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  • 1005 Lonestar Terrace by Cee Bowerman

    1005 Lonestar Terrace by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 ratings
    Motherhood has been a journey for Brighten Duke, one she wasn’t expecting, but has enjoyed with her entire heart and soul. But there’s one thing hanging over her head that she’s not quite ready to face. A lie she told along with her best friend six years ago is about to be revealed, and she’s going to have to deal with the consequences of her actions right along with him...
  • The Midnight Rose by Lucinda Riley

    The Midnight Rose by Lucinda Riley

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Spanning four generations, The Midnight Rose sweeps from the glittering palaces of the great maharajas of India to the majestic stately homes of England, following the extraordinary life of a remarkable girl, Anahita Chaval, from 1911 to the present day . .
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  • Smoke by Kris Michaels

    Smoke by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.76 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    Shades of good are colored by the poison of greed, lust, and envy, and all too often the warm colors of humanity are consumed by evil.The assassin known as Smoke had his future planned. When his partner’s life imploded, his absence left Smoke adrift. Then Guardian threw a sassy, enticing anchor at him. When the alluring siren boarded his ship, he should have seen the rocky shore in the distance...
  • The Grave Between Us by Tal Bauer

    The Grave Between Us by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 36 ratings
    It was just one moment.It was just one mistake.For years, men have been disappearing. A father in North Carolina. A boater in California. A hiker in Arkansas. And more, scattered across the United States. The FBI knows who’s responsible: a serial killer they caught, a man they sent young profiler Cole Kennedy to interrogate...
  • The Words We Whisper by Mary Ellen Taylor

    The Words We Whisper by Mary Ellen Taylor

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    As a hospice nurse, Zara Mitchell has already seen more death than most people will experience in a lifetime. So when her older sister asks her to help care for their ailing grandmother, Zara agrees—despite strained family relationships.Though pale and tired, Nonna has lost none of her sharp mind...
  • Wayward by Gregory Ashe

    Wayward by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 20 ratings
    Emery Hazard is trying to plan his wedding, even though his fiancé, John-Henry Somerset, isn’t exactly making things easy for him. To be fair, Somers has been distracted lately; his father is running for mayor in a hotly contested election, and their hometown is splintering under the weight of divisive politics...
  • Fortune by Helen Hardt

    Fortune by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Are you missing the Steel Brothers? Are you yearning for more? Welcome to the next generation! Join the grown children of Jonah, Talon, Ryan, and Marjorie for new adventures, mysteries, and heart-pounding passion...
  • Drink It Up by Cee Bowerman

    Drink It Up by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Quinn Donovan is a single dad with too much on his plate. He is surrounded by his wild and crazy family at home and at work while raising two little girls who are the light of his life. When a complete stranger swoops in to help him when he needs it most only to then disappear without a word, it seems he’s lost his chance to get to know her...
  • His Secret Daughter: A totally heartbreaking and gripping page-turner by Melissa Wiesner

    His Secret Daughter: A totally heartbreaking and gripping page-turner by Melissa Wiesner

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Not Noah. Not my husband. But there he is, unconscious in the hospital bed. Our daughter sobs into my shoulder. We love him so much. What if he never wakes up? And who is the little girl beside him, gazing up at us with big, tear-filled brown eyes? Eyes that look just like my husband’s…Our family of three is perfect. Just me, Noah and our teenage daughter Maya...
  • That Day by Karen Deen

    That Day by Karen Deen

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A day, like no other.They happen once in a lifetime, they say.So why am I 'lucky' enough to have more than one? Here I am living life, minding my own business.Until the man I'd been fantasizing over for a year.Ends up in my bed. The sensual words he whispers late at night.His touch on my skin, ignites my inner vixen.Making me want things I've only ever written in words...
  • ALLURE by Nina Lane

    ALLURE by Nina Lane

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    "We both want this so badly. I can feel it resonating between us like the hot pull of our first attraction, tangible and intense."
 After lies and betrayal almost destroy their marriage, Dean and Olivia West reignite their blissful passion. The medieval history professor and his cherished wife are determined to fix their mistakes and fall in love all over again...
  • Breaking Cover by Kaje Harper

    Breaking Cover by Kaje Harper

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 36 ratings
    For homicide detective Mac, it's been a good year. Having Tony to go home to makes him a better cop and a better person. For Tony, it's been hard being in love with a man he can't touch in public. Evasions and outright lying to friends and family take a little of the shine off his relationship with Mac, but Tony is determined to make it work...
  • Chemistry by Rachael Sommers

