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  • Bittersweet Melody  by Kate Stewart

    Bittersweet Melody by Kate Stewart

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 36 ratings
    The vows are just the beginning…For Natalie, being the wife to the most sought-after rock star on the planet has its privileges, but in the last year, she’s been put through the wringer as far as the pitfalls...
  • The Wanted Short Stories by Kelly Elliott

    The Wanted Short Stories by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The story that was never told… Three short stories based off the best selling novels, Wanted, Saved, and Faithful by Kelly Elliott. Step into the future to get a glimpse of some of your favorite characters from the Wanted Series. Take a journey with Gunner and Ellie, Jeff and Ari, and Josh and Heather as they learn to love continues to make them feel wanted, saved, and forever faithful...
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  • Marry Me by April Wilson

    Marry Me by April Wilson

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Marry Me is a 25,000 word novella that continues the story of Lia McIntyre and Jonah Locke, first introduced on Broken. Fans of the McIntyre Security Bodyguard Series will enjoy this continuation of Lia's and Jonah's story. Cameo appearances by other popular characters in this series are included. Lia McIntyre Lia's been with Jonah for nearly two years now...
  • Life Before Damaged Vol. 5 by H.M. Ward

    Life Before Damaged Vol. 5 by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Money. Power. Sex.  This can't be happening. Maybe storming off to the club and getting sloshed was a bad idea, but I couldn't handle all that's happened. Forget for a while, that's all I wanted. After dancing with the wrong guy all night I planned on forgetting everything troubling me while rolling around in his bed. The problem is the guy is Pete Ferro and I'm me...
  • Hearts and Llamas by Tara Sivec

    Hearts and Llamas by Tara Sivec

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    A Valentine's Day short story from the Chocolate Lover's gang...
  • Life Before Damaged by H.M. Ward

    Life Before Damaged by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR HM WARD  Money. Power. Sex.  Just stay away from Pete Ferro. How hard can that be? But every time I turn around the man is there with that beautiful face and those wicked lips. He pins me in place with eyes that are fifty shades of blue. I become someone else, a woman who feels alive and defiant. I'm sick of being what everyone else wants...
  • Full Circle by Emilia Finn

    Full Circle by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Legend has it that no matter how powerful you feel, all men eventually fall. We were put here for a reason, our lifetime is finite, so we should make our memories, love hard, love unconditionally, then create our family, because eventually our time ends and we leave nothing behind but a legacy. Make your name mean something, and don't waste the small window of time you've been given...
  • Blackout: A Romance Anthology by Bethany Lopez, Lisa Shelby

    Blackout: A Romance Anthology by Bethany Lopez, Lisa Shelby

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    What happens when the lights go out in the city that never sleeps? Games of chance, unexpected situations, and hours of sin! Thirteen bestselling and award-winning authors are turning up the heat in an anthology featuring brand-new show-stopping stories set in Las Vegas. Roll the dice and get ready to feel the heat! Night Games by T.K...
  • Moonlight in Massachusetts: An Epilogue Short Novel by Siobhan Davis, Christopher John

    Moonlight in Massachusetts: An Epilogue Short Novel by Siobhan Davis, Christopher John

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    An optional epilogue short novel in the highly addictive Kennedy Boys series by USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestseller Siobhan Davis.Find out what is going on in the lives of your favorite family and their offspring. Set five years after the series end, this story begins with Selena receiving a prestigious award for Moonlight, the support center she opened to help survivors of abuse...
  • Betrayed by Truths by Ella Miles

    Betrayed by Truths by Ella Miles

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "What do you want with me?" "Everything. I want f--ing everything. " I lost a bet; now I'm his. His to own. His to claim. Nothing but property. But I'm only beginning to understand the truth. I can choose my own fate. And claim a future I never thought was possible. I just can't let Enzo lie to me anymore. I have to find the truth. Even if it kills me...
  • Bring It Home by Toni Aleo

    Bring It Home by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Boon Hoenes only has three goals in life. To make Posey Adler his wife, to win the Stanley Cup for the second year in a row, and for Shea Adler to like him.The first, he’s got on lock. The second, he’s well on his way. And the third… Well, two out of three ain’t bad...
  • The Proposition 4: The Ferro Family by H.M. Ward

    The Proposition 4: The Ferro Family by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Blackmail. Sex. Ferro There are some mistakes that are too big to fix. I’ll never recover from this one. Damn it, I called Bryan an addict and treated him worse. Maybe it was wrong for him to approach me the way he did. Maybe it wasn’t right for Bryan to just take what he wanted, consequences be damned. I can’t blame him, though–not now that I know the truth...
  • You Deserve Valentine's Day Brunch by Sarah Hogle

    You Deserve Valentine's Day Brunch by Sarah Hogle

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 16 ratings
    Valentine's...
  • Eternal by Rachel Van Dyken

