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Thieves' Honor by Kate King, Jessa Wilder
"Run, Rabbit, Run." After weeks in the Esposito Hotel, I now know three things: 1. The Gentlemen are liars. 2. The Trilogy took my sister. 3. My father is insane. I've been reminded of who I am and who my enemies are. Nico lied to me, and Beck and Rush backed him up. I'm on my own again—the spare to the heir, with nothing to lose and no one I can trust...Categorized as:
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The Gentlemen: The Complete Series by Kate King, Jessa Wilder
A Complete, Binge-worthy Series filled with action, romance, and a healthy dose of sass. This set contains all three best-selling titles: RED HANDED THIEVES' HONOR DAMNED SOULS From Book One: Forced to live with my ENEMIES. They think they OWN ME. But I own their HEARTS. Nico, Rush, and Beck are the three leaders of The Gentlemen...Categorized as:
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Nights of Winter by Cora Flynn
It’s hard to imagine our pretty little town as anything but picture-perfect.Or it was, until I got sucked into a tangled web of dirty secrets and lies, trapping me underground with the most unlikely of companions.The man who broke my heart is now the one to save me.The man who let me go now won’t leave my side.The man who’d held me at arms length is now cradling me in his arms...Categorized as:
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Winter's End by Cora Flynn
Cascade Falls Population: 3279 And that’s about how many lies we’re uncovering in our tiny town. The deeper we dig, the dirtier it gets, and no one, not even my parents, are innocent. Thankfully I’m not alone; five unlikely men and I have banded together to try to unbury the truths that plague our piece of paradise. The man who broke my trust is now my charming savior... -
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Scarlett by Alisha Williams, Cassie Lein
The countdown was on. Just a little while longer and I could escape my uncle and head off to college. I should have known fate wouldn’t be so kind. One meeting with my uncle changes everything. A deal made between two wicked men. My hand in marriage to the mafia don’s son. I may have no control over who I marry but I can control who I give my innocence to... -
Confessions: Ethan by Ella Frank
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEverything in the world is about sex except sex.Sex is about power. ~ Oscar WildeDesire. Dominance. Sex.Ethan Holt is in the business of all three.He believes that any fantasy can be created, and that any kink should be explored.Why wouldn’t he, when he has several of his own?Control. Ethan has to have it.In his job at The Office. In his relationship with Zayne... -
Zayne by Ella Frank
Rebellion is necessary for development of character. ~ Cynthia VoightImpatient. Impulsive. Rebellious.Zayne Copeland’s been getting in trouble for as long as he can remember.But if trouble goes by the name Ethan Holt, he’s quite okay with that.Why wouldn’t he be, when Ethan has been the one to show him what love is?From boys to men. From school to The Office... -
The Wild Tour by Erin O'Kane, K.A. Knight
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWelcome to The Wild Boys, where all your wettest dreams come true. Life on tour is like nothing you can ever expect. G-strings, baby oil and innuendos are rife...and that’s only from the boys. Being a manager of an all male strip show does have its perks though and life is finally getting back on track for us. My job is going well and my love life is like a romantic comedy.. -
Sinfully Theirs by Serena Akeroyd
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor little Miss Nobody, a love this unique is more than she'd ever dared expect... * Mona is Miss. Average. Her ass isn't the tightest, her job sucks, and she's still getting over her divorce. Life is one long round of work, work, and more work until, one day, she accidentally falls into the arms of an ex-Marine... -
Come When Called by Piper Trace
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsEvie has made a deal with the devil.She has a safe-word. She has a way out. But her submission to him is her only way in...**********Billionaire Ford Hawthorne is cool sexuality and dominance, his best friend, biker Charley Baker, is warm muscles and affection, and Evie is the lucky girl in the middle... -
The Darkest Chord by Jenn Bullard
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI just wanted to get out of my little town, leave the past behind.I found Turner and Roark, embraced music, and unloaded my pain into my songs. I wanted to show people I could be their voice since I know what it’s like to be small, quiet, and terrified... -
Sincerely Yours by Lizzie Fox, Sariah Skye
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEvan Michaels: Everyone thinks being a rock-star is glamorous. They couldn’t be more wrong. I’ve been abused, mocked, and ridiculed all in the public eye. I live for weeks on end in a smelly tour bus, my family is the worst, and all I have is my playboy manager, Christian, for company. So, I get bored and sit on social media. No big deal... -
Hotter Than Ever by Elle Kennedy
