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  • The Letters: A Carnage Novella by Lesley Jones

    The Letters: A Carnage Novella by Lesley Jones

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This really was the perfect way to end this amazing series. The writing was beautiful and the letters... wow, each and every one left me speechless. The Hopeless Romantic Book Blog. It's raw, confronting and at times absolutely heart-shattering. On the flip side it's beautiful, heart-warming and downright sinfully delicious. It was everything we expected and more.......
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  cheating  domestic-drama  drama  female-mc  humor  sad  adult
  • Logan by Jay McLean

    Logan by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    As a kid, Logan Preston was a brat. Through his teens, he became the bad boy. Now, at nineteen, no one knows what the hell to expect.High school dropout, Logan Preston is a good-for-nothing stoner. A black sheep. A disappointment. The worst Preston Punk of the lot.At least that’s how everyone in his small town makes him feel. But Logan Preston has secrets...
  • Taming the Storm by Samantha Towle

    Taming the Storm by Samantha Towle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Lyla Summers hates men. Okay, maybe hate is a strong word … Lyla intensely dislikes men.Her father has let her down her whole life. Her brother betrayed her in the worst way possible. And her past relationship experiences with men have been less than great...
  • My Kinda Song by Lacey Black

    My Kinda Song by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Abby Summer has been in love with one man most of her life, but he doesn’t know she exists. For years, Abby has watched him go home with woman after woman, not even noticing the one who stands loyally beside him. That’s why a dating site is the perfect solution to Abby’s problems: get over Levi and move on to someone else...
  • Releasing Me by Jewel E. Ann

    Releasing Me by Jewel E. Ann

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A tragic accident. A hidden past. An unbreakable love. Never goodbye … I thought Addy stole my soul. Her beauty blinded me. Her heart called to me. Her touch healed me. She gave everything and asked for nothing. Then I broke her. The depths of her pain were veiled by the reflection of my own. I didn’t deserve her, but I wanted her––I needed her...
  • Biker Baby by Penny Dee

    Biker Baby by Penny Dee

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I was about to make a huge mistake. And when I say huge, I mean, approximately ten inches’ worth of mistake. But after the week I’d had, this was just what I needed. A night of big bad mistakes with a big bad biker. Honey Scott Finding out your boyfriend is a cheating loser is a real buzz kill. Finding out you’re actually the other woman, is devastating...
  • Collide by Gail McHugh

    Collide by Gail McHugh

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Her mind tried to fight a bloody battle against what her body already knew. She wanted him, and she wanted him bad.On the heels of college graduation and the unexpected death of her mother, Emily Cooper moves to New York City to join her boyfriend for a fresh start...
  • Drunk on You by Harper Sloan

    Drunk on You by Harper Sloan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It was supposed to be fun. A mutual use of each other's bodies. To be a ruse to the world around us. I wanted to be free from my ex, and he wanted to escape his. One drunken night turned a joke into a life-changing moment. He warned me not to fall for him, and I should've listened. He intoxicated me. He made me crave him. He ruined me. In the end, I'll never be the same...
  • Clash by Cora Brent

    Clash by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    TAYLOR I’m that poor little rich girl whose silver spoon was snatched right out of her pretty mouth. I lost everything. Now my everyday reality includes sleeping in my car and dining on whatever clearance food I can purchase with spare change. But my issues don’t end there. My nightmare family is hot on my heels and demanding something I don’t have. They won’t give up until I crack...
  • Palm South University: Season 2 Box Set ) by Kandi Steiner

    Palm South University: Season 2 Box Set ) by Kandi Steiner

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Drama. Lies. Sex. Welcome to Palm South University. The weather isn’t the only thing heating up in South Florida. At a school where fraternities and sororities don’t exactly play by the rules, relationships are bound to be tested...
  • Clash by Belle Aurora, Arijana Karčić

    Clash by Belle Aurora, Arijana Karčić

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Connor Clash was everything I wasn't. He taught me how to live.I didn't mean for things to go the way they did. But Connor was beautiful, and I was lonely.Falling in love wasn't part of the plan. He betrayed me, and I was scarred.Before I got the job, I didn't know who he was. Now I saw him every night in my dreams.We were two people, worlds apart, holding each other at arms length...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  drama  friends-to-lovers  humor  multi-pov  sad  slow-burn
  • Necessary Restorations by Kate Canterbary

    Necessary Restorations by Kate Canterbary

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    They liked to call me names. Manwhore. Slut. Player. But I make wrong look so right… He's a flawed perfectionist… I can read women better than any blueprint. I understand their thoughts and feelings, their secret desires and insecurities, and I know how to get rid of them once I get off. But all bets are off when Tiel Desai slams into my life...
  • Landon & Shay - Part Two: by Brittainy C. Cherry

