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  • Change of Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Change of Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sinful, Louisiana, is always a hotbed of activity, and despite the steamy heat, August is no exception. Godzilla is terrorizing the town, looking for a home-cooked meal, and Gertie is worried someone will take the gator out before she can get him under control. Francine has a situation of her own at the café, where food is missing from inventory. And Celia is always up to no good...
  • Cajun Fried Felony by Jana Deleon

    Cajun Fried Felony by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Venus Thibodeaux had a reputation for being trouble. Some said she started at birth. When she finally left Sinful shortly after turning eighteen, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. When she blew back into town four years later, no one was happy about her return...
  • Swamp Santa by Jana Deleon

    Swamp Santa by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It’s Christmas in Sinful and Fortune is set to participate in all the local hoopla. A Christmas gala, caroling, and a sleigh ride are on the agenda. Murder is not. But when someone bumps off Santa, Fortune is aware a killer is lurking among the holiday cheer...
  • The Devil's Angels MC Book 1 - Gunner by Lola Wright

    The Devil's Angels MC Book 1 - Gunner by Lola Wright

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Ava: Left to die as an infant, Ava Beaumont has not had an easy life. Being raised by the system has taught her to be independent, hardworking and cautious. When Ava becomes a victim she uses her inner strength to put it behind her and move forward...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  drama  female-mc  humor  insta-love  steamy  abuse
  • Rock Chick Revenge by Kristen Ashley

    Rock Chick Revenge by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Ava hates men, she has reason and she’s vowed not only never to get involved with another one again but also to exact vengeance on her best friend’s, lying, cheating husband. Since Luke, Ava’s childhood crush, is now a private investigator, she thinks to enlist him but changes her mind at the last second...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  crime  drama  female-mc  humor  insta-love  steamy
  • Rock Chick Renegade by Kristen Ashley

    Rock Chick Renegade by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Jules has got a score to settle against the drug dealers of Denver. Vance has made it his mission that Jules won’t get dead while dishing out vigilante justice. Jules doesn’t have time for romance, she’s too busy saving the world and she enlists Zip (the gunstore owner), Heavy (an ex-PI) and Frank (a mysterious recluse) to help...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  crime  drama  female-mc  humor  insta-love  steamy
  • Rock Chick Redemption by Kristen Ashley

    Rock Chick Redemption by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Roxie’s on the run from a bad boyfriend who will not catch the hint that it is o-v-e-r. She’s in no mood for love at first sight, but when her eyes fall on Hank, it’s trouble from the get-go. Roxie tries to hold Hank at arms length but Hank wants to be a closer (as in, a lot closer)...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  drama  female-mc  humor  insta-love  steamy  abuse
  • REGRET by Emilia Finn

    REGRET by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Preston Danes was born and raised on the streets.Unloved. Unwanted. And quickly discarded.Now he’s a man on the verge of a new career when the infamous Checkmate Security offers him a job.They want to shut down a mafia family, and they need the assistance of a skilled hacker to get the job done.Preston knows code like others know their left hands. He’s perfect for the job...
  • Protecting What's Mine: A Small Town Love Story by Lucy Score

    Protecting What's Mine: A Small Town Love Story by Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    If you can’t stand the heat, don’t fall for a firefighter… Fire Chief Lincoln Reed is known for his heroics in the fire department and in the bedroom. Life is a never-ending good time. Until she lands in the middle of the accident scene he’s working…and then his backyard. Too bad she’s immune to flirty first responders...
  • Beast Behaving Badly by Shelly Laurenston

    Beast Behaving Badly by Shelly Laurenston

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Ten years after Blayne Thorpe first encountered Bo Novikov, she still can't get the smooth-talking shifter out of her head. Now he's shadowing her in New York-all seven-plus feet of him-determined to protect her from stalkers who want to use her in shifter dogfights. Even if he has to drag her off to an isolated Maine town where the only neighbors are other bears almost as crazy as he is..
  • Rock Chick Rescue by Kristen Ashley

    Rock Chick Rescue by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Jet McAlister has a secret. Eddie Chavez has the hots for Jet (not to mention Eddie’s just plain hot). Jet has too many problems to realize that Eddie’s interested. Eddie loses patience when Jet ends her waitressing shift at a strip club with a knife at her throat. Since Eddie’s a cop, he figures he can help. Since Jet’s used to solving everyone’s problems she doesn’t want Eddie’s help...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  crime  drama  female-mc  humor  insta-love  steamy
  • Becoming a Vincent by C.M. Owens

    Becoming a Vincent by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Alternative Cover Edition of ASIN B072YXCNK1When you live in a place where “turbo speed” internet is a slight step above dial-up, men carry on nine-year beard-growing challenges out of stubborn pride, and your brothers do things like nail all your panties to the outside of your cabin just for funsies, you tend to be a little crazy. You can call it a "locational" hazard, if you will...
  • Heal Me Daddy by Laylah Roberts

