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Axios: A Spartan Tale by Jaclyn Osborn
I am Axios of Sparta, and I was born to kill. At age seven, I left home to train with other boys where we were taught obedience, solidarity, military strategy, and how to withstand pain. My harsh upbringing stripped me of my weaknesses and forced me to become strong. Ruthless. But, I craved something greater—a life I could never have...Categorized as:
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![A Shot in the Dark by Addison Cain]()
A Shot in the Dark by Addison Cain
Matthew is determined to find his run-away sweetheart. And then he’s going to marry her. Well, that is, if he can get her to hear him out before rival gangster, Tommy Kennedy, woos her into believing that Chicago power and prestige are better than quite towns and true love. And if she won’t listen, then he’ll just have to tie her up and drag her home. Part 2 of the A Trick of the Light duet. -
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![The Steel Rogue by K.J. Jackson]()
The Steel Rogue by K.J. Jackson
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA scarred lady, living in the outskirts of society. A hardened rogue brought up from the worst of humanity. One seeks revenge. One seeks redemption. Neither is prepared for a love that will defy all odds. A scarred lady, living in the fringes. Lady Alton knows she doesn't fit into polite society. Her scars determined that long ago, and marrying a viscount never helped the matter... -
![Fall of the Stars by Monica James]()
Fall of the Stars by Monica James
England is bleeding. And there isn’t a thing I can do about it. I am once again a prisoner to Wessex, captured by King Egbert because holding me hostage will bring them to him—my two Vikings who will risk heaven and earth to save me. But I don’t need saving. I am Princess Emeline, and I was taught by the best, and his name…Skarth the Godless. The man whom I love more than anything in this world... -
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![The Irish Devil by Donna Fletcher]()
The Irish Devil by Donna Fletcher
The Beauty and the Barbarian. Ireland in the Middle Ages—a land of both heavenly landscapes and hellish warfare. It is in this world that Lord Eric of Shanekill is both feared and revered. His unstoppable rage on the battlefield has made him known as the "Irish Devil. " Little did he know that his greatest battle would be fought in his heart. . -
![Soul's Fire by Susan Fanetti]()
Soul's Fire by Susan Fanetti
Astrid has been a warrior since the day she was old enough to make the choice to live and die with an axe in her hand. She is strong and stoic, powerful and brave, and she has the life she desires, free of complications and distractions. She is a shieldmaiden, and that is all she wishes to be...Categorized as:
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![Mob Boss Christmas: The Pregnancy by Mallory Monroe]()
Mob Boss Christmas: The Pregnancy by Mallory Monroe
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhen gorgeous tough guy Reno Gabrini finds out that his lady love Katrina is pregnant, he becomes a nervous wreck. He does everything in his power to protect her from forces real and imagined, and to make her pregnancy move along as smoothly as possible. Trina, in turn, does everything in her power to deal with his controlling ways... -
![The Duke with the Dragon Tattoo by Kerrigan Byrne]()
The Duke with the Dragon Tattoo by Kerrigan Byrne
The bravest of heroes. The brashest of rebels. The boldest of lovers. These are the men who risk their hearts and their souls—for the passionate women who dare to love them…. He is known only as The Rook. A man with no name, no past, no memories. He awakens in a mass grave, a magnificent dragon tattoo on his muscled forearm the sole clue to his mysterious origins... -
![Marked by Mallory Hart]()
Marked by Mallory Hart
The stunning conclusion to the Mafia Born Duet. Darragh. Once, I only cared about a few things: family, honor and doing my job for the mob. Then, she came into my life and nothing was the same. My wife took over my world and completely changed the game. But now she’s in the hands of the enemy, and I’ll burn down the entire city if that’s what it takes to get her back... -
![Viking Wolf by Emmanuelle de Maupassant]()
Viking Wolf by Emmanuelle de Maupassant
Enter a world of burning desire and brutal passion; a world threatened by ambition, jealousy and revenge. He is bound by duty…. Eirik has shed his blood on the battlefield; now, he's commanded to marry a woman he's never met and forget his love for Elswyth. Will his sense of honour part them forever? She is as brave as any man…. Elswyth is at the mercy of Jarl Gunnolf’s darkest seductions...Categorized as:
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![Deadly Obsession by Holly Bloom]()
Deadly Obsession by Holly Bloom
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsComing soon. .. Deadly Obsession is a dark, why choose, slow-build romance set in London's criminal underworld. This is book three in the Deadliest Love series.Categorized as:
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![Cry, or Better Yet, Beg by Solche]()
Cry, or Better Yet, Beg by Solche
Orphaned at a young age, Layla Llewellyn feels like the luckiest girl in the world after she moves in with her uncle Bill, a gardener who lives on the scenic Arvis estate in the Berg Empire. To Layla, Arvis seems like paradise; she loves to explore the vast forest, always bringing her notebook to record the wildlife she encounters...Categorized as:
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![The Pretend Christmas Bride: Edward & Mira's story. Standalone Marriage of Convenience Christmas Romance by L. Steele]()
