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  • Charlotte by Nicole James

    Charlotte by Nicole James

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Does the MC President want her bar badly enough to scare her into selling out?Or is he the only one who can save her from a madman?Rocker Charlotte Justice longs to escape her hectic life. Her estranged twin sister, Scarlett, owns Badlands, a biker bar outside Vegas, and has always wanted a chance at the limelight she feels was stolen from her...
  • Knight by Fiona Davenport

    Knight by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Shane “Knight” Ballard knew the blonde beauty he saw on the courthouse steps was meant to be his. But with danger looming, the time wasn’t right to claim her. Not when it could put her safety at risk.What Knight didn’t know was that Kiara Timkins was already smack-dab in the middle of it all...
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  • Wreck by Cora Brent

    Wreck by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    THOMASNot too long ago my future was all mapped out.Then two brutal swings of a steel bat wielded by a maniac wrecked my world.The adrenaline high I used to get from pitching a perfect game is gone.The major league dreams I counted on have vanished.And the peace of mind I took for granted is shattered.The thrills I seek out now are self-destructive.I know this and I can’t stop...
  • Kiss by Kiss by Kaylee Ryan

    Kiss by Kiss by Kaylee Ryan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    AuroraOne look at Grant Riggins standing in my bakery looking at me like I’m his last meal is enough to know I’m in way over my head.He’s relentless in his pursuit. The kind of man I could get lost in. But Grant makes me wish for things I can’t have.I’ve finally got my life back...
  • Finding Storm by Samantha Towle

    Finding Storm by Samantha Towle

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The son of an icon. He was a legend. Rock royalty.A man I never met.But I’m measured against him in every aspect of my life.The only time I feel like me … the real me … is when I’m onstage with my band. But the more we grow in popularity, the more people compare me to him.I’m not him. And I never will be. If only everyone could figure that out for themselves.I need a break from it all...
  • A Very Cheeky Christmas by Kat Baxter

    A Very Cheeky Christmas by Kat Baxter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’ve been voted Mr. Perfect Cheeks for the last five years. Though I do have a nice smile, it’s not those cheeks that warrant the attention. So yeah, my behind is my bread and butter. But when my most lucrative asset is injured, I’m sent to the set medic. To say I fall head over derriere in love with her is an understatement...
  • Owned by the Officer: A Line of Duty/Black Ops Crossover by Fiona Davenport

    Owned by the Officer: A Line of Duty/Black Ops Crossover by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Kade Truett was happy the friend he helped rescue overseas was getting help in the form of a service dog. Since Kade broke his leg during that mission, he had the time to help him through the process. And his kindness paid off in a big way when he met the beautiful dog trainer, Annalise Ragsdale.Annalise never mixed business and pleasure, but she couldn’t help but fall for the sexy Navy SEAL...
  • Echo by Fiona Davenport

    Echo by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Brodie “Echo” Fauks never expected to fall in love with a voice. Then he overheard Violet Kimball narrating a steamy scene in an audiobook while he was running surveillance on a conman who’s run afoul of the Hounds of Hellfire MC.Violet’s creepy neighbor was the road captain’s target...
  • The Lyon's Cub Caitlin : Lyon The Next Generation by Jordan Silver

    The Lyon's Cub Caitlin : Lyon The Next Generation by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Caitlin Lyon is the favored first daughter of Colton Lyon. Anyone who wants to date her will have to go through this tough as nails biker dad who thinks no one is good enough for his kid, not even the little snot nosed kid who’s been hanging around her for the past four years...
  • Searching for Harmony by Kelly Elliott

    Searching for Harmony by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Kelly Elliott comes the gut-wrenching story of a love that transcends all odds—and transforms the deepest pain into the brightest hope.   Firefighter and first responder Preston Ward thought he had grown immune to the job’s emotional burns. But when he goes out on a particularly tragic call, he realizes that some scenes are too devastating to forget...
  • Perfect Strangers by Carly Phillips

