Books like 'The Piece That Breaks'

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  • Benching Brady by Samantha Christy

    Benching Brady by Samantha Christy

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 27 ratings
    FAST BALLS. FAST CARS. FAST WOMEN. They are how I've learned to cope. But then life throws me a curveball. And I may never play the game I love again. Then I meet her. She represents everything I've lost. In the best and worst of ways. She may be the only one who can get me back into the game. And I'm not just talking about baseball...
  • Rewriting You by Emilia Finn

    Rewriting You by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    I’m a mom to teenagers… I’m also my late husband’s executioner.He was an abusive man on the fast track to devastation. He hung me from a fancy chandelier to die. Had my saviours driven the long way home, I wouldn’t be here today to tell my story. It’s been a long road since then, but my children and I have finally moved back to town. It’s time to lay some ghosts to bed...
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  • Bittersweet Melody  by Kate Stewart

    Bittersweet Melody by Kate Stewart

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 40 ratings
    The vows are just the beginning…For Natalie, being the wife to the most sought-after rock star on the planet has its privileges, but in the last year, she’s been put through the wringer as far as the pitfalls...
  • Ember by Chelle Bliss

    Ember by Chelle Bliss

    Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    INKED PROTECTOR REUNITES WITH A SINGLE MOTHER.Rocco Caldo is tall, dark, and handsome, but not interested in love. Loyal to a fault, he can’t turn away an old friend in need or a beautiful woman on the run…especially when they have unfinished business.Rebel Bishop is a single mom, looking for shelter, not a handout...
  • Forever Rockers by Terri Anne Browning

    Forever Rockers by Terri Anne Browning

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    My Happily Ever After was turning into a living nightmare… All I wanted was Harper’s happiness and I would move the world to give her anything she ever wanted. We’ve searched for answers, talked about our options, and finally—FINALLY—found hope. Yet, just when things seemed to be perfect, it all came crashing down around us all...
  • Hearts at Play by Melissa Foster

    Hearts at Play by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Brianna Heart has a six-year old daughter and a twelve-year plan to keep her life as simple as possible until Layla turns eighteen. That means swearing off relationships and the drama that goes along with them, working two jobs, and being the best damn mother she can be...
  • Dangerous Rock by Crystal Kaswell

    Dangerous Rock by Crystal Kaswell

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    I'm married to a rock star.And I don't even know his last name. Bella There's a tall, tattooed man in my bed. Not any tall, tattooed man. He's a rock star. A sex god. And now he's my husband. Last night, I married Joel. It's ridiculous. I'm a good girl. I don't get into trouble. I don't look twice at bad boys. I can't stay married to a rock star. But there's something about Joel...
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    new adult  rockstars  contemporary  m-f  audiobook
  • Assured by Kaylee Ryan

    Assured by Kaylee Ryan

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    I’ve always been the guy who plays the field.  I like variety and my career ensures that I can have my pick of women. Until her… I’ve always been the girl who wants more.  I want the white picket fence, the two point five kids and the dog.  That’s what all little girls grow up dreaming about...
  • Stand by A.L. Jackson

    Stand by A.L. Jackson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    "6 Devastatingly Beautiful and Brilliant Bleeding Stars but Worth the Whole Constellation. I felt every burn...every blaze...every beautiful and brilliant word...I FELT IT ALL." - Karen McVino, Bookalicious Babes Blog From NYT & USA Today Bestselling Author A.L...
  • Igniting Ivy by Samantha Christy

    Igniting Ivy by Samantha Christy

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    They call me a hero.I save people. It's what I do.It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do. Then I meet her - the girl with the sad eyes. She's lost everything. Twice. And I know she's using me to forget her past. Just when things seem perfect, that past threatens with the unimaginable. They may call me a hero. But she's the one person I can't save...
  • Merged: The Maddox Hines conclusion by MJ Fields

