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  • Irresistible Trouble by Pippa Grant

    Irresistible Trouble by Pippa Grant

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Want your heart broken? Give it to Cooper Rock.He’s funny. Charming. Loyal to a fault. Adores his family. Builds up his teammates. And he’s baseball’s biggest playboy. He might be a good man, but he is not the settling down type.But eight years after he left me broken-hearted on a beach, he walks back into my life. One look, and I’m falling for him all over again.I know better.I do...
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    celebrity  humor  sports  steamy  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Stoffer by Cee Bowerman

    Stoffer by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After years of wandering around the country, car trouble stopped Stoffer in Rojo, Texas, and he quickly realized he never wanted to leave. Not one to share much of himself, Stoffer has found a place to fit in with the Texas Kings even while he holds most of himself back from the men and women around him...
  • Somebody Like You: A Small Town Single Mom Sports Romance by Carrie Elks

    Somebody Like You: A Small Town Single Mom Sports Romance by Carrie Elks

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He’s rich, talented and way out of her league. Now he’s making her an offer she can’t refuse…Football has always been Cam Hartson’s life. When he's forced to retire following an injury, he slinks back to his small home town, planning to lie low and lick his wounds. Until he meets Mia Devlin. The beautiful single mom of two tearaway boys has no interest in love...
  • Busted by Emilia Finn

    Busted by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Daughter of an over protective world-champion fighter, and shielded by dozens of alpha men, Emma Kincaid was locked in an ivory tower many years ago.Too bad she shimmied down water pipes the moment she was old enough to do so. Coercing with the devil twins is as natural as breathing to her, and getting into trouble with them is as easy as falling in love...
  • Our Muted Recklessness by Love Belvin

    Our Muted Recklessness by Love Belvin

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Okay… Where do we pick up?Where we left off, of course. Tori’s afraid, but putting forth her toughest exterior to forge ahead with the mess she’s made. And Ashton? Well, he’s confused and angry.“You think it’s possible to put the genie back in the fuckin’ bottle now?”Here he was again, saying cryptic things, using phrases that went over my head...
  • Reshuffle by Emilia Finn

    Reshuffle by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The first round is for practice. The second round is for keeps. She was everything Ben ever wanted. But time, distance, and jealousy made it impossible. Now they’re adults, Evie’s back in town after college graduation, and Ben never once let go of what he knew was meant to be...
  • Going Wild by C.M. Owens

    Going Wild by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Wild Ones Tip #109 We’re the reason the gene pool needs a lifeguard. People often ask me what in the hell convinced me to move to Tomahawk, Washington, where the four corners of crazy are known as the Wild Ones...
  • Creed by Cee Bowerman

    Creed by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Creed Tempest is content with the solitary life he’s chosen. The only people he needs around are his siblings. He’s got a handful of friends that are important to him, but there’s no special someone to warm his bed. Oddly enough, he’s fine with that. There’s less drama that way, he tells himself.When a beautiful woman and her children move in next door, Creed’s life is turned upside down...
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    alpha-mc  humor  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  small-town
  • Pretty It Up: The Donovans by Cee Bowerman

    Pretty It Up: The Donovans by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    DescriptionSometimes love just isn’t enough, or is it?Lana Gold, one of the Donovan triplets, found her one true love in college but lost him when the life he’d dreamed of became reality. Being an outsider looking in and so far away from her family and hometown took its toll on Lana and her marriage until she’d finally had enough and left it all behind...
  • Down Shift by K. Bromberg

    Down Shift by K. Bromberg

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling Driven series continues with a standalone story about finding love where you least expect it…   Behind the wheel, racing champion Zander Donavan is at the top of his game. But after too much excess in his personal life, he’s forced to step away. He needs to accomplish something all on his own—outside of his famous father’s shadow...
  • Until the End by Abbi Glines

    Until the End by Abbi Glines

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The backstory that fans have been clamoring for—how Rock and Trisha fell in love—is the final installment in the Sea Breeze series from New York Times bestselling author Abbi Glines. And don’t miss the sizzling Epilogue, where Abbi wraps up all the Sea Breeze couples’ stories!Trisha Corbin always knew how to hide a bruise...
  • Talk Nerdy to Me by C.M. Owens

    Talk Nerdy to Me by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Despite the fact it seemed like Base Masters was all over Sterling Shore, I'd never really known much about him, aside from random factoids. Things like... he's a semi-estranged cousin of one of my brother's friends, plays guitar in a local band, and he doesn't get mentioned much unless he's on stage. Until..
  • Puck Performance by Alley Ciz