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsWhen you land in hot water, swim for safety—or let the fire burn. An Out of Uniform StoryClaire McKinley has just experienced every bride’s nightmare. The groom is a no-show, and now she must face five hundred guests alone... -
Tormented Girl by Lexie Winston
Property destruction, aggressive threats and an injured family member is what Harlow and the Summers family are having to deal with... -
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Locked Up Liars by Elle Thorpe
Nothing prepares you for finding your sister’s lifeless body covered in blood.But when the police arrest her ex, a man I know is innocent, I can’t sit by and do nothing.Not when I’ve been secretly in love with him for years.Heath may not want my help, but I won’t take no for an answer.To catch a killer, I’m forced to take a job at Saint View Prison. Maximum security... -
Days of Winter by Cora Flynn
For 21 years, I’ve lived a relatively quiet life in Cascade Falls. But there’s more than meets the eye to our small tourist town, and I seem to get caught up in a not-so-hidden criminal empire that I never wanted any part of. The tangle I'd much rather get caught up in?The heartfelt boy next door who I’ve been crushing on for years.The sexier than sin liar who has made it his mission to keep me... -
A Set of Three by Melody Tyden
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsMy life seems to have hit a dead end. My acting career is stalled, my love life is non-existent, and earlier today, I found out that the man I've had a crush on for the last six months already has a boyfriend. It seems like things can't get much worse when a passing car drenches me with water, leaving me soaking wet in front of the very man in question... -
My Three Crushes by Bianca Vix
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes it takes getting lost to find what you really need.Getting stuck in the snow might be the best thing that ever happened to me.Especially when I end up sharing same bed as the three hot men I find tucked away from the rest of the world in their cabin. They aren’t what I expected. And they certainly weren’t expecting to have me crash into their own private world... -
Tantalizing Kings by Alisha Williams
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMy first year of college is already off to a bad start.My boyfriend of three years betrayed me at the end of summer party. He said I wasn't enough anymore, along with some other things that hurt to hear.I might be socially shy at times, but I’m not stupid, II know now what was really happening... -
Scent of Home: When it Raines Omegaverse by Tea Ravine
When it Raines it pours and I’m on the bus to nowhere with a dream that shouldn’t existOn the bus to nowhere I meet Locke Raines who is as mysterious as he is appealing. He looks familiar yet hoards secrets and pain and the only promise he’ll commit to, is that this is a one time thing... -
G.O.D.S: Gifted. Obedient. Deadly. Students. by Jaye Pratt
The G.O.D.S are trained from birth, as weapons for an Organisation called Olympia. Team Hades- Genetically engineered to be the best, lost one of their own a long time ago, losing her changed them. They no longer had a heart to protect. Making them into deadly weapons.When Jolie turns up, they're thrown into a spin of mixed emotions, ones they were never trained to master... -
Autumn Tricksters by Kayla Wren
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe circus can be deadly. It’s smoke and mirrors; misfits and flames.It’s the place where tricksters come to play.They sent me away with a broken wrist and a broken heart.Now I’m back, with fire burning in my veins.I live for the pounding drum beats, for the savagery and applause.The circus calls to my soul; three men more than anyone else.The ringmaster, the acrobat, and the fire-eater... -
Charming Bella by Aria Devon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsWhen Bella Rose escapes her cruel stepfamily to attend a local party, she falls for the irresistible businessman, Axel Harrington. He's perfectly as charming as a prince, but their newfound happiness is shattered when he vanishes without a trace.Bella soon discovers the dark truth-Axel was captured by the ruthless beast Satyr Drakos. Desperate to save Axel, Bella offers herself in his place... -
Broken Girl by Lexie Winston
Never in her life has Harlow felt as low as she does now. Even a beating from her mother was easier to take then the humiliation she just suffered at the hands of the Summer’s siblings.Unable to return home due to a promise made to her foster father, she has to stay on until her commitments have concluded... -
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Pucking The Players by Jarica James
She thought her heart was frozen for good, too bad these hockey players are experts on ice. After Macy escapes an awful situation, she’s forced to go back to the town she left behind. Going back to help her dad run the hockey rink he owns wasn’t how she saw herself rebuilding a future. Especially not with the three hockey players she meets that are absolutely obsessed with her... -
The Wild Finale by K.A. Knight, Erin O'Kane
