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  • Treasured by Lexi Blake

    Treasured by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    David Hawthorne has a great life. His job as a professor at a prestigious Dallas college is everything he hoped for. Now that his brother is back from the Navy, life seems to be settling down. All he needs to do is finish the book he’s working on and his tenure will be assured. When he gets invited to interview a reclusive expert, he knows he’s gotten lucky...
  • Desperate Measures by Brenda Jackson

    Desperate Measures by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    WHEN DANGER ARRIVES, REAL MEN TAKE ACTION. Dakota (Dak) Navarro, wealthy entrepreneur, international playboy and jet-setter, arrives in Miami for the wedding of his friend, Andrew Logan. He is hoping to see Dr. Amelia Courson, the woman he met two years earlier at another wedding - that of his good friend and her brother, Stonewall Courson. Dr...
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  • Avenging Devil Part 2 by Manda Mellett

    Avenging Devil Part 2 by Manda Mellett

    Rated: 4.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Niran. Saffie’s past was darker than I’d ever expected, and now I’m embroiled in the thick of it. I’m fully prepared to forfeit my life if it means I save hers, but I have no idea how I’m going to achieve that objective. I do all that I can, lying to convince them I’m one of their kind despite having the wrong skin colour...
  • All of Me by Tiffany Patterson

    All of Me by Tiffany Patterson

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Book 2 in the Townsends of Texas Series. Lena. I have one goal in mind: Write another album. The completion of my next album would grant me freedom from my record label. A label owned by my scheming, lying, and manipulative ex-fiancé. Too bad writer’s block has had a death hold over me for months...
  • Royals of Italy by Bella Di Corte, Annie Rose Welch

    Royals of Italy by Bella Di Corte, Annie Rose Welch

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Royal Organized Crime Romance. There was one secret that I kept from my wife. The Fausti famiglia was one of the most infamous and powerful crime families in the world. Their rule spanned the thickness of history books—and I was one of them...
  • Shallow Submission by Golden Angel

    Shallow Submission by Golden Angel

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There's only one rule: keep your hands and heart to yourself. Master Asad is a perennial playboy with a serious problem. Years of no-strings-attached fun has left him without a suitable date for his younger brother's wedding. Since going alone would put him in his meddling mother's crosshairs for an entire week, he needs somebody -- literally anybody -- by his side. Enter Morgan...
    Categorized as:
    multicultural  bdsm  contemporary  audiobook
  • Fast Vengeance by Kaylea Cross

    Fast Vengeance by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s learning to live with her demons. Victoria Gomez had a successful career as an investigative journalist, until a cartel boss she exposed destroyed her entire world in retaliation. She lost everything, including her family and her freedom...
  • Finding Peace in Wishing Bridge by Ruth Logan Herne

    Finding Peace in Wishing Bridge by Ruth Logan Herne

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Creator of the bestselling "Welcome to Wishing Bridge" and "At Home in Wishing Bridge" award-winning author Ruth Logan Herne invites readers back to the little town with the big heart with "Finding Peace in Wishing Bridge". Being a supermodel isn't just hard...
  • Two Steps Ahead: A Thrilling Romantic Mystery by Janie Crouch

    Two Steps Ahead: A Thrilling Romantic Mystery by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A determined bodyguard. A fierce heiress. And death is just a shot away…. Silent, stealthy and professional, Weston Patterson is always two steps ahead of trouble—until he’s hired to bodyguard a woman he never expected to see again. Someone won’t stop until Kayleigh Delacruz is dead. But the feisty heiress is challenging Weston to keep her close as well as safe...
  • Love Without Influence by Jade Dollston

    Love Without Influence by Jade Dollston

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Influence (noun): A power affecting a person, thing, or course of events. Monty. Boy meets Girl. Boy experiences severe intestinal distress and runs away. Boy returns and falls in love with Girl despite his… difficulties. Then Boy’s entire world explodes, shattered by outside influences that would have broken a weaker man. But not me...
  • Jaded by D.D. Prince

