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Effortless by S.C. Stephens
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsAfter being caught in the middle of a love triangle that led to a devastating betrayal, Kiera pledged to learn from the mistakes she made. She was determined to never again inflict that kind of pain on anyone, especially the soulful, talented man who held her heart...Categorized as:
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Only Ever You by Lisa Suzanne
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTorn between two brothers, Reese Brady must choose whether to live out her fantasies or opt for stability. She bears the load of her guilt to the point of exhaustion, excusing unsavory behavior as a form of self-punishment. Despite the temptation of one man, she commits to the other. When a family crisis strikes, Reese is forced into the arms of the wrong man... -
Star by B.B. Easton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJoin the heart of the 90’s punk scene where one woman finds her tattoo-covered, bass-playing prince charming in a whirlwind rock star romance--the third spinoff novel after 44 CHAPTERS ABOUT 4 MEN, the book that inspired the hit Netflix original series SEX/LIFE. In 1999, BB Easton met her Prince Charming...Categorized as:
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Maestro by Auden Dar
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAbout MAESTROFor some, first love is a fleeting spark heralding the greater loves to come. For others, first love is the greatest love. The only love.When a music audition at the world-renowned LaGuardia Arts high school brings together two thirteen-year-olds, unassuming Aurelia Ramirez Preston and confident Chadwick David, the serendipitous encounter becomes an unbreakable friendship...Categorized as:
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Clean Break by Lisa Suzanne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAfter two brothers shatter her world, Reese Brady escapes to her old life. She occupies herself with work and friends in an attempt to find comfort after her catastrophic summer. When Reese receives a desperate call from someone she thought she’d never hear from again, she’s forced to confront the love she could’ve had... -
Blasphemous by Pamela Ann
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWill they survive the tsunami of trials heading their way? + Bass Cole + Emma Anderson + Carter Mason + expLosive. scOrching. graVitating. intEnse. Emma was beyond glad to escape back to Aspasia and be with Bass again... -
A Little Like Destiny by Lisa Suzanne
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsReserved and responsible Reese Brady refuses to miss her chance with bad boy rock star Mark Ashton. After one steamy night, she's convinced the emotional connection they shared was just a figment of her imagination. After all, he’s a womanizer whose affairs are highly publicized. Reese strives to leave that night behind her after a handsome business mogul asks her to dinner... -
No Feelings Involved by Siobhan Davis
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCan this skeptical player let down his guard long enough to let love into his life, or is this forbidden romance a train wreck in the making? Ryan James doesn’t believe in love. It’s a truth he learned early in life. A truth he carried with him into adulthood...Categorized as:
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Come Together by Jessica Hawkins
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCome Together is the third and final installment of The Cityscape Series. With a single decision, Olivia Germaine’s fantasy has become a reality. Now she is faced with two commitments: one she must make and one she must break... -
Move the Stars by Jessica Hawkins
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe highly anticipated conclusion to the Something in the Way series, a forbidden love saga. Lake It was a hot summer day when I met him on the construction site next to my parents' house. If I’d known then what I do now, would I have kept on walking? Manning was older, darker, experienced—and I’d trusted him when he said the story would only ever be about us...Categorized as:
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Reeve by Siobhan Davis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA companion novel to Say I'm the One and Let Me Love You by USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author Siobhan Davis.Vivien Grace Mills has been the center of my universe since the second she entered this world.Every memory I hold precious includes her.She’s my biggest champion and the one person keeping me sane during some of the most testing times of my life...Categorized as:
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Ask Me Something by Aubrey Bondurant
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow do you ask the question, when you know the answer may change everything?Sasha Brooks has been focused on one thing her entire life: her career. Newly promoted as the vice president in a New York advertising company, she has beauty, brains, and one hell of a fierce reputation. But she also has a secret that she keeps carefully guarded... -
Ray of Time by E.L. Todd