    Chemistry by Rachael Sommers

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 25 ratings
    An opposites-attract, ice queen lesbian romance about finding the softest of hearts behind the highest walls.Newly minted high school teacher Lily Cross is young, bubbly, and can’t wait to put her fresh ideas into practice in the classroom. Her excitement is derailed after a disastrous run-in with a colleague...
  • Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain

    Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Bestselling author Diane Chamberlain delivers a breakout book about a small southern town fifty years ago, and the darkest—and most hopeful—places in the human heart After losing her parents, fifteen-year-old Ivy Hart is left to care for her grandmother, older sister and nephew as tenants on a small tobacco farm...
  • The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen

    The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 59 ratings
    Love and secrets collide in Venice during WWII in an enthralling novel of brief encounters and lasting romance by the New York Times bestselling author of The Tuscan Child and Above the Bay of Angels.Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper…Venice...
  • The Promise of Tomorrow by Mary Ellen Taylor

    The Promise of Tomorrow by Mary Ellen Taylor

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    From the author of The Brighter the Light comes the moving story about one woman’s reason for leaving home and the love that brings her back.When Olympia leaves her small Virginia town, she doesn’t expect to look back, much less ever come home...
  • Summers at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews

    Summers at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Welcome to the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel on the coast of Georgia, where traditions run deep and scandals run even deeper. . . .Everyone refers to the St. Cecelia as “the Saint.” If you grew up coming here, you were “a Saint.” If you came from the wrong side of the river, you were “an Ain’t...
  • Cold Blooded Lover by Eliza Lentzski

    Cold Blooded Lover by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Former Marine, Cassidy Miller knew what it took to be a good soldier and even a decent beat cop. She was starting to figure out how to be a girlfriend as her relationship with Julia Desjardin progressed, but what did she know about being a cold case detective? Buried under paperwork in the basement of the Fourth Police Precinct, she was going to have to figure it out...
  • RUSH by Emma Scott

    RUSH by Emma Scott

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. --John MiltonCharlotte Conroy, Juilliard-trained violinist, was on the cusp of greatness when tragedy swooped down on dark wings, crushing her hopes and breaking her heart. The music that used to sing in her soul has grown quiet, and she feels on the verge of setting down her violin for good...
  • Hidden Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Hidden Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The boy next door is back, and so am I.He’s spending his NFL off-season in our small Midwestern town after seven long years away, and I’m in town for different reasons.Memories shift to reality as we find ourselves in the place where we first fell in love. We’re different people now, but I’m falling fast and hard for the man he is now.But he’s married...
  • Her Last Promise by Kathryn Hughes

    Her Last Promise by Kathryn Hughes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A mysterious letter from Spain. A surprising new beginning... Fall in love this summer with Her Last Promise, a gripping, heartwrenching story of how hope can blossom in the ruins of tragedy and of the redeeming power of love. From No. 1 bestselling author Kathryn Hughes. Tara Richards was just a girl when she lost her mother...
  • CC: REAPER Patriots - Book Twenty-Eight by Mary Kennedy

    CC: REAPER Patriots - Book Twenty-Eight by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Charles Corbett Reilly served his country faithfully, waiting and biding his time until he could come home and convince Eva Harris that they belonged together. He’d kept his distance, given their age separation, but it was different now. She was a grown woman with a grown woman’s mind and body. But when he approached her to ask her out, she pushed back, something she’d never done before...
  • WILL: REAPER-Patriots: Book Forty-Eight by Mary Kennedy

    WILL: REAPER-Patriots: Book Forty-Eight by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    William Pechkin is home for his friends wedding. He plans to see everyone. His parents, his sisters, his new nephew. He'll see all the old guard, but most importantly, he'll see her. The woman he can't get out of his head. Brooke. She's worked at the diner for years now and he never misses a chance to go in and see her. Speaking is another matter...
  • The Gods of Chaos and Chance by John Wiltshire

    The Gods of Chaos and Chance by John Wiltshire

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Most people in Aleksey Rider-Mikkelsen’s life would probably assert that at fifty honest living and sobriety were long overdue. But recovering in bed from the lingering after-effects of his leg injury, bored, in pain, and feeling entirely irrelevant, Aleksey doesn’t much care what Benjamin Rider-Mikkelsen thinks. He doesn’t appreciate the close monitoring either...
  • No Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    No Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    All I want is my happy ending with the boy next door.Every time we get close, something threatens to break us. Half-sisters, town gossips, and jealous exes throw punch after punch, but we hold on tight to each other as we attempt to navigate the chaos.With his life in the spotlight as a professional football player, I start to feel like it might always be like this...
  • Erik's Redemption by Nyssa Kathryn

