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  • Every Thug Needs a Lady by Wahida Clark

    Every Thug Needs a Lady by Wahida Clark

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Every Thug Needs A Lady is the spellbinding sequel to Wahida Clark's Thugs And The Women Who Love Them . After taking us through the rugged, thug-filled lives of Jaz, Kyra and Angel, Clark now takes us into the unique and unbelievable life of their best friend Roz. She's sexy, beautiful, and a slave for the love of Trae, her irresistable thuggish beau...
  • State of Denial by Marie Force

    State of Denial by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Denial: refusing to admit the truth or reality of something unpleasant… His mother has been arrested, his government is under new threat, the relentless media is driving him mad, and denial becomes the word of the day for President Nick Cappuano. Meanwhile, his wife, DC Metro Police Lt. Sam Holland Cappuano has caught a big new case with suspects everywhere she looks...
  • State of Bliss by Marie Force

    State of Bliss by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When you have their jobs, there’s no such thing as a peaceful vacation…Sam and Nick are ready to get out of DC—and the White House—for a much-needed vacation to celebrate their second anniversary. Due to ongoing political pressures, they decide to scuttle their plans for a return to Bora Bora to stay closer to home at their favorite oceanfront house at Dewey Beach in Delaware...
  • Freya: The Tempests, Book 6 by Cee Bowerman

    Freya: The Tempests, Book 6 by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
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  • One Foot in the Grave by Denise Grover Swank

    One Foot in the Grave by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The third book in the Carly Moore series by Denise Grover Swank.The dead can’t speakAfter months of living in the Smoky Mountains town of Drum, Tennessee, Carly knows firsthand the financial hardship the citizens face. Still, she can’t muster the same excitement as everyone else when town patriarch Bart Drummond breaks ground on his new resort that promises more jobs and money...
  • Dirty Money by Denise Grover Swank

    Dirty Money by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Violet Gardner Beauregard is barely cold in her grave, but she’s still stirring up trouble. When Neely Kate Coulson accompanies her best friend Rose to Violet’s attorney for the reading of the will, they get the shock of their lives, one that leaves them both reeling...
  • True to Me  (By the Sea) by Kay Bratt

    True to Me (By the Sea) by Kay Bratt

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Wish Me Home comes a breathtaking novel about the secrets that families keep and one woman’s illuminating search for the truth. Quinn Maguire has a stable life, a fiancé, and what she thinks is a clear vision for her future...
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    drama  family  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Burn by Helen Hardt

    Burn by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Jonah Steel is knee deep into trying to solve the mystery surrounding his family and his brother’s abduction, and the arrival of his best friend has complicated the situation…although not as much as his infatuation with his brother’s therapist, Dr. Melanie Carmichael. The quiet humility of the blond beauty has him enthralled, and he burns for her as he never has for any woman...
  • Recluse: Wolfes of Manhattan Two by Helen Hardt

    Recluse: Wolfes of Manhattan Two by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A secret lies trapped in the deepest recesses of Roy Wolfe’s mind.And it’s slowly drowning him.When Charlene Waters’s boss married the new CEO of Wolfe Enterprises after a whirlwind romance, she brought her assistant along for the ride. Charlie now has a cushy new job at the billion dollar company, and she’s excited to begin her new venture.Roy Wolfe is a recluse...
  • Fatal Jeopardy by Marie Force

    Fatal Jeopardy by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Washington, D.C. Police Lieutenant Sam Holland and her husband, U.S. Senator Nick Cappuano, have been looking forward to a quiet Thanksgiving with their son. But any thoughts of a restful holiday are dashed when Sam and Nick return home to a gruesome scene: Sam's seventeen-year-old niece Brooke, barely conscious and covered in blood on their front stoop...
  • Making It Right by Catherine Bybee

    Making It Right by Catherine Bybee

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller. In the final book in Amazon Charts bestselling author Catherine Bybee’s Most Likely To trilogy, River Bend’s rebel follows in her father’s footsteps to become sheriff. But it might be time to forge her own path… Some kids inherit a family business; Jo Ward inherited a badge...
  • Legacy by Helen Hardt

    Legacy by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    HE'LL KEEP HIS COMMITMENTS NO MATTER WHAT. Brad Steel is in love. Daphne Wade is more than just his wife-to-be and the mother of his unborn child. She's his destiny. Fate brought them together, and he vows to protect her. His determination doesn't waver when he learns a secret about his bride - a secret she herself doesn't know...
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    drama  family  steamy  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Finding Mercy by Riley Edwards, Lori Jackson

    Finding Mercy by Riley Edwards, Lori Jackson

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "So much emotion it flew off the page and knocked the wind out of me. Finding Mercy was another great story by the absolutely brilliant Riley Edwards." Jennifer Pierson: The Power of Three Readers DEA Jason Walker became a widower at Twenty-eight. Two years later he's still torturing himself with guilt. They'd married young, and she'd been his first love, but her illness changed everything...
  • Flare by Helen Hardt

