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Adore Me by Jillian Dodd
Join Keatyn on Thanksgiving Break in this Keatyn Chronicles novella. I’ve finally become the kind of girl my little sisters could look up to. Except for the lies. Lying to my friends is killing me. And the longer I’m there—the closer we get—the more I feel like I’m being eaten from the inside out. If I go back to Eastbrooke, I’ll end up nothing but a shell. So I'm not going back...Categorized as:
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Here to Stay by Suanne Laqueur
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“You can’t sort of do this, Fish. Draw a line and get on one side or the other...”Love is never so sweet as when it receives a second chance. In the sequel to her award-winning novel The Man I Love, Suanne Laqueur continues the story of Erik Fiskare’s romance with Daisy Bianco. Though separated for twelve years, the extraordinary bond forged in their youth has endured...Categorized as:
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The Moment of Truth by Shari Low
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsThe Moment of Truth…Laney Cochrane loves her life.With her friends Millie and Tash, she runs a proposal agency, organising the perfect setting for their clients to pop the question. Finding that forever love is something Laney knows all about. Her marriage to Cameron is blissfully content and she has never doubted they’ll live happily ever after.Then Cara Deacon walks into their office... -
One Day In Summer by Shari Low
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsOne day in summer, three lives are about to change forever.After two decades of looking after others, this is the day that Agnetha McMaster is reclaiming her life. It’s her turn, her time but will she have the courage to start again?Ten years ago, Mitchell McMaster divorced Agnetha and married her best friend, Celeste. Now he suspects his second wife is having an affair... -
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The Don by Stella Andrews
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMost fairy tales include a dark figure.The wicked stepmother dressed all in black wearing her anger for all to see.In my story she is dressed in innocence and fragility.Soft, gentle, sweet and loving, hiding her black heart beneath perfection.She came into the family and seduced three brothers.Then she married their father who sent them away... -
Commitment by Nia Forrester
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt was obvious to everyone but them they were all wrong for each other. Riley is a free-spirited boho writer and Shawn is a magnetic and charismatic rapper, riding the highest crest of his career. She doesn't understand his world and he sure as hell doesn't understand hers. And what's worse, while he's never committed to any woman before, she's committed to someone else...Categorized as:
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Sail by M. Mabie
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis isn’t just a two-year long one-night stand. It’s my life. This is my life. Our life. It isn’t just some careless affair. I’ve made the worst decisions a woman could, but I’ll earn my second chance. She can try keeping all the guilt for herself, but I’m just as much to blame. Loving Casey wasn’t my biggest mistake. Fighting it for so long was... -
The Other Woman by Eric Jerome Dickey
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsEric Jerome Dickey strides boldly over the minefield that is modern marriage. The central couple's biggest challenge is timing: He works days; she works nights. Instead of growing together, they're rapidly drifting apart, coexisting on stolen phone calls from work, punctuated by occasional bedroom encounters that leave them both feeling even emptier and more alone...Categorized as:
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Xander: Part 2, The Present by Anne Mercier, Sara Eirew
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's eleven years later, and we're still living separate lives. While I know she isn't comfortable with my lifestyle after everything she’s been through, I can't be without her anymore. I need her. She's my wife. She's my heartbeat. She's my every breath. She's my everything. I want to know every detail of her life. I want to be part of it all... -
Ashes of Black Oak by Monique Edenwood
I watch the blood as it seeps from him, pooling like crimson flame around his neck, trickling in rivulets of liquid fire onto the dense body below.The body I've touched. I've held. I've kissed. I've felt wrapped around me for so long, holding me possessively, protecting me from those who wanted me lost... -
Burning Bond by Emma Hart
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBURNING BOND is book six of the HOLLY WOODS FILES series. While it can technically be read as a standalone, it's advised to read the first five books prior to this for full enjoyment. -- Two men, both determined to protect me. I think I love one. I’m almost sure I’m in love with the other. Ride or die just got a whole lot realer... -
His Wounded Light by Christine Brae
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe perfect life. The perfect marriage. The jilted lover. Their worlds collide. Fate intervenes twelve years later and their paths intersect once again. All three will question whether the heart is truly capable of dividing and being divided; each will decide whether it matters who you loved first or who you love last... -
