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  • Gin Fling by Lucy Score, Claire Kingsley

    Gin Fling by Lucy Score, Claire Kingsley

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A slow grin spread across his face and I had to turn away from the wattage. It was like staring at the sun. The handsome sun that was making my core temperature rise and causing a hormone dump in my brain. — Shelby Thompson Personal trainer Jonah Bodine discovers more than he bargained for with the half-siblings he didn’t know he had in small-town West Virginia...
  • Bohemian by Kathryn Nolan

    Bohemian by Kathryn Nolan

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Two souls, drawn together beneath a fierce sky… Calvin Ellis’s neat and orderly life is shattered when his grandfather dies, leaving him ownership of a quirky bookstore in Big Sur, California. The Mad Ones: once a place famous for poetry readings and bohemian rebellion, it now teeters on the brink of financial ruin...
  • Archer's Voice by Mia Sheridan

    Archer's Voice by Mia Sheridan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    I wanted to lose myself in the small town of Pelion, Maine. To forget everything I had left behind. The sound of rain. The blood. The coldness of a gun against my skin. For six months, each breath has been a reminder that I survived -- and my dad didn't. I'm almost safe again. But the moment I meet Archer Hale, my entire world tilts on its axis... and never rights itself again...
  • Eulogy by Rachel Van Dyken

    Eulogy by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The next book in the internationally bestselling mafia series… All is lost. All. I don't recognize myself in the mirror anymore. My thoughts are filled with hatred and dripping with rage. I've lost my soul. She took it to the depths of Hell with her and haunts me with images of what could have been. Sixty lives are mine to take. Sixty lives stand in the way of my vengeance...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  drama  family  forced-proximity  multi-pov  sad  steamy
  • Written with You by Aly Martinez

    Written with You by Aly Martinez

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    When I was fifteen, a single bullet changed my life. I spent the next decade trying to outrun the devastation of my past, building an empire that would shield me from whatever life could throw at me. But all the money in the world couldn’t help me when I found a screaming newborn abandoned on my doorstep. I’d never wanted to be a father...
    Categorized as:
    angst  children  dark  drama  family  grief  multi-pov  sad
  • For Lucy by Jewel E. Ann

    For Lucy by Jewel E. Ann

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jewel E. Ann comes a novel so heartfelt and real it redefines the meaning of love. I’m the wrong guy in the right place the night I steal Tatum Bradshaw from another man. When she mistakes me for her blind date, I decide she deserves a man who shows up on time … like me. Emmett Riley, Mr. Punctual...
    Categorized as:
    angst  children  drama  family  female-mc  grief  sad  slow-burn
  • Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer

    Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Juliet Young always writes letters to her mother, a world-traveling photojournalist. Even after her mother's death, she leaves letters at her grave. It's the only way Juliet can cope.Declan Murphy isn't the sort of guy you want to cross. In the midst of his court-ordered community service at the local cemetery, he's trying to escape the demons of his past...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  drama  family  grief  multi-pov  realistic  sad
  • The Brightest Sunset by Aly Martinez

    The Brightest Sunset by Aly Martinez

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me. Lies. Words destroyed me. “I’m sorry. She didn’t make it.” “Daddy, he can’t breathe!” “There’s nothing more we can do for your son.” Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me. More lies. Those syllables and letters became my executioner...
    Categorized as:
    angst  children  dark  drama  family  female-mc  grief  multi-pov
  • My Maddie by Tillie Cole

    My Maddie by Tillie Cole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Not even love can conquer the demons of our pasts...⁣ ⁣ Flame and Maddie have found solace and safety in one another’s arms, two fractured souls beginning to heal. But no matter how strong their love grows, it can never completely vanquish the demons of their pasts. These demons are dormant, not defeated...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  drama  family  female-mc  grief  multi-pov  realistic
  • Wrecked Palace by Catherine Cowles

