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  • Paint It All Red by S.T. Abby

    Paint It All Red by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Hush, little baby, don't say a word... Will Logan choose them? Or will we watch them burn together? It's time to fuck with their minds. It's time to finish it all. It's time to paint it all red... Monsters don't usually wish for happily-ever-afters. **BE WARNED: Some descriptions are vivid and can be a trigger for sensitive readers...
  • Scarlet Angel by S.T. Abby

    Scarlet Angel by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    To kill a monster, you have to be twice as monstrous. To love a monster, you have to share your soul...Logan Bennett makes me want to have a future not tainted by the constant hunger for revenge. Doesn't mean I can stop. Doesn't mean I want to stop. It just means I want more...one day...
  • Healed: Stone and Pepper by Tess Thompson

    Healed: Stone and Pepper by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's Cliffside Bay and beyond in this heartwarming enemies-to-lovers romantic adventure from USA Today bestselling author Tess Thompson. Stone Hickman is the last of a dying breed. The former Marine believes in integrity, service to his country, a hard day's work, and taking care of his loved ones...
  • With This Man by Jodi Ellen Malpas

    With This Man by Jodi Ellen Malpas

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Jesse Ward is back in the newest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling This Man series!Life is good for Jesse "The Lord" Ward. Perfect, actually. He still has the charm, he's in great shape, and he still reduces his wife, Ava, to a pool of desire with a mere look. He's in full control, just how he likes it...
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    alpha-mc  angst  drama  female-mc  multi-pov  steamy  adult  age-gap
  • Departed: David and Sara by Tess Thompson

    Departed: David and Sara by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Recently widowed Sara Ness moves to Cliffside Bay to hide from her painful past and the scandal that cost her far too much. With a baby daughter to raise alone, the peaceful privacy of small town life, and the comfort of the local grief support group, are just what the heiress needs...
  • Marred: Kyle and Violet by Tess Thompson

    Marred: Kyle and Violet by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kyle Hicks started with nothing. Now he's a self-made man. And as luck would have it, his latest project as a real estate developer lands him in Cliffside Bay with his very best friends, The Dogs. At the end of his grueling work days, Kyle's got just enough time left for his buddies and not much else...
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    drama  epic  female-mc  sad  adult  anthologies  contemporary  family
  • Tainted: Lance and Mary by Tess Thompson

    Tainted: Lance and Mary by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One career-ending mistake sends Lance Mullen home to Cliffside Bay in search of a fresh start. And in no time at all, home begins to feel like the place he was always meant to be. With his beautiful new beach house, his friends and family close by, and a profitable business to grow, life really is good. That is until his heart tries to wreck everything... again...
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    drama  epic  female-mc  friendship  sad  adult  book  contemporary
  • Seabreeze Wedding by Jan Moran

    Seabreeze Wedding by Jan Moran

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The high summer season. A long-awaited wedding. Surprises at a historic beach inn.**From a USA Today bestselling author**At the historic Seabreeze Inn, sisters Ivy and Shelly Bay are busier than ever with wedding plans of their own, although challenges threaten to derail the special events. New guests are also throwing a wedding at the inn, bringing a host of trials and chaos...
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    epic  female-mc  friendship  sad  adult  book  contemporary  family
  • Dollars by Pepper Winters

    Dollars by Pepper Winters

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    “I should never have asked for a night with you. This would never have happened if I’d had more willpower.” A thief met a possession and did what he did best. Now, he has to live with the consequences. Including the girl he claimed. Pimlico was stolen and sold all before her twenty-first birthday. Two years with a master who almost killed her is over. She has a new master now...
  • Blue Ink by Tess Thompson

    Blue Ink by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Charlotte Wilde gives her heart to the wrong men. The last one left with her life savings and their nubile neighbor. Her first published cozy mystery is a flop. Her literary agent’s about to dump her. She has a serious case of writer’s block. And she’s dead broke. Which is how she finds herself in rural Idaho looking after her former boss's elderly mother-in-law. While Mrs...
  • Jilted: Nico and Sophie by Tess Thompson