    Heal Me Daddy by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Can two brothers work together to heal the pain of a woman who swore she’d never love again?Headed to an isolated cabin to try to work on their fractured relationship, Doc and his brother run into a spot of trouble. Their savior is an unlikely one, a Little with a shield so thick it will take both of them working together to penetrate it.Caley isn’t interested in the real world...
  • Maybe Swearing Will Help by Lani Lynn Vale

    Maybe Swearing Will Help by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ford Spurlock has known Ashe Trammel since they were babies.He’s also done his level best to stay away from her because every time he gets to within five feet of her, they’re fighting like cats and dogs.Ashe is the apple of her father’s eye. The motorcycle club princess that was never to be harmed in any way—or touched for that matter...
  • Ninja At First Sight by Penny Reid

    Ninja At First Sight by Penny Reid

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    He wants to be all her firsts . . . What do a cynical former Marine and a sheltered former Olympic contender have in common? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. He has a girlfriend and she’s never been kissed. He’s sullenly sarcastic and she’s earnestly empathetic. He can’t stop thinking about her. She knows she should keep her distance...
  • Taming Hollywood's Baddest Boy by Max Monroe

    Taming Hollywood's Baddest Boy by Max Monroe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Do people say they hate someone’s guts so that they can still fall stupidly, head-over-heels in love with the other parts? Asking for a friend. Okay, fine. I’m not asking for a friend. I’m asking for me—and I’m begging you to tell me that the practice of falling in love with your should-be-enemy is common...
  • Just My Type by Tara Sivec

    Just My Type by Tara Sivec

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Live in the best small town in the world? Check. Have the greatest job ever working on my family's pumpkin farm? Check. Marry the town pharmacist and have a nice, quiet life with our son? Check-check. "Oh, I'm sorry...
  • Random Acts of Love by Julia Kent

    Random Acts of Love by Julia Kent

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The last ever-loving thing I ever thought I'd become is a hypocrite. A big, fat one. Joe doesn't even want me to meet his parents. Trevor's fine with it, but only if they keep thinking I'm his girlfriend. And only his girlfriend. He doesn't want that pesky little thing called truth to get in the way. Both of them are my boyfriends. Both...
  • Bastard Prince by Nana Malone

    Bastard Prince by Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling author, Nana Malone, comes a deliciously royal, roommates to lovers romance. Lucas... I'll never stop fighting for her...no matter the stakes. A year ago I found out I was a long lost prince. But with one lie, that’s all been undone. But prince or pauper, I’m not going to stop fighting for Bryna. She may be the only thing I can count on right now...
  • The Hitman's Guide to Making Friends and Finding Love by Alice Winters

    The Hitman's Guide to Making Friends and Finding Love by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    What happens when a snarky hitman and a by-the-book PI cross paths? Leland Being a hitman has its perks, but I never thought getting an accidental mooning by an attractive PI while he’s caught on a fence would be one of them. While it’s not exactly love at first sight, he’s captured my interest and won’t let go...
  • No More Secrets by Lucy Score

    No More Secrets by Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    “I can’t wait anymore.” His mouth claimed hers in a storm of heat and power. Carter Pierce is a man who believes in signs. He just doesn't know what to do with this one. In the small town of Blue Moon Bend, where everybody is a matchmaker, Carter wants to be left alone to tend the family farm. After returning from Afghanistan with scars, his only goal is recovery...
  • A Good Day for Chardonnay by Darynda Jones

    A Good Day for Chardonnay by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Running a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, carefree kind of job. Sadly, full-time Sheriff--and even fuller-time coffee guzzler--Sunshine Vicram, didn't get that memo.All Sunshine really wants is one easy-going day. You know, the kind that starts with coffee and a donut (or three) and ends with take-out pizza and a glass of chardonnay (or seven)...
  • Tethered Bond by Emma Hart

    Tethered Bond by Emma Hart

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Detective Drake Nash: hot, alpha, bossy, and… mine. Now, if someone could tell his ex that... I don’t care if the summer fair is coming to Holly Woods and she’s on the planning committee. What I do care about is sugar-filled food, bright lights, late nights… and danger. The type that won’t come in the form of Nonna’s new cantankerous British parrot, Gio...
  • 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..
  • Finding Home: Book 1 of the Rollin On Series by Emilia Finn

    Finding Home: Book 1 of the Rollin On Series by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From Emilia Finn, a real-life full-contact fighter, comes Finding Home - A powerful tale of family, heroism, and propulsive suspense. Sometimes, the only way to save the girl is to teach her how to fight. Bobby Kincaid is a twenty-six year old MMA fighter whose life has always revolved around his family and gym...
  • Two Wedding Crashers by Meghan Quinn

