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  • Say You Swear by Meagan Brandy

    Say You Swear by Meagan Brandy

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A College Romance...Coming February 18th. For years, I’ve dreamt of what college life could bring and while some things changed, there was always one constant. It didn’t matter how wild I allowed my imagination to run, it always led me to the same place in the end. It led me to him. My future was clear, and he was it. Until suddenly ... he wasn’t...
  • Inevitable: Carter Kids #5 by Chloe Walsh

    Inevitable: Carter Kids #5 by Chloe Walsh

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If two people are truly meant to be together, eventually they will find their way back to each other's arms. It is a prerequisite of love. It is inevitable… Right? Then why does it feel so wrong? Why is my heart pulling me in another direction? Why do I feel so lost? So utterly broken… On paper, Hope Carter has the perfect life...
  • The Harder You Fall by L.A. Cotton

    The Harder You Fall by L.A. Cotton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Cocky football players, school rivalry, and the girls who get in their way. Get ready … The Raiders are back for one final play! Mya Hernandez has scars. The kind that run deep and leave marks. Rixon is only supposed to be a temporary place to hide, but it's quickly becoming something more...
  • Puck Shy by Teagan Hunter

    Puck Shy by Teagan Hunter

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I’m having the definition of a bad year.Game Six loss costing my team the Cup? Check.Getting arrested and ruining my image? Check.Almost getting run over after my car breaks down? Oh, look—a hat trick.My contract is up with the Carolina Comets this year, and I need to get it together if I want to stay with the team.I need relaxation, not a relationship...
  • Palm South University: Season 3 Box Set by Kandi Steiner

    Palm South University: Season 3 Box Set by Kandi Steiner

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Drama. Lies. Sex. Welcome to Palm South University. The weather isn’t the only thing heating up in South Florida. At a school where fraternities and sororities don’t exactly play by the rules, relationships are bound to be tested...
  • One by Jewel E. Ann

    One by Jewel E. Ann

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Lake Jones is a cover girl for cutting-edge prosthetic legs, a binge-watcher of Netflix, known to spy on her neighbor through her door’s peephole, and fond of laser games with her hairless cat. She’s also a bit sexually-frustrated. Until … God bestows a breath of mercy upon her in the form of Minnesota’s NFL starting quarterback. But this gift is no stranger...
  • Found Underneath by K.L. Kreig

    Found Underneath by K.L. Kreig

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It began as a ruse. Take a girlfriend. Divert the press from the fucked up mess that’s my family until my father is re-elected. Stage a public breakup. Move on. Only that brilliant plan went straight south the moment I set eyes on Willow Blackwell. I found her. My center. My future. A soul mate with the will of a mule and the mouth of a harpy...
  • Flyball by Lisa Suzanne

    Flyball by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fighting against our relationship turns into keeping it a secret…most importantly from her father. At first it’s fun sneaking around, but then it feels like every time we’re close to coming clean, something happens to stop us. And then life takes another detour as the reminder that life is short plows into me. It’s moments like these that make me think long and hard about the future...
  • The Jock by Tal Bauer

    The Jock by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Wes Van de Hoek clawed his way off his family’s West Texas ranch under the Friday night lights, earning a football scholarship to the state’s best university. Three years in, he has it all: he’s the starting tight end, team captain, and, according to ESPN, maybe the best college football player in the nation. But he’s been keeping a secret from everyone...
  • Favorite Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Favorite Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The boy next door isn’t next door anymore.He’s in Vegas, preparing for the upcoming NFL season, and I’m still stuck in the small Midwestern town where we grew up.We should be together, but people wanted us apart. They won. Secrets are uncovered and lives are forever torn apart.Maybe it was a mistake to try to recapture what we once had after everything we’d been through...
  • Cards of Love: Knight of Swords by Autumn Jones Lake

