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  • Adrenaline by Penelope Douglas

    Adrenaline by Penelope Douglas

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 33 ratings
    **You ask. You receive!*** Have you read Bully and the rest of the Fall Away series? Would you enjoy having all the bonus content in one place? Adrenaline is approximately 36, 000 words of bonus scenes, deleted scenes, character conversations, and Q&As shared over the past few years and is mostly material not found in the actual books. Here, you'll find..
  • Forever Driven by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Driven by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Driven to fight for her town, driven to fight for love. Riley Davies never backs down from a fight. She stands up for herself and those who can’t stand up for themselves. But she is just the manager of a farm and can only do so much . . . until a political matter threatens to ruin her farm and the town she loves...
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  • Say I Love You, Vol. 1 by Kanae Hazuki

    Say I Love You, Vol. 1 by Kanae Hazuki

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    FRIENDSHIP? FORGET IT! Mei Tachibana has no friends-and she doesn't need them! Ever since her "friends" betrayed her in elementary school, she's sworn off friendship entirely. All it leads to is betrayal and heartbreak, and she's well enough on her own...
  • A Charmed Life by Jenny B. Jones

    A Charmed Life by Jenny B. Jones

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    New York's social darling just woke up in a nightmare: Oklahoma. Problem is, it's right where God wants her.Bella Kirkwood had it all--A-list friends, Broadway in her backyard, Daddy's credit card. Then her father decided to trade in her mother for a newer model. After that, her mom fell in love with a man she met on the Internet and moved the family to Truman, Oklahoma...
  • Paradise Kiss, Vol. 1 by Ai Yazawa

    Paradise Kiss, Vol. 1 by Ai Yazawa

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    Yukari wants nothing more than to make her parents happy by studying hard and getting into a good college. One afternoon, however, she is kidnapped by a group of self-proclaimed fashion mavens calling themselves "Paradise Kiss." Yukari suddenly finds herself in the roller coaster life of the fashion world, guided by George, art-snob extraordinaire...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  young adult  contemporary  humor  length-short
  • Happy Cafe, Volume 2 by Kou Matsuzuki, Matsuzuki Kou

    Happy Cafe, Volume 2 by Kou Matsuzuki, Matsuzuki Kou

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 19 ratings
    Inside Café Bonheur, the pursuit of happiness continues... When two mysterious young men walk into the café to declare war, Uru’s passion gets the best of everyone, and they accept the challenge--with one condition: The loser will have to quit the industry for good...
  • Summer on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber

    Summer on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Knitting and life. They’re both about beginnings...and endings.That’s why Lydia Goetz, owner of A Good Yarn on Seattle’s Blossom Street, offers a class called Knit to Quit. It’s for people who want to quit something—or someone!—and start a new phase of their lives.First to join is Phoebe Rylander, who’s trying to get over a man. Alix Turner and her husband want a baby, so she has to quit smoking...
  • Daytime Shooting Star, Vol. 1 by Mika Yamamori

    Daytime Shooting Star, Vol. 1 by Mika Yamamori

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    After arriving in Tokyo to live with her uncle, Suzume collapses in a nearby park when she remembers once seeing a shooting star during the day. A handsome stranger brings her to her new home and tells her they’ll meet again. Suzume starts her first day at her new high school sitting next to a boy who blushes furiously at her touch...
  • Can't Let You Go by Jenny B. Jones

    Can't Let You Go by Jenny B. Jones

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An old love whose kisses make her weak, but whose secrets threaten to destroy all she holds dear... Fresh out of college, Katie Parker had it all—a charming romance, a role in a famous stage production, and an idyllic life in London. Until she found her boyfriend cheating and got herself fired from the play...
  • Painless by Devon Hartford

    Painless by Devon Hartford

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    At last! The exciting, steamy, action packed conclusion to the Story of Samantha Smith. Painless follows Samantha through the remainder of her first year in college at sunny San Diego University. Oh, and what about that hot hunk Christos Manos? When we last left him, his life balanced on the brink of disaster...
  • Lay Your Hands On Me by Blair Babylon

