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  • The Moment of Truth by Shari Low

    The Moment of Truth by Shari Low

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The Moment of Truth…Laney Cochrane loves her life.With her friends Millie and Tash, she runs a proposal agency, organising the perfect setting for their clients to pop the question. Finding that forever love is something Laney knows all about. Her marriage to Cameron is blissfully content and she has never doubted they’ll live happily ever after.Then Cara Deacon walks into their office...
  • Finding Infinity by Layne Harper

    Finding Infinity by Layne Harper

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    "Finding Infinity" as described by Colin... "Fine Charlie.” Colin says dropping his hands in defeat. “Here's what I want. I want everybody to back off and let me play football. I want you to go back to practicing medicine because I’m ready for you to be happy again - not this forced shit that you keep trying to sell me...
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  • One Day In Summer by Shari Low

    One Day In Summer by Shari Low

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    One day in summer, three lives are about to change forever.After two decades of looking after others, this is the day that Agnetha McMaster is reclaiming her life. It’s her turn, her time but will she have the courage to start again?Ten years ago, Mitchell McMaster divorced Agnetha and married her best friend, Celeste. Now he suspects his second wife is having an affair...
  • The Legend by Shey Stahl

    The Legend by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    In a lifestyle of speed, adrenaline and desire, one racer has sacrificed everything for the sport he loved. In turn, he will fight for his name, his family and now his life to be the legend he’s been portrayed to be. You can be everything you set out to be if you want it bad enough. You can be that record breaker you said you’d be. You can be that hero you always thought you would be...
  • Favorite Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Favorite Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The boy next door isn’t next door anymore.He’s in Vegas, preparing for the upcoming NFL season, and I’m still stuck in the small Midwestern town where we grew up.We should be together, but people wanted us apart. They won. Secrets are uncovered and lives are forever torn apart.Maybe it was a mistake to try to recapture what we once had after everything we’d been through...
  • Grand Slam by Lisa Suzanne

    Grand Slam by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alexis’s father tells me he’s going to ruin me. He does not want his pop star daughter or her brand associated in any way with the bad boy of baseball.I make it my mission to prove to her father that I’m not the bad guy he thinks I am. But he takes things a few steps too far, causing major issues that will affect my upcoming baseball season...
  • Edge by Brenda Rothert

    Edge by Brenda Rothert

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    One bad hit has left the career of young NHL Center Luke Hudson in question. When he arrives for rehab with a minor league team, his injury has robbed him of the edge that made him great. Team trainer Adella Price’s job is to help Luke get back in peak condition. But their one on one sessions shake her resolve to remain unattached...
  • Commitment by Nia Forrester

    Commitment by Nia Forrester

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It was obvious to everyone but them they were all wrong for each other. Riley is a free-spirited boho writer and Shawn is a magnetic and charismatic rapper, riding the highest crest of his career. She doesn't understand his world and he sure as hell doesn't understand hers. And what's worse, while he's never committed to any woman before, she's committed to someone else...
  • Revere by Bethany-Kris

    Revere by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Legacy Novel She was once his liar. He was once her savior. Cross Donati fills his days with the mafia, family, and responsibility. The wild boy is a distant memory. A waiting prince now sits in his place. An old debt puts the gunrunner right back into the path of his past, but he only sees his future. Every king needs a queen...
  • Xander: Part 2, The Present by Anne Mercier, Sara Eirew

    Xander: Part 2, The Present by Anne Mercier, Sara Eirew

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's eleven years later, and we're still living separate lives. While I know she isn't comfortable with my lifestyle after everything she’s been through, I can't be without her anymore. 
I need her.

 She's my wife. 
She's my heartbeat.
 She's my every breath.
 She's my everything. 

I want to know every detail of her life. I want to be part of it all...
  • Hopelessly Devoted to Violet: Hopelessly Devoted Novella by Terri Anne Browning

    Hopelessly Devoted to Violet: Hopelessly Devoted Novella by Terri Anne Browning

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Every time someone mentions planning their wedding, Violet finds a reason why they should wait.Luca is her soulmate and Love Bug’s favorite person.They are already a family, but they need to make it official.Luca is getting tired of calling her his fiancée and not his wife.But Vi is torn.Saying “I do” to Luca will mean releasing the last hold Remington had on her heart...
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  • Their First Fall: Trucker and Keeka's story by M.J. Fields

    Their First Fall: Trucker and Keeka's story by M.J. Fields

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A new adult / college standalone sports romance novel from USA Today bestselling author, MJ Fields . Their First Fall Keeka Alone in the world, after her mother’s death, she tries to find the life she dreamed of as a child. Trucker Alone in the world the family he felt part of began to fall apart, as his dreams of being an NFL quarterback become his reality...
    Categorized as:
    sports  cheating  betrayal  new adult  contemporary
  • Dark Edges by Kane Caldwell

