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Just an Illusion - EP: EP by D. Kelly, Regina Wamba
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJust an Illusion - EP is the third book in The Illusion Series. You will need to read the previous books Just an Illusion - Side A and Just an Illusion - The B Side in order to follow along. Lives are turned upside down … Everything was perfect before life came to a screeching halt. When devastating loss flips Amelia’s world on its axis, she loses her spirit...Categorized as:
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Give Me Your Answer True by Suanne Laqueur
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“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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Just an Illusion - The B Side: The B Side by D. Kelly, Regina Wamba
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJust an Illusion - The B Side, is the second book in The Illusion Series. Just an Illusion - Side A, should be read first to follow the storyline. Three life-altering months … That’s how long it’s been since Amelia Greyson joined the Just an Illusion Tour with Bastards and Dangerous. She’s made new friends, embraced her past, and even found love...Categorized as:
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A Love Letter to Whiskey: Fifth Anniversary Edition by Kandi Steiner
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsTHIS EDITION FEATURES:- A forward from the author- A Love Letter to Whiskey- Love, Whiskey (a brand new novella from Jamie's point of view -- 50,000 words of new content, including an extended epilogue)- Bonus Content including letters from the author, fun facts and behind the scenes, as well as a note from the audiobook narrator- Brand new special edition coverI saw him first...Categorized as:
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The Story of Carnage: Books 1-5 by Lesley Jones
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Story Of Carnage. . . 'This story has everything going for it. It is superior in its storytelling, its love, its angst, its everything! This novel captured every emotion. Outstanding!' This book contains dirty rock stars, bad boys and smoking hot Alphas. An epic series of love story ’s which starts in the ’80s and spans over forty years...Categorized as:
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The Story of Me by Lesley Jones
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen your world, your life and all of your hopes and dreams for the future are ripped out from under you, how do you go on? Death without dying is not only the most painful kind of death, it's also the most painful kind of life and I don't know if I'm strong enough to live it. I spend my lonely days and nights trying to make sense of what my life has become... -
Shattered by Janet Nissenson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe GhostAngela Del Carlo has been living half a life, ever since he walked out on her, shattering her entire existence and leaving her to cope with picking up the fragments. Nothing seems to matter much anymore, and her life is a drab existence of work, run, repeat. She’s forgotten how to laugh, how to love, and even how to live. Most days she’s little more than a ghost... -
Clean Break by Lisa Suzanne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAfter two brothers shatter her world, Reese Brady escapes to her old life. She occupies herself with work and friends in an attempt to find comfort after her catastrophic summer. When Reese receives a desperate call from someone she thought she’d never hear from again, she’s forced to confront the love she could’ve had... -
The Fisherman Series: Special Edition by Jewel E. Ann
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFEATURED IN THIS EDITION:• Special Edition Cover• A foreward from the author• The Naked Fisherman• The Lost Fisherman• Bonus content: select chapters from Fisher's point of viewUSA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Jewel E...Categorized as:
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Interference by Harlow Cole
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBraydenI’m a goddamn prodigy. It’s true. Ask anyone. I threw my first curveball the day I was born. The whole town is waiting on me. To live up to my father’s famous name. To reach for the stars. All I want to reach for is her. But Ashley is the sweet addiction I can’t afford. She’s my best friend’s sister. Hell, she’s practically my little sister... -
F*ck Marriage by Tarryn Fisher
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTwo years ago, Billie Tarrow's husband left her for another woman. Shamed and divorced, Billie retreated to her family home in Port Townsend, far from her old life in New York. After a near-death encounter, Billie decides to return to the city that took everything from her. But sometimes in the midst of heartache, hope suffocates the pain...Categorized as:
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Missing Hart by Ella Fox
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMy life has been built on a mountain of secrets, lies and half truths. For a long time I wasn't able to let anyone get close to me. But then I met my Prince Charming. The man who saved me from myself, who showed me what true love was. If only I'd been honest. If only I'd been stronger. If only I could forget... -
Letting Go by B.A. Wolfe
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook # 1.5 of The Keaton Series The much anticipated companion novel to Away -- the heart gripping romance about first loves and unforgettable moments. Now experience it all from Jason's point of view in Letting Go. Jason Bradley is a simple, country guy thrust into a life most wouldn't consider normal... -
The Other Brother by Dyan Layne
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThings happen as they’re meant to.There’s no avoiding your destiny…Dillon Byrne always believed in fate.He would meet someone. Fall in love. Be a family.All in that order.Sometimes fate has other plans…Life changes in an instant. Love is lost.But how do you let go of the life you once had?To appreciate the magic of a brand new beginning, you have to make peace with the ending first... -
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Once We Were Starlight by Mia Sheridan
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA bed posed on a stage under a dazzling spotlight. An audience of hungry eyes. And him, the other half of my soul, our supple bodies moving as one...Sundara: the lush and forbidden oasis in the desert where men travel to watch acts of sexual deviancy, and the only existence seventeen-year-old Karys has ever known...Categorized as:
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Lake + Manning by Jessica Hawkins
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe final book in the Something in the Way series, a love saga.Manning and I have what happily-ever-after is made of . . .A home he built us on the unshakeable foundation we fought for.A life of laughter carved out of heartache and betrayal.A love story to stand the test of time...Categorized as:
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Move the Stars by Jessica Hawkins
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe highly anticipated conclusion to the Something in the Way series, a forbidden love saga. Lake It was a hot summer day when I met him on the construction site next to my parents' house. If I’d known then what I do now, would I have kept on walking? Manning was older, darker, experienced—and I’d trusted him when he said the story would only ever be about us...Categorized as:
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Melody by Helen Hardt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe’s the melody in her mind… Beautiful Brianna Steel has her life planned out. Graduate college early. Check. Work with her father in the Steel family orchard. Check. Marry Jesse Pike. No check there. Jesse has never given her a look. Finagling her way onto a rock and roll tour with Jesse and his band, Dragonlock, should help move her final goal along. At least Brianna hopes it will... -
A Place Without You by Jewel E. Ann
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe Law of Henna and Bodhi: When love breaks, fall inward, fall together, and fall hard. Then let time pick up the pieces. Everything feels temporary when you’ve experienced tragedy—until Henna Lane meets Bodhi at a music festival. Young and spontaneous, they have a lust for seizing the moment, falling hard and fast...Categorized as:
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How The Heart Breaks by Stacey Marie Brown
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe was her secret, her sin, the heart she couldn’t love.Emery Robert’s life is everything she wanted. Married to the love of her life, with a good job, and plans for a family in the future. But when Emery’s husband dies tragically, she is the one who stops living.Three years later, at the age of 30, she’s still struggling to move on... -
Revive Me: Part Two: The Affair by J.L. Seegars
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMalloryThe day Christopher Johnson decided to kill me, I already knew what it was like to die. I had already experienced it once. Having the life leeched from my body, blood stolen from my veins, oxygen pulled from my lungs.When he decided to walk back into my life, I was in the middle of my third resurrection, healing from the loss of my brother when I was still raw from losing him... -
She Was Mine First by M. Robinson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe’s a determined billionaire used to getting what he wants, and she’s prepared to marry the wrong man to prove to them she’s moved on. But neither of them is ready to let go of the past…A small-town, friends to lovers, second chance romance from Wall Street Journal & USA Bestselling Author M...Categorized as:
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27 Truths: Ava's Story by M.J. Fields
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom USA Today Bestselling author, MJ Fields, comes a gripping story of love and it's many truths. Ava Links was raised seeing the different sides of love. The beautiful and the broken. Through it all, she knows the journey she is taking will lead her to the man she is destined to be with. The man she has always loved, Luke Lane...Categorized as:
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The Heart by Kate Stewart
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJack For the last ten years, I've roamed the globe, captivated by the world around me. I've seen the seven wonders and admired sunsets from every continent. I'd lived and loved and that was enough for me. It would have to be. I was content, satisfied with my collection of experiences . . . until a phone call led me down a road less traveled... -
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Always Meant to Be by Siobhan Davis
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn emotional and angst-filled stand-alone taboo reverse age-gap romance. He’s my eighteen-year-old son’s best friend, and I’m old enough to know better.My marriage is falling apart, and Vander’s home life is tragic.Yet, his broken parts speak to mine, and amid all the chaos, a true connection is formed...Categorized as:
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All My Life by Prescott Lane
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Prescott Lane breathes new life into single-dad romances with the young and devastatingly sexy Garrett." - USA Today The beginning of any love story starts with the meet. I’ve known Garrett Hollis since before I can remember, and I’ve loved him just as long. I loved him while he loved someone else. I loved him when he had a baby with her. I loved him when she left him... -
Sail by M. Mabie
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis isn’t just a two-year long one-night stand. It’s my life. This is my life. Our life. It isn’t just some careless affair. I’ve made the worst decisions a woman could, but I’ll earn my second chance. She can try keeping all the guilt for herself, but I’m just as much to blame. Loving Casey wasn’t my biggest mistake. Fighting it for so long was. I’ll show her how fearless our love makes me... -
Drowning Erin by Elizabeth O'Roark
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsErin Doyle can’t stand manwhores, and she particularly can’t stand Brendan Langstrom—the guy who avoids relationships like the plague and never sleeps with the same girl twice...Categorized as:
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Wicked Wish by Sawyer Bennett
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJorinda Pearce thought she did everything right – graduated from college, married her long-time sweetheart, established a career. But what does she have to show for it now? A degree she doesn’t use, a job she hates, and an ex-husband that broke her heart. Looking for a long overdue adventure, Jorie takes a walk on the wild side and attends a masquerade event at The Wicked Horse Vegas...Categorized as:
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Without You by Marley Valentine
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsTragedy brought us together, but something stronger made me want to stay. Julian was the boy next door. My brother’s best friend, he fit with my family in ways I never could. While he and Rhett went on to play house, I left the only life I knew, desperate for a fresh start. Until everything changed. Heartache came along, and the aftermath of my brother’s death was here to stay...Categorized as:
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Protecting Her Heart by Chance Carter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI'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...Categorized as:
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Changing Spaces by Annie Dyer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe 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...Categorized as:
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Blur by N.A. Alcorn