    Cards of Love: Knight of Swords by Autumn Jones Lake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes the most beautiful souls are the most broken. Protect. From the minute I met her, I wanted to offer my protection. Desire. All I have to offer is my jaded heart, broken soul, and undying love. Sacrifice. I gave up my pride, my hostility, and my heart to make her happy. Justice. Fuck the consequences, I would’ve given up anything, even my life, to keep her safe...
  • Chosen by Love by Toni Aleo

    Chosen by Love by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cameron White is the most famous student influencer on the Bellevue campus. Not only that, she is one hell of a gymnast, ready to stick every landing her senior year. It’s time to go out with a bang...
  • Caught Looking by Lisa Suzanne

    Caught Looking by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When her father orchestrates an engagement for business purposes, Alexis is forced to say yes publicly.Now I’m the other man in this equation, and despite my reputation as the bad boy of baseball, I learned long ago to stay away from married women. But not everything is as it appears, and she isn’t married yet, which forces me to confront my own morals and fears when it comes to relationships...
  • Black Flag by Shey Stahl

    Black Flag by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When the taste you thought you never needed becomes a thirst you cannot quench, then what? Jameson Riley, a NASCAR rookie driver, and Sway Reins, his pregnant girlfriend, are put to the test. They have love; they have lust, and a bond that proves to be vital. But do they have what it takes to make it through his lifestyle. When tested, it’s either fight, or give in...
  • Bring Me Home by Cassia Leo

    Bring Me Home by Cassia Leo

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The breath-taking conclusion to the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series. "Sometimes, letting someone go is the ultimate act of love."Claire Nixon is a college student with a past full of secrets and heartbreak. She was saved once by her first love, and rock star, Chris Knight...
  • The Player Gets Coached (Bachelor) by Janet Nissenson

    The Player Gets Coached (Bachelor) by Janet Nissenson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Manwhore Versus The ManeaterFinn McManus thrives on his reputation as a player’s player – a term that has nothing to do with his years as a professional athlete. A notorious flirt and ladies man, the handsome, charming retired football player rarely dates a woman more than a few times, and shies away from relationships like they were a contagious disease...
    Categorized as:
    celebrity  drama  humor  sports  steamy  adult  book  contemporary
  • His To Hold by Serena Akeroyd

    His To Hold by Serena Akeroyd

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ever hear the kid song, Jack and Beau sitting in a tree K I S S I N G?Well, she met me when I was up in a tree, but kissing her has never been an option. She isn’t the kind to fall for a daredevil.And I’m a Formula One race car driver. Adrenaline Junkie is my middle name. Taking risks and tossing my fate to the wind is what I do.Being her friend is no longer enough...
  • The Summer Proposal by Vi Keeland

    The Summer Proposal by Vi Keeland

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The first time I met Max Yearwood was on a blind date.Max was insanely gorgeous, funny, and our chemistry was off the charts. He also had the biggest dimples I’d ever laid eyes on.Exactly what I needed after my breakup.Or so I thought… Until my real date arrived.Turned out, Max wasn’t who I was there to meet. He only pretended to be until my real date showed up...
  • Zip, Zero, Zilch by Tammy Falkner

    Zip, Zero, Zilch by Tammy Falkner

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The last one to fall… Sam Reed is the only brother in the Reed family who hasn’t fallen head over heels in love. He has a promising contract to play professional football, but something is missing. Sam likes to watch cooking shows, snuggle on the couch, and he wants someone to do it with him. But with his go-getter lifestyle, it’s almost impossible to find the time to get to know one woman...
  • Melody of the Heart by Katie Ashley

    Melody of the Heart by Katie Ashley

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    As Rolling Stone magazine prepares an issue on successful rock star marriages, they sit down with Brayden and Lily Vanderburg. After all, the two have been a couple since they were fifteen years old. But there is more to the story than meets the eye, and their love took a slight detour before finding happily ever after...
  • Royally Pucked by Pippa Grant

