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  • Forever Freed by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Freed by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jackson Parker has seen evil first hand as a Tier 1 government asset with the FBI Hostage Rescue Team. After months of black ops work overseas, he’s finally coming home for a break. But with Keeneston’s wedding of the century, a stowaway on the run, and a plot that could kill thousands of civilians, Jackson gets anything but rest and relaxation...
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  • Somebody Like You: A Small Town Single Mom Sports Romance by Carrie Elks

    Somebody Like You: A Small Town Single Mom Sports Romance by Carrie Elks

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He’s rich, talented and way out of her league. Now he’s making her an offer she can’t refuse…Football has always been Cam Hartson’s life. When he's forced to retire following an injury, he slinks back to his small home town, planning to lie low and lick his wounds. Until he meets Mia Devlin. The beautiful single mom of two tearaway boys has no interest in love...
  • Reshuffle by Emilia Finn

    Reshuffle by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The first round is for practice. The second round is for keeps. She was everything Ben ever wanted. But time, distance, and jealousy made it impossible. Now they’re adults, Evie’s back in town after college graduation, and Ben never once let go of what he knew was meant to be...
  • Lasting Shadows by Kathleen Brooks

    Lasting Shadows by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ridge Faulkner was a renowned luxury house builder. When Ridge was selected at a charity bachelor auction, he was surprised when it wasn’t for an actual date. The woman only wanted him to help fix up her house. Savannah Ambrose was starting her life over in Shadows Landing. But she needed help with the fixer-upper she was moving into...
  • What You See by Cherise Sinclair

    What You See by Cherise Sinclair

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She will risk everything to rescue her friend.Frankie's BFF and four-year-old son are trapped inside a fanatical militia's compound. In Alaska, no less. Wilderness rescues are so not in the New Yorker's skill set. But she'll figure it out. She must.Bull's new roadhouse server is a mass of contradictions.The city girl's reasons for being in Alaska don't add up. Bull's been burned by liars before...
  • Making Faces by Amy Harmon

    Making Faces by Amy Harmon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Ambrose Young was beautiful. He was tall and muscular, with hair that touched his shoulders and eyes that burned right through you. The kind of beautiful that graced the covers of romance novels, and Fern Taylor would know. She'd been reading them since she was thirteen. But maybe because he was so beautiful he was never someone Fern thought she could have...until he wasn't beautiful anymore...
  • Bluff by Emilia Finn

    Bluff by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Tucker Morris - affectionately known by his most annoying friends as Chuck Norris - is a lover, not a fighter.He’s a charmer, with a fast tongue and equal wit. Mechanic by day, motorcycle racer by night, Tucker is magic with his hands, and makes a hobby out of sliding filthy innuendo into as many conversations as he possibly can...
  • Bluegrass Dawn by Kathleen Brooks

    Bluegrass Dawn by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It's the late 1960's in Keeneston and life is very tense for everyone. War consumes the news and young men prepare themselves for the draft. Jake Davies is fresh out of high school and head-over-heels in love. He’s known she's the one since she hit him in the head with a cheese ball, but then his world crashes around him when his number is drawn in the draft...
  • Relentless Pursuit by Kathleen Brooks

    Relentless Pursuit by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Pierce Davies watched as his older siblings fell in love – something this bachelor was not ready for. After all, he was now the most eligible man in all of Keeneston! Though Pierce enjoys the playboy lifestyle, his life is his work and that hard work is set to pay off big time with the unveiling of a big secret...
  • Only Mine by Laura Pavlov

    Only Mine by Laura Pavlov

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Wolf Wayburn is the devil in an Armani suit with the body of a Greek god. He thinks I’m just a small-town girl who he can intimidate—but I never back down from a fight.The first time we met, he cut me off at a gas station.So, I flashed him the bird and mocked his family jewels.The second time we met, he tried to get me fired.He took his shot—and he missed.At least for now...
  • A Lantern in the Dark by Stacey Reynolds