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsZeke and I are finally together. Going from best friends to lovers is surprisingly easier than I thought it would be. We do everything together, and of course, the sex is fabulous. Everything is great until Ryker shows up. He says he needs to talk to me and I think I know what it's regarding. If my suspicion is right, he's in for rejection. Because he missed his chance a long time ago...Categorized as:
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One Night to Fall by Kelsey Kingsley
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDo we choose love? Or is it something decided by fate? To Kinsey McKenna, Patrick Kinney was a persistent glob of sticky peanut butter. He had been stuck to the roof of her mouth, since they were both three years old, when fate seemed to send his family next door to hers. All the way from the coast of Ireland to River Canyon, Connecticut...Categorized as:
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Revive Me: Part Two: The Affair by J.L. Seegars
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMalloryThe day Christopher Johnson decided to kill me, I already knew what it was like to die. I had already experienced it once. Having the life leeched from my body, blood stolen from my veins, oxygen pulled from my lungs.When he decided to walk back into my life, I was in the middle of my third resurrection, healing from the loss of my brother when I was still raw from losing him... -
Palm South University: Season 2 Box Set ) by Kandi Steiner
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDrama. Lies. Sex. Welcome to Palm South University. The weather isn’t the only thing heating up in South Florida. At a school where fraternities and sororities don’t exactly play by the rules, relationships are bound to be tested...Categorized as:
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Always Meant to Be by Siobhan Davis
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn emotional and angst-filled stand-alone taboo reverse age-gap romance. He’s my eighteen-year-old son’s best friend, and I’m old enough to know better.My marriage is falling apart, and Vander’s home life is tragic.Yet, his broken parts speak to mine, and amid all the chaos, a true connection is formed... -
Scorned by Pamela Ann
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBrody was determined to win her heart again. Dimitris was hell-bent on getting her back. Will she choose one or none? Fiesty, vindictive and sharp-tongued, Lindsey Mason was always in love with her brother’s best friend, Brody. For years, she watched as he went through the women around her—but never her. When Lindsey started dating another guy, Brody suddenly started to notice her... -
All The Forbidden Things by Lesley Jones
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen all that you want, is all that’s forbidden... I’ve known him my entire life. Before marriage. Before fatherhood. Before betrayal. Now, he’s one of rock’s bad-boys trying to be good. Trying to be the best father he can for his daughter. He’s my brother’s best friend. He’s my boss. He has a wife. Max isn’t mine to have, but I want him all the same...Categorized as:
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The Legend by Dylan Allen
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRemington Wilde had heartbreak written all over him. He was the most beautiful boy I’d ever seen. When I looked into his midnight eyes, I saw a happy ending I’d never dared to dream of. I was seventeen the first time he asked for my heart, I didn’t hesitate to hand it over. In exchange, he gave me the best summer of my life. He was my first everything...Categorized as:
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Drowning Erin by Elizabeth O'Roark
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsErin Doyle can’t stand manwhores, and she particularly can’t stand Brendan Langstrom—the guy who avoids relationships like the plague and never sleeps with the same girl twice...Categorized as:
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Long After by Cheryl McIntyre
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFor Annie Phillips, there is a right way to do things and everything has a place. College and her flawless GPA are top priority, as is planning her perfect future. Anything less than perfection is unacceptable. So when she meets Loden Guiles, she believes she has finally found her perfect happily-ever-after. Chase Malloy is funny, loyal, and an all around nice guy...Categorized as:
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Evolve Series Box Set by S.E. Hall
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFall in love with The Evolve Series by NYTimes & USA Today Bestselling author S.E... -
Falling For You: A Brother's Best Friend Romance by Jennifer Van Wyk
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRex, Fake it ‘til you make it has been the motto I live by since my mother died. I’m also doing a really bad job at the making it part. The night we met, I was at my lowest. But you gave me a reason to feel happy again. For the first time in over a year, I was optimistic. Too bad it all got washed away As hard as I try, I can’t deny that I’m Falling For You... -
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All Autumn by Sandra Owens
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAutumn 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...Categorized as:
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Broken Bridges by Tania Joyce
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe's lost his band, his lover and his grandfather - the friends and family who'd accepted his lifestyle choices.She's lost her career, the love of her life and after a freak accident has to accept she'll never be the same.A chance audition for The Flintlocks could change his life.A move across the country could be the fresh start he needs.She needs to find her way in the world again... -
Friends with Benefits: A Steamy College Romance by Hazel Kelly
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWe were only supposed to be friends with benefits. We even made rules. So things wouldn't get complicated. So no one would get hurt. But somewhere along the way, feelings got involved. Looking back, I guess I should've seen it coming. Should've seen him coming. But I didn't...Categorized as:
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Dancing With Sin: A forbidden love story by Alexandria Lee
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlice Monroe is a good person who is about to do a very bad thing.A professional dancer at twenty-four, Alice had worked tirelessly for years to achieve perfection in all areas of her life. She had the perfect boyfriend, the perfect dream job in her pocket, and the unfortunate, naïve belief that perfection was built to last...Categorized as:
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The Question by Zena Wynn
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat would you do for a friend? What sacrifice would you willingly make? This is the issue facing Gail Henderson when her best friend, Crystal Al Jabbar, asks her to be a surrogate for her and her husband Rashid, using Gail's own egg. Complicating the decision is Gail's recent loss of her husband and toddler son in a fatal car accident, two years earlier... -
STEPDORK by A.E. Murphy
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRaven and Travis sitting in a tree, doing things they shouldn’t be. HA… yeah, right. Raven hates her stepbrother with a passion, and she’s certain Travis returns the sentiment because he makes life at home with him hell. He ruined her favorite T-shirt, damn it...Categorized as:
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Awakening by Ashley Suzanne
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMira’s broken and battered. She’s fighting to put herself back together while her heart is trying to forget. Can she continue moving forward with one man while in love with another? Skylar’s wrestling demons he never imagined in his wildest dreams. The girl he’s been in love with for years finally has feelings for him. There’s only one problem: her heart might lie somewhere else...Categorized as:
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Coda by Jennifer Hartmann
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSix years ago, I hit rock bottom.In a desperate attempt to pull myself from the ashes, I had to burn the people I loved most.Now, those same people are drowning in darkness after their world is rocked by tragedy.I've made a business out of helping others, channeling my past trauma into a good cause. But when the one person who needs my help the most sends me away, I have another choice to make...Categorized as:
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A Will to Change by Beth Rinyu
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is an alternate cover edition for B00LA6OOVY In A Cry for Hope you meet Jamie’s carefree younger brother, Will. Now read his story…Will McAdams is a New York City firefighter who has always lived in the shadow of his older brother, never quite measuring up to his parents standards. He lives his life without regrets, and answers to no one... -
Fate by Sydney Lane
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI'm used to getting what I want. I've always taken what I wanted. No apologies. No excuses. I know what it feels like to be betrayed, when someone else is calling all the shots. I've been down that road, and I'm not going there again. I've got my family, my friends, and the brotherhood. That's all I need. I believe in Fate. Everything happens for a reason...Categorized as:
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Kin Series Complete Set by Jennifer Foor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Full Kin Series including an exclusive Novella, Renew Me. Following this family of cousins while they struggle through life and each find love... -
Intermission by Lisa Suzanne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI’m in love with two men. I’m torn and need to choose which man from my past I want as a permanent part of my future. My heart leads me one way as my brain pushes me toward the other. I want them both, but each of them holds a secret that will change everything... -
disgraceful by Autumn Grey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI knew falling for him was wrong. I did it anyway, his half smiles and blue eyes pulling me deeper. Blue eyes that made me soar. He wasn’t mine to keep, though. And like all good and rare things, it came to an end. Then he strolls into my life, armed with dimples and gray eyes. Gray eyes that ground me. He smashes through my defenses, stealing what is left of my heart... -
Pretty Broken Hearts: A Pretty Broken Standalone by Jeana E. Mann