    Two Wedding Crashers by Meghan Quinn

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I don’t know what love is anymore.Well, that’s not entirely true, but I’m going to tell you a little secret: I’ve lost the spark. You know the kind of spark I’m talking about? Where butterflies take flight in your stomach from two hands innocently colliding. Or catching your breath when you first meet someone attractive. Yeah, that spark...
  • The End of Summer by Makeandoffer

    The End of Summer by Makeandoffer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Summer Jacobs knew full well about her town’s tradition. Every year at the end of the summer, a party would be held on school grounds without the knowledge of the parents or the teachers. It had been happening since before Summer was born and never once was anyone the wiser. This year however, everyone was going to find out...
  • August by trickology

    August by trickology

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    •BAD BOY• || Highest ranks: #1 in Love || || #1 in Romance || || #1 Teen Fiction ||Nyctophilia(n.) Love of darkness or night. Finding comfort in darkness.August Villin was a name people feared.Cruel and powerful, his anger was a storm that never went away.He was the monster that lurked in all of your worst nightmares, waiting for you to cross onto his dangerous path...
  • Taming Teddy by Lucy Lennox

    Taming Teddy by Lucy Lennox

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    alternate cover edition of ASIN B01N2T0IRWTeddy: If there’s one thing I don’t do, it’s commitment. You don’t become an award-winning photographer by staying in one place. I’m always on the road, looking for the next shot, the next award, the next hot body. Which is how I end up on Dr. James Marian’s front porch in the middle-of-nowhere Alaska...
  • Merry Random Christmas by Julia Kent

    Merry Random Christmas by Julia Kent

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It all started with a game of Truth or Dare... It's bad enough I got arrested for prostitution on Christmas Eve. Alleged prostitution, mind you. I didn't do it. Of course I didn't. The cops say I offered up a certain sex act for a $5 gasoline gift card, but honey? My sex acts are worth way, way more...
  • Poison Hearts by Jennifer Cody

    Poison Hearts by Jennifer Cody

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Orlando:No one intentionally starts out life trying to become a hired unaliver. Weeellllll, most people don’t. I come from a legacy of unalivers, though I think I might be the first one to make a career out of it. Accidentally...
    Categorized as:
    crime  humor  insta-love  steamy  romance  mlm  contemporary  lgbtq
  • Taste of Torment by Suzanne Wright

    Taste of Torment by Suzanne Wright

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    It’s been five months since vampire Sam Parker Bound herself to Jared Michaels, her powerful co-commander within the Grand High Master vampire’s personal legion. Life as a Bound couple has been going just fine…until the Grand High Master announces he will be stepping down from his position and wants Sam and Jared to take his place. Oh joy. Despite Sam’s reservations, she agrees to ascend...
  • Running From the Law by Jami Albright, Jennifer Grace

    Running From the Law by Jami Albright, Jennifer Grace

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    One night of passion. Two second chances. Three little texts . . .Former child star Charlie Klein is in a world of trouble. She’s broke, jobless, and no longer famous—except with the IRS. She’s ready to run, so an emergency call from Texas is all the excuse she needs to get out of Hollywood. But she doesn’t expect to crash into the sheriff of her hometown, the boy she loved and lost...
  • The Mane Attraction by Shelly Laurenston

    The Mane Attraction by Shelly Laurenston

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Even the king of the beasts can find himself unexpectedly tamed by the right woman. Weddings have the strangest effect on people. Exhibit 1: Sissy Mae waking up in Mitch Shaw's bed the morning after her brother Bobby Ray's nuptials. Exhibit 2: the gunmen trying to kill Mitch. Exhibit 3: Sissy Mae escorting a bleeding yet sexy lion shifter to her Tennessee Pack's turf for safe keeping...
  • 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...
  • The Hero and the Hacktivist by Pippa Grant

    The Hero and the Hacktivist by Pippa Grant

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    For anyone who’s ever been on the receiving end of an unsolicited dick pic… He has the muscles of Adonis, an ego bigger than the sun, and a very clear desire to get back in my pants. Which would be fantastic if he weren’t a SEAL and I wasn’t a criminal. Although, I prefer the term avenger...
  • The Bite That Binds by Suzanne Wright

    The Bite That Binds by Suzanne Wright

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    It’s just over a week until Sam will be Binding with Jared, and the only thing she wants is to spend that time relaxing and preparing for the ceremony. Unfortunately, she seems to be asking too much of fate, because suddenly she’s lumbered with a number of distractions that have the potential to postpone, or even cancel, the Binding...
  • Untamed Delights by Suzanne Wright

    Untamed Delights by Suzanne Wright

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Return to the sensual and feral stirrings of the Phoenix Pack as a woman who’s already bound to one man is tempted by a wolf who’s bound only to his nightly desires. Cat shifter Mila Devereaux can’t help but see it as a betrayal. That her one true mate imprinted himself on another female was hard enough to accept...
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    alpha-mc  drama  female-mc  humor  insta-love  multi-pov  steamy  abuse
  • Imperfect Heart by Tarina Deaton