    Dark Edges by Kane Caldwell

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I’m not your good ole boy or boy-next-door type of guy. If that’s what you’re looking for, I suggest you move on. I curse a lot, work too fucking much, and keep to myself. My edges are hard, rough, and even dark at times. I never thought I would wind up in the business I’m in. I may not always play by the rules, but I go where the money is, keep my nose clean, and my affairs organized...
  • Defile by Jessica Prince

    Defile by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Declan Forrester is arrogant, selfish, and insanely sexy. He was the very first boy I ever loved. Then fame and fortune turned him into a man I no longer recognized. I tried to give him everything he needed, and in return... he broke my heart. Now he’s back, and he wants to make things right. What started as love turned to hate...
  • Point of Freedom by Stacey Lynn

    Point of Freedom by Stacey Lynn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Hatred. Desire. Broken Dreams. Jules McAllister has loved and lost. She experienced the gut wrenching pain of grief after her boyfriend, Scratch, a member of the Nordic Lords MC, died on the same night that she told him they were going to have a child. Grief stricken and destroyed, she left Jasper Bay, unable to tell anyone the truth of what really happened that fateful night...
  • Dark Destiny by Avelyn Paige, Geri Glenn

    Dark Destiny by Avelyn Paige, Geri Glenn

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He's an inmate.She's a free spirit.Delilah believes animals can heal anyone. But she's never come up against someone like the hardened biker who rarely speaks. With Stone Face part of her inmate rehabilitation program, she's got her work cut out for her.Stone Face isn't there to be rehabilitated. Her program is the only way to get to the man that murdered his twin sister...
  • Inevitable Ella by V.H. Nicolson

    Inevitable Ella by V.H. Nicolson

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Seven years ago my soulmate got married.To someone else.Fraser Farmer broke me. Made me incapable of loving again.Seven years later he's back, whispering I love you.He's gorgeous, magnetic, successful, an athlete at the peak of his game.But behind his picture perfect life and family, lies a precarious path of deceit and anguish and a vicious sports agent on the warpath to destroy him...
  • Causing Havoc by Lori Foster

    Causing Havoc by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Orphaned and torn from his sisters as a boy, sexy extreme wrestler Dean "Havoc" Conor gets a letter revealing how much his siblings want him back in Harmony, Kentucky. To stop his sister from marrying a sleazeball, Dean finds himself teaming up with her pretty-but-smart-mouthed friend Eve-who's heard of Havoc's reputation and doesn't need some hunk trampling on her heart...
  • Taz by Andrea Smith

    Taz by Andrea Smith

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Taz: My life is finally perfect. My dreams have all come true. I'm where I want to be with the bureau; having the career I've been planning since I did my stint in the military. I'm married to the one and only woman I've ever loved; my heart beats for her alone. Together we've made beautiful babies that I adore. I'm thirty-three years old and I'm complete. Then one day, it all changes...
  • Listed: Volume III by Noelle Adams

    Listed: Volume III by Noelle Adams

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    This is Volume III of a six-volume serial novel. A marriage of convenience has never been like this. Just before her eighteenth birthday, the doctors tell Emily she has three months to live. Not much time to complete the bucket list she's had since she was twelve. The first item is the hardest--"Get married"--so she turns to the only man she knows who can help...
  • The Widow by Sanne van Ooijen

    The Widow by Sanne van Ooijen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Joan komt voor de grootste uitdaging van haar leven te staan als haar man plotseling komt te overlijden. Ze wordt weduwe en die rol brengt haar vele nieuwe inzichten...
  • Bad Boy Brody by Tijan

    Bad Boy Brody by Tijan

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    One punch took him from Hollywood’s Golden Boy to Bad Boy Brody. The media didn’t care he was grieving his brother’s death. They descended on him, but to change his reputation, his manager got him a deal. Act in an indie film, one that already had Oscar buzz, and he’d get the movie roles he needed to secure his future. He took the deal...
  • Black Oak Burning by Monique Edenwood

    Black Oak Burning by Monique Edenwood

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    Cameron’s relentless craving for me never seemed to end, even when it seemed that he may end up claiming his victory over Jack.The irresistible odyssey into his dark dreams of domination thrilled me to my very core, breaking some of the chains holding me to Jack and setting my soul on fire with the fervor of relentless lust and unspeakable threats of ecstasy...
  • False Perceptions by Michelle Heard

    False Perceptions by Michelle Heard

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From International Bestseller Michelle Heard, comes a stand-alone, dark and gritty Military Romance. Conspiracies and lies lead to a secret that was never supposed to be uncovered. Six months ago we rescued Emilie Swanson, the daughter of retired Navy Admiral George Swanson - now a senator running for the presidency...
  • The Cleaner by Kiersten Modglin