    Perfect Strangers by Carly Phillips

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One night.No strings.Things just got complicated.Between long hours in the ER and failing to please her demanding father, Dr. Alexa Collins barely has time for a life, and the strain is starting to take its toll.On a rare night out, she can’t resist getting a little crazy on the dance floor. Or playfully crooking her finger at the sinfully hot football player watching her every move...
  • Collide by Dylan Allen

    Collide by Dylan Allen

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He’s searching for the truth.I’m living a lie. And as much as we want to, We can’t stay away from each other. Falling for Carter nearly cost me everything. To save myself I made a deal with the devil. Now, I’ve got a second chance and more to lose than ever. So when he makes it clear he wants me back, I vow not to make the same mistake twice. Carter has learned his lesson, too...
  • Our Unscripted Story by L.A. Fiore

    Our Unscripted Story by L.A. Fiore

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Greyson Ratcliffe. I met him at sixteen, the hot new guy sitting on my jetty, an aspiring artist just passing through. He was my first kiss and my first love. I wanted forever with him. I didn’t even get a year. Five years later, I’m a budding writer who scripts stories of love and struggle, the good and the bad and the ups and the downs...
  • Finn by Ahren Sanders

    Finn by Ahren Sanders

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I thought I knew what love was, but I didn’t have a f*%king clue. Now, I’m in the fight of my life to win over the woman who owns my soul. ~ Finn Black The face of an angel… The heart of a saint… One look, one smile, and I didn’t stand a chance. The instant my eyes landed on Presley Chambers, I was a goner. She was a force of nature that turned my world upside down...
  • The Mind by Edee M Fallon, Kate Stewart

    The Mind by Edee M Fallon, Kate Stewart

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    We fell in love in a lightning strike, a sudden anomaly in a sea of lost people. He knew right away, yet I was hesitant. I could have never prepared myself for a love like ours. No one could. As a child, I had conjured an amazing story in my mind. It was a story I could retell about a man that would move me like no other; a story about the way we met and how he had swept me off my feet...
  • Texting My Mafia Temptation: Curvy Girl, Age Gap Romance by Flora Ferrari

    Texting My Mafia Temptation: Curvy Girl, Age Gap Romance by Flora Ferrari

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He 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...
  • Vetting His Kitten by Mink

    Vetting His Kitten by Mink

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    I don’t have time for my mother’s games or her menagerie of mammals, reptiles, and god knows what else. At least, I don’t think I have time for them until I meet her trusted veterinarian, Amelia. Suddenly, it seems I’m extremely interested in the wellbeing of my mother’s furry and scaly friends, so much so that I visit the vet’s office on a daily basis...
  • Rewriting Grey by L.A. Ferro

    Rewriting Grey by L.A. Ferro

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Bad choices make epic stories. Write one with me."Iverson Grey wasn’t supposed to be my happily ever after.He wasn’t even on my radar.I came to Copper Falls, expecting to settle my sister's estate and learn about the woman I never knew existed until I was notified of her death. Little did I know that stories about her weren't the only thing that awaited me in the small town...
  • The Rock Star's Fake Fiancée by Kenzie Reed

    The Rock Star's Fake Fiancée by Kenzie Reed

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    That grin should come with a warning label. 'Addictive. May cause dizziness, heart palpitations, dampened underwear, and a lifetime of regret.'I’ve got plenty of reasons to hate Sebastian Monroe, the sexy lead singer of Heat Lightning. 1.) He doesn’t remember our soul-scorching kiss ten years ago. 2.) He very rudely refused to play at my home town’s 300th anniversary celebration. And 3...
  • Wrath by Dani Wyatt

    Wrath by Dani Wyatt

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Why doesn’t anyone pray for Satan? He needs it. But so do I, because Kristina Joy Kennedy is killing me. It’s been a year since I first saw her, wearing a white dress, blonde hair braided back with a cute pink bow at the bottom, walking into the church across the street from the Ride or Die bar. A year since my heart came alive. A year since she first told me to get lost.We are worlds apart...
  • Craving Carlo by Mia Madison

