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  • Take A Chance On Me by Emilia Finn

    Take A Chance On Me by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Oh Sh*tThis is part 2 of the Marc and Meg Duet. It cannot be read as a standalone. Due to spoilers, the above is all the blurb you will get.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️The conclusion to the Meg and Marc duet is phenomenal. It’s been a long time since I’ve found a writer that makes me laugh, scream, and cry in the same sitting. This is an epic story - epic love, epic friendship, epic woman finding her way...
  • Room for Just a Little Bit More by Beth Ehemann

    Room for Just a Little Bit More by Beth Ehemann

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Five years ago, my dreams were shattered in an instant. One year ago, a horrible rainstorm flooded a bridge in town, leaving us with an Inn full of stranded travelers. Turns out one of those travelers would give me a whole new set of dreams, ones I never thought possible. Brody Murphy spent the last year teaching me what it was like to live, and more importantly love, again...
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  • Ember by Chelle Bliss

    Ember by Chelle Bliss

    Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    INKED PROTECTOR REUNITES WITH A SINGLE MOTHER.Rocco Caldo is tall, dark, and handsome, but not interested in love. Loyal to a fault, he can’t turn away an old friend in need or a beautiful woman on the run…especially when they have unfinished business.Rebel Bishop is a single mom, looking for shelter, not a handout...
  • Winner Takes All by Emilia Finn

    Winner Takes All by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    To win, is to win it all. But to lose, means you're all alone. Spencer Serrano is seven feet of f*cked up. He’s crude, flirtatious, and far more dangerous than his stupid jokes imply. Abigail Rosa lives her life inside a bubble, placed there by those who love her, kept there by the respect she has for them...
  • Starting Over by Marie Force

    Starting Over by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    In a drunken stupor, Brandon O'Malley frightens his brother Aidan's girlfriend, enraging his brother and the rest of his family. Aidan offers Brandon the choice of rehab or jail, and Brandon reluctantly enters treatment. While in rehab, Brandon confronts the lifetime of secrets and resentments that fueled his spiral into alcoholism, and these revelations have a major effect on his entire family...
  • Hearts at Play by Melissa Foster

    Hearts at Play by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Brianna Heart has a six-year old daughter and a twelve-year plan to keep her life as simple as possible until Layla turns eighteen. That means swearing off relationships and the drama that goes along with them, working two jobs, and being the best damn mother she can be...
  • Can't Help Falling In Love by Erika Kelly

    Can't Help Falling In Love by Erika Kelly

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas…The moment Beckett O’Neill retires from professional sports, he swears off schedules and commitments. His new gig has him hopping from one exotic location to the next. No strings, no responsibilities. Nothing that will tie him down.Until he runs into her, the woman who stole his heart for a night in Vegas..
  • Igniting Ivy by Samantha Christy

    Igniting Ivy by Samantha Christy

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    They call me a hero.I save people. It's what I do.It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do. Then I meet her - the girl with the sad eyes. She's lost everything. Twice. And I know she's using me to forget her past. Just when things seem perfect, that past threatens with the unimaginable. They may call me a hero. But she's the one person I can't save...
  • Rowe by Jessica Gadziala

    Rowe by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She was just going to stay away from him.That was the only way to deal with the outcomeof a particularly devastating conversation with the guyshe’d been crushing on for years.She’d been doing okay, even.Well, not okay. But coping.But when a bad situation hit the club, and a cousincalled in a favor, Billie found herself face-to-face withsomeone she thought she never wanted to see again...
  • Baby Yours by Kennedy Fox

    Baby Yours by Kennedy Fox

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The worst day of my life happened when Brandon died. We had our entire future mapped out. Careers, marriage, kids—in that order. Then the universe threw a curveball and ended it all. As I come to terms with everything, I learn I’m carrying his baby. Now I’m living with his roommate, the guy who’s made my life a living hell the past two years...
  • Merry Me Darling by Lilian T. James

