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Beyond Reason by Autumn Jones Lake
Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWHEN THE MOST TOXIC PEOPLE COME DISGUISED AS FAMILY, WHO CAN YOU TRUST? Betrayal by blood cuts the deepest. Teller’s found his ride or die girl. The light Charlotte brings to his life has touched the darkest parts of his soul. But a devastating secret from her past resurfaces to threaten their future. Every truth can be erased with one lie... -
Shelter for Blythe by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsBlythe Coopman never imagined she’d be homeless, but a series of events has landed her on San Antonio’s streets…hungry, tired, and scared. She clings to her most precious possession, a phone accidentally swiped from a local firefighter, who, instead of canceling the number, starts texting her... -
Losing Him by Jennifer Foor
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsDo you think you know me? Do you think I'm some terrible person, who ruins people's lives for my own satisfaction? You couldn't be more wrong. Haven't you ever loved someone, so much that you'd do anything to be with them? That's how it all started, because of my love for someone that never returned the feelings... -
Tempting Fate by Pamela Clare
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA woman with no roots… Naomi fled the cult-like nightmare of her childhood and learned to rely on one person—herself. Her resourcefulness keeps her alive during a catastrophe in the mountains, but it’s no help at all when it comes to Chaska Belcourt, the sexy EMT who saves her life... -
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Night Moves : Dream Man/After the Night by Linda Howard
"Dream Man" Marlie Keen was trying to lead a quiet, ordinary life. She thought the clairvoyance that allowed her to witness crimes as they happened had been destroyed in the nightmare of her past. Then one night it returned with a vengeance, and she desperately needed to find someone to make it stop. Detective Dane Hollister of the Orlando police department had never met anyone like Marlie...Categorized as:
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Thunder by Lilly Atlas
Makenna has a past she’d rather bury deep in her mind. Unfortunately, as the sole guardian for her five siblings, forgetting where they came from isn’t possible. All she can hope for is to provide her loved ones the kind of untroubled childhood she’d always dreamed of and keep them far away from where she grew up...Categorized as:
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Call Me Crazy by Quinn Loftis
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 15 ratings“I’m looking out from inside the chaos. It must be a one-way mirror because no one seems to be able to see back inside to where I am. The looks on their faces, the judgment in their eyes, tells me everything I need to know. The most frustrating part about the whole messed up situation is that even though I’m the one that they stare at in shock, I am just as shocked as they are... -
Maddox by Megan O'Brien
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsI’ve never known what it’s like to have a dream that’s really mine. To live a life without fear. Being the niece of the most ruthless mob boss in Las Vegas has made any sort of freedom impossible. Francesca Rossi has spent much of her life balancing the weight of running the family bakery with avoiding her uncle’s life of violence and corruption... -
Lobsters, Bisques, and Berries by Olivia Gaines
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLakota Simjak is nothing like he looks. A laid-back kind of fella that takes life as it comes, while enjoying the simple beauty of the day to days. However, the lonely nights and eternal mornings tells him it’s time for a change. He wants a wife.Melody Willis’ trophy case displays thirty years of being in the music business and performances all over the world. Yet, she goes to bed alone... -
Watch Me Unravel by Julia Wolf
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA sexy and emotional second chance romance... David Wiesel lives for making music, partying, and women. He has a wicked sense of humor and a body made for sinning. He's the kind of guy every mama warns her daughter about. Sylvia Price lives for her daughter, theater, and teaching. She's living the responsible life and left her wild ways in the past... -
The VIP Doubles Down by Nancy Herkness
In the witty, sizzling finale to award-winning author Nancy Herkness’s Wager of Hearts series, a haunted writer conquers his demons with the help of a feisty muse and a passion that doesn’t play by the book. Gavin Miller, the billionaire author of a bestselling thriller series, struggles with a grim secret: he hasn’t written a word in more than a year... -
My Sister the Moon by Sue Harrison
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn abused and unwanted daughter of the First Men Tribe, young Kiin knows the harsh realities of life in a frozen land at the top of the world... -
Voice of the Eagle by Linda Lay Shuler