    Craving Carlo by Mia Madison

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    "You gave me a taste of your fire. Hell no, I'm not walking away."Carlo Adamo is the most perfect man I have ever seen -- and the only one whose touch drives me mad.But some of us aren't meant for happy endings. If he knew the truth, he'd forget about me.I just need to stop trembling in his arms long enough to make him believe it...
  • Gage The Mountain Man by Raven Moon

    Gage The Mountain Man by Raven Moon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    "I need her to know that my heart would stop without her in my life..." -Gage My best friend Jess is always trying to play matchmaker.Come kayaking with my fiance and his friend, she said.A romantic day out on the river in the mountains.Nope. For a city girl like me, this is hell.Mainly because the man she's brought for me is a freaking prick...
  • Heavy Load Beast Mode by Penn Rivers

    Heavy Load Beast Mode by Penn Rivers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    As the motto on the side of his truck Got a heavy load? Go Beast Mode.. . Things get hot and heavy--emphasis on hot--when a tow-truck driver meets the plus-size beauty of his dreams at his local gym. Except she wants nothing to do with him and his rough ways. When she gets stuck in a storm, he'll get his chance to prove he's got what it takes to haul her off her feet... and into his arms...
  • With Kol by K.L. Donn

    With Kol by K.L. Donn

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kol Daniels has spent years raising his sister after their parents passed away. Finally gaining the freedom to live his own life, he meets a girl… Who runs away. Thea Andrews only wants to be normal. She wants to drop the scars of her past and move forward. After finding a friendship with a woman who didn’t demand to know all her secrets, Thea feels comfort in her surroundings...
  • The End and Then by Hannah Bird

    The End and Then by Hannah Bird

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What do you do when life as you know it ends?Eden Ross is trying to figure that out. She starts by packing up the remains of her life and moving to a small town in Colorado to run a bar alongside her best friend. But the work still doesn’t provide a sufficient distraction from the demons nipping at her heels...
  • Rule's Exception (Diamond Kings MC) by Shaw Hart

    Rule's Exception (Diamond Kings MC) by Shaw Hart

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Everything is bigger in Texas.The men, their bikes, their guns and even their hearts. On the biggest ranch in West Texas, you’ll find the Diamond Kings MC. A group of tough, growly bikers happy with their solitary existence. Until love walks in and challenges them to the ultimate test. It’s time for them to man up and accept their fate or they’ll lose their soulmates forever...
  • Catch of the Day by Jane Fox

    Catch of the Day by Jane Fox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zeke: My life is busy enough with the time I spend as a commercial fisherman. The last thing I need is to be distracted by romance, but when I meet Daya, she’s suddenly all I can think about.Daya: I’m not sure that Maine’s the right place for me—until a certain broad, buff, and bearded fisherman walks through the door of the restaurant where I work.Sometimes fate needs a little help...
  • Good Knight by Jane Fox

    Good Knight by Jane Fox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Austin: When my little sister drags me to a Renaissance Faire for her birthday, I don’t expect to actually save a damsel in distress. But this damsel? Totally worth it.Dahlia: Spending a summer selling turkey legs to people in foam armor isn’t nearly as fun as it sounds...
  • My Curvy Bunny by Pippa Lux

    My Curvy Bunny by Pippa Lux

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Good girls have never looked sweeter. WillowI’m doing all I can to stay afloat, to forget how lonely I am now that my sweet grandparents are gone. Applying for a second job as a waitress at Molly’s Grove, a beautiful, magical restaurant, seems like the perfect solution.But the pain follows me, tainting my excitement. My hope. Until I lay eyes on my new boss, Mason Aldridge...
  • October is for Owen by Kaci Rose

    October is for Owen by Kaci Rose

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    When a rockslide strands them in the mountains, he's her only chance at safety...KennedyIt was meant to be a solo trip—a tribute to my grandparents, and a final memory before a new chapter in my life.Only, I wasn't alone at the lake.I hadn't planned on meeting a mountain man that made my heart race or the rockslide that left the path back to town unpassable...
  • Every Other Memory by Kaylee Ryan