    A Lantern in the Dark by Stacey Reynolds

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In a sleepy beach town in Coastal Carolina, two lost souls learn the destructive nature of secrets and the healing power of love. Captain Aidan O’Brien is a decorated officer of the Royal Irish Regiment. While on a personal mission with his brother to retrieve Michael’s would-be mate, Aidan visits an old friend on the local Marine Corps base...
  • The Patchwork Quilt of Happiness by Ava Miles

    The Patchwork Quilt of Happiness by Ava Miles

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Millions of readers have fallen in love with Ava's bestselling books...come join the family. International Bestselling Author Ava Miles shares an emotional tale about a woman’s quest to reunite her family and make a patchwork quilt of happiness out of her own happily ever after. Riley Thomson believes every woman can be her own superhero...
  • Sweet Haven by K.C. Lynn

    Sweet Haven by K.C. Lynn

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    RECIPE: Two cups of an arrogant, dirty talkin’ firefighter who has an obsession with peaches and the forbidden girl who smells like them. One tablespoon of a sweet schoolteacher trying to find her place in the world while attempting to resist her brother’s sworn enemy. A slice of fate that has their hearts questioning the past and the consuming need they have for one another...
  • Acquiring Trouble by Kathleen Brooks

    Acquiring Trouble by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This is the third book in the Bluegrass Brothers series by USA Today Best-selling author, Kathleen Brooks. As a natural born leader, Miles Davies accomplishes anything he puts his mind to. Upon returning home from his special forces duties, he has become the strong foundation of the Davies family and his company...
  • That Promise by Jillian Dodd

    That Promise by Jillian Dodd

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What happens to childhood promises when you grow up?Growing up, Devaney Diamond and Chase Mackenzie promised to go to college together. But it’s been two years since the summer that changed everything between them, and their friendship hasn’t recovered...
  • The Secret in Sandcastles by Rachael Bloome

    The Secret in Sandcastles by Rachael Bloome

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Two childhood enemies. One adventure-filled summer. And an unexpected romance they're trying hard to resist...Penny Heart likes to play it safe... in life and in love. When she’s asked to brave her town's most thrilling adventures to revamp their outdated guidebook, things quickly go from bad to worse. The person assigned to help? None other than her childhood nemesis...
  • Whose Waves These Are by Amanda Dykes

    Whose Waves These Are by Amanda Dykes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper asking readers to send rocks in honor of loved ones to create something life-giving but the building halts when tragedy strikes. Decades later, Annie returns to the coastal Maine town where stone ruins spark her curiosity and her search for answers faces a battle against time...
  • Wild Man Creek by Robyn Carr

    Wild Man Creek by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Colin Riordan came to Virgin River to recuperate from a horrific helicopter crash, the scars of which he bears inside and out. His family is wonderfully supportive, but it's his art that truly soothes his troubled soul. Stung personally and professionally by an ill-advised affair, PR guru Jillian Matlock has rented an old Victorian with a promising garden in Virgin River...
  • One Night Rodeo by Lorelei James

    One Night Rodeo by Lorelei James

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    All it takes is one night to change a cowboy’s life…  Barrel racer Celia Lawson knows better than to tangle with bull rider Kyle Gilchrist. The sexy cowboy’s love ‘em and leave ‘em ways have earned him a reputation on the rodeo circuit, and he’s always seen her as his best friend’s kid sister...
  • Master Baker by Pippa Grant

    Master Baker by Pippa Grant

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    They call me the sugar whisperer. Anything your tongue desires, I can bake it. Scones? Child’s play. Cupcakes? I’ll frost them so good you won’t know what hit you. Donuts? Please. You’re talking to a master baker. But there’s one egg I’ve never been able to crack. My best friend. Correction: My former best friend. She’s the apple in my pie. The whip in my cream...
  • Bayou Sweetheart by Lexi Blake

