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  • More Than a Hero by Maryann Jordan

    More Than a Hero by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s dedicated to protecting his county. She’s devoted to caring for its most vulnerable. When danger strikes close to home, their worlds collide in ways neither saw coming. Pete Bolton doesn’t say much—he lets his work as a drug task force detective do the talking. But behind his quiet strength is a man burdened by the toll of stopping the influx of drugs and gangs in their county...
  • Billionaire Unreachable ~ Wyatt by J.S. Scott

    Billionaire Unreachable ~ Wyatt by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What happens when the man you think you despise turns out to be a completely different guy beneath the surface? I didn't like Wyatt Durand. He might be my friend's older brother, but he was unpleasant, sarcastic, and the grumpiest guy on the planet. It didn't matter to me that he was a breathtakingly gorgeous, ultra-wealthy billionaire with the very prestigious Durand last name...
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  • Beast Comes Home by Jordan Marie

    Beast Comes Home by Jordan Marie

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Christmas is over, but Skull and the guys with the Devil Blaze MC want to celebrate one of their own’s birthday. Beast has visited the clubhouse, but he hasn’t stayed one night inside the walls since walking away. Now, he is back with his Beauty...
  • Falling for a Grumpy Hero by Weston Parker

    Falling for a Grumpy Hero by Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I don’t do small talk. Don’t do mornings. Don’t do smiling. I run my firm like I ran my unit of marines—tight, quiet, no distractions. Then she walked into my office. Curvy. Gorgeous. Relentlessly cheerful. And the most irritating woman I’ve ever met. She’s my new assistant. All sunshine and questions and bright blue eyes that see too much. She hums while she works...
  • Falling for a Grumpy Hero by Weston Parker

    Falling for a Grumpy Hero by Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I don’t do small talk. Don’t do mornings. Don’t do smiling. I run my firm like I ran my unit of marines—tight, quiet, no distractions. Then she walked into my office. Curvy. Gorgeous. Relentlessly cheerful. And the most irritating woman I’ve ever met. She’s my new assistant. All sunshine and questions and bright blue eyes that see too much. She hums while she works...
  • Serve 'N' Protect by Tee O'Fallon

    Serve 'N' Protect by Tee O'Fallon

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Ambushed and left for dead, U. S. Secret Service K-9 Officer Markus York is on the mend and laying low in a safe house while his team tracks down his attacker. But Markus isn’t good at sitting still. Even with his K-9, Ghost, for company, he gets restless and decides now is the perfect time to do some repairs around the house…and inadvertently tears open his wounds...
  • Bad Boy Bachelor Christmas by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Bad Boy Bachelor Christmas by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The Grinch ain’t got nothing on me. The only good and green thing about Christmas is the money it rakes in. I’m not interested in carols, candies, or dealing with extra-Christmassy type people. Until I hire one. A hot college student joins my design team. She makes up for her annoying jovial spirit with her sexy curves. And her willingness to give herself to me. If only that was enough...
  • Making Whoopie by Erin Nicholas

    Making Whoopie by Erin Nicholas

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    This marriage of convenience is about to get sticky. Getting hitched for the health insurance is not Jocelyn Asher’s idea of romance. But the hospital quote has really frosted her cookies, and suddenly, “I’m rich. We should just get married,” sounds a whole lot more swoony. Especially when the man proposing is this gorgeous. And takes her to parties featuring champagne and petit fours...
  • Pretty Wild by Lacey Black

    Pretty Wild by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ryan. Some might say I’m running away. I prefer to look at it as an extended vacation, from social media, the paparazzi, and my very public life back in Los Angeles. That’s why I rented a small cabin in the woods in Nowhere, Wisconsin. I needed an escape and time to lick my wounds from a breakup...
  • Marked for Obsession by Anna Blakely

    Marked for Obsession by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He’s a former Navy SEAL with an attitude. She’s a sweet, sexy woman with a target on her back. Together they have an unknown enemy with only one thing on their agenda…to kill them both. Jax Monroe makes no apologies about who he is or what he wants. A self-made man, there isn’t anything he needs...
  • The Biker Needs A Nanny by Nicole James

