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I Will Not Beg by Cherise Sinclair
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe signed away her freedomStarved for affection, young Piper Delaney surrenders her life to a Master. But there is no love—only abuse. She’s told she can’t leave; she signed the slave contract. Years later, beaten and starving, she hears an English Dom say the contract’s illegal. Unenforceable. And she runs.She reclaims her life and rises above the nightmare that was her past... -
Rescuing Jenna by Anna Blakely
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA man who believes he’s unworthy of love. A woman determined to make him see the truth. An enemy watching from the shadows, ready to destroy them both for good. Former Marine Adrian Walker has been called a lot of things…Liar. Traitor. Murderer. Bastard. In order to keep his country safe, he had to become all those things and more. And he’s been fine with it, until now. Until her... -
The Games Destiny Plays by Tiffany Reisz
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Last Good Knight: An Original Sinners novella told in five parts. Part III: The Games Destiny Plays Shocked to see Nora's bruises, Lance is furious that she put herself in danger and demands to know where she got them. As Nora confesses her true nature, she's equally shocked to learn that Lance has some secrets of his own, drawing them together despite Kingsley's orders…... -
Wrecker's Ensnarement by Ciara St. James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWreckerWalking that hazy line between his day job and his club isn’t an easy one for Wrecker. After all, there aren’t a whole lot of men who were both semi-outlaw bikers and cops. He likes to think he has the best of both worlds and until he meets a certain sexy therapist, he’s been happy with it. It’s a balancing act, but one he can manage... -
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Axe's Devotion by E.C. Land
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe’s a new face, and something I need to have.AxeEveryone left and now I’m picking up the pieces. After the fire, what could I expect? We know who was behind it and the club is ready for a fight. No one fucks with us and gets away with it, but I’d be lyin’ if I said I wasn’t distracted.I can’t stop staring at her... -
Dead Man's Hand: A Bad Boy Mafia Romance by Renee Rose
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“I OWN YOU NOW” She made a big mistake. You don’t blackmail a Tacone. Coming to me with a threat? Unacceptable. If she needs money, she’ll have to ask nicely. But once I give it to her, we both know what it means: She belongs to me. I do my best to hold back. Give her respect. Trouble is, I can’t keep my hands off her... -
Twister's Survival by E.C. Land, Cosmic Letterz Design
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIzzy For as long as I can remember, I've only felt one thing - pain. It consumes every part of me and I just want it to end. Enough has happened over the years and I'm ready to make it all stop. The night I lay out my plan and am fully prepared to end my life - he stops me. His act is simple, offering me his hand but in that, he gave me so much hope... -
Lawless & Soulless by T.M. Frazier
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLawless and Soulless together in one book! Books 3&4 in the USA TODAY BESTSELLING KING SERIES. Lawless: She's prim and proper. He's leather and lawless. It will never work between them. It's a lie they almost believe. Soulless: The conclusion to Bear and Thia's epic love story... -
Fury by Laramie Briscoe
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom a USA Bestselling Author - the next book in a fan favorite series! Family is number one; whether they are blood related or patched in. At thirteen-years-old, the bastard son of an asshole who wanted me to fail, I learned that lesson. Thanks to one man. Liam Walker raised me, taught me how to be an adult, and loved the hell out of my mother, me, and my sisters... -
Royal by Blair Babylon
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDree has been swindled, chased, heartbroken, conscripted, and kidnapped. What on Earth could be worse than all that? Don’t ask. Don’t miss the exciting next book in the Maxence saga, ROYAL! Is this the first Maxence book you’ve run across? Start the series with the first book, ROGUE. Her ex-boyfriend was supposed to propose in Paris, but instead, he swindled her out of every penny she had... -
Twisted Obsession by Keta Kendric
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAnsel: My cousin, Aaron, helped to rescue a damsel in distress from her cartel family, and of all people, he left her under my protection. Regina didn’t know it, but I’d claimed every part of her the day I’d set eyes on her... -
Rebelling Rogue by E.C. Land
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA rumor destroyed us, and now I'll put back the broken pieces.RogueMy life hasn't been the same since she left. Rebel was the one woman who knew me better than anyone else. Long story short, she was tricked into thinking I cheated on her. I didn't, but she didn't care. She wanted to be out of my life and I let her walk away. I shouldn't have, but it's too late now... -
An Insurgent's Wedding - Box Set by Chiah Wilder
