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  • Always Us by Allie Everhart

    Always Us by Allie Everhart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Final book in The Jade Series! Includes an extended epilogue! The countdown has begun. Garret’s running out of time and he’s losing patience as he waits for his father to take action. It’s getting harder to keep this a secret from Jade, and he may not be able to after an unexpected visitor stops by...
  • Perfect Embrace by Kaylee Ryan

    Perfect Embrace by Kaylee Ryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The day he walks into my bookstore with his adorable twin daughters, I know my life is going to change forever. The chemistry is tangible, the tragedy his truth, and my schoolgirl crush, even after all of these years, is still alive...
  • Chaos by Catharina Maura

    Chaos by Catharina Maura

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    We both claim we're over each other, so why do we keep finding ourselves back in each other's arms?CarterI thought I was over her, right until she walked back into my life. My head knows she and I will end in disaster, yet my heart can't deny her. Maybe I can convince Emilia to make me her dirty little secret...EmiliaCarter is still the only one I want and the only one I desire...
  • The Mind by Edee M Fallon, Kate Stewart

    The Mind by Edee M Fallon, Kate Stewart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    We fell in love in a lightning strike, a sudden anomaly in a sea of lost people. He knew right away, yet I was hesitant. I could have never prepared myself for a love like ours. No one could. As a child, I had conjured an amazing story in my mind. It was a story I could retell about a man that would move me like no other; a story about the way we met and how he had swept me off my feet...
  • Becoming Us by Allie Everhart

    Becoming Us by Allie Everhart

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jade and Garret thought the robbery in their neighborhood had nothing to do with them, but the pieces are finally starting to come together. Someone’s been working behind the scenes, pulling the strings to determine Garret’s fate. The timing couldn’t be worse. Jade and Garret are talking things out, becoming even closer, making plans for their future. Plans that might never happen...
  • Finding Us by Allie Everhart

    Finding Us by Allie Everhart

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Finding Us is in both Jade's and Garret's POV After the events of last year, Jade and Garret are anxious to get a fresh start in a new town and a new college, far away from the people who tried to tear them apart. But soon after moving, their relationship problems begin. Jade finds out Garret hasn’t been completely honest with her...
  • Forgotten Promise by Julie Trettel

    Forgotten Promise by Julie Trettel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    At six years old Tyler Klein made a promise to his best friend Josie. “When I grow up and get my wolf, I’m gonna make you my mate.” Back then he didn’t know a lot about mating, but he thought he knew a thing or two about love.Josie’s family changed allegiances to a new pack shortly after that and the memory faded long ago, that is until Josie shows up at the ARC to visit a friend...
  • Ryker's Reward by Loni Nichole

    Ryker's Reward by Loni Nichole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Keeping his curvy spitfire in line will be this grumpy CIA agent's hardest mission yet.RykerWhen I requested a secure room at the Silver Spoon Falls Inn, I didn't realize it came with sassy commentary from the desk clerk. Nor did I think I'd enjoy the thought of spanking that attitude right out of her. But here we are anyway. Sight unseen, I'm already hooked on Francesca...
  • Protected Promise by Julie Trettel

    Protected Promise by Julie Trettel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone has secrets. Mine's just worse than most.For the four years Kaitlyn has been at Archibald Reynolds College she has been watched over and cared for without question by each and every member of Delta Omega Gamma. Most don't even know why and they never ask.Now, she's about to graduate and leave the safe haven they've created for her. She can't go back home...
  • Hot for Teacher Anthology: Nineteen Stories Filled with Love and Lust by Elle Christensen, L.J. Shen

    Hot for Teacher Anthology: Nineteen Stories Filled with Love and Lust by Elle Christensen, L.J. Shen

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nineteen of today’s bestselling authors… Plus Nineteen tales of tempting teachers and seductive students… Equals One HOT anthology for an epic cause. Sexy, spicy, romantic, angsty, funny, or sweet-however you like your fantasies, these nineteen original novellas guarantee extra heat...
  • Ritual: A New Adult College Romance by Kandi Steiner