    Merry Me Darling by Lilian T. James

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    This is not a standalone within the series. This is a short, holiday epilogue that picks up right where Meet Me Halfway left off.Madison woke up thinking it would be a piece of cake to meet Garrett's mother. She made him like her, after all. But the closer they get to Garrett’s childhood home, the more doubt starts to creep in...
  • Branded Steel by M.J. Fields

    Branded Steel by M.J. Fields

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He can sing, dance, and owns whatever stage he’s "performing" on.His looks make him a triple threat. And he’s gone viral.He is the Country Music Artist of the Year.Which means that face, those eyes, that hair, that body, and his voice are every-freaking-where.He’s America’s newest country sensation, and he can do no wrong.Except, he did.He totally did.And he did it to me...
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    new adult  pregnancy  m-f  length-medium
  • Stone Vows by Samantha Christy

    Stone Vows by Samantha Christy

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    She's alone, scared, and I think she's in trouble. From the moment I see her, I know she's different ... special somehow. My whole life has been about one thing - becoming a doctor. I've spent years living and breathing hospital life. Then she comes into my ER, and I've never wanted to help anyone more. My need to protect her is all consuming...
  • Restorations by Nicole Dykes

    Restorations by Nicole Dykes

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Sterlings have been through hell. They’ve each made mistake after mistake while trying to climb out of their grief and guilt and recover from an unimaginable tragedy that had a ripple effect of consequences reaching far further than their own lives.It seems the youngest Sterling may never find peace after everything that’s happened...
  • The Trouble With Us by Kat T. Masen

    The Trouble With Us by Kat T. Masen

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The trouble with love is timing is everything…AmeliaI was never supposed to fall in love with an older man. Let alone a man who is practically family.We were too much, too soon.  Our families were caught in the crossfire of our forbidden affair. So, we said our goodbyes.Four years have passed, and my ex is back from London.He’s just as devastatingly handsome as I remember...
  • The Trouble With Her by Kat T. Masen

    The Trouble With Her by Kat T. Masen

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    It was supposed to be a holiday, a trip of a lifetime to discover myself. But the truth is, I was running from life back home. And away from my best friend.Andrew ‘Andy’ Baker is also family. At least—that’s how we were raised.Then, I fell in love with life in London.And I met Prince Charming. It all just fell into place until it didn’t.But I took a vow...
  • Lighting the Lamp by Lasairiona E. McMaster

    Lighting the Lamp by Lasairiona E. McMaster

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The night she’ll never forget is the night he can’t remember.ToriHow dare he act like we’ve never met?I thought we connected, but after a steamy one night stand, the hockey hot shot ghosted me, leaving me with nothing but wounded pride and two pink lines on a stick. And not the hockey kind.Well, not this time, bud. You fooled me once, and I’m never giving you a second chance to fool me again...
  • Show Me How by Molly McAdams

    Show Me How by Molly McAdams

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Molly McAdams delivers another heart-wrenching, emotional novel in her Thatch series… After her first love was ripped from her grasp four years earlier, Charlie Easton was sure she would never be able to trust anyone with the shattered pieces of her heart again. That is, until Deacon Carver forces himself into her life, and makes those pieces swirl in chaos...
  • Dear Agony by Georgia Cates

    Dear Agony by Georgia Cates

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Dear Agony, You've been my shadow, following me through childhood—filling my days and nights with terror and uncertainty. You cleverly disguised yourself as some form of pain or suffering as I grew into a young woman. We were unwavering companions … until I severed our ties. I traded homelessness on the streets of New Orleans for a luxurious bed covered by the finest linens...
  • The Game Plan's Honeymoon from Hell by Mackenzie Hart, R.L. Mathewson

    The Game Plan's Honeymoon from Hell by Mackenzie Hart, R.L. Mathewson

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    She was finally his. After months of being stuck in the hospital recovering from one of the dumbest moments of his life, Jodi was his, and he was going to make sure that she stayed that way, which of course meant a trip Vegas, some help from his family, and breaking a few laws. Danny didn't care what he had to do, as long as he got to keep his Tinkerbelle...
  • Seeking Shadows by K.E. Osborn

