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No Limits by Emilia Finn
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEveryone knows Bryan Kincaid.He’s the guy you wear a hazmat suit around... while carrying a long range cattle prod to enforce a little distance.Add a Clorox bath to those precautions, toss a little salt over your shoulder, and a girl could probably walk away from his bed without contracting a nasty case of the clap...Categorized as:
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Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip by Lynn Painter
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSucesso no TikTok, Melhor do que nos filmes ganha capítulos extras inéditos com muito romance e Taylor Swift Depois de viver uma história de amor digna das comédias românticas em Melhor do que nos filmes , Elizabeth Buxbaum e Wesley Bennett estão a caminho da Universidade da Califórnia...Categorized as:
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Logan Kade by Tijan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsPeople think that just because they know my name, my reputation, and my family that they know me. They don't.They say I’m a manwhore, but who wouldn’t be with my face and body? They say I’m a partier, and that's not going to change. They say I'm a fighter, and hell yes I am. F*ck with mine, and I’ll f*ck you back ten times worse.So, yes. Maybe what they say is true, but that’s not all of me... -
Fallen Fourth Down by Tijan
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsMy mother tried to destroy me. She doesn’t exist to me anymore and my father, the one who raised me and the biological one, are both works in progress. The only two people that I can trust are Mason and Logan, and they’re the two people who I could lose. It won’t happen. I won’t let it. No matter the truth, no matter who loves me, I won’t let anything or anyone come between us. They’re my world... -
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Rough by Scott Hildreth
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTegan Raccini's heart has been hardened her parent's divorce, and by the recent loss of her bad boy biker lover to a life-long prison sentence. She isn't bitter; in fact, she's rather upbeat. But, she simply doesn't trust men. When she causes an accident with a motorcycle on the freeway, she's immediately attracted to the handsome biker, but knows she can't stand another heart break... -
Wildcard by Emilia Finn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMy name is Ben Conner. I’m a pro fighter, the son of a murderous wifebeater, overprotective big brother, and Evelyn Kincaid’s best friend. I’ve known Evie since we were kids. I loathed her on first sight, and picked on her as often as she picked on me, but somewhere around my fifteenth birthday, my dislike was replaced with something else. It was foreign and new, potent and exciting...Categorized as:
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Shattered Hearts: The Complete Series by Cassia Leo
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“This series was just plain addicting!” “Chris Knight can rock my ovaries.” “I started reading and nothing else mattered.” Five novels from the New York Times bestselling Shattered Hearts series available in Kindle Unlimited for a limited time. The Shattered Hearts series is a steamy and tender rock star romance spanning an epic 25 years and 1,589 pages... -
Ghost by Nicole James
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGhost has been living his life under one rule…never fall in love, never get too close, never get tied down to just one woman. Focusing solely on his club, he is able to remain unattached and free…. until a girl from his past is dropped in his lap. She was a line he swore he’d never cross. And now, in order to obtain an alliance his club needs, he’s forced to use her in ways he’d never imagined... -
The Gym by Lawrence H. Sola
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"A humorous and thought-provoking foray into the author's Neverland and the search for his destiny." -Sublime Book Review "Sola flawlessly laces many memorable, timely, and poignant themes (love, jealously, betrayal, heartbreak, and many more) throughout this book. 4 out 4 stars! -Online Book Club It was five years later... -
Mistake by Emilia Finn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCole Miller is a good-for-nothing nobody who skulks around dark alleyways and makes money by boosting cars from those more fortunate than he. He’s the unwanted child of a couple of deadbeats, so he never truly understood what family meant until he stumbled onto a treasure far more valuable than the GT he’s supposed to steal from the heavyweight world champion... -
Mace by Lane Hart
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMace I fell for Hailey the moment I laid eyes on her, before I knew about the three King Kong size battles I would have to fight to be with her. By the time Linc warned me that his gorgeous sister with legs a mile long was off limits and “emotionally fragile,” it was too late. There was no turning back. Then there’s my friend Senn, who had a one-night stand with Hailey... -
All the Little Secrets: A Standalone Enemies-to-Lovers High School Romance by S.J. Sylvis
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEnglish Prep has always been known for housing the most uppity, privileged rich kids in all of Pike Valley. That is what has been driven into my brain since attending the opposing prep academy in the area since middle school. So, when I am hastily pulled out of Wellington Prep and thrown into English Prep my junior year, it feels like I am being thrown to the wolves...Categorized as:
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Every Kiss You Steal by J.E. Parker
