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  • All You Need Is Love by Janet Nissenson

    All You Need Is Love by Janet Nissenson

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Was the wedding of their dreams about to become a living nightmare? For those who fell in love with Julia and Nathan in Serendipity, see how their story continues to unfold in this sweet, funny and sexy novella. After overcoming all of the obstacles in pursuit of their happily ever after, Julia and Nathan are determined to plan their dream wedding in just six months time...
  • Something Like Spring by Jay Bell

    Something Like Spring by Jay Bell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Nothing in this world is permanent. Friends, lovers, even family, can all disappear in the blink of an eye. Without these anchors, it's all too easy to find oneself drifting. Jason Grant doesn't have much, aside from a beat-up old guitar and knack for getting kicked out of foster homes. His latest placement is set to be just another in a long line of failures...
  • Forever We Fall: Broken #4 by Chloe Walsh

    Forever We Fall: Broken #4 by Chloe Walsh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ***Warning Explicit Content 18+*** ***Warning may contain upsetting scenes*** *Their love is their strongest weapon.* *They're each other's ultimate weakness.* It has been two years since Lee Bennett arrived at Thirteenth Street, in search of a fresh start free from pain and abuse. Falling into the arms of hotel playboy Kyle Carter was not part of her plan..
  • Boxed Set Complete Carnage Series: Carnage #1&2 by Lesley Jones

    Boxed Set Complete Carnage Series: Carnage #1&2 by Lesley Jones

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Carnage Book #1 Out of this world read! Had me gripped all the way. Could not put it down. Fantastic real life raw emotion. If you want an emotional, hot, exciting, blow your mind kinda read then Carnage is what you need There is no way I can describe this book to you. If 10 stars were an option it still wouldn't be enough. I'm declaring this book my most favorite book of 2014..
  • Cocky Quarterback: Eric Cocker by Faleena Hopkins

    Cocky Quarterback: Eric Cocker by Faleena Hopkins

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    BRAND NEW IN THE HIT SERIES WITH OVER 250,000 SOLD I told her I hope he knows how lucky he is. ERIC:  The waitress with the bird tattoo up her middle finger has gotten my attention by not caring if she does. My team thinks it’s hilarious that she’s not into me. I think it’s almost as fascinating as she is. Trouble is she likes musician types... And has one for a boyfriend...
  • Never Lasting by Julia Wolf

    Never Lasting by Julia Wolf

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tali DiPietro is a good girl with a streak of punk rock rebel. Before I left for college, my mom told me not to settle down with the first guy who crosses my path. Sage advice, sure, but that’s hard to do after I share an elevator with a guy who is nothing like the boys back home...
  • Blasphemous by Pamela Ann

    Blasphemous by Pamela Ann

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Will they survive the tsunami of trials heading their way? + Bass Cole + Emma Anderson + Carter Mason + expLosive. scOrching. graVitating. intEnse. Emma was beyond glad to escape back to Aspasia and be with Bass again...
  • Ashes falling for The Sky 2 by Nine Gorman, Mathieu Guibé

    Ashes falling for The Sky 2 by Nine Gorman, Mathieu Guibé

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Suite et fin d'Ashes falling for the sky.Après un cliffhanger insoutenable, on retrouve Sky et Ash aux prises avec leurs démons. La réunion de ces deux destins brisés ne se fera pas sans de nouvelles blessures, et révélations sur leurs passés. Nine Gorman et Mathieu Guibé livrent une suite touchante, riche en thématiques fortes, et dont le final ne laissera personne indifférent...
  • True Love by M.J. Fields

    True Love by M.J. Fields

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In Book four of MJ Fields Love series Tessa Ross has finally decided to give herself a break. A break from her forced smiles and the people she loved so that her heart could continue to heal. She needed to continue to figure out a way to stay strong which meant putting distance between her memories and of her and Lucas...
  • We Said Forever by Marie James, T E Black

    We Said Forever by Marie James, T E Black

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Rock bottom. They say the only way to go from there is up, but what is “up” when you’re born into someone else’s rock bottom? At ten, football became my first love. It’s what got me out of the house away from my self-destructive family...
  • A Different Kind of December by Lesley Jones

