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  • Again, Rachel by Marian Keyes

    Again, Rachel by Marian Keyes

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    In her twenties, Rachel Walsh was a mess. Since her spell in rehab, though, she's come a long way on the road to recovery - and now, she's ready to go back to where it all began. But this time, the student has become the teacher. She used to hate the staff in charge of treating her addiction. Now, she's one of them.Rachel's finally got herself on track - but life never stops being messay...
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    second chances  humor  contemporary  m-f  audiobook
  • The Start of Something Wonderful by Jessica Redland

    The Start of Something Wonderful by Jessica Redland

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Autumn Laine has lost her creative sparkle. After losing her grandad and her job as an illustrator in quick succession, she is at a crossroads in life and needs a break. Spending time with her parents in Paris, even in the artistic community of Montmartre, doesn't appear to be the answer...
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  • Space by Penny Reid

    Space by Penny Reid

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 63 ratings
    From the New York Times Bestselling Author Penny ReidOne week.Private cabin.Famous physicist.Still an unrepentant slacker.What’s the worst that could happen?Mona’s meticulously planned allotment of relaxation is thrown into chaos by the unscheduled appearance of her older brother’s band of friends, including the one person she'd hoped to never face again...
  • Riverbend Reunion by Carolyn Brown

    Riverbend Reunion by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Back home is the best place to start over in a heart-stirring Texas romance about friendship, second chances, and small-town scandals by New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown.Riverbend, Texas, doesn’t look like the crossroads of anywhere. But for four high school besties reuniting after twenty years, it’s a place to unpack a lot of baggage...
  • To Light the Way Forward by Nancy Naigle

    To Light the Way Forward by Nancy Naigle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A novel of overcoming deep loss, taking risks, and learning that life—and love—often surprises you when you least expect it, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Shell Collector.On a journey to find hope and purpose, Rosemary is determined to visit an old friend on Whelk’s Island, despite the possibility of a tropical storm...
  • To Light the Way Forward by Nancy Naigle

    To Light the Way Forward by Nancy Naigle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A novel of overcoming deep loss, taking risks, and learning that life—and love—often surprises you when you least expect it, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Shell Collector.On a journey to find hope and purpose, Rosemary is determined to visit an old friend on Whelk’s Island, despite the possibility of a tropical storm...
  • Bet Me Something by Aubrey Bondurant

    Bet Me Something by Aubrey Bondurant

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Being able to stand on your own two feet, sometimes requires getting knocked off them completely... McKenzie “Kenzie” Lane is newly graduated from college and looking forward to a dream internship she has lined up for the summer in LA. Unfortunately, her controlling mother has other plans. Colby Singer, with his hot-as-sin looks and wicked charm, is never without attention from the ladies...
  • The Consequence of Rejection by Rachel Van Dyken

    The Consequence of Rejection by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A standalone second chance romance by #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Rachel Van Dyken. You know the universe is trying to tell you something when you get struck by lightning, but only after getting hit on by the elderly, almost getting run over by a semi, and running into the one who got away...
  • Crave by Adriana Locke

    Crave by Adriana Locke

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Hadley Jacobs is over Machlan Gibson. Sure, she’ll always be a little weak to the dimple in his right cheek and the way his five o’clock shadow makes him ruggedly handsome. But that’s not enough to cover every other thing about him because they all drive her nuts. Like how he won’t admit he’s wrong even when he knows it and how he drives his stupid car a million miles an hour on wet asphalt...
  • Patty's Potent Potion by Robin Alexander

    Patty's Potent Potion by Robin Alexander

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Shawna Haydel was sixteen years old, she dropped Ashton Guidry’s name into a potion that would supposedly make Ashton fall in love with her. She knew it was silly, but she clung to one irrational thread of hope their friend Patty’s concoction would grant her heart’s desire...
  • Stay With Me by Kelly Elliott

    Stay With Me by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Life moves on. Only people who have never lost anyone they loved with all their heart can blindly believe those words. What if I didn’t want to move on? What if I wanted to wake up every morning with that familiar ache in my chest, knowing I’d never see her again? But, life can change in a moment...
  • Without You by Lacey Black