    Seeking Shadows by K.E. Osborn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What if the woman I fell for was in love with someone else? The man who claimed her heart is my VP, the same man I need to respect and follow his orders. But now that I'm no longer a prospect, it's difficult to find my place...
  • Big Daddy  (An Enemies to Lovers Surprise Pregnancy Romance) by K.C. Crowne

    Big Daddy (An Enemies to Lovers Surprise Pregnancy Romance) by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The hottest man in town is an Adonis in the flesh. So gorgeous, he can stop my heart with a single glance. But he also happens to be my father's sworn enemy.Now, if only I could stop fantasizing about him... His big rough hands, caressing every inch of me. His mouth pressing against mine. Brody demands I put a hard stop to our development project...
  • All In by Renee Williams

    All In by Renee Williams

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    LisaThere was no way that I could have screwed my life up this bad. I would not sleep with a hockey player after one night of doing way too many shots at my cousin’s anniversary party in Las Vegas. I certainly wouldn’t do a walk of shame early in the morning after leaving his room after sleeping with him all night, at least not before peeping to see what type of equipment he was working with...
  • The Burns We Carry by Marae Good

    The Burns We Carry by Marae Good

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Once burnt, twice shy...Shay Davis is desperate for a fresh start — not just for her, but for the new life growinginside of her. But when she arrives in the quiet mountain town of Wallowpine, Arizona, thecold, unforgiving forest ranger who pulls her over seems intent on running strangers out oftown...
  • Lock 'em Down by Gina Azzi

    Lock 'em Down by Gina Azzi

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’m a carpe diem, live-in-the-moment, kind of woman. But waking up in Vegas with a rock on my finger and a gorgeous man in my bed? Well, now I’m redefining what it means to roll the dice… Especially because my new husband is Tennessee Thunderbolts center, Leif Bang. Yes, he has electric blue eyes that pierce me to my core. For sure, I’ve never seen forearms quite like his...
  • One Night Bride by Nicole Snow

    One Night Bride by Nicole Snow

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    JUST ENGAGED. WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT LOVE? The plan was simple: find the perfect girl, wife her for a few months, and save my parents from a stinging case of heartbreak. That was before I got my first taste of Skye's whip-sharp tongue. Before she woke up wearing my ring and a hundred questions. Before I found out it takes more than a million dollars to put the sun back in her smile...
  • Tripped by Jacob Chance

    Tripped by Jacob Chance

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Eight hundred and eighty days. That’s how long it’s been since my no good ex broke my heart. And I was doing just fine without him. But now, with both of us playing hockey for Boston University and running in the same circles, I can’t seem to avoid him—no matter how hard I try. And boy do I try.It seems my former boyfriend is cockier than ever—if that’s even possible...
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    new adult  sweet heroine  humor  sports  hockey  m-f
  • Until You Loved Me by Brenda Novak

    Until You Loved Me by Brenda Novak

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

    You Do Something to Me by Bella Andre

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alec Sullivan has always believed he has it all. A billion-dollar private aviation business. A penthouse apartment in New York City. Beautiful women who know better than to expect him ever to fall in love. And great siblings for whom he’d do anything...
  • Asher by Alex Wolf

    Asher by Alex Wolf

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Asher Grayson is a billionaire, a publishing powerhouse.He crushes the competition and absorbs them into his empire.Mara Monroe is a small-town journalist whose company verges on bankruptcy.Destroying the little newspaper should be less than a day’s work. A speck on Asher’s radar. But, there’s something about her.She makes him weak—peels back layers he didn’t know existed...
  • Redeem Me by Jennifer Foor

    Redeem Me by Jennifer Foor

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Road to Redemption is a Long Journey Parker Hutchinson has done a good job messing up his reputation as the golden child. He’s made bad choices, pushed everyone away, and almost ruined his brother’s life. Though he’s tried his best to make amends, he can’t seem to find a way to convince his family that he’s changed. Cameron Hynson is in college with hopes to become a lawyer...
  • Bare by Tory Baker