    A Different Kind of December by Lesley Jones

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    December 1st... A time to reflect and remember for Georgia, and also, she's decided, this year will be a time for change. Starting with high emotion on the anniversary of the day that changed her life and ending on a loud, raucous and raunchy Christmas night, we get a little dip into the lives of some of the Carnage Series favourite characters. This is book 5 in a series. Carnage Book One...
  • Ain't None of Your Friends Business by DeeAnn

    Ain't None of Your Friends Business by DeeAnn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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  • Dare to Love by S.B. Alexander

    Dare to Love by S.B. Alexander

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Librarian's Note: An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here Women want him. Guys want to be him. Sexy, confident, college playboy, Kelton Maxwell has his future right in the palm of his hands. He’s got one foot in the door at Harvard Law. All he needs now is one prestigious internship at a highfalutin law firm to seal the deal. Nothing can stand in his way. Until..
  • Sad Love by M.J. Fields

    Sad Love by M.J. Fields

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Love had not been something that has been easy for Tessa Ross and Lucas Links. In book three of MJ Fields Love series we follow Tessa and Luke through their college years...
  • New Love by M.J. Fields

    New Love by M.J. Fields

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In book two of the "Love" series, Tessa and Lucas have decided it best to be friends.But is it possible when they share a love as deep as theirs?Follow Luke as he tries to be the man he realized he wanted to become when he fell in love with Tessa.Follow Tessa as tries to stay strong for herself and Lucas through loss, life, and new love...
  • Defining Us by Karen Deen

    Defining Us by Karen Deen

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He's my brother's best friend.No one can know he visits my dreams each night.In the naughtiest of ways. But they are just fantasies.They'll never be anything else. Until that accidental kiss, changes everything.His eyes now roam my body.I can't ignore the heat he arouses in me.I'm just longing for his touch. But he's about to leave, and I need to stay...
  • Loving Violet by Terri Anne Browning

    Loving Violet by Terri Anne Browning

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “Even before you were born, we belonged to each other, Vi,” I reminded her, trying to fight the desperation to grab on to her and hold her, because I could feel her slipping away from me more and more with each beat of my heart. “You were in your mom’s belly, but I still felt you in my heart. It was as if there was this invisible cord connecting your heart to mine. I can’t see it, but I feel it...
  • Let Me Love by Michelle Lynn

    Let Me Love by Michelle Lynn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A chance encounter. An undeniable connection. An unimaginable twist of fate. Kailey’s life is crumbling. Her best friend and sister, Jen, is dying, leaving her young family devastated. With little hope of saving her, Kailey is forced to face a reality she never expected. Trey’s life is fun and carefree. He loves the girls, his drums, and his friends...
  • 68 Days And Counting by Nikki20038

    68 Days And Counting by Nikki20038

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ~Sequel to The Bad Boy And The Tomboy~Macy Anderson and Sam Cahill are together in Manchester, England living the new university life. Their relationship is striving as they meet new people and experience different things and strengthen their beautiful relationship. But then again there's soccer, the Cahill family and girls because where there's Sam Cahill there will also be many girls...
  • Ashes falling for the Sky by Nine Gorman, Mathieu Guibé

    Ashes falling for the Sky by Nine Gorman, Mathieu Guibé

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Il n'est qu'une pluie de cendres. Elle s'est noyée dans un ciel trop vaste. Lors de la soirée de pré-rentrée à l'université, Sky décidée à laisser ses démons derrière elle, jette son dévolu sur Ash. Prête à assumer cette aventure d'un soir, elle ignore les avertissements de sa colocataire et se lance dans le jeu de la séduction, mais perd lamentablement la partie...
  • Loving Kalvin by Siobhan Davis

    Loving Kalvin by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A friends-to-lovers second-chance romance from USA Today bestseller Siobhan Davis. Standalone with HEA and no cliffhanger. Lana I knew it would end in disaster, but I didn't listen to reason. I didn't care. Because I loved him so much. Kalvin Kennedy ruled my heart. Until he destroyed it. Shattered it so completely that I became someone else. Someone I loathed...
  • Just One Touch: Leo & Jasmine by Melanie Shawn

