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Reckless: Sins of the Father by Nicole James
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Nicole James, comes a STEAMY, WOKE UP MARRIED IN VEGAS, AGE GAP, MC ROMANCE! The SECOND GENERATION has arrived! Harley Jean—The pounding in my head wakes me— that and the fact that I have to pee. Must have been one hell of a bachelorette party last night... -
Mateo by K.L. Savage
Even without a memory, the world is a dark and damned place.There are things around us that regular people don’t know about...I know those things.I’ve done those things.It’s the way of this world when you’re on the throne.This temple is rightfully mine.I am the crown.This isn’t just my life.It’s my soul.My empire.My fortress.And her... -
Your One by Monica Walters, Latisha Burns
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsProfessional basketball player, Nate Guillory, has a good life. He enjoyed his childhood as the only child in a single-parent home. There is only one thing he feels he missed out knowing his father. Although he had a great upbringing, he feels that it is his right to know the identity of his father and why they weren’t afforded the opportunity to have a relationship... -
They Will Burn by Montana Fyre
The key to being queen is to never let them see you stumble. They betrayed me. They made me believe they cared for me, only to break my heart. And now I find myself in the hands of the only man more terrifying than the four men who handed me to him... -
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Shattered Oath by Lisa Lovell
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Bratva Boss wants me dead.Too bad I’m pregnant with his baby.I’ve run far and wide to escape the Devil’s rage.But it wasn’t long before he caught me.Now I’m standing in front of him bound and naked.About to face the consequences of my betrayal.With every inch of my skin exposed to his will,And my life flashing before my watery eyes,He draws my traitorous body under his spell... -
Distance Forever by Luna Mason
It’s their wedding anniversary and this year, it’s Keller's turn to surprise Sienna.In true Keller style, expect an extravagant get away, filled with lots of spice and worshipping of his wife. But when Sienna tells him that she doesn’t feel beautiful after having kids, Keller makes it his mission to spend the entire weekend showing her otherwise… and he won’t stop until she believes him... -
Cruel Prince by Aidèe Jaimes
I sold my soul to the Devil and he handed me over to someone far deadlier.After the death of my father, his enemies came knocking on my door. Left with no other choice, I agree to an indentured contract, selling my body to a criminal in exchange for my life.Only he never meant to keep me as his own...Categorized as:
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Hot Shot by Kat Baxter
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Tight Hold by Lisa Suzanne
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe pro football player I’m faking a relationship with has the perfect solution to my career woes. He’s encouraging me to lean into the pseudo-celebrity life I was born into instead of trying to outrun it, and for the first time in my life, someone sees me for me.I feel like he’s falling for me, too.And then my ex shows up... -
Accidental Vegas Vows by Mia Mara
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsUnder the intoxicating spell of Sin City, I've never wanted a man so desperately.He's my scorching hot boss, old enough to be my father.Problem is - I'm saving myself for marriage...So what do I do? I accidentally marry him.That night, he took me to heights of earth-shattering pleasure I never imagined... -
Isaac by Lane Hart, D.B. West
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIsaac Perry has spent the majority of his life wearing the Devil Hounds MC patches. As president, he’s used to making tough decisions, even the occasionally vicious ones. He doesn’t have to take orders from anyone anymore. He never bends, never breaks, until she literally stumbles into his life.Holly Garrison is young. Too young and innocent for an outlaw like Isaac to lay a hand on her... -
Crashing into Love by Nicole Pyland
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSports Series Book #7. This series is related by a sports theme, not by characters.Drew Oakes had her first chance to take home an Olympic gold medal taken away from her when another rider crashed into her in the first race of the competition.Four years later, she is determined to get on that podium, and preferably, at the top of it... -
Corrupted Sinner by Kiana Hettinger
BruteThis was supposed to be nothing but business.I help her to take down the Domínguez cartel and set my kidnapped sister free.But nothing about Greta is as I expected.Not her killer curves, or her boldness.Or the way those hazel eyes of hers hold me captive from the moment our paths collide.She’s become a toxic mix of my dark desires.But no matter how much I crave her, I can't touch her... -
Tight End by Lisa Suzanne
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI knew playing with my feelings was a huge gamble with someone like him, but I did it anyway. And now I’ve learned the hard lesson that gambling and life in Vegas just aren’t for me.I have a lot of decisions I need to make on my own, so I take a job that will allow me to relocate, regroup, and make new friends as I try to figure out what comes next for me... -