    Ritual: A New Adult College Romance by Kandi Steiner

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Written like your favorite drama television show, the Palm South University series has been called "a mix of Greek meets Gossip Girl with a dash of Friends." Follow seven college students as they maneuver unrequited love, teacher/student romance, the tangles of “no strings” relationships, love triangles and more...
  • Dear Jon by Lori L. Otto

    Dear Jon by Lori L. Otto

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A summer with his family in Utah is all Jon Scott needs to pull himself together. It's time to focus on his mom's sobriety and the continuing education of his two younger brothers, Will and Max. For once, things seem to be on track with that part of his life. For the first time, he sees real hope for his family...
  • Hell's Fury by K.J. Dahlen

    Hell's Fury by K.J. Dahlen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I thought I’d found my forever. She decided to tear it apart. Deke My MC is my world. She is my centre. My children are everything I live for. Walking a street of contentment I hadn’t known before, I thought the bad was finally over. I should have known better… I didn’t see her coming - a vengeful figure from my past with a score to settle...
    Categorized as:
    angst  insta-love  adult  alpha-mc  biker  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Evolve Series Box Set by S.E. Hall

    Evolve Series Box Set by S.E. Hall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fall in love with The Evolve Series by NYTimes & USA Today Bestselling author S.E...
  • I Never Planned on You by Stefanie Jenkins

    I Never Planned on You by Stefanie Jenkins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dani had her entire life planned out by the time she was thirteen. She was going to marry the boy who stole her heart – her brother’s best friend – have a great life, and live happily ever after. Then tragedy struck and Dani had to bury those childhood dreams in a pine box along with the love of her young life...
  • Fortuity by Rochelle Paige

    Fortuity by Rochelle Paige

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The only kinds of luck I knew were bad and worse...until my life hung in the balance. I finally caught a break in the form of a second chance. I vowed not to let it go to waste. To make a difference. But I didn’t start really living until I met him. Dillon Montgomery. My complete opposite—except for our matching tortured souls. I couldn’t resist him for long...
  • The Other Daughter by Janet Nissenson

    The Other Daughter by Janet Nissenson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Twenty-one year-old Scarlett Strohman has had to walk a difficult path thus far in her young life. Raised by a neglectful mother and an alcoholic grandmother before entering the foster care system, she's never met the father who abandoned her before birth. Scarlett is tough, embittered, and has a chip on her shoulder that's nearly as big as her goal to make something meaningful out of her life...
  • Tyson by Sheridan Anne

    Tyson by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Brylee - It was supposed to be a one-time thing which quickly turned into two, and then three. Don’t ask me how, but now I can't seem count the times on one hand, let alone two. I'm in trouble. I never intended for this to be something more, but he has the ability to keep drawing me back in. He's coming for me. He's always wanted more, but this time, I don't think he's going to let me go...
  • Toad by Cambria Hebert

    Toad by Cambria Hebert

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Aerie Boone is a toad.At least according to every news outlet and online hater imaginable.Accusations of lip-syncing.Rumors of being dropped by my label.Reports of celebrity feuds and rivalries.And then there’s my personal favorite… The pending annulment of a marriage I can’t even remember agreeing to.When you’re the sweetheart of country music, being a headline is a given...
  • Promise Me: A Novella by Lacey Black

    Promise Me: A Novella by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Holly Jenkins watched her best friend finally get her happily ever after. While there’s no one more deserving than Avery Jackson, Holly can’t fight the longing and ache that settles in her chest when she thinks about her own solitary life. After kissing so many frogs, Holly starts to wonder if Prince Charming even exists. Jase Bentley is worn out...
  • Everlasting Light by Shey Stahl

    Everlasting Light by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    We were two hearts, two souls, devastated by the same loss. I met Beau Ryland where the red clay danced along the water’s edge, and bursts of light rained down on us. A night when the heat couldn’t be escaped. As he whispered against sun-kissed summer-sweet skin, “Baby, look up and get lost on that everlasting light,” it was easy to believe it would last forever. But things changed...
  • Night Sky by Colbie Kay, Jennifer Siegel

