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  • Stanton Bliss by T.L. Swan

    Stanton Bliss by T.L. Swan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    We've changed. Darker, damaged and unable to conform. My husband Joshua is dealing with the past the best that he can.....as am I. Nobody else can understand the language we speak. The trauma we have been through. But with the pain comes pleasure and happiness is our gift...
  • Cuffed by Lexxi James

    Cuffed by Lexxi James

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    HannahThe second I saw him walk through that door, I knew he was trouble.Men like him always are.The dark hair.The smoldering stubble.Those piercing gray eyes that might as well be a flame thrower between women's legs.Oh, and the fact that he's in a gentlemen's club.What am I doing here, you ask?It's my job to be here.No, not that job...
  • Battle Hearts by Nina Levine

    Battle Hearts by Nina Levine

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Love, fight, battle, protect: the Morrison way. The only fucking way.⁣ This is Winter's journey to MC president. This is Winter & Birdie's journey to building a family. This is one epic MC battle. The conclusion to everything started in War of Hearts...
  • With This Woman by Jodi Ellen Malpas

    With This Woman by Jodi Ellen Malpas

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Their whirlwind romance was intense, passionate, and fiery, but Jesse knew the woman he was falling for didn’t know who he really was. He tried to protect her from his past, protect himself from her leaving, but his fears were realized when Ava discovered his Manor—the heartbeat of hedonism and pleasure, the place where Jesse has lost himself for years in women and alcohol...
  • Atticus: Secret Lies by K.L. Donn, Sensual Graphic Designs

    Atticus: Secret Lies by K.L. Donn, Sensual Graphic Designs

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Time stands still. Lies were told. Secrets are revealed. Who will we be when the walls tumble like mortar? **WARNING** The Adair Empire is a dark and graphic romance that will push your buttons, and maybe your boundaries. Each book contains a new couple but ends with a plot cliff-hanger...
  • The Lover by E.L. Todd

    The Lover by E.L. Todd

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Against all odds, Finn and I have managed to be together.Colton continues to warn me, says that Finn will never change.But he already has.I don't know what the future holds...but I think Finn fits in somewhere...
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    alpha-mc  angst  drama  family  steamy  suspense  adult  book
  • Rebel Heart by Ivy Layne

    Rebel Heart by Ivy Layne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    NASH Parker Sawyer fell into my life like a bomb. The first sight of her hit me like an explosion, changing everything. My mind, my heart, my life. The goals I thought I had and the dreams I thought I wanted. Nothing was the same after Parker. The night I fell in love with her, I let her get away. This time, there's no escape. Parker can run but she won't get far. This time I have a plan...
  • Boss Rules by Victoria Quinn

    Boss Rules by Victoria Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I've got skeletons in my closet.So what? Who doesn't?But I find myself wanting to raid her closet.I'm familiar with strong women who rock the business world.But I've never met a woman like this before.I don't want to share her. I don't want her to slip through my fingertips.But if I don't keep her, someone else will...
  • 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...
  • Ashton Scott by Nina Levine

    Ashton Scott by Nina Levine

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It was a bad start to my week. Or shall I say, he was a bad start to my week. Ashton Scott. Presumptuous, arrogant asshole. He barrelled into my office and demanded I sell him my property. I said no. Never. He said everything is for sale. He also said he always gets what he wants. Well, Ashton Scott can kiss my ass. He’s not getting this. There's one problem with that...
  • Luke's Absolution by K.L. Kreig

    Luke's Absolution by K.L. Kreig

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Demons. Regrets. Absolution. Luke has lived on the wrong side of the law since he was seventeen. His hands are stained and his soul is black, but the worst sin he's committed is falling in love with his brother’s girl. Then he met her. Addy Monroe is pure, innocent and stubborn as an ox. Even though he doesn’t deserve her, Luke will stop at nothing to have her...
  • Theirs For The Night by Julie Capulet

    Theirs For The Night by Julie Capulet

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For Mia Taylor, things couldn’t get much worse. She’s working a dead-end job and she’s stuck in a dead-end town. When her neighbor steals her life savings and threatens her, it’s the last straw. She skips town in her old, rusted-out car, which she can only hope will get her as far as Texas. And it does – barely – rolling to a sputtering stop on the side of a lonesome highway...
  • Domination by C.D. Reiss

    Domination by C.D. Reiss

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I want to just clarify a couple of things.Submission is not abdication. Submission is not resignation. It’s not weak or fragile. It doesn’t mean I break at the first sign of trouble.Well, I broke for a few weeks. When I realized I was falling in love with Jonathan and that I’d never be the same if I allowed it to continue, I broke into a million sharp little pieces...
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    alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  drama  steamy  suspense  adult  age-gap
  • Wicked Rush by Kym Grosso

