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  • There’s Still Beauty in This Street Love 2: Her Fallen Angel by Elle Kayson

    There’s Still Beauty in This Street Love 2: Her Fallen Angel by Elle Kayson

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 31 ratings
    On his own since he was fifteen, Ángel Cruz has never had to explain how or when he moves to anyone. As someone who works from the shadows, he goes where and when work calls. His relationship with Tamar Kinsey means he has to learn to open himself to her or risk losing the hot-tempered beauty.As if feeling abandoned by Ángel is not enough, Tamar suddenly has to deal with another betrayal...
  • Sunshine After the Rain: Escape to the Lakes with this heartwarming and uplifting page-turner from Jessica Redland by Jessica Redland

    Sunshine After the Rain: Escape to the Lakes with this heartwarming and uplifting page-turner from Jessica Redland by Jessica Redland

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Escape to the Lakes with million-copy bestseller Jessica Redland for a BRAND NEW uplifting story of family, friendship and love ☀️ Melanie knows she’s been running away... But maybe there really is no place like home 🌈 For the last seven years Mel has been hiding; from life, from her friends and from those who love her the most - her family...
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  • Healing Hearts at Bumblebee Barn by Jessica Redland

    Healing Hearts at Bumblebee Barn by Jessica Redland

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Welcome to Bumblebee Barn, home to wonderful animals, stunning views and spectacular sunsets - and resident young farmer, Barney.While Barney loves his life at Bumblebee Barn - a farm that has been in his family for generations - he's struggling to find someone to share it with...
  • SWAT Ed.: Fox & Bull by A.E. Via

    SWAT Ed.: Fox & Bull by A.E. Via

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 27 ratings
    A fox can set many traps to catch his target—but this one only needs one to catch his.Dominic “Bull” Walker is used to the simpler things in life. Give him his own land to work, a strong horse, and twelve hours of daylight, and he is a contented man. But when someone threatens to take away the successful ranch that took him two years to rebuild, he’ll accept any help he can get to defend it...
  • A Time Of End by Kathryn Le Veque

    A Time Of End by Kathryn Le Veque

    Rated: 4.79 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Executioner Knights are back! Alexander de Sherrington seeks to marry a daughter of the great Christopher de Lohr (Rise of the Defender). But not if King John has anything to say about it! Alexander de Sherrington, the man affectionately referred to as ‘Sherry’ by his friends, is off on the greatest adventure of his life… and his target is Lady Christin de Lohr...
  • Rhodes To Love by Monica Walters

    Rhodes To Love by Monica Walters

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    If all Karima Henderson had to worry about was barrel racing and loving her family, she would have the perfect life. Unfortunately, she knows that isn’t the case. While she loves her life and family, things tend to get emotionally taxing at times. Allowing herself to be used by God also weighs on her, but she wouldn’t have it any other way. Helping people is something she has a passion for...
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    small town  african-american  black-mc
  • Can I? by Monica Walters

    Can I? by Monica Walters

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Milana Semien knows how it feels to be alienated and abandoned when she needs love and support the most. One decision made in the heat of the moment leads to events that are irreversible, leaving the family reeling from emotions of anger and grief. She’s ostracized because of it, even by her own mother...
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    small town  african-american  black-mc
  • Last Stop from Innocence by Takerra Allen

    Last Stop from Innocence by Takerra Allen

    Rated: 4.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A nostalgic tale of first love, first loss, and the budding womanhood of a Black girl in the '90s. Tragedy flips Amore Brown’s world on its axis right before she heads off to college. Having to sit tight for the summer, she chooses Jersey City, New Jersey - the home of her estranged father - to pass the time...
  • Mistletoe and Magic for the Midwife by Jo Bartlett

    Mistletoe and Magic for the Midwife by Jo Bartlett

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The brand new instalment in the top 10 bestselling Midwives series!It’s the most wonderful time of the year…But for single mum and busy midwife Nadia, it’s quickly turning into her worst Christmas ever.Her marriage is over, and whilst her husband has moved on, Nadia finds herself back home, squashed into her mum’s spare room with her two small children...
  • A Family Secret by Rosie Clarke

