope Begins by Catherine West

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the aftermath of her husband’s act of adultery and abandonment, Savannah must finally face the ghosts that haunt her and discover for herself whether authentic faith, grace, and ultimate healing really do exist. When her husband of twenty-one years leaves her, Savannah Barrington believes she’s lost almost everything she’s ever loved...
  • Tuesday by E.L. Todd

    Tuesday by E.L. Todd

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Getting over Hawke is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. I couldn’t breathe, sleep, or eat. Every day was more agonizing than the one that followed. But somehow, after two years of suffering, I finally got back on my feet. And I moved on. Now I’m living in the city and running my own bakery. Life is good again...
  • Perfect by Delaney Diamond

    Perfect by Delaney Diamond

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Does the end justify the means? Cyrus Johnson is rich, powerful, and used to getting his way. When his estranged wife shows up at his office demanding a divorce once and for all, he not only refuses, he makes a demand of his own...
  • A Kiss Stolen by Georgia Le Carre

    A Kiss Stolen by Georgia Le Carre

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Liliana, I always wished I'd never told my father about the kiss. The kiss the son of the man who came to do odd jobs around the house gave me. But I was only eleven years old then. I didn't understand the ways of the world. How fathers think. My father ran out of the house and fired the boy's father. His father struck him right in front of me...
  • Need You for Mine by Marina Adair

    Need You for Mine by Marina Adair

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Every red-blooded male in St. Helena wants Harper Owens…as a friend. Despite her efforts at seduction, Harper seems to be destined to end up alone. The only guy with a knack for unleashing her inner vixen is firefighter and resident rule-breaker Adam Baudouin. Agreeing to a faux-mance could help him secure a promotion—and save her family’s lingerie shop, the Boulder Holder...
  • Say You Do by Weston Parker

    Say You Do by Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    My brother is an idiot; he's getting married. And I’m in charge of getting things together since our folks are gone. Lucky me. The guy who thinks love is for the birds and worn-out 80s songs. I honestly don’t have time for this drama. I run a billion-dollar company, have women to entertain, and am working on my plans to rule the world. No, seriously...
  • Feels Like Home by Jennifer Van Wyk

    Feels Like Home by Jennifer Van Wyk

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Andy Simpson never expected to be raising his teenage twin sons alone. Then again, he also never expected to walk into his house and see his wife with another man. In their bed. Or that it wasn’t her first time. Bitterness threatened to wrap around his heart, darkening every part of his life. But a brightness he wasn’t even looking for entered their lives and wouldn’t let it take hold...
  • Hesitate by Anna Brooks

    Hesitate by Anna Brooks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When I opened the file and saw her face, I knew I was in trouble. The first time she put her hand in mine, I should have simply taken her home and continued to keep her safe from a distance. But her pull was too strong, her beauty too irresistible, and before I knew it was happening, she’d brought me to my knees. I wasn’t the only one who was falling, though...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  suspense  contemporary
  • Taylor Lynne by Jennifer Peel

    Taylor Lynne by Jennifer Peel

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Determined not to repeat the same mistakes as her mother, Taylor Cole left her husband with their toddler in tow fourteen years ago and vowed never to return to Merryton. Now she is finally ready to face her demons and put the past and her ex-husband behind her, but to do that she and her daughter must return to the place that haunts her memories...
  • Tapping out by Nikki Ash

    Tapping out by Nikki Ash

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Being a fighter is in my blood. My grandfather was a fighter, my father was a fighter, and I'm a fighter. I live for the rush of adrenaline and sensation of victory. When I fight, I give it my all. I step into the octagon and I fight until there's nothing left to fight for. He's been my best friend for most of my life...
  • Redemption by Georgia Cates

    Redemption by Georgia Cates

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    I was on my way to having everything that I wanted… until I opened that door. That’s when my entire world shattered. In a single second, my happy life was gone. She broke my heart. There, I admit it. But a Fellowship man doesn’t mourn the loss of a woman. He moves on to the next one. And the next. But what I quickly discover is that it doesn’t matter how many women I’m with...
  • The Confession Duet by K.D. Robichaux

    The Confession Duet by K.D. Robichaux

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 8 ratings
    It was love at first sight. Not just for Vivian, but for Corbin as well. Their eyes locked across the room, and that was all she wrote. But they didn’t rush things. They wanted to do it right. After all, they would spend the rest of their lives together. The love of each other’s life. Soul mates. He was the intense and fiercely protective soldier, and she was his doting and faithful lover...
  • My Kind of Perfect by Nikki Ash

    My Kind of Perfect by Nikki Ash

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    From author Nikki Ash comes a roommates to lovers, single dad romance...GeorgiaI’m surrounded by love, yet have no one to call my own.But then Chase, my new roommate, is suddenly there.He could be the perfect guy for me, if he wasn’t nursing a broken heart.The more time I waste looking for love, the more I realize that what I want has been right in front of me all along...
  • Fate by Abby Brooks