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne “special” girl plus one hot widower equals a love story to make you cry, scream, and shout for joy. Rhett: My days are haunted by regrets and unpleasant memories until Bronte Hollander serves me coffee at the local java shop. I can hear her counting under her breath. I’m counting too—the minutes, the hours, the days—until I can see her again...Categorized as:
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Lithium Tides: A Lithium Springs Novel by Carmel Rhodes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhose bed is this? That was Kensie’s first thought as she peeled her eyes open to find herself in an unfamiliar room. She noted the crumpled red dress, tiny black thong, and Louboutin heels in the corner. Whose arms are these? That was her second thought as the tattooed arms engulfing her tightened their grip. Her phone buzzed on the nightstand... -
Proven by Christine Michelle, Christine M. Butler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI followed my heart from San Diego, California to Cedar Falls, West Virginia. Too bad that heart wasn’t worth the trip.Thankfully, I had my job, new friends - which consisted of an entire motorcycle club I’d fallen into - and my newfound responsibility for a family that was torn apart by needless tragedy... -
Ten Reasons to Stay ( (The Risky Hearts Duet) Book 1) by Candace Knoebel
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne day a week—Thursdays—my husband and I could do whatever or whomever we pleased. Protection was non-negotiable. And no matter what, we had to be home by midnight. Jack was the one who wanted an open marriage, but we were supposed to keep things simple. No strings. No commitments. It seemed so easy… until it wasn’t... -
Sangria by Heidi McLaughlin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUnder the bright lights of Nashville, Levi Austin is a country music superstar whose life is rocked by the tragic death of his former wife, leaving him to raise their two daughters alone... -
Wanting Wentworth by Megyn Ward
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis book 9 of THE GILROY CLAN and the first book in Went & Kaitlyn's... -
Reject Me by Jennifer Foor
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPeyton Hutchinson and Jamey Billings were an unlikely couple from the start. They'd been together for a while, half of it in secret, but she's ready to get serious and take things to the next level. She moves in with Jamey, forcing him to label what they are to each other, and he's not pleased about it...Categorized as:
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The Fallback by Mariah Dietz
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBreaking up is hard to do. It's even harder when you're not expecting it. Brooke Jensen is a planner. Not only in her personal life but also professionally as one of the most sought after event planners in Chicago... -
Sin by Deborah Bladon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSIN, a hot new standalone from New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Deborah Bladon. West. That’s what he said his name was when I met him on the flight from New York City to Las Vegas. I was on my way to sin city for a bachelorette party. West had business there. He was wickedly handsome, demanding, and the intensity in his eyes melted me from the inside out...Categorized as:
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Troublemaker by Deborah Bladon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTroublemaker, a new sexy friends to lovers standalone novel, from New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, Deborah Bladon. Adley York is everything I want in a best friend. She’s honest, kind and speaks her mind. The fact that she doesn’t care that I’m hot as hell and rich as sin makes her the perfect person to hang out with...Categorized as:
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Aria by Jennifer Hartmann
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhen the lead singer of my rock band sets his sights on a pretty waitress, I’ll do whatever it takes to make sure she doesn’t get in the way of our dreams.Only, my plan unravels when she accidentally spills her darkest secrets to me one night, triggering a profound connection neither of us saw coming...Categorized as:
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Replace Me by Jennifer Foor
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsReplace Me is book 2 in the ongoing KIN series. To get the best enjoyment, and be able to follow the storyline and characters, please read book 1, Repair Me, prior to reading this book. Lacey Travis has wanted Shayne Hutchinson since she was 15, when they first met at the beach and she was just a blip on his radar. As adults, they finally begin dating... -
Who We Are by S.Q. Williams, Christian Fox
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEight months.That’s how long it’s been since Eliza last saw Gage and they both feel as if they don’t deserve one another’s forgiveness. He screwed up. She walked away without looking back. They’ll try and make up all the time they’ve lost with one another, that is until they’re facing the choices of either going their separate ways, or hanging on and fighting for dear life...
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