    Merged: The Maddox Hines conclusion by MJ Fields

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Coming...
  • My Kind of Forever by Heidi McLaughlin

    My Kind of Forever by Heidi McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Liam Page knows music and a life of solitude, but that all changed when he returned to Beaumont. The once notorious bad boy lead singer of 4225 West is now living the domesticated life with his wife and high school sweetheart, Josie, and their son, Noah. Life is good for the Westbury family, until Liam is called back to Los Angeles and the place where it all started for him...
  • Make It Rain by Sasha Marshall

    Make It Rain by Sasha Marshall

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kip When you rip the Guitar Goddess's world apart, and your own, how in the f@*k are you supposed to find redemption? She's my world, and I've shattered her. What began as an absence for us to both heal, ends in the dissolution of our relationship, and my breaking heart. I committed the most unforgivable transgression, but maybe not everything is as it seems...
  • River of Deceit by Sasha Marshall

    River of Deceit by Sasha Marshall

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kip Paxton may be the perfect man. He's a sexy, tattooed, foul-mouthed, drummer god for Broken Access, and if that wasn't enough he’s snagged the Guitar Goddess herself. But in life, where one door opens…another closes, and sometimes the other door bursts wide f@$king open...
  • Ready For Flynn, Part 1 by K.L. Shandwick

    Ready For Flynn, Part 1 by K.L. Shandwick

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    At fifteen years old, Valerie Darsin, was loved and cherished by her brothers and boyfriend. Her small town world was happy and secure until a sudden betrayal forced her to flee. Returning home, Valerie found support in Flynn Docherty-a guy who left her with unfamiliar feelings when he disappeared from her life...
  • Needing the Memories by Terri Anne Browning

    Needing the Memories by Terri Anne Browning

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Happy Ever After doesn’t end at the Epilogue. The Epilogue is really only the beginning. For us, it’s meant sharing every high, every low, and loving each other even more when we come out the other side still standing. He’s everything I’ve always wanted. My best friend. My lover. My husband… My Demon. And I’m his Angel...
  • Rising West by Alyson Santos, Aly Stiles

    Rising West by Alyson Santos, Aly Stiles

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    A single father who lost his dream. A broken rockstar about to lose her career. An epic second chance that will blow up an entire industry. When acclaimed rock band Burn Card loses their lead singer to a solo career, band founder Liberty Blake fears she’s about to lose everything else as well. Forget the fact that he didn’t just betray the band—he also destroyed her heart...
  • Finding Storm by Samantha Towle

    Finding Storm by Samantha Towle

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The son of an icon. He was a legend. Rock royalty.A man I never met.But I’m measured against him in every aspect of my life.The only time I feel like me … the real me … is when I’m onstage with my band. But the more we grow in popularity, the more people compare me to him.I’m not him. And I never will be. If only everyone could figure that out for themselves.I need a break from it all...
  • Merry Me Darling by Lilian T. James

    Merry Me Darling by Lilian T. James

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    This is not a standalone within the series. This is a short, holiday epilogue that picks up right where Meet Me Halfway left off.Madison woke up thinking it would be a piece of cake to meet Garrett's mother. She made him like her, after all. But the closer they get to Garrett’s childhood home, the more doubt starts to creep in...
  • Stone Vows by Samantha Christy

    Stone Vows by Samantha Christy

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    She's alone, scared, and I think she's in trouble. From the moment I see her, I know she's different ... special somehow. My whole life has been about one thing - becoming a doctor. I've spent years living and breathing hospital life. Then she comes into my ER, and I've never wanted to help anyone more. My need to protect her is all consuming...
  • Ready For Flynn: Part 3 by K.L. Shandwick

    Ready For Flynn: Part 3 by K.L. Shandwick

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Life had never been easy for Rock God, Flynn Docherty. At a tender age, he'd locked down past personal tragedy, hurt, and pain to make his life bearable when most would have crumbled from what he witnessed. When Valerie Darsin entered into his life their instant attraction later grew into the kind of love that most of us can only dream about, after she'd survived her own traumatic event...
  • Just an Illusion - Side A by D. Kelly, Regina Wamba