    Jilted: Nico and Sophie by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Despite being young and romantically inexperienced, Sophie Woods is an old soul who believes in true love, working hard at her bar, and always trusting her instincts. And from the moment she meets Nico, she knows without a doubt that he is her one-and-only...
  • Seabreeze Christmas by Jan Moran

    Seabreeze Christmas by Jan Moran

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A season of joy. The spirit of family. **From a USA Today Bestselling author**When sisters Ivy and Shelly Bay discover crates of vintage Christmas decorations at the Seabreeze Inn, they decide to open their historic beach house to the village of Summer Beach...
    Categorized as:
    epic  female-mc  friendship  sad  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Six Feet Under by Whitney Barbetti

    Six Feet Under by Whitney Barbetti

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Six wasn’t the hero I needed. But he was the man I wanted. And it was my selfish craving, the desire to own him, that would be our undoing. No one tells you that love is a disease. An infection that tears your heart apart, leaving you half the person you were before. A malady that leaves open wounds...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  drama  epic  sad  steamy  abuse  adult
  • Seeds of Iniquity by J.A. Redmerski, Kris Koscheski

    Seeds of Iniquity by J.A. Redmerski, Kris Koscheski

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Victor Faust's new Order is growing. Business is good as there is no rest for the wicked in an underground world of hardcore criminals and contract killing. Relationships among the operatives have changed little over the past year—but things are about to change now, and all six high-ranking members of the new Order will be blindsided by an unlikely enemy...
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    alpha-mc  angst  drama  female-mc  multi-pov  realistic  sad  steamy
  • Missing Pieces by Ivy Smoak

    Missing Pieces by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Hailey - He's still in love with his ex. And I refuse to be a consolation prize. So why did I just agree to a spur of the moment road trip with him? I just have to keep reminding myself that I'm doing this for me. It has nothing to do with the gorgeous man staring at me like I'm a crazy person.Tyler - Why is she climbing into my car uninvited? I don't care how sweet her smile is...
  • Dirty Like Seth by Jaine Diamond

    Dirty Like Seth by Jaine Diamond

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    They all thought they knew him… but she knew his heart. Seth Brothers had it all: the hottest album in the world, more money than he’d ever dreamed of, and Dirty—the band he loved like family. But as Dirty hit the big time, Seth hit bottom. Now all Seth’s got is the guitar on his back, a heart full of regrets, and one last chance to get it all back… including the one thing he never expected...
  • This Isn't Fair, Baby by K. Webster

    This Isn't Fair, Baby by K. Webster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ***This is the sixth book in the series. First five books must be read in order to fully understand this story line.*** The king in my world fell and a new one slid into place. He wasn’t just. He wasn’t FAIR. He was cruel and hateful and twisted. But I had this black king figured out. Or so I thought...
  • Deleted: Jackson and Maggie by Tess Thompson

    Deleted: Jackson and Maggie by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jackson Waller has loved Maggie Keene since they were six years old, but their dueling dreams ultimately tore them apart. First love—true love—wasn’t enough to overcome their individual desires to pursue dreams on opposite coasts. When Jackson learns of Maggie’s tragic death on her way to college on the east coast, his heartbreak, compounded by grief, renews his focus on his own future...
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    drama  epic  female-mc  friendship  sad  adult  audiobook  book
  • Saving Brad by Siobhan Davis, Fiona Jayde Media

    Saving Brad by Siobhan Davis, Fiona Jayde Media

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Brad: I’m in love with my best friend’s girl. She knows it. He knows it. Everyone knows it. Faye will never be mine, but try telling that to my stupid heart. An endless rotation of girls streams in and out of my bedroom in a desperate attempt to forget her, but nothing eases the horrid ache in my chest. Rejection isn’t anything new for me, but it hasn’t gotten any easier...
  • The Correspondent by Tess Thompson

