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White Knuckles by Autumn Jones Lake
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTWO DAMAGED SOULS. After countless detours, Wrath and Trinity’s wedding is only ten days away. Together they’ve battled their demons and are ready to declare their commitment to each other in front of their entire Lost Kings MC family. ONE BITTER ENEMY. No one is prepared for the threat that crawls out of the shadows and issues an evil ultimatum...Categorized as:
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Dynamite by Emilia Finn
Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThey call us the devil twins - a fallacy and unfair assumption on everyone’s part. Well. .. mostly. My name is Luke Hart, and I’m the oldest of identical twin boys. Although I may be responsible for the ‘devil’ in our name, I have no urge to set the record straight and exonerate the innocent half of our pairing. There’s no point letting the truth get in the way of a good story. Right? Not so...Categorized as:
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Pretty It Up by Cee Bowerman
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsDescription. Sometimes love just isn’t enough, or is it? Lana Gold, one of the Donovan triplets, found her one true love in college but lost him when the life he’d dreamed of became reality. Being an outsider looking in and so far away from her family and hometown took its toll on Lana and her marriage until she’d finally had enough and left it all behind...Categorized as:
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Hart to Heart by M.E. Carter, Jacob Morgan
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsListening Length: 5 hours, 6 minutes. We’re the Harts. Between an engagement, a wedding and an adoption, we’ve had the best year of our lives. Things have never looked better for any of us. But just because you say “I do” doesn’t mean you get a happily ever after. And sometimes, you get tackled more in life than you ever did on the football field... -
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The Legend by Shey Stahl
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIn a lifestyle of speed, adrenaline and desire, one racer has sacrificed everything for the sport he loved. In turn, he will fight for his name, his family and now his life to be the legend he’s been portrayed to be. You can be everything you set out to be if you want it bad enough. You can be that record breaker you said you’d be. You can be that hero you always thought you would be... -
Billionaire Unknown by J.S. Scott
I was perfectly content with my life. My career was booming. I traveled. I did as much charity work as I possibly could for the homeless, and I was perfectly happy with the choices I'd made. At least. .. I was--until my sister, Dani, came up missing. As an international correspondent, she traveled to war-torn countries, and she'd stepped a little too far over the line... -
Silver Biker by L.B. Dunbar
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJames Harrington. That’s my name, my birthright, and my curse. I didn’t always hate being a Harrington. At one time, I took it as a privilege. I used it to my advantage. But a name doesn’t stop you from losing everything, and after six haunting years, that everything is back forcing me to face the past or give up a future. Evie Harrington...Categorized as:
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Nitro by Fiona Davenport
Torin “Nitro” Addis never lost control…until a rookie rider blew past his recruits and pulled off her helmet. Jana Jennings wanted a place in the underground circuit, not a distraction. Getting tangled up with a possessive biker was the last thing she needed, but every clash with Nitro only burned hotter. Jana’s secrets could destroy everything, and someone in the shadows wants her gone... -
A Different Kind of December by Lesley Jones
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsDecember 1st. .. A time to reflect and remember for Georgia, and also, she's decided, this year will be a time for change. Starting with high emotion on the anniversary of the day that changed her life and ending on a loud, raucous and raunchy Christmas night, we get a little dip into the lives of some of the Carnage Series favourite characters. This is book 5 in a series. Carnage Book One... -
Just One Look by Rosalind James
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLuka Darkovic has some tackling skills. He hadn’t planned on using them to bring down a runaway dog the size of a Shetland pony, though, especially not when his neck is already buggered. At 33, a rugby forward protects his vertebrae. . He’s even less happy when the dog’s incompetent owner turns up in his hospital cubicle the next day with a plan to fix those vertebrae... -
Captive by Brenda Rothert
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsTwo years ago, Jason and Kate Ryker were brought together by grief and bound to one another by love. Now married, they’re confronting their fears together. But heartbreak finds them again, and the ties that bind Kate and Ryke are tested as she struggles against fear and sadness. As a grief counselor, Kate understands all too well the pain of her clients... -
Never Too Soon by Chelle Bliss
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGrace Bianchi has always been drawn to men who are allergic to relationships. But when a mysterious man walks into her shop, saving her from a disaster, she finds herself wondering… is he different than the others? Ryder Cooper is fumbling his way through life. He’s been lost since his wife passed away, leaving him to raise two young children alone... -