    Jaded by D.D. Prince

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Want equal rights? Don't f____ a biker. Want safe and predictable? Do not fall for a biker. Want wind in your hair, fire in your soul, and a man's fingerprints on your body, marking you as his and only his, to be protected and treasured forever? Don't accidentally become a club bunny. -Gianna Grace Jones. Told from the biker’s point-of-view…...
  • A Good Girl's Guide to Dominance by W.S. Greer

    A Good Girl's Guide to Dominance by W.S. Greer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My name is Nia Washington. I'm a submissive. And I am f***ing tired. I’m tired of men that claim to be a Dominant, but have no clue what it really means. I'm tired of men playing a part they saw on TV or read in a book, and using it to get what they want out of a woman before leaving her high and dry...
  • Cocky Rebel : Sofia Sol Cocker by Faleena Hopkins

    Cocky Rebel : Sofia Sol Cocker by Faleena Hopkins

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    BRAND NEW IN THE HIT SERIES WITH OVER 350,000 SOLD. The cousin my readers have been waiting for. .. SOFIA SOL COCKER:. There is a line we're forbidden to cross with each other. It's not like he and I are genetically related. We aren't. But we might as well be. From my earliest memories he's been in my life. Motorcycle clubs are families of a wilder sort that no normie can understand...
  • Freeing Ruby: A slow burn, suspenseful, close proximity, multicultural romance by April Wilson

    Freeing Ruby: A slow burn, suspenseful, close proximity, multicultural romance by April Wilson

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ever since witnessing the murder of her mother when she was a young teenager, Ruby Hammond has suffered with severe agoraphobia. When her father became too impatient with her condition, Ruby moved out and got her own apartment. She's lived alone, in complete isolation, for the past two years, never once having set foot outside her safe haven...
  • Fashion Jungle by Kathy Ireland, Rachel Van Dyken

    Fashion Jungle by Kathy Ireland, Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Four women… Four very different paths. One incredibly cutthroat world. Welcome to the Jungle. As America’s sweetheart, Brittany is perceived as the "good girl. " The sort to bring her Bible to a photoshoot. .. only to garner the attention of a most unlikely suitor. Until one mistake irrevocably changes both of their lives forever...
  • Wrapped In Us by MJ Fields

    Wrapped In Us by MJ Fields

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Uncovering a human trafficking ring, Brody unknowingly brought danger to the doorstep of the only woman he ever truly loved, and their family, who he desperately wants to protect...
  • Taking Vengeance by Kaylea Cross

    Taking Vengeance by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They thought the threat was over. Kiyomi, Marcus and the rest of the Valkyrie crew have just started to settle into their new lives as regular citizens when a suspicious new threat surfaces. The danger should have ended last fall with the death of their creator. But someone is relentlessly trying to track them down, and whoever it is knows too much. They thought wrong...
  • Joseph  by J. Nell

    Joseph by J. Nell

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Joseph former marine finds himself in two battles like he never before experienced. One for his life and the other for his woman. Will he be victorius or will he lose everything.
  • Python by Elizabeth Knox, Golden Czermak

    Python by Elizabeth Knox, Golden Czermak

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the second I laid eyes on her, I was determined to make her mine. PythonI always thought I’d be the kind of man who stayed on the road his whole life. It turned out I was wrong. My old friend, Razor, brought me into the Reapers Rejects MC and now I had a place to land, a place to call home, and a brotherhood I never knew I needed...
  • Ryder's Claim: A Dark Mafia Romance by Raven Scott, Isabella Starling

    Ryder's Claim: A Dark Mafia Romance by Raven Scott, Isabella Starling

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s hiding a dirty secret… and I’m going to use it to destroy her. RYDER. Nobody is as off-limits as her - Nicoletta Carlucci, my brother's wife to be. But Nicoletta doesn't want my brother. She wants me. Except she doesn’t know something - I’ve found out about her dirty little secret. Nicoletta isn’t who she says she is. She’s a filthy liar, and I’m going to expose her...
    Categorized as:
    multicultural  suspense  contemporary  mafia
  • Cornered by Kaylea Cross

    Cornered by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She wants answers—and justice. Jaia knows her brother was murdered on a contracting job overseas, and that the company they work for covered it up. She just can’t prove it—yet. But she’s been quietly searching, gathering evidence and building her case at great personal risk...
  • Kandie Shoppe by Kenya Goree-Bell