    The Correspondent by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She can’t stand him. He loathes her. Fate has other plans.When a snowstorm strands these enemies in an abandoned cabin, will they begin to see each other in a whole new way?After fighting her way out of poverty, Stormi Collins is finally going places...
  • Jaded: Zane and Honor by Tess Thompson

    Jaded: Zane and Honor by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Zane Shaw isn't the type to cower in a corner, until he meets Honor Sullivan. She's the most phenomenal woman he's ever met, but he's been burned before and so he's doomed to fall for her from a distance. If only his past hadn't left him so weary, perhaps he could be the man he was raised to be. Honor Sullivan has too much at stake to get distracted by a man. But Zane Shaw isn't just any man...
  • Missed: Rafael and Lisa by Tess Thompson

    Missed: Rafael and Lisa by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Return to the beloved beach town of Cliffside Bay, where USA Today bestseller Tess Thompson spins another emotional, intriguing tale about overcoming adversity and finding strength in love in this standalone story about Lisa and Rafael. After years of struggling as a starving actor, Lisa Perry's dreams are finally coming true...
  • The Desert Flowers - Lily by Judith Keim

    The Desert Flowers - Lily by Judith Keim

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Three talented women are brought together by a man they all love, becoming his Desert Flowers, who work together to save his hotel from being ruined by the company buying it…When Lily Weaver is asked to help Alec Thurston, the one man she’s ever truly loved, and to come to Palm Desert, California, she doesn’t hesitate...
  • When Forever Changes by Siobhan Davis, Sara Eirew

    When Forever Changes by Siobhan Davis, Sara Eirew

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the USA Today bestselling author of Inseparable comes another emotional, angsty, friends-to-lovers, second-chance romance. STANDALONE title. Gabby Looking back, I should have seen the signs. Perhaps I did, but I subconsciously chose to ignore them. From the time I was ten, when I first met Dylan, I knew he was my forever guy...
  • The Pet Doctor by Tess Thompson

    The Pet Doctor by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s a small-town veterinarian with a love for animals and naps. Haunted by a childhood trauma, she’s terrified of men. Can the truth about her past bring them closer together or tear them apart forever?Breck Stokes is back where he belongs. After years at university, he’s returned to Emerson Pass and taken over his mother’s veterinarian practice...
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    epic  female-mc  friendship  sad  adult  book  contemporary  family
  • Scarred: Trey and Autumn by Tess Thompson

    Scarred: Trey and Autumn by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For Autumn Hickman, online dating has been an exercise in nothing more than coffee and failure. There simply isn’t a man on the planet who can compare to her best friend, Trey Wattson. And while Trey is everything Autumn has ever wanted in a partner, she knows the man who loves life’s most beautiful things could never cherish anything as scarred and mangled as her...
  • No Tomorrow by Carian Cole

    No Tomorrow by Carian Cole

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The people we love are thieves.They steal our hearts. They steal our breath.They steal our sanity.And we let them.Over and over and over again.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *They say you never forget your first love.Mine was a homeless musician who wandered straight into my soul.He was my first everything. And fourteen years later, I still can't get him out of my head...
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    alpha-mc  angst  drama  epic  friends-to-lovers  multi-pov  sad  steamy
  • Inked Babies: Epilogue to Inked Brotherhood by Jo Raven

    Inked Babies: Epilogue to Inked Brotherhood by Jo Raven

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This is the epilogue to the bestselling series Inked Brotherhood. Follow the five boys and their girls as they get married, have babies... and save Zane from his demons. Five brothers in all but blood, five girls who love them, emerging from a past fraught with darkness and danger. There are wedding bells, and baby cries and laughter all around. They have found their happy ending...
  • Fury by Cat Porter

    Fury by Cat Porter

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    **Special Release Price For A Limited Time** A dark romantic suspense standalone novel from the author of the Lock & Key Series "I still have the dreams, baby. Do you? In mine, I plead and wait for your touch to come like it always did. But it never does. I strain against the iron, but you're no longer there in the shadows. I'm alone...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  drama  epic  female-mc  multi-pov  sad  steamy
  • Test by Cora Brent