    Lay Your Hands On Me by Blair Babylon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Brand-new Rock Star Romance from USA Today-Bestselling Author Blair Babylon! Xan Valentine, the rock star that Rolling Stone called “sex incarnate,” stands in the spotlight every night and sings love songs to the women in the audience. They swoon. They scream. They believe him. Those women don’t know him like Georgie does...
  • Nothing Else Matters by Blair Babylon

    Nothing Else Matters by Blair Babylon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Georgie broke up with Xan Valentine, the lead singer for the rock band Killer Valentine, the guy that Rolling Stone calls “sex incarnate.” The magazine isn’t wrong, but they don’t know the half of it. He’s the alpha-est male who ever walked onto a stage or into a bedroom and might be crazy, and Georgie is definitely in love with him...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  humor  young adult  contemporary  length-long
  • Kitchen Princess Omnibus, Vol. 1 by Natsumi Andō

    Kitchen Princess Omnibus, Vol. 1 by Natsumi Andō

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 18 ratings
    COOKING UP SOME LOVE Najika is a great cook and she likes to make meals for the people she loves. But something is missing from her life. When she was a child, she met a boy who touched her heart – and now she’s determined to find him. The only clue Najika has is a silver spoon that leads her to the prestigious Seika Academy.   Attending Seika will be a challenge...
  • A Love Song for Dreamers by Piper Lawson

    A Love Song for Dreamers by Piper Lawson

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 18 ratings
    He said I taught him how to dream.Maybe he taught me, too.But when fate brings the strongest man I know to his knees, dreams aren’t enough to save us.But true love doesn’t fade to silence after a single verse.Tyler and I have one last chance.And the power to decide how this ends.A tragedy for the ages.Or the perfect ending to the most beautiful song ever written...Ours...
  • A Condition Called Love, Vol. 4 by Megumi Morino

    A Condition Called Love, Vol. 4 by Megumi Morino

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 18 ratings
    Hananoi-kun and Hotaru's trial run is over. They're officially boyfriend and girlfriend now! Their first official date leaves Hananoi-kun determined to tell Hotaru how he really feels..
  • A Condition Called Love, Vol. 3 by Megumi Morino

    A Condition Called Love, Vol. 3 by Megumi Morino

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 21 ratings
    Hotaru finally realizes she loves Hananoi-kun. Now she's got to find a way to tell him how she feels! There's just one problem: she's got a new coworker…Yao-kun, her old friend from elementary school! Memories of childhood trauma come rushing back…and Hotaru knows that she's going to have to face them if she ever wants to know what it's like to be in love...
  • Those Summer Nights by Mandy Baggot

    Those Summer Nights by Mandy Baggot

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Sunshine, soft white sand and a sizzling hot millionaire – you don’t get trouble in paradise, right? Imogen Charlton is sorted. Dead-beat husband? History. Dream job? Application sent. But then her impulsive brother, Harry, spends every last penny on a Greek restaurant in Corfu, and is determined to run it himself. It’s up to Imogen to bring him to his senses...
  • Positively, Penelope by Pepper Basham

    Positively, Penelope by Pepper Basham

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 14 ratings
    Told mostly through letters, texts, and email, this contemporary romance will charm its way into hearts as Penelope rescues a theater and discovers her true self in the process.Penelope Edgewood is practically positive in every way, so when, fresh out of college, she is awarded a paid internship to help save a century-old theater on the island of Skymar, she jumps at the chance...
  • A Condition Called Love, Vol. 5 by Megumi Morino, 森野萌

    A Condition Called Love, Vol. 5 by Megumi Morino, 森野萌

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 14 ratings
    Hotaru Hinase and her boyfriend, Hananoi-kun, prepare for the beginning of their second year of high school... and their feelings for each other grow stronger by the day. Just as Hananoi-kun begins to show signs that he's ready to come out of his shell, Yao-kun, his rival in love, discovers his secret... and he's determined to make him come clean to Hotaru...
  • Dating and Dragons by Kristy Boyce