Sinful Corruption by Emilia Finn
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSinful Corruption is the 14th standalone Mayet Justice novel. Full blurb coming soon. -
Hart to Heart by ME Carter, Murphy Rae
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWe’re the Harts. Between an engagement, a wedding and an adoption, we’ve had the best year of our lives. Things have never looked better for Jaxon, Addison and myself. But just because you say “I do” doesn’t mean you get a happily ever after. And sometimes, you get tackled more in life than you ever did on the football field... -
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Overtime by Toni Aleo
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsDown and out with an injury keeping him away from the game, Assassins’ defenseman Jordie Thomas lives for the blades of his skates on the ice and the feeling of oblivion off it. With no choice but to heal, he’s forced away from the sport that runs through his veins. With everything at stake and darkness setting in, he quickly finds himself spiraling even further out of control...Categorized as:
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Give Me Your Answer True by Suanne Laqueur
“What I feel has no name…”. Suanne Laqueur’s award-winning debut novel The Man I Love thrilled readers with its memorable characters and depth of emotion. Erik Fiskare’s journey of love, recovery and forgiveness captivated hearts but also left questions unanswered. Now Daisy Bianco has a chance to tell her story...Categorized as:
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Irresistible Revenge by Amanda Bentley
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYou’re going to think I’m a shitty person, and I can’t say I’d even blame you. But before you make a snap judgment, let me help you understand. You see, I slept with my coworker. Now, I know what you’re thinking. Okay…and? Well, I slept with my coworker, but I still had a boyfriend. “How could you? ”. “That is WRONG. ”“(insert choice expletives here)! ”. I know. You’re right. It is... -
Dark Edges by Kane Caldwell
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsI’m not your good ole boy or boy-next-door type of guy. If that’s what you’re looking for, I suggest you move on. I curse a lot, work too fucking much, and keep to myself. My edges are hard, rough, and even dark at times. I never thought I would wind up in the business I’m in. I may not always play by the rules, but I go where the money is, keep my nose clean, and my affairs organized... -
Britches Get Stitches by Elicia Hyder
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsBe brave. Be strong. Be badass. After a two-year struggle to conceive ends with her husband getting another woman pregnant, Grace “Britches Get Stitches” Evans is taking out her frustrations on the roller derby track. Full-contact violence and absolutely no cheating men? Best divorce-support group ever... -
Walkout by Lila Rose
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIn Living Without, Melissa and Dallas’s chemistry skyrocketed. It’s finally time to get up close and personal with this hot couple in their very own novella, Walkout. Get ready to discover what happens when Dallas chases Melissa all the way to Sydney to claim her back. From her one visit to Melbourne and the Hawks MC compound, Melissa Stevenson knows Dallas is who she wants... -
A Callahan Wedding by Monica Murphy
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe sweet and sexy conclusion to New York Times bestselling author, Monica Murphy’s standalone Callahan series, bringing readers along for the ride as fan favorites, Jake and Hannah get married! Hannah Walsh. Gorgeous. Intelligent. My first love. My high school sweetheart. My everything. And now my fiancée...Categorized as:
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Let Me Be the One by Bella Andre
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsHow far would you go for a friend? Back in San Francisco preparing for her big art show, Vicki Bennett needs help protecting herself and her career from the unwelcome advances of one of the judges. She knows that her longtime friend and baseball star, Ryan Sullivan, will know just how to handle things, and he's the only person she can imagine asking for help...Categorized as:
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Falling Hard by Pamela Clare
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA Gold Star wife alone…. Ellie Meeks promised her pilot husband that if he was killed in combat, she would live her life to the fullest. Three years later, she is still alone, raising the twins he never met. She has no interest in dating or meeting men—until one snowy night when a stranger helps her get her sick kids safely home...Categorized as:
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Defining Us by Karen Deen
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsHe's my brother's best friend. No one can know he visits my dreams each night. In the naughtiest of ways. But they are just fantasies. They'll never be anything else. Until that accidental kiss, changes everything. His eyes now roam my body. I can't ignore the heat he arouses in me. I'm just longing for his touch. But he's about to leave, and I need to stay... -
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Second Dive by Jasmin Miller