    Night Sky by Colbie Kay, Jennifer Siegel

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jaxon 'Writer' Slade had everything he ever wanted. He had a family within his club brothers and he had the girl he loved. Everyone including him thought they were the perfect couple until everything came crashing down around him. The day Ever told Writer she was leaving for New York changed him and not for the better. One year later Ever Porter is back from New York...
  • Forever Princeton Charming by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook

    Forever Princeton Charming by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s fighting for their fairytale. Charlotte Hayes lost her slipper – err shoe – the first night she met Spencer Beckett, A.K.A Princeton Charming. She fell into his arms and their lives were changed. Forever. One kiss and she was smitten. One date and she was head over heels. One tragedy and her heart was his...
  • KADE: A Second Chance Rockstar Romance by Jane Anthony

    KADE: A Second Chance Rockstar Romance by Jane Anthony

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ~Kade~ Ainsley Daniels. She is a typhoon. A tidal wave. A goddamned wrecking ball. She burst into my world unannounced and left nothing but destruction in her wake. The worst part about it: I can’t get her out of my head. In a bizarre twist of fate, the drummer of my band is marrying Ainsley’s best friend. In a few months, I’ll be face to face with the woman who took my heart and ran...
  • New Year's with the Single Dad by Whitley Cox

    New Year's with the Single Dad by Whitley Cox

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A lot can happen in twenty-four hours ...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 Emmetts story ...Single dad of Seattle, Dr. Emmett Strong doesn't believe in soulmates...
  • Wingspan by Cambria Hebert

    Wingspan by Cambria Hebert

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ever feel like you’re being watched?It’s an awareness so familiar I adapted to it long ago.Then I enrolled at Westbrook University to chase my dreamand make up for someone else’s lost one.The prying eyes I’d known almost since birth…They closed.Even still, I never got too close.I made friends with everyone but confided in no one...
  • Learning to Heal by R.D. Cole

    Learning to Heal by R.D. Cole

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "If Fools rush in, then most people in love are idiots. And I'm the biggest one of all." -Jazz Meet Jasmine Coleman. She's the girl that's outgoing, beautiful, and full of self-assurance- a confidence that’s forced to cover the scars she hides. When rushing into love becomes a heartbreaking mistake the last piece of it disappears...
  • Every Kiss by Tasha Ivey

    Every Kiss by Tasha Ivey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After witnessing Makenna’s journey to find herself again, Callie is reminded of her own struggles with love. No, Wes wasn’t always the easy going guy that he is today. He was moody and unpredictable in the worst of ways, and she was certain to call him out on it every chance she got. Looking back, she’s amazed at how much their lives have changed since they met...
  • Serenity by Rochelle Paige

    Serenity by Rochelle Paige

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’d lived a privileged life, in the lap of luxury and surrounded by family. It had felt like I was on top of the world...until tragedy struck. My sense of loss felt bottomless, and I struggled with it every single day. Finding my path back into the light seemed impossible. But then I met Faith—she was smart, sexy, and out of my league even though she didn’t have a penny to her name...
  • Sawyer by JJ Harper, Jay Aheer

    Sawyer by JJ Harper, Jay Aheer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Take one bartender. Add an unwelcome engagement party With a dash of hot, sexy stranger For a spicy and sweet new beginning. Sawyer can’t believe his cheating ex has chosen Bar 28 to hold his engagement party. The grin on his smug face proves he has done it on purpose...
    Categorized as:
    angst  insta-love  adult  animals  book  contemporary  fiction  lgbtq
  • Feral Heart: A Rock Star Romance by Athena Wright