    Just an Illusion - Side A by D. Kelly, Regina Wamba

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    One night changed her life… Bestselling author Amelia Greyson has grown up in the music industry and isn’t the slightest bit fazed by fame or celebrities. However, when she attends a Bastards and Dangerous concert with her best friend Belle, her world shifts on its axis. Double trouble… Sawyer and Noah Weston are the front men of BAD. They’re fraternal twins and sexy as sin...
  • One More Song by C.M. Seabrook

    One More Song by C.M. Seabrook

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Amazon Bestselling Author C.M. Seabrook brings you a sexy new full-length standalone romance. My band, Absinthe, is sent to the middle of nowhere to get our shit together. It's time to keep my cock in my pants, my head on straight, and to stay out of trouble. Hard to do when the landlord is Ember Skye. Long brown hair, eyes flecked with gold. One look and she has me, heart and soul...
  • Restorations by Nicole Dykes

    Restorations by Nicole Dykes

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Sterlings have been through hell. They’ve each made mistake after mistake while trying to climb out of their grief and guilt and recover from an unimaginable tragedy that had a ripple effect of consequences reaching far further than their own lives.It seems the youngest Sterling may never find peace after everything that’s happened...
  • Alluring Infatuation by Skye Turner

    Alluring Infatuation by Skye Turner

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    *** This book contains explicit sex and graphic language. It is not recommended for anyone under the age of 18.*** Dade Rodrigue is the levelheaded, bass guitarist for Bayou Stix, the hottest rock band in the country. He’s the oldest member which often places him in the role of protector and mentor. Women love a rock star and Dade is no exception...
  • River James by M.J. Fields

    River James by M.J. Fields

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When he fell in love, he fell hard. When he lost her, he lost his will. Drugs, sex, and rock and roll—in that order—became his life. River James, the drummer for Steel Total Destruction, loved the brotherhood he formed with his unlikely best friend and his band mates, and the family he found in his label until one tragic accident takes it all away in the blink of an eye...
  • Rocking Kin by Terri Anne Browning

    Rocking Kin by Terri Anne Browning

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Terri Anne Browning. With one promise her life was changed… Saying goodbye to my mother also meant saying goodbye to my life in Virginia. After reluctantly making a promise to my mom, I was California bound with the father who I haven’t seen since I was four years old...
  • A Very Xander Christmas 2 by Anne Mercier

    A Very Xander Christmas 2 by Anne Mercier

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Rockstar Christmas -- Told Xander StyleFREE short...
  • Loving a Lush by Selena Laurence

    Loving a Lush by Selena Laurence

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Librarian Note: This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B00KKT5TMU Six months ago, Walsh Clark was the drummer of America’s hottest rock sensation, Lush. Now he’s living at the Double A Ranch in north Texas, home to cows, cowboys, and lushes—like him. He’s survived alcoholism, rehab, and the breakup of his band...
  • Tulsa (The Crow Brothers) by S.L. Scott

    Tulsa (The Crow Brothers) by S.L. Scott

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A hot new rock star romance that will sweep you off your feet and leave you with a smile from New York Times Bestselling Author, S.L. Scott. The rumors are true. At least where I’m concerned. Drummers hit it harder and do it better. Women love me and I love them. But I like to think of myself as a sensitive soul trapped in a lady-killer’s body...
  • Tripped by Love: A Friends-to-lovers, Military Romance by LJ Evans

    Tripped by Love: A Friends-to-lovers, Military Romance by LJ Evans

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s a broody bodyguard with secrets he can’t share.She’s a busy single mom with a restaurant to run.They’re just friends until a little white lie changes everything.Marco Hernandez is the somber trainer here only to bend my body into shape, but when the perfectly sculpted man holds my son in his arms and smiles, I’m a goner. Weak legs. Pounding veins...
  • Disharmony by Holly Bloom