    Puck Performance by Alley Ciz

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All's fair in love and potatoes. Melody Brightly Broadway Star. Pink hair. A smile that hits me harder than a slap shot. Terrible taste in hockey teams. Full of secrets. The one woman I fail to defend my heart against. Jase Donnelly Defenseman.Charming. Sexy as puck. Makes my hormones give a standing ovation. The one guy I can never be with, but can't stay away from...
  • Until My Last Breath by Tiffany Patterson

    Until My Last Breath by Tiffany Patterson

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    You’ve met my sons. But that’s only half of the story that began over four decades ago. I knew before any of them were conceived who they were, and the men they’d grow up to be. More importantly, from the first moment I touched her, I knew Deborah Tate would be the woman I shared my life with, who would bear my children, and stand by my side as we raised them...
  • Triple Dare by C.M. Owens

    Triple Dare by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    RUBY KROSS Who is Corbin Sterling to me? That's what people always want to know. He was my first friend. He was the love of my life. And he was my only heartbreak. The problem is that I love the big jerk, and I've refused to give up our friendship, even if it does mean it'll eventually ruin me. So, to answer the question... Corbin Fucking Sterling is the Bane of my existence; that's what he is...
  • My Kinda Mess by Lacey Black, Sara Eirew

    My Kinda Mess by Lacey Black, Sara Eirew

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    All her life, Lexi Summer has dreamed of one thing: to become a mother. As the youngest of six, she’s accustomed to the chaos and camaraderie that comes with a big family, which is why she has been anxious to get a jump on this next phase in her life. She thought she had it all: the perfect house, husband, and future. Until one secret rips it all apart...
  • Strong Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Strong Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The fourth, and final novel in New York Times bestselling author Kelly Elliott’s Meet Me in Montana series fires up the passion in a story about forgiveness and finding your soul mate.Dirk Littlewood had the world at his feet and a life he claimed to love. He was a world-champion bull rider with plenty of women to keep his nights busy and make his inner loneliness nothing but a delusion...
  • Could Be the One: (Lucas and Becca) by Claire Kingsley

    Could Be the One: (Lucas and Becca) by Claire Kingsley

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’ve always been the good girl, doing what people expect. But when I find myself dumped, instead of engaged, I realize it’s time for a change. I want to stop being so timid. Take risks. Find my naughty side. And who better to help me than my friend Lucas? Sure, Lucas is sexy as sin, with a smile that turns my brain inside out and a body that makes me think a lot of very bad girl thoughts...
  • What the Heart Learns by Jessica Gadziala

    What the Heart Learns by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Liam has always preferred spending his life inside books, only looking up to occasionally growl at customers in his shop. Until the day someone new comes to town. A woman who could keep up with him, someone who sees beyond his guards, who makes him want something decidedly non -fiction for a change. The only problem is, Riley has a secret. One that just might tear them apart...
  • 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...
  • Suppression by Laramie Briscoe

    Suppression by Laramie Briscoe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling author, the second book in the Laurel Springs Emergency Response Team Series If you don't love, you can't get hurt... Nick Kepler One thing my childhood taught me was never show my emotions. Don’t make memories. Don’t count on other people. Don’t hope for the best. All that changed when I was adopted by Ryan and Whitney Kepler...
  • Difficult by R.L. Mathewson

    Difficult by R.L. Mathewson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Surviving high school was going to be hard enough, but surviving telling the one girl that he couldn’t live without how he felt was going to be one of the most difficult things that Sebastian Bradford was ever going to do.From New York Times and USA Today’s bestselling author R.L...
  • Sterling Streak by L.B. Dunbar

    Sterling Streak by L.B. Dunbar

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Love was a losing battle for this country music darling and a single dad, baseball star until one night brings them together and one small town sets the playing field for a possible winning streak.They call me Lady Boss. Maneater. Queen. But beneath the makeup, blond wig, and glitzy costumes, I’m just a country girl who likes to sing. I don’t hate men, I’m just struggling to find a good one...
  • Jock Blocked by Pippa Grant

    Jock Blocked by Pippa Grant

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    COMING MAY 19, 2020She can't let him score… Call it superstition, but when a guy bats as hot as Brooks Elliott, you don't mess with what's working. And what's working is him keeping his pants zipped and doing all of his scoring on the field...
  • Tight Laced by Lisa Suzanne

    Tight Laced by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One of us will have to give up the future we’ve dreamed of if we’re going to make this work. It’s not going to be me. We can’t both have that same thought if we want to stay together when our contract ends.But the more I see him struggle against the things his mother does to him, the harder I fall. The more his ex tries to get in his way, the more I want to stand up for him...
  • Hey, Whiskey by Kaylee Ryan

