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  • Reverse by Kate Stewart

    Reverse by Kate Stewart

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Thirty years ago, my father became the other half of a broken love story. A relationship he’s kept hidden for decades.Upon unearthing his secret through a series of emails in our paper’s archives, I began my search for the truth. Haunted by my father’s love story, and in my quest for answers, I never imagined I would discover a love of my own...
  • Taming a Maverick by C.M. Owens

    Taming a Maverick by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    SALEM Just some fun. Just one night of reckless, harmless, wild fun. That's what I told myself the night I hooked up with quite possibly the sexiest guy I've ever known. Only, I didn't want to KNOW him. Life is a series of temporary situations, or so it's always been for me...
  • Perfectly Toxic by C.M. Owens

    Perfectly Toxic by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    BELLA New life. New job. New home. New goals... I vowed to make drastic changes and to never fall back into old habits. But then Ethan Noles showed up and blew all my good intentions to hell. I should have stayed away. I shouldn't have played his game. But I did. Now I just hope I don't regret it. ETHAN Bella is the type of girl you can't help but chase, because she doesn't want to be caught...
  • Stealing Sawyer by Samantha Christy

    Stealing Sawyer by Samantha Christy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I hired her to be my girlfriend. To fix my reputation. To save my career. It’s not that I don’t want a girlfriend. I do. I want it all. Wife, kids, side-by-side burial plots. The problem is – I can’t have any of it. So I’ve made myself untouchable. The quintessential bachelor of baseball. Because it’s not worth the risk. Not even for someone I love...
  • Fiercely Emma (Cake Series Book Three) by J. Bengtsson

    Fiercely Emma (Cake Series Book Three) by J. Bengtsson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Emma, older sister of renowned rock star Jake McKallister, has crafted a quiet existence for herself. Fiercely independent, scorned at work, and indifferent to relationships, she’s spent the past decade trying to move on from the crime that shook her family to the core...
  • Only One Forever by Natasha Madison

    Only One Forever by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From The Something So Series and the This Is series comes Only One Forever.DylanMy dreams came true when I was adopted at ten.I was the best on the ice. Living the life of what every kid dreams of.We’ve been best friends since then. Even when she was the annoying little sister following us around.I would do anything for her.It is another family vacation; except this time it feels different...
  • Identical Disaster by C.M. Owens

    Identical Disaster by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    JAX My life was simple... until Bo Brendon crashed into my lap. Shy girls aren't my thing, yet somehow, she's under my skin and in my head. It's a f*cking nightmare. Yet it's a nightmare I don't want to give up. BOLIVIA (BO) Jax Marshall was an accident. A really sexy, smart, incredibly smooth, hot... accident...
  • Broken Love Story by Natasha Madison

    Broken Love Story by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When one man’s death exposes a complex web of lies, three couples discover the true meaning of love, loss and redemption.Samantha I had the perfect life; a husband who loved me, and two kids who were my world. Until someone else answered his phone and my perfect life shattered. When he died, I was left with answers he couldn't give me and a box full of lies. He left me broken...
  • Felix the Watcher by Blue Saffire

    Felix the Watcher by Blue Saffire

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Award winning Bestselling Author Blue Saffire presents Brothers Black 5: Felix The Watch Book 5 in the Brothers Black Series I’m a P.K., a pastor’s kid. I’ve done almost everything I’ve been told since I was a little girl,—no matter how confining that has felt. I’ve hidden my dreams and desires to toe the line. So imagine the burn of being blamed for something you didn’t do...
  • Pause by CJustMe, C.J. Adler

    Pause by CJustMe, C.J. Adler

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Aqueela, a dreamer and comedian at heart, has just one joyous vision - to transform lives through the mere power of friendship, friendships so solid that they last a lifetime. However, Jay, pessimistic by nature, is convinced that friends are overrated, and that Aqueela is nothing short of a whackjob with an idealistic perspective on the world. It would seem that he wants nothing to do with her...
  • Play with Me by Kristen Proby