    The Biker Needs A Nanny by Nicole James

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The grumpy biker needs a nanny! Full blurb to come.
  • Ritu Weds Chandni by Ameya Narvankar

    Ritu Weds Chandni by Ameya Narvankar

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A Kirkus Reviews' Best Picture Book of 2020 I A 2021 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People I A 2021 ALA A Feminist Book Project's Top Ten Book I A 2021 South Asia Book Award Honor Book. Ayesha is excited to attend her cousin Ritu's wedding. She can't wait to dance at the baraat ceremony! But not everyone is happy that Ritu is marrying her girlfriend Chandni...
  • The Grump's Bodyguard by Latisha Sexton

    The Grump's Bodyguard by Latisha Sexton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 11 ratings
    It was love at first sight . . . or at least, love at first bloody nose. Thor. If there’s one thing the Marines taught me, it’s that you don’t quit until you’ve completed your mission. Or you die trying. And by the way Clover Mason keeps shooting fire at me from those violet-colored eyes of hers, it just may be the latter...
  • The Scientist by Kristen B. Cole, Margo Lipschultz

    The Scientist by Kristen B. Cole, Margo Lipschultz

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When an outgoing musical maven meets the enigmatic neuroscientist next door, will their worlds clash in a dramatic showdown of art versus science, or will they discover that love is the ultimate experiment worth conducting? When celebrated Broadway composer Hadley Olivier’s best friend receives a life-threatening diagnosis, Hadley says goodbye to her beloved home in NYC and sets off for the West...
  • Beach Please by Melanie Summers

    Beach Please by Melanie Summers

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A hilarious and heartwarming story that’ll have you snort-laughing, swooning, and sighing with happiness…. Lola Gordon's dreams of a thriving surf shop were shattered when her ex vanished with all the money in their business account, leaving her on the brink of losing everything...
  • Protector of Misty Mountain: An ex-military, age gap, mountain man romance by Eve London

    Protector of Misty Mountain: An ex-military, age gap, mountain man romance by Eve London

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She walked into my world like she belongs here… but I don’t let people stay. Juniper. The mountains were supposed to be my escape—a place to rebuild, to breathe, to prove to myself that I could make it on my own. But from the moment I set foot in Misty Mountain, one mountain man has made it his mission to send me packing. Griffin Calloway...
  • A Passion Redeemed by Julie Lessman

    A Passion Redeemed by Julie Lessman

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Graced with physical beauty, though shallow of heart, Charity O'Connor is a woman who knows what she wants. She sets her sights on the cantankerous Mitch Dennehy, editor at the Irish Times, who has unwittingly stolen her heart. And although the sparks are there, Mitch refuses to fan the coals of a potential relationship with his ex-fiancee's sister...
  • A Christmas Auction: A Marriage Auction Novella by Audrey Carlan

    A Christmas Auction: A Marriage Auction Novella by Audrey Carlan

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Audrey Carlan comes a new story in her Marriage Auction series…. “’Tis the Season,” some people say, as if the month of December could somehow magically make the world a better place. Fat chance of that happening in Sin City. In my world, nothing is merry and bright. More like dark and dank...
  • The Billionaire and His Forever by Sadie S. Black

    The Billionaire and His Forever by Sadie S. Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    We were always going to be an impossible fantasy. There was never a future for us between the secrets and the scandals, the temptations and the lies, and above all--a child who never deserved this life...
  • A Month in Provence by Gillian Harvey

    A Month in Provence by Gillian Harvey

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Interior designer Nicky always used to know how to make the best of things. Ever since she lost her husband though, things haven’t been easy. She’s had to raise her two daughters alone and she’s so proud to see them all grown up, and she knows that’s down to her. But she can’t help but feel like she doesn’t know what to do with her life now… Then her best friend begs her to help out...
  • Bad Boy Bachelor Thanksgiving by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Bad Boy Bachelor Thanksgiving by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There’s only one thing I want spread out on my Thanksgiving table this year, and it’s not a turkey. It’s my new hire. My assistants keep quitting, and apparently I’m the problem. Surely not. I just haven’t found the right one. Until her. And of all places to find her—a pumpkin farm. There’s no way she’s cut out to work in my world, but I find myself offering her the job anyway...
  • The Gruff Loner's Bargain by Kat Baxter