    Dating and Dragons by Kristy Boyce

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 31 ratings
    From the author of the nationally bestselling Dungeons and Drama comes another gaming romance that's sure to win you over!After moving to a new high school, Quinn is desperate for friends, so she joins a D&D group with their own livestream and serious rules—most no dating fellow party members...
  • A Love Song for Rebels by Piper Lawson

    A Love Song for Rebels by Piper Lawson

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 21 ratings
    I swore I’d never fall for a rockstar. He swore he’d never become one.Tyler didn’t mean to break my heart. He did it anyway.Now, I’ll never play by anyone’s rules but mine.When he shows up in the last place I expect, with a confession and a promise…There’s going to be a reckoning.Because the naive girl he shattered is gone.And the woman in her place is ready for a fight...
  • Just the Way You Are by Pepper Basham

    Just the Way You Are by Pepper Basham

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Single mom, Eisley Barrett, prefers to keep romance safely housed within a centuries-old mystery, but when she travels to England to unearth the secret, an actor with a sordid past offers her reluctant heart a very different type of discovery. Wes Harrison has a past he’s ashamed to confess...
  • A Condition Called Love, Vol. 2 by Megumi Morino

    A Condition Called Love, Vol. 2 by Megumi Morino

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 25 ratings
    Hotaru is a 16-year-old high school first-year who has always been ambivalent about love... but somehow or another, she's found herself going out with Hananoi-kun, the pretty boy from the class down the hall who, as it turns out, is a little too romantic for his own good...
  • Merry Random Christmas by Julia Kent

    Merry Random Christmas by Julia Kent

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It all started with a game of Truth or Dare… It’s bad enough I got arrested for prostitution on Christmas Eve. Alleged prostitution, mind you. I didn’t do it. Of course I didn’t. The cops say I offered up a certain sex act for a $5 gasoline gift card, but honey? My sex acts are worth way, way more...
  • The Amish Quiltmaker's Unconventional Niece by Jennifer Beckstrand

    The Amish Quiltmaker's Unconventional Niece by Jennifer Beckstrand

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Resourceful Colorado Amish quiltmaker Esther Kiem has her hands full with husband, home, and a baby on the way. But putting her skills to the test for an outspoken niece who’s running for town council is a matchmaking challenge she can’t resist...
  • A Side Character's Love Story, Vol. 1 by Akane Tamura

    A Side Character's Love Story, Vol. 1 by Akane Tamura

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Growing up, Nobuko Tanaka was always a "side character" standing off in the corner. Now in her 20s, she's fallen in love for the first time. While she isn't any good at being assertive, she will muster her courage bit by bit as she tries her best to close the distance between herself and her crush -- because even side characters fall in love...
  • Peacekeeper by Laura Pavlov

    Peacekeeper by Laura Pavlov

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    HarrisonI loved Laney Landers before most people learned to read.Blonde hair, blue eyes that rivaled the ocean, and an invisible halo over her head.She stole my heart the same day she threw sand in my face.What started as a friendship grew into so much more.I thought she’d be my forever.But then life threw me a curveball and I changed course.Laney moved on and found a different happily ever after...
  • A Taste of Reality by Kimberla Lawson Roby

    A Taste of Reality by Kimberla Lawson Roby

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Kimberla Lawson Roby returns with another moving and triumphant novel about a woman who, against all odds, battles the most blatant kind of workplace discrimination while dealing with a crumbling marriage and a trusted friend's betrayal...
  • Sinful Desires Vol. IV by M.S. Parker

    Sinful Desires Vol. IV by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    How could I have been so stupid? Anastascia had told me that Brock was bad news but I'd never dreamed what he was capable of. First Reed, then Brock. Was my taste in men really that awful? When Piper Black finds out the truth about her first encounter with her boyfriend Brock Michaels, she's devastated, but things only get worse when a familiar face shows up at the wrong moment...
  • Wild Thing by Blair Babylon

    Wild Thing by Blair Babylon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The music calls Georgie. Every night, she stands offstage, watching Xan Valentine set fire to the crowd with music until they would burn down the city for him. His music wraps her until her fingers dance, desperately wanting the piano, but her terrified legs could never walk onto a stage...
  • Matcha Made in Heaven, Vol. 7 by Umebachi Yamanaka

