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  • Set: A Novella by Alexandria House

    Set: A Novella by Alexandria House

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A chance encounter and one night of passion leads to a mutually beneficial arrangement for two souls from different worlds. When love creeps into the equation, neither is sure how to feel or what to do. The only thing either is certain of, is their need for the other. Set is book one of the Them Boys novella series. This novella includes strong sexual content and profanity...
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    steamy  north-america  usa  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  black-mc  book
  • Sunken Shadows: Shadows Landing #2 by Kathleen Brooks

    Sunken Shadows: Shadows Landing #2 by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As a rescue swimmer for the Coast Guard, Wade Faulkner was used to unpredictable situations. But an emergency call late one night turns his life upside down. After finding a boat on fire, he discovers a dead body and a visibly shaken woman in need of rescue. Now he finds himself entangled in a murder mystery between two teams of treasure hunters out for the discovery of a lifetime . .
  • Frat Hell by S.M. Shade

    Frat Hell by S.M. Shade

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Frat Hell. That’s how the whole neighborhood refers to the apartment where I live with three other college students. It’s a bit judgmental, considering the neighborhood we live in is more like a zoo than an apartment complex, but not inaccurate. If you put that many young guys together, things are bound to be interesting...
  • Futures and Frosting by Tara Sivec

    Futures and Frosting by Tara Sivec

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 1478314605 Carter, Claire and Gavin have formed the perfect little family. Their friends are getting married and everyone is growing up, maturing and ready to face the future...
  • Between Now and Forever by Dylan Allen

    Between Now and Forever by Dylan Allen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s on the edge of stardom.I’m on the edge of disaster.One night will change our lives forever...I'm standing in the middle of a storm when Carter Bosh asks me to dance.He's a complete stranger, but his outstretched hand and glittering green eyes are too tempting to resist.I'm looking for forever.And the brooding piano prodigy isn't offering it...
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    steamy  university  abuse  alpha-mc  angst  book  contemporary  drama
  • Seducing Sawyer by Melanie Shawn

    Seducing Sawyer by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Stand-alone Wishing Well, Texas romance, complete with HEA—and plenty of heat and heart along the way! I had to keep my distance… Sawyer Briggs could admit that she was all he ever thought about, but the tall, sexy alpha knew that if he truly wanted what was best for her, he would stay away… It's now or never… Delilah Turner was ready to go for who she really wanted! The curvaceous...
  • A Fighting Chance by Tatum West

    A Fighting Chance by Tatum West

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dillon: I don’t do relationships. I’ve been abandoned all my life, and I don’t trust a soul except my own damn self. But there’s something different about Jack Chance. From his lithe, gymnast’s body to his soulful hazel eyes, he’s everything I never knew I wanted. When he’s wrapped up in my arms, begging for more, everything seems right about the world...
  • Love Like Ours by Melissa Foster

    Love Like Ours by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    One wrong move, and she meets a guy with all the right ones…Talia Dalton lives her life on cruise control. Despite her successful career as a professor, she prefers protecting her broken heart to taking chances. She’s calm, cool, collected, and steady. Until the morning she takes her eyes off that familiar road and almost runs over the sexiest man she’s ever seen...
  • Heidi's Guide to Four Letter Words by Tara Sivec, Andi Arndt

    Heidi's Guide to Four Letter Words by Tara Sivec, Andi Arndt

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Cowritten by USA Today best-selling author Tara Sivec and award-winning narrator Andi Arndt, a hysterically funny, heartfelt romance about starting over and taking chances. Nothing good ever comes from drinking a box of wine alone...
  • Nice and Easy by Erin Nicholas

    Nice and Easy by Erin Nicholas

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A hot firefighter who just wants to take care of her and her little boy? Sign her up. Moving in with him and his little girl who already has a huge chunk of her heart? Very nice. Roommates with benefits? Yes, please. Convincing this take-charge alpha to let her take care of him too? That’s not going to be as easy...
  • The Cowboy Imports a Bride by Cora Seton

    The Cowboy Imports a Bride by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rob Matheson's a fighter. Flattening enemies with his fists or with his legendary practical jokes, he's a tough enemy, and a troublesome friend. But Rob doesn't know how much longer he can keep up the act. As his buddies get married one by one, he's left with his lonely life - and the sinking feeling he lost more than his dreams when he traded them for a thick skin...
  • One Crazy Week by Claire Kingsley

    One Crazy Week by Claire Kingsley

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s not supposed to mean anything… until it does The hot guy in a suit, sitting next to me at the bar? I don’t know who he is, but when he tries to pick me up, he seems surprised when I sass him and turn him down. Truth? He’s practically irresistible, and I almost say yes. Turns out, he’s Jackson Bennett, a cocky billionaire with a playboy reputation...
  • 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...
  • It's Only Love by Marie Force