    The Gruff Loner's Bargain by Kat Baxter

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Brook:. I might be down on my luck, but I’m determined to open the best all-inclusive wedding venue in the U. S. But first, I have to scope out the competition. The only problem is I need a fake fiance to pull it off. Even worse, the only man available to do the job is the annoying handsome Landry Hendricks. Because of course I need the help of the one man in town who hates me. Landry:...
  • Fake it For Fortune by Weston Parker

    Fake it For Fortune by Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Whoever said money can’t buy happiness is a liar. Take it from me. It buys loads of thrills. That is until my father sabotages me with a contingency. To have all my riches? I need a wife. Talk about old school. When I catch wind of a dating agency that helps billionaire bachelors like me, I see an opportunity. Appease my dad. Pretend to have a bride for six months. Give her the money...
  • Never Meant to Stay by Trisha Das

    Never Meant to Stay by Trisha Das

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A bighearted romantic comedy about family and finding the perfect match set against the exuberant backdrop of contemporary Delhi. Home has always been a temporary arrangement for Samara Mansingh, a wayfaring wedding photographer and the daughter of a diplomat. When her father is uprooted once again, Samara needs a place to stay in Delhi. Next the Khanna family...
  • No Bad Deed by Emma Cole

    No Bad Deed by Emma Cole

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Eden is called back after the Carlotti heirs are taken into police custody, framed for a crime they didn't commit. It's up to her and Vinnie to get the situation under control. .. no matter what it takes. With the help of an unexpected ally, Eden and the guys may get their happily ever after yet. Or at least their version of it...
  • Old-Fashioned Rancher by Audrey Bell

    Old-Fashioned Rancher by Audrey Bell

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    When the surly, divorced rancher meets his match in the pretty local florist, he soon finds the ice around his cold heart beginning to melt. But is he willing to change his bachelor ways to keep this woman who makes him feel alive again? Grady. Even though I have my hands full with running High Plains Ranch, my daughter won't stop heckling me about dating again...
  • Indebted by Ainsley St. Claire

    Indebted by Ainsley St. Claire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I've already had one company stolen from me. I won't let it happen again even if I have to get fake engaged to get it done. Jaxson Bancroft, the billionaire CEO of Honeycomb Games, finds himself entangled in a scandalous breakup that threatens his company's reputation and impending IPO. Desperate to salvage his business, he hatches a daring a fake engagement...
  • Grumpy Billionaire Playboy by Ava Nichols

    Grumpy Billionaire Playboy by Ava Nichols

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My brother’s best friend is my worst enemy… Now, he’s also my fake fiancé who just took my v-card. Drake Bennet is a handsome, arrogant, Real Estate shark who always has women throwing themselves at him. But I can’t stand him; we’ve always fought and bickered growing up. His mom has been badgering him to settle down, so he asked me to be his fake fiance...
  • Bear by Nat Logan

    Bear by Nat Logan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s protective to a fault. She’s the sunshine on his darkest days. When they’re thrown together as parents, will their love be enough to fight through the storm? Benton “Bear” Carter has the heart of a hero with careers in the military and police behind him...
  • Last Chance Seduction by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Last Chance Seduction by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The last time I saw Lexington Montgomery, he held my sister in his arms as my fiancé left me at the altar. Neither one of us knew it would be two years until we saw each other again. Or that it would be the last time my sister was part of our core group. Grieving, I’m back in Colorado trying to start over. I have no family and have no intention of dating ever again...
  • Fake it For Fortune by Weston Parker