    Matcha Made in Heaven, Vol. 7 by Umebachi Yamanaka

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    Isshin came back from Shizuoka after completing the work there! Chako is so excited as they start living together again. Isshin now trusts Chako even more since she worked so hard to protect the tea farm while he was away, and supported him in making his bottled tea...
  • Burning Bright by Blair Babylon

    Burning Bright by Blair Babylon

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Anything worth burning is worth burning down. Lizzy has broken her contract with Mannix and destroyed her growing relationship with Theo, but now Mannix is stalking her, trying to get her back. She wants time away to think, so she manages to get past the sports reporters stalking her at her dorm, where Georgie has received a text from Rae telling them to get on a plane to Paris...
  • Callous by Xavier Neal

    Callous by Xavier Neal

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    C.J. and Erin have a complicated relationship. They do three things very well together. Argue, have sex, and keep secrets from each other. However, when C.J.'s past comes to tear him away, it not only threatens to destroy the new life he has built, but the relationship with the only woman who has ever been his match...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  humor  young adult  contemporary  length-short
  • Beyond the Orange Moon: The Second Book in the Mathews Family Series by Adrienne Frances

    Beyond the Orange Moon: The Second Book in the Mathews Family Series by Adrienne Frances

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sometimes fate strikes in unexpected ways... Lucy Dalton was tired of living a life she didn't want. Charlie Mathews was living the life he always wanted. But one night, fate changes the course of their lives forever. A year later, Lucy and Charlie's paths meet again, igniting a spark that neither can deny. Lucy knows he doesn't remember her, but she's already in too deep...
  • Blue Horizons by Kathryn Andrews

    Blue Horizons by Kathryn Andrews

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Will Ashton Music is my motivation. I’ve always believed that, because of it, I would be somebody. Somebody to someone, and something to myself. At age four, I picked up my grandfather’s acoustic guitar and, up until three weeks ago, I’ve never put it down. From a single chord to a full arrangement, music fed my soul. I craved it with every fiber of my being, but now, I just don’t know...
  • Lucky Left Wing by M.J. Padgett

    Lucky Left Wing by M.J. Padgett

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Denver Dragons’ team mascot is an enigma, and Finchley Bennett likes it that way. When the gymnast puts on the dragon uniform and performs death-defying stunts in front of huge crowds, it’s the fulfillment of her life’s dream. Keeping her identity a secret is part of the show’s appeal, but it also allows Finchley to do what she loves without her father’s judgment looming over her...
  • On the Rocks by Gillian Jones, Book Covers Ashbee Designs

    On the Rocks by Gillian Jones, Book Covers Ashbee Designs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Braunwyn Four years ago losing the love of my life almost destroyed me. Years of being labeled and looked upon with disdain by everyone in my hometown almost wrecked me. Four years ago I became a mother and together we were enough...Until I met him. He wanted to rebuild my broken–I just didn’t know how to let him...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  humor  young adult  contemporary  length-short
  • Sugar and Spice by Shari L. Tapscott

    Sugar and Spice by Shari L. Tapscott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fueled by love and determination, twenty-one-year-old Harper took a great leap of faith and transferred home from college to finally declare her feelings to Brandon, the boy who's adored her since they were children. There was only one thing that could derail her perfect plan, and that was Brandon showing up with a new girlfriend the very same weekend...
  • Tamon's B-Side Vol. 2 by Yuki Shiwasu

    Tamon's B-Side Vol. 2 by Yuki Shiwasu

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 11 ratings
    When the F/ACE members compete against each other to determine the new face of the band, Utage helps self-doubting Tamon defend his position...
  • Shopping for a Billionaire Boxed Set by Julia Kent

    Shopping for a Billionaire Boxed Set by Julia Kent

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Ever meet a hot billionaire while your hand's in a toilet in the men's room of one of his stores? No? So it really is just me. Hmm. When you're a mystery shopper, you get paid to humiliate yourself, all in the name of improving customer service. Romance isn't in my job description. But the day I met Declan McCormick it was love at first flush.  Until I nearly castrated him with my EpiPen...
  • Lucky Star by Susannah Nix