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 1, Hawk’s Property, must be read in order to understand and enjoy An Insurgent’s Wedding.Since the beginning, everything about Hawk and Cara’s relationship has always been rough, hot, and passionate. When the VP of the Insurgents MC had first locked eyes with the feisty lawyer, he’d known he’d make her his forever... -
Black Light: Valentine Roulette by Livia Grant, Jennifer Bene
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThree hours. Four hard limits. Eight sexy stories. Are you brave enough to spin the wheel? Get ready to explore some of your naughtiest desires while you celebrate Valentine’s Day with eight kinky stories from eight USA Today and international bestselling authors! Black Light is the most exclusive BDSM club in Washington, D.C... -
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Clutch by Jack Davenport
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings18+ for language and sexual situations...The Burning Saints Motorcycle Club is the only family Clutch has known, and violence his only stock and trade. Humanity has handed him nothing but pain struggle, and he’s come to expect even less from it. As an orphan, he’s always found it easier to bond with machines than with people... -
Cash by Megan O'Brien
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the moment Cash Walker encounters Layla West, it's clear she's different than any woman he's ever met. Her bright green eyes and strong will have him captivated. She's his. Now he just has to convince her. After losing her nan, Layla relocates to Hawthorne, Nevada, with her five-year-old daughter and the desire for a fresh start... -
Enigma: The Complete Collection by Shandi Boyes
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEnigma: The Complete Collection is the entire story of the tumultuous relationship of Isaac and Isabelle. A sitting on the edge of your seat read that will have you enthralled until the very last word. Over 390,000 words on an enigmatic alpha male and the FBI agent assigned to his case. This is a story about two people who were never destined to fall in love... -
Choosing Nerd by E.C. Land
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNerd Having to choose between life and death would seem easier if I wasn't dealing with the situation I've found myself in. I was asked a favor by a good friend to help them find someone, so of course I agreed without hesitation. It's what I do best-- locating missing persons. I never knew the person I was looking for would be the only one who's been capable of bringing me to my knees... -
Luna’s Shadow by E.C. Land
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLunaI was saved from one hell to only find myself in another one. Except, this time things are different. The first time I knew what to expect-- but here things aren't the same. Every time I turn around, I don't know what's coming my way... -
The War by S.R. Jones
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKonstantin:I took her to protect her. To keep her safe.Now she wants more.She wants to claim my heart.She says she will fight for me, for us.Trouble is, I don’t know if I have anything left to give.Cassie:He took me to keep me safe.My captor, my protector, my lover.I want more. He’s a Bratva king, and every king needs his queen.My heart is on the line, but I won’t give up the fight... -
Taming the Wolf by Maureen Smith
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSamara Layton needs a pot of gold. Her community outreach organization in Washington, D.C. is in dire financial straits. As executive director, it's up to Samara to rescue the non-profit organization from bankruptcy, and time is running out. As a last-ditch resort, she seeks help from her estranged mother, world-renowned fashion designer Asha Dubois... -
Thorn's Revenge by E.C. Land, Cosmic Letterz Design
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThorn I told her when we first met that we couldn’t be more than friends with benefits. It was a great idea until she ghosted me. That’s when the puzzle pieces fit together and I realized she had more than just my dick in knots about her. The girl claimed my heart through and through. No one would tell me shit about her, or at least, they didn’t until shit hit the fan... -
Ghost's Beauty by Ciara St. James
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsReleasing October 31, 2020 now available for pre-order on Amazon and books2read.comGhost:I’m a Navy corpsman turned Archangel’s Warrior.I spend my days creating beautiful custom bikes.At night, I yearn for a woman of my own.Then my club rescues a group of women from a terrible fate.One woman immediately captures my attention, Wren.But she’s scarred and needs time to heal... -
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Caged Thorn by Naomi West
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTen years ago, I ran from my home.Today, I’m running back.The difference this time is that my son is coming with me.We’re going back to the place I swore I’d never return to.Back to the lies and the heartbreaks and the site of the day that changed my life forever.There is one other difference, actually:This time, someone is following me.Konstantin Aminoff isn’t the kind of man who “lets go... -
Lost With Me by J. Kenner