    Play with Me by Kristen Proby

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Will Montgomery is a successful professional football player and seemingly has it all. He’s not used to being told no, and certainly doesn’t take no for an answer. So when he turns his charms on his sister’s sexy rocker-chick friend Meg, he’s not only turned down, but met with open hostility, piquing his curiosity and libido...
  • Something So Unscripted by Natasha Madison

    Something So Unscripted by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the International Best Selling Series Something So Zack Finding my teammate in bed with my wife made the decision I had been fighting with for years easier. It’s time to move on. A fresh start and a new NHL team in a big city. Most importantly, it’s my son Jack’s best shot. It would be both of our best shots. Denise After a bad childhood, I made sure I would succeed...
  • Badd Boy by Jasinda Wilder

    Badd Boy by Jasinda Wilder

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I’m Harlow Grace, the newest, hottest face of Hollywood sex appeal, the woman every man wants and every woman wants to be… and I’m running away. I need an escape. I need to get away from the pressure, find somewhere I won’t be hounded at every step—an impossible thing to ask when I’m on billboards everywhere, from LA to Laos, Japan to Jakarta, Sydney to Siberia...
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    celebrity  drama  family  humor  insta-love  multi-pov  adult  book
  • Stay for Me by Corinne Michaels

    Stay for Me by Corinne Michaels

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times Bestselling author Corinne Michaels comes the final poignant love story in the Arrowood Brothers Series.Hollywood taught me everything I know about relationships—except how to be in one. As an actor, I became an expert at faking it. Faking that I wasn't affected by my childhood. Faking that I was okay. Faking that I knew how to save the day, the girl, the whole damn world...
  • Hard to Hold (The Play Hard Series) by K. Bromberg

    Hard to Hold (The Play Hard Series) by K. Bromberg

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The contract with Major League Soccer was supposed to help repair my damaged reputation.Then I discovered that I’d made a deal with the devil: the player I’m supposed to recruit is none other than the bad boy, star Premier League footballer, Rush McKenzie.British. Tattooed. Sexy. A man currently at the center of a huge scandal.The goal? To convince him to stay in the States...
  • Stay by A.L. Jackson

    Stay by A.L. Jackson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From NYT & USA Today Bestselling Author A.L. Jackson comes the next sexy, gripping Bleeding Stars Stand-Alone Novel…I’m Ash Evans.The life of the party.Hot. Rich. Charismatic.A tattooed rock star with the world at my feet.I burn through women faster than the strike of a match.I’ve embraced my lifestyle and live it to the fullest.Until the day my lifestyle caught up to me...
  • Eastern Lights by Brittainy C. Cherry

    Eastern Lights by Brittainy C. Cherry

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I once met a man on a cold Halloween night. He dressed as a superhero, and I dressed in red. For one night, I was his break from reality, and he was the temporary fix for my broken heart.Two years later, I was given the opportunity of a lifetime to become a senior editor at one of the biggest magazine companies in the world...
  • The Secret by Kristen Proby

    The Secret by Kristen Proby

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kristen Proby comes a forbidden romance. The Secret is the first in the Single in Seattle series!Vaughn is everything I’m supposed to stay away from. Sexy. Cocky. And famous.Ultra-famous.I grew up in a family full of wealthy celebrities. My father, Luke Williams, is the celebrity of them all...
  • Assured by Kaylee Ryan

    Assured by Kaylee Ryan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’ve always been the guy who plays the field.  I like variety and my career ensures that I can have my pick of women. Until her… I’ve always been the girl who wants more.  I want the white picket fence, the two point five kids and the dog.  That’s what all little girls grow up dreaming about...
  • The Apple Tree by Jewel E. Ann

    The Apple Tree by Jewel E. Ann

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He's a single dad starting over in a new town. She's a relentless flirt with a penchant for trouble, ten years younger than him, and the babysitter. What could go wrong?Eve has just graduated from high school, but she doesn’t know what’s next aside from working at the local motel, spying on Kyle, her neighbor, and stealing apples from his orchard...
  • Rockstar by Lauren Rowe