    Royally Pucked by Pippa Grant

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A hockey-playing prince, a most improper lady, and one accidental pregnancy… When you’re an heir so spare that getting attacked by a shark is more likely than you ever wearing the crown, you’re only allowed certain liberties. Yet still, those liberties can bite you in the ass.Good thing I’m such a charming devil...
  • Drew by Lulu Moore

    Drew by Lulu Moore

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Let me ask you a question.Have you met your soulmate?I did, then promptly lost her. Because what happens in Vegas stays there, right?Wrong.I’d never been the relationship type, but I’ve spent every spare second of the past twelve months wondering what if. What if I hadn’t slept through my alarm? What if I hadn’t lost her number? What if I’d known her name?But I came up blank...
    Categorized as:
    athlete  humor  insta-love  sports  steamy  university  adult  book
  • Oral Arguments by Loni Nichole

    Oral Arguments by Loni Nichole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A rowdy bar fight and a feisty lawyer have this growly hockey player ready to serve his time in Silver Spoon Falls.Reid LawlessI had one job in Silver Spoon Falls: make the hockey team, the Falcons, look good. My plan went off the rails when fists started flying at a local bar, and a Barney Fife lookalike took me to jail...
  • Making His Play by Mari Carr

    Making His Play by Mari Carr

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alex has a big name in hockey, famous for his stick skills—on and off the ice. But he’s also got a freckle-faced female problem. He took his sister’s tomboy best friend, Charley, to a Vegas wedding to cheer her up after a bad breakup.Too much champagne later and he’s waking up with Charley in his bed and his ring on her finger. And the crazy part is…Mrs. Alex Stone has a nice ring to it...
  • The Casanova Experience by Mickey Miller

    The Casanova Experience by Mickey Miller

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Chandler: It was supposed to be just sex. Thoroughly satisfying, mind-blowing, sweaty, animalistic love making. Just a week, though. We both agree to the no strings attached arrangement. I give Amy the best week of her life, show her what it’s like to be with a real man. And since she’s my old best friend, I go a step further and give her the full Casanova Experience...
  • Waiting Game by G.A. Mazurke, Serena Akeroyd

    Waiting Game by G.A. Mazurke, Serena Akeroyd

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    No-strings-attached hook-ups are my jam. After a hockey player hires me to improve his skating skills, sparks fly and a second-night stand sounds like a damn good time. I have zero regrets……till he ghosts me. Now that I’ve lost my summer gig, I get on with my life, picking up an old side hustle to keep myself afloat...
  • Pieces of You by Cassia Leo

    Pieces of You by Cassia Leo

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The stunning continuation of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series."Sometimes, the lies we tell ourselves are more destructive than the truth we hide from others."In Relentless, college student Claire Nixon and surfer Adam Parker each had a painful past too heavy to carry alone...
  • Surviving by Ahren Sanders

    Surviving by Ahren Sanders

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ***This is Book 2 in the Surrender Series. It is recommended you read book 1, Surrendering, before reading Surviving.*** Raven Hayes experienced a love she thought would last forever. Declan Collins consumed her from the moment she fell into his arms. Their love was what fairytales are made of...
  • The Champion by Shey Stahl

    The Champion by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A powerful love story of tragedy, love, and commitment. The fourth book in the Racing on the Edge series submerges you in the lifestyle of a champion of a sport that dominates America. Through smoke and methanol, you learn the good, the bad, and the secrets no one wants you to know...
  • Crush by Nicole Williams

    Crush by Nicole Williams

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Football glory. A giant diamond. A wandering eye.Jude and Lucy are happily engaged . . . but that doesn't mean life's a bed of roses.Once again, Jude and Lucy are torn apart by football training and a summer job that creates new tensions. This time Jude's the one with trust issues...
  • Ruin by Rachel Van Dyken

    Ruin by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    I'm not your typical girl. I've been running away from the memories that haunt me for so long that depression has become my only comfort. I was content in the darkness...until Wes Michels offered to be my light.I didn't know that time wasn't my ally -- that every second that ticked past was one step closer to the end of something that was beginning to mean the end of myself. He tried to warn me...
  • Long After by Cheryl McIntyre