    Bare by Tory Baker

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I was only supposed to get her safely out of town until the threat was gone. But then, I fell in love.I might be the muscle of the Diamondback MC, but I’m mostly known as the jokester. There’s nothing funny in the protective feelings I have for Sadie and her daughter Henley, however.Sadie’s been hurt and she’s built walls around her heart for protection. I won’t let that stop me...
  • Honeymoon from Hell V by R.L. Mathewson

    Honeymoon from Hell V by R.L. Mathewson

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    She's finally his after months of being stuck in the hospital recovering from one of the dumbest moment's of his life, Jodi was his and he was going to make sure that she stayed that way, which of course meant a trip Vegas, some help from his family and breaking a few laws. Danny didn't care what he had to do, as long as he got to keep his Tinkerbelle...
  • Secret Baby Next Door by K.C. Crowne

    Secret Baby Next Door by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    We met on a bumpy flight.But it was nothing compared to the night we shared. No regrets. Except one. I didn't get her contact info.Now Piper's my new next door neighbor.And her sweet little girl has my eyes. As a surgeon I crush all obstacles.But I'm falling for a woman I barely even know - all over again.Her smile, her lips, the way her luscious curves make my mouth water...
  • Every Other Weekend by Jaxson Kidman

    Every Other Weekend by Jaxson Kidman

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Now a Top 40 ebook in the ENTIRE Kindle Store! Top 10 Kindle Romance, Contemporary Romance, & Top 5 New Adult Romance! Thank you readers! It was only meant to be every other weekend. But now I need him every night. As a single mom, a relationship was out of the question. So we had an arrangement. The first rule: every other weekend. But that wasn't enough...
  • Craving Kara by Nicole Jacquelyn

    Craving Kara by Nicole Jacquelyn

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Kara MacKenzie has known since she was fifteen years old that the only way to protect the people you love is by telling them nothing.She’d gotten good at keeping secrets.The day Draco Harrison got out of prison she knew she was in serious trouble. It was impossible to keep secrets from the person who knew you almost as well as you knew yourself.Her plan was to avoid him at all costs...
  • Mr. Fantasy by Cambria Hebert

    Mr. Fantasy by Cambria Hebert

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Better than your reality…A Caribbean island.A rich CEO.A woman thrown overboard. A delicious one-night stand.Want to know what happens next?Find all the answers and more between the pages of this sizzling standalone romance—Mr. Fantasy.*Mr...
  • Saving Della Ray by Georgia Le Carre

    Saving Della Ray by Georgia Le Carre

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Della Everybody said, stay away from Gage West. He was trouble. Big trouble. One look at his big, black monster of a bike and the wild tattoos that snaked out of his leather jacket onto his hands and neck and I knew they were dead right. The last thing I needed was more trouble. I had enough just paying my bills and taking care of my little niece...
  • Single Mom's Sparkle by Kai Lesy

    Single Mom's Sparkle by Kai Lesy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    "Now that you've changed our lives forever, the three of us can't lose you, the little girls or the baby." "What aren't you telling me?"I was a homeless single mom.Stranded on an icy road with two little girls.Then we found a loving home with Kellan, Fallon, and Luke.The men of my dreams showed me I was truly deserving of love.And they protected us from my abusive ex husband...
  • Baz by K.B. Winters

    Baz by K.B. Winters

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Trina left ten years ago, it just about killed me. And damn! She just walked back into my life with a kid in tow. I bet he’s mine. Looks a lot like me. But I don’t know how to be a father. I’m an outlaw, a party animal and a player. Favorite game? Wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am with all the chicks in Brently. But there’s only one girl I truly want...
  • Happy New Year, Baby by Laura Marie Altom

    Happy New Year, Baby by Laura Marie Altom

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    DON'T LET HIM DIE! These are the last words ice climber and former Navy SEAL, Brody Crawford, hears before his twin brother plunges to his death--with his pregnant wife watching and screaming in horror. Fast forward a year and Colby is frozen with not only grief but guilt, avoiding friends, his parents, and especially, his brother's widow--Lilliana. A woman he's always secretly adored...
  • E is for Everett: A Secret Baby Mountain Man Romance  (Men of ALPHAbet Mountain) by Natasha L. Black