    Feral Heart: A Rock Star Romance by Athena Wright

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One overly-excitable fangirl couldn't possibly compete with the woman a rock star god loved and lost... I watch him in concert. I adore him from afar. I live for those brief moments backstage when he acknowledges my existence. That's as close to a man I ever let myself get. It's safer for everyone. Until fate brought us together. Morris says he wants me. He says he'll protect me...
  • Dad's Possessive Friend by Lena Little

    Dad's Possessive Friend by Lena Little

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I have no idea what I expected to find when I opened the door. But not this…not Andrea. I’m not prepared to find the most beautiful woman I’ve ever laid eyes on on my doorstep. Arms wrapped around her body, shivering from the cold. Clothes clinging to her skin. Taut buds pressing against the thin fabric of her shirt. In that moment, something rushes to the surface. DESIRE. HUNGER...
  • Hooking Her Up by Cassi Hart

    Hooking Her Up by Cassi Hart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kayla All of my life, I’ve worked hard to be perfect. From my appearance to my academics, I was expected to do my best, and I went above and beyond. If I’m being honest, it’s exhausting. I dream of having the chance to let it all go, to live my life without the fear of being or doing exactly what’s expected of me. But they’re called dreams for a reason...
  • The Long Way by DomLuka

    The Long Way by DomLuka

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Note: Book cover incorrectly titled.After tragedy strikes at home and he loses a special friend, is betrayed by someone he trusts and his father discovers he's gay, Owen Dovan moves in with the brothers he hasn't seen in two years. Even in a loving environment things aren't always easy...
  • Johnny Deeper: A Sports Romance by Tabatha Kiss

    Johnny Deeper: A Sports Romance by Tabatha Kiss

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    How deep can he go? All the way. ROSE John Kirby. Just another big, dumb jock with a real big… you know . I swore I’d never get involved with another man like him again. He’s crude and loud. Vulgar and unsophisticated. But he knows exactly what he’s doing when he touches me. I can’t let this happen. I’m a TA at our university and there are rules about this kind of thing...
  • Bring The Heat by K.B. Winters

    Bring The Heat by K.B. Winters

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Steamy, Sexy Bad Boys Of Summer! Can It Get Any Hotter? I never claimed to be the greatest pitcher in the world—then again, maybe I did—but I was probably drunk off my ass trying to seduce some chick. I had no intention of ever becoming Cody Wright, the best—or the greatest. That was more my old man’s dream. The REAL Mr. Wright...
  • Her Savage Mountain Daddy by Madison Faye

    Her Savage Mountain Daddy by Madison Faye

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’s my job to protect her, my pleasure to possess her. This little brat needs saving. What she’ll get is a firm hand and a thick dose of discipline. What she’ll get is a daddy. There are three simple rules to the job: protect, keep safe, keep professional. The Marines and then life as a street cop trained me for the first two. …She’s going to make me break the third...
  • Bad Idea by Nicole French

    Bad Idea by Nicole French

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the second she saw him, Layla Barros knew Nico Soltero was all wrong. Wrong age. Wrong education. Wrong job. Wrong everything. She had a hard enough time convincing her parents that New York really is the right place for their nineteen-year-old daughter without telling them she's got a thing for the FedEx guy at her new part-time job...
  • Noble Love by Ella Goode

    Noble Love by Ella Goode

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    NobleI know my frat is questionable, even on its best days, so when Autumn wanders in to clean the rooms in order to pay for her tuition, I know I need to take care of her. First step? Get her away from the brothers and into a safe spot...
  • A Sinner's Saint by Kylie Kent

    A Sinner's Saint by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    VinDemons. They’re relentless little fuckers that chase you no matter where you go.There’s only one escape I’ve ever found and it was at the end of a blunt.Then there was her. Camilla Taylor. Cammi.The moment I touched her, my mind went blank. The monsters were… just gone. But good things aren’t for me.And Cammi? She’s the very essence of good. Which is why I can’t keep touching her...
  • Tainted by K.A. Robinson