Noah Winters was my heart’s desire, the boy I loved desperately and had hoped to spend my future with. Until our plans were derailed and life took us in completely different directions. When our fate changed, and our paths crossed again, nothing prepared me for the punch straight to the heart when I saw him . . . or his anger and bitterness... -
THE QUIET BETWEEN: A Marriage Unraveling by Jona Leigh
The Quiet Between is a raw, intimate portrait of a marriage unraveling. Cameron and Sloane’s love once ran deep, but years of silence and growing distance have turned them into strangers. When Cameron admits he has sought comfort in another woman, the fragile threads of their marriage break, leaving Sloane devastated by heartbreak and betrayal...Categorized as:
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Delayed Call by Toni Aleo
Vaughn Johansson is the Nashville Assassins' star player. He's brash, cocky, and talented. And he isn't afraid to let anyone know it. He lives his life on his own terms, never forming romantic attachments, and only allowing his very closest to see his true, caring self. Brie Soledad has the weight of the world on her shoulders...Categorized as:
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All the Wrong Places by Jerilee Kaye
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom Jerilee Kaye, author of best-selling novel “Knight in Shining Suit”, comes the spin-off of the top-grossing interactive story, “All the Wrong Reasons”. One last adventure. That was all Julianne wanted. One last trip to escape the pressures of an arranged marriage to a man she doesn’t love and doesn’t even like... -
The Story of Us by Brittney Sahin
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsA football fanatic sports columnist. A sexy Italian soccer player. When in Rome . . . Maggie Lane, a sports columnist and diehard football fan, is not exactly enthused when her editor-in-chief sends her to Rome, Italy, to write a feature story on Italian soccer star Marco Valenti. The last thing she wants to do is spend three weeks covering soccer right before the American football season begins... -
Happy Valentine's Day, Omega by Bridget Blake
This Valentine's Day, I'm determined to checkmate Alpha Novikov's arrogance. He's my chess nemesis. Wicked smart, cunning, always three moves ahead, and he's in my path to chess glory. No matter how good Alpha Novikov looks and smells, I can't afford to be distracted. The Omega Academy says I'm too competitive and unruly to be an Alpha's mate... -
Game Day by Piper Lawson
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn the heat of victory, I asked her to be mine forever. We’d both triumphed in our own way:. Nova broke free from her past. I led my team to a championship and discovered life beyond the court. Our journey to "I do" was supposed to be easy. Except…. The hottest resort in Aspen is only available is on short notice. A new season with the Denver Kodiaks looms on the horizon... -
Inevitable Ella by V.H. Nicolson
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSeven years ago my soulmate got married. To someone else. Fraser Farmer broke me. Made me incapable of loving again. Seven years later he's back, whispering I love you. He's gorgeous, magnetic, successful, an athlete at the peak of his game. But behind his picture perfect life and family, lies a precarious path of deceit and anguish and a vicious sports agent on the warpath to destroy him...Categorized as:
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Freak Show by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWelcome to the Circus is a brand-new series that centers around a family that owns a circus, 6 sisters and one brother. This is book 1 featuring Val & Felix. -
Absolution by Kaylea Cross
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter legendary CIA contractor Luke Hutchinson unknowingly trained the man who would become the world’s most dangerous terrorist, he has no choice but to hunt him across the globe. Driven to complete that final mission, he fears his enemy has targeted the only woman Luke has ever loved. Unfortunately for him she’s his ex-wife, and already facing another deadly threat he can’t protect her from... -
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Heart on Ice by J.A. Low
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPierre St. Pierre is a runaway groom. Catching his fiancée cheating the night before their wedding wasn’t the fairytale he imagined. He’s on the next flight out of Italy, leaving the embarrassing mess behind him. The last person Isabelle Alessi ever expected to see again is her first love and the man who broke her heart...Categorized as:
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The Guy at The Wedding by Katherine Center
It's the story of the night Jake and Helen (the main characters in Happiness for Beginners) first met. The first time Jake ever sees Helen, he's crashing her wedding with her little brother, Duncan—and Jake glimpses her for the first time as the boys burst into her dressing room without knocking just as Helen is adjusting the garter under her wedding dress... -
Ghost Dance by Catherine Gayle
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsUSA Today bestselling author Catherine Gayle presents another novel in the sexy Tulsa Thunderbirds hockey romance series. He had it all. And lost it in an instant. The night Dmitri Nazarenko won hockey’s Holy Grail, he lost more than he ever bargained for. With a world of guilt weighing him down, Dima can never forgive himself for his tragic misjudgment... -
Love To Love You: A Love/Hate Novella by Isabelle Richards