    Fate by Abby Brooks

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He shouldn’t have kissed me. But I shouldn’t have liked it.Garrett Cooper is grumpy. Bossy. Rude. We’re supposed to work together to save my family’s hotel, but sparks fly every time we’re in the same room. And not the good kind.Things get off to a rough start between us, and that’s on me…partially...
  • A Stolen Suit by Angela R. Casella

    A Stolen Suit by Angela R. Casella

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    I hate him...but I also want to touch his abs. Is that normal?GraceMy boss, the famous romance novelist, always said she’d open doors for me when I finished writing my first book. Only I have...and she hasn’t. Worse, I just met her new brand manager, and I know him.Enoch “the Suit” Laskin made my life miserable in business school, right up until he seduced me...
  • How to Seduce a Rockstar by Arabella Quinn

    How to Seduce a Rockstar by Arabella Quinn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Get ready to toss your panties on stage — it’s gonna get wild!My life was getting boring. Predictable. I needed to shake things up a bit, so my roommate helped me come up with a plan — we called it O.L.D. Operation Limp… Well, never mind about the ‘D’. Yeah, the limp part sounds yucky, right? Don’t judge — that’s just because of logistics. It’ll work out.O.L.D. is a big success...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  contemporary  new adult  length-long
  • Keep Me by J.L. Beck, Cassandra Hallman

    Keep Me by J.L. Beck, Cassandra Hallman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    She was my enemy… I was her new captor…. She was the enemy…a tiny little temptress of a woman that made my blood sing for vengeance. I should be punishing her…breaking her from the inside out after finding her in my father’s clutches. But when I discover the truth that she is just as much as a victim of my father's wrongdoings as I am I can’t follow through...
  • The Senator's Son by Anna Albo

    The Senator's Son by Anna Albo

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    College is just like her old life . . . bleak. Surviving it won't be easy, especially when the girlfriend of the guy she's loved her entire life would rather see her dead. So much for that clean slate. Instead she's constantly looking over her shoulder, watching, waiting and worrying. Lucky for Emma she met The Senator's Son. Zach Walker is the typical rich kid . .
  • The Guy at The Wedding by Katherine Center

    The Guy at The Wedding by Katherine Center

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 12 ratings
    It's the story of the night Jake and Helen (the main characters in Happiness for Beginners) first met.The first time Jake ever sees Helen, he's crashing her wedding with her little brother, Duncan—and Jake glimpses her for the first time as the boys burst into her dressing room without knocking just as Helen is adjusting the garter under her wedding dress...
  • Into the Night by Cynthia Eden

    Into the Night by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Two FBI agents are caught in a merciless vigilante’s crosshairs in New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Eden’s electric Killer Instinct series Lives will be ravaged as two FBI agents confront a mastermind serial murderer in New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Eden’s new Killer Instinct novel Sheltered in the shadows of the Smoky Mountains is the suspect who’s summoned FBI agent...
  • The Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress / To Tame Her Tycoon Lover by Maya Banks, Ann Major

    The Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress / To Tame Her Tycoon Lover by Maya Banks, Ann Major

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Tycoon’s Pregnant Mistress by Maya Banks When Greek hotel magnate Chrysander Anetakis found out his former mistress was pregnant and had amnesia, he didn’t waste time. Marley Jameson didn’t remember betraying him or that he’d thrown her out of his life...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  contemporary  pregnancy  m-f  length-medium
  • The Agent by Nancy Herkness

    The Agent by Nancy Herkness

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Letting down her guard leaves a woman vulnerable to love—and to a menacing stalker—in a pulse-pounding novel by Nancy Herkness, award-winning author of The Hacker.After fleeing her abusive ex, New Jersey salon owner Natalie Hart is reclaiming her life and self-esteem. Her fragile recovery doesn’t need a player like former FBI agent Tully Gibson, no matter how tempting a fling sounds...
  • Hopeless Vows by Rachael Duncan

    Hopeless Vows by Rachael Duncan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It was a social experiment that was supposed to lead to my happily ever after. The rules were simple: 1. Marry a complete stranger chosen for you by a panel of experts. 2. Live together as man and wife for eight weeks. 3. Make a decision to stay together or get a divorce. Call me crazy, but I had complete faith in the process, until I saw who was waiting for me at the end of the aisle...
  • Forever Princess by Meg Cabot

    Forever Princess by Meg Cabot

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 48 ratings
    What's a Princess to do? It's Mia's senior year, and things seem great. She aced her senior project, got accepted to her dream college(s), and has her birthday gala coming up . . . not to mention prom, graduation, and Genovia's first-ever elections. What's not to love about her life? Well . . .Her senior project? It's a romance novel she secretly wrote, and no one wants to publish it...
  • Proposing to Preston by Katy Regnery