    Long After by Cheryl McIntyre

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    For Annie Phillips, there is a right way to do things and everything has a place. College and her flawless GPA are top priority, as is planning her perfect future. Anything less than perfection is unacceptable. So when she meets Loden Guiles, she believes she has finally found her perfect happily-ever-after. Chase Malloy is funny, loyal, and an all around nice guy...
  • Trying to Score by Kendall Ryan

    Trying to Score by Kendall Ryan

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Teddy King excels at many things. Playing hockey. Check. Scoring on and off the ice. Check. Being stupidly attractive ... Double check. I knew him way back when. Before he was the guy everyone wanted a piece of, he was just a rebellious college co-ed and one of my more energetic study partners...
  • Wilder by Rebecca Yarros

    Wilder by Rebecca Yarros

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    He’s Paxton Wilder. Twenty-two-year-old, tattooed, smoking-hot leader of the Renegades. Five time X Games medalist. The world is his playground—especially this year—and for the next nine months I’m stuck as his tutor on the Study at Sea program. He’s too busy staging worldwide stunts for his documentary to get to class...
  • Strings of the Heart by Katie Ashley

    Strings of the Heart by Katie Ashley

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Twenty year old, Allison Slater has been in love with her brother’s bandmate, Rhys McGowan, since she was fifteen years old. But to him, she’ll always be Jake’s little sister and off limits. Now a college sophomore and licking her wounds from a bad breakup, she sets her sights on making Rhys see her as someone he could date…maybe even love...
  • Play Mine by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    Play Mine by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “You need to be careful.” The day the manager of my rock band said that changed my life. As Brooklyn Dawn’s newest member on probation, I didn’t think I’d have to worry about anything but rocking hard. I didn’t expect my tumultuous past to come out. I definitely didn’t expect us to be in danger. I never considered I’d need a bodyguard...
  • Off Limits by Chelle Sloan

    Off Limits by Chelle Sloan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Professional football has an actual rulebook, but it’s the unwritten rules that come with the harshest consequences.The biggest one of all: don’t date your teammate’s sister. And if you do, don’t you dare fall in love with her.I never meant to fall, but when it comes to Brenna Donald, I never stood a chance. She’s everything I’m not--a light-hearted wild child who shines brighter than the sun...
  • Bourbon & Bonfires by Andrea Johnston

    Bourbon & Bonfires by Andrea Johnston

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Landon Montgomery has suddenly found himself the lone bachelor in his group of friends. With a new career handed to him and a string of unsuccessful blind dates behind him, Landon is ready to search for love. A chance meeting and immediate attraction have him wondering if things are about to turn around or if he’s stuck in the single life forever...
  • Tropical Ice by Kat Mizera

    Tropical Ice by Kat Mizera

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Garrett “Hawk” Hawkins may be a bad boy in the rink but he doesn’t know what to do when he’s wrongly accused of on-ice misconduct. Given a five-game suspension by the NHL, he heads down to Mimosa Key to lay on the beach for a few days and get his head on straight—until he runs into a troubled beauty who happens to be the sister of his ex-teammate...
    Categorized as:
    sports  steamy  secrets  angst  multi-pov  drama  alpha-mc  romance
  • Rapture by Skye Jordan

    Rapture by Skye Jordan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Skye Jordan brings you another steamy Renegades story! As a premier stuntwoman in Hollywood, Zahara Parrish is no stranger to risk. Neglected as a child, she learned early on never to depend on others to keep her safe. Now, she’s as protective over her heart as she is over her hard earned success, which is why she’ll never mix business and pleasure...
  • Remembering Passion: Sinclair Duet by Aleatha Romig

