Books like 'Paradise City'
Readers who enjoyed Paradise City by C.J. Duggan also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Ti aspetto a Central Park by Felicia Kingsley
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsKnight Underwood ha tutto: un elegante loft nell’Upper East Side, una fila di donne alla porta e il lavoro dei suoi sogni. O quasi. È l’editor che detiene il record di bestseller pubblicati dalla Pageturner Publishing e la promozione a direttore editoriale è dietro l’angolo. Purtroppo, non ha fatto i conti con quella che è destinata a diventare la sua spina nel fianco: Victoria Wender... -
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The Sarah Dessen Gift Set by Sarah Dessen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe perfect gift for Sarah Dessen fans! Three of New York Times bestselling author Sarah Dessen?s most popular titles? Just Listen , This Lullaby , and The Truth About Forever ?are now available in a beautifully designed boxed set... -
![I Sold Myself To The Devil For Vinyls... Pitiful I Know by DarknessAndLight]()
I Sold Myself To The Devil For Vinyls... Pitiful I Know by DarknessAndLight
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLexi Grayson is just a normal teenager, as normal as she can be with her unobserving skills and her overthinking mind. But she'll need the overthinking if she wants to unravel the smirking mystery that is Blake Eaton...Categorized as:
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![Dissonance by Julia Wolf]()
Dissonance by Julia Wolf
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEveryone loves Alex Murray.I’m not everyone.My history with Alex goes way back. Back to before the fame and groupies and wild tours. Before he was the lead guitarist for Unrequited. We’ve known each other for a decade and have been at odds for a good portion of it.When I need Alex’s help, he jumps in with both feet, volunteering to be my fake boyfriend at an old friend’s out-of-town wedding...Categorized as:
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![The Jamie McGuire Collection: Beautiful Disaster, Walking Disaster, and A Beautiful Wedding by Jamie McGuire]()
The Jamie McGuire Collection: Beautiful Disaster, Walking Disaster, and A Beautiful Wedding by Jamie McGuire
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMeet your new obsession—Travis Maddox—in this special collection from the international phenomenon and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jamie McGuire.BEAUTIFUL DISASTERAbby Abernathy is a good girl with a dark past she thinks she’s finally escaped—until she meets Travis Maddox, the ultimate bad boy... -
![All The Way From Texas by Carolyn Brown]()
All The Way From Texas by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMolly Baker, a first-rate reporter, and Carson Rhodes, an excellent photojournalist are two of the most talented students in their graduating class. So, who else would their professor pick but these two young, adventurous graduate students to go on a journalism excursion? But newly engaged Molly has reservations about the trip... -
![Kiss Me Slow by Willow Winters, Tijan]()
Kiss Me Slow by Willow Winters, Tijan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSome men know how to kiss. Some men know how to love.Sometimes you get those butterflies in the pit of your stomach instantly. Other times… well sometimes other feelings come first.In this collection, you get it all. Right down to those fluttering feelings at the end of the book that make reading romance worth every single page... -
![I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang]()
I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsSnarky and romantic, I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys if Lara Jean wrote hate emails instead of love letters.Sadie Wen is perfect on paper: school captain, valedictorian, and a "pleasure to have in class...Categorized as:
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![The Bad Boy Stole My Bra by Cherry_Cola_x]()
The Bad Boy Stole My Bra by Cherry_Cola_x
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsPicture this: You wake up in the middle of the night, swamped in your star wars covers and completely and utterly groggy to the extent that you look like something from the Monsters Inc. movie. You hear a sound, so you sit up and turn your lamp on, and that’s when you see it... -
![Parks and Provocation by Juliette Cross]()
Parks and Provocation by Juliette Cross
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLola Landry stares through the window of her locked car with the keys in the ignition and the radio blaring Beck’s “Loser.” While standing there and sweltering in the soupy Tennessee humidity, she wonders how her orderly life had crashed and burned so badly... -
![Cállate y Bésame by Zara Black]()
Cállate y Bésame by Zara Black
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDafne y Damian llevan toda la vida inmersos en una guerra de bromas y los gritos e insultos se han convertido en algo habitual entre ellos pero qué pasa cuando uno de los dos decide llegar mas allá y traspasar la línea que todo enemigo no debe atravesar.. -
![Remember Me by Cheryl Lanham]()
Remember Me by Cheryl Lanham
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA new teen tearjerker in the heartwrenching Dear Diary series for young adults. Leeanne never thought she'd love working at the hospice so much, or that it would be so hard. Her new friend Gabriel isn't like other boys. He is dying. But in his final days, he has one last lesson to teach her... -
![Amar Bail by Umera Ahmed]()
Amar Bail by Umera Ahmed