    Every Other Memory by Kaylee Ryan

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    CadenceI wanted one night to be spontaneous. A night to let off some steam and celebrate. I was about to give up hope until the handsome stranger with gorgeous hazel eyes changed the course of my evening. Two separate lives, one unforgettable night, and an unexpected surprise that I never saw coming. It’s too bad I didn’t get his name, but that’s okay...
  • Fortuity by Rochelle Paige

    Fortuity by Rochelle Paige

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The only kinds of luck I knew were bad and worse...until my life hung in the balance. I finally caught a break in the form of a second chance. I vowed not to let it go to waste. To make a difference. But I didn’t start really living until I met him. Dillon Montgomery. My complete opposite—except for our matching tortured souls. I couldn’t resist him for long...
  • Until the Lightning Strikes: Happily Ever Alpha World by Elle Christensen

    Until the Lightning Strikes: Happily Ever Alpha World by Elle Christensen

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Rachel Hill is struggling to get out of the life she was raised in. With only two more semesters to go, she’ll have her college degree and her ticket out of town. But, it seems as though bad luck is raining down on her and when the company she works for goes out of business, her income goes from meager to nothing. She’s desperate to find a way to pay for school...
  • Loving the Mountain Man by Tory Baker

    Loving the Mountain Man by Tory Baker

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Billionaire recluse Hudson Walker moved to Thickwood, Colorado, from upstate New York. No one really knows what he does for a living. They just know that he grumbles every time he has to come into town. That is until he sees Jules Russell. Jules Russell owns Jules Junk, the antique and vintage shop in town. When Hudson walks into her store with a smile on his face, the air around them sizzles...
  • Until Tennessee: Happily Ever Alpha World by Sarah O'Rourke

    Until Tennessee: Happily Ever Alpha World by Sarah O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Detective Marek Haws didn’t expect the boom that exploded in his life during a simple traffic stop. Without warning, he suddenly found himself determined to protect a brave but frightened woman and her family, no matter what the consequences might be. Clarity Escobar ran from California to Tennessee to keep her children safe from further harm...
  • Vexing Victor by Mia Madison

    Vexing Victor by Mia Madison

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    "Good thing you like it when I spank you." Victor Adamo is the sexiest, most infuriating man I've ever met. He says I get under his skin but he has no idea what he makes me feel. He's determined to protect me ... claim me ... tame me. And he has just the right equipment to do the job...
  • Picture Perfect Obsession by C.M. Steele

    Picture Perfect Obsession by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Emmitt: A simple assignment to photograph a fun run, shouldn’t even be a blip on my busy schedule between celebrity and location shoots. Still, one runner catches my eye, and nothing will ever be the same again. I drop everything to find out who she is, and when I can tell her that she’s mine. Because once I have her, there’s no way I’m letting her go...
  • Executive Rule by Cameron Hart

    Executive Rule by Cameron Hart

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I live my life by a set of rules.It’s how I got to be CEO of a Fortune 500 company at just thirty-two, and how I’ve stayed at the top of my game for the last five years. I follow the same schedule every day, eat the same food, and wear one of a dozen sets of the same ten-thousand dollar suit. And that’s the way I like it...
  • Nailed Down by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook

    Nailed Down by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lola Barringer is on her hands and knees when I step foot on her property. Her perfect ass is the first thing I see and the only thing I want. She's flawless and funny - and so damn sexy. But when she takes a good look at me, she's furious. Turns out I broke her heart years ago. I was her first crush, her one and only fantasy ... and now I'll do what it takes to win her back...
  • Winter Kisses: An Instalove Possessive Holiday Romance by Flora Ferrari

    Winter Kisses: An Instalove Possessive Holiday Romance by Flora Ferrari

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A New England blizzard leaves me stranded on the side of the road as I’m driving up to my big sister’s house for the holidays. My plan is to use the break from my barista job to write a bestseller, but my beat-up old car has other ideas.I think I’m lost. But then he finds me. And my world will never be the same again...
  • His Curvy Dream: A BBW Holiday Romance by Erin Havoc