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Dylan’s band is offered a deal they can’t refuse, within a month they’re in LA, signing with Wallace & Wright Records. Then Brooke walks in and changes everything. Not only does she work for the record label, but she’s also producing their debut album. Like someone else pressed play on Brooke's future, she knew there was no rewinding, no take two...Categorized as:
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Wild Abandon by Jeannine Colette
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen 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... -
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A Vow to Cherish by Deborah Raney
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe battle they face will either ruin them or bring the deepest fulfillment they could ever know. When his precious wife receives a devastating diagnosis, John Brighton feels his world has fallen apart. As Ellen slips away from him day by day, their love is tested as never before... -
You Know I Need You: Book 2, You Know Me duet by Willow Winters
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI married the bad boy from Brooklyn.The one with the tattoos and the look in his eyes that told me he was bad news.The look that comes with all sorts of warnings.I knew what I was doing.I knew by the way he put his hands on me; how he owned me with his forceful touch.I couldn’t say no to him, not that I wanted to. That was then, and it seems like forever ago... -
Bulletproof Butterfly by Anna Brooks
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI 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... -
Forget by N.A. Alcorn
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBrooke Sawyer is a successful record producer living in L.A. She has endured a lifetime’s worth of pain, but despite everything she’s been through, she still has the biggest heart. She’d do anything for the ones she loves, even putting their needs above her own. When she visits Paris for one month, the last thing she expects is to fall in love with gorgeous musician, Dylan Bissette...Categorized as:
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Dancing With Sin: A forbidden love story by Alexandria Lee
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlice Monroe is a good person who is about to do a very bad thing.A professional dancer at twenty-four, Alice had worked tirelessly for years to achieve perfection in all areas of her life. She had the perfect boyfriend, the perfect dream job in her pocket, and the unfortunate, naïve belief that perfection was built to last...Categorized as:
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Untainted by Shanora Williams
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNew York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shanora Williams brings you the highly anticipated conclusion to the #1 bestselling taboo novel that had readers CRAVING for more. Dear Chloe Knight, I know you still think of me. You must because I am constantly thinking about you. I can't deny what I feel any longer-that you are, without a doubt, the love of my life...Categorized as:
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Up in the Treehouse by K.K. Allen
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsI wanted to tell him all my secrets, but he became one of them instead. Chloe Rivers never thought she would keep secrets from her best friend. Then again, she never imagined she would fall in love with him either. When she finally reveals her feelings, rejection shatters her, rendering her vulnerable and sending her straight into the destructive arms of the wrong guy...Categorized as:
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What He Always Knew by Kandi Steiner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTHE EPIC FINALE IN THE WHAT HE DOESN'T KNOW DUET Left or right. It’s that simple, and it isn’t simple at all. If I turn left, the road will lead me back to the man I promised my life to, the one I’d imagined building a family with, the one who’s done everything in his power to get me back...Categorized as:
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Arsen: A Broken Love Story by Mia Asher
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOne glance was all it took…I'm a cheater.I'm a liar.My whole life is a mess.I love a man.No, I love two men…I think.One makes love to me. The other sets me on fire.One is my rock. The other is my kryptonite.I'm broken, lost, and disgusted with myself.But I can't stop. This is my story.My broken love story...Categorized as:
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You're Mine Tonight by Lucia Franco
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI’m a lover and a player, a Hollywood socialite with a reputation I strive to live up to. But when I meet Brody, my soul ignites with an ombré of colors. The tortured artist is a dangerous addiction, and the perfect companion to my party girl ways.Then I meet River at an audition to play his co-star. He’s a slow burn that soothes my reckless heart... -
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Roan by Shey Stahl
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe’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... -
Couture Love: He checks all of my boxes, but is barely legal. by MJ Fields
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens at De La Porte’s annual Labor Day weekend party in the Hamptons— never stays in the Hamptons. After my marriage to my high school sweetheart ended, I made a list of all the things I “desired” the next time around. After all, marrying for love had failed me... -
Lithium Tides: A Lithium Springs Novel by Carmel Rhodes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhose bed is this? That was Kensie’s first thought as she peeled her eyes open to find herself in an unfamiliar room. She noted the crumpled red dress, tiny black thong, and Louboutin heels in the corner. Whose arms are these? That was her second thought as the tattooed arms engulfing her tightened their grip. Her phone buzzed on the nightstand... -
His Best Friend (A MFM Ménage) by Vivian Ward
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFalling 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...Categorized as:
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Ghost Note by Vicki James
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSix years.Seventy-two months.Over two thousand days.That’s what I’d dedicated to that guitar-playing a*sehole, Danny Silver.Now I, Daisy Piper, was left to pick up the wreckage of his love while he ran off with the band to find fortune and fame... -
The Dandelion by Michelle Leighton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAt thirty-five, Abigail Simmons has mastered only one thing—running. When tragedy strikes, she runs. This time her urge to flee brings Abi back to her hometown, where she hopes she can find the peace she’s always searched for. That hope is dashed when Abi’s ex, Sam Forrester, bumps his way back into her life. Sam has flourished in ways Abi hasn’t...Categorized as:
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