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  • Shattered by Helen Hardt

    Shattered by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Ryan Steel is known in Snow Creek as the handsomest Steel brother with the most jovial personality. Now that his busy grape harvest and winemaking season is over, he's happy to spend time with his family and help his brothers, Talon and Jonah, celebrate their impending nuptials. The Steels are taking a well-deserved break from the conspiracy surrounding them..
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    alpha-mc  billionaire  crime  family  male-mc  steamy  suspense  abuse
  • This Man Confessed by Jodi Ellen Malpas

    This Man Confessed by Jodi Ellen Malpas

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    THE STUNNING CONCLUSION TO THE THIS MAN TRILOGY!The Manor, the very place where their passionate love affair began, fills with guests on what should be the happiest day of Ava and Jesse's lives. She has accepted that she'll never tame the fierceness in Jesse-and she doesn't want to...
  • The Counterfeit Billionaire by Ivy Layne

    The Counterfeit Billionaire by Ivy Layne

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I have everything I ever wanted. Now I want the only thing I can’t have. Annabelle. CHASE I've been on my own since my parents kicked me out. I made my first million at twenty and never looked back. Then I found out I was the long, lost son of the wealthy and powerful Winters family. Their name means fame, fortune, power. F**k that...
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    alpha-mc  billionaire  epic  family  steamy  suspense  adult  audiobook
  • Surrender by Helen Hardt

    Surrender by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Jonah Steel has fallen in love with Melanie Carmichael but still lives with the guilt that consumes him as he tries to unravel the mystery of his family's past. A new threat has surfaced, and he finds himself trapped in a web of deceit and lies. Melanie loves Jonah but has yet to surrender completely to his needs. Meanwhile, a new friend uncovers more information and more questions...
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    alpha-mc  billionaire  crime  drama  family  steamy  suspense  abuse
  • American Hellhound by Lauren Gilley

    American Hellhound by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Black dogs. Demons. Hellhounds. Damned souls that haunt crossroads, taking the forms of hulking dogs with glowing red eyes. Legends of the Old World, but just stories meant to scare lonely wanderers. Mostly. Knoxville, Tennessee boasts black dogs of its own: the mother chapter of the Lean Dogs Motorcycle Club...
  • Awakened by Sin by Mia Knight

    Awakened by Sin by Mia Knight

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Carmen Pyre had it all until her husband was murdered by a madman who threatened everyone she loved. Now that her husband has been avenged, it's time to move on... she just doesn't know how. Two men who fill her husband’s former roles offer to help her move forward with her life...
  • Melt by Helen Hardt

    Melt by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Jonah Steel is intelligent, rich, and hard-working. As the oldest of his siblings, he was charged by his father to protect them. He failed in the worst way. Dr. Melanie Carmichael has her own baggage. Although the renowned therapist was able to help Jonah’s brother, she is struggling with feelings of inadequacy...
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    alpha-mc  billionaire  crime  drama  family  steamy  suspense  abuse
  • Hyde's Absolution by Nina Levine

    Hyde's Absolution by Nina Levine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Possessive biker alert Monroe Lee is a handful. She fights me, challenges me and tries to resist me. Where I’m jagged, she’s smooth. Where I’m dark, she’s pure. Where I’m broken, she’s whole. I am not a good man. I’ve hurt everyone I’ve ever loved. I should walk away before I ruin her too. But fuck, we are fire together. And I’ve been out in the cold too long...
  • Slay by Nina Levine

    Slay by Nina Levine

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Book 4 in the Bestselling Storm MC Series by Nina Levine BLOOD WILL BE SHED... The ghosts of Donovan "Blade" Brookes' life are closing in on him.   Hardened by an abusive childhood and haunted by the murder of his fiancé, Blade struggles against the dark forces threatening to consume him.  When he helps Layla Reed in her hour of need, he has no idea she will be the light to his darkness...
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    alpha-mc  angst  crime  drama  family  female-mc  multi-pov  steamy
  • Reveal by K. Bromberg