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter a long year of heartache and loss, Chase and Arianna pulled together the shattered pieces of their hearts and rebuilt a relationship that is stronger and more secure than ever before. Letting go of the mistakes of their past, their focus is on the future—their happily ever after. Happily ever after…... -
Scoring Grey by L.A. Ferro
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEloise Grey wasn't looking for me… but I was looking for her. To be fair, I didn't know she was the girl I'd been obsessed with until it was too late. I was on the fast track to making my NHL dreams a reality with my girl by my side. She was my whole world. My kryptonite. .. till she got it wrong. I never chose another over her... -
From Now Until Infinity by Layne Harper
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsEight years have passed since Colin and Caroline “Charlie” ended their college romance. A chance meeting reunited them confirming that time had not diminished their love for each other. Now, they have to turn their passionate reunion into a legitimate and sustainable relationship. Charlie’s medical practice is in Houston. Colin is the starting quarterback for Dallas... -
Defending Hayden by L.P. Dover
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe Carolina Cougars keep fighting for love as the Second Chances series from bestselling author L. P. Dover continues! In Defending Hayden, a damaged football star teams up with the only woman who can take the pain away. No one’s tougher than Carolina Cougars linebacker Derek McLaughlin... -
Tempting Sophia by Jessica Prince
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHaving my heart broken once was enough to make me give up on the idea of love all together. Instead of searching for The One I decided to embrace variety and turn by back on monogamy. I made a living convincing women they didn’t need a man to feel complete. And I totally rocked at it... -
Hard to Get by Sam Crescent, Stacey Espino
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsShadow keeps to himself, never mixing business with pleasure. Business is killing. Pleasure is the girl next door. Riley never had help growing up, but she’s determined to make something of her life. She used her own blood, sweat, and line of credit to buy her home and bakery. Everything is perfect—only it’s not. She’s lonely and can’t stop obsessing over her sexy, mysterious neighbor... -
Ruined by L.P. Lovell
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRuined is book four in the She Who Dares series, but can be read as a standalone. Hugo. I like to fuck. A lot. Anywhere, anyway, as long as I’m shooting my load in or on some pretty young thing I’m good. In fact, scrap that, they don’t even have to be pretty. What can I say? I’m an equal opportunities kind of guy...Categorized as:
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The Wanderer by Nia Forrester
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsReturning home after a long sojourn abroad, Blu contemplates whether the time has finally come for her to put down some roots. Bryan, meanwhile, has been firmly rooted in one place and in one life for what now seems like far too long...Categorized as:
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Never Over You by Ryleigh Andrews
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStrange how life deals the cards sometimes …. Life was perfect for Mia Devereux. “You can always have me, Mia. I’m always yours. Forever, suga. ”. She had everything she always wanted. But maybe life wasn’t so perfect after all. One event threatens her happily ever after... -
Just Once by Lori Handeland
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat if you could start over––right at the moment where it all went wrong? Twenty-four years ago, Frankie’s marriage ended. Now, her ex-husband—Charley Blackwell, a world-famous photojournalist—has walked through the door as if no time has passed. And for him, it hasn’t. Illness has stolen his long-term memory...Categorized as:
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Going Hard: Boys of Fall by Cari Quinn
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsHe lives on the straight and narrow, but she’s determined to take the curves way too fast…. Librarian Hollie Bennett is used to being overshadowed by her older brothers. One’s a country star, one’s a former football star…and she’s just a sedate librarian with a secret thing for high-end lingerie and fast sports cars...Categorized as:
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Hannah by Faleena Hopkins
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsEvery boyfriend I've ever had either bored me. .. . .. or hurt me. I'm tired of what the world thinks they know. The gossip. Retaliation. So after another 'date' betrays my trust,. when Sofia Sol, my rebellious cousin, says,. “Hey. .. let's get out of here. A vacation from EVERYTHING. ”. My answer? A big fat YES. I mean, why not? Life can be an adventure. With true love where you least expect it…... -
Curveball by Kate Angell
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe bad boys of baseball, they are the top power hitters of the Richmond Rogues, and the team's best hope for a shot at the World Series. But when all three have to be benched for brawling, it's the beginning of a whole new ball game, and the opposing team could win something more than a trophy--these ladies are after their hearts...
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