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  • A Christmas Wedding at the Castle by Eliza J. Scott

    A Christmas Wedding at the Castle by Eliza J. Scott

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Do you believe in fate? Livvie Weatherill does…. This time last year, if anyone had told Livvie Weatherill she’d have fallen in love and would be making plans for her Christmas wedding to Zander Gillespie, she would have laughed in their face...
  • Taggart Family Values by Lexi Blake

    Taggart Family Values by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.82 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From Ian and Charlotte’s first meeting in Paris to a look into the future, Taggart Family Values chronicles Masters and Mercenaries’ favorite family through a series of short stories and novellas. Includes one brand new short story and one new novella...
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  • Treasured by Lexi Blake

    Treasured by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    David Hawthorne has a great life. His job as a professor at a prestigious Dallas college is everything he hoped for. Now that his brother is back from the Navy, life seems to be settling down. All he needs to do is finish the book he’s working on and his tenure will be assured. When he gets invited to interview a reclusive expert, he knows he’s gotten lucky...
  • Charmed by Lexi Blake

    Charmed by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    JT Malone is lucky, and he knows it. He is the heir to a billion-dollar petroleum empire, and he has a loving family. Between his good looks and his charm, he can have almost any woman he wants. The world is his oyster, and he really likes oysters. So why does it all feel so empty? Nina Blunt is pretty sure she’s cursed...
  • Lost in You by Lexi Blake

    Lost in You by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Robert McClellan was forced to serve as a soldier in a war he didn’t understand. Liberated by McKay-Taggart, he struggles every day to reclaim the life he lost and do right by the men he calls his brothers, The Lost Boys. Only one thing is more important – Ariel Adisa. The gorgeous psychologist has plagued his dreams since the day they met...
  • Made of Steele by Susan Sleeman

    Made of Steele by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    She keeps her feelings to herself…. When Teagan Steele faces her hardest challenge since taking over her family’s security company, she has to dig deep to figure out how one of their clients smuggled antiquities into this country, and what they did with them. And she has to clear Steele Guardians of any charges of collusion and wrongdoing. But a bold undercover agent changes everything...
  • Wreathed in Disgrace by Robin Patchen

    Wreathed in Disgrace by Robin Patchen

    Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A famous actress, a protective bodyguard, a festive Christmas season, and a killer. .. or two. .. on the loose. Everybody believes movie star Denise Masters abandoned her family to pursue her dream, but the truth is much more complex...
  • Two Seconds Too Late by Dani Pettrey

    Two Seconds Too Late by Dani Pettrey

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the stark but beautiful wilds of northern New Mexico, a luxury spa and couple's retreat turns into a chilling nightmare when a woman vanishes without a trace, just hours after a public fight with her boyfriend. Worried something sinister has happened, her friends reach out to investigator Riley MacLeod, an expert skip tracer, for help...
  • Creed by Susan May Warren

    Creed by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 8 ratings
    He's a criminal—who must become a prince to save the princess he loves. But will she have to become a criminal to save him? In the heart-pounding conclusion to the epic Minnesota Marshalls series, Princess Imani finds herself once again in peril as she becomes the target of a deadly plot. She needs Creed – only problem is, he’s facing charges in Lauchtenland...
  • Tempted by Lexi Blake

    Tempted by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    When West Rycroft left his family’s ranch to work in the big city, he never dreamed he would find himself surrounded by celebrities and politicians. Working at McKay-Taggart as a bodyguard and security expert quickly taught him how to navigate the sometimes shark-infested waters of the elite...
  • Kilo by Sybil Bartel

    Kilo by Sybil Bartel

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Breacher. Navy SEAL. Mercenary. Being a breacher on the Teams wasn’t a job, it was my drug of choice. Detonating charges, the blast waves going through me, I lived for the rush of tactical explosive breaching. As long as I kept my brothers safe and didn’t eat a piece of frag, I never looked past my next mission. .. until I screwed up. Miscalculating a blast zone, I took a hit...
  • Sharing the Miracle by Kristen Ashley

