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  • Fighting for Honor by J.B. Salsbury

    Fighting for Honor by J.B. Salsbury

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author JB Salsbury brings her Fighting series to Harper Sloan’s Hope Town in Fighting for Honor. UFL fighter Caleb hasn’t been to Hope Town since he was eighteen. His next big fight takes place in Atlanta and the serene lakefront home from his childhood is the perfect place to train without distractions...
  • Perfect Boy by Hannah Gray

    Perfect Boy by Hannah Gray

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    An entire campus knows my name. Women throw themselves at me, hoping I’ll take them home that night. Whispers from the NHL say I’m the one to watch. And the weight of each game is on my shoulders because if our opposing team scores … that’s on me. All the things that keep me up at night are probably someone else’s dreams...
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  • We Said Forever by Marie James, T E Black

    We Said Forever by Marie James, T E Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Rock bottom. They say the only way to go from there is up, but what is “up” when you’re born into someone else’s rock bottom? At ten, football became my first love. It’s what got me out of the house away from my self-destructive family...
  • Fang's Enlightenment by Ciara St James

    Fang's Enlightenment by Ciara St James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Things refuse to quiet down around Tenillo for Fang and his club, the Ares Infidels MC. No matter how many bad guys they bring to justice, they find there are more in need of their kind of vigilantism. For Fang, that’s alright by him. He joins the Ares Infidels to be part of a brotherhood that’s bigger than just him and his club brothers. He joins to have a bigger family...
  • I Need You To Love Me by Genicious

    I Need You To Love Me by Genicious

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Together they are nothing more than madness,but they say there’s always some madness in loveSix years elapsed since he shattered her life. Four years since she’s brought him to his knees.Now, Ace is the youngest boxing champion in the world – a force to be reckoned with. He’s dangerous, heartless, and always gets his way.Calla moved to New York to chase her career...
  • Sexiled by Mickey Miller

    Sexiled by Mickey Miller

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Morgan Kennedy:Campus Legend.Ruggedly handsome superstar athlete turned hedge fund manager.My one night stand mistake.And now my boss at my internship.Every staff meeting, I’m taken back to the night I was filled with a need I never knew was possible.Sparks fly between us in the office...
  • 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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  • Dear Huxley: Heart of a Wounded Hero by Layne Daniels

    Dear Huxley: Heart of a Wounded Hero by Layne Daniels

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    This summer, my older brother and I both came home. Me, toting a college degree and a job with the city attorney. Him, with a decade of service to our country and a brotherhood of guys who followed him home.Eavesdropping like the nosy little sister I’ll always be, I overheard them talking about the only one in their team who reenlisted. I’m intrigued...
  • Butterfly by Cambria Hebert

    Butterfly by Cambria Hebert

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Drunken brawls. One-night stands.No-show interviews. Toilet-papering my hoity-toity neighbor’s house.Insulting my fans. Trashing hotel rooms.What’s it take to become public enemy number one?I just told you.I’ve done all that and more.My poor conduct got me on the Celebs Behaving Badly listand ultimately ruined my career.From the world’s number-one popstar to world’s most hated.That’s me...
  • The Seal's Squid by Layne Daniels

    The Seal's Squid by Layne Daniels

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Meet the girl of my dreams? Check.Have the best night of my life? Check.Get called away for weeks with no contact? Check. Unfortunately.I never expected life post-active duty to be more adventurous than when I was still with my SEAL team, but here we are. A simple freelance contract for the government, and I come home to find my organized life is in chaos.Thankfully, my girl is waiting for me...
  • Secrets Vol. 2 by Ella Steele

    Secrets Vol. 2 by Ella Steele

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Sexy thoughts about Cole fill Anna's dreams. Every detail burns brightly in her mind; the way his hands feel on her bare skin, the soft brush of his lips against hers, and the way their bodies fit perfectly together. Anna awakes breathless, tingling as if it really happened. What caused her to think about Cole like that? It was completely forbidden...
  • Inked By My Sister's Ex by Flora Ferrari

    Inked By My Sister's Ex by Flora Ferrari

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    My sister is all I’ve got.Kelly basically raised me after we lost our parents in a plane crash. When a douche made a joke about it, when life went bad, and when I needed her…She was there. Always.But I can’t stop crushing on her ex-boyfriend.Jamie Jensen is six and a half feet of pure muscle, his arms tattooed and strong, his hair silver…his aura brooding. Aura sounds so cheesy, but he has one...
  • His Runaway Bride by Kate Hunt

    His Runaway Bride by Kate Hunt

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a runaway bride bursts into his butcher shop, gentle giant Seth is overcome with desire.The bride’s beauty and curves are enough to make him forget his own name.But he holds himself back—it isn’t the time or place to pursue her.Besides, he’s never been smooth with women, and she’s too young for a guy in his forties like him...
  • Diablo by Haley Travis

