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  • Could Have Been Us by Corinne Michaels

    Could Have Been Us by Corinne Michaels

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    New York Times Bestselling author Corinne Michaels returns to the Willow Creek Valley Series in this stunning friends-to-lovers romance STANDALONE. Stella Parkerson has hidden her feelings for Jack since she was sixteen. He’s older, broken, and unwilling to see her as anything but his best friend’s little sister...
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    angst  drama  family  female-mc  second-chances  steamy  adult  age-gap
  • Perfectly Toxic by C.M. Owens

    Perfectly Toxic by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    BELLA New life. New job. New home. New goals... I vowed to make drastic changes and to never fall back into old habits. But then Ethan Noles showed up and blew all my good intentions to hell. I should have stayed away. I shouldn't have played his game. But I did. Now I just hope I don't regret it. ETHAN Bella is the type of girl you can't help but chase, because she doesn't want to be caught...
  • Curl It Up: The Donovans by Cee Bowerman

    Curl It Up: The Donovans by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A failed marriage and single parenthood are enough to bring the strongest woman down, but Jolie Donovan refuses to let the choices she made when she was younger define her life...
  • The Chocolate Shop on Amelia Island by Hope Holloway

    The Chocolate Shop on Amelia Island by Hope Holloway

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The saga continues with secrets, surprises, and sweet temptations…Sadie Wingate has been keeping secrets...from her family and from her brand new husband. But once the truth is revealed, her whole world melts like a truffle in the sunshine...
  • Logan by Jay McLean

    Logan by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    As a kid, Logan Preston was a brat. Through his teens, he became the bad boy. Now, at nineteen, no one knows what the hell to expect.High school dropout, Logan Preston is a good-for-nothing stoner. A black sheep. A disappointment. The worst Preston Punk of the lot.At least that’s how everyone in his small town makes him feel. But Logan Preston has secrets...
  • Kisses After Dark by Marie Force

    Kisses After Dark by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She’s avoided men all her life… Growing up with an abusive father, Katie Lawry learned a thing or two about men and has made a conscious choice to stay far away from them. Until the day of her brother Owen’s wedding when she’s rescued from nearly drowning by Shane McCarthy...
  • Age of Ava by Melanie Moreland

    Age of Ava by Melanie Moreland

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ava Callaghan A woman working in a male-dominated field. Organized, strong, and tenacious. That’s how she has to be to succeed. Hunter Owens A loner. He needs no one, has no ties, and his future is an unanswered question mark.It’s all he knows. Until the day their lives intersect. He sees the woman she hides from the world.She nurtures the part of him he lost long ago...
  • Buck You! by Elle Thorpe

    Buck You! by Elle Thorpe

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Summer Hunt was destined to be the first woman on the pro bull riding tour, until a devastating accident shattered her dreams. With the injury not healing, and her fiancé pushing to move to the city, there’s nothing left for her at the small-town bull riding school she runs with her father. Dominic West has always secretly longed to know his biological parents...
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    angst  domestic-drama  family  female-mc  steamy  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Untaken Twin by Samantha Christy

    Untaken Twin by Samantha Christy

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A forbidden romance.There’s only one thing worse than your fiancé dying . . .It's having to look into his face every single day.Or should I say - the face of his twin.So I left.I never knew promises were made. Then broken.And I surely never expected those promises to be about me.When I return to my hometown and see his face, the heartache I’ve been running from is front and center...
  • Gansett After Dark by Marie Force

    Gansett After Dark by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Owen Lawry is days away from leaving Gansett Island to attend the trial of his father, who is charged with assaulting his mother almost a year ago. He has spent his entire adult life trying to outrun his violent past, but the upcoming showdown with the father he hasn’t seen in more than a decade has him spending far more time in the past than in the present...
  • Bad to the Bone by Roxanne St. Claire

    Bad to the Bone by Roxanne St. Claire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Trace Bancroft has been in prison for fourteen years, paying for a mistake that cost a man his life. Now released, Trace heads back to Bitter Bark with his mutt, Meatball, and runs into Daniel Kilcannon, who offers to provide some medical care for the dog. Trace knows that would mean seeing Molly Kilcannon, a girl who shared one crazy night with him before his life took a turn for the worst...
  • Beside Golden Irish Fields by Ava Miles