Ghosts of the Canyon by Michelle Mankin
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsWelcome to the year 1969, a tumultuous year when the world and rock ’n’ roll were changing. Woodstock, war protests, free love, it’s all there, plus a rollercoaster romance that will have you frantically flipping pages to discover who this heroine chooses.What Katelyn Love longs for most of all is a child. Someone to shower with the affection she never received from her parents...Categorized as:
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Royal Haze by L.J. Evans
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI pledge allegiance to her…and only her.The stunning conclusion to The Painted Daisies series. Singer and lead guitarist Nikki Rani will do whatever it takes to keep her mom and her band safe, even if it means keeping secrets about her friend's murder. She failed her loved ones once and won't be taken in again by a ridiculous story.There are no fairy tales in her future... -
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Cypher by T.L. Drake
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAward Winning Author T.L. Drake's final book of the Road Demons seriesSicilyI had a life most people envied. Wealth, family, friends, and a future career I had dreamed of having since I was a little girl. My life was perfect, until it wasn’t. I lost everything thanks to a bottle of Jack and…him—a man I don’t even know! A man that I have no choice but to trust now...Categorized as:
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Break Me by Tiffany Snow
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJust a few weeks ago, computer prodigy China Mack’s typical night in involved Endor Star Wars pajamas and a sensible bedtime. Now she’s dating gorgeous tech guru Jackson Cooper—one of Forbes’s Top Ten Eligible Billionaires—much to the Twitterverse’s delight. Turns out, going from socially inept hermit to poster girl for geek chic has its challenges... -
The Widow by Sanne van Ooijen
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJoan komt voor de grootste uitdaging van haar leven te staan als haar man plotseling komt te overlijden. Ze wordt weduwe en die rol brengt haar vele nieuwe inzichten... -
Playing Dirty by Tiffany Snow
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsDOWN AND DIRTY Faced with a choice between bad-boy detective Dean Ryker and sexy power player Parker Anderson, Sage Reece fought the law--and the law won. But while Ryker's sizzling touch may rule her nights, Sage's days belong to Parker's cool, calculating intensity. . . . Both Ryker and Parker are determined to protect Sage from a brutal enemy who'd use her to pay for their mistakes...Categorized as:
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Save Me by Tiffany Snow
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsIn this fast-paced romantic suspense, China Mack will make one final choice. Computer genius China Mack may be the former head of Vigilance, the government’s clandestine spy program, but she can still be knocked off balance. And two back-to-back personal blows have thrown her into a tailspin... -
Black Oak Burning by Monique Edenwood
Cameron’s relentless craving for me never seemed to end, even when it seemed that he may end up claiming his victory over Jack.The irresistible odyssey into his dark dreams of domination thrilled me to my very core, breaking some of the chains holding me to Jack and setting my soul on fire with the fervor of relentless lust and unspeakable threats of ecstasy... -
When I Come Back by Alise Monroe
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThirteen years ago, Carrington Grant and Thea Ashford left Indigo Hill, South Carolina with a shared dream of a larger life that only Seattle could offer. Cary hoped to be the next big chef with his childhood sweetheart at his side, leaving his estranged family behind without a second glance.Eight years ago, Thea moved back home to care for her sick mother, leaving Carrington alone in Seattle... -
The Devil's Playground by Eliza Freed
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFormer U.S. Attorney, Meredith Walsh, took some time off to raise her children. But the time took away everything she once trusted about herself. She’s lost within the mundane confines of her children's schedules of lacrosse, soccer, Cub Scouts, and math facts... -
Finding Amanda by Robin Patchen
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn award-winning novel with brand-new bonus content…Amanda Johnson hopes that publishing her memoir will finally bring justice to the psychiatrist who abused her as a teenager and heal the wounds that have long festered. But her estranged husband, Mark, is determined to talk her out of exposing her traumatic past... -
Embers of Black Oak by Monique Edenwood
His eyes blaze in a way that is new to me.When they roam to my lips, it's all I can do not to tremble.He studies me as if tormented, as if the need to own my soul is all that exists.When he speaks, I feel myself succumbing to his deviant, seductive words. To his incomparable aura. To his power...Categorized as:
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Constantine: Britain's Story Part 2 by E.L. Stevens
If I could forget Liam Millar, my life would be perfect. I’d finally done the hard thing and moved home. I’d gotten my house on a lake. I had family in my life for the first time in decades and I could really start to picture the Sunday dinners and long days spent on the water soaking up the California sun.I’d even have the perfect love story too... -