    It's Only Love by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The new Green Mountain Romance from the New York Times bestselling author of And I Love Her. Ella Abbott has long been secretly in love with Gavin Guthrie. A few recent encounters have only added to her infatuation, especially the kiss they shared at her sister’s wedding. It doesn’t matter to Ella that Gavin is in a bad place...
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    north-america  steamy  usa  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  epic
  • Stay A Little Longer by Kait Nolan

    Stay A Little Longer by Kait Nolan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Athena Reynolds is a goddess in the kitchen, and she’s got her Michelin-starred restaurant Olympus to back it up. Darling of the Chicago restaurant scene, she’s flying high—until a betrayal leads to her sudden fall from grace. Furious and reeling, she heads home to the solace of family in Tennessee. Logan Maxwell has his hands full keeping his organic farm thriving and in the black...
  • Forget Me Not by Felice Stevens

    Forget Me Not by Felice Stevens

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "He had everything under control, except the way that cowboy made him feel."Texas cowboy Shea Montgomery has plans. Big plans. Still mourning the loss of his beloved father, he’s finally ready to sell the Forget Me Not ranch. He’s dusting off his boots, packing up his cowboy hat, and moving to New York City to make his dreams come true...
  • Call It Magic by Janet Chapman

    Call It Magic by Janet Chapman

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome back to Spellbound Falls, Maine where love is the greatest magic of all...Katy MacBain moved to Spellbound Falls with secrets she plans to keep. The newest member of the Fire and Rescue Team, she disappeared for three weeks before arriving on the job...
  • Ghost by J.M. Dabney

    Ghost by J.M. Dabney

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Gideon Jane earned the name Ghost for his reclusive nature when he joined a group of guys in Powers, Georgia in a band called Executioners. It had been his way of settling into small town life after living in New York for the past twenty years. He loved the band and his small organic farm. What he didn’t love was being single, but it appeared it was his new reality...
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    georgia  north-america  steamy  usa  abuse  adult  biker  bisexuality
  • The Garden by Rosalind Abel

    The Garden by Rosalind Abel

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Beautiful Gilbert Bryant designs jewelry for the rich and famous, and he made his escape from his gossipy little hometown of Lavender Shores. However, with so many friends and family, he keeps getting pulled back. When he attends his best friend’s engagement party, Gilbert can’t help but sample one of the new men in town. It’s just some innocent—or not so innocent—fun...
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    north-america  steamy  usa  abuse  adult  angst  audiobook  book
  • Crossing the Line by Kimberly Kincaid

    Crossing the Line by Kimberly Kincaid

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cocky farmer Eli Cross plays twice as hard as he works. When his latest stunt drums up a heap of negative PR for the family farm, he grudgingly agrees to play host to an ambitious New York City photographer. Her feature on Cross Creek could be just the ticket to show the country what the Cross brothers do best…which is more problem than solution for Eli...
  • The Crush by Kelly Fox

    The Crush by Kelly Fox

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Augustus Walker, Jr. is a problem. Every queer person I know has had a tragic crush on a straight person at some point in their lives, and for the last year, Walker has been mine.Not that my crush on him is serious—I'm just appreciating a sweet, sexy guy who happens to be a big fat goose egg on the Kinsey scale. Le sigh and all that...
  • Vision in White by Nora Roberts

    Vision in White by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Nora Roberts cordially invites you to meet childhood friends Parker, Emma, Laurel, and Mac—the founders of Vows, one of Connecticut's premier wedding planning companies.After years of throwing make-believe weddings in the backyard, flowers, photography, desserts, and details are what these women do best: a guaranteed perfect, beautiful day full of memories to last the rest of your life...
  • Like the Taste of Summer by Kaje Harper

    Like the Taste of Summer by Kaje Harper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jack managed to get a scholarship to a small-town college in the middle of the Iowa cornfields, September 1981. It wasn't New York, or California, but he figured it would be better than being home. College would be be a new start in a new place, maybe somewhere he could be himself...
  • Dear Daddy, Please Praise Me by Luna David, Amy Bellows

    Dear Daddy, Please Praise Me by Luna David, Amy Bellows

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dear Santa, I want a Daddy who will take care of me... Sanders doesn’t believe he’ll actually find a Daddy through a dating app. He’s not much to look at, and his life is a mess. A Daddy would never be interested in someone like him. But he’s lonely.He hasn’t been kissed for three long years...
  • Melting by Sean Ashcroft

    Melting by Sean Ashcroft

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Butt naked and dripping wet wasn't how I expected to meet the man of my dreams.After a bad breakup, a rough year at his New York ice cream parlour, and no luck jumping back into the dating pool, celebrated pastry chef Hayden agrees to spend the summer with his dad in his childhood home on the Oregon coast to get away from it all...
  • Meet Me in Myrtle Beach by Brooke St. James