    Hey, Whiskey by Kaylee Ryan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    New standalone from NYT Bestselling Author Kaylee Ryan I’m over this year, and I’m over relationships. I’ve learned that the only person you can count on in life is yourself. Moving forward, I’m living for me. Working toward standing on my own two feet, that’s my goal. Funny how meeting him changed my path...
  • Kiss Me Tonight by Maria Luis

    Kiss Me Tonight by Maria Luis

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I had it all. The Super Bowl rings. The hot shot TV gig. Then I got fired. Now I’m living in middle-of-nowhere Maine, playing assistant coach to the woman of my nightmares. Did I mention that she and her son are my new neighbors? If you talk to the locals, they’ll tell you Aspen Levi is the queen of high school football...
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    alpha-mc  athlete  celebrity  humor  sports  steamy  adult  book
  • Slap Shot Surprise by Melanie Harlow

    Slap Shot Surprise by Melanie Harlow

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In my defense, I thought the plane was going to crash.Otherwise, I never would have blurted out those embarrassing things to a perfect stranger.Did I mention he turned out to be a scorching hot superstar of professional hockey?But wait, there’s more.When the plane lands safely, I rush off, praying I’ll never have to face him again...
  • Drunk on You by Harper Sloan

    Drunk on You by Harper Sloan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It was supposed to be fun. A mutual use of each other's bodies. To be a ruse to the world around us. I wanted to be free from my ex, and he wanted to escape his. One drunken night turned a joke into a life-changing moment. He warned me not to fall for him, and I should've listened. He intoxicated me. He made me crave him. He ruined me. In the end, I'll never be the same...
  • Riptide by Kathryn Nolan

    Riptide by Kathryn Nolan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Avery Dacosta never expected to find a protester in front of her office.Especially not now, when she’s this close to achieving a professional milestone years in the making: building a luxury hotel on Playa Vieja, San Diego’s untouched beach paradise.Finn Travis, local surfer and all-around nice guy, never expected to find himself the leader of Playa Vieja’s resistance...
  • Holding On by Pamela Clare

    Holding On by Pamela Clare

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A 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...
  • The Fourth Guy by Misti Murphy

    The Fourth Guy by Misti Murphy

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There’s something so simple about dating the guy you know will hurt you, don’t you think? There’s no risking your feelings. No wondering whether your past will affect your future.Hello, my name is Sadie, and I am addicted to dating the wrong guy. Self-absorbed, cheaters, dangerous—you name it, I’ve dated it.Until I meet him. Makai Fleetwood. Six foot plus change. Brown eyes. Killer smile...
  • Garrett's Obsession by Loni Nichole

    Garrett's Obsession by Loni Nichole

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When it comes to love, this football coach is done playing by the rules.Garrett MarshAs the high school football coach, I'm supposed to play by the rules. Except the rules are standing in the way of the one thing I want…Ciara Sharp. She dropped everything to provide for her brother when their parents died. Now, she's untouchable, or so says the school board. But I'm done listening to reason...
  • My Ex's Baby by Taryn Quinn

    My Ex's Baby by Taryn Quinn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Okay, so he wasn’t actually my ex. August is my best friend’s older brother, and he just went with me to Macy and Gideon’s wedding. You know, friends with no benefits.Then we ended up having sex at said wedding.At the reception, not during the actual ceremony. Hello, I have some manners.We agreed to not do it again. Until I thought I was pregnant. And instead of being upset, I was happy...
  • The Wild One by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    The Wild One by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jasper Westbrook. Code name: Swoon Machine.My best friend's older brother.Melter of ovaries. Destroyer of panties.And suddenly...a single dad.Guys like Jasper—I bet you know the type? The chiseled arms. The wavy hair. The melt-your-brain-cells smile.Good thing I'm a smart girl—Honey Hill's former child prodigy, to be precise—I should know better than to fall for this playboy's charm...
  • Not My Match by Ilsa Madden-Mills

    Not My Match by Ilsa Madden-Mills

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills delivers a smart and sexy romance about a professional football hottie and the girl he’s sworn to never touch.Homeless and heartbreakingly innocent, Giselle Riley walks into my penthouse and chaos follows...
  • Easy Charm by Kristen Proby

    Easy Charm by Kristen Proby

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Gabrielle Boudreaux, the youngest of the Boudreaux clan, is a single mother of her young son, Sam. Running a Bed and Breakfast at the family plantation house at the edge of the Mississippi River, Gabby loves her inn, her boy and her family. She meets new people every day, and takes pride in the house and land that has been in her family for more than five generations...
  • Fool for Love by Marie Force