    Just One Touch: Leo & Jasmine by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stand-alone Crossroads romance, complete with HEA--and plenty of heat and heart along the way!Jasmine Bell's Monday was not going as planned. After a routine visit to her doctor ended with a prescription for prenatal vitamins, she went home to tell her fiancé the news--only to find him otherwise engaged...with a hot blonde on their kitchen table...
  • Catching Day by Twyla Turner

    Catching Day by Twyla Turner

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Reality Bites Day and Chase have reached a fork in the road that separates their lives and their relationship. But even an ocean can't break their bond. They continue to hurt each other as they move through adulthood. Chase as a rising pro-football star and Day as an accomplished cellist. They try to build separate lives with others...
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  • You're All I Want for Christmas by Karen Cimms

    You're All I Want for Christmas by Karen Cimms

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Billy crossed the hall into his bedroom where Kate was plugging in the last of the electric candles she’d set in each window.She flicked it on. “I guess that’s that.” His hand covered hers. “Do me a favor and don’t turn this one off. I want to know there’s a light burning in our bedroom window until I come home...
  • It Ended with the Truth by Lisa Suzanne

    It Ended with the Truth by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Brian Fox finally tells the truth, it costs him everything. His company. His friends. The girl he loves. He’s forced to start over, and it’s his brother who once again steps in. Working for a record label isn’t how he imagined his life when he owned a successful company, and life on the road only makes him long for everything the truth cost him...
  • In His Kiss by Christina Tetreault

    In His Kiss by Christina Tetreault

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Ella Bridge fell for Alfred Striker, she thought she’d found the one. But then, days before she left for France as part of a professor exchange program, Striker walked away. Now she’s back home in North Salem, determined to ignore him no matter how tempting she still finds him. Before Ella, Striker lived a carefree life, responsible for no one’s happiness but his own...
  • When Our Worlds Stand Still by Lindsey Iler, Pink Ink Design

    When Our Worlds Stand Still by Lindsey Iler, Pink Ink Design

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Time is said to heal all wounds. Kennedy Conrad embraces survival. Group therapy, friends, and dance are helping her find the person she was. Overcoming the darkest period of her past is getting easier every day. Still, the ache in her chest tells her something is missing. Him. The more precious something is, the harder you fight for it. Graham Black embraces change...
  • The World: According to Rachael by Layne Harper

    The World: According to Rachael by Layne Harper

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A heartbeat away from the President is where White House Chief of Staff Rachael Early spends almost every waking minute of every day. She’s sacrificed everything to be in this position including her chance at love, or so she thinks. But, if you ask her, all of her dreams have come true. Graham Jackson is a teacher and coach at the President’s son’s school...
  • In Your Honor by Heidi Hutchinson

    In Your Honor by Heidi Hutchinson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He was as wild and unpredictable as a prairie storm. She was trying to pretend like he wasn't everything she ever wanted. How long can a storm be in stasis before lightning strikes? Double Blind Study is taking charge of their future. Coming off of one of the most successful tours to date, they start their own label and decide to get back to what they love the most: the music...
  • MindF*ck by Danyell A. Wallace

    MindF*ck by Danyell A. Wallace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Clayton had it all: good looks, star soccer player, and the unlikeliest girl of his dreams. Life wasn't good. It was great. Until a family tragedy strikes and shatters Clayton's world as he knows it, along with his memory. As Clayton struggles to put the pieces of his life back together, his beautiful, brown-skinned guardian angel with the wavy hair and soulful eyes is with him the entire way...
  • Restraint by Mari Carr

    Restraint by Mari Carr

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Girlfriend…without benefits?Hometown hockey hero, Blake has life completely figured out. He’s footloose and fancy free with the world’s coolest job and an endless parade of puck bunnies ready to help him celebrate his victories...
  • Wheels of Steel: Book 2 by Pepper Pace

    Wheels of Steel: Book 2 by Pepper Pace

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In book 1 you were introduced to Robin and Jason; a talented young man with cerebral palsy and his introverted caregiver. Their dawning love transcended their racial and social difference. Now in book 2 Jason and Robin along with the other member of Wheels of Steel find themselves spiraling away from each other...
  • Sweet Forty-Two by Andrea Randall