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Tight Fit by Lisa Suzanne
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt’s okay to admit I’m scared.Outside forces are working hard to tear us apart, but we’ve teamed up against them. It’s the internal struggles we’re battling that could spell the ultimate end.When Ben makes a public show to prove how committed we are, I’m left confused as I struggle to figure out whether his feelings for me are real or if they’re part of the act...Categorized as:
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Prince of Darkness (Liam and Kate): A Dark, Mafia Romance by Ajme Williams
Witness protection. Forbidden crush. Now he's a ruthless killer and I'm pregnant with his child.Liam was supposed to be my FBI guardian angel. Now, he's the monster who kidnapped me.One explosive night. One life-altering secret. Will the Prince of Darkness return for the child he doesn't know exists?This is no fairy tale.This is survival.This is us... -
Storm by Abbi Glines
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsBriar Falling in love with a man you can’t fully trust isn’t just unwise, it's a constant battle. Storm Kingston had busted into my life, shattering my well-maintained walls. He claimed I was his, promising to fulfill all my dreams. But I had already caught him in a lie that I couldn’t confront him about. To do so would mean the death of an innocent person... -
Final Play by Eden Finley
It’s a vacation none of them will forget. Before their futures become the present, Noah convinces his friends they need a group vacation—a final play before they’re all tied down by responsibility and unyielding schedules. Everything is changing. Marriage. Kids. Careers. A trip to Fiji is the last hurrah to end all hurrahs... -
Temptation by T.K. Leigh
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA brand new older woman, younger man romance...It was supposed to be a typical business trip to Hawaii.During the day, I’d promote the new location of my bakery. At night, I’d relax on the lanai while sipping a glass of wine.But that all changes when I meet him.Sexy. Intriguing. Haunted.And easily fifteen years younger than me.I should walk away... -
Long Way Down by Lauren Gilley
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsWhen she was six, a horrific crime against a family member determined the course of Melissa Dixon’s life. It eventually drove her away from her tiny, Mississippi home town, away from her family, and into a career in law enforcement. Living and working in NYC, she keeps the past locked away tight, memory relegated to rare nightmares... -
The Wiseguy by Piper Stone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI was considered taboo, but to a ruthless man like him, I became an obsession. I'd had a crush on Maddox Cormier for as long as I could remember. As beautiful as he was dangerous, he was the wisely of my father's mafia regime. I was considered the one thing he couldn't touch, still a little girl in the man's eyes... -
Dario DeLuca (Savage Bloodline) by Sade Rena, M.L. Preston
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe first lesson my father ever taught me was that power is the only currency, loyalty is the law, and always take what you want.When the Mayor of our city begs me to keep his precious daughter safe, I seize my chance to strengthen the DeLuca hold on the town.I’ll keep her safe, but it’ll come at a price.Mia Gordan, the sheltered heiress, must become my wife.She’s a stranger to our brutal world... -
Crowned In Blood by Melissa Cummins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe's determined to make me his. I'd prefer to shoot him instead. CatalinaLife has never been easy for me. Now, the mafia empire I ripped from my dead husband's hands has been destroyed from within. To survive, I must form new connections. But only one man has what I need: Marco.A man as ruthless as the husband I killed. A man as handsome and seductive as the devil.A man I can never trust... -
Tight Spot by Lisa Suzanne
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsI don’t date football players.I’m not interested in the ones who are a decade older than me. I want nothing to do with the ones who play on the same team as my brothers, and I certainly avoid the ones who spend more time in strip clubs than kids’ clubs... -
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Dangerous Game by Bel Blackwood
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe other woman… is a mob boss?!After Wren's girlfriend cheats on her and breaks her heart, Wren craves revenge. She's not going to be a meek little pushover any longer. She's going to seduce and humiliate the other woman, and give her a taste of her own medicine.But she gets more than she bargains for. Katya is a gorgeous, deadly, mafia queenpin.And.. -
Texting My Mafia Temptation: Curvy Girl, Age Gap Romance by Flora Ferrari
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsHe kidnapped me to save me, but now we must fight our desires, or risk losing everything. As a mafia princess, I have no choice when my father arranges my marriage to a terrifying stranger. But there's someone even more Dante Bianchi, the devastatingly handsome, ripped, and intensely brooding mafia enforcer working security the night my husband-to-be goes too far... -