    Fake it For Fortune by Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Whoever said money can’t buy happiness is a liar. Take it from me. It buys loads of thrills. That is until my father sabotages me with a contingency. To have all my riches? I need a wife. Talk about old school. When I catch wind of a dating agency that helps billionaire bachelors like me, I see an opportunity. Appease my dad. Pretend to have a bride for six months. Give her the money...
  • Tripped by Love by L.J. Evans

    Tripped by Love by L.J. Evans

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    He’s a broody bodyguard with secrets he can’t share. She’s a busy single mom with a restaurant to run. They’re just friends until a little white lie changes everything. Marco Hernandez is the somber trainer here only to bend my body into shape, but when the perfectly sculpted man holds my son in his arms and smiles, I’m a goner. Weak legs. Pounding veins...
  • A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

    A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find -- through love or through exacting maternal appraisal -- a suitable boy for Lata to marry...
  • Losing My Breath by J. Rose Black

    Losing My Breath by J. Rose Black

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A Marine never says die. Neither does his princess. Battle lines are drawn when sheltered debutante Meridian Daly moves across the hall from grumpy former special forces Marine Callan Brand. Situated a bit closer than advertised to 'crime alley', Meridian’s neighbor finds himself grudgingly guarding the pampered princess out of habit...
  • Hard Boss by Iona Rose

    Hard Boss by Iona Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Juliette. Hudson Sinclair is such a grumpy, snarly, arrogant nightmare no one on the temp agency's books is willing to take on the job of replacing his secretary while she is off sick. Well, here I am, it’s my first day at the agency and I should probably give it a pass as my first job too. At least, that would be the prudent thing to do, but ‘prudent’ is not on my list of virtues...
  • Tell Me How to Be by Neel Patel

    Tell Me How to Be by Neel Patel

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    'A love letter to R&B, youth, and the unforgettable agonies of one's first love. .. I will read everything Patel writes from here on. ' Susie Yang, New York Times bestselling author of White Ivy. Lost in the jungle of Los Angeles, Akash Amin is filled with shame. Shame for liking men. Shame for wanting to be a songwriter. Shame for not being like his perfect brother. Shame for his alcoholism...
  • No Honour by Awais Khan

    No Honour by Awais Khan

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A young woman defies convention in a small Pakistani village, with devastating results for her and her family. A stunning, immense beautiful novel about courage, family and the meaning of love, when everything seems lost…. In sixteen-year-old Abida’s small Pakistani village, there are age-old rules to live by, and her family’s honour to protect...
  • The Vegas Bluff by Ajme Williams

    The Vegas Bluff by Ajme Williams

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    I was right all along…. Amelia was just like all the other women I never wanted to see again after spending one night together. In fact, she turned out to be worse than them. Let me backup…. It’s true when they say that Las Vegas should be burned to the ground. I’d burn it myself after ending up married to a woman and having no memory of it...
  • 608 Alpha Avenue by Adriana Locke

    608 Alpha Avenue by Adriana Locke

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Things heat up (and take an unexpected turn) when a self-proclaimed romantic requests the help of a broody small-town mechanic. Cherry Falls is filled with returning characters and iconic destinations that will begin to feel like family. When you leave the city, and drive into Cherry Falls, it’s like you’ve finally come home...
  • Bayou Tonight by Erin Nicholas

    Bayou Tonight by Erin Nicholas

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A prequel to Gotta Be Bayou, book one in the Badges of the Bayou series. She’s so not his type. But he’s been thinking about her for almost a year now. He needs to figure out a way to get over her. Though kissing her at their friends’ wedding probably isn’t it…. FBI agent Spencer Landry is looking for a sweet, bubbly sunshine at home to balance out all the darkness he sees in his work...
  • Tempt Me With Forever by Maria Luís

    Tempt Me With Forever by Maria Luís

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Never trust a bad boy. That's what Beauty Influencer Lizzie Danvers tells her YouTube subscribers after getting dumped on Instagram. Lizzie may have the devil's luck in choosing men, but she's determined to prove that the age-old "once a playboy, always a playboy" theory is bulletproof. All she needs is thirty days and one sexy commitment-phobe to do it. .
  • Twisted Alliance: An Arranged Marriage Romance by P.G. Van, P.G. Van