    Diablo by Haley Travis

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can this devil atone for his many sins?I was settling into a quiet life. Work, reading, and endless hours riding and living with my brothers of the Dirty Sinners MC.Until Avery appeared. An innocent angel surrounded by sweetness and light.A filthy rich man with an even filthier reputation had no right to even touch her, much less claim her...
  • The Way Back To me by Anne Mercier

    The Way Back To me by Anne Mercier

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    She was perky, fun, and full of life—everything I hated about girls and their bullshit exterior. People called her bubbly; I called her “fake-as-hell.” The edgy, dark, lonely girl in front of me was not the Olivia Brennan I knew from high school—far from it, actually. I knew the story—the whole town knew the story, we witnessed it all...
  • Wrath by Dani Wyatt

    Wrath by Dani Wyatt

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Why doesn’t anyone pray for Satan? He needs it. But so do I, because Kristina Joy Kennedy is killing me. It’s been a year since I first saw her, wearing a white dress, blonde hair braided back with a cute pink bow at the bottom, walking into the church across the street from the Ride or Die bar. A year since my heart came alive. A year since she first told me to get lost.We are worlds apart...
  • The Trouble with Gravity by K.K. Allen

    The Trouble with Gravity by K.K. Allen

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Kai’s life is a series of choreographed steps, each one shielding her from her tragic past. Audition, dance, get paid, repeat. It’s a broken record, but it’s what keeps her world spinning.When a dangerously handsome man with trouble written all over his face rides into her life, his entrance makes a disastrous splash...
  • Craving Carlo by Mia Madison

    Craving Carlo by Mia Madison

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    "You gave me a taste of your fire. Hell no, I'm not walking away."Carlo Adamo is the most perfect man I have ever seen -- and the only one whose touch drives me mad.But some of us aren't meant for happy endings. If he knew the truth, he'd forget about me.I just need to stop trembling in his arms long enough to make him believe it...
  • Wright Kind of Trouble by K.A. Linde

    Wright Kind of Trouble by K.A. Linde

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    An age gap, enemy’s little sister romance set in the Wright world about Harley Wright & Chase Sinclair from USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde. He didn’t know I was ten years younger.I didn’t know he was a Sinclair.He didn’t care that I was a Wright.I knew exactly what I wanted.Yet, I know none of this when I fall into his bed...
  • Gage The Mountain Man by Raven Moon

    Gage The Mountain Man by Raven Moon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    "I need her to know that my heart would stop without her in my life..." -Gage My best friend Jess is always trying to play matchmaker.Come kayaking with my fiance and his friend, she said.A romantic day out on the river in the mountains.Nope. For a city girl like me, this is hell.Mainly because the man she's brought for me is a freaking prick...
  • Risk by Skye Jordan

    Risk by Skye Jordan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Skye Jordan returns with another adrenaline-infused story from the Renegades stunt team!After two years sidelined from the Renegades, Duke Reid wants nothing more than the excitement of his stuntwork—except for Caitlyn Winters. She's country fresh and just as naive, the kind of woman you rarely find in LA...
  • With Kol by K.L. Donn

    With Kol by K.L. Donn

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kol 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...
  • Ask for Moore by Rochelle Paige

    Ask for Moore by Rochelle Paige

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Rochelle Paige comes a rivals-to-lovers, opposites-attract, small-town romance about finding love in the most unexpected of places.Waverly Duncan had one goal: beat Ryland Moore on his home turf.She was the big-city attorney waltzing into small-town Mooreville to protect her client's interests...
  • Cap by Elise Faber

    Cap by Elise Faber

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s the one he wants.And he’s not going to give her up without a fight.As the newly named captain of the San Francisco Gold, Josh is used to pressure and hard work.What he’s not used to?Women despising him.Jess, however, has taken an instant dislike to him, and no matter what he tries to do, he can’t seem to get beyond her prickly exterior...
  • My Curvy Bunny by Pippa Lux

    My Curvy Bunny by Pippa Lux

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Good girls have never looked sweeter. WillowI’m doing all I can to stay afloat, to forget how lonely I am now that my sweet grandparents are gone. Applying for a second job as a waitress at Molly’s Grove, a beautiful, magical restaurant, seems like the perfect solution.But the pain follows me, tainting my excitement. My hope. Until I lay eyes on my new boss, Mason Aldridge...
  • BIG BURLY GUARD by Erin Havoc

    BIG BURLY GUARD by Erin Havoc

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    After those threats, I thought I would never feel safe again.There’s only one place I can be myself:In the arms of my big, burly, very off-limits bodyguard.Sebastian Cook is huge, just like my dreams.As unreachable as those too.He’s much older, grumpy. Professional to a fault.I should not be crushing on him, but one touch sends my head spinning.He’ll never make a move...
  • Rebel Boss by Lana Love

