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  • No More Yesterdays by Catherine Bybee

    No More Yesterdays by Catherine Bybee

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bybee lights the fuse, and the Stone siblings must rely on their wits and hearts to uncover a dangerous enemy…and an explosive secret.Taking over her late father’s company was never part of Alex Stone’s life plan.But now, sitting in the CEO chair at Stone Enterprises, she’s resigned to living her life alone...
  • Criminology of a Character by Nicole Scarano

    Criminology of a Character by Nicole Scarano

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    What on earth is a homicide detective supposed to do with two unexpected weeks off?While on their first romantic vacation, Detective Isobel 'Bel' Emerson & Eamon Stone accidentally uncover a black market operation. Agent Jameson Barry and the FBI rush to their aid, but during the raid, Bel finds an inconsequential piece of evidence that the FBI dismisses as trash...
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  • Over Verdant Irish Hills by Ava Miles

    Over Verdant Irish Hills by Ava Miles

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    World famous glass artist Sophie Giombetti is headed to Ireland to grab a new lease on life.She’s put her divorce behind her and wants a supportive community to raise her daughter. The quaint town of Caisleán, where she’s agreed to design a major installation, more than fits the bill. Best of all, she’s sure the verdant Irish hills will give her new inspiration...
  • The Billionaire's Secret by Nana Malone

    The Billionaire's Secret by Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    It was supposed to be a simple job. Go to the Winston Isles, stand in for my billionaire double for a few weeks. But between the kidnapping attempt and accidentally falling in love with my bodyguard, things have been far from simple. The good news, at least now the woman I love knows who I really am. The bad news is, no one else knows and someone is still trying to kill me...
  • Rock Me To The Top  (Gracefall: Vicious Love Tour Book One) by Victoria Zak

    Rock Me To The Top (Gracefall: Vicious Love Tour Book One) by Victoria Zak

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Gracefall, the Vicious Love tour, coming to a digital bookstore near you.Gracefall hit the rock scene and never looked back. Now one of the hottest metal bands on the charts, things are looking up, until a tragic accident threatens to rip the band apart. Can the guys recapture the beat that rocketed them to the top, or will they crash and burn?He believed the lie...
  • Bodyguard to the Billionaire by Nana Malone

    Bodyguard to the Billionaire by Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Derrick Arlington is one of the world's most eligible billionaires. Voted Sexiest Man Alive—two years running. And I just so happen to look exactly like him. It’s never come in handy until I get offered an actual job out of it. It was supposed to be so simple. Go to the Winston Isles, stand in as his body double for a few weeks, go back to my life...
  • Dance of Stars and Ashes by Nisha J. Tuli

    Dance of Stars and Ashes by Nisha J. Tuli

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    A love that burns brighter than starlight. A gift that could leave her world in ashes. It’s time for Zarya to release the fire within.In the jeweled city of Dharati, Zarya found passion and adventure for the first time. A mysterious stranger named Rabin helped to free the power within her—a dark, ancient magic that should not exist.Now, Zarya learns Rabin’s true identity...
  • LIMITLESS: A Less Than Zero Rockstar Romance: Book 2: Jace & Alex by Kaylene Winter

    LIMITLESS: A Less Than Zero Rockstar Romance: Book 2: Jace & Alex by Kaylene Winter

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    "She snuck up on me and stole my heart..."Sexy Viking drummer Jace Deveraux used his genius marketing skills to help propel Less than Zero (LTZ) to the top.Friends-with-benefits was the only thing he was capable of.Until free-spirited social media influencer Alexandria LeRoux made him an offer he couldn't refuse.Their secret, spontaneous global hookups were decadent, erotic, extraordinary...
  • Take Me: A Dark Billionaire Mafia Romance by Faith Summers, Khardine Gray

    Take Me: A Dark Billionaire Mafia Romance by Faith Summers, Khardine Gray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She was the path to redemption I never saw coming...I’m Christian Giordano.Raised to rule and be ruthless.I take what I want, claim what I want.And, she’s my new obsession.Lilly was the angel in my kingdom of sin.A dancer up for auction to the highest bidder.That was the plan…Until, I decided I wanted her for myself.So I closed the auction and made her an offer she couldn’t refuse...
  • Ticket Out by Michelle Diener

    Ticket Out by Michelle Diener

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s the summer of 1963 and Gabriella Farnsworth is a newly-minted London traffic warden. She’s used to temper tantrums, swearing, and threats, but finding a dead body is an entirely new low...
  • My Beastly Boss by Sofia T Summers

    My Beastly Boss by Sofia T Summers

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The world believes that I’m dating a star quarterback.But the truth is… I’m using that lie to hide another secret. That big secret has a name… Isaac Shepherd.Manager of the NFL team and one of my father’s closest friends.Let me just say that we tried.We tried really hard to ignore the fire that was brewing between us.Isaac is intense.A workaholic, and extremely accomplished...
  • The Right Song by Michelle Mankin