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHer past is plagued with darkness...He's determined to make her future brighter.-Ashley-My life was once a nightmare.Because of my past, the walls I've constructed are mighty.But those walls begin to waver the day I meet him...Chase Jacobs, star quarterback, and the cutest boy I've ever seen.With his easy smile and sweet words, he's perfect.Problem is, I'm not... -
Not a Role Model by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsYou better watch out for people that bounce back from everything that’s meant to destroy them.Those were the words that Coreline King learned to live by when it came to dealing with Tide ‘Rook’ Crow, member of the Battle Crows MC, general surgeon, and all-around jerk who lived to make her life a living hell...Categorized as:
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Scrumptious by Melissa Schroeder
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDon’t miss out on the exciting conclusion to the Camos and Cupcakes series from USA Today bestselling author Melissa Schroeder. Hey, there. Fritz O’Bryan at your service, the only remaining single guy in the Camos and Cupcakes shop. My friends call me a player, and I try to live up to their expectations. I mean, the women of San Antonio are relying on me to save them from boredom... -
Dax by Shannyn Leah
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDax Colyn is one of the bad boys of Willow Valley. A fearless volunteer firefighter and hard ass mechanic, he makes all the woman swoon and he likes it that way. He keeps people at a distance since his mother died. He doesn’t want to let anyone in, much less a woman he knows he could fall in love with. Ava Anderson keeps people away, too... -
The Lion Heart by Carrie Aarons
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe’s supposed to be the ruler of this kingdom. The prince poised to take his rightful place on the pitch. Instead, he plays the jester, shunning his legacy. Only I am privy to his lion heart. Kingston Phillips is the heir to England’s football dynasty. The offspring of two of the world’s greatest players, the expectations set on his shoulders could crush the universe...Categorized as:
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Surrender by Rachel Van Dyken
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken comes the next standalone rockstar romance in her Seaside Pictures series…I've always been pretty bad about following the rules.And my protégé only gave me one.Stop hitting on his mom.But I can't stop thinking about her, and as a famous rockstar, I've always gotten what I wanted.One week... -
Royal Games by T.K. Leigh
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEvery girl dreams of falling in love with a prince.When I met Jeremy, I thought he was my prince.Caring. Compassionate. Sensitive.And, unfortunately for me... Not attracted to women.So here I am, thirty years old and divorced when most of my friends are just getting married. In desperate need of a restart, I set off on a road trip to learn how to love myself again...Categorized as:
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Overcome by A.K. Evans
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt only took a matter of moments for Lexi Townsend to become a statistic. Rape victim. Ninety-eight seconds later, someone else became the next one in six. Her pleas of ‘no’ were overshadowed by the dress she wore and the kisses she enjoyed. Her power was taken. Her trust was lost. Her bubbly personality was smothered by the depressing weight of shame and guilt. She became silenced... -
Clash by Cora Brent
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTAYLOR I’m that poor little rich girl whose silver spoon was snatched right out of her pretty mouth. I lost everything. Now my everyday reality includes sleeping in my car and dining on whatever clearance food I can purchase with spare change. But my issues don’t end there. My nightmare family is hot on my heels and demanding something I don’t have. They won’t give up until I crack...Categorized as:
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Jackson by Nyssa Kathryn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSometimes it’s the oldest wounds that cut deepest.River Harp fell in love with her brother’s best friend, a boy who was practically part of the family…a boy who broke her heart before leaving town. Sixteen years later, he’s back for her brother’s funeral. And River wants nothing to do with the man. At least, that’s what she keeps telling herself...Categorized as:
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Moonlight on Nightingale Way by Samantha Young, Elle Newlands
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLogan from Echoes of Scotland Street is back with his own smoldering story, as the New York Times bestselling On Dublin Street series returns…Logan spent two years paying for the mistakes he made. Now, he’s ready to start over. He has a great apartment, a good job, and plenty of women to distract him from his past... -
Just Playin': Romantic Sports Comedy by Shandi Boyes
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPresley “Elvis” Carlton was at the top of his game. Number one draft pick, engaged to an up-and-coming model, and voted best player of the decade his first year on the field. Things were golden. . . until an accident saw everything important torn from his grasp... -
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Drifter by Bella Jewel
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt's here! The second installment in the USA Today bestselling series, MC Sinners Next Gen. This book can be read as a standalone. They say opposites attract. In my world that isn’t a good thing. I did everything I could to escape the grips of motorcycle club I grew up in when I turned twenty-one. It wasn’t about fear, or betrayal, or even lack of love. I just needed my own life...Categorized as:
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My Brother's Best Friends by Rebel Bloom
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThey claim I’m the one thing they can’t have, and the only thing they’ve ever wanted.They’re also the ones that took my v-card and ran me out of town.Coming back to Lunar, New Mexico was a nightmare.I had no choice after my life had gone up in flames.Between finding out that my boyfriend had a wife and getting fired from my job, I had little desire to think about hot men...Categorized as:
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Bending the Rules by Mariah Dietz
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt started with a crush.The best stories always do.Our story sounds predictable.Short-lived.Destined for failure.Lincoln Beckett is the star wide receiver of Brighton University—smart, funny, and like many would guess,heartbreak shines in his dark brown eyes and is etched across his steel jaw.He's popular, a guaranteed draft pick, and worst of all:My brother's best friend...Categorized as:
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#Poser by Cambria Hebert
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Hashtag series is the winner of Best Contemporary Series of 2015 (UtopYAcon 2015) Book Five in the Hashtag Series! Posers gonna pose I am a man who had nothing, but found everything. I'll never go back to nothing ever again. I vowed to protect her, and that's exactly what I'm gonna do. The pictures I stumbled upon haunt me still, the secret I shoulder is heavy... -
Wilder by Rebecca Yarros
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsHe’s Paxton Wilder. Twenty-two-year-old, tattooed, smoking-hot leader of the Renegades. Five time X Games medalist. The world is his playground—especially this year—and for the next nine months I’m stuck as his tutor on the Study at Sea program. He’s too busy staging worldwide stunts for his documentary to get to class...Categorized as:
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Getting Wound Up: Part One by Jennifer Bernard, Erin Nicholas
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA fun, flirty crossover novel from bestselling authors Jennifer Bernard (the Love Between the Bases series) and Erin Nicholas (the Sapphire Falls series) Caitlyn Murray has never let on that she's had fantasies about her brother's friend Eli Anderson for years... -
Outta My League by Ali Parker, Weston Parker
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe way she looks, smells, laughs is killing me.I fell in love with my sister’s best friend. To top it all off, she’s brilliant. And I’m failing Chemistry.Of course, when I get her help, she’s laidback about it. Charming and helpful as always, like she doesn’t know how much I want her. I’ve got to play it cool and let her see a different side of me...Categorized as:
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Hook Me Up by Ali Parker
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan’t find love? Good. I’m your guy.I mean, not your guy per se, but the guy to find you the love of your life.I’m the best damn matchmaker there ever was.Except when it comes to my own life.Why bother? I’m too busy setting up other couples and enjoying success anyway.I’ve been hooking people up since I was a teenager. Great at it then, and getting paid for it now...Categorized as:
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Changing Lanes by Colbie Kay
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHacker Our paths collided once before, and because of it I was destroyed. I haven't been able to put myself back together, I've barely lived, and time has yet to heal my bleeding wounds. I never thought I'd have to see her again—that is, until she walked into the clubhouse years later and all of my hate for her returned to the surface...Categorized as:
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Red, White, & Bayou by Erin Nicholas
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWyatt Landry is back in town...for one night only. At least, that's the plan. In spite of the big Fourth of July party, and his cousin’s plan to set him up with a friend of hers, and how much he wishes things could be the way they used to be.But they're not. And he's hitting the road as soon as the sun sets.Until he sees her. The woman in the red dress...Categorized as:
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Dom Wars: Round Four by Lucian Bane
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's Demon Domination for Lucian in Dom Wars Round 4. But it looks like there's more than just his demons they're throwing at him this time and surviving the storm won't happen without suffering... -
Rebel Desire: A (Surprise) Single Dad Romantic Comedy by L.K. Farlow
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs a wedding photographer, it’s no surprise that Ashley Murphy, despite her perpetual singleness, is a little in love with love.When she catches a hunky best man checking her out while on the job, her heart all but shouts, “He’s the one." Until he opens his mouth. Colton Banks is a cocky lawyer with a mean streak a country mile wide. Colton prefers order to chaos...Categorized as:
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Rock Chick Bonus Tracks by Kristen Ashley
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPress play on this compilation of bonus content from the Rock Chick Series by Kristen Ashley.The stories of the Hot Bunch and Rock Chicks continue in the hero’s point of view for one more chapter in each book... -
Badd Medicine by Jasinda Wilder