    Wicked Rush by Kym Grosso

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lust. Temptation. Deception. Technology capitalist, Lars Elliott, lives on the edge, savoring the adventure of flirting with death. After rescuing a stranger from a hail of bullets, he resists attraction to the dangerous beauty. Determined to learn her secrets, he draws her into his seductive world of risk taking, pushing her sexual limits...
  • Burn by C.D. Reiss

    Burn by C.D. Reiss

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Here's how it's going to be, Goddess.Until you surrender yourself to me fully, I will not touch you.Until the world can know you belong to me, I will not kiss you.I'm going to be inches away, at your side. I'm going to whisper in your ear and put my breath on your neck, but the heat of my skin will not feel the shudder of yours until you commit yourself to me completely and without reservation...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  drama  steamy  suspense  adult  audiobook
  • A Wicked Song by Lisa Renee Jones

    A Wicked Song by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kace August: famous, intense, dark, addictive. Aria Alard: a woman with secrets, passion, and a dangerous past. Passion. Secrets. Mystery. Aria fell hard for Kace. She trusted him. But did he deserve that trust? And where is Gio?A Wicked Song is the second book in the Brilliance Trilogy...
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    alpha-mc  billionaire  drama  steamy  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  drama  steamy  suspense  adult  audiobook
  • The Wedding Rescue, Complete Series by Alexa Wilder

    The Wedding Rescue, Complete Series by Alexa Wilder

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Wedding Rescue, the hot and sexy series by Alexa Wilder, is now available as a complete series. For the first time you can read all five books in one volume! She thinks she's not his type. He's determined to prove her wrong. Leigha Carmichael is used to the quiet life. A junior accountant by day, she knows girls like her don't have exciting lives...
  • More Than Love You by Shayla Black

    More Than Love You by Shayla Black

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An all new sexy standalone novel from New York Times bestselling author Shayla Black. I’m Noah Weston. For a decade, I’ve quarterbacked America’s most iconic football team and plowed my way through women. Now I’m transitioning from star player to retired jock—with a cloud of allegation hanging over my head. So I’m escaping to the private ocean-front paradise I bought for peace and quiet...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  family  insta-love  sports  steamy  adult
  • From Now Until Infinity by Layne Harper

    From Now Until Infinity by Layne Harper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Eight years have passed since Colin and Caroline “Charlie” ended their college romance. A chance meeting reunited them confirming that time had not diminished their love for each other. Now, they have to turn their passionate reunion into a legitimate and sustainable relationship. Charlie’s medical practice is in Houston. Colin is the starting quarterback for Dallas...
  • Moore than Forever by Julie A. Richman

    Moore than Forever by Julie A. Richman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "You have no idea of what you do to me, Baby Girl." "It's smoochal...
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    alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  drama  family  steamy  adult  anthologies
  • The Boy Who Has No Redemption by Victoria Quinn

    The Boy Who Has No Redemption by Victoria Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Why did I ever think Emerson and I were a good idea?She's my assistant, so I have to see her every day. We get along, for the most part, but there's subtle hostility between us both.Being on my own is better. It makes far more sense.Until something terrible happens, something I didn't see coming, and it's those moments of tragedy that change you forever.I've changed...and I can never go back...
  • Hell's Fury by K.J. Dahlen

    Hell's Fury by K.J. Dahlen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I thought I’d found my forever. She decided to tear it apart. Deke My MC is my world. She is my centre. My children are everything I live for. Walking a street of contentment I hadn’t known before, I thought the bad was finally over. I should have known better… I didn’t see her coming - a vengeful figure from my past with a score to settle...
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    alpha-mc  angst  insta-love  steamy  adult  biker  book  contemporary
  • Seeking Our Destiny : Nelson Brothers' by Liberty Parker, Darlene Tallman

    Seeking Our Destiny : Nelson Brothers' by Liberty Parker, Darlene Tallman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Silas: 

I'm a hard man; I've had to be thanks to my father. I protect those I love and care for with everything I have and nothing gets to me. Until the day I carried a slip of a woman, Destiny, out of the hell she had been held in, I took what I wanted with no regrets...
    Categorized as:
    angst  family  steamy  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • THAT MAN 6:  (The Anniversary Story) by Nelle L'Amour

    THAT MAN 6: (The Anniversary Story) by Nelle L'Amour

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Scorchin' hot Blake Burns and his tiger Jennifer are back in this page-turner sequel to Nelle L'Amour's USA Today bestselling THAT MAN series! And things are hotter than ever when they fly to the Maldives to celebrate their tenth anniversary. What can go wrong, does go wrong. Beginning with a near-crash emergency landing...
  • Bling by Ivy Nelson