    Test by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    **TEST is the latest stand alone in the Gentry Boys universe from NYT and USA Today Bestselling Author Cora Brent** PAIGE People say Derek Gentry is arrogant, perpetually drunk and good for only one thing. Even from a distance he's like a neon sign that reads: ‘I AM THE WORST IDEA YOU EVER HAD.’ And I’m not tempted, no matter how hot he is. I’ve heard the rumors. I know his story...
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    angst  female-mc  multi-pov  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  family
  • The Innkeeper by Tess Thompson

    The Innkeeper by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was supposed to be a night to forget. After a night of sizzling passion, they agreed to never contact each other again. Fate disagreed.Jamie Wattson has no use for men who leave and as far as she’s concerned, they all do. She’s focused on running her inn and spending time with girlfriends. Life is simple and she wants it that way...
    Categorized as:
    epic  female-mc  friendship  sad  adult  book  contemporary  family
  • The Ending I Want by Samantha Towle

    The Ending I Want by Samantha Towle

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Taylor Shaw had the perfect life—until she was sixteen. That was when everything changed. From that moment on, life went from bad to worse…to the worst.After recovering from a brain tumor, months later, she suffers the tragic loss of her whole family.Since that fateful day, she’s been coasting through life.Now, the brain tumor has returned, and Taylor decides she’s had enough...
  • Gulf Coast Cottage by Maggie Miller

    Gulf Coast Cottage by Maggie Miller

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Escape to the Gulf Coast of Florida with Georgia Carpenter as she gets a second chance at life, love, and happiness. In the middle of an awful divorce, fifty-three-year-old Georgia Carpenter finds herself out of luck, time, and money. Then her phone rings with the news that her great aunt has died and left her a cottage in the Gulf Coast town of Blackbird Beach...
  • What the Heart Remembers by Bette Lee Crosby

    What the Heart Remembers by Bette Lee Crosby

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Overview TWO LOVERS. ONE CHANCE AT HAPPINESS....When Max Martinelli returns to Paris in search of her lost love, what she finds will change her life forever. For three years the memory of Julien Marceau has haunted Max. Her life is stuck on hold simply because she can't stop wondering what would have happened if she had gone back...
  • Black Velvet by Linnea May

    Black Velvet by Linnea May

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Linnea May brings you the riveting tale of a dark billionaire, an ethereal beauty – and their twisted game of seduction. She is paid to lie and seduce – but I don’t want her insincere moans and fake smiles. My investment in the elusive Velvet Rooms holds a promise for more. And I always get what I want. Always . No man ever made her scream and beg for release...
  • The Desert Flowers - Rose by Judith Keim

    The Desert Flowers - Rose by Judith Keim

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Three talented women brought together by a man’s love…When Rose Macklin is asked to help Alec Thurston, the one man she’s ever truly loved, by coming to Palm Desert, California, she doesn’t hesitate. He’s dying of cancer and needs her help overseeing the sale of his hotel, the Desert Sage Inn, to another hotel group...
  • Secret Sundays by Judith Keim

    Secret Sundays by Judith Keim

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The women in the Fat Fridays group continue to come together for their Friday lunches—no calories counted—and to help each other deal with life’s complications. With her unexpected pregnancy and the support of the women in the group, Carol Ann breaks free from her dismal life with her parents...
  • Cosa Nostra by Nicci Harris

    Cosa Nostra by Nicci Harris

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "I love you, Max Butcher." Those words are dangerous. Just about as dangerous as the world I was born into. As dangerous as the ruthless bastards that I call family.They hurt her.My. Little. Ballerina. . . My piece of purity.They hurt her. . .I wanted to keep the world beautiful for her.I failed.So I should let her go. For her own safety and my sanity.But she crawled into my bed...
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    alpha-mc  angst  female-mc  multi-pov  sad  steamy  adult  age-gap
  • The Magnolia Cafe by Kay Correll