    Without You by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    TuckerI spend my days brewing beer for the popular Brew Crüe Beer Company and my nights devoted to being a dad. Raising a young child with special needs can be tough and stressful, but I wouldn’t change it for the world. He’s everything to me, and the reason I keep going. It’s him and me against the world, and I have no intention of changing that.Then, Kinsley McGregor walks back into my life...
  • Beachside Kisses With My Enemy: A Sweet Romantic Comedy by Kristin Canary

    Beachside Kisses With My Enemy: A Sweet Romantic Comedy by Kristin Canary

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the charming town of Hallmark Beach, love’s a food fight when old flames ignite and rivalries simmer.Things were sailing smoothly in my little slice of paradise until Blake “the Flake” Moffitt waltzed back into town, looking far too handsome for his own good—and mine. Once upon a time, I was hopelessly in love with my best friend's brother, but that fairytale is history...
  • Forever Entangled by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Entangled by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Ryan Parker had always loved Sienna Ashton, but gave up on his fantasy years ago. After working as an undercover FBI Agent in Los Angeles, Ryan gets a phone call telling him to come home to the small town of Keeneston, Kentucky. The woman he thought he was over is now in serious trouble. Sienna Ashton fell in love with Ryan Parker too late...
  • Getting Wound Up: A Sapphire Falls/ Love Between the Bases novel-- PART ONE by Jennifer Bernard, Erin Nicholas

    Getting Wound Up: A Sapphire Falls/ Love Between the Bases novel-- PART ONE by Jennifer Bernard, Erin Nicholas

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A fun, flirty crossover novel from bestselling authors Jennifer Bernard (the Love Between the Bases series) and Erin Nicholas (the Sapphire Falls series) Caitlyn Murray has never let on that she's had fantasies about her brother's friend Eli Anderson for years...
  • Reputation by Adriana Locke

    Reputation by Adriana Locke

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Coy Mason is a jerk.If there is one truth that Bellamy Davenport knows, it’s that. Hands-down. (Well, that and the fact that she didn’t mean to hurt him. Physically. Coy can’t be hurt emotionally because he doesn’t have a heart.)Coy is not just the small-town, literal boy-next-door...
  • Second Chance by L.B. Dunbar

    Second Chance by L.B. Dunbar

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Another romance for the over 40. Can one sexy silver fox face the woman he once left behind but never let go? Her. A widow at forty-four, her husband left her a letter. Contact Denton. Once upon a time, the three of them had been best friends. Mati Rath isn’t sure she should look back. Her heart isn’t ready, or so she thinks. Him. A pleading phone call forces him to make a decision...
  • Playboy by Logan Chance

    Playboy by Logan Chance

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They call me a playboy. Sure, I like to have fun with the opposite sex, but hey, in my line of work, who wouldn't? My name's Jonah and I work for Bunny Hunnies, a swimsuit magazine. Calling the shots, and taking pictures of gorgeous women is every man's fantasy, including mine. That is, until Chelsea Sincock walks onto the set of one of my shoots...
  • Christmas at Valentine Inn by Jennifer Peel

    Christmas at Valentine Inn by Jennifer Peel

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    With a name like Isabelle Valentine, one would think I was destined to find true love and believe in the ridiculous notion of soul mates. Don’t get me wrong: I’m all about love. I even own an inn with my sister where each room is named after our favorite romantic couples. But soul mates? It seems highly implausible there is that one person, your person, meant only for you...
  • Thinking 'Bout You by Claire Hastings

    Thinking 'Bout You by Claire Hastings

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    To the world, he’s Dustin Wild, country star with a megawatt smile and a voice smooth as whiskey. To me, he’ll always be Dustin Wilder, the small-town boy who stole my heart…then broke it.It’s been seven years since Dustin rolled out of our rural Georgia town, chasing his dream, promising he’d be back. Except that never happened...
  • Because You're Mine by Layla Hagen

    Because You're Mine by Layla Hagen

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ian Gallagher has always liked taking risks, both in business and in his personal life. But this time, he might be taking it too far. She is strictly off limits. He knows that only too well, but he can’t help wanting to get closer. Their nights together are wicked hot, and he’s insatiable for more. Ian has always thought he’s a sworn bachelor, but she might just change everything...
  • Sure Shot by Kat Mizera