The Pope by Jade Marshall
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsDo second chances exist? Storm has been in love with Colin “Pope” O’Brien since she was thirteen but it wasn’t meant to be. Years later, the opportunity to be together presents itself—but it's stolen away in the blink of an eye. After a near-death experience, Pope decides to bear his heart to Storm and finally claim the woman he loves. But it just doesn’t seem in to be in the cards for them... -
The Lion's Den by Eliza Freed
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn injury stops the bleeding of Meredith and Brad Walsh’s fractured marriage. As Meredith recovers and tries to regain her memory, Brad fights to convince Meredith their marriage was perfect, even if it barely existed. But with Meredith’s memory comes clarity, and Meredith is faced with the reality of a husband and a lover... -
Muscle Memory by Stylo Fantome
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHer lips, the way she feels, how she moves against me. Her voice when she laughs, her eyes when she cries. Her soul connected to mine, for better or for worse, for all eternity. I don't remember. A blank face. Unrecognizable. The darkness and impenetrable fog, day after day after day. Who am I? And for that matter, who is she? I can't remember...Categorized as:
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Envy by Dylan Allen
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsIf envy is a sin, then let me be damned.Graham was born to be a star. Once upon a time, that star shone only for me. Now, I have to share him with the rest of the world. For a while, I thought I could do it. Because, beneath the hypnotic smile, gorgeous body and God-given charm that made him famous, I still caught glimpses of my best friend.Of the boy who called me sunshine and loved me... -
Storm Warning by E. Lee, C. Quinn
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSometimes you can’t see the storm coming until it’s too late... Severe Storm Warning Tip #1: Be alert to changing weather conditions. Look for approaching storms. Severe Storm Warning Tip #2: If you see approaching storms or any of the danger signs, be prepared to take shelter immediately. Severe Storm Warning Tip #3: They may strike quickly, with little or no warning... -
No Control by Shannon K. Butcher
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNO HIDING . Lana Hancock knows all about danger--and betrayal. Eighteen months ago, she was captured by a terrorist group known as the Swarm while one of its members, a rugged man with sinfully dark eyes, did nothing to help her. Now when she's freed and desperate to put it all behind her, the unthinkable happens... -
Tempting Sophia by Jessica Prince
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHaving my heart broken once was enough to make me give up on the idea of love all together. Instead of searching for The One I decided to embrace variety and turn by back on monogamy. I made a living convincing women they didn’t need a man to feel complete. And I totally rocked at it... -
The Family Holiday by Shalini Boland
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTwo families. One house swap. A vacation to die for.I can’t believe my luck as I arrive at the beautiful, white-washed Italian villa. Complete with an infinity pool and stunning views, it’s the perfect place to create special memories with my family...Categorized as:
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Play to Win by Tiffany Snow
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsPLAY FAIR . . . OR PLAY TO WIN? Falling in love with polar-opposite men was an intoxicating ride that nearly ended Sage Reese's life. Now it's time for Sage to decide: Parker, the clean-cut, filthy-rich business magnate . . . or Ryker, the tough-as-nails undercover detective. Her choice? Neither...Categorized as:
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A Love so Tragic by Stevie J. Cole
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsPromises. We all make them. Sometimes we break them. But what happens when the promise you break haunts your dreams, when that moment of betrayal echoes within every last beat of your heart? Love. Love is passionate, painful, and all consuming in the most brutal yet beautiful way... -
Perfectly Broken by Maegan Abel
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsZane Tishler moved in with his brother after his nightmare divorce to find that his brother had taken in a “stray”, a punk chick with a bad attitude. Liliosa Cortez found a place to start over in a city built for hiding. But when her roommate’s brother moved in she pegged him for a pretty boy with enough baggage to fill a semi and major hostility toward women... -
Wild Abandon by Jeannine Colette
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWhen you fall in-love it’s forever. But sometimes forever comes with a price. I never meant to meet Nathaniel Teller. It was by accident, on a Tuesday, that I walked into his bar. He was solemn, intense and hiding a secret behind those stoic green eyes. I never intended to fall in-love with him. We were supposed to be just friends. But I fell for him hard, deep. There’s no turning back...Categorized as:
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Wicked Little Games by Dee Palmer
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratings“Sometimes if you wait too long, it’s too late.” Sarah Strohmeyer Tia was five years old when she fell in love Atticus Kraus. She didn’t care about the castle he lived in, that he was the heir to a vast empire, or that she was the daughter of his housekeeper... -