    Sharing the Miracle by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 26 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Kristen Ashley comes a new novella in her River Rain Series. .. Elsa Cohen has everything she ever wanted. A challenging career. A bicoastal lifestyle. And an amazing man—the kind, loving and handsome Hale Wheeler—who adores her and has asked her to be his wife. She isn’t ready for the surprise news she’s received. And she doesn’t know how to tell Hale...
  • The Holiday Reunion by Sage Parker

    The Holiday Reunion by Sage Parker

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She wasn't expecting to spend the holidays heartbroken and alone. But thanks to her soon-to-be ex-husband, everything she once had is now gone. At 46 years old, all Matilda has is a backpack and a one-way ticket to her estranged cousins' cabin in Washington. Adapting to the small-town lifestyle, Matilda makes a room in the attic, where she discovers a hidden box of odds and ends...
  • Chill Factor: A Holiday Anthology by Freya Barker, Maddie Wade

    Chill Factor: A Holiday Anthology by Freya Barker, Maddie Wade

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Spending the holidays in the snowy mountains of Colorado could be a dream come true…unless you’re in the path of a monster blizzard. As the guests of Aspen’s prestigious ski resort, the St. James Inn, brace for the storm of the century, their holiday vacation changes from jovial celebration to desperate survival...
  • The Reluctant Siren by Lexi Blake, Sophie Oak

    The Reluctant Siren by Lexi Blake, Sophie Oak

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Harlow Dawson went through something terrible while working a case in Los Angeles. She fell in love. To be fair, the love part wasn’t so bad, but the betrayal left her devastated and in police custody. She returned home to decide how to move forward. One thing was for certain. Her life wouldn’t include Jensen Wiley...
  • Luke by R.J. Gray

    Luke by R.J. Gray

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Christmas is a time for miracles, love, and forgiveness. Renowned K-9 trainer, Luke Freeman accepts a job as head dog trainer for his former SEAL Team Leader, Mitch Anderson at Valhalla. A sprawling ranch specializing in offering fresh chances to special forces veterans. Luke expected to lie low and recover from two decades of combat...
  • Wooing the Widower by Elle E. Kay

    Wooing the Widower by Elle E. Kay

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Horses, Heartstrings, and A Later-in-Life RomanceMargie, a successful Colorado realtor, finds herself looking for a change of scenery and a dash of adventure after her only daughter embarks on a missionary journey, so she heads to Redemption Ranch to fulfill a long-held learning to ride horses...
  • Opposition by Jane Henry

    Opposition by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I hate Liam Alexander. I hate his Rolex. I hate his scowl. I hate everything his multi-billion-dollar company stands for. When the pompous, rich, arrogant jerk comes strutting into the coffee shop, I barely manage civility. But people make mistakes, and when I screw up, it's epic. I never expected the jerk would actually be a well-respected member of Club Verge...
  • Jaded by D.D. Prince

    Jaded by D.D. Prince

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Want equal rights? Don't f____ a biker. Want safe and predictable? Do not fall for a biker. Want wind in your hair, fire in your soul, and a man's fingerprints on your body, marking you as his and only his, to be protected and treasured forever? Don't accidentally become a club bunny. -Gianna Grace Jones. Told from the biker’s point-of-view…...
  • Say Daddy by Shanna Handel

    Say Daddy by Shanna Handel

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Mafia Billionaire Romance. He didn't just spank me like a naughty little girl. He made me call him daddy. When I pushed him too far, he put me over his knee. I begged and pleaded, but the punishment didn't stop. Not until he heard me say it. Not until I called him daddy. She knows what she needs, but I'm going to make her say it anyway. Daddy. I love how the word leaves her blushing...
  • Shadow by Ivy Nelson

