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  • The Single Mom and the Orc by Honey Phillips

    The Single Mom and the Orc by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Her grumpy orc is going to hammer his way into her heart!When Pippa finds herself in Fairhaven Falls with empty pockets and a brand new baby, she’s thrilled when a sweet - and slightly scary - old lady offers her a job and a place to live. Their new home isn’t much, but it offers a desperately needed shelter.Then her grumpy orc neighbor comes charging into their lives...
  • No Broken Beast by Nicole Snow

    No Broken Beast by Nicole Snow

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Fierce. Scarred. Ginormous grump.And I get to tell him he's a father...Brilliant life decisions--falling for the bad guy.Leo damn Regis. Hated scourge of Heart's Edge.A wall with arms and legs. Hercules dipped in ink. Incandescent eyes.The legend, the outcast, the boy I loved.But the man they call "Nine" isn't the villain they think.He saved my life and seared my heart once upon a messed up time...
  • Thunder with a Chance of Lovestruck by Mandy M. Roth

    Thunder with a Chance of Lovestruck by Mandy M. Roth

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Detective Drest Bright meets his newest charge, sparks literally fly. There is no denying the instant attraction he feels for Rachael Frankenstein. But she’s off-limits, and he knows as much. Her family has been a thorn in the side of the Nightshade Fae Hunters for over a hundred years, and they aren’t about to let him run off into the sunset with her without a fight...
  • Winter's Burn by Elena Aitken

    Winter's Burn by Elena Aitken

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Single mom, Beth Martin is doing her best raising her daughter Jules on her own after moving back to the small town she grew up in. She's been welcomed back by old friends and a decent job at the Springs resort. Things are going well, but something—or someone—is missing. When sexy rock star, Slade Black comes to town, it just might be what Beth is looking for...
  • Savage Mate by Delta James

    Savage Mate by Delta James

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Small Town Grumpy Shifter RomanceThe first time she saw him he was coming out of the river... Oh! what a view.Jackson Miller (Jax) left the SEALs to return to his small hometown, Mystic River, Alaska where all the residents are shifters. He’s a grumpy bear shifter and the sheriff.Autumn Bradley was hiking with her fiancé for a birthday weekend...
  • Jessica by Ariana Hawkes

    Jessica by Ariana Hawkes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three best friends separated for ten years, the laws of a clan, and a forbidden love clash in the latest episode of this bestselling series.Curvy geek girl Jessica Schmidt works as a developer for the dating app Shiftr. When her two best friends, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances ten years earlier, come to the office looking for mates, she couldn't be more shocked...
  • Getting It On With Gargoyle by Hazel Mack

    Getting It On With Gargoyle by Hazel Mack

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The small town of Ever, Massachusetts is idyllic and quaint. It’s also chock full of monsters. THEAWhen my sister thrifts an aged map with iridescent lettering leading to a town called Ever, I roll my eyes. According to a quick internet search, the town doesn’t exist. We only manage to find it with the help of a sexy gas station owner who offers to come for me if I call him. Swoon...
  • Valentine for My Vampire by Honey Phillips

    Valentine for My Vampire by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Her vampire is heating up the kitchen!Wendy’s first visit to a supposedly gourmet restaurant in the sleepy little town of Fairhaven Falls did not go well - especially her interaction with the arrogant and annoyingly attractive restaurant owner - and she didn’t hesitate to tell her readers all about it. She has no intention of returning, but she never could resist a challenge...
  • Defiant Mate by Delta James

    Defiant Mate by Delta James

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The sound of a cord snapping abruptly ends her climb, leaving her stranded as an arctic storm bears down. Can Asher find his mate before she freezes to death? Nicole is done with men. Her husband left her for a thinner and younger model and never looked back. She has worked hard to be an independent, successful woman without a man...
  • Alone by E.J. Noyes

    Alone by E.J. Noyes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Half a million dollars will be Celeste Thorne’s reward for spending four years of her life in total isolation. No faces. No voices. No way to leave. Since Celeste has never really worried about being alone, the generous paycheck she’ll receive for her participation in the solitary psychological experiment seems like easy money...
    Categorized as:
    family  adult  age-gap  angst  audiobook  betrayal  book  contemporary
  • Checked Out by the Chupacabra by Wendi Guff