    Wrecked Palace by Catherine Cowles

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    One night was all it took for everything to change.From college student to guardian in a single breath.My siblings became my world.No time for date nights or romantic dreams.I traded quiet weekends for sleepless nights.Giving my all to make sure they were cared for.But Griffin had a brokenness that called to me—one that mirrored my own.Gruff and just a little bit reckless...
  • Il tuo meraviglioso silenzio by Katja Millay

    Il tuo meraviglioso silenzio by Katja Millay

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk...
  • Grace by Love Belvin

    Grace by Love Belvin

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ashira is now in the know of Jas’ complicated world—or is she? The “construction laborer” is really a wealthy felon with too many inexplicable circumstances to fathom for her narrow worldviews. But will Jas share more of his complexities? Will Ashira be able to absorb them with understanding, leaving the judgement behind?Two souls, still galaxies apart, but bound by love...
  • Written with Regret by Aly Martinez

    Written with Regret by Aly Martinez

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Every little girl dreams of the fairytale. The one where the white knight rushes in to save her from the clutches of evil. They fall in love, have babies, and live happily ever after. By that definition, my life should have been a fairytale too. When I was eight years old, Caven Hunt saved me from the worst kind of evil to walk the Earth. It didn’t matter that I was a kid...
    Categorized as:
    angst  children  dark  drama  family  grief  multi-pov  sad
  • Blood Bound by Samantha A. Cole

    Blood Bound by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Rylie Hart adopts her best friend’s daughter, in the wake of the woman’s untimely death, she goes from being an honorary aunt to a mother in the blink of an eye. Two years later, after kindergartner Mickey is diagnosed with leukemia, an anonymous donor is her only hope...
  • Anonymous Acts by Christina C. Jones

    Anonymous Acts by Christina C. Jones

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What’s done in the dark… Murderer is a title she never expected to wear. Friend? Sure. Boss? Hell yes. But murderer? Never. If only she hadn’t threatened exactly that, just before someone winds up dead, and her fingerprints are all over the murder weapon. Always comes to light… All he wanted was to live a quiet life, without all the danger and darkness of his past...
  • Slay by Nina Levine

    Slay by Nina Levine

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Book 4 in the Bestselling Storm MC Series by Nina Levine BLOOD WILL BE SHED... The ghosts of Donovan "Blade" Brookes' life are closing in on him.   Hardened by an abusive childhood and haunted by the murder of his fiancé, Blade struggles against the dark forces threatening to consume him.  When he helps Layla Reed in her hour of need, he has no idea she will be the light to his darkness...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  drama  family  female-mc  multi-pov  steamy  abuse
  • Sidecar Crush by Claire Kingsley, Lucy Score

    Sidecar Crush by Claire Kingsley, Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    “I tried to think of something—anything—to calm my raging hard-on. One wrong move and Leah Mae would rub up against it and that was liable to kill me dead on the spot.” -- Jameson Bodine Model turned disgraced reality TV starlet, Leah Mae Larkin, crash lands in her hometown of Bootleg Springs to lay low while a scandal threatens her career...
  • Hotel Queens by Lee Winter

    Hotel Queens by Lee Winter

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ice meets fire in this opposites-attract lesbian romance, as layered, sassy, and smart as its characters. Over one long night at a bar in Las Vegas, two powerful hotel executives meet, flirt, and challenge each other—having no clue they’re rivals after the same dream deal.Brilliant ice queen Amelia Duxton is a hotel vice president who thrives on control, truth, and efficiency...
  • Reeve by Jessica Gadziala

    Reeve by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Reeve I had long since given up hope of the pursuit of genuine happiness. It wasn’t possible after all the sh*t I had been through. I had my siblings, my club, a purpose in life. It was enough. Until I came across her. She represented everything that I knew I couldn’t have - stability, a future, a way out of my past...
  • Price of Angels by Lauren Gilley