    Lucky Star by Susannah Nix

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A lonely barista’s dreams come true when her celebrity crush asks her to pose as his fake girlfriend for the paparazzi. Boone Sheridan is a TV heartthrob with a public relations problem. He needs to clean up his image and create a distraction ASAP...
  • The Good Girl & the Bad Boy by M.L. Collins

    The Good Girl & the Bad Boy by M.L. Collins

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    What happens when Jackson High’s Good Girl and Bad Boy are forced to work together? I’ll tell you:I destroy his guitar. (Accidentally!)He uses my guilt to trick me into doing his work.For three weeks!Until I find out he lied. Oh, heck no. This bad boy has crossed the wrong girl.I call him out on it. In front of the whole school.Check mate, bad boy. “It feels good to be bad,” he whispers...
  • Told You So by Kristen Heitzmann

    Told You So by Kristen Heitzmann

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 10 ratings
    From the minute Grace Evangeline throws her sweet tea in Devin Bressard’s face, their battle of wits and cross-purposes overtakes their lives. Sassy “angelic” Grace Evangeline will stop at nothing to see her romance novel produced for Broadway. Devin Bressard knows all about the commercial success of Ms. Evangeline’s “novels”—as far from his literary, nerve-striking plays as anything could be...
  • Sinful Desires: Vol. II by M.S. Parker

    Sinful Desires: Vol. II by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I wasn't entirely sure why I'd accepted Brock's invitation to be his date for his sister's wedding. A wedding to a man who'd confessed that he didn't love his wife-to-be. All I knew was that I didn't belong in that world. When Piper Black returned to Philadelphia to attend the wedding of the man who'd broken her heart, she never imagined that she'd end up falling for her date..
  • The Cajun Doctor by Sandra Hill

    The Cajun Doctor by Sandra Hill

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    New York Times Bestselling Author Sandra Hill delivers another Tante Lulu Adventure as twin brothers leave Alaska to discover their Cajun roots Dr. Daniel LeDeux and pilot Aaron LeDeux travel to the swampy bayous of Louisiana, where they discover a long-lost family...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  contemporary  humor  death  young adult  length-long
  • Smart Girl by Rachel Hollis

    Smart Girl by Rachel Hollis

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Brilliant designer Miko Jin is a hopeless romantic. She’s spent most of her life falling in love over and over again…with the men she finds in the pages of her favorite novels.When Miko meets Liam Ashton, it’s love at first sight. At least, for her. Sure, the two of them are polar opposites, and yes, he seems to be dating someone new each week...
  • Sinful Desires: Vol. III by M.S. Parker

    Sinful Desires: Vol. III by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I was shocked when Brock asked me to move back to Philadelphia and even more so when he'd declared that he'd choose me over his family. Reed, the man I'd thought had honor had turned out to be a bastard, but the guy who everyone said was bad news was starting to look a lot like a white knight...
  • Dreaming About the Boy Next Door by Sarah Sutton

    Dreaming About the Boy Next Door by Sarah Sutton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Is being voted Most Likely To: Never Have Their First Kiss by the popular crowd at school the end of the world? Probably not, but I’m still not convinced.Does it mean that I have to find someone to kiss to ditch myself of the label? No, but I do it anyway.Is choosing my best friend’s twin brother as my first kiss the best choice? Ha, not in the slightest...
  • Tamon’s B-Side, Vol. 3 by Yuki Shiwasu

    Tamon’s B-Side, Vol. 3 by Yuki Shiwasu

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    As the F/ACE showdown progresses, Tamon and bandmate Ori’s rivalry transforms their relationship from a mere fan-service facade to…a true friendship?! Tamon starts acting odd, however, after overhearing Utage encouraging Ori...
  • Reverb by Lisa Swallow

    Reverb by Lisa Swallow

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Blue Phoenix drummer, Bryn Hughes, prefers a quiet life away from the spotlight. But that’s proving difficult when his life is complicated by three very different girls: Mia, the girl who doesn’t understand the word no. Avery, who wishes she’d said yes. And his forever girl...
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