    A Family Secret by Rosie Clarke

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The continuation of 'The Family Feud' series from Bestselling Author Rosie Clarke With the war finally over, the Searles family are left shell shocked and broken. 1946, Stretton Village – CambridgeshireFrances is finally about to see her dreams realized as Marcus finally returns from the war. But the threat of her father-in-law and a much-changed Marcus, leave Frances in a perilous situation...
  • Love and Duty at Blackberry Farm by Rosie Clarke

    Love and Duty at Blackberry Farm by Rosie Clarke

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Cambridgeshire – 1942 As a new year begins and the war continues, young Artie Talbot feels trapped. In his heart he longs to fight, like his two brothers, for his king and country but is duty tied to Blackberry Farm. As feelings grow between Artie and Jeanie Salmons, Artie wonders if marriage will help him to finally accept his lot and settle down...
  • Final Vow by Kathleen Brooks

    Final Vow by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    As the ultimate bodyguard, Ahmed’s focus has been protecting the lives of everyone he cares about. When the darkest part of his past resurfaces, Ahmed knows he must go on the offensive to protect his future . . . a future with the one woman that can match his toughness and return the love that was once robbed from him...
  • Down & Dirty: Crow by Jeanne St. James

    Down & Dirty: Crow by Jeanne St. James

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 24 ratings
    Welcome to Shadow Valley where the Dirty Angels MC rules. Get ready to get Down & Dirty because this is Crow's story... When a woman from his past shows up asking for his help, Crow's not sure he can be the hero she's looking for. Crow, self-proclaimed bachelor biker, can't believe his eyes when a woman from his past shows up at his tattoo shop...
  • Harpers Heroes by Rosie Clarke

    Harpers Heroes by Rosie Clarke

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From the bestselling author of the Welcome to Harpers Emporium and The Mulberry Lane Series.The Harpers Girls come face to face with the harsh reality of the cruelty of war.Oxford Street, London 1915Sally Harper quietly battles to keep Harpers afloat in the difficult days of the war, whilst husband Ben is working all hours for the War Office...
  • Against the Current by Katie Winters

    Against the Current by Katie Winters

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Come and join the bubbly cast of characters coming this summer. An unfolding family drama of heartache, longing, friendship, and secrets on the island of Nantucket.Against the Current is book six of The Sutton Book Club series, a heart-wrenching yet hopeful family drama that unfolds between the glittering shores of Nantucket Island...
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    small town  contemporary  m-f  massachusetts
  • Badge by K.L. Savage, Wander Aguiar

    Badge by K.L. Savage, Wander Aguiar

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Everyone has dreams when they are young.And mine came to an abrupt halt. I changed as a man, as a person, my soul was damaged beyond repair.So I turned into someone everyone would hate.Because I hate everyone and everything.I’m furious at the world.I don’t see that changing anytime soon.But then it does change.And if there is one thing I am not good at, it’s adapting...
  • Where Love Blooms by Kimberly Brown

    Where Love Blooms by Kimberly Brown

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “The tragedy of life is not death… but what we let die inside of us while we live.” –Norman CousinsJamison Jareau has suffered a terrible loss. His wife of eighteen years passed away the day she gave birth to their son. Consumed with grief and guilt over her death, Jamison has thrown himself into work and raising his four children without her...
  • New Beginnings on Railway Lane by Alison Sherlock

    New Beginnings on Railway Lane by Alison Sherlock

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    When high flying, workaholic Katy Smith is suddenly made redundant, she needs to find a job fast!After mistakenly answering an advert online, she quickly realises that the rundown railway station in sleepy Cranfield isn’t the 5-star London hotels she’s used to working in!But a job’s a job. Right?Chef Ryan Connelly is having a crisis of confidence after his Italian dream turns sour...
  • Sunset by Sharon Sala

    Sunset by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    "Sharon Sala is a consummate storyteller." —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling authorCrossroads, Texas, just might be the place to settle down and find the love of your dreams in this new small town romance series from Sharon Sala, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Blessings, Georgia series...
  • Junjo Romantica, Volume 07 by Shungiku Nakamura