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn VOICE OF THE EAGLE, Linda Lay Shuler continues her Time Circle Quartet as Kwani, "She Who Remembers," her mate Tolonqua and their newborn son begin their trek to Cicuye, Tolonqua's home. Cicuye is a pueblo city, an outpost where desert canyons meet the verdant buffalo range. Danger lurks there, for marauding tribes prey on the village with savage ferocity... -
Saving Sophie by Cate Beauman
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJewelry designer Sophie Burke has fled Maine for the anonymity of the big city. She’s starting over with a job she tolerates and a grungy motel room she calls home on the wrong side of town, but anything is better than the nightmare she left behind... -
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Bangshift by Winter Travers
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 11 ratings*Skid Row Kings Series, Book 3 Kurt Jensen has had enough. Tired of being under his brother's thumb and having the one person he wanted push him away, Kurt knew it was time to leave. California was supposed to be the new start he craved and needed, but one wrong turn brought everything crashing down around him, literally... -
Sweet Agony by Terri Anne Browning, Sara Eirew
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsVengeance was something I’d been waiting all my life to deliver. It would be sweet and worth every risk I’d taken to get to this point. I was moments away from pulling the trigger, taking the life of the man who’d cost my father his… And then she was dragged into the room, struggling and fighting for freedom. The moment I set eyes on Tavia, everything changed... -
Embrace The Wild Land by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAbigail Trent was very young when she left the world she knew to forge her destiny with a half-breed Cheyenne brave, Lone Eagle. But now, as Civil War raged across the land, their love was put to the harshest test of all. For even in the peaceful New Mexico territory, they couldn't escape the violence of a country in upheaval... -
Ranger Creed by Elle James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNative American of the Blackfeet tribe, Lani Running Bear ends her service in the Army and returns to the reservation to help her family after her father's death. When members of her tribe turn up dead, she doesn't know who she can trust and calls on the Brotherhood Protectors for help... -
Warnings & Wildfires by Autumn Jones Lake
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA steamy standalone romance featuring a swoon-worthy single dad and the one woman he absolutely shouldn’t fall in love with. Sullivan It’s a hot summer morning and I’m already running late. I’m no one’s white knight, but when I see a damsel in distress, I have to rescue her. I didn’t know it would be Aubrey Dorado, the girl I swore was off-limits...Categorized as:
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Protect Me by Lacey Black
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNate Stevens loves three things: Work, Family, Women. In that order. Having absolutely no desire to follow in three of his siblings’ footsteps by settling down, Nate lives for his work as a firefighter. That’s why his chance meeting with Lia leaves him unsettled like never before. There’s just something about the beautifully shy and reserved woman that he can’t walk away from. Run. Hide... -
Snow White by Paul Heins, Trina Schart Hyman
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsSpared by her would-be executioner, Snow White finds a home with seven kindly dwarfs, but the hateful queen who wants her dead will stop at nothing to be the most beautiful woman in the land. A poisoned apple seems to send Snow White to her death, but true love brings her back, and good once again prevails... -
Brother Wind by Sue Harrison
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIn the desolate Aleutian Islands, two women, Kiin and Kukutux, confront tragedies that threaten their very survival, while Samiq, leader of the First Men, must face the cruel challenge of leading those whom the spirits have abandoned... -
Resisting Diesel by Megan Fall
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTrinity's father Grizz was savagely executed by his own motorcycle club and she was witness to it all. Now on the run, she hides from the new President, Detroit, who craves her for his own. Diesel is the President of the Devil’s Soldiers, a motorcycle club comprising ex-military men. When a timid, scared young girl shows up in his town, he can't overlook the attraction he feels for her... -
In the Barren Ground by Loreth Anne White
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn the Barrens, a vast wilderness in northern Canada bordering the Arctic Circle, night consumes every hour of the winter. Humans are scarce; ferocious predators roam freely. Locals say spirits do, too. Rookie cop Tana Larsson doesn’t mind the dark and quiet. Five months pregnant and hoping to escape the mistakes of her past, she takes a post in Twin Rivers, population 320... -
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Savage Moon by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn Savage Moon, bestselling author Cassie Edwards brings readers another passionate historical romance set on the American frontier. Misshi Bradley knew two lives. As a settler girl, she'd seen her family die, one by one, on the grueling trail west. Stolen by renegade Indians, she'd grown to womanhood with an Indian family... -