    Erik's Redemption by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The difference between delight and devastation…a single moment.Until recently, Hannah Jacobs thought she was living. One look at her new neighbor, and she knows she was simply surviving. Going through her days hiding behind a mask, similar to the broken man next door. Together, they slowly realize they want more…happiness, love, a future...
  • Cigar Club by J.A. Armstrong

    Cigar Club by J.A. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Fallon Foster is Whiskey Springs' self-proclaimed token lesbian. She isn't a token any longer. After her year-long affair with best friend, Andi Maguire ends, Fallon hopes to earn the trust and win the heart of the town's newest resident, Riley Main. Ghosts from the past still haunt Fallon and Riley. Informed by loss and betrayal, the pair endeavors to find their way to each other...
  • The Last Party at Silverton Hall by Rachel Burton

    The Last Party at Silverton Hall by Rachel Burton

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A gripping and heartbreaking tale of family, duty and the secrets we keep from those we love most. Perfect for fans of Rachel Hore, Lorna Cook and Kathryn Hughes.Two women. Two centuries. A life-changing night...1952: Vivien and Max collide in the thick London smog...
  • Honeysuckle Season by Mary Ellen Taylor

    Honeysuckle Season by Mary Ellen Taylor

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    From bestselling author Mary Ellen Taylor comes a story about profound loss, hard truths, and an overgrown greenhouse full of old secrets. Adrift in the wake of her father’s death, a failed marriage, and multiple miscarriages, Libby McKenzie feels truly alone. Though her new life as a wedding photographer provides a semblance of purpose, it’s also a distraction from her profound pain...
  • Before I'm Gone by Heidi McLaughlin

    Before I'm Gone by Heidi McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Heidi McLaughlin tells a poignant story about living life to the fullest―and savoring the small moments along the way. Palmer Sinclair has never needed anyone’s help. A successful loan officer, she’s all work and no play...
  • Ravishing Reign by Aleatha Romig

    Ravishing Reign by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.” ~ Abraham LincolnBuried beneath the surface where Princess Lucille’s world is turned upside down, she must make impossible choices. Truth or deception, life or death, loyalty or love...
  • Fallen Knight by T.K. Leigh

    Fallen Knight by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Princess Esme of Belmont finally freed herself from the chains shackling her to royal life and has been living in Paris for the past several years. It’s what she wanted. What she fought for.But there’s still something missing.She refuses to admit what that something is, though, doing everything she can to put the past behind her.Until she receives a phone call that forces her to return home...
  • Fallen Knight by T.K. Leigh

    Fallen Knight by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Princess Esme of Belmont finally freed herself from the chains shackling her to royal life and has been living in Paris for the past several years. It’s what she wanted. What she fought for.But there’s still something missing.She refuses to admit what that something is, though, doing everything she can to put the past behind her.Until she receives a phone call that forces her to return home...
  • Just for Show by Jae

    Just for Show by Jae

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 25 ratings
    When Claire, an overachieving psychologist with OCD tendencies, hires Lana, an impulsive, out-of-work actress for a fake relationship, she figures the worst she’ll have to endure are the messes Lana leaves around. It’s only for a few months anyway. And it’s not as if she’ll enjoy all those fake kisses and loving looks. Right? A lesbian romance where role-playing has never been so irresistible...
  • Black Hearted by Julie Ann Walker

    Black Hearted by Julie Ann Walker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s everything she ever wanted. She’s everything he never knew he needed. Can she convince him she’s the one?The Black Knights are back and better than ever!Samuel Harwood has spent his entire career working in the black and gray areas of international intrigue. Living in the shadows for so long has made him forget who he was and where he came from...
  • Dr. Stanton's The Epilogue by T.L. Swan

    Dr. Stanton's The Epilogue by T.L. Swan

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    This is book two of the international bestselling, Dr. Stanton series.Follow the next five years for Cameron Stanton and Ashley Tucker ...If happiness is a gift. Then Cameron Stanton is my Santa Claus. I can’t tell you the exact moment I fell in love with him. Only that I did. With every glance, every touch, every minute …. he stole a little more of me. They say that all men are created equal...
  • Enduring Night by John Wiltshire