    Bling by Ivy Nelson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Garrett Oliver thinks he just needs two things in life, a big bank account, and a beautiful woman on his arm. If he's not careful, he'll lose both in the blink of an eye. Isabelle Alvarado just wants to get through the week so she can get back to Club Solitaire and hang out with the Dom she’s been seeing. Losing her job can really puts a damper on things, though...
  • Tripp by Alex Wolf, Sloane Howell

    Tripp by Alex Wolf, Sloane Howell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tripp Patton is not the guy you take home to meet your mom.He is the number one sports agent in the world, and he didn’t get there by playing nice.On the verge of signing the biggest player of his career, someone gets in his way.Lennon Edwards, a younger agent trying to make a name for herself. She’s hungry for success, relentless, and drop-dead gorgeous...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  billionaire  drama  sports  steamy  adult  book  contemporary
  • 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  angst  drama  alpha-mc  romance  secrets  contemporary
  • The Billionaire's Mistress 5: A Billionaire Romance by M.S. Parker

    The Billionaire's Mistress 5: A Billionaire Romance by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    No More Cliffhangers. The series is now complete! I thought that finding out that Jal was engaged to my half-sister was the worst thing that could happen. Then he told me that it was over, that I was the only person he wanted. For the first time in my life, I'd finally gotten what I wanted… and then he was arrested...
  • The Billionaire's Big Bold Wonder by Nichole Rose

    The Billionaire's Big Bold Wonder by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  billionaire  drama  insta-love  steamy  adult  age-gap  book
  • Table For Two by Jeannette Winters

    Table For Two by Jeannette Winters

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dean Henderson never backs down from a challenge. No matter the cost or the opponent, when it comes to business, if he wants it he gets it. No exceptions. Tessa Brooks left her small town to get out of the spotlight of being the preacher’s daughter. Boston is the perfect place to blend in and finally be herself...
  • Up in the Air by Rebecca Sharp

    Up in the Air by Rebecca Sharp

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    —Channing— They say how far you go is directly correlated to how much you are willing to risk. As a snowboarder, I was used to risking a lot - specifically life and limb every time I flew down the mountain and into the air. This time though, I was risking it all. I’d already lost so much. Winning was all I had left. The truth? I hadn’t been invited to the X Games, but my brother had...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  family  insta-love  sports  steamy  adult  book  contemporary
  • 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  steamy  suspense  adult  book  contemporary
  • Road to Victory by Piper Davenport

    Road to Victory by Piper Davenport

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    18+ for language and sexual situations. Kimberly Church has led a privileged, but tortured life. In an effort to beat back her demons, she breaks away from her villainous family and creates a stable and safe life for herself, shutting all but her best friend out. Aidan "Knight" Quinn is a well-respected and deeply rooted soldier in the Dogs of Fire Motorcycle Club...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  drama  family  steamy  suspense  adult  biker  book
  • Forever a Jett Girl by Meghan Quinn

    Forever a Jett Girl by Meghan Quinn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ***THIS IS BOOK THREE IN THE BOURBON SERIES*** Series order: Becoming a Jett Girl Being a Jett Girl Forever a Jett Girl Justice. Faith. Power The words I live my life by, the three keys to my success, the foundation I built my entire empire on and now Goldie holds them all in the palm of her hands. She once was a Jett Girl, a piece of me, a safety net I grew to depend on...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  drama  steamy  suspense  adult  book
  • Freed by Carly Phillips

    Freed by Carly Phillips

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Fall for the missing Ward sister… Juliette Collins is privileged and isolated from the world by her over-protective father. She thinks she knows the truth about her history until a file on her father’s computer reveals she has sisters she never knew about. A family she’s never met...
    Categorized as:
    angst  billionaire  drama  family  insta-love  steamy  adult  audiobook
  • Two Together by Lisa Renee Jones

    Two Together by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One Man. One Woman. The Secrets. The passion. The naked truth...
  • Aidan by Sydney Landon

    Aidan by Sydney Landon

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Aidan Spencer walked away from his family and his friends when the woman he'd loved since childhood died while attempting to kill his best friends wife. Aidan had chosen to save another and in doing so had lost Cassie. For over a year, he's been isolated from everyone he loves until a family emergency brings him back home...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  drama  family  steamy  suspense  adult
  • Only Pleasure by Lora Leigh

    Only Pleasure by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Since Chase Falladay came to her rescue two years ago, Kia Stanton has never been able to forget the powerful man or the kind of life he leads. So two years later when she runs into Chase and his friend, Khalid, and leaves with them that night, she knows exactly where it is all heading. However, little prepares her for what it is like to be in Chase's arms, and in his bed...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  drama  steamy  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Freeing Him by A.M. Hargrove