    Kandie Shoppe by Kenya Goree-Bell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Dirty ass cop. ”. It’s sheriff but fine whatever. Kandie Love is a fũcking mess. The town tipsy,. The town baker,. The town gossip,. The town —. It doesn’t matter because her little nosey ass has rolled up on something that’s not her business but definitely interferes with mine. So now I have to put my foot on her throat to keep her from telling everyone what she thinks she saw...
  • Academy of Misfits: The Complete Boxset by Bea Paige

    Academy of Misfits: The Complete Boxset by Bea Paige

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    We're the kids your parents warned you about. .. When Asia is sent to Oceanside Academy, a reform school for delinquents, she never expected to fall in love with anyone let alone four bad boys, but that's exactly what happened. Eastern, the best friend who became her lover. Sonny, the thief who stole her heart. Ford, the fighter who battled for her...
  • Prez by Rae B. Lake

    Prez by Rae B. Lake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He thought he had lost his world. .. She was there to pick up the pieces. .. Alex-. I was the president of a small motorcycle club, Wings of Diablo. My word was law and I had a crew that would put their very lives on the line if I asked. I did, and I was wrong. I was blinded by my own pride. I couldn't see that I was in over my head and that hubris was enough to cost me everything. My club...
  • Bratva Billionaire by Flora Ferrari

    Bratva Billionaire by Flora Ferrari

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Roman. When I first met her she pretended not to want me, but I could see the truth in her eyes. Soaking wet from the rain, I vowed right there and then to track her down and make her mine. I wasn't expecting her to worm her way into my life through my dogs, the very next day, but Chloe Wilson is nothing but surprising. I should have expected nothing less from the woman of my dreams...
  • Saving Grace (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) by Shauna Allen

    Saving Grace (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) by Shauna Allen

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    ***This book was previously published in Amazon Kindle Worlds***. Lucas “Lucky” Moore has a one-track mind and one thing on his agenda:. Track down the Mexican drug lord that has made it his mission to hunt and eliminate Lucky’s Marine Reconnaissance team, their families, and the SEALs working alongside them, and end his reign of terror permanently...
  • Black Light: Protocol by Shane Starrett

    Black Light: Protocol by Shane Starrett

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    “Yes, sir. ”. Galen Harmon lives to hear those two words. And for fifteen years he lived the dream with a submissive who’d knelt at his feet and offered that simple phrase over and over again. But then she was gone. Ripped away in a heartbeat of savage betrayal and anguish that still haunts him. Until he met Alex. She’s everything that was taken from him...
  • Sacrifices For Kingdoms by Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin

    Sacrifices For Kingdoms by Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    This captivating contemporary romance takes readers on an exhilarating journey across continents and cultures. Elizabeth, a sophisticated activist and philanthropist from Trinidad, meets Michael, a socially conscious European prince, and they are irresistibly drawn to each other...
  • Ruined With You by J. Kenner

    Ruined With You by J. Kenner

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When her high maintenance boss is assaulted, manager Xena Morgan contacts the only person who can help—the sexy, arrogant, incredibly capable Stark Security agent Liam Foster. The former vigilante takes every case personally, and he's determined to find answers—particularly since he thought he'd cleared this threat already...
  • Whisper My Name by Maureen Smith

    Whisper My Name by Maureen Smith

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When a beautiful professor joins forces with a sexy detective to find a serial killer, shes caught in a web of danger and desire as she becomes the murderers next target. Original.
  • Pearl & Belle Pearl Boxed Set by Arianne Richmonde

    Pearl & Belle Pearl Boxed Set by Arianne Richmonde

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Pearl. and. Belle Pearl. follow Arianne Richmonde's Pearl Trilogy: the tumultuous and heart-rending love story between forty-year-old documentary producer, Pearl Robinson, and French Internet billionaire, Alexandre Chevalier, fifteen years her junior...
  • Honey Books 5-8: Sweet & Dirty BBW Romances by Cathryn Cade