    Tainted by K.A. Robinson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Part One: Facing My Demons Drake lost everything the day Chloe walked away from him. Feeling angry and hurt by her abandonment, he dives deeper into his cocaine use. Each day becomes a struggle for him. After his band is picked up by a recording studio in Los Angeles, things go from bad to worse...
    Categorized as:
    angst  university  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  drama  fiction
  • Blind Devotion by S. Nelson

    Blind Devotion by S. Nelson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I dream of one day taking over the family law firm, the largest on the East Coast. But in order for that plan to become a reality, I must do everything my father asks, including marrying a man I barely know. Enter Maxton Colter, a walking contradiction and not the man my father chose for me. He’s infuriatingly arrogant… yet charming. He’s inappropriate… yet intriguing...
  • bare by Lynn Kelling

    bare by Lynn Kelling

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ev Myers is a former high school football star and Republican State Senator's son, raised in a strict Southern Baptist household where his only option was to be silent, behave and, no matter how he might be feeling, to put on a happy smile...
    Categorized as:
    angst  insta-love  university  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  dark
  • The Guard by Cassie Mint

    The Guard by Cassie Mint

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m limping home at night, barefoot with a busted ankle. Then a white knight sweeps me off my feet. He’s burly and bearded, and sweeter than sugar. Nearly twice my age, too.No one understands why I’m so obsessed with the campus security guard, but they don’t see it. They don’t see him.Well, it’s their loss–because I know he’s the perfect man...
  • Bittersweet Trust by J.L. Beck

    Bittersweet Trust by J.L. Beck

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Warning: This book is for readers 18+ ONLY. Contains explicit sex scenes, violence, and an alpha male who doesn't take no for an answer. Should be read AFTER reading Bittersweet Hate. -Roughly 150 pages in length- Trust- The firm belief in the reliability, honesty, ability, and strength of someone or something. I let every wall I had built around my heart crumble to the ground for him...
  • Change Rein by Anne Jolin

    Change Rein by Anne Jolin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    London Daniels is returning home to Willow Bay, Alberta, on the heels of a televised loss. She blew her shot at the Summer Olympics and cost Canada the gold medal in dressage. During her years of training abroad, her family's stable has fallen on hard times, and thus, they’ve accepted an offer to board the racehorses of Branson Tucker, the infamous tycoon, for the winter...
  • Trouble in Paradise by Emme Rollins

    Trouble in Paradise by Emme Rollins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When I met Tyler Cook, it was the end of a past I didn’t want to look back on and the beginning of a future I couldn’t wait to start. One lick of Tyler, and that’s all it took. I was addicted...
    Categorized as:
    angst  insta-love  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  new-adult  sad
  • Break My Fall: Love Trap Collaboration by Megan Wade

    Break My Fall: Love Trap Collaboration by Megan Wade

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He wanted to come home. She wished he’d never left. TylerGoing back is never easy. Especially when the night you left is also the night the girl of your dreams said she loved you.I wasn't enough for her back then. I wasn't enough for me either.Avery and I were just kids, and I had dreams that were bigger than Oakwood falls could provide.Not to mention, she was my best friend’s kid sister...
  • No Strings Attached by Jiffy Kate

    No Strings Attached by Jiffy Kate

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My name is Jude Harris and I’m an adrenaline junkie. If it makes my heart pound and my blood rush, I’m all in. That’s how I ended up at the sex club. It was supposed to be one night of fun. No names. No professions. No small talk. Perfect anonymity. One hundred percent no strings attached. I thought I could handle the rules, but that was before I saw her...
    Categorized as:
    angst  insta-love  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  humor  male-mc
  • Magic In Vienna  (The Best of Betty Neels) by Betty Neels

    Magic In Vienna (The Best of Betty Neels) by Betty Neels

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Betty Neels is a sales opportunity that simply cannot be missed. She is a consistent #1 seller whose books are eagerly anticipated and sought after by her readers. A retired nurse herself, Betty is particularly well-known for her tender romances set in Holland, featuring Dutch doctors...
    Categorized as:
    angst  insta-love  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction
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