    Sure Shot by Kat Mizera

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to Fort Lauderdale... where the days are hot and the Knights are hotter!I gave up everything for hockey… even my chance at love. But relocating to Florida to be the starting goalie for the Lauderdale Knights is still the best decision I’d ever made. I have everything… except someone to share it with...
  • Just A Kiss by Carrie Elks

    Just A Kiss by Carrie Elks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She's the one woman he shouldn't want... Caitie Russell's big brother is getting married. As the proud owner of Holiday Magic, Caitie is the obvious choice to organise the perfect Christmas wedding. Piece of cake, right? If it weren't for one gorgeous, man-shaped problem... Her brother's best friend, Brecken Miller. He was her first crush. Her first kiss. Her first broken heart...
  • On the Slopes of Tahoe by J.A. Forde

    On the Slopes of Tahoe by J.A. Forde

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Wanting each other is easy…It’s everything else that’s hard.Breck Kylie’s perfect life unravels in a squall of betrayal, leaving him and his seven-year-old daughter reeling. Choosing to retreat from the sunny shores of Sydney, Australia, they embark on an extended vacation to Lake Tahoe in hopes they’ll find a new ‘normal’ on the snowy slopes...
  • Summer Hate by Melissa Ivers

    Summer Hate by Melissa Ivers

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He was the last person I wanted to see on my girls trip, let alone share a room with.Donovan Fitzroy is grumpy. Irritable. Annoyingly perfect. And as handsome as he is uptight. He’s also my best friend’s older brother.My bestie promised me a relaxing week at her family owned resort, but when I got there all I got was an apologetic phone call and a promise that her brother would take care of me...
  • Otterly Scorched by Tara Sivec

    Otterly Scorched by Tara Sivec

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    It’s been a lot of years and another lifetime since Dax Trevino was a playboy detective for the Franklin Police Department. He’s been through hell and back, and now he just wants to be left alone, so he can cuddle his otters...
  • Love You Always by Lucy Darling

    Love You Always by Lucy Darling

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    This book includes all five stories from the Love Series! Love on the Line, Love Forever, Love in the Mix, Love Undefeated and the NEVER RELEASED BEFORE Love You Always. You asked for Kim's and Kent's story. Now it's all yours.This series is full of all the tropes you love. You’ll get happily ever afters, no cheating, and sugary-sweet alphas that love to get on their knees...
  • Hot Pickle by J.J. Knight

    Hot Pickle by J.J. Knight

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I'm rock hard.No, not like that.When that happens, you won't need me to tell you.I'm a competitive bodybuilder, ready for my very first contest. And winning requires more than killer workouts and stage presence.It's all about the tan.My training partner Franklin uses the best in the business — Camryn Schultz. She understands the career killer of a badly placed white spot.She’s also his sister...
  • Falling for Meadow by Kels Stone, Denise Stone

    Falling for Meadow by Kels Stone, Denise Stone

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Meadow Macrae was the beginning of it all for me. My first kiss. My first time. My first heartbreak. We were two kids with dreams that were too big for our town in the Scottish Highlands. We planned on forever, but when the day arrived, she left me waiting at the airport with just a text message telling me that she wasn't coming...
  • Dating Dutch by Misti Murphy

    Dating Dutch by Misti Murphy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Asking my best friend’s sister to help turn me into boyfriend material is a no brainer. What could go wrong? Notorious for my partying lifestyle, I’m the celebrity everyone wants a piece of. Producers, directors, women. And I’m more than happy to oblige. Until it lands me in a sticky situation. A photo with the wrong woman plastered all over social media has my career hanging in the balance...
  • His Best Friend's Sister by Alina Parker

    His Best Friend's Sister by Alina Parker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    If my over-protective brother asks, don’t tell him I screwed up with his best friend and don’t even mention that I might have gotten pregnant while doing it.My brother thinks that Nate is exactly the kind of the guy that I should stay away from, even though he is his best friend. Nate is a total womaniser, he changes women like underwear...
  • Deal Makers by Laura Lee