    Junjo Romantica, Volume 07 by Shungiku Nakamura

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Miyagi finally gets over his obsession with his late high school teacher by confessing his love for Shinobu in front of her grave. When it comes time for Shinobu to choose which college to go to, his feelings seem to be swaying his decisions too strongly - even for Miyagi's liking...
  • Over the Verdant Hills by Jessie Gussman

    Over the Verdant Hills by Jessie Gussman

    Rated: 4.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Once, Claire had the life others dreamed about—but now she’s drowning in debt, loss, and loneliness. At thirty-five, Claire never imagined herself divorced, a single mom, unemployed, and moving back to her grandmother’s ramshackle farmhouse in the quiet countryside of Raspberry Ridge...
  • Take Me Home by Beth Moran

    Take Me Home by Beth Moran

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Sophie Potter’s job is helping people deal with the worst, because Sophie Potter knows what the worst feels like. An expert at keeping moving, with her trusty motorhome and faithful dog Muffin, Sophie has built her life around keeping her loves and loyalties as few as possible. Fabulous fifty-something Hattie Langford has kept her heart and past safely stored away too...
  • Ashes by Chelle Bliss

    Ashes by Chelle Bliss

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Dylan Walsh left his small town behind and vowed to never return. But when his brother needs help, Dylan steps back into the memories he tried so hard to forget. He thought there was nothing there for him anymore until a woman he knew as a little girl catches more than Dylan’s eye.Rosie Gallo is known for her kind spirit, good-girl vibes, and her loyalty to the ones she loves...
  • Brixx: A Hood Love Story by Lakia

    Brixx: A Hood Love Story by Lakia

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Reagan is a dedicated nurse who’s seen it all, but nothing prepared her for a suffocating co-parenting relationship with a man who symbolizes everything she despises. She finds herself haunted by the consequences of her choices and burdened by the struggles of maintaining a facade of happiness while concealing her inner turmoil...
  • A New Dawn at Owl's Lodge by Jessica Redland

    A New Dawn at Owl's Lodge by Jessica Redland

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Could one chance meeting change your life forever?Zara is at a crossroads in life. While she adores her job as a producer's assistant working on hit TV shows, travelling around the country means she doesn't truly feel that she has a home. With a fractured relationship with her family and unrequited love weighing heavily on her heart, she is torn about what her next step in life should be..
  • The Girls from Sandycove by Siân O'Gorman

    The Girls from Sandycove by Siân O'Gorman

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A mother and daughter adrift, a friend in need, and a village to really call home… When Kate O’Hare discovers she’s about to become a mother, she packs up her life in France to return home to regroup and put down some roots...
  • I Wish I Could Be The One by Monica Walters

    I Wish I Could Be The One by Monica Walters

    Rated: 4.76 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jenahra Henderson Monroe knows what it means to be pretentious but strong. While her religious behaviors come off as condescending and judgmental of others, it’s deeply rooted in pain, drama, and abuse. Not wanting to get members of her family in trouble, she chooses to keep secrets for over twenty years, drowning herself in God’s anointing. When the truth finally emerges, it comes with a cost...
  • Snow Fairy by Tomo Serizawa, 芹澤知

    Snow Fairy by Tomo Serizawa, 芹澤知

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 24 ratings
    When Hokkaido-born Haruki meets animal photographer Akihito and finds out his accommodations have fallen through, he offers his home as a shelter for the winter. A city slicker, Akihito is smart, charming, and a smooth conversationalist; the polar opposite of country boy Haruki. Despite their differences, Akihito wants to close the gap between the two of them, before the snow thaws in the spring...
  • The Starfish Sisters by Barbara O'Neal

    The Starfish Sisters by Barbara O'Neal

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    From the USA Today bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids comes an emotional novel about two women facing the betrayals, heartbreaks, and refuge of true friendship.Phoebe and Suze used to be closer than sisters. Growing up in a quiet and wildly beautiful coastal town in Oregon, they shared everything...
  • The View from Prince Street by Mary Ellen Taylor