    Landon & Shay - Part Two: by Brittainy C. Cherry

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Once upon a time, I fell in love with a boy.A beautiful, broken boy who had his own world of struggles. People warned me against our love, but I didn't listen.We looked weak. Young, foolish. Dangerously in love. We didn't care.In order to keep our hearts protected from the opinions of others, we became each other’s secret. We shared stolen moments. Tender touches. Secretive embraces...
  • Protecting Her Heart by Chance Carter

    Protecting Her Heart by Chance Carter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I'm going to make her beg. Emma asked me to take her all the way. She wants to experience every delicious thing a woman can feel. She wants to be brought to the very edge of ecstasy, and then she wants to leap right off the cliff. I'm a complete playboy, an expert in the ways a man can make a woman beg, so naturally I accept. I love a good challenge...
  • Changing Spaces by Annie Dyer

    Changing Spaces by Annie Dyer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She said one night. He said more. She should’ve known better than to argue with a lawyer. Ava Callaghan was never going to be just one night. She was going to be more, much more. She just didn’t know it yet. Hotshot lawyer Elijah Ward can’t be interested in his friends’ and colleagues’ little sister...
  • All Autumn by Sandra Owens

    All Autumn by Sandra Owens

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Autumn Stratton has it all. Or so she thinks until she catches her two-timing husband with his pants around his ankles. There is much Autumn can forgive but infidelity isn’t one of them. Since she obviously can’t trust her judgment in men, she decides they are only good for one thing… Connor Hunter has been friends with Autumn since the first grade, and she’s like a sister to him...
  • Wild Abandon by Jeannine Colette

    Wild Abandon by Jeannine Colette

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When you fall in-love it’s forever. But sometimes forever comes with a price. I never meant to meet Nathaniel Teller. It was by accident, on a Tuesday, that I walked into his bar. He was solemn, intense and hiding a secret behind those stoic green eyes. I never intended to fall in-love with him. We were supposed to be just friends. But I fell for him hard, deep. There’s no turning back...
  • Bulletproof Butterfly by Anna Brooks

    Bulletproof Butterfly by Anna Brooks

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I wasn’t a rookie, but I made a mistake because I was selfish, impulsive, and headstrong. I was also in love. My desire for her overwhelmed me. Consumed me. Distracted me. To protect her, I stood motionless as my partner pried her from the security of my arms. I watched as she fought his hold. I even listened when she screamed that she hated me...
  • Closer by Mary Elizabeth

    Closer by Mary Elizabeth

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Gabriella Mason is damaged. Teller Reddy is wrecked. Misery loves company, and that’s exactly what Ella gets the afternoon her path crosses with Teller’s: the misunderstood premed student who instantly becomes her lifeline when she moves to Los Angeles, an attempt at escaping her heartbreaking past. In the beginning, Lonely and Defensive complete each other...
  • The Question by Zena Wynn

    The Question by Zena Wynn

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What would you do for a friend? What sacrifice would you willingly make? This is the issue facing Gail Henderson when her best friend, Crystal Al Jabbar, asks her to be a surrogate for her and her husband Rashid, using Gail's own egg. Complicating the decision is Gail's recent loss of her husband and toddler son in a fatal car accident, two years earlier...
  • Enticing Daphne by Jessica Prince

    Enticing Daphne by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s easy to stop believing in happily ever afters when the man you thought you’d spend the rest of your life with abandons you right before your wedding day. After that disastrous event, I decided that commitment was for suckers. I was young, successful, and in the prime of my life. I didn’t need a man to make me happy...
  • Trading Paint by Shey Stahl

    Trading Paint by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A must have companion to Happy Hour that give you an inside look into the characters of the Racing on the Edge series. Step into the magic where the clay met rubber and desire defined greatness. Trading Paint takes you inside the hasty driver’s mind to what led him to a decision that changed the path of two souls...
  • Break Out by Lila Rose

    Break Out by Lila Rose

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Pain. It was something Finn “Handle” Kaidion knew well after losing his wife. Pain was what kept him guarded against any further relationships. Pain was also something Mardella “Della” Kent felt after losing her sister and from being dragged into the pits of hell by a madman. Only he was no longer an issue...
  • Scoring the Quarterback by S.M. Soto

    Scoring the Quarterback by S.M. Soto

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Luke Caldwell has three abhorrent qualities to him: 1) He’s a pig-headed jock. 2) He’s a grade A asshole with the biggest, overbearing ego. 3) He’s a manwhore. These three qualities alone should’ve had me running for the hills. I tried to steer clear of him, I really did, but it was an impossible feat...
  • The Price of Mason by Linda Kage