    Flare by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The wildly popular Steel Brothers Saga continues with Flare, which ramps up the suspense as Brock Steel tries to uncover his family’s secrets while Rory Pike does everything in her power to keep her own secrets buried. The Steel family won’t go down on his watch… Rory Pike never imagined she’d fall for a Steel, but she has—Brock Steel, a renowned womanizer, no less...
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    drama  family  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  friendship
  • Gone Too Far by Debra Webb

    Gone Too Far by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This second entry in USA Today bestselling author Debra Webb’s Devlin & Falco series proves that sometimes the past is best left forgotten.As veteran detectives of the Birmingham Police Department, Kerri Devlin and Luke Falco have seen it all. So when the city’s new hotshot deputy district attorney turns up dead as part of a double homicide, the partners immediately get to work...
  • She Can Kill by Melinda Leigh

    She Can Kill by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Reformed assassin Cristan Rojas just wants to raise his daughter in peace. But after twelve years on the run, he learns that even the quiet little town of Westbury, Pennsylvania, has many hidden dangers...
  • Torn in Half by Samantha A. Cole

    Torn in Half by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Retired Navy SEAL and current private-security operative Ian Sawyer had never expected to have a child, much less a wife, but his beautiful Angie has changed all that. Her due date is only days away, and his anticipation outweighs his anxiety, thinking about holding his firstborn. But as he’s learned the hard way, life throws curveballs at the worst possible moment...
  • The Family Business by Carl Weber, Eric Pete

    The Family Business by Carl Weber, Eric Pete

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    By day, the Duncans are an upstanding family who run a thriving car dealership in Queens. By night, they live a dangerous secret life! Carl Weber and Eric Pete deliver a thrilling underworld drama in The Family Business.L.C. Duncan, patriarch of the family, is at the age when he’s starting to think about retirement in sunny Florida...
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    drama  family  female-mc  steamy  urban  adult  audiobook  betrayal
  • Lowcountry on My Mind by Ashley Farley

    Lowcountry on My Mind by Ashley Farley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Childhood friends reunite in an explosive tale of family dysfunction and romance gone wrong.Amelia has been plotting to escape her abusive husband for years. When her mama’s untimely death provides an unexpected opportunity, she hops on the next bus to the South Carolina Lowcountry. Her husband will eventually come for her. But she’s prepared...
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    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery  romance
  • Fatal Justice by Marie Force

    Fatal Justice by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    She looked into the dead face of the man she'd dined with the night before...Standing over the body of a Supreme Court nominee, Lieutenant Sam Holland is hip-deep in another high-profile murder case. The fact that she was one of the last people to see Julian Sinclair alive just complicates things even more...
  • Welcome to Wishing Bridge by Ruth Logan Herne

    Welcome to Wishing Bridge by Ruth Logan Herne

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kelsey is on her way to a life do-over. And it’s not the first time. Abandoned by her drug-addict mother as a teen, she landed in a foster-care group home where she experienced faith and community—and met her best friends, Jazz and Theadora. The trio stuck together like sisters and vowed to make their lives mean something. Now Kelsey’s pushing thirty, and her life has taken a wrong turn...
  • State of Retribution by Marie Force

    State of Retribution by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A Baffling Series of Events Leads to An Unsettling Conclusion… The First Family is hosting their first Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House when Secret Service agents mobilize to hustle them to safety...
  • One Night with You by Marie Force

    One Night with You by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    They were hot from the start… Written for readers wondering about the “memorable” one-night stand between Sam Holland and Nick Cappuano that took place six years before Fatal Affair opens! Get all the details of Sam and Nick’s unforgettable night together in this 14,000-word novella...
  • Something On The Side by Carl Weber

    Something On The Side by Carl Weber

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Meet Tammy, Egypt, Isis, Nikki, Coco, and Tiny-the bodacious women of the Big Girls Book Club. There's only one rule to being a member. You must be at least a size 14. . . BGBC president Tammy loves everything about her life-especially taking care of business for her husband, Tim. This year, she intends to top all his past birthdays by having a threesome with her best friend, Egypt...
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    drama  female-mc  steamy  urban  adult  audiobook  black-mc  book
  • Fool Me Once by Catherine Bybee

    Fool Me Once by Catherine Bybee

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From Weekday Brides to First Wives, a dazzling series about four women and their alliance of newfound friendship, unexpected love, and second chances. Cynical divorce attorney Lori Cumberland lives by one motto: Love is grand, but divorce is a hundred grand. With one failed marriage under her own personal belt, Lori had fallen hard and early—and it isn’t something she plans on repeating...
  • Change of Tides by Ashley Farley