    The Right Song by Michelle Mankin

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    He wasn’t just a rock star to her, and she wasn’t just any woman to him.JACK HOWARD is a gorgeous rock star with a tragic past. He's a nice guy. Since that terrible day, he has strived to do the right thing. Only with his disastrous marriage finally ending, he’s decided it’s time to take a walk on the wilder side of nice while on this tour. LORELEI LANE is a working girl with no future...
  • Wild Hunt by River Ramsey

    Wild Hunt by River Ramsey

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s all fun and games to them--especially when someone gets hurt. One god of mischief and mayhem. One god of fur and fang. And the god of death himself. They’ve all been out to get me since the school year began, but this semester, the Rabbit’s got some tricks up her sleeve...
  • Echoes of Her Soul by Serena Lindahl

    Echoes of Her Soul by Serena Lindahl

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Megreria is a Kingdom built upon order. Each citizen receives an assigned House based on a test of their skills and an assigned Soul Match, the other piece of their soul as seen by the mysterious Soul Tenders. A week ago, Kiarra didn’t believe in Soul Matches and she couldn’t master any ability well enough to test into a House...
  • Fractured by R Phillips

    Fractured by R Phillips

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "All of it existing somewhere in between everything."What is a life?A collection of memories? A series of glorious highs and heartrending lows? Is it a purpose, cumulative or singular? Or is it something more? Something beyond what is tangible or immaterial?Something beyond even what is found within us...
  • Grumpy Doctor by B.B. Hamel

    Grumpy Doctor by B.B. Hamel

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    He’s got magic hands, a perfect body, and a horrible attitude.I never wanted to get anywhere near Dr. Piers Hood. He’s a total jerk, and he thinks he’s the greatest surgeon in the country.Which he is, and that makes it all so much worse. Sometimes I wish I could cut off my own ears so I don’t have to listen to him anymore...
  • Taken by the Lake Monster by Melody Lynch

    Taken by the Lake Monster by Melody Lynch

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Picture thisyou're in your 40s and the young man at the shop tells you that you were probably hot twenty years agoAnd on top of that, your ex-husband is flying his former mistress in and out of the country on vacations. You jump on a dating site and say yes to the first bloke who messages you—and that’s how you end up drowning in a lake in the middle of the night...
  • Cleopatra's Tomb by Nellie H. Steele

    Cleopatra's Tomb by Nellie H. Steele

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Indies Today Best Book 2020 Award FinalistWhy in the world would her uncle send her a bejeweled golden scarab? When Maggie Edwards opened the mysterious package from her archeologist uncle, Oliver Keene, she had no clue what it was for. At first, she couldn’t understand why he had sent her something so obviously valuable when he had never done so before...
  • Moonlight in the Morning by Jude Deveraux

    Moonlight in the Morning by Jude Deveraux

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 27 ratings
    Sparks are flying between Jecca Layton and Dr. Tristan Aldredge. At the urging of her dear friend Kim, Jecca put the ruthless New York City art world on hold to spend the summer pursuing her passion for painting while enjoying Edilean's tightly knit artistic community...
  • Blodhevn by Margit Sandemo

    Blodhevn by Margit Sandemo

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    (Description from the back of the book) SAGAEN OM ISFOLKET - etterkommerne til den onde Tengel, som hadde inngått en pakt med djevelen... Et ulykkelig kjærlighetsforhold gjorde at Villemo Kalebsdatter ble innblandet i drapet på den mektige Woller-bondens sønn. Woller svor hevn - for enhver pris...
  • Blurry by Michelle Hercules

    Blurry by Michelle Hercules

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Student Teacher, Age Gap RomanceChiara Moretti. Angel or devil? When she rescued me from the side of the road, I thought she was the former. A gorgeous young woman with a difficult family, she had me wrapped around her finger in an instant.We both agreed to share a no-strings-attached sexy weekend in Tuscany. I didn’t expect being unable to erase her from my mind...
  • Right for Love by Aria Cole

    Right for Love by Aria Cole

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Love is only a swipe away… Pre-med student Carly Samuelson doesn't have time for things like swoony Valentine's dates, so when her best friend downloads a dating app to get Carly lucky, her expectations are low. But when her friend swipes right on tall, dark, and dashing Thorn Cartwright, Carly walks into something she never expected—Thorn's got a proposition: one night, one dress, him and her...
  • I'll Be Watching You by Tina Wainscott, Jaime Rush

    I'll Be Watching You by Tina Wainscott, Jaime Rush

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ten years ago, Kim took on the good ole boys of her small Everglades town and lost. She left her Everglades town under a cloud of defeat, murder, and scandal. Her grandmother's mysterious death brings her back to reclaim her home and unearth the truth under the watchful eye of a killer...
  • Lexi's Undoing by Morgan Rider