    Rockstar by Lauren Rowe

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It was lyrics at first sight when I saw Violet Rhodes across that crowded party. She was lights and darks, swirled together. Music in motion. And all of it while looking like a hitwoman at an Elvis convention. I had nothing to offer the intriguing girl but a one-night stand. I figured I’d revel in my last night of anonymity before my first tour and shoot her a quick “We’ll always have L.A...
  • Mister Bodyguard by Lauren Rowe

    Mister Bodyguard by Lauren Rowe

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A bodyguard, a beauty, and a bet. “I’m hiring you to do more than guard her, Zander,” my new boss explained. “You’re gonna be her rock. Her human Valium. Her trusted friend. And she’s gonna be your mission from God.” “So I’m her babysitter?” “Her babysitter, her bodyguard, her f*cking service doggie. Whatever she needs or wants, that’s what you’ll be. Anything except her booty call...
  • Doctor Mistake by J. Saman

    Doctor Mistake by J. Saman

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He's my best friend's older brother. My boss. And now my new roommate...In the hospital, death always comes in threes. Apparently, so do mistakes.Mistake number one? My fiancé, who I just learned is cheating on me. So much for being the strong, in control doctor who's always on top of her game...Mistake number two? Knocking on the wrong door...
  • Something So Perfect by Natasha Madison

    Something So Perfect by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Matthew Drafted first round pick when I was seventeen, playing first line at eighteen, branded NHL's bad boy at nineteen. At twenty-three I was cut from the team and living back home with my parents. A knock on the door brought an opportunity I couldn’t turn down...
  • MANFAX by Jacob Chance

    MANFAX by Jacob Chance

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Manfax: A detailed report containing information about a potential boyfriend/girlfriend’s romantic history.What is it about this bad boy that has women clamoring to date him?Adam Winters is like an ice-cold drink of water on a scorching day—he goes down like a champ.Tall, built, and handy, he’s irresistible and he knows it...
  • Hardball by Lisa Suzanne

    Hardball by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I was issued an ultimatum between the two loves of my life: her or the game. No matter what I choose, I have to give up something I love. Spring training is my first chance to show the world that Cooper Noah is back after the elbow injury that took me out of the game. It’s the stage I stand on to prove I’m the starter the Vegas Heat is paying big bucks for. But my heart isn’t in any of it...
  • Strike a Chord by J.B. Salsbury

    Strike a Chord by J.B. Salsbury

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Taylor Marsten looks like a guy.How was I supposed to know there was a woman hiding beneath her baseball hat and baggy clothes? I piss off the stubborn roadie one time, and she starts a prank war. Back and forth we go using public humiliation as a weapon. Our situation turns complicated when I find myself searching her out. I want to piss her off just to receive retaliation...
  • Undeniable Temptation by Eden Summers

    Undeniable Temptation by Eden Summers

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Haunted by a kiss. With his destructive marriage behind him, Ryan Bennett can no longer deny his insatiable attraction to the one woman in control of his future. He needs her. Craves her. She’s the only glimpse of happiness through the building drama in his life and yet one drunken kiss has pushed her further away. Tormented by what’s at stake...
  • Suddenly Together by J a Low

    Suddenly Together by J a Low

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    SHE WAS EVERYTHING I ALWAYS WANTED I’m Christian Taylor, world famous guitarist of Dirty Texas. I’m a certified rock god, I have a reputation, tattoos and a body made for sin. One look from me and I’ll melt your panties. There isn’t a woman out there who has ever said no to me, except Vanessa Roberts, the one woman I want above all and can’t have...
  • This Time Around by Stacey Lynn