    Imperfect Heart by Tarina Deaton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s not a mid-life crisis if you’re finally doing something you love, right? Separating from the Air Force after thirteen years may seem drastic to some, but Zoe Acevedo is finally doing something for herself. Opening an independent bookstore in Haven Springs, North Carolina is a major undertaking, but Zoe has a plan and a list...
  • Life Changer by B.J. Harvey

    Life Changer by B.J. Harvey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a firefighter and the chef he's been crushing on cross paths, sparks fly. ***Divorced single mom Dee has never much believed in fate until now, but something about the charming and adorably awkward flirt, Rhodes, has her intrigued and wanting to know more...
  • Not For Me by Aria Bliss

    Not For Me by Aria Bliss

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Fake Dating Romantic ComedyIt’s a fake arrangement.Two weeks with me. A free vacation and one very convincing date with her. What could possibly go wrong?♥ ♥ ♥To avoid going on blind dates arranged by my mother, I agree to pretend-date my sister’s best friend. Imagine my surprise when she turns out to be the beautiful, dirty-talking woman who caught my attention while running in Central Park...
  • Rock Chick by Kristen Ashley

    Rock Chick by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Indy Savage, cop's daughter, rock chick and used bookstore owner, has been in love with Lee Nightingale, once bad boy, now the man behind Nightingale Investigations, since she was five years old. No matter what ingenious schemes Indy used to capture his attention, Lee never showed an interest and Indy finally gave up...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  crime  drama  female-mc  humor  insta-love  steamy
  • Shards of Frost by Suzanne Wright

    Shards of Frost by Suzanne Wright

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When had life stopped being so simple? Probably around the time that Casey Frost first agreed to pay off her drug addict brother’s debt to save him from a brutal beating. It soon became a “thing.” When the dealer—who’s also an Alpha shifter—demands she do something that goes against her very being, Casey decides enough is enough...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  drama  female-mc  humor  insta-love  multi-pov  steamy  abuse
  • Cocky Bastard by Penelope Ward

    Cocky Bastard by Penelope Ward

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    He was someone who belonged in my wildest fantasies instead of a rest stop in the middle of Nebraska.A sexy, cocky, Australian named Chance was the last person I expected to run into on my cross-country drive. When my car broke down, we made a deal. Next thing I knew, we were traveling together, spending sexually-tense nights in hotels and taking unplanned detours...
  • Echoes of Fire by Suzanne Wright

    Echoes of Fire by Suzanne Wright

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    They may not be made for each other, but animal instincts are impossible to ignore.Madisyn Drake is a rare breed of cat shifter…a loner, unpredictably wild, and emotionally distant. A recent betrayal has left her ready to sharpen her claws on the next man she sees…until a prowling wolf with steel-gray eyes and a brooding dark edge challenges her distrust...
  • The Immortal Hunter by Lynsay Sands

    The Immortal Hunter by Lynsay Sands

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Irresistible Even vampires need a vacation. But Decker Argeneau's ends abruptly when he's asked to help hunt the group of rogue vampires targeting mortals - one that might include a defector in his own family. Before he can worry about that, though, he's got to rescue the latest victim. It's all part of the job, including taking a bullet for a beautiful doctor. Insatiable Dr...
  • Just Jory by Mary Calmes

    Just Jory by Mary Calmes

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A ficlet which is set in the time period between Bulletproof and But For You...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  humor  steamy  action-adventure  adult  age-gap  book
  • Ball Peen Hammer by Lauren Rowe

    Ball Peen Hammer by Lauren Rowe

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the USA Today and Internationally bestselling author of The Club Series, Hero, and Captain, Lauren Rowe, comes a sexy standalone romantic comedy about Keane Morgan: Ball Peen Hammer.Keane Morgan wouldn’t return any of my calls or texts, and I was pissed as hell about it. I didn’t want to drive from Seattle to L.A...
  • Hard To Handle by Lori Foster

    Hard To Handle by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sometimes Fate delivers a left hook. After Fate deals Supreme Battle Challenge (SBC) fighter Harley Handleman a sucker punch, his uncle secretly hires a pretty lifecoach to get Harley back in the ring of life. Anastasia Kelley has actually known Harley for years, but never as well as she's going to now...
  • The Mogul and the Muscle by Claire Kingsley

    The Mogul and the Muscle by Claire Kingsley

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    “I wanted this man’s arms around me, cocooning me in safety. I wanted to feel like I didn’t have to be brave for a few hours. I wanted to let him be my courage. My protection. My shield.”Cameron Whitbury—billionaire aerospace mogul—can engineer her way out of any problem. Sure, she’s living with the threat of a potential sex scandal thanks to her lying ex...
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