    Beside Golden Irish Fields by Ava Miles

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Art teacher Angie Newcastle’s life is all monotone.She wasn’t always this dull. She’d been an up-and-coming artist with the world at her feet. But after contracting the Wrong Man Syndrome and spending years doubting herself, she no longer recognizes herself.When she loses her job, she can’t afford to keep ignoring the obvious: her life needs a serious overhaul...
  • Strong Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Strong Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The fourth, and final novel in New York Times bestselling author Kelly Elliott’s Meet Me in Montana series fires up the passion in a story about forgiveness and finding your soul mate.Dirk Littlewood had the world at his feet and a life he claimed to love. He was a world-champion bull rider with plenty of women to keep his nights busy and make his inner loneliness nothing but a delusion...
  • Christmas in Silver Springs by Brenda Novak

    Christmas in Silver Springs by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Come home to Silver Springs for the holidays, where broken hearts learn to love again…together. So much for forever. When Elle Devlin’s rock star husband ditches her on his way to the top, she takes her two daughters to her sister’s place in Silver Springs for the holidays, hoping family can heal her broken heart...
  • 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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    angst  drama  female-mc  steamy  abuse  alpha-mc  book  contemporary
  • Suppression by Laramie Briscoe

    Suppression by Laramie Briscoe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling author, the second book in the Laurel Springs Emergency Response Team Series If you don't love, you can't get hurt... Nick Kepler One thing my childhood taught me was never show my emotions. Don’t make memories. Don’t count on other people. Don’t hope for the best. All that changed when I was adopted by Ryan and Whitney Kepler...
  • Running Wild: A Novel by K.A. Tucker

    Running Wild: A Novel by K.A. Tucker

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From the internationally bestselling author of The Simple Wild comes the story of a woman at a crossroads in her life, struggling between the safe route and the one that will only lead to more heartbreak.Veterinarian Marie Lehr knows unrequited love all too well after pining for her best friend, only to watch him marry another woman...
  • Bayou Dreaming by Lexi Blake

    Bayou Dreaming by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake’s heartfelt contemporary romance set in Louisiana's Butterfly Bayou. Roxanne King left the big city looking for a simpler life, but after years of proving herself on a SWAT team in New York City, being deputy in a sleepy Louisiana parish is something of an adjustment...
  • The Next Best Day by Sharon Sala

    The Next Best Day by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Beloved and bestselling author Sharon Sala brings you a brand-new contemporary romance filled with second chances, new beginnings, and a Southern small town you won't want to leave...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Perfect Wreckage (The Wrecked Series) by Catherine Cowles

    Perfect Wreckage (The Wrecked Series) by Catherine Cowles

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My past taught me to play it safe.To stay far away from handsome men who promised it all.My life was good without them. Stable, secure, predictable. But one kiss showed me that I’d been playing it safe for far too long.One night, and all I wanted was more of his wildfire.One challenge and my carefully constructed walls tumbled down...
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    angst  drama  enemies-to-lovers  family  steamy  adult  audiobook  book
  • Happy Trail by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Happy Trail by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes you have to talk to work things out. Luckily that works best without clothes. Petal I’ve loved Luka Fields my entire life.  He was my first crush, my first kiss, my first time, and my first heartbreak.  Love isn’t like in the movies, or the books you read.  It’s hard. Sometimes you give up… And regret it your entire life...
  • There Goes My Heart by Bella Andre

    There Goes My Heart by Bella Andre

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rory Sullivan, a renowned artisan woodworker, has no plans to fall in love anytime soon. Especially not with Zara Mirren, who shares a converted warehouse space with him in Bar Harbor, Maine. While she is a brilliant maker—the eyeglass frames she designs are practically works of art—everything else about her drives him bonkers. The way she’s always whistling cheesy pop songs off-key...
  • Finding Forever by Christine Gael

    Finding Forever by Christine Gael

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Come spend some time with the Sullivan sisters and their families in Bluebird Bay...Max Burrows thought she'd finally found "the one". But when Tyler gets the opportunity of a lifetime and leaves Bluebird Bay for Paris, she can't bring herself to join him. She worked like a dog to make her own dream come true by opening the bookstore, and she won't give that up. Not for Tyler.Not for anyone...
  • What We Keep by Jennifer Millikin

    What We Keep by Jennifer Millikin

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Charming and heroic, there’s nothing about Gabriel Woodruff that Avery Burke doesn’t love. His warm brown eyes, his generosity, that small scar above his lip. The newspaper photo of him carrying her from a burning home only adds to the romance of it all. A fairytale beginning and a picture-perfect marriage practically guarantees Avery and Gabriel a ride into the sunset...
  • Unfinished Ex by Samantha Christy

    Unfinished Ex by Samantha Christy

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A second chance, surprise pregnancy romance.He was my high school sweetheart.My dream guy. My soul mate.And as of yesterday... my ex-husband.He wanted everything I couldn't give him. A doting wife, a perfect family, a white picket fence, and game nights.It's not that I didn't want to be his wife anymore. I just wanted something more—a career...
  • Worth the Risk by K. Bromberg