    Disharmony by Holly Bloom

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The world’s most prestigious summer music camp can make or break you...A viral video lands me a scholarship to Camp Harmony, but they don’t want the real me. They want Ashley, the pop star. I spend the summer pretending to be someone I’m not, until I sneak out to see my favorite metal band perform...
  • Tapped by the Rockstar by Christina Hovland

    Tapped by the Rockstar by Christina Hovland

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Internet fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.As a teenager Samantha Johnson wrote a song that went viral in all the wrong ways. A pop song about her love of mozzarella sticks. She hoped for adoration but instead became a joke for an entire generation. She absolutely does not want to be in the limelight ever again. Or even near it. Since then, she's kept mostly to herself...
  • There's No Crying in Rock-N-Roll by Sasha Marshall

    There's No Crying in Rock-N-Roll by Sasha Marshall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Henley Hendrix—Queen of Rock-n-Roll—finds her world shattered and her heart betrayed, but is determined to get the band back together to reclaim her title in the world of rock. But when life continues to spin out of control, so does her behavior...
  • Branded by a Song by L.J. Evans

    Branded by a Song by L.J. Evans

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Has this country-rock legend finally met his match? A woman who can fill the aching void for “more” that’s been missing from his life? Brady O’Neil tells the world he’s temporarily returning to upstate New York to help his sister. While it’s the truth, he’s also searching for the soul his music has lost...
  • Save Me: TAT: A Rocker Romance by Emjay Soren

    Save Me: TAT: A Rocker Romance by Emjay Soren

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The guys of major rock band Thick as Thieves come together in this novella, to say goodbye to a beloved friend. With Cal and Tayla falling apart at the start and Carrie and Chad engulfed in pain, It's Shamus that is the hero and Cassa supporting his darkest hour. Noah will reach an all-time high of anguish, sorrow and pain and none of the group, even Carrie, know if he will survive...
  • Bare by Tory Baker

    Bare by Tory Baker

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I was only supposed to get her safely out of town until the threat was gone. But then, I fell in love.I might be the muscle of the Diamondback MC, but I’m mostly known as the jokester. There’s nothing funny in the protective feelings I have for Sadie and her daughter Henley, however.Sadie’s been hurt and she’s built walls around her heart for protection. I won’t let that stop me...
  • JOCK by Jacob Chance

    JOCK by Jacob Chance

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When the dean of students asked me for a favor, I had no idea it would mean tutoring Owen Dawson. Me, forced to spend time with Boston University’s notorious quarterback? With his dark hair, chiseled body, and a promising future playing in the NFL, every guy on campus wants to be him. Every girl wants to be under him. Every girl, except me...
  • Echoes of the Heart by L.A. Casey

    Echoes of the Heart by L.A. Casey

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A sizzling second-chance romance from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author L.A. Casey—Frankie pushed her first love away. A decade later, he walks back into her life, but is she prepared to trust again?When rock star Risk Keller shows up in Frankie’s diner with his heart on his sleeve, it turns her world upside down. Letting him go was the hardest thing she ever had to do...
  • Forever Yours by Melissa Ellen

    Forever Yours by Melissa Ellen

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Liam Stone shattered my heart. Rejected me. Rejected my love. He walked away so easily, tossing the three words I told him aside as if they meant nothing. But they meant everything. At least to me. Fine. I'm done. He's pushed me away and turned his back on me one too many times. I've accepted it. Accepted that it's over, despite how I feel...
  • Here with You by Kate Perry

    Here with You by Kate Perry

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A Laurel Heights Novel, Book 8 Nicole James knew it was not better to have love and lost. She never expected that love to swagger back into her life. Sure, she pined after Griffin Chase all through childhood, but that was a lifetime ago. Now she sells romantic dreams in a small lingerie shop, and he lives big dreams as a world-famous rockstar...
  • A Reason To Leave by Melissa Ellen