    Deal Makers by Laura Lee

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’VE OFFICIALLY SCREWED THE POOCH. I mean, not literally, because that would be disgusting. But I did break one of the cardinal rules of Bro Code, which is equally appalling. You see, I fell in love with my best friend’s sister after he explicitly forbid me to go near her. As if that weren’t bad enough, I went ahead and married her while sh*tfaced in Vegas...
  • Tempting the Guy Next Door by Kali Hart

    Tempting the Guy Next Door by Kali Hart

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An Insta-love blue collar hero and curvy younger woman romanceKellyI’ve had a crush on my brother’s best friend since I was a teenager.But he’s always treated me like a kid sister.I haven’t seen Liam in years.When I desperately need a place to stay, my brother arranges for me to stay in Liam’s guest cottage.Having just gotten out of a bad relationship, the last thing I should do is tempt Liam...
  • Indescribable: A Friends to Lovers Romance by Jennifer Van Wyk

    Indescribable: A Friends to Lovers Romance by Jennifer Van Wyk

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I walked down the aisle and said “I do” to the wrong man.Unfortunately, it took me eight years to figure it out.It took me even longer to realize who was in front of me the entire time.You’d think that being a romance author would have helped me to see the signs that I chose wrong the first time and I would have been able to write my own happily-ever-after so easily...
  • Julia Monroe Begins Again by Rebekah Millet

    Julia Monroe Begins Again by Rebekah Millet

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Julia Monroe has just turned forty and hopes this next decade goes much better than the last, in which she became a young widow raising two children on her own. With both her boys off to college, it's time for new beginnings, and she can finally focus on expanding her New Orleans-based cleaning business--but God has other plans...
  • Keepsakes from the Cottage by the Loch: A completely gripping and feel-good second chance romance set in Scotland by Kennedy Kerr

    Keepsakes from the Cottage by the Loch: A completely gripping and feel-good second chance romance set in Scotland by Kennedy Kerr

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sitting at the edge of the loch, Tara clutches her heart-shaped pendant as the sunset turns the sky pink. The person who gave it to her once danced with her on the shore. But then he left for good. And now she can never share her secret…Tara Ballantyne hasn’t been home to Loch Cameron since her childhood sweetheart and fiancé Ramsay Fraser suddenly broke her heart...
  • Fire and Love by Melanie Shawn

    Fire and Love by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stand-alone Hope Falls romance, complete with HEA--and plenty of heat and heart along the way! Their future was set. He was going to be a firefighter, and she was going to be a filmmaker. They were going to get married and live happily-ever-after with two kids and a dog…She supposed one out five ain’t bad...
  • The Triple Threat by Nikki Ashton

    The Triple Threat by Nikki Ashton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to Dayton Valley, ranch country with a sum population of 9022. Sounds idyllic, and it is… until it isn’t. Ellie First there’s my parents and their penchant for making out in public, totally gross. Then there’s my douche of a brother, who shouldn’t be allowed near any woman with a pulse. Bronte my best friend is lusting over a silver fox … And then of course there’s Hunter Delaney.Hunter...
  • Best of Three by Erin Nicholas

    Best of Three by Erin Nicholas

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes it takes a couple of tries before you get love right. Counting on Love, Book 3 Emma Dixon is known for getting in over her head—and having a great time doing it. She’s aware her shenanigans rub Nate Sullivan the wrong way, but getting a rise out of the cocky surgeon is one of her favorite pastimes. Truth be told, exasperated looks aren’t the only things she wants from the guy...
  • The Hollywood Marriage Bargain by Lila Monroe

    The Hollywood Marriage Bargain by Lila Monroe

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Fake date. Real trouble. Fall for a new trope-tactic, fake dating rom-com read from USA Today bestselling author, Lila Monroe! Perfect for fans of Tessa Bailey, Ali Hazlewood, and Emily Henry. Jackson Kane is a hot Hollywood A-lister… and the first guy I ever loved...
  • The Dance by Alison G. Bailey