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAmar Bail (English: Mistletoe) is a love story of Umar Jehangir and Aleezay Sikandar, set-up in the backdrop of Pakistani bureaucratic culture. It is a story of imbalanced relationships, broken families, lust for power, complexes, insecurities and amidst all problems of love, its intensity and sacrifices... -
![The Day After Forever by Erin Skiffington]()
The Day After Forever by Erin Skiffington
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Day After Forever is an emotional story centering around four teenagers who discover and demostrate the true meaning of friendship. It illustrates the agony surroundingf horrific events and how friendship will always stand strong against the circumstances. Jeff has leukemia... -
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![Seduced by Snowfall by Jennifer Bernard]()
Seduced by Snowfall by Jennifer Bernard
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDr. Bethany Morrison is used to being the responsible one. The serious doctor everyone relies on. She isn’t used to needing a rescue--especially from a sexy, lighthearted firefighter like Nate Prudhoe. And yet ever since she moved to Lost Harbor, Alaska, he’s been there for her... -
![Wren Martin Ruins It All by Amanda DeWitt]()
Wren Martin Ruins It All by Amanda DeWitt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNow that Wren Martin is student council president (on a technicality, but hey, it counts) he’s going to fix Rapture High. His first order of business: abolish the school’s annual Valentine’s Day Dance, a drain on the school’s resources and general social nightmare—especially when you’re asexual... -
![Beyond the Tides by Liz Johnson]()
Beyond the Tides by Liz Johnson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Meg Whitaker's father decides to sell the family's lobster-fishing business to her high school nemesis, she sets out to prove she should inherit it instead. Though she's never had any interest in running the small fleet--or even getting on a boat due to her persistent seasickness--she can't stand to see Oliver Ross take over... -
![The Smirking Jerk by DarknessAndLight]()
The Smirking Jerk by DarknessAndLight
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“I’m in love with you.” How many times would I have to think about this, how many times, before she could hear it, feel it, see it in my eyes? “I’m in love with you.” How could I make her see without telling her, without scaring her off… without losing her. I couldn’t lose her... -
![Gettin' Hooked by Nyomi Scott]()
Gettin' Hooked by Nyomi Scott
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsClick for your dream dateCould she go to the senior dance with just any guy? No way. Imani Lane has her heart set on Maurice, the hottest guy in town. But he isn't exactly asking. So she comes up with an idea to help herself--and everyone else, too... -
![Whistleblower by Kate Marchant]()
Whistleblower by Kate Marchant
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKate Marchant presents a story about a young journalist who fights for the truth to come to light—even if it means she might lose everything . . . Laurel Cates has never wanted the spotlight...Categorized as:
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![Breathe by Lucinda Race]()
Breathe by Lucinda Race
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHer family’s successful winery business in the Finger Lakes region of New York should have gone to Tessa Price. She’d always dreamed of running the winery, but when the “prodigal son” returns to take up the reins, she boldly strikes out on her own, purchasing Sand Creek Winery—a cash-strapped competitor—right out from under her family... -
![A Hundred and One Reasons by Bianca Salindong]()
A Hundred and One Reasons by Bianca Salindong
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere are still many things Ann needed to know, to explore and live the life she'd always imagined. But everything turned upside down when she learned that she is sick. Not cough and colds sick. No, something much complicated than that. Ann decides that she'd rather fight when she knows she had no chances of winning... -
![Jasper by Lulu Moore]()
Jasper by Lulu Moore
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs Captain of an NHL team, I'm rich, successful and have women falling at my feet.I thought my life was perfect until a pint sized blonde checked into me one day, knocking my life off course.Wolfie Williams is sass personified. Beautiful, fiery, funny and oh so sexy. With every eye roll she gives me I become more and more wrapped around her finger, making me realise she is my missing piece...Categorized as:
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![One Billion Reasons by Sophia Travers]()
One Billion Reasons by Sophia Travers
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe’s the heartless billionaire I loathe, my brother’s best friend, and strictly forbidden. Until he needs a fake girlfriend, and he makes me an offer I can’t refuse…Miles Becker was my guilty obsession for a decade. The gorgeous troublemaker who was my opposite in every way. Until one awful night made me swear I’d never speak to him again...Categorized as:
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![Saving Elliot by NorthByNorth]()
Saving Elliot by NorthByNorth
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“I keep trying to think of ways to make myself hate you.” “Kind of hard to do when you're in love with me, isn't it?” He said. * * * Meet Elliot Jensen; she’s stubborn, intelligent, sarcastic, short-tempered and ambitious. Meet Elliot Fintry, he’s impulsive, rude, cold, devious, and reckless...Categorized as:
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![Turquoise Green Winter by Carina Bartsch]()
Turquoise Green Winter by Carina Bartsch