    Rebel Boss by Lana Love

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    One blue-collar boss and confirmed bachelor + One curvy babe with an unexpected inheritance + One vintage Mustang = A searing romance about the power of family and forgiveness!The day a woman brings a vintage Mustang in for restoration, I'm a goner. The car is beautiful, but the woman bringing the car in makes my heart rev like it never has.Thing is, I'm a bachelor...
  • October is for Owen by Kaci Rose

    October is for Owen by Kaci Rose

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    When a rockslide strands them in the mountains, he's her only chance at safety...KennedyIt was meant to be a solo trip—a tribute to my grandparents, and a final memory before a new chapter in my life.Only, I wasn't alone at the lake.I hadn't planned on meeting a mountain man that made my heart race or the rockslide that left the path back to town unpassable...
  • Striking by Khloe Summers

    Striking by Khloe Summers

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can secrets of the past keep this older man away, or will the future shine bright?JulieI've never been the kind to need a rescue.I've always been strong, determined, and independent.But a recent heartbreak has my life spinning out of control,A dark, inked, older man offers me a little more than just a hand.MaverickJulie is everything I've ever wanted...
  • Bet On It by Ajme Williams

    Bet On It by Ajme Williams

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Being a billionaire had become boring until a stranger showed up to a conference and spiced things up...Curvy, sassy, and dangerously younger than me...Analyn was everything that a former hockey player needed to stay away from.I was used to women falling all over me.But Analyn’s pretty mouth that never shut up was still tempting.Especially when she made a bet I couldn’t resist...
  • Moody by C.M. Seabrook

    Moody by C.M. Seabrook

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Heartbreaker. Playboy. Reckless. Wild and Rough. Those are just a few of the names she's called me, but I don't care as long as I get what I want - her heart. She deserves more than I can give. Problem is she's all I want. The smart thing would be to stay away. And believe me I've tried. I've kept my distance for four years...and time's up. Isabelle Stewart is mine...
  • A Righteous Man by Jay Crownover

    A Righteous Man by Jay Crownover

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Salinger Dolan.You know his name.You've seen his face.You've spent money on the endless amount of useless crap he endorses.Of course, you've heard the stories.You know the ones…The one that claimed he was hard to work with and totally unprofessional on set.The one where he got caught doing drugs on the set of the most popular, family-friendly show in America...
  • Trick or Treat by L.A. Cotton

    Trick or Treat by L.A. Cotton

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Calliope James would rather live life through a lens than in the spotlight. So when she reluctantly agrees to go with her best friend to a party, she doesn’t expect to find herself on the other side of the camera.Zachary Messiah left Bay View High School without so much as a word.Now he’s back. He’s not the boy she remembers, but she’s exactly the girl he’s tried so hard to forget...
  • Hunt Me Down by A.L. Jackson

    Hunt Me Down by A.L. Jackson

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Disclaimer: This book was originally titled Red Hot Pursuit in the Glamour anthology. It has not been changed or added to in any way. This novella does not need to be read before Show Me the Way and does not give away any spoilers for other Fight for Me novels. Never underestimate a man that knows what he wants... A stand-alone novella in the Fight for Me series..
  • For Crosby by J. Nathan

    For Crosby by J. Nathan

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Crosby Parks had the life most guys only dreamed of. A wealthy family, girls vying for his attention, and pro scouts after his hockey skills. But when the life he knows comes crumbling down, he’s sent to Alabama to escape the media storm and to rebuild his life. If Crosby has any shot of playing professional hockey, he must keep a low profile and graduate from college...
  • Picture Perfect Obsession by C.M. Steele

    Picture Perfect Obsession by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Emmitt: A simple assignment to photograph a fun run, shouldn’t even be a blip on my busy schedule between celebrity and location shoots. Still, one runner catches my eye, and nothing will ever be the same again. I drop everything to find out who she is, and when I can tell her that she’s mine. Because once I have her, there’s no way I’m letting her go...
  • Hook, Line Professor -- A Student/Professor Forbidden Romance. #2: Part II by Shayla Hart

    Hook, Line Professor -- A Student/Professor Forbidden Romance. #2: Part II by Shayla Hart

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Part II of the first book, Hook, Line, Professor...
  • Executive Rule by Cameron Hart

    Executive Rule by Cameron Hart

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I live my life by a set of rules.It’s how I got to be CEO of a Fortune 500 company at just thirty-two, and how I’ve stayed at the top of my game for the last five years. I follow the same schedule every day, eat the same food, and wear one of a dozen sets of the same ten-thousand dollar suit. And that’s the way I like it...
  • Rocky by Nikita Slater, Jem Monday Publishing