    Checked Out by the Chupacabra by Wendi Guff

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    CHECKED OUT BY A MONSTER—sounds hot, right?Except I’m not the type anyone ever gives a second glance to, let alone is interested in. The only thing guys check out from me are the books in the library that I oversee. But every day, the same Chupacabra comes back. At first, I think he’s just lonely as he prowls behind me as I work, asking me questions. Then I realize he can’t read...
  • Taliz by Alana Khan

    Taliz by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Taliz avoids people for a reason… his untamed predator. But when a stranded human arrives, can he restrain his inner beast before his monster decides she’s his prey?ZaydieI’ve traveled all the way to planet Hallion to research their winter holiday...
  • Whiskers and Lies by Sofie Kelly

    Whiskers and Lies by Sofie Kelly

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Librarian Kathleen Paulson is always willing to help a friend, but to save one from a wrongful arrest, she’ll need magical backup from her affectionate cats in the newest installment of this New York Times bestselling series...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  romance  mystery  cozy  cats  animals  fiction
  • The Other Side of Now by Paige Harbison

    The Other Side of Now by Paige Harbison

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A hilarious and heartfelt novel about how loves and lives are never truly lost, for fans of Rebecca Serle and Taylor Jenkins Reid. With a leading role on a hit TV show and a relationship with Hollywood's latest heartthrob, Meg Bryan appears to have everything she ever wanted. But underneath the layers of makeup and hairspray, her happiness is as fake as her stage name, Lana Lord...
  • Knocked Up by the Other Brother by Ashlee Price

    Knocked Up by the Other Brother by Ashlee Price

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My wife has no memory of me. Then again, Grace isn’t my real wife... I don’t know much about her... Where she’s from, how she ended up in Hope Creek, why she has strange marks on her wrists and how she survived The Icebreaker that wiped out a good portion of humanity...
  • Earning His Trust by Shea Balik

    Earning His Trust by Shea Balik

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Iniko had a problem. His mouth often said things that his brain hadn’t thought through. It didn’t make him very popular with anyone. How he hadn’t been kicked out of Miracle was in itself a miracle. Iniko also had a gift to help others find their niche in life. But to do that, the men of Miracle would have to find a way to give him a chance...
  • Her Alien Neighbor by Ivy Knox

    Her Alien Neighbor by Ivy Knox

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    AXIL & VANESSA'S STORYHiding his true form while living among humans on Earth is not easy, but for thirteen years, Axil Monroe and his four brothers have done it. That is until an enticing, infuriating female moves in next door. All Vanessa Bradford wants is to become a successful actress, or successful enough to pay the rent on her tiny L.A. apartment...
  • Better Than Friends by Jill Shalvis

    Better Than Friends by Jill Shalvis

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Old flames reignite in Sunrise Cove in this charming enemies-to-lovers, second-chance, small-town, forced-proximity love story about family, friendships, and true love from New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis.When Olive Porter’s off-the-grid parents go missing, she reluctantly seeks out Noah Turner, her ex and the only person she both trusts implicitly and not at all...
  • One for the Hooks by Betty Hechtman

    One for the Hooks by Betty Hechtman

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Molly Pink and the Tarzana Hookers must unwind a fiendish skein in national bestselling author Betty Hechtman's fourteenth Crochet mystery.These are the dog days of August, but you won't catch the Tarzana Hookers crochet club napping. While Molly Pink knits together an idea for a new project, Miami Wilson busily converts a house she inherited into a rental property...
  • Candy for My Orc Boss by Ava Ross

    Candy for My Orc Boss by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A new life, a new job, a new orc husband . . . Wait, isn’t he supposed to be my boss?After my ex announces his wedding to someone other than me, I’m eager to leave town. A new life and a new job are just what I need to restore my mojo. On the way to my destination, I overnight at a hotel where edible unmentionables and a tattooed orc construction worker rock my world...
  • Perfect Timing by Catherine Anderson

    Perfect Timing by Catherine Anderson

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In Catherine Anderson’s newest installment in the Harrigan family series, an unlikely couple is brought together under circumstances that defy all reason.... Tragedy has struck the Harrigans—Quincy’s beloved sister-in-law Loni is gravely ill and nearing death. Quincy, like his brothers, feels helpless to save her, and the clock is ticking...
  • My Orc Santa Claus by Veronika Kane