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom New York Times and #1 International bestselling author J. Kenner comes a new full-length novel in the wildly popular Stark Saga that’s left millions of readers breathless. His touch takes my breath away. Our passion feeds my soul... My love for Damien fills me, and the intensity of our bond brings me to my knees... -
Heist: A Diamond Doms Novel by Ivy Nelson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPatrick Sutton just wants to forget his father ever existed. Unfortunately, the media and a very public trial are not going to let that happen. Thankfully he has his second family, the members of Club Solitaire. Among them is the charming Austin Yates, a high profile defense attorney who dabbles in contract law for his company from time to time... -
Descent by Gemma James
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe highly anticipated conclusion of Alex and Rafe's saga is here! We did it. We said the vows, dressed for the occasion, dared to believe in Happily Ever After. Alex Mason. It has a nice ring to it, the promise of forever. Until I awake the morning after to an empty bed and my worst nightmare waiting to strike. Rafe is gone, but his twisted desires leave me with the chance for survival... -
Fate Heals by Tina Saxon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFate has forced me down a twisted path. When I think it can’t get any worse, it reminds me that it can, pushing me into a thick, thorny maze and leaves deep, irrevocable scars. My will to fight has taken hit after hit, that burnt-out fire leaving only embers to scorch those closest to me... -
The Decadence After Dark Box Set: Decadence after Dark Books 1-3 by M. Never
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThree dark erotic tales under one sinful cover... Get Owned, Claimed, and Ruined with The Decadence After Dark Series. One hundred and eighty thousand words of pulse-pounding heat, raw passion and insatiable love! Owned (Book One in The Decadence After Dark Series) "I like you collared, baby. I like you naked, I like you mine... -
Black Hat Hacker (Chicago Syndicate World) by Soraya Naomi
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlthough part of the Chicago Syndicate world, Black Hat Hacker is a complete standalone and can be enjoyed either with or without reading the rest of the series. You don’t know me. But that’s only because I don’t want you to. I have the most lucrative job in the country as a hacker in the notorious underworld... -
A Demon's Bliss by E.C. Land
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChazI swore five years ago that I'd never allow another woman get to me. To never allow them in my heart. Not after everything that happened, not after the heartache and pain I felt. I've lost people before, but never in the way I lost her. After being on my own for this long I've determined all I need is my music and the people I call my family -- my band.Or so I thought... -
A Demon's Harmony by E.C. Land
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTannerI lost the one person who brought harmony into my life. She hates me and I know exactly why. If only she could see what's right in front of her face. The person who she trusted even more than me -- she's the one who put the nails in the coffin that was the end of my relationship.It's been years since it happened and I'm watching my closest friends find their forever women... -
Brick's Fight by Carol Dawn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHerI've been kidnapped. I don't know how long I have been held here, but I do know that it's a very long time. I dream about being rescued by the large man I saw working at my father's gym, but he doesn't even know I exist. So, I scream, and I wait, and I scream, and I wait.Time goes on, My voice vanishes, the darkness gets deeper, my hope dies, and I sleep. HimI've only ever seen her in pictures... -
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Nikolai: Mine to Protect by Shandi Boyes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Justine walked into my life, I swore an allegiance, an oath to protect her with everything I have. I slayed the devil and stole his crown. I now sit in his throne with my queen at my side. But what happens when everything I’ve ever wanted is pulled out from beneath me? I’ve risen from the ashes more than once, but this resurrection is by far the most dangerous... -
Protecting Blaze's Mark by E.C. Land
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRaven I’ve been on a ride through hell and back with Blaze at myside. We’ve taken on more than anyone could bear. Now here we are with our world being tossed into the fire and it’s time to for us to protect ourselves once again. This time I’m clouded by my own fears that come arise. I only hope I can withstand the flames when they come for us this time around... -
Set In Stone by Dakota Willink
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTwo declarations of love. And a past that won’t set them free. Alexander I had rules. Krystina broke them. That’s just the way things were. But that didn’t mean I didn’t want to make her my wife. She exemplified the triskelion, representing my past, my present, and my future. Without her, I am nothing. But then the past returns to rear its ugly head... -
For Cam by Soraya Naomi
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor Cam can be read as standalone, but it's advised to read book 3 For Adriano before book 4. Book 1 and 2 center around another couple.Camilla Guillermo’s life has been turned upside down ever since she joined the Chicago Syndicate and was reunited with Adriano Montesi, the cocky and charismatic Mafia man who captured her heart two years ago... -