    The Cleaner by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Gunner James is good at death. An expert.His job is to clean up the messes no one else can.But behind that tough exterior, Gunner has a few secrets of his own.Eight years ago, Gunner left his hometown and vowed to never look back. When his past collides with his present in the form of a familiar face, Gunner must return home to take care of one final mess...the woman he left behind...
  • Boone by Elizabeth Knox

    Boone by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I was never good at love, but damn if I didn’t want to try when I met her.BooneAll my life, I’ve never been good at love. My wife literally decided out of the blue that she was going to up and leave me, and our two boys. She acted like she was going to the grocery store to grab a few things and never came back...
  • Finding Amanda by Robin Patchen

    Finding Amanda by Robin Patchen

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An award-winning novel with brand-new bonus content…Amanda Johnson hopes that publishing her memoir will finally bring justice to the psychiatrist who abused her as a teenager and heal the wounds that have long festered. But her estranged husband, Mark, is determined to talk her out of exposing her traumatic past...
  • Muscle Memory by Stylo Fantome

    Muscle Memory by Stylo Fantome

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Her lips, the way she feels, how she moves against me. Her voice when she laughs, her eyes when she cries. Her soul connected to mine, for better or for worse, for all eternity. I don't remember. A blank face. Unrecognizable. The darkness and impenetrable fog, day after day after day. Who am I? And for that matter, who is she? I can't remember...
  • Hotshot by Ahren Sanders

    Hotshot by Ahren Sanders

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I don’t remember a time I didn’t love Crenshaw Bennett. I tried to deny it, but my feelings grew deeper. I thought he could never love me the way I love him. I was wrong—outrageously, deliriously, and beautifully wrong. One innocent kiss changes my life forever. Suddenly, Shaw is mine. Loyal, devoted, and the most loving man on this Earth...
  • Roman by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Roman by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Roman McNamara is not only the president of the Savage Kings of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina but he’s also the king of one-night stands. Growing up in a tourist town where there’s a party every night means living up the good life with no commitments to anyone but the MC...
  • Defending Hayden by L.P. Dover

    Defending Hayden by L.P. Dover

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Carolina Cougars keep fighting for love as the Second Chances series from bestselling author L. P. Dover continues! In Defending Hayden, a damaged football star teams up with the only woman who can take the pain away.   No one’s tougher than Carolina Cougars linebacker Derek McLaughlin...
  • Crazy Maybe by A.D. Justice

    Crazy Maybe by A.D. Justice

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Andi Stone is a strong, smart and independent woman, thanks to the help of a famous boxing trainer, Mack, and his protégé, Shane, who have respectively been like a father and brother to her. But that wasn't always the case. Andi never knew what a “normal” life was like...
  • Tempting Sophia by Jessica Prince

    Tempting Sophia by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Having my heart broken once was enough to make me give up on the idea of love all together. Instead of searching for The One I decided to embrace variety and turn by back on monogamy. I made a living convincing women they didn’t need a man to feel complete. And I totally rocked at it...
  • Fighting To Ride by Debra Kayn

    Fighting To Ride by Debra Kayn

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Get ready to roll… Kurt Ramchett went from Bantorus MC kid to unbeatable underground boxer to president of the Bantorus MC, Federal Charter. Dedicated and badass, Kurt's running guns for the militia and extending the Bantorus territory. He never expected to run into trouble in the form of a beautiful stripper his first night in Federal...
  • Listed: Volume II by Noelle Adams

    Listed: Volume II by Noelle Adams

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    This is Volume II of a six-volume serial novel. A marriage of convenience has never been like this. Just before her eighteenth birthday, the doctors tell Emily she has three months to live. Not much time to complete the bucket list she's had since she was twelve. The first item is the hardest--"Get married"--so she turns to the only man she knows who can help...
  • Elusive by L.A. Fiore

    Elusive by L.A. Fiore

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I didn’t set out to be a pirate. Life for me was about surviving the ugliness that people knew existed but didn’t talk about. I lived in hell. Then I saw her. I knew I couldn’t keep her, but for just a little while I had found heaven. Eight years later, I can’t get her out of my head. It is a mistake sailing to her island. It is a mistake reaching out to her...
  • A Love so Tragic by Stevie J. Cole

    A Love so Tragic by Stevie J. Cole

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Promises. We all make them. Sometimes we break them. But what happens when the promise you break haunts your dreams, when that moment of betrayal echoes within every last beat of your heart? Love. Love is passionate, painful, and all consuming in the most brutal yet beautiful way...
  • Wicked Little Games by Dee Palmer

    Wicked Little Games by Dee Palmer

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    “Sometimes if you wait too long, it’s too late.” Sarah Strohmeyer Tia was five years old when she fell in love Atticus Kraus. She didn’t care about the castle he lived in, that he was the heir to a vast empire, or that she was the daughter of his housekeeper...
  • Keep Happy by A.C. Bextor

