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Rewriting the Stars by Claire Kingsley
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsFirefighter Levi Bailey is used to being alone. Not that he’s lonely. How could he be, with a band of unruly brothers, and their wives and growing families. Maybe he’s the odd man out. The one brother who isn’t destined to be with his soulmate.Besides, he has her.She’s his Juliet, the only woman in the world he can’t ever have. To an outsider, it probably seems crazy... -
![Red Dirt Heart 3 by N.R. Walker]()
Red Dirt Heart 3 by N.R. Walker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLife for Charlie Sutton has never been better, or busier. With Travis now a permanent fixture of Sutton Station, a permanent fixture at Charlie’s side, Charlie’s convinced he couldn’t do anything on his ever-growing to-do list without him... -
![Tavin by Cee Bowerman]()
Tavin by Cee Bowerman
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTavin and London have been together for a while now, but life and responsibilities are tearing them apart.With London traveling all over the world for her career, and Tavin stuck in Rojo, Texas for his, the two of them have to make do with precious few stolen moments leaving both of them wanting more... -
![Ride or Dye by Aimee Nicole Walker]()
Ride or Dye by Aimee Nicole Walker
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGabe and Josh Roman-Wyatt have been living life in the fast lane. Demanding jobs, precocious twin toddlers, an ever-growing circle of friends, and a menagerie of pets means their home is filled with love and laughter but very few quiet moments for the happy couple. Gabe’s solution is to plan a surprise vacation at a perfect hideaway where the two of them can slow things down and reconnect... -
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![Blaze by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott]()
Blaze by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe rings have been selected. The champagne placed on ice. The cake decorated. And the pre-wedding sex is off the charts... Lucas Vallois and Andrei Hadeon are finally ready to walk down the aisle. There’s just one small problem. A ghost from Lucas’s past shows up days before the wedding, desperate for help... -
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Beau by Nicole Edwards
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHEIR LOVE IS UNDENIABLE… Happily married for four and a half years, Beau and Ethan Walker are ready for the next phase in their lives. They want what so many people dream of: A baby. THEIR COMMITMENT IS UNWAVERING… Expanding their family with a tiny bundle of joy isn’t as easy for them as it is for the rest of the Walker clan... -
![Tallowwood by N.R. Walker]()
Tallowwood by N.R. Walker
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsCold cases, murder, lies, and an unimaginable truth.Sydney detective August Shaw has spent the last decade of work solving cold cases. Since the death of his boyfriend eight years ago, August works alone, lives alone, is alone — and that’s exactly how he likes it... -
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Ethan by Nicole Edwards
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHow long did it take you to find your place in the world?For Ethan Walker, going through the motions of life, keeping his distance, and never getting attached has become the mantra he lives by. Success is measured by how many hours he can work and how little attention he can draw. That was until he landed on Beau Bennett’s radar... -
![A Dye Hard Holiday by Aimee Nicole Walker]()
A Dye Hard Holiday by Aimee Nicole Walker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt’s supposed to be the most wonderful time of year for Gabe and Josh Roman-Wyatt as they celebrate their first holidays as fathers, but someone’s war on St. Nick threatens to ruin their holly jolly Christmas... -
![I Do, or Dye Trying by Aimee Nicole Walker]()
I Do, or Dye Trying by Aimee Nicole Walker
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNewly engaged Josh Roman and Gabe Wyatt know the road to happily ever after won’t be easy, but the two men are certain their biggest challenges are in the rearview mirror. However, life in Blissville is never what it seems and all signs point to dangerous curves ahead... -
![Dyed and Gone to Heaven by Aimee Nicole Walker]()
Dyed and Gone to Heaven by Aimee Nicole Walker
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGabe and Josh’s romantic dinner date to celebrate love and life takes a shocking twist when a man who’s presumed dead enters the restaurant. What Gabe learns that night and the days that follow sends the homicide investigation down a road full of sharp twists and dangerous turns. Josh is finally living the life he's always wanted... -
![Because Of You by Emilia Finn]()
Because Of You by Emilia Finn
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAlex Turner is the chief of police in a small town. He lives a modest life. Truth, honor, and safety are his hard and fast rules. He won’t bend them. He won’t break them. In a world where chaos reigns supreme, he’s happy with his lowly, uncomplicated lifestyle... until Juliette Jones enters the picture. Jules is a successful lawyer, and heiress to the Jones family fortune... -
![Because Naughty Holidays Can Be Oh So Nice 2015 by Nicole Edwards]()
Because Naughty Holidays Can Be Oh So Nice 2015 by Nicole Edwards
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe readers voted and the winners for the 2015 holiday book are: Alluring Indulgence: Travis, Kylie, Gage; Sniper 1 Security: RT and Z; Club Destiny: Luke, Sierra, Cole. Come and see how they are heating up the holidays this year! The Walker brothers are at it again.. -