    Shadow by Ivy Nelson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Dark Romantic Suspense. Cannon Ripley has spent his life in the shadows, but he's always been able to count on Olivia being there for him on the rare occasions he was able to come home. That is until he couldn't. When she walked away from their casual arrangement to marry someone else, he knew he'd stayed away too long. But she's divorced now and he's ready to come home for good...
  • Christmas Crisis: A Christian Romantic Suspense by Laura Scott

    Christmas Crisis: A Christian Romantic Suspense by Laura Scott

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author Laura Scott. Walking the line between danger and love! Active Shooter at the Christmas parade…. EMT Elly Finnegan instinctively jumps into the line of danger when a gunman opens fire at the Christmas parade. Despite hating the sight of blood, she acts exactly as she’s trained to do. Tactical officer Joe Kingsley is there, too and they work together to save lives...
  • Swoony Moon by Tess Thompson

    Swoony Moon by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As children, they’d made a pact to marry until a mutual family tragedy ripped them apart. Can a Christmas miracle bring them back together in this clean and wholesome, small-town romance, or will the cruel demons of the past ruin their second chance? AtticusAnnie Armstrong was my best friend growing up...
  • Deathwish by Dana Marton

    Deathwish by Dana Marton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Officer Gabriella Maria Flores desperately needs a big win to save her career. A case that proves that she has her act together, something non-controversial to make people forget the recent scandal she's been involved in. Instead, the murder she catches couldn't be more high-profile, the number one suspect her boss's brother. Means, motive, opportunity--check...
  • Bulldog by Delta James

    Bulldog by Delta James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She wears the collar because she is his. She is his because her body knew its master. The moment Olivia Miles resorted to fighting dirty in a fencing match, Lord Nigel Pederson decided to teach her a shameful lesson, but as her quivering bottom reddened under his punishing hand the arousal pooling between her thighs made it clear she needs to be mastered completely...
  • Sealed with a Christmas Promise by Laura Scott

    Sealed with a Christmas Promise by Laura Scott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author Laura Scott. Risking their hearts and their lives while protecting the innocent. .. A promise to protect .  .  . After months of searching, former SEAL turned cop Bryce Flynn and his K9, Kirby, has finally found Callie Burgess. He needs to question her about her former boyfriend, a member of the Desert Death Rays motorcycle gang, who was recently murdered...
  • Cold Threat by Nancy Mehl

    Cold Threat by Nancy Mehl

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Twenty years ago, several people were murdered in Des Moines, and the only evidence left behind was a snowman ornament hanging on a tree on their front lawns. With a suspect behind bars, the killings have come to an end--or so everyone thought. But now crimes with a similar MO are happening in a small Iowa town, and a local detective believes the killer is back and ready to strike again...
  • Christmas with the McCarthys by Jane Henry

    Christmas with the McCarthys by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Spend a Christmas evening with the McCarthys in this heartwarming novella featuring all of your favorite characters.
  • High-Stakes Holiday Reunion by Christy Barritt

    High-Stakes Holiday Reunion by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A CHILD'S LIFE IS AT STAKE. When Christopher Jordan sees the fear in Ashley Wilson's eyes, he knows he can't let her request for help go unanswered. Despite their tumultuous history, he's the only person his ex-fiancée can trust to find her kidnapped nephew...
  • Santa's Subpoena by Rebecca Zanetti

    Santa's Subpoena by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    So Much for Peace During the Holidays. Anna Albertini has her hands full during the holiday season. Her boyfriend Aiden is back in town after being undercover across the country for the last three months, and his sudden over-protectiveness is a little too much...
  • Not So Silent Nights: A Four Book Christmas Collection by Olivia T. Turner

    Not So Silent Nights: A Four Book Christmas Collection by Olivia T. Turner

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A Four Book Christmas Collection by Olivia T.  A Holly For Christmas Christmas magic is in the air. So is my truck. Because some insane driver has driven me off the road and I've jumped the curb. Just great. I'm stuck in the snow on the side of the road on Christmas Eve. Lovely. I'm about to give her a piece of my mind, but she takes a piece of my heart instead. She's perfect...
  • Black Light: Protocol by Shane Starrett