The Pretend Christmas Bride: Edward & Mira's story. Standalone Marriage of Convenience Christmas Romance by L. Steele
He’s my new boss. My sworn enemy. And now my arranged husband. .. Edward Chase. Ex-priest. Now, General Manager of the London Ice Kings hockey team and the new CEO of the Davenport empire. The first time we met I spilt coffee all over his $10,000 suit. He looked at me like I was an inconvenience. I despised him at once... -
![Spectre of the Sword by Kathryn Le Veque]()
Spectre of the Sword by Kathryn Le Veque
1203 A. D. The Lady Elizabeau Treveighan is the illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany. Elizabeau was sent to foster at a very young age, her identity known only to a herself and the earl who fostered her... -
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![The Sins of the Sire by Emily Royal]()
The Sins of the Sire by Emily Royal
"A vengeful man must also dig a grave for himself". It was a meeting of souls. .. Two years ago, Elyssia de Montford first looked into the eyes of the captured Highlander, who stood, brave and defiant, while being tortured by English soldiers, and she risked everything to free him. Tavish MacLean is consumed by hatred... -
![Flowers For The Devil by Vlad Kahany]()
Flowers For The Devil by Vlad Kahany
Love can be a devil and a saint. Two men. One woman. Two lies. One truth. A happening that left London speechless. A witness—the entire city. On December 19th, 1851, a crime took place in the center of London. One of the few who knows what truly happened is Countess Alina Bronskaya. But she will never speak of it. The crime is her curse and her salvation... -
![Her Wanton Wager by Grace Callaway]()
Her Wanton Wager by Grace Callaway
An Heiress on a Mission…. After two failed Seasons, Persephone Fines has vowed to reform her hoydenish ways. But when her beloved brother falls into the clutches of wicked gamester Gavin Hunt, she must take action. Hunt offers her a shocking proposition: he will release her brother… if she can resist six nights of seduction...Categorized as:
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Hit by Mallory Hart
GIUSEPPINA. I was never supposed to meet him, but one fateful night had him saving my life. Now he thinks he owns me. I’m his to keep. He’s ruthless, cold, and a killer, but something draws me to him anyway. I know what he’s capable of. I know he was meant to kill me. And I know one wrong slip may make him change his mind about sparing my life... -
![Barons Adore Curves by Jemma Frost]()
Barons Adore Curves by Jemma Frost
An evil aunt intent on auctioning off her innocent niece. An obsessed baron who'll stop at nothing to claim the curvy woman for his own. But can love bloom between a man with the winning bid and his prize? This is a quick steamy read featuring a pining hero, a curvy heroine, and a touch of Cinderella vibes! -
![Love Slave by Bertrice Small]()
Love Slave by Bertrice Small
It is no act of love that Regan experiences the night she takes her sister's place in the marriage bed, a counterfeit bride to sate the lust of her twin's new husband. Come morning, her sister, carrying another man's child, resumes her place and Regan is spirited away to a nunnery. But a more exotic fate awaits the fiery Celtic beauty: Regan is sold to a slave trader... -
![Prisoner of My Desire by Johanna Lindsey]()
Prisoner of My Desire by Johanna Lindsey
CAPTIVE OF LOVE. Spirited Rowena Belleme must produce an heir--or incur the dangerous wrath of a ruthless stepbrother, who stands to forfeit his ill-gotten wealth. And the magnificent Warrick deChaville is the perfect choice to sire her child--though it means imprisoning the handsome knight. .. and forcing him to bend to her amorous whims. SLAVE OF PASSION... -
![Blood Red Roses by Katherine Deauxville]()
Blood Red Roses by Katherine Deauxville
Fulk de Jobourgh is a knight of the court of King William, commanded to oversee the lands of a noble who was hanged for treason. He is also instructed to marry the dead traitors rebellious daughter and ensure her loyalty to the king. He brings her to the altar, and to his bed, before galloping off once again to command in the Kings war...Categorized as:
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![The Silver Devil by Teresa Denys]()
The Silver Devil by Teresa Denys
Amid the gilded opulence and dark intrigue of Renaissance Italy grew a love that knew no bounds. .. . No woman's heart is safe from the Silver Devil. From the moment he sees the beautiful Felicia, he must have her. Overnight he changes Felicia's nightmare world of tavern drudgery into an erotic adventure as his royal mistress. He is the Duke of Cabria who holds his subjects in constant fear... -
![Fire by Shae Evans]()
Fire by Shae Evans
He’ll make her pay the ultimate price, in his quest for revenge…. A dutiful daughter…. Promised to a king she’s never met; Princess Anais was resigned to her fate. From the outside looking in, Anais lives a pampered existence but in truth, the palace walls serve as her prison. She believes marriage to this unknown king can’t be worse than the life she already has... -
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![A Rose at Midnight by Anne Stuart]()
A Rose at Midnight by Anne Stuart
Once a daughter of the aristocracy, lovely Ghislaine "Gilly" de Lorgny lives for the destruction of Nicholas Blackthorne—the notorious rake she holds responsible for the cruel loss of her virtue, family and fortune. Now that the rogue has reentered her life, she seizes the opportunity to enact a poisonous revenge—but is abducted by the dashing villain before the deed can be done... -