    Price of Angels by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Book II in the Dartmoor Series. Holly Jessup came to Knoxville in search of the Lean Dogs MC, hoping to find a killer among them. She’s spent four months cozying up to Sgt. at Arms Michael, and it’s time to make her move. Michael McCall isn’t in the habit of accepting contract hits, but Holly isn’t the kind of girl who chases after Dogs...
  • Those Three Words by Alexis Winter

    Those Three Words by Alexis Winter

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Those three words…
Those three delicious, naughty words instantly set my body ablaze...
  • Dominic by Sarah Brianne

    Dominic by Sarah Brianne

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dominic was raised as the devil’s right-hand man, the rightful heir to the Luciano throne.Maria was raised as a princess, excluded from holding any power in the Caruso family.The sins of his father is his debt to pay.The only sin she wants him to pay for is one his family did not commit.In love with a dead man, can he get her to love his killer?Hell will freeze over before she’ll ever love again...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  female-mc  realistic  sad  slow-burn  steamy  workplace
  • Addicted For Now by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie

    Addicted For Now by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    He's addicted to booze. She's addicted to sex...staying sober is only half the battle.No. More. Sex. Those are the three words Lily Calloway fears the most. But Loren Hale is determined to be with Lily without enabling her dangerous compulsions. With their new living situation—sleeping in the same bed, for real, together—Lily has new battles. Like not jumping Lo’s bones every night...
  • Keep This Promise by Corinne Michaels

    Keep This Promise by Corinne Michaels

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I am about to lose everything.My home. My name. My future.My husband was involved in something that could cost us our lives, and on his deathbed, he demands my daughter and I flee Britain. I had no idea he found her biological father, Holden James, in Rose Canyon, and that’s where we’d start over.The moment we see each other, feelings I’d long forgotten rush over me...
  • Purple Orchids by Samantha Christy

    Purple Orchids by Samantha Christy

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    One day . . . one moment . . . one letter. One lie. That’s all it took to change the course of our lives. Gavin McBride She blindsided me. Broke me. Shredded me. And now she’s back, thinking I did the very same thing to her. When I reach out to her, I get more than I bargained for. Much more. There’s nothing to forgive. But I need her to forgive me. There’s no way to go back...
  • Dream Keeper by Kristen Ashley

    Dream Keeper by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Spinning off from the bestselling Dream Man and Rock Chick series, this is the emotional and steamy contemporary romance fans of the Dream Team series have been waiting for!Pepper Hannigan is determined to keep any romance off the table—and out of her bedroom—while her daughter Juno is still young...
  • Honest Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Honest Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s not the boy next door anymore, and I’m not the girl I used to be, either.His life is in the spotlight as one of the most popular professional football players on the Vegas Aces, while I can’t afford to have my secrets exposed. But as we work together on a project benefitting our small Midwestern town, we easily slip back into the friendship we once shared...
  • Hidden Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Hidden Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The boy next door is back, and so am I.He’s spending his NFL off-season in our small Midwestern town after seven long years away, and I’m in town for different reasons.Memories shift to reality as we find ourselves in the place where we first fell in love. We’re different people now, but I’m falling fast and hard for the man he is now.But he’s married...
  • Final Score by Lisa Suzanne

    Final Score by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The final betrayal was enough to break us.When I learn of the secrets he’s been keeping for two decades from a source other than him, I’m devastated. I don’t know how I’ll ever trust him again.But I’m keeping a secret of my own. One he deserves to know.I thought the final score ended in a tie where we both lost, but maybe there’s hope to put a little more time on the clock...
  • Need Him Like Oxygen by Jessica Gadziala

    Need Him Like Oxygen by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Within the ruthless hierarchy of the mafia, Dav and Cinna reign as powerful capos within the same crime family.Dav, with his gregarious charm and flirtatious disposition, hides a secret darkness that few ever glimpse. Despite his relentless advances, Cinna, strong-willed and fiercely independent, keeps him at arm's length, determined to prove herself an equal in a male-dominated world...
  • Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

    Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 56 ratings
    When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows it isn’t love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up...
  • Sins by Nadia Lee, Brian Pallino

    Sins by Nadia Lee, Brian Pallino

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The only woman I ever loved died in a car crash. Or so everyone told me.But a decade later, I find her alive.Her memory is gone, and she believes my enemies are her family.Unraveling what happened could get both of us killed.But giving her up is unthinkable.I'll protect her and make her mine forever.No matter the cost...
  • The Price Of Scandal by Lucy Score

    The Price Of Scandal by Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    “I’m the fixer your board hired to clean up your mess.” “So you show up here, break into my house, and take a bath?” Emily Stanton’s perfect life just became a disaster. She has a trust fund brother looking for a handout, a father who is more board member than dad, and a mother who thinks she should give up on this whole billionaire CEO thing and meet a man with a pre-nup and a yacht...
  • Perfect Wreckage (The Wrecked Series) by Catherine Cowles

    Perfect Wreckage (The Wrecked Series) by Catherine Cowles

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My past taught me to play it safe.To stay far away from handsome men who promised it all.My life was good without them. Stable, secure, predictable. But one kiss showed me that I’d been playing it safe for far too long.One night, and all I wanted was more of his wildfire.One challenge and my carefully constructed walls tumbled down...
  • Looks Over by Rose Christo

    Looks Over by Rose Christo

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "There's nothing wrong with trying to get to know my son's boyfriend." Skylar knows he's lucky to have an open-minded father. It's not just that Skylar and Rafael are both boys. Between their families exists a dark and turbulent past: Rafael's father was the first serial killer in the history of the Nettlebush Indian Reserve, and Skylar's mother was his last victim...
  • Niro by Jessica Gadziala

    Niro by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    * You do not need to read the OG Henchmen to read this new series *Joining the MC had never been a question.Raised by an ex-cage-fighting member, Niro hadn’t seen any future for himself that didn’t involve bikes, guns, violence, and the brotherhood he’d learned to revere above all else. But joining the Henchmen meant he couldn’t have the only other thing in life he wanted.Andi...
  • Broken and Screwed 2 by Tijan

    Broken and Screwed 2 by Tijan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    New school. New friendships. New life. Not so much. Alexandra is pissed about her parents abandoning her. She's beyond pissed that her friends did the same. She's enraged because things are unclear about her brother's death now. So her first stop is at Jesse's house to demand answers...
  • From the Embers by Aly Martinez

    From the Embers by Aly Martinez

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the aftermath of tragedy, it’s strange the things you remember.The deafening boom as the house exploded.The paralyzing fear as I searched for my wife.The blinding smoke burning my eyes as I carried her out.But carved into my soul for the rest of my days would be the earth-shattering realization that the woman in my arms wasn’t my wife...
  • When Ashes Fall by Marni Mann

    When Ashes Fall by Marni Mann

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    It’s been said that you can’t love two men at the same time. You can’t split your heart, soul, and body in half. But I’m here to tell you, you can. Dylan Cole is like ice, sharp and unpredictable, the thunder inside a tumultuous storm. Smith Reid is warmth, soft and gentle, perfect like a sunny day. Both are mine. But I can have only one. There are two sides to this tale...
  • Burn by Jolie Vines

    Burn by Jolie Vines

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I'd wreck his life. For mine, he'd burn down the world.Jamieson was my penpal.My first crush. My surf-crazy, impulsive, pyro boy, and the secret I kept from the world.Until he broke us up before we ever met.When I discover he's been imprisoned by an evil man, saving him becomes my only goal.Except his enemy wants me too. He was fire and water. With him, I'd either drown or burn...
  • Old Fashioned by Kandi Steiner