    Eternal by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    *This is a crossover novella featuring characters from both the Seaside and Ruin series* Lead singer of AD2 Demetri Daniels only wants one thing... To marry the love of his life and make the day perfect for her. But perfect isn't exactly happening, not with his sister-in-law going into labor, or with rabid fans discovering their wedding location, or birds suddenly attacking the rehearsal dinner...
  • Life Before Damaged, Volume 7: The Ferro Family (Life Before Damaged (The Ferro Family) #7) by H.M. Ward

    Life Before Damaged, Volume 7: The Ferro Family (Life Before Damaged (The Ferro Family) #7) by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR H.M. WARD Money. Power. Sex. Even Pete Ferro, with that sinful body & beautiful blue gaze, can't drag me from here. My life is finally mine. Things are finally going my way.But as my life grows content, Pete's eyes grow troubled. There's something there, something beneath the pointed words and charm--someone real--and it scares him...
  • Unwrapping Tatum: Tempting Tatum Novella by Kaylee Ryan

    Unwrapping Tatum: Tempting Tatum Novella by Kaylee Ryan

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This is a companion Novella for Tempting Tatum. Tempting Tatum must be read first to enjoy Unwrapping Tatum. Four years later and they are still going strong. Follow Tatum and Blaise through the Holidays with their twins and the rest of the Richard’s family. Blaise I want to give her something special. Something with meaning. A gift that will not only be for her, but for our kids...
  • Life Before Damaged, Volume 10: The Ferro Family (Life Before Damaged (The Ferro Family) #10) by H.M. Ward

    Life Before Damaged, Volume 10: The Ferro Family (Life Before Damaged (The Ferro Family) #10) by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A LOVE STORY ABOUT AN ALPHA MANWHORE AND A GOOD GIRL BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR HM WARD Money. Power. Sex. ~THE FINAL BOOK IN THE LIFE BEFORE DAMAGED SERIES~ Some people enter your life for a reason, and Pete Ferro has changed mine forever. I've known since I met him we were fated. I can't say how I know, but I can feel it...
  • Loving Storm by Carian Cole

    Loving Storm by Carian Cole

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 29 ratings
    (This is a sequel novella to Storm, book one - which must be read first!) Evie I met him in a snowstorm... We spent forty-eight hours trapped in the back of his pickup truck. We fought. We touched. We fell. Hard. Storm She literally crashed into my life... The last thing I wanted was a relationship. Especially with a quirky chick who drove me insane...
  • Keep by Cora Brent

    Keep by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Gentry boys were never supposed to be a success story. In their bleak prison hometown their very name was a curse and everyone expected the boys would follow the same path as the vicious generations that came before them. But everyone was proven wrong. And on this wedding day of dreams they will all gather to watch one of their beloved daughters marry her prince...
  • Trapped by Lies by Ella Miles

    Trapped by Lies by Ella Miles

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My life is nothing but lies. And turns out, Enzo wasn’t the only one who lied to me. I don’t know who to trust anymore. But my future relies on determining the truth from the lies. I’ve tried to escape. But somehow I’m more trapped than ever. And I’m more his than I ever thought possible. This is book 3 in the Truth or Lies series. It ends on a cliffhanger...
  • Life Before Damaged Vol. 6  (The Ferro Family) (Life Before Damaged  (The Ferro Family) #6) by H.M. Ward

    Life Before Damaged Vol. 6 (The Ferro Family) (Life Before Damaged (The Ferro Family) #6) by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR H.M. WARD Money. Power. Sex. I torched my future with a single decision. It was like my life was taken out by a big ass bus in one blow. I thought everything was already busted to pieces, but the more I try to fix my mistakes, the worse it gets...
  • Enlightened End by Audrey Carlan

    Enlightened End by Audrey Carlan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    My world ended the day I received an eviction notice for Lotus House Yoga. Teaching yoga is all I’ve ever known. I’ve been doing tree pose since the age of two. The studio is my home, my legacy. My mother and her best friend left Lotus House to me so that I could carry on spreading goodness and light to everyone who enters our door...
  • Life Before Damaged, Volume 6: The Ferro Family (Life Before Damaged (The Ferro Family) #6) by H.M. Ward

    Life Before Damaged, Volume 6: The Ferro Family (Life Before Damaged (The Ferro Family) #6) by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR H.M. WARD Money. Power. Sex. I torched my future with a single decision. It was like my life was taken out by a big ass bus in one blow. I thought everything was already busted to pieces, but the more I try to fix my mistakes, the worse it gets...
  • Needing the Memories by Terri Anne Browning