    Meet Me in Myrtle Beach by Brooke St. James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Paige Spears was on her way to a job interview when she first met Diane Hunt. The two of them made friendly conversation while waiting for their breakfast, and Diane ended up asking Paige to come work for her for the summer. Paige was reluctant about beginning her corprate career anyway, so she jumped at Diane's offer...
  • Expect Me by Lacey Black

    Expect Me by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Travis Stevens struggles to move on and forget about the one amazing night he spent tangled up in the sheets with a beautiful woman who disappeared just before dawn. Now she’s just a memory that he can’t ignore...
  • Watch Me by Brenda Novak

    Watch Me by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Someone tried to kill her twelve years ago. Teenagers Sheridan Kohl and Jason Wyatt were parked at the lake in Whiterock, Tennessee, when a stranger wearing a ski mask shot them both. Sheridan lived but Jason died -- and the stranger was never caught. Even though Sheridan's family moved away right afterward, she's never been able to put the crime behind her...
  • Texas Twist by Cynthia D'Alba

    Texas Twist by Cynthia D'Alba

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Real bad boys can grow up to be real good men. Paige Ryan has lost everything important in her life. Her parents, her lover, her horse, her life on the rodeo tour. Lost about her future, she moves to Whispering Springs, Texas to be near her step-brother...
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    north-america  steamy  usa  adult  book  contemporary  family  fiction
  • Hailey by ChaShiree M., M.K. Moore

    Hailey by ChaShiree M., M.K. Moore

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hailey I thought I knew. I thought I knew what life had in store for me. Until the day I met HIM. Until the moment he said hello. Until the second he touched me. Until the times he made love to me over and over claiming me EVERY. TIME. Then our time was up, and I left my heart with him. Fate brought us back together. But, does he still want me, as much as I want him? Plans be damned...
  • Smarty Pants by Marika Ray

    Smarty Pants by Marika Ray

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The first time I met her, she was running away from her own wedding.The second time I met her, she tried to get me fired from my job.The third time? I had to haul her drunk self off the bar before she completed her amateur—and hot as hell—striptease.She’s messy, chaos in human form, and not at all who she claims to be...
  • A Cowboy to Keep by Barbara Ankrum

    A Cowboy to Keep by Barbara Ankrum

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On the run from her past, photographer Ali Thibeaux arrives undercover in Marietta to find her biological half-sister. Plan A: Meet Olivia, photograph her wedding, and disappear before endangering anyone. Plan B: All hell breaks loose. Reclusive rancher Adam Wolfe’s only plan when he hires Ali to manage his dysfunctional household is to go on hiding from the world...
  • Blue Moon Kisses by Cindy Roland Anderson

    Blue Moon Kisses by Cindy Roland Anderson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ashlee Nichols fell in love with her brother’s best friend, Beau Jacobsen, when she was twelve-years-old. She knew he was the one, her very own Prince Charming, and that one day they’d marry and live happily ever after. When she confessed her feelings to Beau, he’d laughed, patted her on the head and told her he was flattered...
  • Keeping You by Daphne Elliot

    Keeping You by Daphne Elliot

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He was my first kiss. My first love. And my first heartbreak . Twenty years later, our reunion is not the meet-cute I imagined. Instead, it's a meet-puke when I find Callum Quinn throwing up on my front lawn. We’ve both come a long way since high school. I’m a free spirit single mom, back in town with twin boys and a family farm to save...
  • Staking His Claim by Tory Baker

    Staking His Claim by Tory Baker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I want the one woman I should never touch. Tulsa Rose has gone through hell and back. We have a complicated history, becoming her guardian after a family tragedy is only the tip of the iceberg. I sent her away. It was the right thing to do, even if she felt like I turned my back on her. The truth is, she was a temptation I couldn’t have. She was way too young. Now she’s home, ten years later...
  • January is for Jackson by Dylann Crush, Eve London

    January is for Jackson by Dylann Crush, Eve London

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her mountain man hero must make an impossible choice.EmmaI’ve always been spontaneous, but this time I might have gone too far. Showing up at my brother’s remote cabin to surprise him for his birthday seemed like a good idea. But he’s nowhere to be found, the cabin’s locked up tight, and a snowstorm’s on the way...
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    steamy  romance  small-town  contemporary  fiction  book  adult
  • Embracing You by Daphne Elliot

    Embracing You by Daphne Elliot

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She offered me a deal I couldn't refuse.A little summer fling. Casual, no expectations ... and a firm expiration date.Samantha Sullivan and I have been best friends since childhood. Totally platonic. We had never crossed the line, not even once.Until now...
  • Somewhere by Susan Fanetti