    Old Fashioned by Kandi Steiner

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The epic finale of the Becker Brothers series. Each book can be read as a stand-alone.It’s a man’s world.When I declared sports medicine as my major and every man narrowed their eyes, that saying proved true. It was true when my ex-husband decided I’d give up my career when our daughter was born...
  • Now Open Your Eyes by Nicole Fiorina, Oliver Masters

    Now Open Your Eyes by Nicole Fiorina, Oliver Masters

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    MIA. It was so close, I'd tasted it–the freedom. But the only thing I could taste now was the end. Over the last two years, I’d let all outside forces dictate my life, my feelings, my head. I’d allowed everyone to control what my punishment should be for all my wrong-doings. I’d been tested and learned my lesson. I’d paid my dues and suffered long enough...
  • Entwined with You by Sylvia Day

    Entwined with You by Sylvia Day

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    From the moment I first met Gideon Cross, I recognized something in him that I needed. Something I couldn't resist. I saw the dangerous and damaged soul inside--so much like my own. I was drawn to it. I needed him as surely as I needed my heart to beat.No one knows how much he risked for me. How much I'd been threatened, or just how dark and desperate the shadow of our pasts would become...
    Categorized as:
    angst  celebrity  dark  drama  family  female-mc  realistic  steamy
  • Lead Me Home by A.L. Jackson

    Lead Me Home by A.L. Jackson

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A friends-to-lovers second-chance romance...Fourteen years ago, my life changed forever.My sister disappeared. That day I was selfish. That day I chose myself over her. And that day, I lost everything.Including Nikki Walters.She's the girl I've loved my whole life. She's gorgeous. Caring. Every single thing I've ever wanted but denied myself...
  • Revive by Nina Levine

    Revive by Nina Levine

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    He doesn’t do relationships. Neither does she. But they can’t fight the attraction any longer…Nash Walker hides the demons that consume his soul. He buries them deep and distracts himself with sex. Anything to avoid facing a past full of heartbreak and regret; anything to numb the pain that he struggles with daily.Velvet Carr has spent years fighting her demons. It’s a fight she’s winning...
  • Fall to You by Lexi Ryan

    Fall to You by Lexi Ryan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Torn between two men… When I woke up after the accident, I couldn’t remember anything from the last year—including my relationship with Max Hallowell or anything about Nate Crane. Now my memories are returning, but instead of answering my questions, they’re leaving me with more. The man who broke my heart and wants to be my future… Max is all I ever wanted, and now he wants to marry me...
    Categorized as:
    angst  drama  family  multi-pov  realistic  sad  steamy  alpha-mc
  • Fastball by Lisa Suzanne

    Fastball by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It was over as quickly as it started…or at least I thought it was. But as it turns out, I can’t stay away. Life keeps throwing us together, and it seems like she’s everywhere all at once. She’s in the same house as me, in the bedroom next to mine as I dream about what she’s doing in there...
  • A True Fit by Michele Notaro

    A True Fit by Michele Notaro

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Trent~ My life has been great the past few years and I have zero intention of screwing anything up. I’m certainly not going to let some guy ruin things for me, especially not my boss’s ex. But for some reason, every time I run into Declan, I become more and more intrigued by him...
  • A Different Blue by Amy Harmon

    A Different Blue by Amy Harmon

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The Spencer Hill Press release will have bonus content never before available.Blue Echohawk doesn't know who she is. She doesn't know her real name or when she was born. Abandoned at two and raised by a drifter, she didn't attend school until she was ten years old. At nineteen, when most kids her age are attending college or moving on with life, she is just a senior in high school...
  • Own the Wind by Kristen Ashley

    Own the Wind by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Too hot to handle...Tabitha Allen grew up in the thick of Chaos--the Chaos Motorcycle Club, that is. Her father is Chaos' leader, and the club has always had her back. But one rider was different from the start. When Tabby was running wild, Shy Cage was there. When tragedy tore her life apart, he helped her piece it back together. And now, Tabby's thinking about much more than friendship..
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