    Needing the Memories by Terri Anne Browning

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Happy Ever After doesn’t end at the Epilogue. The Epilogue is really only the beginning. For us, it’s meant sharing every high, every low, and loving each other even more when we come out the other side still standing. He’s everything I’ve always wanted. My best friend. My lover. My husband… My Demon. And I’m his Angel...
  • Life Before Damaged, Volume 9: The Ferro Family (Life Before Damaged (The Ferro Family) #9) by H.M. Ward

    Life Before Damaged, Volume 9: The Ferro Family (Life Before Damaged (The Ferro Family) #9) by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A LOVE STORY ABOUT AN ALPHA MANWHORE AND A GOOD GIRL BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR HM WARDMoney. Power. Sex.Billionaire Pete Ferro is a manwhore and always will be. There aren't fifty shades of gray when it comes to love. Sometimes all we have is the here and now, and there aren't second chances -- so why pretend? That's the part I don't understand...
  • Fearless by Chelle Bliss, Salvation Society

    Fearless by Chelle Bliss, Salvation Society

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    I’ve always been a wild child and my own worst enemy. Ditched by my best friend at a biker bar. A broken Jeep in a new town with no one to call. What else could possibly go wrong? I’m Makenna Dixon, not a damsel in distress. My parents taught me how to survive on my own. But a handsome stranger thinks he’ll be my saving grace. A challenge leads to a lip lock I can’t quite forget...
  • Operation Bailey Babies by Piper Rayne

    Operation Bailey Babies by Piper Rayne

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    BUZZ WHEEL PRESS RELEASE: Don’t drink the Lake Starlight water! Bailey babies are busy growing in their mommies tummies and the Baileys are having a triple baby shower to celebrate. If you want in on the pool on who pops first and when contact me...
  • A Cavendish Christmas by Becca Steele

    A Cavendish Christmas by Becca Steele

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Catch up with the Four in this festive short story, which takes place after the events of The Havoc We Wreak. A weekend away in the French Alps at the Alstone Holdings cabin sounds like the perfect snowy escape. And together with Cassius, I've planned a special Christmas surprise for Caiden, Weston, and Zayde...Available for free from Becca Steele's website...
  • Life Before Damaged Vol. 9 (Life Before Damaged  (The Ferro Family) #9) by H.M. Ward

    Life Before Damaged Vol. 9 (Life Before Damaged (The Ferro Family) #9) by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A LOVE STORY ABOUT AN ALPHA MANWHORE AND A GOOD GIRL BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR HM WARD Money. Power. Sex. Billionaire Pete Ferro is a manwhore and always will be. There aren't fifty shades of gray when it comes to love. Sometimes all we have is the here and now, and there aren't second chances -- so why pretend? That's the part I don't understand...
  • Ace by Fiona Davenport

    Ace by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    As the lawyer for the Hounds of Hellfire MC, Elias “Ash” Prescott III was usually a smooth talker. But his way with words failed him when it came to the sassy EMT who took care of his bullet wound. Nora Stoll was not impressed when Ash asked her out the first time. Or when he stood her up after he finally talked her into a date...
  • SNOW: A Gentry Boys Christmas Story by Cora Brent

    SNOW: A Gentry Boys Christmas Story by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    *Catch up with those lovable alphas THE GENTRY BOYS just in time for Christmas in this sweet, sexy holiday novella!* With December 25th fast approaching, brothers Stone and Conway Gentry have a lot more than holiday festivities to keep them busy...
  • Merry Me Darling by Lilian T. James

    Merry Me Darling by Lilian T. James

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    This is not a standalone within the series. This is a short, holiday epilogue that picks up right where Meet Me Halfway left off.Madison woke up thinking it would be a piece of cake to meet Garrett's mother. She made him like her, after all. But the closer they get to Garrett’s childhood home, the more doubt starts to creep in...
  • Sweet by Elizabeth Hunter

    Sweet by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    He survived by always being in control.She’s about to make him melt.It’s 2004, and Daisy Rivera knows two things: she’s going to end up disappointing her parents’ fondest hopes and dreams in roughly six months, and somehow she’s going to figure out how to kiss the mysterious tattoo artist two shops down from her grandmother’s cafe that everyone calls Spider...
  • 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...
  • Something to Believe In by Ella Fox

    Something to Believe In by Ella Fox

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A rock star with millions of adoring fans. A country girl with a broken heart. Rock star, Tyson Allen, is the hilarious, in-your-face bass player for one of the world's most popular bands. Behind his funny-guy exterior hides a tragic past full of unbearable horror. After turning to drugs and alcohol to numb the pain, Tyson hit rock bottom on a New York City sidewalk...
  • Dare to Embrace by S.B. Alexander

    Dare to Embrace by S.B. Alexander

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I have a decision to make—family or my career. The problem is I want both, and I don’t know how to choose. Lacey I promised Kade we would start a family when my baseball contract is up. But now a Triple-A ball club is interested in me. If I sign with them, getting pregnant is not an option.The last thing I want to do is disappoint my husband, but moving up in the major leagues is vital to me...
  • Trace - Part Two by Deborah Bladon