    A Reason To Leave by Melissa Ellen

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Finally, freedom! I, Valerie Blackwood, have the freedom to live my life the way I want.No parents. No bodyguard. Nobody to tell me what to do and when to do it. Well, almost nobody. My overprotective brother is still around to rain on my parade.But I can handle him...
    Categorized as:
    rockstars  new adult  contemporary  audiobook
  • Every Other Weekend by Jaxson Kidman

    Every Other Weekend by Jaxson Kidman

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Now a Top 40 ebook in the ENTIRE Kindle Store! Top 10 Kindle Romance, Contemporary Romance, & Top 5 New Adult Romance! Thank you readers! It was only meant to be every other weekend. But now I need him every night. As a single mom, a relationship was out of the question. So we had an arrangement. The first rule: every other weekend. But that wasn't enough...
  • When we meet Again by Ava Gray

    When we meet Again by Ava Gray

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The man I’ve been in love with for the last six years doesn’t even remember who I am…I’ve hidden some big secrets from Alexander Stone – my fake ex husband.Yes, we got married so he could secure his position as the CEO of his dad’s company.And I desperately needed the money he paid me.The last six years have changed a lot of things, except for one...
  • Saving Della Ray by Georgia Le Carre

    Saving Della Ray by Georgia Le Carre

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Della Everybody said, stay away from Gage West. He was trouble. Big trouble. One look at his big, black monster of a bike and the wild tattoos that snaked out of his leather jacket onto his hands and neck and I knew they were dead right. The last thing I needed was more trouble. I had enough just paying my bills and taking care of my little niece...
  • Dirty Tricks by Emma Hart

    Dirty Tricks by Emma Hart

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The sexiest, most mysterious Burke brother of all peels back his stage persona to reveal the real man—and the rock-hard body—behind the rockstar in the banging fourth book from New York Times bestselling author Emma Hart’s hot new adult series that began with Dirty Past, Dirty Secret, and Dirty Lies...
  • Autumn Night Whiskey by Willow Winters

    Autumn Night Whiskey by Willow Winters

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One man loved me when I didn’t even like myself. The town whispered that we were star crossed lovers… among other things. He was my first love, but so out of reach with where fate had taken me. With a little girl to look after and a past I wished I didn’t have, things were never going to be easy when it came to my life in this small town. Let alone my love life...
  • Unsurprisingly Complicated by Claudia Y. Burgoa

    Unsurprisingly Complicated by Claudia Y. Burgoa

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    AJ The lies between my parents and I came to light and now I’m working on a new life for myself. Along the way, I have my trusty superhero, Mason, to lean on when I have a hard time standing or when my crazy ex-boyfriend continues to feel he has a claim on me.Porter has trouble understanding that there hasn’t been an ‘us’ for more than three years plus all the issues he had brought upon himself...
  • Devils Don't Fly by M.H. Soars, Michelle Hercules

    Devils Don't Fly by M.H. Soars, Michelle Hercules

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Have you ever wished to one day wake up and discover all your dreams have come true?It happened to me and no, it wasn’t the work of a fairy godmother.My music is playing on the radio, my face is splattered on the cover of every magazine, and I can’t remember how I got there. The cherry on top is discovering the most devilish handsome man I’ve ever met is—wait for it—my husband...
  • Play With Fire: A Single Mother Fireman Contemporary Romance by Sheridan Anne, Dusty Lambert

    Play With Fire: A Single Mother Fireman Contemporary Romance by Sheridan Anne, Dusty Lambert

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    AMELIA Single parenting can kiss my ass.It’s go, go, go all the time. Two little faces to feed, two little bodies to keep from harm, and two little asses to keep clean. This was my life, and though it was hard as hell, we were making it work.That is until the world’s cockiest man stalked me through the hardware store with his perfect dimples, wide shoulders, and the darkest eyes I’d ever seen...
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