    Bayou Sweetheart by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sparks fly in Louisiana's Butterfly Bayou when a Hollywood starlet falls for a local deputy in a small-town contemporary romance from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake. After leaving the military, Major Blanchard moved to Papillon, Louisiana, to be with his aging father, where he's taken a deputy position with the sheriff’s department...
  • Secret Wishes and Summer Kisses on Lily Pond Lane by Emily Harvale

    Secret Wishes and Summer Kisses on Lily Pond Lane by Emily Harvale

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everyone’s got a secret wish in Little Pondale this summer. Mia’s been exceptionally lucky since moving to Lily Pond Lane. But even on her honeymoon with the man of her dreams, she still has one remaining wish. Ella wishes Gill would propose. But since Mia’s wedding something’s changed in their relationship...
  • Raven of the Sea by Stacey Reynolds

    Raven of the Sea by Stacey Reynolds

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Against the backdrop of windswept, coastal Ireland, two people are brought together under unlikely circumstances, one scarred by tragedy, the other by betrayal. Branna O’Mara never expected to be orphaned at the age of twenty-three. When she lost her father, Major Brian O’Mara, USMC in the Second Battle of Fallujah, she thought she’d taken the worst life had to give...
  • Mistake by Emilia Finn

    Mistake by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cole Miller is a good-for-nothing nobody who skulks around dark alleyways and makes money by boosting cars from those more fortunate than he. He’s the unwanted child of a couple of deadbeats, so he never truly understood what family meant until he stumbled onto a treasure far more valuable than the GT he’s supposed to steal from the heavyweight world champion...
  • Levi by Brynne Asher

    Levi by Brynne Asher

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Life and death … they have a way of tainting fairy tales in the ugliest way. You know the sugary-sweet romances where the new girl moves to a small town, falls in love with the most popular guy in school, and they live happily ever after? I wish my story were that simple. Levi Hollingsworth is the most popular guy in school. He’s stoic, mysterious, and aloof. A man among boys...
  • That Forever Girl by Meghan Quinn

    That Forever Girl by Meghan Quinn

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Meghan Quinn’s second book in the Getting Lucky series brings heart, humor, and heat back to Port Snow. There are two little words every small-town man dreads: She’s back. Harper Sanders, the girl who was supposed to be my forever, has returned to Port Snow, Maine, for good—and she’s bringing back memories of our shared past...
  • All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata

    All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Losing people you love is hard. Aurora De La Torre knows moving back to a place that was once home isn’t going to be easy. Starting your whole life over probably isn’t supposed to be. But a small town in the mountains might be the perfect remedy for a broken heart. Checking out her landlord across the driveway just might cure it too...
  • Whiplash by Janet Dailey

    Whiplash by Janet Dailey

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fans of edge of your seat romance and readers of B.J. Daniels, Lindsay McKenna, and Diana Palmer won’t want to miss this electrifying and genuine new page-turner from the bestselling romance legend. When Val Champion returns to the family ranch, she’s ready to put her past behind her. Her dreams of a Hollywood acting career have become a nightmare of fear...
  • Harvest Moon by Robyn Carr

    Harvest Moon by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Return to Virgin River with the books that started it all…  The recipe for happiness: making it up as you go along  Rising sous-chef Kelly Matlock's sudden collapse at work is a wake-up call. Disillusioned and burned out, she's retreated to her sister Jillian's house in Virgin River to rest and reevaluate...
  • Running Barefoot by Amy Harmon

    Running Barefoot by Amy Harmon

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    When Josie Jensen, an awkward 13-year-old musical prodigy crashes headlong into new-comer Samuel Yazzie, an 18-year-old Navajo boy full of anger and confusion, an unlikely friendship blooms. Josie teaches Samuel about words, music and friendship, and along the way finds a kindred spirit...
  • Sunday Morning by Jewel E. Ann