    Fool for Love by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Sometimes you have to rock the boat . . . Joe Cantrell, owner of the Gansett Island Ferry Company, has been in love with Janey McCarthy for as long as he can remember. And for just as long, Janey has had a boyfriend--now fiance-- doctor-in-training, David Lawrence...
  • Triple Play for the Single Mom by Rebel Bloom

    Triple Play for the Single Mom by Rebel Bloom

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My plan was transfer to the college where my ex, the star quarterback, could finally be a dad.But life threw a curveball when I accidentally collided with three of his hunky teammates!Being a young single mom hasn’t been easy.My ex shirks fatherhood, and I’m a magnet for judgmental stares.But it’s all been worth it for how much I love my little boy...
  • Kissin' Tell by Lorelei James

    Kissin' Tell by Lorelei James

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Once she led him around by a string. Now he's the one holding the reins. Georgia Hotchkiss swore wild horses couldn’t drag her back to Sundance, Wyoming. So it’s ironic she’s forced to take a rodeo PR job in her former hometown—right before her ten-year class reunion. The only thing worse than facing her cheating ex-husband? Showing up to the reunion without a date...
  • Raging Heart On: Friends to Lovers Romance by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Raging Heart On: Friends to Lovers Romance by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Her biological clock is a ticking time bomb. He’s got the tool it takes to get the job done…And then some. Kayla: Life has never been great. If not for White Lucas and his family, I might have been on the streets. They showed me what family was—what I always wanted. Now I'm nearing thirty, I want my own family. The problem is there’s no man in the picture...
  • Break the Ice by Piper Rayne

    Break the Ice by Piper Rayne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Winter Games are over, but the bedroom games are just beginning… This is about the time I normally hang up my snowboard and chill for a while. Except this year. This year, I’m dealing with what fate dealt me at the Winter Games—nope, not gold. A broken arm. Since I’m not close to my family, I head to my best friend, Skylar’s pad to recoup...
  • In Too Deep by Rebecca Sharp

    In Too Deep by Rebecca Sharp

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From bestselling author, Dr. Rebecca Sharp, comes a heart-wrenching and sexy standalone in the Winter Games series...Life has thrown Tammy Lucas one curveball after another, disrupting her perfectly-ordered plans...
  • Ear Candy by M.E. Carter, Andrea Johnston

    Ear Candy by M.E. Carter, Andrea Johnston

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s the plot twist she didn’t hear coming. Becoming a book narrator was never my goal. But if your deep voice tempts romance listeners to swoon and throw their proverbial panties at you, plans change...
  • All Autumn by Sandra Owens

    All Autumn by Sandra Owens

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Autumn Stratton has it all. Or so she thinks until she catches her two-timing husband with his pants around his ankles. There is much Autumn can forgive but infidelity isn’t one of them. Since she obviously can’t trust her judgment in men, she decides they are only good for one thing… Connor Hunter has been friends with Autumn since the first grade, and she’s like a sister to him...
  • 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...
  • The Reluctant Boyfriend by Erika Kelly

    The Reluctant Boyfriend by Erika Kelly

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Princess Gone Wild!When Princess Rosalina discovers her fiancé cheating on her, she’s done being dutiful. Jumping on a plane, she lands five thousand miles away in a world of hot cowboys, jean skirts, and tequila. Grabbing her chance to fly under the radar, she plans on acting out every single fantasy she’s denied herself while trying to meet the expectations of her family and country...
  • Frat Bro by Raleigh Ruebins

    Frat Bro by Raleigh Ruebins

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This fall, I have one simple rule: don't fall in love with my fake boyfriend.I’m awful at following the rules.One minute I was a nobody in a small Colorado town, getting by on contract work, home renovations, and a dumpster fire of a dating life—and then suddenly, my life was on TV...
  • On the Ropes by Kathryn Nolan

    On the Ropes by Kathryn Nolan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Summer in the city heats up when the girl who got away moves in next door.Dean “The Machine” is a South Philly legend. Much to the dismay of fans who still hound him, the broody former fighter walked away from his boxing career right before clinching another championship belt...
  • Pushing the Boundaries by Jessica Prince

    Pushing the Boundaries by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Living in the small town of Cloverleaf, watching her friends settle down one by one, all Lizzy wants is her own happily ever after. But with each failed date she starts to believe that finding the one man who will look at her like she’s his reason for living is practically impossible...
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