    The Dance by Alison G. Bailey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    ***From Amazon and International bestselling author, Alison G. Bailey, comes a Contemporary Romance story about what happens after the happily ever.*** Bryson Walker stumbled heart first into the steady rhythm of her life, never questioning whether other possibilities existed...
  • Between the Sheets by Julie Prestsater

    Between the Sheets by Julie Prestsater

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The passion between Mel and Ty is undeniable. But do they have the love to go the distance? Melissa Cruz has been in love with her best friend's sexgod of an older brother since ... well, since forever. She let Tyler slip away in the past, but this time she is determined to have a second chance at love, even if that means packing up and leaving her family and best friend behind...
  • Love & Ink by J.D. Hawkins

    Love & Ink by J.D. Hawkins

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I'm a world famous tattoo artist with a six month waiting list. Everybody's begging me to put my ink on them. I'm the hottest shit in L.A., and can get any girl I want. So the last thing I expect is for Ash Carter to walk into my shop and blow me off. I've spent the last seven years screwing half the women in the northern hemisphere, but nobody could come close to the girl I left behind...
  • Mad About the Banker by Piper Rayne

    Mad About the Banker by Piper Rayne

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 25 ratings
    Who knew my brother’s friend could be Mr. Right, and not just Mr. Right Now? My brother refused to introduce me, so I blame him. If he’d just caved, and introduced me to Jasper, I wouldn’t be in this mess. I mean, really, what’s the big deal? I’m not interested in the guy’s looks. Oh no, I want his cold hard cash...
  • My Best Friend's Brother by Alexis Winter

    My Best Friend's Brother by Alexis Winter

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    It's no secret I’ve always had a crush on Damon Strickland. My best friend’s older brother and the center of every single one of my fantasies. He’s a walking, talking temptation. That cocky grin and those broad, athletic shoulders. You know what they say about a man with big hands right? Growing up, we always tormented one another. I was the nagging, annoying little girl he hated...
  • I Kissed A Ghoul: A Brother's Best Friend/Curvy Girl Romance  (Halloween Steam) by Kat Baxter

    I Kissed A Ghoul: A Brother's Best Friend/Curvy Girl Romance (Halloween Steam) by Kat Baxter

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    ReidI have everything I want. I make truckloads of money playing the game that I love. Plus, I have a lucrative sportswear endorsement. Still something’s missing. I even know what it is. Or rather WHO it is. But she's back in my beloved Texas and my current contract has me living thousands of miles away...
  • Game Maker by B.J. Harvey

    Game Maker by B.J. Harvey

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the USA Today bestselling author of the Bliss series comes a new spin off series of interconnected standalones featuring your favorite Bliss series characters who are yet to meet their match. This time it's Zach and Danika's turn. I’m a gamer by nature and by profession. I’m all about strategy, performance, and coming out on top...
  • The Scars I Bare by J.L. Berg

    The Scars I Bare by J.L. Berg

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Every scar tells a story... Some are etched on the skin, for the whole world to see. Others are buried deep, so deep, only the heart can truly find them. Dean Sutherland was the quintessential guy next door. Strong and dependable, with a heart of gold, he knew exactly where his life was headed. Until one fateful night at sea ripped away everything. Now he’s adrift, a man without a purpose...
  • My Holiday Reunion: A Second Chance Holiday Romance by Weston Parker

    My Holiday Reunion: A Second Chance Holiday Romance by Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Christmas is the season of second chances. I’m not the same guy I was growing up, but I have some apologies to make for being him. My fifteen-year high school reunion reminds me of my biggest regret. Walking away from the love of my life to chase my career. By doing so, I fell in love with another woman, had a little boy, and life mended itself. Until my wife passed away...
    Categorized as:
    second chances  humor  contemporary
  • Gone For You by Jennifer Van Wyk

    Gone For You by Jennifer Van Wyk

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ethan, I wasn’t expecting to find you. The night was only supposed to be a celebration for my friend, but I couldn’t stop my heart, or body, from being drawn to you. Then I got to know you and you chipped away every wall I’d built around my heart. You don’t know how many times I found reasons to talk to you. To see you. It has to stop. There’s this distance between us I can’t control...
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