    Black Light: Protocol by Shane Starrett

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    “Yes, sir. ”. Galen Harmon lives to hear those two words. And for fifteen years he lived the dream with a submissive who’d knelt at his feet and offered that simple phrase over and over again. But then she was gone. Ripped away in a heartbeat of savage betrayal and anguish that still haunts him. Until he met Alex. She’s everything that was taken from him...
  • The Scrooge of the Mountain by Tessa Klein

    The Scrooge of the Mountain by Tessa Klein

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s big and grumpy. A real scrooge of a mountain man. And now I’m stuck with him for Christmas. As a perpetually single Christmasholic, I have a complicated relationship with my favorite holiday. I love spreading joy, but I hate having my relationship status shoved in my face. This year will be different. This year, a matchmaker set me up with someone who loves Christmas as much as I do...
  • Mistletoe Murders 4 by Ken Cuperus, Cobie Smulders

    Mistletoe Murders 4 by Ken Cuperus, Cobie Smulders

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The much-anticipated return of the hit Audible Original Mistletoe Murders series, featuring Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother) reprising her role as cozy crimefighter and year-round Christmas store owner Emily Lane in Mistletoe Murders 4...
  • Embattled Christmas by J.M. Madden

    Embattled Christmas by J.M. Madden

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    This is a 13k word novella. Christmas at the Lost and Found Investigative Service is anything but merry this season. John Palmer dreads the holiday. For the past year he and Shannon have been getting along like gangbusters, but as the holiday creeps closer tension invades their relationship. He’s at a loss as to how to fix it. Until he makes a risky gamble...
  • Mistletoe Murders 3 by Ken Cuperus, Cobie Smulders

    Mistletoe Murders 3 by Ken Cuperus, Cobie Smulders

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The much-anticipated return of the hit Audible Original Mistletoe Murders series, featuring Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother) reprising her role as the captivating Emily Lane in Mistletoe Murders 3...
  • Mistletoe Murders 2 by Ken Cuperus, Cobie Smulders

    Mistletoe Murders 2 by Ken Cuperus, Cobie Smulders

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Listening Length: 3 hours and 48 minutes. Back by popular demand, Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother) reprises her role as the captivating Emily Lane in the much-anticipated new season of Mistletoe Murders, from Canadian Screen Award winner Ken Cuperus...
  • A Little Groundhog Day Gamble: A Holidays at Rawhide Ranch Story by Allie Belle, Rawhide Authors

    A Little Groundhog Day Gamble: A Holidays at Rawhide Ranch Story by Allie Belle, Rawhide Authors

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Facing down one of her high school bullies didn't exactly go the way she'd planned. .. Instead of giving Darius Smith a piece of her mind and walking away knowing she'd had the last word, Brynnly somehow finds herself on a date with him. At Rawhide Ranch. Where Darius just accepted a job as a professor at the University...
  • Amy's Santa by Manda Mellett

    Amy's Santa by Manda Mellett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m may be twenty-seven years old, yet every year going home for Christmas is something I eagerly look forward to. I can never wait to get back and see my dad, Heart, my stepmom and my younger brother and sisters, as well as the proxy cousins, uncles and aunts who I grew up with. The Satan’s Devils MC has been my family for all of my life...
  • Christmas Up in Flames by Lisa Harris

    Christmas Up in Flames by Lisa Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Targeted by an arsonist. .. can she survive the holidays? Back in her ex's hometown to investigate an arson, fire inspector Claire Holiday plans to do her job and be home by Christmas. .. until her B&B is set on fire while she's sleeping. She escapes only with the help of firefighter Reid O'Callaghan -- her secret son's father...
  • Christmas at Glacier Grove by Sage Parker

    Christmas at Glacier Grove by Sage Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    47-year-old Lori was expecting a relaxing winter, but when her bank account is mysteriously emptied overnight things start spiraling. Forced to move back home and stay at her parents' bed & breakfast, she’s preparing for an extremely hard Christmas. The small Vermont ski town is full of twinkling lights and charm, but things aren’t as simple for Lori...
  • Call Sign: King by Livia Grant