    Reveal by K. Bromberg

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author K. Bromberg comes the raw, sexy, and jaw-dropping finale to the Wicked Ways series. I play to win, and I won’t let anything—or anyone—get in the way of what I want. The first time I met Vaughn Sanders, I knew I wanted her. Confident, intelligent, and downright sexy. I thought I knew how to play her game. I was ready and willing for the challenge...
  • Beneath These Scars by Meghan March

    Beneath These Scars by Meghan March

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    I’m the guy you love to hate. In every story in my life, I seem to end up playing the villain—and I’ve got the scars to prove it. That role works fine for me, because I’m sure as hell not anyone’s hero. I run my life and my empire with an iron fist—until she knocks my tightly controlled world off its axis. She’s nobody’s damsel in distress, but I can’t help but want to save her anyway...
  • Cunning by Aleatha Romig

    Cunning by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    "He owns you. Whatever he tells you to do you do".One year. No future. A past that won't go away.Lennox "Nox" Demetri broke his own rule by making a deal. It may not have been directly with the devil, but that doesn't mean Satan himself isn't watching. Was it fate that brought Charli into his life and his bed? What will happen when rules are broken and secrets are revealed?"New rules...my rules...
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    alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  crime  drama  epic  family  female-mc
  • A Single Touch by W. Winters

    A Single Touch by W. Winters

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Single Touch is Book 3 and the FINAL book of the Irresistible Attraction series. A Single Glance must be read first...
  • Firefly by Molly McAdams

    Firefly by Molly McAdams

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The next captivating installment in New York Times bestselling author Molly McAdams’s Redemption series. As the Princess of the Irish-American Mob, there’s no shortage of men ready to help guard and protect me. To slowly suffocate me to the point of seeking freedom—a place where I can breathe. Kieran Hayes has been saving me for as long as I can remember...
  • Real Sexy by Meghan March

    Real Sexy by Meghan March

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Boone Thrasher has never walked away from a fight, and he’s willing to put everything on the line to win the woman he can’t live without in the conclusion to the Real Dirty Duet by USA Today bestselling author Meghan March.***In Nashville, stars are a dime a dozen. I swore I’d never get caught up with one, but Boone Thrasher made a liar out of me...
  • Deception by Aleatha Romig

    Deception by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "Infidelity - it isn't what you think" It all began in Del Mar, a chance meeting with a single rule--one week only. Or did it? Lennox ‘Nox’ Demetri and Alexandria ‘Charli’ Collins had every intention of following their agreement but rules are made to be broken. In CUNNING they are reunited with Nox setting down new rules for the game and Charli having no choice but to follow them...
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    alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  crime  drama  epic  family  female-mc
  • Dirty Rich One Night Stand: Two Years Later by Lisa Renee Jones

    Dirty Rich One Night Stand: Two Years Later by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    CONTINUING CAT AND REESE'S STORY (read the beginning of their story in Dirty Rich One Night Stand) Get ready for Cat and Reese’s story to continue in this novel that will test Cat and Reese’s relationship. Reese is preparing and trying the second hardest trial of his career when the past comes back to haunt him and Cat, just as their lives are getting ready to change irrevocably...
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    alpha-mc  crime  family  female-mc  multi-pov  steamy  suspense  adult
  • One Woman by Lisa Renee Jones

    One Woman by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The second book in the Naked trilogy... More information coming soon...
  • Revenge by Lexi Blake

    Revenge by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Passion and danger collide in the latest contemporary romance featuring the Lawless siblings—from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake. When Drew Lawless discovers a fatal flaw in his plan to avenge his parents’ deaths, he turns to the one woman he'd promised he wouldn't touch. He offers her a deal, one that will bring her into his investigation, his life, and his bed...
  • Hopelessly Devoted: by Bink Cummings