With Kol by K.L. Donn
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKol Daniels has spent years raising his sister after their parents passed away. Finally gaining the freedom to live his own life, he meets a girl… Who runs away. Thea Andrews only wants to be normal. She wants to drop the scars of her past and move forward. After finding a friendship with a woman who didn’t demand to know all her secrets, Thea feels comfort in her surroundings...Categorized as:
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If Stars Were Wishes: by Audrey Carlan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Audrey Carlan comes the next, and final book, in The Wish Series.Growing up, I believed in infinite possibilities. I wished on stars and let my imagination prepare me for the unknown. The older you get the more you realize that you have power. You have been given the free will to control your own path. Jump into your destiny feet first... -
Tripp by S. Nelson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWhen Tripp Cavanaugh finally recovers after being left for dead at the gates of his club, his intention is to leave and resume his nomadic lifestyle. But when his president asks him to stick around and oversee the club’s newest business adventure, he readily agrees. He has no idea the simple request will turn his world inside out, encountering the one woman who will irrevocably change him... -
Wolf's Hunt by Carol Dawn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHer...I love my job. It's my passion and something that I will do for the rest of my days. Even when the sexy Indian man starts invading my life. But, I don't have time for romance. People need my help. But, something big is happening on the streets and the police are no help whatsoever. So, I do the one thing that I know I'm good at. I help. Him.. -
Game of Hearts by Cathy Yardley
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKyla Summers has been offered the opportunity of a lifetime to get her cosplay business off the ground, and only one thing stands in her way. She needs someone to take over the auto shop, and there’s only one person she can think of to call… Jericho Salomon hasn’t been back in his home town since he joined a biker gang and rode off nine years ago...Categorized as:
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Magic Man by Jamie Schlosser
CASEY I’ve been putting my son first for so long that I’ve forgotten how to be me. Each monotonous day bleeds into the next, and I feel like I’m struggling to keep my head above water. But a kiss at the top of a Ferris wheel with a man I barely know changes that. Jay reminds me that I used to be bold. Vivacious. Funny. Strong... -
Jailbait by Kristin Coley
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"I'm no one's idea of a savior, Jailbait." Creed Hayes wasn't looking for redemption or a happily ever after, and he sure as hell wasn't looking to save a girl that tempted him beyond all reason. Sloan Spencer was trouble with a capital T. Too young, too innocent, and too damn beautiful... -
Song of the River by Sue Harrison
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsEighty centuries before our time, in the frozen, snowbound interior of a place that will someday be called Alaska, a beautiful young woman called K'os, of the Cousin River Village, is brutally attacked and ravaged by men from the Near River Village. With ruthless passion she vows vengeance on those who have wronged her... -
She Who Remembers by Linda Lay Shuler
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsKwani. A beautiful woman born in the American southwest into the long extinct Anasazi tribe, long before Columbus...whose blue eyes marked her as a witch and set her apart from the Indian tribe that raised her... -
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Loving Misty by Megan Fall
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsTrike loves being in The Stone Knight's, but it still feels like he's missing something. That's when Ali calls him to go pick up a friend, and he meets the pretty little blind girl. His heart beats faster, his hands start to sweat, and he realizes she's the one. Misty is still getting over the accident that killed her parents and left her blind... -
Call Down the Stars by Sue Harrison
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn that day of great terror and sadness, the girl called Daughter escaped with her grandfather across the icy North Pacific to find shelter on the islands of the Whale Hunters. But peace was not to be their lot. For here the mad medicine woman K'os was scheming vengeance against her most despised enemy, the revered warrior and statesman called Chakliux -- her son... -
Walks The Fire by Stephanie Grace Whitson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Indian thumped his chest and repeated, "Know God here." Opening the fist, he touched his temple. "Need God here. Missionary say this book teach God. You teach." Captured by the Lakota Sioux on a Nebraskan prairie, Jesse King wonders how she will adjust to life among the Indians... -
Consume by Jessica Prince