    Enduring Night by John Wiltshire

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Nikolas has always liked art. You'd have thought that Ben and Nikolas would have learnt that their romantic holidays inevitably end up as disasters. A short break on the polar ice sees them trapped in a nightmare of murder and deceit...
  • The Pact by Jodi Picoult

    The Pact by Jodi Picoult

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 99 ratings
    For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty-- they've grown so close it seems they have always been a part of each other's lives. Parents and children alike have been best friends, so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more...
  • Murder at the Village Fete by Catherine Coles

    Murder at the Village Fete by Catherine Coles

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Downton Abbey crossed with Murder, She Wrote...set in a Yorkshire village!Evelyn Christie, the new Lady Northmoor, is looking forward to hosting the local village fete in the grounds of Hessleham Hall...
  • Rookie Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Rookie Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I fell for the boy next door, and then my father ripped it all away from us.The first person to catch my eye in a long time is a colleague who tells me what we just did over his desk will never happen again.And then my mother calls with news from back home.I have to head back to the small town my father forced me to leave seven years ago knowing the boy I still love will show up, too...
  • The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard by Natasha Lester

    The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard by Natasha Lester

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Three generations. One chance to prove themselves. Can the women of the Bricard fashion dynasty finally rewrite their history?French countryside, Present  Blythe Bricard is the daughter of famous fashion muses but that doesn't mean she wants to be one. She turned her back on that world, and her dreams, years ago...
  • Look on the Bright Side by Kristan Higgins

    Look on the Bright Side by Kristan Higgins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    From the author of Pack Up the Moon comes a funny, romantic, and deeply moving novel about the unexpected rewards that come from life’s detours.Lark Smith has always had a plan for her life: find a fantastic guy, create a marriage as blissful as her parents’, pop out a couple of kids and build a rewarding career as an oncologist.Things aren’t going so well.For one, the guy didn’t work out...
  • September by Rosamunde Pilcher

    September by Rosamunde Pilcher

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Seasons change, September comes and goes, but Rosamunde Pilcher's singular narrative voice is eternal. Listeners will be transported to another time and place with this enchanting audiobook from a beloved British author.A place you will never forgetRosamunde Pilcher's Scotland..
  • Rockstar Lost by Taryn Quinn

    Rockstar Lost by Taryn Quinn

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Forever is the lyric I have on repeat. I’m a rockstar on a mission, ready to leave the glamorous music scene behind. But only if I have my best friend, Felicity Hudson, by my side. And in my bed, clad in nothing but her tattoos. Now that I’m back in my small town near Crescent Cove, I have a weekend to blast the friend zone to pieces with the one woman I’ve always loved...
  • Secret Baby Next Door by K.C. Crowne

    Secret Baby Next Door by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 19 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...
  • Old-Fashioned Cupcake with Cappuccino by Sagan Sagan

    Old-Fashioned Cupcake with Cappuccino by Sagan Sagan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Thirty-nine-year-old Nozue went from living a routine, melancholic life of sleep and work to spending his days in bliss with Togawa, his younger subordinate. Now six months into their relationship, the two have graduated from dates at a pancake shop to spending their nights together...
  • Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott, Agatha Christie

    Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott, Agatha Christie

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Escrevendo anonimamente sob o pseudônimo de Mary Westmacott, Agatha Christie, conhecida mundialmente como a Rainha do Crime, deixa de lado a investigaçăo policial para explorar a alma humana, seus conflitos e emoçőes.Em "Ausęncia na primavera", Mary Westmacott conta a história de Joan Scudamore, uma típica dona de casa que está voltando do Oriente após fazer uma visita a sua filha em Bagdá...
  • Killer Lies by Eva Chance, Harlow King

    Killer Lies by Eva Chance, Harlow King

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    Lone wolf or part of the crew?My life has turned out to be a web of lies.All I know for sure is that the hitmen who took me into their home aren't the real villains in this story.As the Chaos Crew helps me track down answers about who I am and what happened to me all those years ago, I can't help wondering if their home could become mine too...
  • Detecting Secrets by Sami A. Abrams

    Detecting Secrets by Sami A. Abrams

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tracking the scents of the missingmight be the only way to save them. Partnered with her air-scent dog and Sheriff Dennis Monroe, marriage and family therapist Charlotte Bradley is desperate to put an end to a black-market baby smuggling ring in Anderson County...
  • The Final Chapter by Shandi Boyes

    The Final Chapter by Shandi Boyes

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    The final chapter in the tumultuous love story of Isaac and Isabelle has finally come to fruition. An emotional and heart-clutching tale that will capture your attention from the very first page, and not let go until the very end...
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