    My Orc Santa Claus by Veronika Kane

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The charming town of Eastshore Isle is my hiding place, but I need someone strong to keep me safe…I’m pretty sure there’s rules about an elementary teacher hooking up with a student’s parent, but what if I didn’t know that’s who he was? See, I’ve spent the last few months getting hot and heavy with this guy on the app MonsterSmash, but we haven’t exchanged names...
  • Last Light by Claire Kent

    Last Light by Claire Kent

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    It only took four years for the world to fall apart. Now the last member of my family has died, and I'm forced to travel across what's left of three states to find the only people I know left alive. To survive, I'll have to salvage food and supplies and try to avoid violent men who've learned they can take what they want by force. The only way I'm going to make it is by trusting Travis...
  • For All Time by Jude Deveraux

    For All Time by Jude Deveraux

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Return to charming Nantucket with Jude Deveraux, the New York Times bestselling author of unforgettable romance. For All Time is the second novel in her fabulous Nantucket Brides trilogy, with more from a new generation of Montgomery-Taggerts, the beloved family from Jude's classic novels...
  • After Sundown by Linda Howard, Linda Jones

    After Sundown by Linda Howard, Linda Jones

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sela Gordon, shy owner of a Tennessee general store, prefers solitude. If anyone can chip away at her protective shell it's the handsome, mysterious, ex-military man who's been hiding for two years in the wilds of Cove Mountain...
  • Murder at a Scottish Wedding by Traci Hall

    Murder at a Scottish Wedding by Traci Hall

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Traci Hall returns with the fourth novel in her Scottish Shire cozy mystery series set in a charming seaside town in Scotland and featuring busy single mom Paislee Shaw, owner of a specialty sweater shop, knitting enthusiast, and reluctant sleuth who must untangle another murderous yarn!As her friend’s matron of honor, Paislee Shaw vows to solve the mystery of a...
  • The Lodge by Kayla Olson

    The Lodge by Kayla Olson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the author of The Reunion, a cozy rom-com about a writer who decamps to a Vermont lodge for work but finds herself distracted by the charming ski instructor next door.Alix Morgan just got her big break as the ghostwriter of a memoir by Sebastian Green, a former member of the boy band True North...
  • My Orc in Uniform by Veronika Kane

    My Orc in Uniform by Veronika Kane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’ve been a single mom for sixteen years, and I know there’s no place left in my life for fun. Right?I grew up in the South, where there are three things you’re never supposed to A woman her age, a man his salary, and a single mother how the duck she’s managing to juggle a job, a mortgage, and a teenage son who’s suddenly become too big for his britches...
  • Pulled by the Tail by Nancey Cummings

    Pulled by the Tail by Nancey Cummings

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Matched to the wrong alien… Georgia wanted a prince, not a massive brute. When a clerical error lands her on a backwater planet with only anti-social Talen for company, she knows there’s been a mistake...
  • Hidden Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Hidden Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There were a few things that got Owen Quade through his multiple combat tours. One was the dream of riding a custom motorcycle on a winding mountain road. The former Marine had finally managed to complete that goal, and along the way he'd gained his own bike shop and the mechanic to go with it. She was a rare beauty, and he wasn't talking about his bike either...
  • Tinfoil Heart by Daisy Prescott

    Tinfoil Heart by Daisy Prescott

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A romantic comedy about love, letting go, and little green men from USA Today Bestselling author Daisy Prescott. My father was abducted by aliens. Or so I believed for the last eighteen years. After my mother's death, I moved to Roswell, capital of all things alien. I'm going to find out the truth and nothing will stop me . . . except Boone Santos...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  humor  adult  aliens  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Fighting Chance by Victoria Paige

    Fighting Chance by Victoria Paige

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One small town.One dead sheriff.A town with secrets.Newly appointed sheriff Trent Stone is investigating the murder of his predecessor. This leads him to Misty Grove, a town lined with innocent diners and general stores, but his gut instinct tells him that nothing is what it seems.It doesn’t help that his first encounter with one of its citizens is at the end of her shotgun.A beautiful hellion...
  • Take the Honey and Run by Jennie Marts