    Change of Tides by Ashley Farley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Second Chances and New RomancesBirdie Fuller doesn’t like change. And a lot of change is happening at once. Her daughter and three-year-old grandson are moving out of her apartment to a nearby city. Will Birdie be able to survive the loneliness without Hannah and Gus? She joins a dating website to find companionship and meets the seemingly perfect man...
  • Playing Dirty by Liliana Hart

    Playing Dirty by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    J.J. Graves and her husband, Sheriff Jack Lawson, are sworn to protect and serve. The Christmas season brings out the best—and worst—in people, and death hits close to home when a Bloody Mary local is murdered. Bringing justice to the dead is what they do—even when they don’t like the victim...
  • Perfect Blend by M.S. Parker

    Perfect Blend by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Brody: Keeping my mind off Freedom Mercier is damn near impossible. Destiny has thrown curveball after curveball at us. I want her, but how is this ever going to work?Freedom: I learned early on not to trust anyone with my heart. Never date the same person more than once is my general rule...
  • Thug-A-Licious by Noire

    Thug-A-Licious by Noire

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “Have you ever wanted something so bad you was willing to crawl over bodies to get it? I mean, fiend for it so hard it didn’t matter who you hurt, how low you had to scrape, it was gonna be yours? That’s what music and balling did for me. They were the fundamentals behind my rise . . . and the perpetrators of my fall...
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    drama  female-mc  steamy  urban  adult  audiobook  black-mc  book
  • HOT MEN: A Contemporary Romance Box Set by Ashlee Price

    HOT MEN: A Contemporary Romance Box Set by Ashlee Price

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Collection of 4 Amazon Best Sellers + 1 Exclusive! This guilty pleasure is for readers who love their bad boys, alpha males and billionaires hot, dark and ready to take the women they want..
  • Knowing You by Allie Everhart

    Knowing You by Allie Everhart

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Now that Garret's decided he's no longer following the rules of his wealthy family, he can finally develop a closer relationship with Jade. Things are going well, but Jade still worries that being with Garret is only temporary. And because of that, she's not sure how much of herself and her past she's willing to let him see...
  • Reagan's Redemption: Book Eight In The Bodyguards Of L.A. County Series by Cate Beauman

    Reagan's Redemption: Book Eight In The Bodyguards Of L.A. County Series by Cate Beauman

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Doctor Reagan Rosner loves her fast-paced life of practicing medicine in New York City’s busiest trauma center. Kind and confident, she’s taking her profession by storm—until a young girl’s accidental death leaves her shaken to her core...
  • Tuff Enough by Samantha A. Cole

    Tuff Enough by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    While security operative Jason "Tuff" Tanner lives for dangerous assignments, he likes his downtime in his quiet neighborhood too. But that peacefulness is suddenly interrupted when his new next-door neighbor becomes a target for someone with nefarious intentions...
  • Take Me Back by Rosalind James

    Take Me Back by Rosalind James

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hallie Cavanaugh’s late father just left her millions of reasons to stay away from Jim Lawson, deputy sheriff of Paradise, Idaho, and the man who broke her heart fourteen years ago. Hallie has worked hard for independence, but she can’t dismiss a massive inheritance, even if she has to follow her father’s manipulative terms to get it...
  • Need You Tonight by Roni Loren

    Need You Tonight by Roni Loren

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She’s making a wish list, and he wants to be on top. From foster kid to trophy wife, Tessa McAllen is about to reinvent herself all over again—and defy every insult her cheating ex-husband ever used against her: Selfish? She’s championing a charity. Stupid? She’s getting her degree. Boring in bed? Kade Vandergriff can help her with that one...
  • The Secrets She Kept by Brenda Novak

    The Secrets She Kept by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Exciting, emotional, intense. The thrilling follow-up to New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak's highly acclaimed The Secret Sister. The things that happen in families are always surprising and sometimes shocking! The rich and powerful Josephine Lazarow, matriarch of Fairham Island, is dead. The police say it's suicide, but Keith, her estranged son, doesn't believe it...
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    drama  family  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Cottages on Silver Beach by RaeAnne Thayne

    The Cottages on Silver Beach by RaeAnne Thayne

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Years after betraying her, he’s back in Haven Point…and determined to uncover the truth For the sake of her brother’s children, innkeeper Megan Hamilton has put her entire life on hold to become their guardian. The last person she wants to ever see again is Elliott Bailey, who she feels is responsible for her brother’s current predicament...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Beautiful Rush by Emery Rose

    Beautiful Rush by Emery Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After a lifetime of being tailed by her father’s bodyguards, Keira Shaughnessy just wants her freedom and independence, and to bond with her long-lost brothers. On a quest to outrun her past, she turns to illegal street racing. She loves the rush, the hint of danger, and living just on the edge of losing control...
  • Loving Deep by Tracey Devlyn