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA week after "Cherry Red Summer," Emely still can't understand why both of her potential lovers, Elyas and Luca, suddenly broke off contact with her. She can't get answers from Luca since she knows him only through e-mails?and he's not replying. But she can certainly find Elyas, who she's known for years...Categorized as:
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![Must Date the Playboy by notjustarandomgirl]()
Must Date the Playboy by notjustarandomgirl
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“I know I’m not the type of girl that you usually go out with. I’m not sexy, I’m not attractive and I’m no fun. I’m plain and boring with no charm at all. The only thing good about me is probably my brain, which everyone finds boring. But I must ask you this…Mr...Categorized as:
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![Para sa Hopeless Romantic: Extended Edition by Marcelo Santos III]()
Para sa Hopeless Romantic: Extended Edition by Marcelo Santos III
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Totoo ba ang happy ending? Deserve ba ng isang tao ang second chance? Bakit kung sino pa 'yung nagmamahal, sila pa 'yung nasasaktan?"Ang Para sa Hopeless Romantic Extended Edition ay istorya ng anim na taong nakikipagsapalaran sa mundo ng pag-ibig.Isang lihim na umiibig. Isang umaasang babalikan. Isang naghahangad na mahalin. Isang natatakot nang umibig muli. Isang nagsusumikap na makalimot... -
![First Flight, Final Fall by C.W. Farnsworth]()
First Flight, Final Fall by C.W. Farnsworth
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat do you do when you encounter the famous footballer voted “Sexiest Athlete Alive” three years running on a soccer field in Germany? If you’re Saylor Scott, you challenge him to a shoot-out. And win. Saylor’s goals have always involved the literal kind constructed from posts and netting... -
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![Ezra by Kate Tilney]()
Ezra by Kate Tilney
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA curvy heroine. A brave mountain man. Two enemies become lovers in this short, steamy romance.WrenI head to Alaska to help friends set up "Camp Mountain Man," a place where women can live out their fantasies of falling for a mountain man. The only problem? My friends forgot to tell the mountain men who own the lodge that I'm coming. When the lodge's owner finds out, he's MAD... -
![Breaking Dad by Kathryn M. Hearst]()
Breaking Dad by Kathryn M. Hearst
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmyOpening a yoga studio was supposed to be an inspiring 'I am woman, hear me roar' second act, but instead I'm having a midlife meltdown. My baby was accepted to college the same day my business was evicted. Worse, my only hope for saving my studio is convincing the world’s most impossible CEO to approve my corporate wellness program... -
![Loving the Single Dad by Elena Aitken]()
Loving the Single Dad by Elena Aitken
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIs there anything sexier than a devoted single dad? You decide with this collection of three full-length, swoon worthy single dad romances! Always Be Mine - He needs a nanny. She needs a job. Now, all they have to do is keep their hands off each other and their feelings to themselves... -
![Doctor Duke: A DDLG, Age Play Romance by Amy Cummings]()
Doctor Duke: A DDLG, Age Play Romance by Amy Cummings
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJourney back to Mountainville—that oasis in the West Texas desert for Littles and Bigs—in the newest romance from Amazon Bestselling Author, Amy Cummings!NorahBeing a Little can sure be tough. Daddies aren’t exactly a dime a dozen. But I won’t give up hope. He’s out there, somewhere. I can picture him in my dreams—sweet, caring, funny, and oh so hot and sexy.He’s pretty much the opposite of Dr... -
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![Playing to Win by L.M. Reid]()
Playing to Win by L.M. Reid
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsQuitters never win.Winners never quit.And I am no quitter.The gorgeous blonde I had a one night stand with three years ago breezes back into my life without warning. I may have made a mess of things back then but there is no way am I letting her go this time.The only problem? She hates me for what I did to her.Lucky for me, she needs me... -
![Come Ride With Me: Platinum Ryders MC by A.C. Arthur]()
Come Ride With Me: Platinum Ryders MC by A.C. Arthur
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor Michel “Mica” Monroe, finding out she’s the heir to a motorcycle shop comes as a bittersweet reminder of the father she barely knew. Now, Mica has to leave the sheltered life she’s built for herself to start anew in a town where nobody knows her, to run a business she knows nothing about... -
![Water Under Bridges by Harper Bliss]()
Water Under Bridges by Harper Bliss
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan you build a future if you don't let go of the past? Louise Hamilton has returned to Sydney after her long term relationship broke down in Brisbane and she's loving her new job at Glow, Darlinghurst's freshly opened yoga studio. She's found new friends in her boss Amber and the gang at the Pink Bean and feels like her life is finally back on track... -
![Wicked Deception by M.V. Kasi]()
Wicked Deception by M.V. Kasi
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHer one passionate mistake led to his wicked deception...The only way Narmada can keep the company she built with her late husband is to maintain the chastity clause. Any intimacy with a man would cost her everything. Narmada has never been tempted to waver from the irrational clause... until him... -
![Truth or Dare by L A Cotton]()