![Test of Faith by Aleksandr Voinov, Raev Gray]()
Test of Faith by Aleksandr Voinov, Raev Gray
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJuly, 1187: Saladin has defeated the Crusader army at The Horns of Hattin. While hundreds of his comrades have perished in the battle, Thierry de la Tour Rouge, a Frank and Templar Knight, has survived only to be taken prisoner by the Saracens... -
![Lilla And The Viking by Isabella Colestone]()
Lilla And The Viking by Isabella Colestone
859 AD – Nekor, Morocco. They call them the fire worshippers. Northmen. Vikings. Landing upon the beachy Moroccan shores of the city of Nekor, they came to tear our world asunder. Pillaging all in their wake, taking captives…leaving naught unturned...Categorized as:
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![The Earl on the Train by Kerrigan Byrne]()
The Earl on the Train by Kerrigan Byrne
He’s the Villain she never forgot…. Sebastian Moncrieff is a villain, a traitor, and a pirate, who has recently inherited an Earldom he never wanted. As a man who’s committed every sin imaginable, he knows his only chance at redemption is the one woman who ever reached through to his soul of ice... -
![Poison Heart by Mae Pierce]()
Poison Heart by Mae Pierce
Her marriage was a lie. Anita Orazio had never been interested in any man before she met her handsome new husband. He’d courted her with a relentless energy, and she’d fallen hard and fast, like a fool. Until she overheard him saying he only married her to get an introduction to The Gardener. Everybody in Greenich Bay whispered the name of the reclusive assassin... -
![Lemonade by Nina Pennacchi]()
Lemonade by Nina Pennacchi
As a young woman in Victorian England, Anna Champion knows all too well the social mores that value prettiness over sense, and etiquette over honesty. But when she stands up to the boorishness of dashing Christopher Davenport at a summertime ball, Anna unwittingly attracts his wrath—and becomes entangled in his malicious scheming... -
![Beyond the Sunrise by Mary Balogh]()
Beyond the Sunrise by Mary Balogh
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Survivor’s Club novels comes an epic love story” (Publishers Weekly) of intrigue and deception and the promises that can break a heart. . I will love you all my life and even beyond that. ”. Even at fifteen, Jeanne, the privileged daughter of a royalist émigré, knew what she liked: Englishman Robert Blake, bastard son of a marquess... -
![Wickeds Scandal by Kathleen Ayers]()
Wickeds Scandal by Kathleen Ayers
Alexandra Dunforth, a bookish spinster from Hampshire, has no desire to marry despite her uncle holding the fate of her beloved family estate over her head. Satan Reynolds, a wealthy Marquess, is possessed of angelic beauty and a scandalous dragon tattoo...Categorized as:
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![For Such a Time by Kate Breslin]()
For Such a Time by Kate Breslin
In 1944, blonde and blue-eyed Jewess Hadassah Benjamin feels abandoned by God when she is saved from a firing squad only to be handed over to a new enemy. Pressed into service by SS-Kommandant Colonel Aric von Schmidt at the transit camp of Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia, she is able to hide behind the false identity of Stella Muller... -
![Ritual Sins by Anne Stuart]()
Ritual Sins by Anne Stuart
Rachel Connery is on a seek-and-destroy mission, out for revenge against the mysterious, charismatic man who enticed millions of dollars from her dying mother and cheated her out of her inheritance. She wants retribution and is willing to use every seductive trick at her disposal to obtain it...Categorized as:
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![North of the Stars by Monica James]()
North of the Stars by Monica James
England is burning. And the cause…men are too afraid to utter in nothing but a whisper. The Northmen. My father is King Eanred. And me? I am Princess Emeline. My father wants to protect our kingdom against the ruthless Vikings who continue to raid England, so he has betrothed me to Aethelwulf, the son of King Egbert of Wessex—the most powerful realm in all of England...Categorized as:
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![Lie Down In Roses by Shannon Drake, Heather Graham]()
Lie Down In Roses by Shannon Drake, Heather Graham
The willful Lady Genevieve would do anything to save her beloved Edenby Castle--even if she had to share the name and the bed of her most treacherous foe, Lord Tristan. They were born to be enemies and destined to be lovers--players in a perilous game of intrigue and passion where the price was one woman's innocence and the prize was one man's heart. -
![A Pirate's Love by Johanna Lindsey]()
A Pirate's Love by Johanna Lindsey
With languid tropical breezes caressing her breathtakingly beautiful face, Bettina Verlaine stood before the mast, sailing westward to fulfill a promise her heart never made--marriage to a Count her eyes had never beheld. Then in a moment of swashbuckling courage, the pirate Tristan swept her away and the spell of his passion was cast over her heart forever...Categorized as:
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![Captive Bride by Johanna Lindsey]()
Captive Bride by Johanna Lindsey
The irresistible call of adventure brings lovely Christina Wakefield to the alluring Arabian desert. But fate imprisons her after she encounters Sheik Abu, the strikingly handsome though arrogant adventurer, whom she had known in England as Philip Caxton. Once Christina had rejected Philip's fervent offer of marriage. But now she is to be his slave -- desperate for the freedoms denied her. .Categorized as:
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