    Freeing Him by A.M. Hargrove

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kolson Hart and Gabriella Martinelli...destined to be together, fated to be torn apart. After avoiding his father for years, Kolson knew asking his father, Langston Hart, for a favor would be like selling his soul to the devil. Only the devil wants more ... more than Kolson is willing to pay. But some promises can't be broken, not without losing what's most important...
  • Bound to You: Volume 4 by Vanessa Booke

    Bound to You: Volume 4 by Vanessa Booke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I, Rebecca Gellar, am doing the unthinkable. I'm marrying a man who hits every category on my Run-Like-Hell list... 1. Arrogant. 2. Dangerously Handsome. 3. Brooding. 4. Domineering. 5. Possessive. 6. Playboy. The funny thing is I couldn't be happier...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  drama  family  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Craved by Emily Jane Trent

    Craved by Emily Jane Trent

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Adam & Ella’s fairytale wedding in Brazil suddenly turns into a nightmare. Before they can leave on their honeymoon, old enemies resurface, threatening their joy. “Unmoving, Adam read it again. And again. No, it couldn’t be. His pulse pounded and his heart fell, the peace he’d known instantly shattered by several ill-constructed sentences...
  • Serenity by Rochelle Paige

    Serenity by Rochelle Paige

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’d lived a privileged life, in the lap of luxury and surrounded by family. It had felt like I was on top of the world...until tragedy struck. My sense of loss felt bottomless, and I struggled with it every single day. Finding my path back into the light seemed impossible. But then I met Faith—she was smart, sexy, and out of my league even though she didn’t have a penny to her name...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  drama  family  insta-love  steamy  suspense  adult
  • Revenge and Retribution by K.J. Dahlen

    Revenge and Retribution by K.J. Dahlen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Inexorably drawn to her, our love erupted passionately. But fate isn’t finished with her yet… Deke I shape my own destiny. I live by my own set of rules. Before I met her, I could never have predicted the turn my life would take. She’s part of me now, our two hearts beat as one. I need her like the air I breathe. Her sweet curves and innocence belong to me now...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  family  steamy  suspense  adult  biker  book  contemporary
  • Risking Romero by Mia Madison

    Risking Romero by Mia Madison

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “I’m going to be inside you. I promise.” Jade: When a lawyer with a shady agenda starts harassing me to sell my family’s farm, I need a legal eagle of my own. But hot older man Romero Adamo is way more than I bargained for. He’s got me thinking about his briefs, all right … just not the kind you file in a courtroom...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  family  insta-love  steamy  suspense  adult  age-gap  book
  • The Lieutenant's Possession by K. Langston

    The Lieutenant's Possession by K. Langston

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Memphis Police Lieutenant Asher Cunningham is one of the best. Respected among his peers, he’s well known for his discipline, assertiveness, and remarkable intuition. He's also a sex addict. A secret he's kept hidden until he finally decides to seek the help of renowned psychiatrist Dr. Marley Bennett...
  • A Baby, Quick! by Layla Valentine, Holly Rayner

    A Baby, Quick! by Layla Valentine, Holly Rayner

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He never thought he’d be a fatherBut now he needs a baby, quick!JUSTIN:I’m a busy man,I don’t have time for a relationship,So when I learned that the hot-as-hell woman I’d just gotten with had a baby…Well, I got out of there quick...
  • Broken Strings by Pamela O'Rourke

    Broken Strings by Pamela O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My heart never stood a chance.From the first time I laid eyes on Caden North, it beat only for him. We'd planned on forever... But when you meet your soulmate at eight years old, plans can change.Loyalties can shift.And young hearts can break.I was sixteen when I broke mine... And his. The day I ran from the only home I could remember, leaving him in the arms of another...
  • Bound to the Beard by Eve London

    Bound to the Beard by Eve London

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas.CoralWhen my bestie whisks me away to Vegas for a girlfriend getaway to get my mind off the business I’m trying to buy, I expect to ring in the new year, not wake up with a ring on my finger. Despite my attraction to the red-hot bearded ginger in my bed, I hop a plane home to Candy Cane Key...
  • Ethan by Alex Wolf

    Ethan by Alex Wolf

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Intimidating, overbearing, disciplined, perfectionist…Ethan Walsh’s focus is singular, building his legacy—a legal empire.Nothing else matters.Well, until Felicity Pratt barges into his life.She’s overqualified, no-nonsense, and full of ambition.The fact she’s the most gorgeous woman he’s ever seen is unbearable.She shouldn’t occupy his brain 24/7...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  drama  family  insta-love  steamy  adult
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