    The Price of Mason by Linda Kage

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I might’ve ruined any chance I ever had at a meaningful relationship when I decided to become a male prostitute at eighteen, but that was okay. I paid off my mom’s debt, the rent, my sister’s hospital bills. I put food on the table and kept eviction notices at bay. It was worth it...
    Categorized as:
    angst  drama  friends-to-lovers  humor  sad  steamy  university  book
  • Because of Ellison by M.S. Willis

    Because of Ellison by M.S. Willis

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When I was nineteen years old, I lived for sex, drugs and a good party. I had it all - good looks, a fast car and a hot girlfriend. Nothing in life was more important. That was, until I met Ellison James…. Since the moment I first saw her she was a raging bull; tackling me in the mud and throwing out insults as fast as her tongue could form the sound...
  • Conflagration by Tessa Teevan

    Conflagration by Tessa Teevan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Branson Wellington? The name, my name, is usually followed by f*cking prick or self-serving bastard, and I can't say I haven't earned those titles. It's true. I'm not the good guy. I'm not the boy next door. I'm definitely not your Prince f*cking Charming. Not even close. And I never wanted to be. Until her. The day I pulled her from the wreckage was the day that my life changed...
  • Sweet Sunshine (the Pembrooke series) by Jessica Prince

    Sweet Sunshine (the Pembrooke series) by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She’s a romantic at heart. Chloe Delaney had three very specific wishes, growing up. She wished to stay settled in the small mountain town of Pembrooke, where she grew up, to one day be her own boss, and to fall in love with a man who would be willing to go to the ends of the earth for her...
  • Give Me Yesterday by K. Webster, Elle Christensen

    Give Me Yesterday by K. Webster, Elle Christensen

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    High powered divorce lawyer, Victoria Larkin, is known as the ice queen. Tough. Emotionless. What they don’t know, is that ten years ago, she lost everything. Including her hope for the future. Chase Monroe struggles with his own demons. Devastated by guilt and on a mission to correct his past, he uses his skills as a college psychology professor to help others move beyond their grief...
  • Forever Red by Carina Adams

    Forever Red by Carina Adams

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Not afraid to speak his mind or make a scene, Nathaniel Kelly has made a name for himself as country music’s ultimate bad boy. Covered in tattoos, singing songs about drugs, drinking and heartache, Nate acts more like an out of control rock star than the grandson of one of the genres most influential and legendary stars. Every man wants to be him...
  • Chasing Us: A Second Chance Love Triangle by Kat T. Masen

    Chasing Us: A Second Chance Love Triangle by Kat T. Masen

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I was never supposed to fall in love with a married man. My best friend’s brother. I’d made too many mistakes in my past. Like last night—when I married Lex Edwards impulsively. In a bid to finally find their happily ever after, Lex and Charlie find themselves on a journey of learning how to love again. They began a new future to move forward from a broken past, finally together at last...
  • Ambrosia by Erin Noelle

    Ambrosia by Erin Noelle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    After coming to terms with the tragedy that rocked her world, Scarlett MacGregor has returned to try to pick up the pieces of the broken relationships that she left behind. Ash and Mason were left devastated and heartbroken following Scarlett’s sudden, unannounced departure. They are both ready and willing to forgive her and welcome her back into their lives with open arms...
  • Before Now by Cheryl McIntyre

    Before Now by Cheryl McIntyre

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Park Reed is a bastard in every sense of the word. He hasn't always been this way. But after his heart was broken by the only girl he ever loved, being heartless gets him through the day and allows him to fill his nights with the nameless girls he has no intentions of seeing again. He now lives his life following his ever-growing list of “life lessons.”Lucy Braden is everything Park is not...
  • Lost to You by A.L. Jackson

    Lost to You by A.L. Jackson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    People come into our lives. Some stay, and many go. Some build us up, while most tear us down. They become our friends, our enemies, our lovers, our tormentors. Christian Davison came into mine, and I knew I’d never be the same. To Elizabeth Ayers, New York City had always been a dream. She’s worked her entire young life to make it here...
  • All The Right Moves by Becca Taylor

    All The Right Moves by Becca Taylor

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A must read Romantic Comedy. Being called the worst boyfriend can do a number on a man’s ego. But I handled it the way any full-grown adult male would—by eating copious amounts of carbs and wallowing over whether I was good enough...
  • The Billionaire's Desire by Scarlett Avery

    The Billionaire's Desire by Scarlett Avery

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.The sizzling adventure continues in this alpha billionaire romance series. The scintillating, steamy and passionate romance between Ciara and Nikolaj picks up where the last book ended. The only difference is that Ciara discovers Nikolaj’s true penchant for domination and to her surprise, she relishes submitting herself to him...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  drama  female-mc  humor  steamy  adult  book
  • Rules of Friendship: Friends-to-Lovers Standalone Romance Novel by C.A. Harms