    The View from Prince Street by Mary Ellen Taylor

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    From the author of The Brighter the Light comes the story of two women connected by the grief they never got over and the journey they embark on to finally move forward.It’s been fifteen years since her sister died, and Rae McDonald still hasn’t recovered from the accident―or the ways she tried to cope with it. Not even a PhD in psychology has helped her deal with her feelings...
  • Nantucket Longing by Katie Winter

    Nantucket Longing by Katie Winter

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She was a prodigy born to perform, until her world collapsed in silence.Madeline Willis was destined for greatness. A piano virtuoso discovered at just five years old, raised by a mother who fled Poland with dreams as fierce as her daughter’s talent...
    Categorized as:
    small town  contemporary
  • Chasing the Horizon by Katie Winters

    Chasing the Horizon by Katie Winters

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A miracle pregnancy. A fractured father-daughter bond. A single moment that threatens to unravel everything.At forty-two, Valerie Sutton has finally found calm after the storm. Reunited with her husband Alex, expecting the baby she thought she'd never have, and leaving behind the chaos of her past, she’s ready to embrace a more hopeful future...
    Categorized as:
    small town  contemporary
  • The White Oak Lodge by Katie Winters

    The White Oak Lodge by Katie Winters

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    It's been decades since a mysterious fire engulfed the White Oak Lodge. But what really happened that night?Why haven't Benjamin and Jack Whitmore been seen since?Can the remaining Whitmores discover the truth and restore the once-great White Oak Lodge to its former glory?The Fourth of July night Nina Whitmore's home went up in flames, she was ten years old...
    Categorized as:
    small town  contemporary  length-short
  • Go as a River by Shelley Read

    Go as a River by Shelley Read

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 62 ratings
    A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beauty of mid-century ColoradoOn a cool autumn day in 1948, Victoria Nash delivers late-season peaches from her family's farm set amid the wild beauty of Colorado. As she heads into her village, a disheveled stranger stops to ask her the way...
  • A Vintage Vacation by Maddie Please

    A Vintage Vacation by Maddie Please

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 31 ratings
    Clover Harrington might be sixty-one, but she’s still bossing it in the corporate world and can still run rings around her younger colleagues. And then she is made redundant…...
  • Junjo Romantica, Volume 06 by Shungiku Nakamura

    Junjo Romantica, Volume 06 by Shungiku Nakamura

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    It's the day of the award ceremony for Usami, but Usami's older brother, Haruhiko, can't keep his hands off Misaki. First an endless shipment of strawberries, then a "kidnapping" as Haruhiko drags Misaki off to his rich estate and locks him up! Meanwhile, a dramatic misunderstanding spooks Shinobu into leaving for Australia...
  • Junjo Romantica, Volume 08 by Shungiku Nakamura

    Junjo Romantica, Volume 08 by Shungiku Nakamura

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 26 ratings
    Misaki is struggling to pass his college entrance exams and has taken up a tutor--the cool and sexy Akihiko Usami. Misaki realizes he may be developing feelings for the older man. And so begins the bumpy relationship of this odd couple...
    Categorized as:
    age difference  m-m  humor  queer  length-short
  • The Lucky Shamrock by Carolyn Brown

    The Lucky Shamrock by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown’s bighearted novel about family, secrets, small-town Texas romance, and―with a little bit of luck―starting over. Family doesn’t mean everyone has to like each other. That’s the case when cousins Taryn, Anna Rose, and Jorja return to Shamrock, Texas, to help manage their grandmother’s flower shop, the Lucky Shamrock...
  • Not Part of the Plan by Lucy Score

    Not Part of the Plan by Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 61 ratings
    “He’s the kind of man who would talk you into dropping your panties in a coat closet at a party, dole out orgasms like after-dinner mints, and then never call you again.”Photographer Nikolai Vulkov is a love ’em and leave ’em bad boy with a leather jacket, motorcycle, and sexy-as-sin grin.He is not Emma Merrill’s type...
  • Trick of Light by Katie Winters