![A Fighting Chance by Tatum West]()
A Fighting Chance by Tatum West
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDillon: I don’t do relationships. I’ve been abandoned all my life, and I don’t trust a soul except my own damn self. But there’s something different about Jack Chance. From his lithe, gymnast’s body to his soulful hazel eyes, he’s everything I never knew I wanted. When he’s wrapped up in my arms, begging for more, everything seems right about the world... -
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![Relative Justice by Gregory Ashe]()
Relative Justice by Gregory Ashe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn impossible son. An impossible murder. The honeymoon is definitely over. When Emery Hazard and his husband, John-Henry Somerset, arrive home from their honeymoon, they’re shocked (understatement of the year) to find a boy waiting for them on their doorstep. Colt, fifteen and eager to pick a fight, claims to be Hazard’s son... -
![Domestic Animals by Gregory Ashe]()
Domestic Animals by Gregory Ashe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSometimes, the most dangerous animals are the ones you let inside.When a man hires Emery Hazard to track down a teenager who, he claims, robbed him, Hazard isn’t convinced. The story has holes in it, and the client seems eager—too eager—to keep the authorities from getting involved. But Hazard is willing to play along; he suspects something much darker is going on, and he wants to know what it is... -
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Father Complex by Gregory Ashe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHaving a father can be hard. Being a good one might be even harder.The call-out for the double homicide, when it comes, is a strange one: two men gunned down in a motel room, no witnesses, no real clues. Even stranger, the men were enemies, and no one seems to know why they were in that motel room together... -
![The Art of Husbandry by Jay Hogan]()
The Art of Husbandry by Jay Hogan
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen life drowns you in lemons, to hell with making lemonade. I wanted to burn the whole world. But eighteen months from the day my life was torn apart, I’m tired of the anger. Tired of the nightmares. Tired of putting one foot in front of the other just trying to survive. Three months on a high country sheep station in the middle of nowhere is exactly the reboot I need. A chance to break free... -
![Something to Dye For by Aimee Nicole Walker]()
Something to Dye For by Aimee Nicole Walker
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA phone call in the middle of the night forces Detective Gabriel Wyatt out of his warm bed and into the frigid night to identify the body of a murdered man whose wallet contains Gabe’s business card instead of an ID. That night sets off a chain of events that chills Gabe to his bones when it appears that the killer has set his eyes on a new target – Josh Roman... -
![Foreseen: Lex by Sloane Kennedy]()
Foreseen: Lex by Sloane Kennedy
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLEX Even if I wasn’t losing my sight, I never would have seen him coming… I’ve known my fate for years, but I wasn’t willing to accept it. But as the light in my eyes dims a little more each day, I have no choice but to adapt. Or not... -
![Maintenance Required: A small town romance by Giulia Lagomarsino]()
Maintenance Required: A small town romance by Giulia Lagomarsino
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEricI live my life by a certain standard. There are right and wrong ways to do things, and I always make sure that I'm on the right side. My brothers call me a wet blanket. They say I'm buttoned-up, boring, and that I don't know how to let loose. There's a reason I'm that way, and she just walked through my door. With one wild night, I've thrown all my moral guidelines out the window... -
![Mission: Without a Trace by Nicole Edwards]()
Mission: Without a Trace by Nicole Edwards
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTheir first official case as a task force doesn’t take Brantley Walker and Reese Tavoularis far from home.Getting right down to business, the Off the Books task force prioritizes a case of a fifteen-year-old girl who went missing nine years earlier from the same small town they grew up in: Coyote Ridge, Texas... -
![The Reunion: The Secret of Cypriere Bayou by Jana Deleon]()
The Reunion: The Secret of Cypriere Bayou by Jana Deleon
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn heiress comes home to terror in New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon's Mystere Parish: Family Inheritance miniseries. Bodyguard to an heiress is Tyler Duhan's idea of hell. The steely, sexy ex-marine has heard—and dismissed—the gossip about the haunted old LeBeau mansion and its "cursed" heiresses... -
![Custody Battles by Gregory Ashe]()
Custody Battles by Gregory Ashe
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSome parents would die for their children. Others will do a whole lot worse.Emery Hazard and his husband, John-Henry Somerset, are settling into their new normal—at home, with the latest addition to their family, and at work, as Somers adapts to his new role and Hazard manages his expanding agency. The only thing Hazard is worried about is getting through dinner with his in-laws... -
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![Prescription for Love by Aimee Nicole Walker]()
Prescription for Love by Aimee Nicole Walker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat should’ve been an ordinary emergency call turned out to be something extraordinary. Wanting to distance himself from his toxic parents, Trent Love moved to the quaint town of Blissville to begin a new life. What he finds is blazing chemistry with a hunky fireman who breathes new life into him... -