    Take the Honey and Run by Jennie Marts

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The town is all abuzz when a murder occurs in Jennie Marts’ debut cozy mystery, perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Amanda Flower.As a successful mystery author, Bailey Briggs writes about murder, but nothing prepares her for actually discovering the dead body of the founder of her hometown of Humble Hills, Colorado...
  • Book, Line, and Sinker by Jenn McKinlay

    Book, Line, and Sinker by Jenn McKinlay

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Lindsey is enjoying her second year in Briar Creek as the library director, meeting with the crafternoon club, and happily dating tour boat captain Mike Sullivan. But when a salvage company arrives in town to dig up treasure buried on Pirate Island over three hundred years ago, the locals are torn between protecting the island and welcoming the publicity...
  • A Howl to Remember by Milly Taiden

    A Howl to Remember by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Secrets, Magic, and Sizzling Romance in Whispering Pines Celeste Rowan returns to the only place she's ever felt at Whispering Pines, a magical town filled with paranormal beings. But a car accident at the edge of town leaves her with no memories of her life and in the arms of a mysterious, muscular wolf shifter who sets her heart ablaze...
  • Nanny For The Orc Warrior: A Monster Romantic Comedy by Zora Black

    Nanny For The Orc Warrior: A Monster Romantic Comedy by Zora Black

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I thought orcs were just a fantasy.But as it turns out, my billionaire orc boss is a fantasy alright…My fantasy.I came to Curiosity for a vacation. I didn’t expect to meet a tall, handsome, growler – a man and a myth in one. Just my luck, Hargoz is looking for a nanny – and that’s my speciality. But even if it wasn’t…I’d say yes to whatever gets me in his house...
  • Crazy Spooky Love by Josie Silver

    Crazy Spooky Love by Josie Silver

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A plucky medium, her fame-chasing ex, and an infuriatingly handsome skeptic reporter make for a complicated love triangle—and that's before the ghosts get involved. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December comes the first novel in a ghost-hunting series full of romance and humor...
  • The Alien's Mail-Order Bride by Ruby Dixon

    The Alien's Mail-Order Bride by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Though still carrying the scars of his past as an intergalactic soldier, Emvor doesn’t mind the quiet of his chosen life as a farmer. He doesn’t even mind that most nights are lonely on remote Cassa, but he does need help around his farm. A mail-order bride from his homeworld seems like the perfect solution. She’ll be a tall, sturdy female to help with the chores and bear his children...
  • Blair by Evie Ellis

    Blair by Evie Ellis

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When I revealed as an omega, it destroyed everything I wanted to be. I had ambitions that meant being a beta would suit my life better, and I certainly didn’t relish being claimed, mated, or knotted. No, that life was not for me.But I was grateful my controlling father didn’t want me to go to the Omega College route, but being a dominant alpha, he wanted to find my alpha...
  • Knotting With A Stranger by Harley Knight

    Knotting With A Stranger by Harley Knight

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    AMAZON TOP 100 BESTSELLERIt started with a message to the wrong number… now I’m craving a stranger.Running the bakery with my sister is my life—early mornings, endless dough, and just enough sugar to keep me sane. I don’t have time for distractions.But when I accidentally text a stranger, everything changes...
  • Blaste from the Past by Jessa Kane

    Blaste from the Past by Jessa Kane

    Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A magical tree that makes your soul mate appear is surely just a legend, right? That's what Shiloh thought until one night, in a moment of desperation, she begs the Wanting Tree for someone to love...and a shirtless rancher from 1949 arrives, still holding onto his cowboy hat, calling her "sugar" and claiming to be her man. For life...
  • The Last Boy and Girl in the World by Siobhan Vivian

    The Last Boy and Girl in the World by Siobhan Vivian

    Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the critically acclaimed author of The List comes a stunning new novel about a girl who must say goodbye to everything she knows after a storm wreaks havoc on her hometown...
  • The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood

    The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    This is what it means to love someone. This is what it means to grieve someone. It's a little bit like a black hole. It's a little bit like infinity.Gottie H. Oppenheimer is losing time. Literally. When the fabric of the universe around her seaside town begins to fray, she's hurtled through wormholes to her past:To last summer, when her grandfather Grey died...
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