    Honey Books 5-8: Sweet & Dirty BBW Romances by Cathryn Cade

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Four MORE sexy, action-packed MC romances in a 2nd set. The alpha males of the Devil's Flyers MC are falling like dominoes. .. to the power of love. Will these brothers follow? Book 5, Honey in the Rock - Her real world could be wilder than her fantasies… if she dares. He’s a hot, dangerous biker who goes through women like whiskey. She’s a shy, BBW gamer who crushes on him from afar...
  • A Little Groundhog Day Gamble: A Holidays at Rawhide Ranch Story by Allie Belle, Rawhide Authors

    A Little Groundhog Day Gamble: A Holidays at Rawhide Ranch Story by Allie Belle, Rawhide Authors

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Facing down one of her high school bullies didn't exactly go the way she'd planned. .. Instead of giving Darius Smith a piece of her mind and walking away knowing she'd had the last word, Brynnly somehow finds herself on a date with him. At Rawhide Ranch. Where Darius just accepted a job as a professor at the University...
  • Wild Hearts: Trevor Monroe Part One: Lost Hearts Series by Blue Saffire, Fairy Proofmother Proofreading

    Wild Hearts: Trevor Monroe Part One: Lost Hearts Series by Blue Saffire, Fairy Proofmother Proofreading

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Award winning, Bestselling, Author Blue Saffire presents. Wild Lost Hearts Series. Trevor. I want a divorce and I want it now. I’m so tired of playing these games, but if I have to sit here in counseling, I’m going to make myself clear. At least, I think I am until Dr. Winsor asks a question that throws me back in time. My greatest regret. The one who was supposed to be my future. My wild heart...
  • Black Light: Saved by Raisa Greywood

    Black Light: Saved by Raisa Greywood

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Jafari’s little rabbit might try to run, but he’s going to catch her. No matter what. Kacy's past is dark and twisted, and it's coming back to haunt her. But she's not alone this time. Dominant and possessive, Jafari isn't going to let his favorite masochist run away again. He'll keep her tied up and begging for him while he slays her dragons, even if she insists she's no damsel in distress...
    Categorized as:
    multicultural  bdsm  contemporary  m-f
  • Weapon of Seduction by Maureen Smith

    Weapon of Seduction by Maureen Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    WILL LOVE COME TOO LATE? It’s a good thing FBI agent Korrine Friday didn’t arrest that nosy stranger who appeared at the crime scene she was processing, because (A) he’s Rafe Santiago, her new supervisor at the field office in San Antonio, and (B) he’s gorgeous...
  • The Greek's Fated Twins - A Billionaire's Babies Romance by Holly Rayner

    The Greek's Fated Twins - A Billionaire's Babies Romance by Holly Rayner

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One baby is a blessing. Two babies? It must be fate! Cassie Veiland is a professional con artist, jet-setting around the globe and swindling rich men out of their money. The twist? Rather than spend it on herself, she gives it up to charity. Growing up as a foster kid, Cassie never had a real place to call home, or real people to call family...
  • My Enemy: An Indian billionaire enemies to lovers romance by Sapna Bhog

    My Enemy: An Indian billionaire enemies to lovers romance by Sapna Bhog

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    There is one unwritten rule in every war—do not fall for your enemy…. Sanjana Luthra had a simple mission, to learn as much as she could about her enemy in order to help bring him down. What she hadn’t anticipated was the lure of Aaryan Rajpoot. He was supposed to be her enemy and yet he didn’t feel like one. Her attraction to him was instant, their chemistry red hot...
  • Play Me Darkly by Aidèe Jaimes

    Play Me Darkly by Aidèe Jaimes

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The handsome dark Devil craved the light, so he stole mine. .. He came into my life like a hero, saving me from a man that kept me against my will. But it was an illusion. Braulio del Castillo isn't a good man. He isn't a hero. He's beautiful. He's a beast. He is revenge...
  • Call Sign: King by Livia Grant

    Call Sign: King by Livia Grant

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He got cocky. Let his guard down. Now the love of his life is paying the price. For a moment he'd forgotten there were men who wanted him dead. Men who lived their lives in the dark, who could reach out of the shadows he used to live in, and he'd been naive to think the light inside her would keep her safe...
  • Kings Fear No One by Sienne Vega