    Worth the Risk by K. Bromberg

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author K. Bromberg comes a new, sexy standalone about taking chances and finding love when it’s least expected. Or wanted.This whole contest was supposed to be easy. I know, I know. Famous last words.It’s a long story, but I messed up at work. Big time. To earn back the trust of my boss, I promised to save one of our magazines. Yep...
  • Drunk on You by Harper Sloan

    Drunk on You by Harper Sloan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It was supposed to be fun. A mutual use of each other's bodies. To be a ruse to the world around us. I wanted to be free from my ex, and he wanted to escape his. One drunken night turned a joke into a life-changing moment. He warned me not to fall for him, and I should've listened. He intoxicated me. He made me crave him. He ruined me. In the end, I'll never be the same...
  • Worth the Risk by Jamie Beck

    Worth the Risk by Jamie Beck

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When Jackson St. James decided that six weeks in Vermont’s Green Mountains would help him get his life together, he didn’t anticipate replacing his craving for whiskey with a craving for his alluring new landlord, Gabby...
  • Riverbend Reunion by Carolyn Brown

    Riverbend Reunion by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Back home is the best place to start over in a heart-stirring Texas romance about friendship, second chances, and small-town scandals by New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown.Riverbend, Texas, doesn’t look like the crossroads of anywhere. But for four high school besties reuniting after twenty years, it’s a place to unpack a lot of baggage...
  • Flirting with the Single Dad by Whitley Cox

    Flirting with the Single Dad by Whitley Cox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When first impressions happen twice. Welcome to Seattle, the Emerald City and home to The Single Dads of Seattle. Ten sexy single fathers who play poker every Saturday night, have each other's backs, love their children without quarter, and hope to one day find love again. This is Atlas’s story … Single Dad of Seattle, Atlas Stark is in over his head...
  • Ready for Love by Marie Force

    Ready for Love by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    For four of the best summers of his young life, Luke Harris was in love with Sydney Donovan, a wealthy seasonal visitor to Gansett Island. Then Sydney went off to college and never came back. She married another man and had two children while Luke remained on the island, working at McCarthy's Gansett Marina and wondering what had gone wrong between him and the only woman he ever loved...
  • Inevitably You by Abby Brooks

    Inevitably You by Abby Brooks

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places. When I meet David Carmichael it's as if the universe offered him as an apology for my life up to this point. With his protective arm around me, he promises to keep me safe from the demons of my not-so-distant past. But David has demons of his own … and even if meeting him felt like destiny, maybe karma isn't so cut and dry...
  • Someone to Love by Kelly Elliott

    Someone to Love by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Seaside ChroniclesJanuary 3, 2023On the HookSeasiders,News on the beach is Braxton Bradley has caught the eye of Seaside’s very own darling, Harlee Tilson. Now, this might come as a shock to many of you, since the eldest Bradley sibling has been rumored to have made a vow to never marry. After all, his fishing charter has always been his number one love...
  • Silent Chaos by Nikki Ash

    Silent Chaos by Nikki Ash

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    BraxtonOur senior year, I promised my girl forever. Forever, as it turned out, wasn't enough. She told me so in her actions. When she took a match to my life, burning it to ash. I headed to LA with my band—Raging Chaos—like we always planned, while Kaylee went to college, taking my damaged heart with her. This was where our story was supposed to end. Only six years later, our lives collide again...
  • Pieces of Me by Jay McLean

    Pieces of Me by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “I loved you then,I love you now,and I’ve loved you every single day in between.” Jameson Taylor is a nomad. A drifter. A memory collector.Or, at least, that’s what’s become of her life ever since she was forced to leave pieces of her fractured heart behind. “This is the fault in our fate, our one undoing:All he’s ever wanted is my happiness,even when it costs him his own...
  • Once in a Blue Moon by Sharon Sala

    Once in a Blue Moon by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cathy Terry is tired of running. Full of fear and hope, she backpacked across the country to Blessings, Georgia, not knowing if or when her abusive ex-husband would catch up to her. In Blessings she glimpses a safe haven and the closest feeling to home she's had in a long time—even more so when she meets Duke Talbot. The sweet, strong, and handsome rancher provides a shoulder to lean on...
  • The Billionaire's Touch by J.S. Scott

    The Billionaire's Touch by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    After a troubling childhood, wealthy Evan Sinclair likes his life orderly and controlled. He rarely gives in to spontaneous urges—until he begins a chance correspondence with a mystery woman who sounds like his complete opposite...
  • One Little Mistake by Avery Maxwell