![Sheriff's Secret by K. Webster]()
Sheriff's Secret by K. Webster
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom USA Today bestselling author K Webster comes a steamy and emotional MM romance!When you’re the sheriff of Brigs Ferry Bay, certain things are expected of you.Marry a local girl, settle down, have a few kids. You know, the small-town dream.But I’ve got a secret I’m terrified will get out.I’m gay.Not bi. Not curious. Not confused.Just gay.So, settling for that dream won’t be happening... -
![Imagines by N.R. Walker]()
Imagines by N.R. Walker
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJack Brighton and Lawson Gale have been together for six months and are very much in love. Lawsonâs work ensuring the survival of the Tillman Copper is as demanding as ever, and Jackâs work with the regeneration of the bushfire-ravaged national park is just as hectic. When Jack suggests they take a short trip, Lawson agrees... -
![Holiday Heart Strings by N.R. Walker]()
Holiday Heart Strings by N.R. Walker
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHartbridge Christmas Series - Book FourEnglishman Braithe Branson arrives in Hartbridge, Montana, to take on a brief substitute kindergarten teacher position. His introduction to the sleepy town is being pulled over for speeding. Not an ideal start, but at least the deputy was cute.Colson Price takes being a deputy very seriously. After all, his job is all he has... -
![Defined By Deceit by A.E. Via]()
Defined By Deceit by A.E. Via
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLife isn't always fair, and that’s something that Llewellyn Gardner knows about first hand. His life was on the fast track until one night of extreme passion changed everything. Now eight years later, he’s still living with the aftershocks of that night. Everywhere he turns or runs, there’s another reminder... -
![The Truth Within by Sloane Kennedy]()
The Truth Within by Sloane Kennedy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsI’m not a fighter. I never was. So how do I make the one man who might just be worth fighting for see that?At twenty-five years old, Ford Cornell should have his whole life ahead of him but instead, the would-be artist is drowning in denial and just trying to get through each day... -
![Finding Forgiveness by Sloane Kennedy]()
Finding Forgiveness by Sloane Kennedy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHe was only there for a business deal… A couple of days…that was all it was supposed to take for property developer Roman Blackwell to decide if the strip of land just south of Dare, Montana would be the perfect spot for his next luxury resort... -
![His Saint by Lucy Lennox]()
His Saint by Lucy Lennox
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAugie:I don't need anyone's protection. I'm fine. But to appease my sister after a home invasion, I agree to take self-defense lessons. They just so happen to be with a big, muscled former navy SEAL who may or may not be everything I've always daydreamed about but never thought I could have.And he's dead-set on looking out for me even when things in my life suddenly get complicated... -
![Wilde Fire by Lucy Lennox]()
Wilde Fire by Lucy Lennox
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOtto: Seth Walker was my first love and I always swore he’d be my last. Even after he moved away our senior year in high school, we vowed to reunite after graduation. But when he suddenly broke things off without explanation and crushed my heart, it was my turn to run. After a decade in the navy, I’ve finally come home ready to move on with my life as Hobie’s newest firefighter... -
![A Circle of Crows by Kelsey Kingsley]()
A Circle of Crows by Kelsey Kingsley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNothing ever happens in Fort Crow, Scotland, or so Inspector Alec Brodie thinks. But when the body of a tourist is found in the woods, the detective begins to see that things aren't all that they seem in the sleepy little town, especially when the murder is ruled as an accident... -
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![Wrangling My Heart by Taylor Rylan]()
Wrangling My Heart by Taylor Rylan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKirk Stevens has made his own way in life. Growing up in foster care taught him that you can only rely on yourself and that nobody will ever want you. He’s beginning to think that maybe he might be wrong on both of those stances. When he meets a sexy man that draws his attention, he begins to wonder if he can have what others do. Someone to love him... -
![Redemption by E. Davies]()
Redemption by E. Davies
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“I’ll make up my own mind about you.” Months after he was mugged in Houston, legal secretary Jasper Barnes is still hiding out in Hidden Creek. Self-defense classes would boost his confidence. Problem is, the guy offering them is Chad Allaback, and he has a reputation, to say the least... -
![The Story of Us by Barbara Elsborg]()
The Story of Us by Barbara Elsborg
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTwo boys. One love. Ten summers. Are you okay? The first words Zed says to Caspian, and the first time someone has cared about the answer. On a hot summer’s day, the lives of two boys are changed forever. A rebel and a risk taker, Caspian doesn’t give a damn for the consequences. Studious and obedient, Zed is the good boy who is never good enough... -
![Long Shadow by Elle Keaton]()
Long Shadow by Elle Keaton