    Sunday Morning by Jewel E. Ann

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Her boyfriend’s older brother should be off-limits, but he’s a sinful temptation.Sarah is a preacher’s daughter and a people pleaser. She’s also on the verge of graduating high school and following her dream of singing in Nashville. The only thing standing in her way is that the entire town of Devil’s Head, Missouri, thinks she will marry Matt, the son of the town’s richest rancher...
  • The End of Summer by Makeandoffer

    The End of Summer by Makeandoffer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Summer Jacobs knew full well about her town’s tradition. Every year at the end of the summer, a party would be held on school grounds without the knowledge of the parents or the teachers. It had been happening since before Summer was born and never once was anyone the wiser. This year however, everyone was going to find out...
  • Onyx by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Onyx by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 74 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.BEING CONNECTED TO DAEMON BLACK SUCKS… Thanks to his alien mojo, Daemon’s determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarro connection. So I’ve sworn him off, even though he’s running more hot than cold these days. But we’ve got bigger problems...
  • Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry

    Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    One moment of recklessness will change their worlds.Smart. Responsible. That's seventeen-year-old Breanna's role in her large family, and heaven forbid she put a toe out of line. Until one night of shockingly un-Breanna-like behavior puts her into a vicious cyber-bully's line of fire—and brings fellow senior Thomas "Razor" Turner into her life...
  • Wait for It by Mariana Zapata

    Wait for It by Mariana Zapata

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    If anyone ever said being an adult was easy, they hadn't been one long enough. Diana Casillas can admit it: she doesn't know what the hell she's doing half the time. How she's made it through the last two years of her life without killing anyone is nothing short of a miracle. Being a grown-up wasn't supposed to be so hard...
  • Bayou Beauty by Lexi Blake

    Bayou Beauty by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Love returns to Louisiana's Butterfly Bayou in a new small-town contemporary romance sure to charm hearts, from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake.Sylvie Martine was prepared to take Washington D.C. by storm, but she put that dream on hold when her beloved hometown of Papillon, Louisiana, needed her most. Now Sylvie's the mayor of the tiny town on the bayou that holds her heart...
  • A Better Man: A Small Town Surprise Pregnancy Romance by Carrie Elks

    A Better Man: A Small Town Surprise Pregnancy Romance by Carrie Elks

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s his addiction. He’s her escape.Logan Hartson is gorgeous, successful, and has a smile that’ll knock a woman off her feet. And from the moment Courtney Roberts meets him on a dirt road, the chemistry sizzles between them.Everything about them is wrong. He’s city, she’s country.He owns expensive restaurants. She runs a small farm...
  • Bayou Baby by Lexi Blake

    Bayou Baby by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A heartwarming contemporary romance set in Louisiana's Butterfly Bayou from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake.   Seraphina Guidry loves Butterfly Bayou. A young, single mom, she’s trying to find a place for herself in the town she cherishes, but past mistakes have made her wary. She adores her son but has sworn off men...
  • Angel's Peak by Robyn Carr

    Angel's Peak by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    FOUR YEARS AGO, AIR FORCE SWEETHEARTS FRANCI DUNCAN AND SEAN RIORDAN REACHED AN IMPASSE. SHE WANTED MARRIAGE AND A FAMILY. HE DIDN'T. BUT A CHANCE MEETING PROVES THAT THE BITTER BREAKUP HASN'T COOLED THEIR SIZZLING CHEMISTRY. Sean has settled down in spite of himself --- he's not the cocky young fighter pilot he was when Franci left, and he wants them to try again...
  • Moonlight Road by Robyn Carr

    Moonlight Road by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    WITH HER BELOVED YOUNGER SIBLINGS SETTLED AND HAPPY, ERIN FOLEY HAS EMPTY NEST SYNDROME. AT AGE THIRTY-FIVE. So she's hitting the pause button on her life and holing up in a secluded (but totally upgraded --- she's not into roughing it!) cabin near Virgin River. Erin is planning on getting to know herself ... not the shaggy-haired mountain man she meets...
  • All Fired Up by Lori Foster