    Proposing to Preston by Katy Regnery

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Proposing to Preston is the second of four books about the Philadelphia-based, wildly-handsome Winslow brothers who are all on the look-out for love. (Except Brooks... he's probably sailing around the world with Skye by now. And Christopher, who's only on the look-out for a congressional seat and absolutely. nothing. else...
  • The Truth About Lennon by K.L. Grayson

    The Truth About Lennon by K.L. Grayson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Lennon Barrick-St. James is making headlines as New York City’s hottest new socialite. Only she isn’t new at all. One well-intentioned night gone horribly wrong has landed the daughter of vice presidential candidate Christopher St. James on the front page of every newspaper and magazine in the country...
  • Primal Need by Piper Davenport

    Primal Need by Piper Davenport

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    18+ for language and sexual situations... Sundance I’m the president of the Primal Howlers out of Monument, Colorado. My wife was taken from me ten years ago, leaving me to raise our three children alone. I’ve been diagnosed with a disease that I’m not sure I’ll beat, and to make matters worse, I’m now in the crosshairs of a rival club...
  • Shattered Ice by Monty Jay

    Shattered Ice by Monty Jay

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Razor sharp between the pipes, mysterious off the ice, Malakai Petrov is the Chicago Fury’s notorious goalie.The 6’5 Russian giant is hiding an entire world behind the bars of his mask. He thinks his secrets are buried deep enough so that no one can ever crack the ice guarding his stone heart...
  • Long, Tall and Tempted: Redbird\Paper Husband\Christmas Cowboy by Diana Palmer

    Long, Tall and Tempted: Redbird\Paper Husband\Christmas Cowboy by Diana Palmer

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Three untamed Texas men are about to meet their matches--ready or not!"REDBIRD: After years of heartache and drama, musician Hank Shoeman has come to the conclusion that love is nothing more than a nuisance! But a few days stuck in a mountain retreat with a beautiful woman could change the mind of any man.... PAPER HUSBAND: Hank Grant is not interested in marriage--been there, done that...
  • Stirred: A Love Story by Tracy Ewens

    Stirred: A Love Story by Tracy Ewens

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If only life were as simple as choosing between shaken or stirred. Sage Jeffries grew up an overachiever. She studied, excelled, and became a mechanical engineer for a firm in San Francisco. Yet much to her family’s surprise, at age thirty, she made a bold move to Los Angeles and became a bartender at The Yard. Now, she spends her time mixing drinks and trying new things...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  contemporary  length-medium
  • Reckless Hearts by Melody Grace

    Reckless Hearts by Melody Grace

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Discover the steamy small-town romance packed with heart and heat - perfect for fans of Elsie Silver and Lucy Score! Delilah Morgan doesn’t believe in relationships - but hot craftsman Will Montgomery is determined to prove her wrong...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  contemporary  length-medium
  • Forever Mine by Erin Nicholas

    Forever Mine by Erin Nicholas

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Maya Goodwin doesn't believe in holding back. Ever. As a cop, she never hesitated to throw herself into harm's way to save someone. Even after an injury on the job forces her to retire, she's not afraid to keep risking it all to get the life she wants...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  humor  contemporary  length-novella
  • Fat Cat Liar by Ahren Sanders

    Fat Cat Liar by Ahren Sanders

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The night I met Greer Palmer was no coincidence. The plan was perfect. Everything was in place. All I had to do was get her attention and the rest would take its course. What I didn’t plan was my reaction the first time she spoke. “Are you okay?” Three little words… That’s all it took for her to steal my breath and shatter every thing I’d expected...
    Categorized as:
    grovel  contemporary  sweet heroine  betrayal
  • Hot Response by Shannon Stacey

    Hot Response by Shannon Stacey

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    The men of Boston Fire are back and hotter than ever! Don’t miss this brand-new novel from New York Times bestselling author Shannon Stacey. Gavin Boudreau lives for the job, but he also believes in “work hard, play harder.” As the youngest guy in Ladder 37, he figures he’s got plenty of time before settling down becomes a priority...
  • Out of Time by Monica McCarty

    Out of Time by Monica McCarty

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    A hunt for dangerous secrets leads to explosive chemistry in this exhilarating romantic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Off the Grid. A team of Navy SEALs goes on a mission and disappears without a trace--they are the Lost Platoon...
  • Forever Kisses by Loni Ree

    Forever Kisses by Loni Ree

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Kane Triplets try their hand at matchmaking…. Harris Kane When my nephews ask me to help out a friend who needs a job, I make them promise that this girl won’t turn out like the firm’s last three secretaries—husband-hunting, gold-diggers. Just to be sure, I cover all my bases and create a new office policy, no fraternization, no exceptions...
  • Anarchist: Book 5 by Jordan Silver

    Anarchist: Book 5 by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In this final book in the first season Law is having a hard time resisting his pretend bride who seems hellbent on changing his mind. He's not in the market for a wife for all that she's already wearing his ring. She's too soft and sweet for a man like him and he knows it, but he won't stop pushing...
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