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  • Marcus & Reagan: Rojo, TX by Cee Bowerman

    Marcus & Reagan: Rojo, TX by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Marcus and Reagan have been part of the Texas Knights, Texas Kings, and Tempest family for more than thirty years. They’ve weathered ups and downs and raised their children surrounded by family that may not share their blood but share their hearts.Come to Rojo with Cee Bowerman and attend the wedding we’ve all been waiting for...
  • The Keeper of Bees by Gregory Ashe

    The Keeper of Bees by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Emery Hazard has pretty much everything under control. He and his fiancé, John-Henry Somerset, are more in love than ever, despite the stress of wedding preparations hanging over them. His business as a private investigator is growing. He’s even enjoying time with his growing circle of friends...
  • It Happens by Lani Lynn Vale

    It Happens by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Zee + Annmarie and Tan + Jubilee. Forever. No exceptions. They were to have the picture-perfect life together. Everything was all planned out. Jubilee was to marry Eitan and Ezekiel was to marry Annmarie. That’s how it was always supposed to be from the moment that they met. Textbook, right? Wrong...
  • Losers: Part II by Harley Laroux

    Losers: Part II by Harley Laroux

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Every action has consequences.I made one foolish mistake and ended up with a debt I had only one way to pay...by bowing my head and submitting to the men I swore I hated. But in their dominance I found catharsis. In the darkness we share, parts of myself were brought to the light.I've been wearing a mask for far too long...
  • Stamp: Time Served MC, Book 10 by Cee Bowerman

    Stamp: Time Served MC, Book 10 by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Valentine Russo has gone from living the life of a privileged member of a well-known mafia family to a prison inmate and now a television celebrity. Through all of those many life chapters, he’s still not found the one person who can make his life complete...
  • Bluegrass Dawn by Kathleen Brooks

    Bluegrass Dawn by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It's the late 1960's in Keeneston and life is very tense for everyone. War consumes the news and young men prepare themselves for the draft. Jake Davies is fresh out of high school and head-over-heels in love. He’s known she's the one since she hit him in the head with a cheese ball, but then his world crashes around him when his number is drawn in the draft...
  • Jinx by Marie James

    Jinx by Marie James

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Fake relationships have no place in an adult’s life.Until they do.It was one kiss.One trick to convince her ex she’s in a happy relationship.One kiss is all it took.Captivated isn’t a strong enough word.Haunted is a little closer.Obsessed fits the bill.I’m obsessed with Reagan Dunn.Only Reagan isn’t looking for that happy relationship.Until she needs me to pretend again.Pretending is perfect...
  • Colton by Marie James

    Colton by Marie James

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Detective Colton Matthews has experienced a lot in the last ten years.Promotions.Divorce.Single-dad life.His work life is as full of surprises as his home life.But nothing prepared him for her.Saying yes to the favor asked of the Cerberus MC was a no brainer.He’s a good guy helping other good guys...
  • Blood & Bones: Judge by Jeanne St. James

    Blood & Bones: Judge by Jeanne St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Some risks are more dangerous than others... Judd “Judge” Scott lives a simple life running a successful business with his cousin, Deacon. As a bail bondsman and bounty hunter, he’s good at what he does. He never expected Trip to come home and resurrect the Blood Fury MC, reopening old wounds...
  • Blaze by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Blaze by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The rings have been selected. The champagne placed on ice. The cake decorated. And the pre-wedding sex is off the charts... Lucas Vallois and Andrei Hadeon are finally ready to walk down the aisle. There’s just one small problem. A ghost from Lucas’s past shows up days before the wedding, desperate for help...
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    family  lgbtq  mlm  steamy  suspense  abuse  action-adventure  adult
  • Black Mail: A Black's Bandits Novel by Lynn Raye Harris

    Black Mail: A Black's Bandits Novel by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tyler “Ty” Scott finally gets his book! When Cassie Dixon gets threatening letters, there’s only one person who can help - her best friend’s sexy cousin...
  • Too Bad So Sad by Lani Lynn Vale

    Too Bad So Sad by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tyler Cree has never been good at the whole look and don’t touch thing. From the moment he was old enough to walk on his own two feet, he’s been looking for trouble. Trouble comes in many forms…quite a few of those forms being the female persuasion. Tyler knows what girls want—a bad boy. And he has the bad boy image down pat. Ex-military—check. Hot cop—double check...
  • Rocky Ground by Kaylea Cross

    Rocky Ground by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s been hurt too many times… Single mom Tiana Fitzgerald has sworn off all romantic relationships to protect herself and her daughter. Her track record is disastrous and she’s done getting hurt. But a certain sexy Scotsman in Crimson Point has other ideas, and somehow manages to sneak past her defenses at every turn...
  • Don't Fight It: Hazard Falls Book 1 by Samantha A. Cole