    Twisted Alliance: An Arranged Marriage Romance by P.G. Van, P.G. Van

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    "It's time for you to pay. .. wife," he said with a cold smile on his darkly handsome face. #1 ROMANCE BESTSELLER ON AMAZON INDIA. Ishani Gujjar led a sheltered life as the heiress of a desert clan. Her world is suddenly shaken when her marriage is arranged to a stranger who came from a faraway place, claiming to be the secret heir of the powerful Thakvar clan...
  • The Doctor Who Stole Christmas by K.C. Crowne

    The Doctor Who Stole Christmas by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A grumpy doctor. A wicked blizzard. And only one bed in sight. What could possibly go wrong? I never expected to find myself trekking through a blizzard. .. All to deliver "vital documents" to the elusive Dr. Grump's remote cabin. When I finally arrive I find a smoldering man,. Nearly a decade younger - with the petulance of an old grouch! Now I'm snowed in with the impossibly handsome man child,...
  • Just One Summer by Carly Phillips

    Just One Summer by Carly Phillips

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Carly Phillips comes a new story in her Dirty Dare series…. Gabriella Davenport is a gorgeous, twenty-two-year-old virgin with a trust fund, vacationing in the Hamptons for the summer and running from family pressure to marry someone she doesn’t like, let alone love. Maddox James is a sexy bar manager, older than Gabby by a decade...
  • Seeing You by Samantha Chase

    Seeing You by Samantha Chase

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Years ago, Billie Donovan walked away from Hudson Callaway, choosing her family over the future they had planned together. In the years since, she’s accepted that she’s just not meant to have the happy ending she’s seen all her siblings find. Her family is happy and that’s all that’s ever mattered...
  • Wild in Love by M.V. Kasi

    Wild in Love by M.V. Kasi

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Soniya hates the handsome, arrogant man who had kissed her several years ago and disappeared. He appeared into her life again, only to kidnap her on the night before her wedding. Rohan is an ex-Air Force pilot asked to rescue a politician's daughter held hostage near a forest. It was supposed to be a simple task, until the maddening woman put up a fight...
  • Smooth Hoperator (Love on Tap) by Sylvie Stewart

    Smooth Hoperator (Love on Tap) by Sylvie Stewart

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After tanking my career in politics, I’m looking for new direction. But my GPS must be broken because it keeps leading me to a kooky librarian’s front steps. It’s not easy, but I’m doing my best to let go of my old ambitions and embrace the simple life of slinging beer at my family’s brewery. But some powerful players from my past are determined to cause problems for my family and me...
  • Saved by Noel by Tracy Baack

    Saved by Noel by Tracy Baack

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone says to dream big . . . but how do you turn those big dreams into reality? From the time she was a little girl, Clara’s dream has been to write romance movie scripts for her favorite television channel. But not just any love stories—Christmas romance is her particular obsession. Unfortunately, that dream has taken a back seat to the demands of her real job as a copywriter and manager...
  • My Ex's Dad is Coming to Town by Eve London

    My Ex's Dad is Coming to Town by Eve London

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sometimes, love finds you in the most unexpected places. .. like in the arms of your ex’s dad. Winter. This Christmas was supposed to be about getting away from the mess I left behind, not cozying up to the grumpiest man I’ve ever met—who also happens to be my ex’s father. But Cole’s steady presence and the way he sees past my defenses make me feel safe in a way I never thought possible...
  • The Perfect Bow by Samirah Zaman

    The Perfect Bow by Samirah Zaman

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    You are cordially invited into the marriage ofSumayyah Rahman & Yousef HasanSumayyah was handed the perfect checklist of what life should education, career, marriage, and children. Having made her father proud by becoming a doctor, she honoured her mother’s wishes by agreeing to an arranged marriage. Yousef was a simple man who had but one to have a family...
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