    This Time Around by Stacey Lynn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cooper Hawke was everything I didn’t need. Rich and famous, and a high-profile actor, he lived a life of luxury while my life had always been much more simple. Yet when he showed up at my cattle ranch in Kansas, he gave me everything I didn’t think I wanted again. His marriage was over and he was lost. I was still barely surviving in my grief after my husband’s sudden death...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  drama  family  multi-pov  slow-burn  adult  book
  • Not My Match by Ilsa Madden-Mills

    Not My Match by Ilsa Madden-Mills

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills delivers a smart and sexy romance about a professional football hottie and the girl he’s sworn to never touch.Homeless and heartbreakingly innocent, Giselle Riley walks into my penthouse and chaos follows...
  • Until You by K. Bromberg

    Until You by K. Bromberg

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A single dad, forced proximity, standalone romance from New York Times bestselling author K. Bromberg.Crew Madden needs to find a place to recover.For his twin girls.For himself.From the woman who left them without a backward glance.Recovering from a traumatic event, a summer in the small town of Redemption Falls was the perfect solution for him. For his family...
  • Beneath His Stars by Amie Knight

    Beneath His Stars by Amie Knight

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I met Adam Nova under the twinkling lights of a nighttime sky. He was hiding, but that gorgeous boy didn’t belong in the dark. Nevertheless it was where he lived; a different world than mine. I was Livingston Montgomery, Southern debutante. With the world at my fingertips, I was well on my way to being another spoiled socialite.   But I didn’t want money.   I didn’t want social status...
  • Dance With Me by Kristen Proby

    Dance With Me by Kristen Proby

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times Bestselling Author Kristen Proby comes an all-new novel in her beloved With Me In Seattle Series, Dance With Me. Starla. Just Starla. She doesn’t have a last name, and she doesn’t need one. Not with that many Grammys on her mantel. Everyone knows her kick-ass, no-holds-barred style of singing, dancing, and living...
  • Across the Horizon by Aly Martinez

    Across the Horizon by Aly Martinez

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez comes a sizzling standalone contemporary romance. “Sometimes love happens when you least expect it.” That was what my husband’s mistress told me the day I found out about their affair...
  • Tempt the Hookup by Natasha Madison

    Tempt the Hookup by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Eliahn Getting pregnant after a booze cruise hookup was not what any parent wanted to hear, so I picked up my entire life and moved to Paris to start over. Six years later, I was ready to go home. I was a single mom and the only thing I knew about my son’s dad was his name—Luca. I didn’t need to know anything else...
  • Awake at Dawn by Amelie Rhys

    Awake at Dawn by Amelie Rhys

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Gemma Briggs moves in with her brother’s friend, the only thing harder than keeping the arrangement a secret is resisting the explosive chemistry she has with her new roommate—hot NFL player, Noah London.After a workplace one-night stand leaves her high and dry with a baby on the way, Gemma Briggs is forced to leave her job as a college figure skating coach...
  • The Crush by Karla Sorensen

    The Crush by Karla Sorensen

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    You know that girl from your past that you can’t quite stop thinking about? The one that you pushed away because you had a goal that seemed so much bigger, so much more important than any crush you might have had?That’s Adaline Wilder for me.Nothing came before football. Not in college, and not in my five years in the pros...
  • Stay With Me by Kristen Proby

    Stay With Me by Kristen Proby

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times Bestselling Author Kristen Proby comes Stay With Me, an all new addition to the series that has sold more than a million copies to date, her beloved With Me In Seattle Series! Amelia Montgomery has left her past behind her. With a beauty and fashion career that’s skyrocketing and a loving family around her, everything else is just junk in the rearview mirror...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  celebrity  drama  family  insta-love  multi-pov  adult
  • The Trade by Meghan Quinn

    The Trade by Meghan Quinn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Can you pinpoint a time in your life where you realized you are completely and utterly screwed? I can. I got the dreaded phone call, the one every baseball player hopes and prays never comes. I was traded. Yeah, that phone call. Traded from my long time team of over ten years. And not just to any team, but my childhood rivals; the Chicago Rebels. Completely and utterly screwed, right? Wrong...
  • Dating Roulette by D. Kelly