    Don't Fight It: Hazard Falls Book 1 by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When it feels right, don't fight it. Shane and Tucker have been mourning their wife's death for two years. Their love for each other and their daughter has gotten them through the rough time. But while Shane is ready to take a chance on a new future, Tucker is stuck in the past, finding it hard to let go...
  • Bribed by Rebecca Sharp

    Bribed by Rebecca Sharp

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lennon Love Clarke needs to put on a show.With her reputation sinking, the famous actress has no choice but to grin and bear it because the tabloids were better than the truth. If only Lenni could remember what that was—and who is stalking her. Now, she’s in hiding—or would be if her new bodyguard hadn’t found her first.Dante Lozano is Covington Security’s very own Casanova...
  • I'll Just Date Myself by Lani Lynn Vale

    I'll Just Date Myself by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Normally when you say, “I have a stalker,” you think bad thoughts. That wasn’t the kind ofstalker Folsom was when it came to Kobe Sano. Folsom liked to call herself a “guardian angel indisguise.”The first time he catches her attention, he’s been assigned to hunt her down and throw away thekey. All she did was steal someone else’s child. Well, embryo, that is...
  • Nikolai by Sandy Alvarez, Crystal Daniels

    Nikolai by Sandy Alvarez, Crystal Daniels

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Nikolai Volkov has been groomed to one day rule his father’s Empire. Growing up in a crime family, you don't have many options. You live and die by the Volkov name.After connecting with his half-brother in the states, Nikolai chooses to step away from family obligations, to find what he feels has been lacking his whole life...
  • Sirens in Bliss by Sophie Oak

    Sirens in Bliss by Sophie Oak

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What happens after happily ever after? It’s the event of the year. The wedding of Leo and Wolf Meyer to their beautiful sub, Shelley McNamara, has all of Bliss up in arms—and makes everyone think about love and marriage and family. Wolf and Leo have to deal with the sudden reappearance of their father. Rafe Kincaid is handed an opportunity that might take him and his family away from Bliss...
  • High Impact by Freya Barker

    High Impact by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Manager for Hart’s Horse Rescue, Lucy Lenoir, finally feels she has a handle on life after having worked hard to leave her old one behind. So hard, there are times she almost forgets what she escaped. Memories which suddenly come flooding back when she catches a glimpse of a familiar horseman in town. What’s worse, he’s in the company of the unlikely cowboy she’s only just beginning to trust...
  • The Rational Faculty by Gregory Ashe

    The Rational Faculty by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three months have passed since Emery Hazard and John-Henry Somerset faced a madman and lived to tell about it. Three months have passed since Emery Hazard resigned from his job as a detective. Three months can be too long and too short, all at the same time. On Halloween, a professor at the local college is murdered in his apartment, in front of dozens of witnesses. Then the killer disappears...
  • Absolving Blue by Freya Barker, Operation Alpha

    Absolving Blue by Freya Barker, Operation Alpha

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For long-time Durango Fire Department EMT, Ava ‘Blue’ Navarro, her teammates at Station 3 represent a family more loyal than her own. However, when patients start dying on her watch, she draws the attention of local law enforcement. In particular the smooth-talking detective she’s successfully evaded for years, fearing he might stir up her quiet existence...
  • Iron Bond by Daphne Loveling

    Iron Bond by Daphne Loveling

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ROGUEThe girl who ripped my heart out and stomped on it when we were kids just walked back into my life.Aurora Wilkins. Daughter of the richest man in Ironwood.Wealthy, hot, and untouchable.Except, I touched her.Me. The poor boy from the wrong side of the tracks. Son of her daddy’s gardener.She told me she loved me. Fool that I was, I believed her.Then, she did the one thing I could never forgive...
  • Touch the Lightning by N.R. Walker

    Touch the Lightning by N.R. Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Without a working office, Jeremiah is tasked with repairing the automated weather station on Oxley Island. It’s remote, only accessible by boat, and with there being a good chance of crocodiles, he’s dreading it. Tully, on the other hand, can’t wait. With a boat licence, his dad’s boat, and two days alone with Jeremiah—and with thunderstorms likely—to Tully, it’s another perfect adventure...
  • Deserted by Cara Dee

    Deserted by Cara Dee

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Deserted is the third book in the Auctioned Series, following book 1, Auctioned, and book 2, Stranded. Gray Nolan had survived a kidnapping where he was supposed to have been auctioned off to the highest bidder. He had also survived being stranded on an island, under siege from a different set of foes, and throughout the hell they’d all endured, their motto had been “Leave no man behind...
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    dark  family  lgbtq  mlm  steamy  suspense  abuse  action-adventure
  • Flynn by Nyssa Kathryn