    Hopelessly Devoted: by Bink Cummings

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Must read: Hopelessly Shattered & Hopeful Whispers previously. Pregnant- ✔ Deaths - ✔ A Baby – ✔ Stress that could make even the strongest woman crack – ✔ ✔ A year ago if you told me I’d wind up where I am today, I’d have you committed for insanity...
  • Crystal Jake: The Eden Trilogy Box Set by Georgia Le Carre, Nicola Rhead

    Crystal Jake: The Eden Trilogy Box Set by Georgia Le Carre, Nicola Rhead

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Bestselling Erotic Romance Series. Sexy & Suspenseful a whirlwind of steam, romance, and suspense. Meet the commanding, charismatic, Alpha - Crystal Jake Eden...
  • Niro by Jessica Gadziala

    Niro by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    * You do not need to read the OG Henchmen to read this new series *Joining the MC had never been a question.Raised by an ex-cage-fighting member, Niro hadn’t seen any future for himself that didn’t involve bikes, guns, violence, and the brotherhood he’d learned to revere above all else. But joining the Henchmen meant he couldn’t have the only other thing in life he wanted.Andi...
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    alpha-mc  angst  crime  drama  family  multi-pov  steamy  suspense
  • The Terms: Part Two by Ruby Rowe

    The Terms: Part Two by Ruby Rowe

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Camilla I longed to believe my bond with Ellis was impenetrable, but in reality, I held secrets that could blow open the tightly woven seam of our newfound relationship...
  • Art of War by Monique Orgeron

    Art of War by Monique Orgeron

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    War is inevitable, but who will win? The minute Murphy Larussa stepped foot in New Orleans, her life changed forever. Murphy was meant to remain in the shadows, hidden from prying eyes, like any good bastard. She finds herself hunted by a dangerous family for a debt she has no knowledge of. Everyone wants her gone, but they underestimate her...
  • Stanton Unconditional by T.L. Swan

    Stanton Unconditional by T.L. Swan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The follow up to the gripping first novel by T.L. Swan, Stanton Adore.Unconditional love, does it really exist or is it an urban myth? What does it really mean?Do you love someone because of their flaws?Or in spite of them.And at what point are the conditions more to bear.Than the love is worth.This is what I’m trying to decipherThis is my story.I’ll let you be the judge...
  • Revive by Nina Levine

    Revive by Nina Levine

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    He doesn’t do relationships. Neither does she. But they can’t fight the attraction any longer…Nash Walker hides the demons that consume his soul. He buries them deep and distracts himself with sex. Anything to avoid facing a past full of heartbreak and regret; anything to numb the pain that he struggles with daily.Velvet Carr has spent years fighting her demons. It’s a fight she’s winning...
  • Fall to You by Lexi Ryan

    Fall to You by Lexi Ryan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Torn between two men… When I woke up after the accident, I couldn’t remember anything from the last year—including my relationship with Max Hallowell or anything about Nate Crane. Now my memories are returning, but instead of answering my questions, they’re leaving me with more. The man who broke my heart and wants to be my future… Max is all I ever wanted, and now he wants to marry me...
  • Bossy Brothers: Tony by J.A. Huss

    Bossy Brothers: Tony by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Belinda Baker and I were not made for each other.We are not soul mates, or lovers, or even frenemies.She is the one who needed to get away.What we had together wasn’t blind love, it was sick rage.We were a match made in hell, it was hate at first sight, and when she walked away from me and never looked back—it was a relief.It was bliss...
  • Beautiful Sins by Piper Lawson

    Beautiful Sins by Piper Lawson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “I don’t know how to treat a woman like you.”I swore I’d cut Harrison King out of my life, and my bed, forever. The second my contract with the ruthless billionaire who owned me was up… I ran.Not knowing that decision would only twist the web around us tighter.Now, he’s back, and the sins of his past threaten to destroy us both.He still thirsts for power and vengeance...
  • A Divided Heart by Alessandra Torre

    A Divided Heart by Alessandra Torre

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can you love two men at once? Is there any future in that?Brant loves me fiercely. A brilliant tech billionaire who has owned my heart for four years, he keeps proposing, and I keep turning him down. I can’t marry him, not with all of the secrets between us.Lee uses me wildly.As grouchy as he is cocky, he's interested in getting me into his bed and little more...
  • His Queen by Bella J.