Vowed To Be Yours by Cassi Hart
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAlexeiI’ve worked hard to keep my organization as legitimate as possible after my father ran it into the ground, racking up debt after debt. It hasn’t been easy keeping things clean and above the table, but I’ve managed to do it while making sure the people underneath me are taken care of and respected, all while paying off what my father owed... -
Beautiful Agony by Brook Wilder
What’s the cost of trusting your life to a lethal bratva king? Vadim Stravinsky isn’t just dangerous.He’s the king of a criminal empire, with enemies deadlier than his icy stare.When he dragged me into his world, I didn’t expect survival to come with a diamond ring and vows whispered in the shadows.But secrets now bind us tighter than any vow... -
Avalanche by Cambria Hebert
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDon’t get caught in the surge. Through a bullet hole in a wall, I watch a man bleed to death. Those responsible think their crime died with the victim, until I identify them. What’s a girl to do when she’s being hunted by murderers witness protection can’t even stop? Run. My only refuge is a place I vowed to never go again... -
Borrowed Bride: A Fake Marriage, Secret Baby, Dark, Mafia Romance by Ajme Williams
I picked the pocket of New York's most dangerous man. I never planned to see him again... Until he claimed me as his wife. Now I'm carrying his child – and his secrets.Rule number Never steal from a mobster. Rule number If you break rule one, don't agree to be his fake wife. And the golden rule? Don't fall for the ruthless, irresistible mafia king who now calls you his... -
Off Balance by Rebecca Rathe
Younger. Forbidden. Distracting. Male. And on cusp of the comeback fight of a lifetime, Domenick Conner can’t get Cameron Stevens out of his head. A decade after a brutal head injury took him out of a successful career in boxing, Domenick Connor moves home to train with his brother for a very public comeback... -
Deceptive by Arianna Fraser
I'm promised to Don Giovanni Toscano to create an alliance between his famiglia and the Morozov Bratva. I'm expected to step into my role as a Mafia bride and give up my dreams of a normal, happy life.I'm having second thoughts.Unfortunately, Giovanni is exactly the man everyone thinks he autocratic, lethal, and he never accepts less than what he thinks he's due.Which in this case, is me... -
Beautiful Cruelty by Brook Wilder
Good girls don't pick fights with a handsome billionaire at the dry cleaner's.Good girls don't steal his bespoke suit.Good girls don't take pictures of themselves wearing only the suit jacket.And good girls definitely don't hit SEND.But after catching my cheating ex-fiancé in the act three days before the wedding...... being a good girl was the last thing on my mind... -
Enrico by C.M. Steele
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEnricoShe wasn’t supposed to be on my radar. Another woman who was caught up in the traffickers’ sights, but one look at January and I’d become as lost as Dario and Alessio before me. I had no choice but to hunt her down and make her mine, even if that meant doing some illegal things. Nothing new to me anyway.JanuaryThe brute... -
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Waiting for Ru by Barbara Elsborg
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRuari Byrne may not have had an easy life, but now he’s determined to live in the present, not his past. Trouble is, it’s hard to be independent when you’ve no money and no qualifications. All Ru knows is horses, and when he finds out that his beloved Joni and Cookie are off to auction, his heart is in his throat... -
Ruined by M. O'Keefe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe flare of a cigarette and the handsome Irishman in the shadows--I wanted it all, but I wasn’t allowed to want.Ronan was danger and beauty, murder and mercy. To me, he was a mystery, but he was also the only man who ever knew me. In that single stolen moment before I had to give my life to someone else, I imagined myself with him, the man with scars and bruises... -
Best Friend's Brother's Surprise Baby by Kira Cole
My job was to keep her safe.Instead, I ended up getting her pregnant…Aurora Costa is my sister’s best friend.She might be beautiful and curvy as sin,but she’s not about to become one of my one-night stands.Not if I can help it.The only problem?My sister’s unique tendency to get into trouble.When Francesca gets stuck in a predicament,Aurora rushes to her aid, only to end up witnessing an execution...Categorized as:
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Wright Kind of Trouble by K.A. Linde
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAn age gap, enemy’s little sister romance set in the Wright world about Harley Wright & Chase Sinclair from USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde. He didn’t know I was ten years younger.I didn’t know he was a Sinclair.He didn’t care that I was a Wright.I knew exactly what I wanted.Yet, I know none of this when I fall into his bed... -
Forbidden by the Bratva by Lexi Asher
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsDaddy’s best friend just kidnapped me and locked me into his mafia mansion.I was strolling along the sidewalk when he took me and put me on his private jet.And now I’m stuck between his four walls, feeling his eyes on me constantly.Anything between us is strictly forbidden. But slowly, the tension is becoming unbearable…He says he brought me here “for my protection”... -