    Somewhere by Susan Fanetti

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After a cataclysmic tragedy leaves her alone in the world, Gabriela Kincaid climbs into her father’s ancient pickup and strikes off on her own, turning her back on everything she knows. No destination in mind, moving toward nothing but distance. Just somewhere. Fate chooses her destination, and she finds herself in Jasper Ridge, Idaho, a small town in the shadow of the Sawtooth Range...
    Categorized as:
    north-america  steamy  usa  adult  age-gap  angst  book  contemporary
  • The Pieces We Leave Behind by Elle Mitchell

    The Pieces We Leave Behind by Elle Mitchell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "It gets easier…I know it hurts now, but one day, you'll wake up, and you'll just be okay. It'll happen sooner than you think...
  • Wanting Wentworth by Megyn Ward

    Wanting Wentworth by Megyn Ward

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This book 9 of THE GILROY CLAN and the first book in Went & Kaitlyn's...
  • The Rebel by Raleigh Ruebins

    The Rebel by Raleigh Ruebins

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everyone wants to be with an adult film star.They clearly don’t know Liam Hardy like I do.Red:At first Liam was just a regular at the bar, and I was the clueless cowboy bartender keeping his glass full… then keeping him full in my bed at night. I had no idea he was about to blossom into a famous adult film star...
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    north-america  steamy  usa  adult  angst  arkansas  book  contemporary
  • Adler and Orrick by Chloe Gray, C.W. Gray

    Adler and Orrick by Chloe Gray, C.W. Gray

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Adler wants a new life in a new town. He didn’t expect to find a new Daddy too.With his pride shattered from a nasty breakup, Adler Jones vows to never settle for a vanilla relationship again. He moves to the small mountain town of Bartford, intending to keep life simple and avoid relationships for a while.When Adler meets his neighbor, he realizes that won’t be so easy to do...
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    north-america  steamy  usa  adult  age-gap  alpha-mc  book  colorado
  • Snowflake Kisses by Jacki James

    Snowflake Kisses by Jacki James

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Frankie Taylor is a pastry chef in need of a fresh start, and Cap Roberts is a coffee shop owner in need of a pastry chef. Should be a perfect fit. But the delicious pastries he bakes aren't the only thing about Frankie that makes Cap's mouth water, and as a newly single father, Cap can’t afford to risk not only his heart, but his daughter's as well...
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    north-america  usa  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  lgbtq  mlm
  • Ford by Hope Ford

    Ford by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ford: Tate Family HolidaysAn Alpha Man and Curvy Younger Woman Thanksgiving RomanceFordI found out my partner was dirty... and I'm the one that turned him in.My world turns upside down until a beauty on the running track turns my head.She's a woman from my past... my little sister's friend.She just lost her Gran and is about to lose her house.But I'm determined to help her..
  • Smolder by Tracy Solheim

    Smolder by Tracy Solheim

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Former Army Ranger, Sam Gaskill, is starting over in Glacier Creek, Montana - far away from the plains of Texas and the memories of his late wife. Taking charge as the new captain of a squad of smoke jumpers should provide him with enough adrenaline to chase away the ghosts from his past...
  • Take a Chance on Me by Jane Porter

    Take a Chance on Me by Jane Porter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Savvy stylist Amanda Wright loves Marietta, her hair salon, and her clients, and no client is more dear to her heart then eighty year old Bette Justice–even if her years have made her a little fragile...
  • The Enforcer by Josie Blake

    The Enforcer by Josie Blake

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She wants my help to make her stronger, but this girl can bring me to my knees…Growing up in Chesterboro, good girls were warned away from my brothers and me, and Penny Hampshire is a good girl. We're from opposite sides of town—her side has money and mine barely makes ends meet. But when a trauma leaves her feeling out of control and vulnerable, she asks me to teach her to fight...
  • Reindeer Games by N.R. Walker

    Reindeer Games by N.R. Walker

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Reindeer Games Definition: activities to exclude outsiders 
Industrial-art student Leif Caldwell and his best friend win tickets to the hottest party in town, the annual masquerade Christmas gala at the upmarket nightclub, Evoque. Not a gig they could ever afford to attend or buy costumes for, so Leif makes their masks...
  • Professor with Benefits by Mickey Miller

    Professor with Benefits by Mickey Miller

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From Bestselling Author Mickey Miller, a small town romantic comedy that will light your kindle on fire. Rose: I'm studying to be a sex therapist, and I haven't even had sex yet. Which is why I decide that Professor Hanks is going to be the one to take my virginity.I want Professor Hanks to be my dom.Hung Hanks. That's what they call him...
  • Protect Me, Cowboy by Shelli Stevens

    Protect Me, Cowboy by Shelli Stevens

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    With his competing days behind him, Wyatt Marshall has settled into ranching life in Marietta, Montana. But with the Copper Mountain Rodeo, his only exception, just around the corner, the last thing he needs is a distraction – especially one in the form of a pretty, yet vaguely familiar country singer...
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