Life (4) (Trinity Novel) by Audrey Carlan
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMaria De La Torre is a survivor. Her life has not been paved with streets of gold...but with blood and sacrifice. She may have been there for her soul sister in the Trinity Trilogy but this story is about her life. The life she chooses. The same life someone from her past is trying to take away. Elijah is the last man in the entire world Maria should be with... -
Dark Pleasures by M.S. Parker
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s not supposed to happen to people like me. Broken, damaged people don't get to fall in love with amazing, handsome men like Rylan Archer. And men like Rylan never look twice at women like me. Except he had. Rylan loves me. I love him, too... and it scares me to death... -
West by Jessica Gadziala
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe thought it would be a fun vacation. Head down the coast. Get some sun. Chase some skirts. Get to know the guys from the new chapter. Nothing more serious than that. Until he met her. Then, well, things got a hell of a lot more serious... -
The Absolution of Aidan by Kathy Coopmans
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAidan Hughes I was cruel to Deidre La Russo. Said things I should never say to a woman. Seen things happen to her. Things darker than the bottle of liquor I consume. I felt helpless. Defeated. The memories are more tortuous than the act of her torture. Then she walks back into my life, only she’s not alone. Deidre La Russo I have my reasons for leaving. I lived through hell... -
Black Butterfly by Tiffany Patterson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEach book in the Black Burlesque Series are STANDALONE novels. Book 1: Black Pearl Book 2: Black Dahlia Andre Collins is not looking for love. In fact, love is the last thing on his mind as he continues to run one of the country’s most successful financial services firms alongside his brother. Andre is steadfast in the belief that love and marriage just aren’t for him... -
Viper's Touch by E.C. Land
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI swore I'd never let another woman look into my heart, but Jade didn't need to see to know the type of man I am.ViperAfter being framed and ending up in prison, I was done with women. I wanted nothing to do with them. A woman was the reason I landed in jail in the first place, so I wasn't ever going to let another put me in so much risk again... -
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McCoy by Jessica Gadziala
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShy never intended to get involved with a bunch of one-percent bikers. But when someone comes into her life, giving her an unthinkable ultimatum, she finds she is willing to do things she never would have thought possible to protect her family. She didn’t expect to fail.Or to be granted not only forgiveness, but help, from the best-looking man she’d ever seen... -
Sacred Vow by Terri Anne Browning
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne vow made as kids.But could it last forever?We belonged to each other.Now and always.He slid that promise ring on my finger and made me his for the first time.But we had to keep it a secret from our fathers.Because mine would murder him, and his would help bury the body if they found out.Now, we don’t have to keep the secret any longer... -
Nailed by You: The Ross Brothers Trilogy: Book One by Nikki Mays
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKellie has had it with men! Especially good for nothing sperm donors who never see their daughter! The only men who don’t get on her nerves are her father, brother and Mason Ross. The first two for obvious reasons and the last one, well...he’s just Mason. Sweet, silly and more handsome than any man should ever be. Too bad a man like him can have any woman that he wants... -
Pure Pleasures by M.S. Parker
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI knew I'd done the right thing by leaving him. He deserved someone who could give him everything he wanted, and that couldn't be me. I'd been broken far too long. When twenty-two year-old Jenna Lang leave the man she loves because she can't give him children, she believes she's making the right choice. As much as it breaks her heart, she wants him to move on and be happy... -
Holding On by Pamela Clare
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA hero barely holding on… Harrison Conrad returned to Scarlet Springs from Nepal, the sole survivor of a freak accident on Mt. Everest. Shattered and grieving for his friends, he vows never to climb again and retreats into a bottle of whiskey—until Kenzie Morgan shows up at his door with a tiny puppy asking for his help... -
Disbelief by T.L Smith
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat if I was to tell you, you’re all evil? In some shape or form, you are. What If I was to tell you, I was the worst kind of evil? Would you believe me? I did not believe that there wasn’t anyone who didn’t contain evil. I was proved wrong, and it stumped me. I became obsessed with her, someone of pure goodness. And couldn’t get enough...
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