    Loving Deep by Tracey Devlyn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Biologist Britt Steele is on a mission­-to protect endangered red wolves in the mountains of North Carolina. But when the wolves extend their territory, he clashes with the new landowner—his mentor’s daughter, a sexy, determined woman who intends to sell her inheritance to the highest bidder. Miranda Shepherd’s quirky bar is her passion, but money’s flowing out faster than she can pour a drink...
  • Fractured by Rosalind James

    Fractured by Rosalind James

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What do you do with a person who’s out of control and won’t listen to reason? Especially if that person might be you? When I’d taken Hope Sinclair and her sister to New Zealand to meet my grandfather, I’d known I’d be making the return journey as her husband. I hadn’t reckoned, though, on the demons of my past coming back to threaten our future. And, as always, I hadn’t reckoned on Hope...
  • The Goodbye Café by Mariah Stewart

    The Goodbye Café by Mariah Stewart

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    California girl Allie Hudson Monroe can't wait for the day when the renovations on the Sugarhouse Theater are complete so she can finally collect the inheritance from her father and leave Pennsylvania. After all, her life and her fourteen-year-old daughter are in Los Angeles...
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    drama  family  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Vegas Heat by Fern Michaels

    Vegas Heat by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    With A Simple Twist Of Fate, Fortunes Rise And Fall. . .Vegas Heat is the story of the Thornton dynasty. . .of Fanny Thornton, who takes over Babylon, the family's magnificent Las Vegas casino, when her ex-husband Ash falls desperately ill. . .of Fanny's twin sons, Sage and Birch, one content in his conventional life, while the other's search for happiness leads to tragedy--and renewed hope. .
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    drama  family  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  epic
  • Stolen by Allison Brennan

    Stolen by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Stolen Allison Brennan Nothing is more important to private investigator Sean Rogan than his relationship with FBI trainee Lucy Kincaid. But when his past catches up with him, Sean faces an ultimatum: clear his name and help the FBI take down a rogue agent, or go to prison and lose everything he holds dear...
  • Player Haters by Carl Weber

    Player Haters by Carl Weber

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An Essence Bestseller A Black Expressions Book Club Selection National bestselling author Carl Weber returns with another page-turner full of family drama. The Duncans are no strangers to sibling rivalry, heartbreak, or the high price of getting played - even when it's by one of their own...
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    drama  female-mc  urban  adult  audiobook  black-mc  book  contemporary
  • The Winning Hand by Nora Roberts

    The Winning Hand by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "Did you say I won almost two million dollars?" Running away from her former life and her controlling fiance, Darcy Wallace was down to her last ten dollars. And in the bright lights of a Las Vegas casino, Darcy gambled and won! Suddenly the small-town girl was big news - and in need of protection...
  • Down by the River by Robyn Carr

    Down by the River by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    June Hudson is the town's doctor, a caring, capable woman who now has a bit of explaining to do. People are beginning to notice the bloom in her cheeks—and the swell of her belly. Happily, DEA agent Jim Post is back in June's arms for good, newly retired from undercover work and ready for new beginnings here in Grace Valley...
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    drama  family  female-mc  steamy  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Just Over the Mountain by Robyn Carr

    Just Over the Mountain by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Revisit Grace Valley, California, in book 2 of this fan-favorite trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr.Welcome back! Here, the best things in life never change… In this peaceful community, folks look out for one another like family, though sometimes a little too well. In a town like this, it’s hard to keep a secret—but Dr...
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    drama  family  female-mc  steamy  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Gone to Her Grave by Melinda Leigh

    Gone to Her Grave by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In Solitude, Oregon, everyone has secrets…and some will kill to keep them. When she believes a teen is falsely accused of drug dealing, social worker Carly Taylor takes on a high-risk case and her estranged husband—the detective in charge of the investigation—to prove the boy innocent...
  • A Bittersweet Surprise by Cynthia Ellingsen

    A Bittersweet Surprise by Cynthia Ellingsen

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A mysterious, heartwarming tale of small-town intrigue, family secrets, and the possibility of new love from the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Lighthouse Keeper.Emma Laurent has always preferred helping others to asking for help. But now, she’s the one in need...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • It Had to Be You by Jill Shalvis

    It Had to Be You by Jill Shalvis

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Ali Winters is not having a good day. Her boyfriend left her, everyone in town thinks she's a thief, and now she's about to be kicked out of her home. Her only shot at keeping a roof over her head and clearing her name is to beg for help from a police detective who's as sexy as he is stern.... After a high-profile case goes wrong, Luke Hanover returns to his hometown for some peace and quiet...
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