    His Queen by Bella J.

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I knew loving him would be my downfall.I just didn’t think it would happen so soon.There’s always a price to pay when you’re loved by a man like Nicoli Del Rossa.He’s my king. The captor of my heart.But with the Dark Sovereign empire comes savage enemies thirsting for bloodshed, and when a mafia war is raging, buried secrets are brought to the surface...
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    steamy  drama  family  multi-pov  female-mc  male-mc  crime  suspense
  • Tastes Like Candy by Lauren Gilley

    Tastes Like Candy by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Raised by a widower and a pack of uncles, Michelle Calloway has known only one way of life, that of the Lean Dogs MC, London chapter. When circumstances force her to flee to America, she fears her days of working alongside the club are over. But Derek Snow isn't the sort of man to let talent go to waste...
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    alpha-mc  angst  crime  epic  family  female-mc  multi-pov  steamy
  • A Reckless Note by Lisa Renee Jones

    A Reckless Note by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.” ― Morrissey It all started with a note, just a simple note hand written by a woman I didn't know, never even met. But in that note is perhaps every answer to every question I've ever had in my life. And because of that note, I travel thousands of miles. I look for her, but find him...
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    alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  drama  steamy  suspense  adult  audiobook
  • My Control by Lisa Renee Jones

    My Control by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I have lost the man I once was, letting guilt and heartache definewho I am. Darkness has controlled me, and one woman has seen what no one else hasseen in me, what I do not wish to exist. I'm consumed with my hunger for herand my need for her has driven me to the edge of sanity, but no more.She's about to find out that the Master has returned...
  • Delivered by Eva Charles

    Delivered by Eva Charles

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Delivered, Book 2 of The Devil’s Duet, is not a standalone. It should be read after reading Depraved. Gabrielle Duval belongs to me. I've made sure of that. Now it's time to eliminate the man who kept us apart. My father. The devil himself. His reign of terror ends here. On my terms...
  • Brothers in Arms by Penny Dee

    Brothers in Arms by Penny Dee

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Someone is going to pay. But who? CADE They took someone from me. And I’m going to make them pay. In blood. But before I can do that, I have to make sure my girl is safe. And I will do whatever I have to, even break my own heart, to make sure she survives. Because she is my queen. My everything. INDY He’s changed...
  • Sinful Hearts by Jagger Cole

    Sinful Hearts by Jagger Cole

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My first mistake was sleeping with the most dangerous man in New York, without him knowing who I was.My second was believing he never would...It was supposed to be easy: one night of sin with a beautiful stranger to forever cut ties with my Bratva past.But I didn’t pick a stranger. I picked him...
  • Rule by C.D. Reiss

    Rule by C.D. Reiss

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Theresa and Antonio.They've been through hell. Antonio has a price on his head for turning his back on a marriage deal, and Theresa has no intention of turning her back on him. They're devoted and strong, ready for anything.... A Love Tested To The LimitAnd then, someone from Antonio's past reappears. Someone who can give him everything he ever wanted, and who can shake them to their very core...
  • My Hunger by Lisa Renee Jones

    My Hunger by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    While Chris and Sara have traveled to Paris to avoid the chaos of press and police after the tragic events in San Francisco, I have stayed to face the reality of what has happened. But there is no peace to be found in facing the truth, and no truth to be found in the confessions that have been made and retracted...
  • Smokey by L. Wilder

    Smokey by L. Wilder

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From NYT and USA Today Bestselling Author L. Wilder comes book five in the Satan's Fury Series, a standalone MC romance.SmokeyYou can't fight fate, especially when it brings you a girl like MJ Thompson. She wasn't just beautiful. No, she was so much more than that. She was smart with a smile full of magic and curves that drove me to distraction...
  • Satisfaction by Lexi Blake