    Rules of Friendship: Friends-to-Lovers Standalone Romance Novel by C.A. Harms

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Friends-to-Lovers Standalone Romance Novel As a guy, the number one rule to being best friends with a girl should be simple… Never, and I do mean never, fall in love with her. Oh and you should never fantasize about her either. Believe me, that situation can get messy really fast and leave you with nothing but one hell of an awkward mess on your hands—literally...
  • Roan by Shey Stahl

    Roan by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s the king of the freestyle world. The hottest, hell-raising guy to ever throw a leg over a dirt bike… and I was his before I was old enough to realize what it meant to be tied to a guy like Roan Sawyer. He protected me and saved me, only to turn me away when I wanted him the most. Behind the helmet, he’s gorgeous, rugged, obsessive, and a liar...
  • Riff by Julie Kriss

    Riff by Julie Kriss

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I confess: I hooked up with the Road Kings’ bassist after a show thirteen years ago. It was supposed to be just one night - then I’d never see Neal Watts again.But life likes to throw curveballs, and we ended up with a daughter. We could do this, right? We could stay friends for our daughter’s sake, even though we weren’t a couple.Thirteen years of friendship...
  • Pretty Broken Hearts: A Pretty Broken Standalone by Jeana E. Mann

    Pretty Broken Hearts: A Pretty Broken Standalone by Jeana E. Mann

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One “special” girl plus one hot widower equals a love story to make you cry, scream, and shout for joy. Rhett: My days are haunted by regrets and unpleasant memories until Bronte Hollander serves me coffee at the local java shop. I can hear her counting under her breath. I’m counting too—the minutes, the hours, the days—until I can see her again...
  • His Best Friend (A MFM Ménage) by Vivian Ward

    His Best Friend (A MFM Ménage) by Vivian Ward

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Falling for him could ruin everything. We had everything, the kind of love that only exists in fairy tales. Our love was stronger than the homes my husband builds until the walls of our marriage began crumbling around us. Slowly, everything began slipping away. When the weight of everything came crashing down on me, Harley was there...
  • Sever by Mary Elizabeth

    Sever by Mary Elizabeth

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Misery overstayed its welcome. But fate will not be so easily swayed. Gabriella Mason and Teller Reddy have walked a thin line between affection and hostility for years. The intensity that once set them on fire has ended their engagement and separated them by more than just miles...
  • Tiller by Shey Stahl

    Tiller by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They call him Wild Cat. I knew him before he was the sinfully gorgeous FMX rider with infinite hate in his blood. I knew him back when he was a shy little boy hoping a girl would love him back. That guy, he’s nowhere to be found inside the devil known as Tiller Sawyer. Truth is, I didn't know who he really was..
  • Angel Girl by Christine Michelle, Christine M. Butler

    Angel Girl by Christine Michelle, Christine M. Butler

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I was born Jamie Murdock, an MC Princess in the Aces High Motorcycle Club. At 17 I was promised to one of the club members. At 18 I ran. The MC life was in my blood though, and years later I found myself with a new name, running my own club full of tough, smart, beautiful women who happen to love the open road as much as the next guy. Everything was fine with my new life until it wasn't...
  • Ruined: A She Who Dares Standalone Novel by L.P. Lovell, Ellen Widom

    Ruined: A She Who Dares Standalone Novel by L.P. Lovell, Ellen Widom

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ruined 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...
  • Tempting Sophia by Jessica Prince

    Tempting Sophia by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    **SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PRICE** Having 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...
  • Chance by G. Bailey

    Chance by G. Bailey

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Kings are dangerous, that's what everyone says, but how can Maisy run from a second chance with the man she has always loved? 

I've been called a lot of names. Heartbreaker, broken, dirty fighter, and yet the one I'd never thought I'd be called, is the only name I care about now, father.
Sebastian King has only ever loved one girl, but he lost her once, and he won't be doing it again...
  • Hunt For Her by Xyla Turner

    Hunt For Her by Xyla Turner

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kizzy:I had sex partners, but only one white guy.Who knew he’d be the leader of the local white supremacist group?Not I.I was the last one to know.Hunt:The races don’t mix and that’s the law.But they didn’t tell me about her...
  • The Beats in Rift by Ker Dukey

    The Beats in Rift by Ker Dukey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I was invisible, until they saw me. When circumstance forced me and the Jacob twins to spend two weeks of the summer together, the bond we formed would impact us all, altering our lives. Fate, entwining us forever. They became my best friends, my family, my first love...
  • Contracted by Marni Mann

    Contracted by Marni Mann

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He’s as ruthless in business as he is in the bedroom... Years ago, I was burned by a woman. I forgave, but I haven’t forgotten, and it’s a road I’ll never go down again. My career has become my life instead. I’m Max Graham, the biggest music agent in the business. Women love me, but I don’t do love anymore. I’ve found another way to meet my needs...
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