    Remembering Passion: Sinclair Duet by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Damien Sinclair is a force of nature, the beauty of a sunset over the ocean while capable of devastating hurricane-strength winds. At one time, he’d held my heart in his hands. That was until the day I walked away.I didn’t leave him because I didn’t love him. It was that loving him was too much, an all-encompassing affair. In his presence, I failed to exist...
  • A.D.I.D.A.S.: All Day I Dream About S*x by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook

    A.D.I.D.A.S.: All Day I Dream About S*x by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’ve loved her since we were ten years old, when she almost died in my arms. Dramatic? Not at all. I almost lost Joanne once, it’s not happening again. Thing is, she’s a scared little butterfly, living in a cocoon of her own making. It’s time for her to spread her wings. And her legs. Scandalous? Hell no. She wants it as bad as I do. I’m not the only one dreaming about it all day...
  • Missed Notes by L.A. Cotton

    Missed Notes by L.A. Cotton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author L A Cotton, comes an emotional brother's best friend romance. Angst... drama... friendship... and football. Will you survive senior year?Sofia Bennet has always imagined a bright future ahead of her.But sometimes, life has other plans, and suddenly, you’re walking a different path.Cole Kandon has always sacrificed his dreams for others...
  • Tyson by Sheridan Anne

    Tyson by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Brylee - It was supposed to be a one-time thing which quickly turned into two, and then three. Don’t ask me how, but now I can't seem count the times on one hand, let alone two. I'm in trouble. I never intended for this to be something more, but he has the ability to keep drawing me back in. He's coming for me. He's always wanted more, but this time, I don't think he's going to let me go...
  • Reckless to Love You: Friends to Lovers Second Chance Romance by J. Saman

    Reckless to Love You: Friends to Lovers Second Chance Romance by J. Saman

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jameson I let her slip through my fingers…No, that’s a lie. I was reckless and pushed her away. I was never supposed to fall for her. She was my tutor. My best friend. My fantasy. I tried to stay away. I failed. Then we graduated and everything changed. All I needed was a step back. A moment to breathe… And by the time I came up for air, she was in the arms of another man...
  • Forgiving Gia by Gina Whitney

    Forgiving Gia by Gina Whitney

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Abel Gunner is a rock-star with legendary skills both in and out of the bedroom. He swore he wouldn't fall for another woman after being schemed and manipulated by an ex-lover. He kept that vow until he met Gia Mastro. The Dom inside of him awoke the moment he set eyes upon the submissive beauty. His dark soul hungered for her submission and affection...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  drama  multi-pov  steamy  suspense  adult  book
  • Where the Night Ends by Melissa Toppen, Silla Webb

    Where the Night Ends by Melissa Toppen, Silla Webb

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It only takes one night—one moment, one small snippet of time—to change everything. At sixteen-years-old, Sebastian Baxter taught me that. He taught me a lot of things. He never had to work for my heart. In some unexplainable way I think it had always belonged to him anyway...
  • Forever Princeton Charming by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook

    Forever Princeton Charming by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s fighting for their fairytale. Charlotte Hayes lost her slipper – err shoe – the first night she met Spencer Beckett, A.K.A Princeton Charming. She fell into his arms and their lives were changed. Forever. One kiss and she was smitten. One date and she was head over heels. One tragedy and her heart was his...
  • Legacy by Kandi Steiner

    Legacy by Kandi Steiner

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Written like your favorite drama television show, the Palm South University series has been called "a mix of Greek meets Gossip Girl with a dash of Friends." Follow seven college students as they maneuver unrequited love, teacher/student romance, the tangles of “no strings” relationships, love triangles and more...
  • The Rookie by Olivia T. Turner

    The Rookie by Olivia T. Turner

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’m the last of the original crew still working at the pub.Bridget met a guy online and moved to Australia, James got fired, Ivy had a kid, Zara went to work for her dad in Miami, and now Lauren is leaving too.I’m the only one left.With no prospects and no opportunities.Until out of the blue, I get one.I had long given up my career as a real estate agent.It was over before it even started...
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