    Rocky by Nikita Slater, Jem Monday Publishing

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A Hell’s Jury MC romance novel by USA Today Bestselling Author Nikita Slater.Jess… I have no place to call home until him.With a father in prison and my brother dead, I’m on my way to Reno to give Dutch’s cut back to his MC. Unfortunately, an unplanned act of kindness sends my life spinning out of control.Now I’m caught between the Hell’s Jury MC and their rivals, and I don’t know who to trust...
  • Possessive Puppy by Lena Little

    Possessive Puppy by Lena Little

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I’m not used to seeing women, instead spending months alone with my trusty sidekick Molly in the Rocky Mountains, but I do come down and check-in from time to time. I see women then, and they never have an effect on me. All I do is come down to let my ‘bosses’ know I’m alive, collect my paycheck, and let them know how many smugglers and poachers I’ve removed...
  • The Winning Defense by Jamie Bennett

    The Winning Defense by Jamie Bennett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If she follows her rules, Chloe is guaranteed a win—but now she’s not sure what she’s playing for.Chloe Carpenter has developed a system. After a life that has been anything but easy, she has a plan to get what she wants, and what she wants is justice. She’s on offense to make up for the wrongs done to her and punish those responsible.They’re going down...
  • Dirty Plays by Michelle A. Valentine

    Dirty Plays by Michelle A. Valentine

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Zayn and I have been working hard to keep the relationship between us a secret. If we’re discovered after the Devil’s football organization forbid him to have any romantic relationships, he risks a possible suspension.  Zayn’s way of concealing our relationship is passing me off as his niece in order to explain why we’re together all of the time until the season is over...
  • 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...
  • Becoming His Cowgirl: A Steamy Standalone Instalove Romance (A Man Who Knows What He Wants by Flora Ferrari

    Becoming His Cowgirl: A Steamy Standalone Instalove Romance (A Man Who Knows What He Wants by Flora Ferrari

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Girl from the city and a cowboy from the country are thrown together in this steamy instalove romance from Amazon Top 100 Author Flora Ferrari.Mom’s one of those coupon and contest people.Constantly entering this or collecting that to save a penny. The trouble is, apart from her having made a career out of it, her latest prize involves me.A weekend retreat at a real-life ranch...
  • Surprise Baby for the Player by Clarissa McKay

    Surprise Baby for the Player by Clarissa McKay

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I didn’t realize I was hooking up with my student, but once I saw his hockey-player body, I couldn’t help myself.If anyone finds out, I’ll be out of a job.Unlike most college boys, he’s mature in all the right ways and completely knows how to turn on a woman.All the dedication he’s shown on the ice is completely focused on me, and I gotta say… I don’t hate it...
  • His Wood, Her Curves by Haley Travis

    His Wood, Her Curves by Haley Travis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A canoe builder, a poet, a sudden storm… lightning is going to strike! I'm great with my hands. People? Not so much.Then I met sweet little Margot. Delicate and thoughtful, with no idea how sexy she is. She needs a man to admire every inch of her soft, curvy figure. And it's going to be me. My writing retreat was supposed to be a solo venture...
  • Complete Me by Claire Raye

    Complete Me by Claire Raye

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    Life at its most complete is still unexpected.Reid Bowen ruined her life and he is the one person she trusted. She had no business getting involved with him. Sienna Parker is the only girl he’s ever wanted and now he’s lost her. But he will stop at nothing to win her back. Forced together by circumstance, Sienna’s heart will be tested, but it’s Reid who must risk it all to protect them both...
  • Can't Take Moore by Rochelle Paige

    Can't Take Moore by Rochelle Paige

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Rochelle Paige comes an age-gap, fish-out-of-water, small-town romance about finding love and family where you least expect.Olympic speed skater Vienna Frost left the big city behind—along with her mother and sister. Desperate for a change of pace, she bought a house sight unseen in a small town she’d never been to...
  • A Touch of Sloth by Layne Daniels

    A Touch of Sloth by Layne Daniels

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Born with a silver spoon and expected to do nothing more than keep it shiny and spotless, my family's wealth and expectations don't do me any favors. They think my refusal to do exactly as they wish is laziness. Sloth. I don't care that they call me the good for nothing one in the family. Their judgments roll off my back like water. I know where my true value is.They send a lackey to retrieve me...
  • Her New Bodyguard: Easton by Haley Travis

    Her New Bodyguard: Easton by Haley Travis

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I didn't want to take a small-town girl and guard her in the middle of the city where she was uncomfortable. Safety came first, especially once I met Bethan. So I took her to the safest place I knew.Her sweetness touched parts of me that I hadn't known existed. Then we began to connect, and I realized this sexy girl belonged with me...
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