    Dating Roulette by D. Kelly

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bexley Seven Dates. Seven chances to win my heart. It’s not hard – Don’t put ketchup on your eggs. Don’t wear tassely loafers. For the love of all that’s Holy, don’t ogle the waitress. See? Simple… Yet no one can get it right. Tristan Dating Roulette. It’s Bexley’s game. Correction - it’s her life. A constant rotation of dates...
  • Broken Bridges by Tania Joyce

    Broken Bridges by Tania Joyce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He's lost his band, his lover and his grandfather - the friends and family who'd accepted his lifestyle choices.She's lost her career, the love of her life and after a freak accident has to accept she'll never be the same.A chance audition for The Flintlocks could change his life.A move across the country could be the fresh start he needs.She needs to find her way in the world again...
  • Built to Last by Kat Baxter

    Built to Last by Kat Baxter

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sadie My nerdy co-worker is my perfect guy. Trouble is, he doesn’t “see me that way,” despite my three degrees. It’s a problem I can’t figure out. Until, everyone in my office sees me with my best friend’s brother and assumes we’re together. Turns out a little competition was just what the man of my dreams needed to sit up and take notice...
  • The Smirking Jerk by DarknessAndLight

    The Smirking Jerk by DarknessAndLight

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “I’m in love with you.” How many times would I have to think about this, how many times, before she could hear it, feel it, see it in my eyes? “I’m in love with you.” How could I make her see without telling her, without scaring her off… without losing her. I couldn’t lose her...
  • Challenge by Amy Daws

    Challenge by Amy Daws

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    He’s her patient. She’s his doctor. They shouldn’t. But God, do they want to. Camden Harris, the famously hot, hulk of a footballer is laid up in a London hospital. But his busted knee doesn’t stop him from running his well-practiced game on Indie Porter—his redheaded spitfire of a doctor. She’s not his type, not even close...
  • All The Little Things by Rachel Leigh

    All The Little Things by Rachel Leigh

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Rachel Leigh comes an angsty brother's best friend, standalone romance. Four years ago my life was forever changed.One kiss.One moment.Five words."Enjoy all the little things."That's what Ryker said the night before he vanished from our lives for good.So that's what I did. I lived each day like it was the last-embracing all life had to offer...
  • Charming Fiona by Jessica Prince

    Charming Fiona by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As I child, I believed in true love and fairytales. I convinced myself that there was one special man out there, made just for me. All I had to do was wait, and one day he would appear. Then I grew up and discovered the ugly truth. Disney movies were full of crap. Relationships took work. People made mistakes...
  • Kissing Kennedy by Nichole Rose

    Kissing Kennedy by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two worlds will collide when an older tattoo artist meets his innocent future.AsherKennedy Thorne is an obsession I can't shake.One look into those big green eyes, and I'm hooked.But the two of us are from different worlds.I'm rough, dirty, and rude, with a past I can't hide.She's an innocent little angel with big dreams and a bright future ahead of her...
  • Flirting with Disaster by Hailey Shore

    Flirting with Disaster by Hailey Shore

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There are two things you need to know about First, I am not cool. No, no, don’t let my tuxedo shirt and anklet socks fool you. I’m 26-year-old virgin not cool. I’m carry my cat around in a special backpack not cool.Second, I’m cursed. Every Piedmont woman is. We are doomed to fall in love with men who will break our hearts. So, I’m never going to fall in love.But I wouldn’t mind a little flirting...
  • Tanner by Katy Regnery

    Tanner by Katy Regnery

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Katy Regnery is back with an addictive six-book series featuring the Stewarts of Skagway!When Tanner Stewart learns his crazy ex is returning for a summer in Skagway, he places a personal ad, looking for someone to pose as his fiancée for the summer. Enter McKenna Cabot, a commitment-phobic college professor from Seattle caring for her aging grandmother...
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