    Trick of Light by Katie Winters

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A Sutton daughter flees Savannah, a monstrous husband, and his sexist family. But when she returns to Nantucket, she learns that the past is not done with her yet -- and that a long-lost love may not have forgotten about her, either.Bethany Sutton is one of the most sought-after surgeons across the east coast. Her expertise has brought hundreds of patients back to good health...
    Categorized as:
    small town  contemporary  length-short
  • When We Were Young by Michele Brouder

    When We Were Young by Michele Brouder

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The orderly, sterile life of Martha Hahn Cotter is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of the teenage granddaughter she’s never met. Quick to send the girl back home, she reaches out to her estranged daughter. Days later, her daughter arrives, resulting in an inevitable showdown as old wounds and past secrets surface...
    Categorized as:
    small town  contemporary  length-long
  • We Are Family by Beth Moran

    We Are Family by Beth Moran

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    From No. 1 bestselling author Beth Moran comes a story about family, friends and facing your fears. Thirty-three-year-old Ruth Henderson and her daughter Maggie have some hard choices to make. Following the tragic death of Maggie's father, they are left with a mountain of debt and broken hearts...
  • What Next? by Shari Low

    What Next? by Shari Low

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Val Murray and her best friend, Josie had been planning a ‘Thelma and Louise’ bucket list style holiday. Now Josie is gone, and Val needs to make the trip before it’s too late. But Val doesn’t want to do it alone, so she enlists the help of her nieces, Carly and Carole, and their best pal, Jess, who jump at the chance to join Val on a trip of a lifetime...
  • Seabreeze Reunion by Jan Moran

    Seabreeze Reunion by Jan Moran

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    What could possibly go wrong at a family reunion? At the Seabreeze Inn, you just never know...Ivy and Shelly are looking forward to hosting a long-awaited family reunion at the Seabreeze Inn...
  • A Greek Island Escape by Kate Frost

    A Greek Island Escape by Kate Frost

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Can a Greek escape be the start of something special?Xanthe Fox has it all: a famous, drop-dead gorgeous boyfriend, a dream career and bright future – until heartbreak sends her life into a tailspin...
  • The Midnight Secret by Karen Swan

    The Midnight Secret by Karen Swan

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    If there’s one thing Jayne Ferguson has learnt in her life, it’s that every blessing comes with a curse. She married the most handsome man on the isle of St Kilda - but he’s a bully. She inherited her mother’s gift of second sight - but only ever forsees her fellow islanders’ deaths. She has learnt to keep to herself, treading in the shadows and shirking the highs for fear of the lows...
  • Heading Home to Lavender Cottage by Alison Sherlock

    Heading Home to Lavender Cottage by Alison Sherlock

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    With nowhere else to go, Harriet Colgan has returned to the sleepy village of Cranfield to sell her beloved aunt and uncle’s cottage, the only place she ever called home.When she arrives at Lavender Cottage, Harriet discovers plans to replace the beautiful lavender fields, her uncle’s pride and joy, with an industrial warehouse...
  • One Last Thing Before I Go by Michele Brouder

    One Last Thing Before I Go by Michele Brouder

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The retired librarian from Hideaway Bay, Carol Rimmer, has been handed a terminal diagnosis. As she looks over the course of her life, she decides she must do one more thing before she goes. But she’s going to need help and who better to ask than Thelma Schumacher. Despite their history, she puts aside any dislike she has for the woman and asks for help in her last task...
  • The Next Best Day by Sharon Sala

    The Next Best Day by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Beloved and bestselling author Sharon Sala brings you a brand-new contemporary romance filled with second chances, new beginnings, and a Southern small town you won't want to leave...
  • Hero's Heart by Janie Crouch

    Hero's Heart by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He was out of the game.He should've stayed that way.When a former FBI colleague asks Callum Webb to rescue the kidnapped daughter of an American bigwig in eastern Europe, Callum’s just got one word for him...No.Okay, actually two words: hell, no.Callum is out of the international law enforcement game and has been for a long time...
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