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNiall’s never known anything but betrayal. All Mat wants is Niall’s heart. What will it take for him to coax Niall in from the cold? Mat's connection with Niall is tenuous; one step forward, two steps back. Since that night on the beach Niall's been avoiding Mat like a bad case of the flu--which, ironically, most of his deputies have come down with... -
![The Garden by Rosalind Abel]()
The Garden by Rosalind Abel
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBeautiful Gilbert Bryant designs jewelry for the rich and famous, and he made his escape from his gossipy little hometown of Lavender Shores. However, with so many friends and family, he keeps getting pulled back. When he attends his best friend’s engagement party, Gilbert can’t help but sample one of the new men in town. It’s just some innocent—or not so innocent—fun... -
![Rescuing My Angel by Taylor Rylan]()
Rescuing My Angel by Taylor Rylan
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTrace Rivers only ever wanted to be one thing when he grew up, a firefighter. Luckily for him, he has four older brothers that wanted to be ranchers like their father. His parents were okay with their youngest being a firefighter, they just wish he didn’t feel the need to do so in a completely different state... -
![When the Stars Sang by Caren J. Werlinger]()
When the Stars Sang by Caren J. Werlinger
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsASIN B07B7CT41D moved to the most recent editionNearly twenty-five years ago, Kathleen Halloran’s brother drowned during the last summer they ever spent with their grandmother on a remote island off Maine’s coast. Like a siren’s call she can’t resist, Kathleen is pulled back to Little Sister Island... -
![The Wolf at Bay by Charlie Adhara]()
The Wolf at Bay by Charlie Adhara
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsGoing home digs up bad memories, so it’s something Bureau of Special Investigations agent Cooper Dayton tries to avoid. When he’s guilted into a visit, Cooper brings along Oliver Park, his hot new werewolf partner, in the hopes the trip will help clarify their status as a couple…or not... -
![Like the Taste of Summer by Kaje Harper]()
Like the Taste of Summer by Kaje Harper
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJack managed to get a scholarship to a small-town college in the middle of the Iowa cornfields, September 1981. It wasn't New York, or California, but he figured it would be better than being home. College would be be a new start in a new place, maybe somewhere he could be himself... -
![Off Balance: Painted Bay #1 by Jay Hogan]()
Off Balance: Painted Bay #1 by Jay Hogan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen JUDAH MADDEN flees his tiny suffocating home-town in New Zealand, for the dream of international ballet stardom, he never intends coming back. Not to Painted Bay. Not to his family’s struggling mussel farm. Not to his jerk of a brother. Not with his entire life plan in shreds... -
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![Courage by Kristen Proby]()
Courage by Kristen Proby
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom New York Times Bestselling author Kristen Proby comes an all new novel in her Big Sky series, Courage. This is the first story in the Heroes of Big Sky, all about men in uniform in Cunningham Falls!Natasha Mills feels like she’s loved firefighter Sam Waters her entire life. Since she first met him during middle school, she’s harbored a secret crush on her best friend’s big brother... -
![Watch Me by Brenda Novak]()
Watch Me by Brenda Novak
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSomeone tried to kill her twelve years ago. Teenagers Sheridan Kohl and Jason Wyatt were parked at the lake in Whiterock, Tennessee, when a stranger wearing a ski mask shot them both. Sheridan lived but Jason died -- and the stranger was never caught. Even though Sheridan's family moved away right afterward, she's never been able to put the crime behind her... -
![Return to Blackcreek by Riley Hart]()
Return to Blackcreek by Riley Hart
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis December it's time to go back... Wes and Braden Braden plans a surprise weekend getaway for him and Wes. Two days alone in a cabin with his husband? There’s no telling what kind of trouble they can get into. Wes isn’t fooled though. He knows this weekend is about more than just a sexy escape... -
![Whiskey Secrets by Carrie Ann Ryan]()
Whiskey Secrets by Carrie Ann Ryan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSparks fly between a former cop-turned-bartender and his new innkeeper in the first installment of a Montgomery Ink spin-off series from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan. Dare Collins is a man who knows his whiskey and women—or at least that’s what he tells himself. When his family decides to hire on a new innkeeper for the inn above his bar and restaurant, he’s more than reluctant... -
![A Lifetime Kissing You by Riley Hart]()
A Lifetime Kissing You by Riley Hart
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCharlesI have a great family, a successful career, and never struggle to find the company of a man when I want it, and I do—often. The loss of my brother years ago is the one dark spot in an otherwise perfect life. But at forty-three, my world suddenly feels emptier than it should. Something’s missing... -
![Finding Peace by Sloane Kennedy]()
Finding Peace by Sloane Kennedy
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"I knew it would be like this...like finding something I didn't know was missing." --Luke Author Gray Hawthorne has it all and he’s on the verge of having even more. His bestselling detective novels are being turned into a movie series that will make him a household name and he’s rubbing a lot more than just elbows with Hollywood’s elite...
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