    Flynn by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Some pasts are harder to escape than others.When Carina Murphy is accused of a crime she didn’t commit, a fresh start in a new town is her only option. Unfortunately, Cradle Mountain may not be the safe haven she’d thought. The son of her new patient may be tall, dark and handsome…but he also knows all about her past.Keeping her job should be the hardest part...
  • A Dash of Love by Jill Sanders

    A Dash of Love by Jill Sanders

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Head back to Pride Oregon to find out what some of your favorite Jill Sanders’ characters are up to. Sara Jordan has finally been given the chance to run The Golden Oar, a restaurant that’s been in her family for generations. But the sexy know-it-all carpenter that her uncle hired to make some changes, keeps getting in her way...
  • No Cap by Lani Lynn Vale

    No Cap by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    You know when you see that big red flag, and you think to yourself, I should probably not go anywhere near there?Yeah, Quincy Carter ignored that big red flag. He walked right up to that red flag, waving blatantly in the wind, and kissed the holy hell out of her.Sure, he probably should’ve arrested her for breaking a restraining order...
  • Daddy Unleashed by Laylah Roberts

    Daddy Unleashed by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    How did she end up falling in love with two men?Loki is her best friend. Her confidante. Her protector. The man who had always been there for her.She’d just never dreamed that he’d want her.Turns out . . . she was wrong.There’s just one problem.One very large, demanding problem.Remy.The man who watches over her. Scares her. Who makes her body sizzle...
  • Joke's on You by Lani Lynn Vale

    Joke's on You by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Booth Pena definitely didn’t make the smartest of decisions when he was a teenager.At eighteen, he knocked a girl up and signed up for the military all in the same day—signing his life away in more ways than one...
  • Something to Dye For by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Something to Dye For by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A phone call in the middle of the night forces Detective Gabriel Wyatt out of his warm bed and into the frigid night to identify the body of a murdered man whose wallet contains Gabe’s business card instead of an ID. That night sets off a chain of events that chills Gabe to his bones when it appears that the killer has set his eyes on a new target – Josh Roman...
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    dark  lgbtq  mlm  stalking  steamy  suspense  action-adventure  adult
  • Annoyed At First Sight by Lani Lynn Vale

    Annoyed At First Sight by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The first time Cassius Ulysses Costas met Alice Paradis, she was in a string bikini and filling up a long line of boats that were there just to see her. She was eighteen and every man’s wet dream.Even his.For the longest time, he went out of his way to stay as far away from her as he could get without actually taking his eyes off of her. For years, he was the better person...
  • Alone with You by Aly Martinez

    Alone with You by Aly Martinez

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Pain trapped me in this house. Can love set me free?Death had been chasing me my entire life. I survived the horrors of war, but it was the aftermath that truly destroyed me.People called me a recluse, but the only time I didn’t feel like I was suffocating was inside that house.For my daughter, I kept some semblance of normalcy by implementing a rigid routine...
  • Zane by Nicole Edwards

    Zane by Nicole Edwards

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Vanessa Carmichael will never forget that horrible day for as long as she lives. With Zane fully on the mend from the brutal attack he suffered right in her very own yard, she knows she should be grateful, which she is. She also knows that walking away from Zane might be the only way to keep him safe...
    Categorized as:
    family  lgbtq  mlm  steamy  suspense  action-adventure  adult  age-gap
  • May Contain Wine by Lani Lynn Vale

    May Contain Wine by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    This is for charity. This is for fun. You are a professional. You can do it.Those are the words that Calloway Alvarez chants to herself as she watches all the large men gather into the small room where she’ll be doing the interviews for her employer—Hero Magazine.Honestly, she’s convinced herself that she can’t accomplish the task at hand...
  • Siren Enslaved by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Siren Enslaved by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Re-released in a second edition with new scenes. Julian Lodge has everything a man could want. He’s rich, successful and owns the most exclusive club in Dallas. But something is missing. Finn Taylor has worked his way up in the world from humble beginnings in Willow Fork, Texas. The only thing he still loves in his hometown is Danielle Bay...
  • Body and Soul by Lucy Lennox, Sloane Kennedy

    Body and Soul by Lucy Lennox, Sloane Kennedy

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Oz: Escaping the international modeling scene to design my own fashion collection is the first step to shucking my bobble-headed supermodel reputation and proving to the world I’m more than just a pretty face. But the minute I have to accept roadside help from the sexy man next door, I feel like the airhead people think I am...
  • Fatal Felons by Elle Thorpe

    Fatal Felons by Elle Thorpe

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Please note this is the third and final book in a trilogy, and this blurb contains spoilers for books 1 and 2. Start the series with Locked Up Liars, and Solitary Sinners before reading on!When a judge declared Heath guilty and sentenced him to death row, everything we’d been fighting for went up in flames.We have no excuses. No appeals. No freedom.Now, there’s only one way out...
  • Charlotte by Nicole James