    The Magnolia Cafe by Kay Correll

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes, the past isn’t quite what it seems…Reluctant restauranteur, Keely Granger, wants nothing more than to escape the small town she’s lived in her whole life, but her guilt and family responsibilities keep her firmly entrenched in Comfort Crossing, Mississippi...
    Categorized as:
    epic  female-mc  friendship  sad  adult  book  contemporary  cozy
  • The Patron by Tess Thompson

    The Patron by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s afraid to take risks. He’s an incurable daredevil. When tragedy throws them together, will it spark a lasting devotion?Crystal Whalen isn’t sure why she should go on. Two years after her husband’s death on a ski trip, she’s devastated when a fire destroys her quiet Colorado mountain home...
  • Worship by Trilina Pucci

    Worship by Trilina Pucci

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Book Two, in A Sinful Series, brings you an intense, taboo love story, and an even hotter ALPHA. Meet Luca King— broody, powerful and a man who’s never refused. There are only two reasons a man falls to his knees: prayer and ..... And I sure as hell don’t pray. But for this woman, I’d fall on my knees to worship every single, gorgeous part of her body...
  • Light in the Shadows by A. Meredith Walters

    Light in the Shadows by A. Meredith Walters

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the bestselling sequel to Find You in the Dark, A. Meredith Walters continues the emotional story of Maggie, Clay, and the power of unconditional love.How do you keep going when you feel like your life is over?Maggie never thought she’d see Clay again. So, she attempts to put her life back together after her heart has been shattered to pieces...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  drama  female-mc  multi-pov  realistic  sad  abuse
  • Turn  (Gentry Generations) by Cora Brent

    Turn (Gentry Generations) by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    CASSIE I'm determined to leave my mistakes in the past. These days I'm back in school, I'm surrounded by my wonderful, crazy family and I'm working for my dad. Then Curtis Mulligan happens. A supposedly reformed gang member from the rundown prison town where my folks grew up, Curtis looks like he was built for mayhem. We have nothing in common...
  • Come Home to Me by Liz Talley

    Come Home to Me by Liz Talley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Healing the wounds of the past doesn’t come easy in this novel of friendship and forgiveness from award-winning author Liz Talley.Summer Valentine has returned to Moonlight, South Carolina, a very different woman from the naive wallflower who left years before...
  • All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover

    All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Colleen Hoover delivers a tour de force novel about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it.Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart...
  • Tortured Skye by Gwyn McNamee

    Tortured Skye by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ***Tortured Skye is not a standalone and is best enjoyed after reading Savage Collision***Falling in love with Gabe Anderson was as easy as breathing. Fighting my feelings for my brother’s best friend was agonizingly hard. I never imagined giving in to my desire for him would cause such a destructive ripple effect...
  • Phoenix by Cecilia London

    Phoenix by Cecilia London

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One epic love. Two wounded souls. Three impossible words. Ripped away from each other by circumstances beyond their control. Reunited in a place they never expected. Separated but never quite apart. “You’re still the only woman I see. The only woman I need. I know you’re in there somewhere, sweet Caroline...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  epic  female-mc  multi-pov  steamy  abuse  adult  billionaire
  • Blue Velvet by Linnea May

    Blue Velvet by Linnea May

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m filthy rich and dripping with power – but the army left me broken beyond repair. My jagged edges make me a nightmare. She wants to join my dark solitude. But where she seeks solace, I seek sanity. The Velvet Rooms provide our sanctuary. A place of safety, bliss and unbridled play, untainted by the clamor of reality. Here, there is no sight. There is no sound...
  • The Broken Sister by Leanne Davis

    The Broken Sister by Leanne Davis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Something happened to Kylie McKinley during her freshman year in college. Something no one knows about...
  • Riversnow by Tess Thompson

    Riversnow by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A famous actress goes head-to-head with a powerful politician when she dares to name her abuser publicly in this small-town romance ripped from the headlines by USA Today bestselling author Tess Thompson. Genevieve Banks is one of Hollywood's most successful actresses. While on set in the small Oregon town of River Valley, she forms a deep friendship with her handsome male co-star...
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