Truth or Dare by L A Cotton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEscaping to Credence was supposed to be Becca's shot at a new life, but some secrets refuse to stay hidden, and now that the truth is out, everything changes. Everything. The people she thought she could trust lied. The guy she thought cared about her kept her in the dark. And with no one to turn to, Becca finds it hard to unravel the truth...Categorized as:
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![Breathe Again by Rachel Brookes]()
Breathe Again by Rachel Brookes
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor Savannah Rae, the thought of living in her picture-perfect world was almost too much to comprehend. With her dream job, a family she could finally call her own, and the beginnings of the best chapter of her life, she still couldn't shake the unnerving feeling that it was all too good to be true. The thought of a life without Savannah was incomprehensible to Tate Connors... -
![Three Treats to Tempt You by Serenity Woods]()
Three Treats to Tempt You by Serenity Woods
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Three Treats to Tempt You bundle contains the first three books in the Treats to Tempt You contemporary romance series as follows: Book 1: Treat with Caution A fun and sexy enemies-to-lovers contemporary romance. Both Tasha and Kole are confident their attraction is only physical. Both are going to get into trouble... -
![Crashing Into You by Melanie Shawn]()
Crashing Into You by Melanie Shawn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKennedy Dawes knew her perfect partner was out there…but she was beginning to wonder if he was playing hide and seek in camouflage in the woods because she sure as hell couldn’t find him...Categorized as:
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![Amor Sob Encomenda by Carina Rissi]()
Amor Sob Encomenda by Carina Rissi
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMelissa Gouvêa está totalmente focada na profissão. Responsável pela situação financeira da família, incluindo o caro tratamento médico da mãe, a determinada assistente sonha em se tornar a produtora de eventos da Allure. Como se casar não faz parte de seus planos no momento, ela se assusta ao saber que o namorado foi visto comprando um anel de noivado... -
![The Legacy: Making Wishes Come True by Lurlene McDaniel]()
The Legacy: Making Wishes Come True by Lurlene McDaniel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWho is JWC and how was the One Last Wish Foundation created? Discover the tragic story behind a struggle for survival against impossible odds. Follow the interwining story of true love and friendships that compelled JWC to dedicate a life and legacy to helping others in this extraordinary novel of hope.You don't know me, but I know about you... -
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![How to Keep a Boy from Kissing You by Tara Eglington]()
How to Keep a Boy from Kissing You by Tara Eglington
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsExecutor of the Find a Prince Program™ and future author, sixteen-year-old Aurora Skye is dedicated to helping others navigate the minefield that is teenage dating. Counsellor-in-residence at home, where her post-divorce ad-agency father has transformed into a NAD (New Age Dad) intent on stripping his life bare of ‘the illusionary’ (i.e... -
![Briggs by Samantha Whiskey]()
Briggs by Samantha Whiskey
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFour years ago, one mistake—one woman—cost me my NHL team.I’ve worked every day since to ensure I’m irreplaceable to the Carolina Reapers.I’m faster, stronger, and sure as hell smarter.With a new million-dollar endorsement deal, I’m at the top of my game—Until I realize the very woman who got me traded is now the CEO who just signed my deal—under the guise of making amends... -
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Night Shift by Annie Crown
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKendall prefers reading romance novels to college dating, until a real-life meet-cute with the bad boy goes off the rails in the best way possible. *****Kendall works the night shift at the campus library. It's the perfect job: she gets to spend hours reading her romance novels without interruption.. -
![Keeping Kaitlyn: The Gilroy Clan vol. 10 by Megyn Ward]()
Keeping Kaitlyn: The Gilroy Clan vol. 10 by Megyn Ward
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSix years ago, I asked Kaitlyn Barrett to marry me, and she said yes. Three weeks later, I left her to set right the mess that led me to her inthe first place. I promised to come back, and she promised to stay.When I came back for her, two weeks later, she was gone—the onlything left to prove that she’d even been there in the first place were thesigned divorce papers she left behind... -
![Hard To Handle by R.C. Boldt]()
Hard To Handle by R.C. Boldt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRC Boldt’s Teach Me series gives us a closer look at just how thin the line is between love and hate… Fifth grade social studies teacher, Laney Kavanaugh, is no stranger to being left behind – her father taught her that at a young age. That’s why she always has her eyes wide open when it comes to men. She’s determined she will never again be the one left behind...Categorized as:
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![Hayley by Kathryn Shay]()
Hayley by Kathryn Shay
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Casella Cousins Novella 1: HayleyShe drives him crazy in court. He’s the most irritating, self-absorbed defense attorney she’s ever met. What happens when a couple like this goes from enemies to lovers in one moonlit night on his boat?Assistant District Attorney Hayley Casella wants to tear her hair out whenever she has to argue against her nemesis, Paul Covington, in court...
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