    His Curvy Dream: A BBW Holiday Romance by Erin Havoc

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    An Older Man Younger Curvy Woman RomanceNATHANFrom sworn bachelor to obsessed with her…In one single afternoon.Columbus Day is just around the corner, and that’s the limit I have to convince her before I leave town.She’s my new dream, and I’m not letting her go.ALLYSSAI have the biggest deal I could hope for right in front of me...
  • On Thin Ice by Aven Ellis

    On Thin Ice by Aven Ellis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Holly Johansson knows some things in her life are certain after college graduation: 1.) It’s a long road to become a full-time author. 2.) She’ll need to work to pay her bills. 3.) And Dallas Demons superstar Matt Rhinelander will never return her feelings. Holly knows her unrequited crush on the partying hockey player is ridiculous...
  • Naz & Roz by Bethany-Kris

    Naz & Roz by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The genius and the prodigy ... Nazio “Naz” Donati is brilliant, sinful, and criminal. A genius from the moment he was born, and a man who's still trying to learn how to navigate and balance this thing called life. He certainly wasn't expecting love to practically fall right into his hands, never mind for love to take the form of his best friend's little sister...
  • Hungry For Owen by Cameron Hart

    Hungry For Owen by Cameron Hart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Emery: I’ve worked at Sweet Perfection since I was in high school. I’m one business loan application away from being the sole owner of the bakery. Buying Sweet Perfection is the most important thing in my life, so when the too-handsome, too-charming, too-good-to-be-true Owen starts coming in and asking me out every morning, I have no choice but to turn him down...
  • Hungry for Wade by Elisa Leigh

    Hungry for Wade by Elisa Leigh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Wade Moore is the town's sheriff. He loves his job, he loves his town, and secretly he loves the town's baker. Too bad for him she's not interested in him that way. Instead he's content to be her one of her best friends getting to eat her treats and be as close to her as he can get. Chloe Sweets owns Sweets Treats, the only bakery in her little town. She's happy, sort of...
  • A Touch of Sloth by Layne Daniels

    A Touch of Sloth by Layne Daniels

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Born with a silver spoon and expected to do nothing more than keep it shiny and spotless, my family's wealth and expectations don't do me any favors. They think my refusal to do exactly as they wish is laziness. Sloth. I don't care that they call me the good for nothing one in the family. Their judgments roll off my back like water. I know where my true value is.They send a lackey to retrieve me...
  • Axel by Kelsie Calloway

    Axel by Kelsie Calloway

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Axel:There's a new donut shop across the street from the police station run by a curvy girl.When I walk in on Stella talking dirty to her donuts, I think I'm falling in love.Step 1: Get her to go on a date with me.Step 2: Live happily ever after.It can't be that hard, right? I know that I am after what I just witnessed...I'm a cop and I love curves, and Stella's got plenty of sweet treats for me...
  • Branded By The Mountain Man by Jordan Marie

    Branded By The Mountain Man by Jordan Marie

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Scars run deep. There are some you can see and some you can’t. Braden Carter has both.His physical ones are easier to deal with than the ones that torture his mind. He moved to Thickwood, Colorado, for one reason and one reason only. To be alone. Ophelia Jessup is a free spirit. Her road to Thickwood has been a series of chances. In her mind, life is hard...
  • The Billionaire's Final Treasure by Cassi Hart

    The Billionaire's Final Treasure by Cassi Hart

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Kori It’s hard finding things to look forward to when you’re as broke as I am. Between caring for my sick mother and trying to make it to cosmetology classes, I don’t have any time for anything else. I do have a new secret guilty pleasure, though. The other night, I saw someone break into an apartment across the street...
  • Luca by Kate Hunt

    Luca by Kate Hunt

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’ve always known there was just one woman out there for me.So when I meet Quinn, there’s no doubt in my mind that she’s the one.Only problem?She thinks I don’t know what I’m getting myself into—thinks I’m going to eventually have a change of heart.My curvy beauty is right about a lot of things, but this is one thing she’s dead wrong about.I’m hers, and only hers, until the end of time...
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