    One Little Mistake by Avery Maxwell

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Easton Westbrook entered my life like an arrogant, grumpy, wrecking ball, and refused to leave.Our banter is addicting, and nothing I do or say will make him change his mind. But when his mind becomes focused solely on me, I run.I can’t afford to give my heart away again. Not when I’m barely surviving with the broken one I have.I have walls up for a reason...
  • Right Where We Belong by Brenda Novak

    Right Where We Belong by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak returns to Silver Springs with a moving story about rebuilding your life when you've got nothing left to lose  Savanna Gray needs a do-over. Her "perfect" life unraveled when, to her absolute shock, her husband was arrested for attacking three women...
  • Second Chances at the Cotswolds Candy Store by Hannah M. Lynn

    Second Chances at the Cotswolds Candy Store by Hannah M. Lynn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Holly Berry has it a good career, a steady boyfriend, and enough savings that the two of them will soon be able to buy a nice little house. But when she finds out her boyfriend has been cheating on her, she decides to retreat to the Cotswolds and a place full of far sweeter memories. Quite literally...
  • Christmas in Peachtree Bluff by Kristy Woodson Harvey

    Christmas in Peachtree Bluff by Kristy Woodson Harvey

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The newest installment of the New York Times bestselling Peachtree Bluff series follows three generations of Murphy women as they come together to face a hurricane that threatens their hometown—and the holiday season—in this “book equivalent of a warm and fuzzy pair of socks” (E! Online).When the Murphy women are in trouble, they always know they can turn to their mother, Ansley...
  • All Autumn by Sandra Owens

    All Autumn by Sandra Owens

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Autumn 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...
  • Sleighed by Annie Dyer, Eliza Ames

    Sleighed by Annie Dyer, Eliza Ames

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ❄️He ploughed a path straight to her heart…❄️ Zack Maynard likes to keep things simple in his small town: he runs his care home for the elderly, spends his evenings at his brother’s bar and climbs the hills and peaks of his area...
  • Wright that Got Away by K.A. Linde

    Wright that Got Away by K.A. Linde

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A sexy second chance rockstar romance set in the world of the Wrights about Campbell & Blaire from USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde…Campbell Abbey is the lead singer of the biggest band in the universe right now.He’s also the boy I fell in love with in high school when no one knew my name...
  • Forged by Fire by Eddie Cleveland

    Forged by Fire by Eddie Cleveland

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Listen to me, I never wanted to go with you, got it? Never. The only reason I said all that crap is because I was trying to get laid.” I can see the last glimmers of hope dying out in her eyes like the fading streaks of rosy sunlight across the sunset. I want to shut my mouth. I want to tell her I’m lying. That I love her with my entire body, mind, and soul...
  • All I Want by J. Daniels

    All I Want by J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Luke Evans is a heartbreaker. I didn’t want to give mine to him. Not when he kept me out. He gave me enough, just enough to make me fall in love with him. I say this to convince myself. But I know the truth. I would’ve fallen in love with him at a distance. Handing my heart over to Luke was the easiest thing I’ve ever done...
  • Valen by Jessica Gadziala

    Valen by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He left without a word years ago, making a fool of her and the love that she thought would last a lifetime.Well, he is finally back...
  • Wright with Benefits by K.A. Linde

    Wright with Benefits by K.A. Linde

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A feisty stand alone friends with benefits romance from USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde. With new characters set in the bestselling world of the Wrights, this is a perfect jumping on point for new readers! I shouldn’t have hooked up with my one night stand... again. To be fair, I was having the worst day of my life. I was sure that nothing else could go wrong. Then in walks Jordan Wright...
  • Always You by Denise Grover Swank

    Always You by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Matt Osborne had always planned to get married and have a family. But at thirty-four, he's no closer to his goal, so he's decided to embrace his role as the remaining member of the Bachelor Brotherhood. He's only loved one woman-his college sweetheart-but she never shared his dream of a family, preferring to focus on her career and maybe get married someday...
  • Courage by Kristen Proby

    Courage by Kristen Proby

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From New York Times Bestselling author Kristen Proby comes an all new novel in her Big Sky series, Courage. This is the first story in the Heroes of Big Sky, all about men in uniform in Cunningham Falls!Natasha Mills feels like she’s loved firefighter Sam Waters her entire life. Since she first met him during middle school, she’s harbored a secret crush on her best friend’s big brother...
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    angst  drama  family  steamy  adult  age-gap  audiobook  book
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