    Keep Happy by A.C. Bextor

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Those who think they know me would tell you I’m a caring mother, a loyal friend, and a dutiful wife. They’d say the golden path which led me here is the road every little girl dreams of taking.   However, the guise of my happy existence has come to be just that—an illusion. A mask of contentment intended for the world to believe...
  • Six Secret Babies by Layla Valentine

    Six Secret Babies by Layla Valentine

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He tried to keep their fling under wraps,But six adorable babies aren’t going to stay hidden for long…HERThe Wenstown Wolves were in need of a new physical therapist, and apparently I was the only one they were interested in,Now I’m halfway across the country, making twice what I made in Seattle, and the team’s new management is an even more welcome surprise…Jason Munro is the buff, big-headed...
  • Never Over You by Ryleigh Andrews

    Never Over You by Ryleigh Andrews

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Strange how life deals the cards sometimes … Life was perfect for Mia Devereux. “You can always have me, Mia. I’m always yours. Forever, suga.” She had everything she always wanted. But maybe life wasn’t so perfect after all. One event threatens her happily ever after...
  • Bring The Heat by K.B. Winters

    Bring The Heat by K.B. Winters

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Steamy, Sexy Bad Boys Of Summer! Can It Get Any Hotter? I never claimed to be the greatest pitcher in the world—then again, maybe I did—but I was probably drunk off my ass trying to seduce some chick. I had no intention of ever becoming Cody Wright, the best—or the greatest. That was more my old man’s dream. The REAL Mr. Wright...
  • HEAT by C.A. Harms

    HEAT by C.A. Harms

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Beckett Montgomery is a well-known detective in the New York area. He takes his job seriously and has little time for anything else. During an investigation in to a series of break in’s of an apartment building on 32nd St., he finds himself getting a little too involved. What had always in the past been his job, now felt as if it was so much more...
  • Missing From Me by Jayne Frost

    Missing From Me by Jayne Frost

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sean Four years ago I made an unforgivable mistake. And Anna was the price. I thought I’d forget her. Thought I’d move on. But who was I kidding? No amount of drumming could drown out my love for her. When I see here again, backstage after one our shows, it's clear: Anna's mine. She’ll always be mine.  One mistake. Four years of regret...
  • Poison Kisses: Part 2 by Lisa Renee Jones

    Poison Kisses: Part 2 by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I loved her. She left me. She betrayed me but now it's time to open the closed doors. I'll tell her my secret if she tells me hers. Our history, is more than lies. It's our story, and I will do whatever it takes to reveal it all. I'm the Assassin, She's The Poison Princess. We're going to kill the bad guys, but we're still deciding if we're enemies...
  • Repair My Life by Hayley Faiman, Pink Ink Design

    Repair My Life by Hayley Faiman, Pink Ink Design

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A single mother of four. A man who never imagined he’d ever have a family. She’s running again. He’s there to catch her. Together they will either float or drown. The future is set in stone for Rebecca Albright. Married young, she’s had four children back-to-back, but she’s living in misery with a van on its last leg as her only mode of transportation...
  • Faster Longer by Colleen Masters

    Faster Longer by Colleen Masters

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Two star crossed lovers racing together at breakneck speeds, barreling along at 200 miles per hour willing to destroy everything and everyone in their path. Siena can't escape. She's trapped now. How did she fall so helplessly, recklessly in love with the one man who could single handedly turn her life upside down? Harrison has her wrapped up in his strong, muscular, tattooed arms...
  • The Biker's Lucky Charm by Glenna Maynard

    The Biker's Lucky Charm by Glenna Maynard

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    LinkI messed up. I broke my vows and her heart. The last thing I ever wanted to do was hurt my wife. One moment of liquid regret. One night I can’t take back. A stupid mistake that should have never happened jeopardized all that I have. I’ll do anything to make it right. All I need is a little luck on my side. Pam He promised me forever. All the vows we made were empty. Lies I told myself...
  • Hannah by Faleena Hopkins

    Hannah by Faleena Hopkins

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Every boyfriend I've ever had either bored me......or hurt me.I'm tired of what the world thinks they know.The gossip. Retaliation.So after another 'date' betrays my trust,when Sofia Sol, my rebellious cousin, says,“Hey...let's get out of here.A vacation from EVERYTHING.”My answer?A big fat YES.I mean, why not?Life can be an adventure.With true love where you least expect it…If you just say yes...
  • Envy by Dylan Allen

    Envy by Dylan Allen

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    If envy is a sin, then let me be damned.Graham was born to be a star.  Once upon a time, that star shone only for me.  Now, I have to share him with the rest of the world. For a while, I thought I could do it. Because, beneath the hypnotic smile, gorgeous body and God-given charm that made him famous, I still caught glimpses of my best friend.Of the boy who called me sunshine and loved me...
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