    Call Sign: King by Livia Grant

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He got cocky. Let his guard down. Now the love of his life is paying the price. For a moment he'd forgotten there were men who wanted him dead. Men who lived their lives in the dark, who could reach out of the shadows he used to live in, and he'd been naive to think the light inside her would keep her safe...
  • Kansas City Christmas by Julie Miller

    Kansas City Christmas by Julie Miller

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A detective with no badge, Edward Kincaid's brooding nature scared medical examiner Holly Masterson, but couldn't dim her holiday spirit. It was when she attracted a stalker that the most wonderful time of the year turned into the most frightening. Working together to reveal a conspiracy too many people had died covering up, Holly found Edward's protection - and powerful embrace - hard to resist...
  • Because of His Past by Kelly Favor

    Because of His Past by Kelly Favor

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Grace Knowles isn’t the type of girl to have sex in exchange for money. But when the unimaginably rich and handsome Liam Houston suggests just such an arrangement, she doesn’t exactly say no to him. Instead, Grace goes to his room in the middle of the night, intending to give him a piece of her mind. But when Liam Houston finally gets his hands on her, nothing’s that simple...
  • Holiday Rescue by Rebecca Zanetti

    Holiday Rescue by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Albertini Family is Back in this Holiday Romance! Quint Albertini likes his life as a smokejumper and search and rescue expert. He has his dog, his friends, and his freedom. He’s had it with women who can’t commit or who want him to change, and now all he has to do is dodge the family match-makers so he can live his peaceful life when he’s not leaping head first into danger.
  • Holiday Rebel by Rebecca Zanetti

    Holiday Rebel by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Secrets are Unwrapped during this Holiday Season. Rory Albertini has survived in a world of espionage and danger by being patient and outwaiting any enemy. So, when his fiancé and the only woman he’s ever loved dumps him, he immediately creates an attack plan...
  • A Baby For Christmas by Layla Valentine, Holly Rayner

    A Baby For Christmas by Layla Valentine, Holly Rayner

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Christmas in New York—it’s the most wonderful time of the year, right? Shayla Zielinski doesn’t think so. Orphaned as a young child, her happy holiday memories are few and far between, and her usual tactic, come December time, is to hunker down and wait for the season of goodwill to blow over. That is, until she meets Colton Cooper...
  • The Disciples Short Stories: Vol. 1 by Izzy Sweet, Sean Moriarty

    The Disciples Short Stories: Vol. 1 by Izzy Sweet, Sean Moriarty

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lucifer and his merry band of killers rule the streets of Garden City. Possessive and obsessive, they take the women they want knowing no one will stop them. But the fun doesn't stop once they reach their happily ever afters. Take a peek at their lives between the books. Includes five short stories set in the Disciples series. Before God Himself - Lucifer. Ho, Ho, Ho - Andrew. Run Lily - Lily...
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    bdsm  suspense  mafia  contemporary  length-novella
  • Ella and the Billionaire's Ball by Catelyn Meadows

    Ella and the Billionaire's Ball by Catelyn Meadows

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As a custodian, Ella usually cleans up after the Christmas ball. She’s never been invited. Until now. Hawk Danielson is sweet, endearing, and chivalrous. As owner of the building she cleans, he can’t know who Ella is. But she’s entranced by him, especially when, of all the women at the ball, he only has eyes for her. Before midnight, they share an enchanting kiss...
  • St. Nick's Christmas Wish by Tamara Ferguson

    St. Nick's Christmas Wish by Tamara Ferguson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Last Thing Emma Expects Is To Fall For A Scrooge. But Little Does She Know That Nick Is Hiding A Big Secret. Vacationing on Bali with friends, stockbroker Nick Hanover catches a glimpse of a beautiful blonde and is instantly attracted. But Nick’s confidence has been tested significantly during the last year after recently breaking up with a fiancé who was cheating...
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