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWelcome to The Wild Boys, where all your wettest dreams come true.Heartbroken over the loss of Mark, our happily ever after seems to be slipping away with each day that passes. We have to try and navigate our way through obstacles facing a relationship such as ours, while still performing on the sold out tour.The show must go on, but hiding in the wings is our stalker. An obsessed fan.. -
Just Looking by Roxanne Riley
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe was just looking for her birth mother.But instead she may have found a whole new kind of family.Astrid Lucas has been searching for information about her birth family for years. When she finally finds a scrap, an address, she leaps at the chance. So she packs up her bags and drives across the country in the hopes of finding answers about her life... -
About Pucking Time by Charlie Jules, Stacy Stone
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsNo one will come between me and my happily ever after, not after everything I've been through to even stand a chance. And if they try...well, they can puck around and find out.I never thought I’d see Austin and Brooklyn Ryker again.Back in high school, the twins were everything. I loved them both. But they left me behind when they went off to chase their dreams as sport superstars in the NHL... -
Possessive by Maggie Alabaster
I was the baby of the family. The one who was supposed to have a normal life. Instead, I was imprisoned by a monster, chained and caged. Subjected to h*ll.When I thought my life couldn't get worse, I'm found by the enemy. Surrounded by three men I don't dare to trust. But I have to. They can help me get the one thing I need more than anything.Revenge... -
Ruined by Maggie Alabaster
My entire life was built on a foundation of secrets and lies, shadows and blood. Trust was difficult to come by and harder to give.One by one, my secrets start to unravel, revealed by my enemy, while I search for him.The three mafia kings who care about me are about to discover what I really am. When they do, I might become their enemy. Hunted and betrayed... -
Rogue by Katie Rae
They were complete opposites in every way.Their hatred for one another ran hot through their veins.With one chance encounter, I became the only thing keeping them from destroying one another.And the reason for their temporary truce.We spent our days trying to uncover the mysteries on board the USS Dewitt.While our nights were spent pushing the boundaries of more than just each other’s bodies...Categorized as:
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Finding the Forward, Part One by Jane Handler
VerityMy life isn’t a fairytale, even if I wish it was.I’ve been raised on stories of soulmates and happily-ever-afters, causing me to yearn for a pack and omega of my own.But I've been told over and over that no one wants an alpha female like me. Not that I know how to be one.Then I meet Grif.On what feels like the worst day of my life I find Grif, the sexy, giant forward, in my airplane seat... -
My Brother's Teammates by Melissa Ivers, Lasairiona E. McMaster
What do you get when you cross a curvy seamstress with three hot hockey players? A pucking disaster.My escape plan seemed foolproof - retreat to my brother's empty apartment after catching my ex with another man. But I stumble into an unexpected complication: his hockey player roommates...and I'm stark naked...Categorized as:
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Rhythm by Maggie Alabaster, Jo Bradley
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsWe're right in the middle of our red hot European tour, playing to sell out audiences who can't get enough of Wolf Venom. Or me.While the guys and I work to get Tully out of police custody, Landon and I get closer. Along with his long time boyfriend, we explore new ways to express our feelings for each other—in public ways... -
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Fatal Vengeance by Sybil Reese
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsBlackwood University is crumbling.My world has caved in, my mom is gone, and I’m living life on the run with the three men who have all hurt me at one point. Am I a fool for forgiving them? Maybe, but with the ever-present reminder that life is far too short, I’d rather hold them close than keep my heart guarded forever...Categorized as:
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Little Goddess by Layla Frost
A why-choose, age-gap romance from USA Today Bestselling Author Layla Frost…If three’s a crowd, then what’s four?A happily ever after.All my life, my parents bounced around hippie communes, dragging me along for the shroom-fueled ride. When they announced we were moving again, I expected more of the same—group cabins, rundown shacks, or flimsy yurts... -
Knot Your Business by Jillian Rink
Matching is pivotal. Matching is momentous. Matching is sacred. Or so the Council says. Watching the dynamic between my mother and fathers has stripped the rose-colored glasses from me, though. I’ve never wanted to match. And I certainly never wanted to attend one of the glitzy galas the Council uses to woo Omegas... -
Muse by Maggie Alabaster, Jo Bradley