Butcher of Belfast by Lena Little
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI’m damn good at what I do, but what I do is pretty damn bad. I came to America to build my empire. Watch it flourish. Used the people beneath me as stepping stones to reach my goals. Then Brianna Declan walked into my life, and untangled every scheme I had. She was a hurricane that set the winds of change in motion, and I got swept away in her almighty power. But she’s had a bad hand delt to her... -
Auctioned to the Kingpin by C.M. Steele
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe rotten piece of work I once called my father was dead, but he didn't go quietly. He found one last way to mess with my life. This time it was going to cost me the family legacy if I didn’t comply. The devil was in the details and in his grave. Marry or my enemy inherits everything. With his final demand came a special Christmas gift with a note... -
Full Contact (The Crossover Series) by Kathy Coopmans, H.J. Bellus
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom USA Today Bestselling Authors comes book one in The Crossover Series. A mafia princess. The nation’s favorite football player. Can they make it work? An unlikely matching of the stars. The opposites had it all for one year. Justice Bexley, the daughter of Cain and Calla leaders of The Diamond Syndicate, sacrificed true love to protect Liam. Her selfish action destroyed them both... -
Tagging Up by Carrie Aarons
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll Anna Callahan wants is her independence.Being the youngest member of her immediate family, and massive network of cousins, she’s always been sheltered. That ends now. After graduating with her masters in nursing, she’s ready to move out of her parents’ house, whether they support that decision or not... -
Zariah: Sacrificed (Angels Halo MC Next Gen) by Terri Anne Browning, Sara Eirew
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWe had plans.Until we didn’t.His entire life revolved around baseball, and even the part he wanted me to play in it was to help him succeed.Crap happens. Plans change, and life goes on.Sure, I’m bored out of my mind at times—boring job, boring dates…boring life.But I’m over Nolan Krenshaw.At least…I’ve tried to move on and get over him... -
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The Emperor: An Age Play, DDLG Romance by Amy Cummings
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStrong, athletic Daddies. Sweet, fun-loving Littles. And the Mob comes to Mountainville! Buckle up and hold on tight. It’s time for another adventure in that special West Texas oasis. It’s time to go back to Mountainville.Jack Scallan. They call him Skull Crusher. He stands seven inches over six feet, is packed with rock hard muscle, and is an absolute bruiser... -
Savage Hunter by Kristen Luciani
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI’m obsessed with the virgin mafia princess I was hired to protect.Lily and I were never supposed to meet.Our fates collided in the wrong place at the wrong time,And one hot night in Las Vegas bound us for life.I know I need to focus on her safety but I cannot resist the dark impulses that consume me whenever she’s near.My job is to protect her.My desire is to control her.To claim her.To own her...Categorized as:
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Enemy Mafia Boss Daddy by Kira Cole
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsOur marriage was supposed to avert a war. But making a husband out of my enemy has turned out to be harder than I thought…Damien Russo is fifteen years older than me, ten times as broody,and stubborn to a fault.He also happens to be the new leader of the Russo Mafia and my reluctant husband-to-be.As far as arranged marriages go, this is not a bad deal... -
Terror of Tuscany by Lena Little
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThey say I’m the Terror of Tuscany, and that’s exactly what I’m going to be if anything goes sideways with this shipment that I’m expecting next Tuesday.The name’s Gio, and people call me a lot of things, but unprepared definitely isn’t one of them. But that’s absolutely what I am for the first time in my life when I come face to face with my new stepsister... -
Radge by Esther E. Schmidt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMeribeth - Chaos erupts, causing my parents to force me into an arranged marriage. When I try to coerce circumstances to take a turn, that’s when true mayhem strikes.Ramsey - She’s wild, crazy, and a streak of violence runs through her veins. But the headstrong, gorgeous redhead landing right in my lap is the key to executing a plot for vengeance... -
Holiday Shot: A Lauderdale Knights holiday novella by Kat Mizera
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to Fort Lauderdale... where the days are hot and the Knights are hotter!Divorced at forty was never in my game plan. Neither was being a long-distance dad. But when the chance to coach the Lauderdale Knights hockey team came knocking, I couldn't resist.I was so focused on the major changes right in front of me, I never saw Autumn Nicholls coming...
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