    All Fired Up by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The last thing Charlotte Parrish needs in her life is a bad boy. She wants someone responsible and settled ... until she meets Mitch Crews. Mitch is everything she knows she should avoid but everything she can't seem to resist. Mitch is starting over. Now that his mother is gone, he's determined to finally meet the half brothers he's heard about his entire life...
  • A Little Too Close (Madigan Mountain) by Rebecca Yarros

    A Little Too Close (Madigan Mountain) by Rebecca Yarros

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros comes a small town, single parent romance.Nine years ago, Weston Madigan saved me. I came to Colorado penniless, heartbroken, and pregnant, searching for a fresh start. Weston gave me a job at his family’s resort, then left the next day and never returned, not even to visit...
  • When the Stars Fall: A Second Chance Standalone Romance (Lost Stars) by Emery Rose

    When the Stars Fall: A Second Chance Standalone Romance (Lost Stars) by Emery Rose

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Growing up, Jude McCallister was the bane of my existence. My best friend. Fiercest ally. The most annoying boy in the world.At eighteen, the boy I loved to hate became the man I couldn’t live without.We were young. Madly in love. Invincible. Strong enough to weather any storm.Cocky enough to believe that no amount of time or distance could destroy us...
  • Someone Else's Ocean by Kate Stewart

    Someone Else's Ocean by Kate Stewart

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Now a #1 Bestseller in Inspirational Romance! The first time I met Ian Kemp in the sparkling blue waters of St. Thomas, I was six years old and we shared a summer beneath the stars. The second time I met Ian Kemp, he was a shell of the boy I once knew. Turbulent and infuriating, he refused my friendship at every turn. Like me, he was a casualty of life’s cruelty, but we were planets apart...
  • And I Love Her by Marie Force

    And I Love Her by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A Green Mountain Romance from the New York Times bestselling author of I Saw Her Standing There...
  • Raging Heart On: Friends to Lovers Romance by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Raging Heart On: Friends to Lovers Romance by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Her biological clock is a ticking time bomb. He’s got the tool it takes to get the job done…And then some. Kayla: Life has never been great. If not for White Lucas and his family, I might have been on the streets. They showed me what family was—what I always wanted. Now I'm nearing thirty, I want my own family. The problem is there’s no man in the picture...
  • Gone Too Deep by Katie Ruggle

    Gone Too Deep by Katie Ruggle

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the remote Rocky Mountains, lives depend on the Search & Rescue brotherhood. But in a place this far off the map, trust is hard to come by and secrets can be murder... George Holloway has spent his life alone, exploring the treacherous beauty of the Colorado Rockies...
  • Playing for Keeps by Jill Shalvis

    Playing for Keeps by Jill Shalvis

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    If you’re planning on falling in love… When it comes to the confident, charismatic Caleb Parker, Sadie Lane feels the spark—the kind that comes from rubbing each other the wrong way. She’s yoga pants, he’s a suit. She’s a tattoo artist, he’s a straight-laced mogul...
  • Gentry Rules by Cora Brent

    Gentry Rules by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    **RELEASING SEPTEMBER 28th!**From NYT and USA Today Bestselling Author Cora Brent, jump into fall with this swoony, spicy small town stand alone romance between a curvy single mom and the tattooed Marine protector who will do anything to earn a second chance… ADDIEJustin Gentry had always been my best friend and I had always been in love with him. When our friendship imploded, I was shattered...
  • Protector in a Kilt by Kait Nolan

    Protector in a Kilt by Kait Nolan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A captive who dreams of her freedomIn public, violinist Elizabeth Duncan is the toast of the entertainment world. A prodigy who's been wowing audiences with her music since she was only twelve years old. But behind closed doors, she's desperate to escape the man who's turned her passion into a prison. When the specter of violence becomes more than a threat, she sacrifices everything to run...
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