The world tour is heating up. So are my relationships with the members of the band. Zeke, Asher, Tully and I are getting closer. I even start to understand the talented, gorgeous, but difficult and arrogant keyboardist, Penn. We say we hate each other, but judging by the fireworks that go off when we're together, there's a lot more to us than words... -
5 Boys on the Brink by Evie Kady
Book 2 in the 5 Boys series follows filmmaker Kat Galbraith as she deals with the breakup of the biggest pop band on the planet. Four gorgeous musicians, and me - the girl who crashed their lives. Somehow I'm supposed to be the professional one. But they make it impossible not to mix business with pleasure. "There is no single factor responsible for the breakup of Royal Element... -
Pound by Maggie Alabaster, Jo Bradley
The closer the tour gets, the higher the stakes become.The guys and I should be busy rehearsing. With constant threats and distractions, I'm forced to rethink my choices.I won't stop falling for these amazing guys, but when someone is stalking me, would it be best if I let them forget me?**This is a reverse harem, rock star romance with big instruments, mm and mafia families... -
Encore by Maggie Alabaster, Jo Bradley
It's the last leg of the tour, and make or break for me and the guys of Wolf Venom. It's time for us to come face to face with the darkest parts of ourselves, and each other.To do that, we need to work with former enemies and decide if we can really trust the ones we love. By the time we reach the final encore, we'll be playing in perfect unison, or fall apart at the crescendo...Categorized as:
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Pretty Little Omega by Leslie Ayla
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsOne upon a time there was an Omega. She was pretty, kind, and sweet. And she was hiding two very big secrets. She thought she was alone. Forced to hide what she was, she lost herself in books. Until that wasn't an option anymore... -
Session by Maggie Alabaster, Jo Bradley
The world tour has begun, but not everyone is happy about it.While some audiences have embraced me as well as the guys, others haven't forgotten my past. They remind me of it every chance they get. Sometimes they throw more than words.At the same time, I'm caught between exploring my sensory side with lead guitarist Tully, and dealing with the guy's popularity with other women... -
Bullets & Mistletoe: A Why Choose Holiday Novella by C.J. Lucci
Last Christmas, she gave her ex her heart, but the very next day, he gave it away.This year, to save herself from tears, she'll give it to the three mafia capos she's snowed in with.Emilia Pietri loves her quiet but lonely life in the mountains of Sant Evisa, working as a hotel clerk in her hometown. When a fierce snowstorm threatens to trap her Christmas guests, they're swiftly evacuated... -
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Belated Omega by Raelynn Rose
Organizations have begun to build, groups who want to rid the world of betas. Groups who take omegas to use as nothing more than capsules to populate the world with the designations they feel are superior. I should have been safe. My family believed me nothing more than a beta. Average. Not worth their time. They disowned me, threw me out on my butt with nothing more than the clothes on my back... -
The Purrfect Pack by Galadreal Simmons
The party never starts for Candice Manning, a complete social introvert who suffers from anxiety and depression. Almost never leaving her house, and passing as a beta whenever she has to be in public, she lives with her aging cat and stunted iguana...Categorized as:
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Pitch by Maggie Alabaster, Jo Bradley
My life and reputation are a total mess.My new label wants to resurrect my career by sending me on tour with the smokin' hottest rock band on the planet. That includes the lead singer, Zeke, who I 'met' in a dark corner of a club the other night... -
Sevyn by Emma Cole
Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter a wild night with a pair of military men leaves Club President, Sevyn, with an unexpected souvenir, she finds herself facing the responsibility alone.With a club to run, she must find a balance between motherhood and leadership, leaving little time for romance until ghosts return from the dead, forcing her to restructure her life... -
Knot Now Knot Ever by Elizabeth Knight
If you're looking for Eli's happy ever after, you're in the right place! Lyra’s life hasn’t been all sunshine and roses, she knows what it means to be alone after losing her parents at a young age. Witnessing the devastation her mother experienced after losing her bonded Alphas made one thing clear to Lyra. Scent matching isn’t for her...Categorized as:
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These Sinful Lies by Beth Evans
Rated: 2.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI thought I had escaped the demons of my past. For ten years I lived a life of relative peace, got an education and a great job, and worked on healing myself all while hiding right under the nose of the very people I had run from. Life was good. But then the head of the Bratva turned himself in and would only speak to me...
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