    Kings Fear No One by Sienne Vega

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    My life changed forever the day I was taken. .. I was a happy woman once, who believed in the good of people. But then I saw how dark and ugly they could be. I learned of the things they can take from others. .. from me. .. Once I'm saved, you'd think I'd put the traumatic past behind me. Instead, I'm left with wounds that won't seem to heal. And a husband I never asked for...
  • The Tycoon's Temporary Bride: Book Four by Ana E Ross

    The Tycoon's Temporary Bride: Book Four by Ana E Ross

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New York Times Bestselling Author, Ana E Ross, presents The Tycoon’s Temporary Bride – Book Four of the Billionaire Brides of Granite Falls series:. Since he was left standing at the altar, Adam Andreas has been a bit bride-shy. This handsome, sexy CEO is quite content with his temporary relationships, until the day he literally bumps into Tashi Holland...
  • Because of His Past by Kelly Favor

    Because of His Past by Kelly Favor

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Grace Knowles isn’t the type of girl to have sex in exchange for money. But when the unimaginably rich and handsome Liam Houston suggests just such an arrangement, she doesn’t exactly say no to him. Instead, Grace goes to his room in the middle of the night, intending to give him a piece of her mind. But when Liam Houston finally gets his hands on her, nothing’s that simple...
  • Mend by Autumn Grey

    Mend by Autumn Grey

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, especially in love. Remington has played that game before and lost. One thing is certain… Losing Selene is not an option. As the threat on their lives looms closer, he knows one wrong move and she might disappear from his life forever. The clock is ticking, and Remington is competing against time to save the woman who is fast becoming a part of his soul...
  • Loving Lilly by J.M. Madden

    Loving Lilly by J.M. Madden

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Diego Ortiz has too many demons to fight to even consider taking on a relationship. But when socialite and former model Lilly Carmichael needs his help, he’s right there to lend her a hand. Proximity forces him to acknowledge that he needs to be with her and when they finally give in, it’s a revelation to them both. Lilly Carmichael sees the real man Diego is, though he tries to discourage her...
  • Shake It Up by J. Kenner

    Shake It Up by J. Kenner

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There are a million reasons why I need to stop thinking about Taylor D'Angelo naked. She's too young for me, for starters. She's too ambitious. She's my job. Romance was the last thing on my mind when I agreed to look into her stalker as a favor. Now, she's all I can think about--and in every position I can imagine. I'm not the only one obsessing...
  • The Disciples Short Stories: Vol. 1 by Izzy Sweet, Sean Moriarty

    The Disciples Short Stories: Vol. 1 by Izzy Sweet, Sean Moriarty

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lucifer and his merry band of killers rule the streets of Garden City. Possessive and obsessive, they take the women they want knowing no one will stop them. But the fun doesn't stop once they reach their happily ever afters. Take a peek at their lives between the books. Includes five short stories set in the Disciples series. Before God Himself - Lucifer. Ho, Ho, Ho - Andrew. Run Lily - Lily...
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    bdsm  suspense  mafia  contemporary  length-novella
  • The Strategist by Nadia Han

    The Strategist by Nadia Han

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "She is the most beautiful target to land at the center of my heart. ". Calculated and sinfully attractive, Arrow Holt is a former Navy SEAL full of strategies that make him a successful wine entrepreneur. But the wounds he carries still haunt him. When he sees scars worse than his own on a stunning woman, his closed heart breaks open...
  • A Princess for Cale / A Princess for Cain by Susan Stoker, Becca Jameson

    A Princess for Cale / A Princess for Cain by Susan Stoker, Becca Jameson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Princess for Cale by Susan StokerKatelin Kriss comes from nothing—literally. A lifetime in foster care has ensured she’s used to little notice. So when she develops a crush on a real-life prince, she expects him to remain her favorite fantasy...
    Categorized as:
    bdsm  suspense  contemporary  length-medium
  • Ruthless Temptation by Juliette N. Banks

    Ruthless Temptation by Juliette N. Banks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Aidan Dufort is a billionaire businessman, and dominant lover. During a weekend wedding in Hawaii, he sets his sights on small-town submissive, Lily. The way she reacts to him has his body on fire, and when he finds out there’s another man in the mix, Aidan finds himself staking a claim his family isn’t happy with...
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