Keep Happy by A.C. Bextor
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThose who think they know me would tell you I’m a caring mother, a loyal friend, and a dutiful wife. They’d say the golden path which led me here is the road every little girl dreams of taking. However, the guise of my happy existence has come to be just that—an illusion. A mask of contentment intended for the world to believe... -
Love, Lies & the D.A. by Rebecca Rohman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJada McLean is about to get married in nine days, when she walks in on her fiancé in a little more than a compromising position. Days later, she’s on a trip that she intends to be relaxing and a prelude to her fresh start, when she runs into the rude, obnoxious, but gorgeous Jonathan Kole. Jonathan Kole is San Francisco’s newest District Attorney... -
The Biker's Lucky Charm by Glenna Maynard
LinkI messed up. I broke my vows and her heart. The last thing I ever wanted to do was hurt my wife. One moment of liquid regret. One night I can’t take back. A stupid mistake that should have never happened jeopardized all that I have. I’ll do anything to make it right. All I need is a little luck on my side. Pam He promised me forever. All the vows we made were empty. Lies I told myself...Categorized as:
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Black Oak Scorched by Monique Edenwood
I did everything in my power to resist Cameron's never-ending need to have me as his own. The heat of his hunger and the fervor of his attacks on my will was merciless, wearing me down as I struggled under the weight of Jack's ceaseless craving and possessive need to reclaim me… as well as his surveillance of my every move... -
All the News by Jade C. Jamison
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJust as Nicki’s love life starts heating up, a sexual predator roaming the streets of Winchester strikes fear in the hearts of the women in town. Nicki investigates, hoping to help the police track down the rapist or at least warn citizens to watch their backs... -
In the News by Jade C. Jamison
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs Nicki’s reporter skills improve, her boss Neal begins giving her better stories, key to moving up at the paper. This time, when a rash of robberies hits the downtown Winchester area, Nicki begins reporting the damage, hoping to help law enforcement bring the culprit to justice...Categorized as:
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Haunted by C.B. Noy
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsKeatonSon of a serial killer. That would have been my legacy if I hadn’t joined the FBI and moved to the small college town in Huntington, West Virginia. Being a federal agent was never in my crosshairs. Neither was falling for the down-on-her-luck beauty I found living out in her car. Yet both felt as natural as breathing.Henley was my chance to live a life I didn’t think I deserved... -
His End Game by R.B. Hilliard
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsEllie Davis has finally begun to mend the pieces of her shattered heart. With a new job slinging drinks behind the bar at Charlotte’s latest hot spot and a crush on her deliciously sexy bar manager things are finally starting to look up. New job plus new man equals the perfect anecdote to help Ellie forget all about bad boy Max McLellan…or so she thinks... -
The Cleaner by Kiersten Modglin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsGunner James is good at death. An expert.His job is to clean up the messes no one else can.But behind that tough exterior, Gunner has a few secrets of his own.Eight years ago, Gunner left his hometown and vowed to never look back. When his past collides with his present in the form of a familiar face, Gunner must return home to take care of one final mess...the woman he left behind...Categorized as:
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Where the Little Birds Go by B. Celeste
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHigh school heartbreak turned Hollywood affair. Read the exclusive here: When bestselling author Kinley Thomas gets the deal of a lifetime to see her book turned into a movie, the last person she expects to be cast as the leading role is Corbin Callum. After years of living the dreams that tore them apart, Hollywood will soon force them back together...Categorized as:
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From This Day Forward by Shannon Myers
Elizabeth tries to pick up the pieces when her marriage falls apart, but after an accident she finds that nothing in her life is as she remembers it- including her husband. Excerpt- "I'd always played it safe and look where it got me. My life ended the day he walked out the door. I just needed one night of recklessness to grieve the end of my marriage. I didn't plan on meeting him...Categorized as:
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Forsaking All Others by Shannon Myers
How do you come back when everything has been destroyed? While Elizabeth works to fully regain her memory, she must also work through the pain of betrayal. Meanwhile, David isn't going down without a fight and will do whatever it takes to win the love of his life back. The only problem is that he's not the only one vying for Elizabeth's heart...Categorized as:
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