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRamsey Badd, last of the triplets— the wild man. An explorer, hunter, outdoorsman, and avowed, die-hard bachelor, Ramsey has watched his brothers fall one by one for Alaskan beauties. He’s determined to resist. Isadora Styles—Izzy to those know her well. She’s gorgeous, sassy, and impossible. She’s wild and untamable. She’s smart, successful, and evasive... -
Crash Ride by T Gephart
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMegan Winters had lusted over Troy Harris, drummer for international rock band Power Station, for years. Not being the type of girl who was invited backstage, her fantasies had stayed just that, fantasies. When her best friend unexpectedly starts dating one of the other band members it puts her on a crash course at war with her libido. Her solution— they need to have sex... -
Walking Disaster by Jamie McGuire
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsHow much is too much to love? Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother before she died: Love hard. Fight harder.Finally, the highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Disaster.Can you love someone too much?Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother before she died: Love hard. Fight harder...Categorized as:
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JOCK by Jacob Chance
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen the dean of students asked me for a favor, I had no idea it would mean tutoring Owen Dawson. Me, forced to spend time with Boston University’s notorious quarterback? With his dark hair, chiseled body, and a promising future playing in the NFL, every guy on campus wants to be him. Every girl wants to be under him. Every girl, except me... -
Rogue by Olivia Hayle
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis book was re-published in 2022 as Dark Eyed Devil Hayden Cole was good times dressed like bad news.Dark hair falling over eyes that had seen too much.Full lips curving into a smile that set my body on fire.The way he disliked everything about my sheltered world, except me.I spent years in love with the groundkeeper’s nephew... -
Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 63 ratingsCarlos Fuentes doesn't want any part of the life his older brother, Alex, has laid out for him in Boulder, Colorado. He wants to keep living on the edge, and carve his own path-just like Alex did. Unfortunately, his ties to a Mexican gang aren't easy to break, and he soon finds himself being set up by a drug lord...Categorized as:
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The Upside of Falling by Meghan Quinn
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTucked away at the base of the Rocky Mountains lived a little boy with one singular dream: leave this broken and battered home and become someone.Be somebody’s hero.That boy was me—Colby Brooks. Except I’m not that same little boy anymore.My dreams might still be the same, but my reality isn’t.I’m smarter. Stronger. A man...Categorized as:
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I'll Be Yours by Jenny B. Jones
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe day Andrew Levin arrives at Washington High, Harper O’Malley knows he’ll make the perfect starter boyfriend. The school’s newest band geek is totally in Harper’s league, yet completely out of this late-bloomer’s reach... -
T.A. by Jamie Begley
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCuffing season was supposed to be about finding a hook-up to keep her warm during the cold Kentucky winter nights. T.A. wasn’t looking for Mr. Right; she just wanted Mr. Available. That was before she met Dalton Andrews. The widower was nursing a broken heart, and the only thing he wanted was a woman to take his grown kids’ minds off worrying about him...Categorized as:
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Unbreak My Heart by Lorelei James
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe right love is worth the wait. Sierra Seven years have passed since I fell for Boone West. The brooding bad boy. We were friends, even when I secretly wanted more, but I settled for what he offered. After he left Wyoming—and me—I grew up. Moved on. Or so I believed until he blew back into my life with the scorching force of an Arizona desert wind...Categorized as:
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Southern Player by Jessica Peterson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsI’m looking for a hot hookup with no strings attached. And I want my older brother’s best friend to step up to the plate... My dating history is lame. My experiences in bed? Even lamer. As the owner of a thriving business, I’m used to calling the shots. But one place I don’t always want to be in charge is in the bedroom. Enter Luke Rodgers. My brother’s best friend... -
Ball Peen Hammer by Lauren Rowe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the USA Today and Internationally bestselling author of The Club Series, Hero, and Captain, Lauren Rowe, comes a sexy standalone romantic comedy about Keane Morgan: Ball Peen Hammer.Keane Morgan wouldn’t return any of my calls or texts, and I was pissed as hell about it. I didn’t want to drive from Seattle to L.A...Categorized as:
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Had to Be You by Melanie Shawn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLaura Lopez knew exactly what she wanted in life. The American dream: a husband, two kids (at least), and a white picket fence. She handled the white picket fence on her own; the hubby and kiddos were proving to be more difficult. The problem was that the alpha-holes she attracted were not marriage material...
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