    Lexi's Undoing by Morgan Rider

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lexi Maxwell is celebrating her eighteenth birthday-her ticket to freedom. For years, she has navigated the suffocating constraints of boarding school and chaperoned dances, and she is ready to detour from the perfect path her parents set her on. Luke Carrington is the swoon-worthy stranger who arrives to spice up the party, convincing Lexi that it's okay to ditch her uniform and spread her wings...
  • Rop av stumme røster by Margit Sandemo, Bente Meidell

    Rop av stumme røster by Margit Sandemo, Bente Meidell

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    (Description from the back of the book) SAGAEN OM ISFOLKET - etterkommerne til den onde Tengel, som hadde inngått en pakt med djevelen... Nataniel Gard av Isfolket var en syvende sønns syvende sønn, og utvalgt til å lede den endelige kampen mot Tengel den onde. Men ennå var han umoden og trengte vanskelige oppgaver å trene seg på...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  m-f  historical  fantasy  length-medium
  • Djevlekløften by Margit Sandemo, Bente Meidell

    Djevlekløften by Margit Sandemo, Bente Meidell

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    (Description from the back of the book) SAGAEN OM ISFOLKET - etterkommerne til den onde Tengel, som hadde inngått en pakt med djevelen... Gunilla i Knapahult ble oppdratt i Herrens tukt og formaning, og det betydde pryl for synder hun aldri hadde begått. Hennes fars store drøm var å få henne gift med den fine Arv Grip, selv om Gunilla elsket en annen...
  • Intricate Deceptions by Jennifer Rayes

    Intricate Deceptions by Jennifer Rayes

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Waking up in a desolate cell, Gaia realizes that she has been kidnapped by a human trafficking organization, doomed to be sold to the highest bidder and unable to remember anything before her capture. An opportune rescue by Raoul, the Prince of Kayamato, saves Gaia from a gruesome future, and she is thrown into a world of luxury and privilege...
  • Maggie On The Edge by Kasey Michaels

    Maggie On The Edge by Kasey Michaels

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    **TWO FREE BOOKS FROM KASEY** > bit.ly/kaseymichaels Book Five in the Maggie Kelly Mystery Series by New York Times Bestselling Author Kasey Michaels (Previously titled High Heels and Holidays) Best selling author Maggie Kelly and her fictional characters come to life (hey, read the books...) are about to celebrate their first Christmas together, if Maggie lives that long, that is...
  • Games of Flame and Dust by Val Saintcrowe

    Games of Flame and Dust by Val Saintcrowe

    Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Fourth Wing but edgier.Banyan Thriceborn has always been different, but it’s never been a good thing. Until now.When she competes in a tournament for admission to the South Ridge Dragon Academy, she gets noticed by Odion Naxim. Odion is the most promising student at the Academy, brilliant and daring, the best hope the Trinal Kingdoms has to banish the menace of the Frost...
  • Den ensomme by Margit Sandemo, Bente Meidell

    Den ensomme by Margit Sandemo, Bente Meidell

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    (Description from the back of the book) SAGAEN OM ISFOLKET - etterkommerne til den onde Tengel, som hadde inngått en pakt med djevelen... Mikael Lind av Isfolket var en ensom og dypt ulykkelig ung mann. I hele sitt liv hadde han vært tvunget til å føye seg etter andre...
  • My Wicked Prince by Molly O'Keefe

    My Wicked Prince by Molly O'Keefe

    Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He was my stepbrother. My Prince Charming. My fairy tale gone totally wrong... My mother marrying the king was supposed to give my mom and me our happily ever after. But my life has never been a bedtime story and no prince with a fancy shoe is turning me into a Cinderella. I had big plans outside of my small but powerful country...
  • Meridon by Philippa Gregory

    Meridon by Philippa Gregory

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl comes the final book of the extraordinary Wideacre trilogy as the heir to the great estate comes home at last.Meridon knows she does not belong in the dirty, vagabond life of a gypsy bareback rider...
  • Carolina Isle by Jude Deveraux

    Carolina Isle by Jude Deveraux

    Rated: 3.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 29 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux uncovers the passions and scandals that take a small town by storm when two cousins switch lives. Ariel and Sara never imagined their high-spirited attempt to step into each other's shoes would cause such upheaval...
  • Viridis by Calista Taylor

    Viridis by Calista Taylor

    Rated: 2.82 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In steampunk Victorian London, Lady Phoebe Hughes develops an herbal elixir, Viridis, unlike any other. London’s elite flock to her club to experience the euphoria and heightened senses the drink brings. Imagine an orgasm brought on by a single kiss...
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