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKillian Everett is condescending, egotistical, and a complete jerk. When I started as the new assistant for the famous rock band Civil Corruption, I thought I’d hit the career jackpot... but I was wrong. With his attitude, bad behavior, and stupid good looks, Killian has made my life a living hell since my very first day. We may fight constantly, but that doesn’t make me want him any less... -
Savage Mists by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith dreams of peace for his people, Iron Cloud begins his quest for vengeance against the government agents who have abused them, by first abducting white woman... -
Hailey's Truth by Cate Beauman
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHailey Roberts has never had it easy. Despite the scars of a tragic childhood, she’s made a life for herself. As a part-time student and loving nanny, she yearns for a family of her own and reluctant Austin Casey, Ethan Cooke Security’s best close protection agent. Hailey’s past comes back to haunt her when her long lost brother tracks her down, bringing his dangerous secrets with him... -
Drake by Harper Bentley
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDrake Powers had to be the most infuriating piece of work I’d met in my entire life. Never mind his gorgeous face, body, and tattoos. That was beside the point. The things that came out of the cocky bastard’s mouth—directed toward me, of course—had my own mouth falling open in shock. His controlling, bad-boy demeanor should’ve had me running in the other direction... -
Love Starts with Elle by Rachel Hauck
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsElle's living the dream--but is it her dream or his? Elle loves life in Beaufort, South Carolina--lazy summer days on the sand bar, coastal bonfires, and dinners with friends sharing a lifetime of memories. And she's found her niche as the owner of a successful art gallery too. Life is good. Then the dynamic pastor of her small town church sweeps her off her feet... -
Blue Willow by Deborah Smith
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA powerful novel of a man and a woman from different worlds whose passion binds them together even as it tears them apart—from the bestselling author of When Venus Fell and A Place to Call Home There had always been MacKenzies and Colebrooks at Blue Willow, their histories entangled like the graceful branches of the rare willow trees that thrived there... -
The Bachelor's Wedding by Betty Neels
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHOLDING OUT FOR A HERO A practical marriage? Araminta Smith had first met Professor Jason Lister when she was hired to look after his niece and nephew. Knowing that her plain but honest looks weren't about to catch her a husband, she was intrigued by the distinguished surgeon's interest in her. Since he was also a confirmed bachelor, the professor's proposal came as an even greater surprise... -
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Moondust and Madness by Janelle Taylor
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsCAPTIVE TO HIS SAVAGE PASSION... A moan escaped Jana Greyson as this strong, handsome stranger invaded her lips with his demanding kisses. He had stolen her from her world, made her his prisoner, and now enslaved her with the trembling rapture of his hunger... igniting a white-heat that melted her will to resist... -
A Personal Matter by Karyn Langhorne, Karyn Langhorne Wynn
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsCrossing the line ... Alayna Jackson's dream is to be a lawyer -- and not even being the only African-American paralegal in a high-power, lily-white law firm will hold her down... -
The Green-Eyed Doll by Jerrie Alexander
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsCatherine McCoy is running from her past. She's been on the move for a year, hiding the secret and guilt in her heart. When she lands in small-town Texas and meets Sheriff Matt Ballard, he ignites a flame she thought lost forever. Matt has scars of his own. He left the big city after an undercover operation went bad and his partner was killed... -
Tender Ecstasy by Janelle Taylor
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKiss of the night wind. . .Whispered kisses. . .Follow the wind. . .Each novel that Janelle Taylor writes is filled with heart-pounding passion and romantic adventure. Yet it is the compelling saga of the beautiful Alisha and her Indian lover Gray Eagle and their descendants which continues to enthrall her readers the most. . -
Close to Heaven by Pamela Clare
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe has nothing… Rain Minear has fantasized about finding herself in Joe Moffat’s arms for years. It’s just her luck that the night it finally happens, he’s carrying her into the emergency room. It’s Joe who steps up to help her when a tragedy brings her life crashing down... -
Claim by Megan O'Brien
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEmerly Greer has been living a low-key life, content with her multiple jobs and her books. People are complicated; animals and kids are much easier to understand. As owner of Talon Security, Travis McAllister has seen success beyond what he ever expected—causing the boundaries he's set around himself to grow ever thicker...
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