    Satisfaction by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The sizzling second novel in a sexy new contemporary romance series featuring the Lawless siblings—from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake. Brandon Lawless is a man on a mission: obtain the information that will clear his father’s name. He’s willing to do whatever it takes—even seduce his enemy’s personal assistant, the beautiful and innocent Carly Hendricks...
  • Sweet Mercy by Nina West

    Sweet Mercy by Nina West

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    One visit to my father in prison—convicted for a murder he didn’t commit—and I’ve attracted the attention of the last man I’d ever want knowing that I exist. Gabriel Easton. Son of an infamous crime boss. Pretentious liar. Merciless womanizer. A scoundrel to the core. Worse, he has figured out how desperate I am to protect my father from brutality behind bars...
  • Inked Armor by Helena Hunting

    Inked Armor by Helena Hunting

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In this follow-up to Clipped Wings, the emotional love story continues between Hayden and Tenley; two young people who desperately want to love and be loved but are afraid to completely let go of their pasts.In the wake of losing Tenley Page, tattooist Hayden Stryker's tumultuous past is haunting him. Plagued by nightmares about the murder of his parents, Hayden reaches out again to Tenley...
  • Reveling in Sin by Meghan March

    Reveling in Sin by Meghan March

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Reveling in Sin is the third book in New York Times bestselling author Meghan March's epically romantic and addictive Sin Trilogy.Whitney Gable is the kind of woman you fight to the death to protect. To keep. To cherish. I’ve finally learned my lesson, and it’s time to prove I’m the man who’s worthy of her.I don’t care what it takes, because failure is not an option...
  • Wasted Love with You: Season 1 by Whitney G.

    Wasted Love with You: Season 1 by Whitney G.

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The last time my husband gave me an orgasm was … Well, that's never happened. And from the way our marriage is crumbling under the weight of his lies, it never will.Alas, after fighting like hell for a divorce, I promise myself that I'll never waste love on anyone else.I don't even want to 'date' anyone else...
  • Then and Now by Bella Jewel

    Then and Now by Bella Jewel

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dear Fate, Here I am, finally writing to you again. Things haven’t changed, fate. Time hasn’t healed anything. As always, nothing makes sense. Things aren’t coming together as they should. Time has changed us very little. It has only made everything that much more confusing. Nothing is fixed. Nobody is happy. We still live with a dark cloud over our heads...
  • The Square by J.A. Huss, Johnathan McClain

    The Square by J.A. Huss, Johnathan McClain

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ALEC Against all odds we found each other. And then a single moment of betrayal ripped it all away. I thought Christine had forgiven me. I thought we’d moved past it. I thought she’d healed. CHRISTINE I loved them both and they loved me. But then Danny left and our triangle was broken...
  • Naked Truth by Lisa Renee Jones

    Naked Truth by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jax North. He's handsome, brutally so, and wealthy. Our first encounter is intense and sex is my escape. I go with it. I go with him and what a ride it is. And then, I say goodbye. Only you don't say goodbye to a man like Jax if he doesn't want you to. I've challenged him without meaning to. He wants me. I don't want to want him, and yet, I crave him. And he tears me down, my resistance, my walls...
  • Hotel O by Clarissa Wild

    Hotel O by Clarissa Wild

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A filthy new romance from New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author Clarissa Wild that will push all your buttons... Pleasure is business. That’s our motto here at Hotel O. No strings attached gratification is what we provide. Nothing is off limits. And all of it stays within these walls. My job as the organizer of these events requires a personal sacrifice...
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    alpha-mc  billionaire  crime  female-mc  multi-pov  steamy  adult  book
  • Gravitate by K.E. Osborn

    Gravitate by K.E. Osborn

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’m not a decent guy.I don’t do commitment.Women know the score before they land in my bed.But there is something about this feisty tattoo artist. She makes my blood boil. But with that pure, unadulterated rage comes an ache deep inside I simply can’t ignore.I despise her.I shouldn’t want her.The problem is—every part of me does.And it’s a complication I can no longer ignore...
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