    E is for Everett: A Secret Baby Mountain Man Romance (Men of ALPHAbet Mountain) by Natasha L. Black

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    She blew into town like a tornadoStirring up everything I wanted to stay the same.Helen drives me nutsInfuriating, icy, sexy.I can’t go a day without running into her.One kiss burns too hot to ignore.Now I hate to leave her bed.It feels like more than a one-night stand.I want it all, all of her.Just when it’s perfect,She ghosts me.Something’s wrong, and she won’t say...
  • On Icy Ground by Kristin Lee

    On Icy Ground by Kristin Lee

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    USA Today Bestselling Author brings you her signature emotionally charged romance, On Icy Ground.He’s hockey’s bad boy. She’s the coach’s daughter.Will their forbidden love get him benched? Or will it force his darkest secret to light?Brooke:I didn’t know he was a hockey player.He had no clue I was the coach’s daughter...
  • Play With Fire: A Single Mother Fireman Contemporary Romance by Sheridan Anne, Dusty Lambert

    Play With Fire: A Single Mother Fireman Contemporary Romance by Sheridan Anne, Dusty Lambert

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    AMELIA Single parenting can kiss my ass.It’s go, go, go all the time. Two little faces to feed, two little bodies to keep from harm, and two little asses to keep clean. This was my life, and though it was hard as hell, we were making it work.That is until the world’s cockiest man stalked me through the hardware store with his perfect dimples, wide shoulders, and the darkest eyes I’d ever seen...
  • The Billionaire's Big Game by Breezie Bennett

    The Billionaire's Big Game by Breezie Bennett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A billionaire bachelor up for auction. A single mom trying to avoid him. The last thing he wants is a commitment… but that happens to be the only thing she wants.Noah Vice: When my mom signs me up for another one of her ridiculous fundraisers, I don’t think much of it. Until, that is, the drop dead gorgeous girl who ghosted me six months ago is announced as my highest bidder...
  • Fame and Secrets: A Rock Star Romantic Suspense by Cora Kenborn

    Fame and Secrets: A Rock Star Romantic Suspense by Cora Kenborn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ***OBSESSION HAS A NEW FACE***An empty house in Hollywood isn’t what Phoebe Ryan envisioned when she said “yes” to a rock star’s proposal…Phoebe is pregnant and alone in Tinseltown. She had hoped for a fresh start, but instead gets flashing cameras and tabloid gossip while her famous fiancé is on tour...
  • H is for Hawk by Natasha L. Black

    H is for Hawk by Natasha L. Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hawk is the one that got awayOnly man I ever loved…and he’s back in town.I never thought I’d see anything sexier than Hawk Blackthorne.Turns out helping Hawk Blackthorne learn to be a dad to his baby nieceIs even worse.100% heart melting and irresistible.Next thing I know, I’m asking him to be my date for a wedding,Hawk’s always had a piece of my heart...
  • A Bit of Wee Luck by Kelly Elliott

    A Bit of Wee Luck by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They say my spells go awry.Pish posh, it’s a lie. I have the love of my life.My best friend will soon be a wife. Now it’s time to help a lad.In the land of Ireland. Wealth Spell –A fourth leaf cloverA wad of cashA money clip to store it fastLight it on fire and repeat after me, all good will and fortune go unto theeA Bit of Wee Luck is the third novella in a four book series...
  • Even Exchange by Hailey Dickert

    Even Exchange by Hailey Dickert

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Noah CarusoI’ve always been a five-year plan kind of guy. I got through college with minimal distractions, maximum touchdowns, and zero relationships. Then I met Charlotte Benson, the woman who made me believe in wishes, and a strict set of rules was added to my routine...
  • Dare Me by K.L. Shandwick

    Dare Me by K.L. Shandwick

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    **This book and series have been rebranded to Chasing Love: Sawyer in the Wild Romance Saga by Kelly Shandwick on Goodreads for clarity of reading order. Chasing Love Billie is book one in the series...
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