    Charlotte by Nicole James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Does the MC President want her bar badly enough to scare her into selling out?Or is he the only one who can save her from a madman?Rocker Charlotte Justice longs to escape her hectic life. Her estranged twin sister, Scarlett, owns Badlands, a biker bar outside Vegas, and has always wanted a chance at the limelight she feels was stolen from her...
  • Reaper by Rachel Leigh

    Reaper by Rachel Leigh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They call me the reaper.Saying I have no soul. A heart that’s charred black. I tell them it’s true,because it is. I’ve been hiding in the shadows.Stealing secrets, destroying the lives of those who deserve it. But there’s one story to be told before this book closes. My story. Don’t be fooled, it’s not a fairytale. I’m no prince.And I certainly don’t want a princess...
  • Corruptor's Claim by K. Loraine, Meg Anne

    Corruptor's Claim by K. Loraine, Meg Anne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’m in love with my brother’s wife.When River came back, I thought I’d gotten a second chance to make her mine. I had Mama’s ring ready and everything. Until the moment I found out she was already married–to Cross.On paper, it’s a good thing, especially since the head of the Russian Bratva has her in his sights...
  • Crushed by A.K. Evans

    Crushed by A.K. Evans

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What’s the price of survival?Sawyer McKinney didn’t want to come back. It wasn’t like anyone wanted to see her ever again anyway.But this was about life or death, and that meant there was only one place she could go.If Jesse Hale never saw Sawyer again, it would be too soon. After all the devastation she left behind years ago, he can’t imagine why she’d ever show her face again...
  • Jerrik by Janice M. Whiteaker

    Jerrik by Janice M. Whiteaker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Spirit is fine.Living a life she didn't chose, keeping secrets she never wanted, on a mountain covered in darkness.But everything's fine.She can handle it all.Including the deputy making her life harder than it has to be.In more ways than one.****Jerrik used to be good at his job.That was before he had to fight something he couldn't see.Chase someone who was always two steps ahead of him...
  • 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...
  • Crow by Jessica Gadziala

    Crow by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He was busy trying to keep his demons at bay. When one night, a woman crosses his path. And nearly kills him for sticking his nose where it didn’t belong. He could never clearly imagine settling down and starting a future with someone. Until he found a woman whose demons played well with his own.She never wanted anything to do with any man again...
  • When You Least Expect It by Jessica Prince

    When You Least Expect It by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The last thing Stella Ryan had time for was a man. With her family in trouble and looking to her to fix everything, romance and commitment were the furthest things from her mind. Until she ran into a man with a jawline that could cut granite and arms she wanted to lick like an ice cream cone. A man who made her forget the things that really mattered...
  • Vandal: An MM Bully Romance by Rachel Leigh

    Vandal: An MM Bully Romance by Rachel Leigh

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I have a secret. A deep and painful secret that has been feasting on my insides. Clawing at my heart and lacerating it in a slow and painful agony. If Wyatt thinks that he can just walk into my life and rattle things up,he’s got another thing coming.He’s nothing to me.Scum.Dirt.As good as dead.You see, I have a secret, but so does he...
  • Tracking Tahlula by Freya Barker

    Tracking Tahlula by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As author Tahlula Rae has discovered; success is a double-edged sword. Leading a quiet and anonymous life, she isn’t prepared for the hateful backlash when her latest book hit the lists, propelling her into the limelight...
  • Tangled by Vanessa Vale

    Tangled by Vanessa Vale

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cricket is used to relying on no one but herself. Working two jobs to get through nursing school, she has no time for anything but studying and paying the bills. When three hot cowboys give her a night to remember, she believes it's just that. One night. For Sutton, Archer and Lee, Cricket's the one who got away. Hell, she's The One. Period...
  • Every Little Thing by A.M. Myers

    Every Little Thing by A.M. Myers

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Army veteran, ex-cop, and brother of the Bayou Devils MC, Wyatt Landry is a man on a mission. He’s always wanted a family, but after being blindsided and betrayed by his ex-wife, Piper, he’s hesitant to try again… until now. He’s done letting the woman who abandoned him years ago control his future. Piper Landry knows a thing or two about trauma and she has the emotional scars to prove it...
  • The Very Thought of You by Iris Morland

    The Very Thought of You by Iris Morland

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Megan Flannigan wants only two things in life: to run her bakery The Rise and Shine, and to avoid the handsome and insufferable Officer Caleb Thornton. Caleb has made her life difficult ever since he arrested her over a decade ago, and her one wish is that he leaves her alone—while they both continue to deny the attraction that sparks between them every time they meet...
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