    Trace - Part Two by Deborah Bladon

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The second part of TRACE, a three-part series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Deborah Bladon. Vanessa Meyer had finally taken on the task of learning more about her birth mother. The twisted path that brought her to her family's townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, also brought her face-to-face with the man who she's been spending most of her nights with...
  • Promise by T.K. Leigh

    Promise by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He was supposed to be my first kiss. My first love. My first everything... There are moments in our lives that define us. For Brooklyn Tanner, it's the summer before her junior year of high school. The summer boys finally begin to notice her. The summer he finally begins to notice her. Andrew Brinks. Handsome. Popular. Star hockey player. Her best friend's brother...
  • Slow Grind by Tory Baker

    Slow Grind by Tory Baker

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    SerenityI love traveling. I’ve even made a lucrative career of it.Traveling through Spring, Florida wasn’t on my radar.But then again, neither was a vehicle accident.Now I’m stranded with limited options.I need help, but I never thought my hero would show up in coveralls, steel-toed boots and a smile that makes my knees weak, and my panties melt...
  • The Epilogue by Michelle Heard

    The Epilogue by Michelle Heard

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Wealth and power make them untouchable.The monarchs of Trinity Academy.Falcon Reyes.Mason Chargill.Lake Cutler.Julian Reyes.The epilogue to the bestselling Trinity Academy series.Note: All books have to be read in order...
  • Forever Wicked by Piper Lawson

    Forever Wicked by Piper Lawson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I wanted to fall for a boy. Instead, I fell for a legend... Jax Jamieson was the biggest rock star on the planet.  And he loved me. We've been through ups and downs I thought would tear us—and me—apart.  But we made it back to each other. Now, I don't want the big ceremony, the dress, or the paparazzi. I only want Jax. His heart, his soul, his hoodie. Forever...
  • Evan by Lisa Helen Gray

    Evan by Lisa Helen Gray

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Evan Smith has had his life planned out since the age of twelve. He knew what he wanted and knew how to get it. It’s only when his sister is kidnapped that he realises that the life he has isn’t the one he really wants. He wants more. Evan starts laying down roots and everything seems to be going well until a hot, tiny brunette with round brown eyes turns up at his doorstep...
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  • Trace by Deborah Bladon

    Trace by Deborah Bladon

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The final part of TRACE, a three-part series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Deborah Bladon. Vanessa Meyer has overcome the struggles of her past to build a life that she can be proud of. She's a nurse in the ER and her relationship with attorney Garrett Ryan fulfills her in a way that nothing else can...
  • Stars Over Castle Hill by Samantha Young

    Stars Over Castle Hill by Samantha Young

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Joss and Braden Carmichael are blissfully married living in their townhouse on Dublin Street with their three beautiful children. It's a life Joss never expected to have, and one she's grateful for every day. But..
  • A Very Xander Christmas 2 by Anne Mercier

    A Very Xander Christmas 2 by Anne Mercier

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Rockstar Christmas -- Told Xander StyleFREE short...
  • Forever Lucy by Terri Anne Browning, CJC Photography

    Forever Lucy by Terri Anne Browning, CJC Photography

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    SAVE THE DATE Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Thornton and Mr. & Mrs. Devlin Cutter Request you save the date for the wedding of Lucy Daniels Thornton to Harris Cutter March 26th Planning a wedding should have been easy, especially with Aunt Emmie and Harris’s stepmom, Natalie, to help...
  • Honeymoon from Hell V by R.L. Mathewson

    Honeymoon from Hell V by R.L. Mathewson

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    She's finally his after months of being stuck in the hospital recovering from one of the dumbest moment's of his life, Jodi was his and he was going to make sure that she stayed that way, which of course meant a trip Vegas, some help from his family and breaking a few laws. Danny didn't care what he had to do, as long as he got to keep his Tinkerbelle...
  • The Chase is Over by Toni Aleo

    The Chase is Over by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    You are cordially invited to the wedding of Shelli Adler and Aiden Brooks…Shelli has been planning her wedding to Aiden in her scrapbook since she was old enough to wield a glue stick. And now that day has finally arrived...
  • All Things Pretty, Part Two by M. Leighton

    All Things Pretty, Part Two by M. Leighton

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The continuation and conclusion of All Things...
  • Wild Boys After Dark: Jackson by Melissa Foster

    Wild Boys After Dark: Jackson by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Wild Billionaires After Dark are a series of stand-alone romances that may also be enjoyed as part of the larger Love in Bloom series. Indulge your inner vixen with these sexy billionaires! Meet the Wild Boys... Four fiercely loyal, sinfully sexy, uber alpha brothers, about to fall head over heels for their leading ladies.Meet the Bad Boys..
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