    Sweet Forty-Two by Andrea Randall

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Regan Kane arrived in San Diego with nothing but a violin, his car and what feels like a lifetime of grief. Although he’s surrounded by friends and music, one delivery from the post office reminds him that the past is always just around the corner. When he befriends a local bartender, Regan wonders if he's finally ready to let go...
  • Unbound by Shey Stahl

    Unbound by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Hurting makes you react in ways you shouldn’t. Makes you lie and use others until the pain’s gone and what you suddenly feel is nothing but loneliness. The way it should have been in the beginning.” There’s one place Rawley Walker feels at home. On a stage, gripping a mic in a darkened bar...
  • Brutal Play by Alison Rhymes

    Brutal Play by Alison Rhymes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mistress. Whore. Lorelai has been called every name in the book. Except for the ones she’s always dreamed of. My love. Mine. Noah Anders is the only man to have ever owned her heart. But it’s her soul he wants. Theirs is a battle of wills, tempers, ego, friendship, and loyalty. He wants retribution. She just wants to survive...
  • Let Me Heal Your Heart by Lily Foster

    Let Me Heal Your Heart by Lily Foster

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    LET ME HEAL YOUR HEART Book Four in Lily Foster’s LET ME series First loves are not easily forgotten… Anna has endured more by the age of eighteen than most do in a lifetime. Unless you know her, you see only the beautiful, privileged, bright college freshman who seems to have it all. Few people know what she’s gone through or know who she really is...
  • Making the Rules by Ali Parker

    Making the Rules by Ali Parker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Never Again... After having his hand slapped and career almost ruined several years back for falling for a student, Dr. Kendal Tarrington is done with love. Especially with the idea of it being a younger woman. Dara Young is an accounting student at the top of her accounting class and is looking for additional mentorship from someone with a solid record. Dr...
  • Broken by Love by C.A. Harms

    Broken by Love by C.A. Harms

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kate thought she and Carson had finally reached level ground. They had moved in together and were preparing for the arrival of their baby. She never thought they would only be driven further apart by his withdrawn and distant behavior. Carson had always had his freedom, and for a moment, he thought he could still live that life. Only Kate needs more...
  • Can't Let Go by Michelle Lynn

    Can't Let Go by Michelle Lynn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dex is many things, a college senior, the bassist for The Invisibles, a son, a friend, everything but a boyfriend. Everybody knows him as the shallow guy who’s up for a good time anytime. People rarely take the time to see the loyal guy lying just beneath the happy-go-lucky façade. There are parts of Dex’s life he keeps hidden. Ones he believes no one would understand...
  • Reject Me by Jennifer Foor

    Reject Me by Jennifer Foor

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Peyton Hutchinson and Jamey Billings were an unlikely couple from the start. They'd been together for a while, half of it in secret, but she's ready to get serious and take things to the next level.  She moves in with Jamey, forcing him to label what they are to each other, and he's not pleased about it...
  • Tamed by K.A. Robinson

    Tamed by K.A. Robinson

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ***Book five of the Torn Series, but this novel can be read as a standalone*** Mistakes—my life has been full of them. Time and time again, I’ve tried to change, tried to make the right choices, but it doesn’t matter. I always screw up. I hoped that Adam would be different, that he wouldn’t be a mistake. Our relationship was supposed to be about sex and nothing more...
  • Score by Emma Louise

    Score by Emma Louise

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Once college sweethearts, Poppy and Keir were the all American couple. Until the big time came calling. Misunderstandings and miscommunications lead to broken hearts and broken trust. But fate throws them a second chance when their paths cross again. Now they have to decide if they are ready to take another try at forever, or if the past is better left behind them...
  • Secrets by Debbie Viggiano

    Secrets by Debbie Viggiano

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Janey Richardson thought she had it all – the perfect job, a drop-dead gorgeous boyfriend, a cutesy cottage love nest, and a socking great diamond on her left hand. But things aren’t always as they seem, as Janey is about to discover when an unexpected stranger turns up exposing a secret that shatters her world. There’s only one thing for it. She’s going to have to disappear...
  • Ryker by Harper Bentley

    Ryker by Harper Bentley

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ryker Powers was the biggest prick I'd ever met. He was also my biggest mistake. He'd taken what he wanted then left, and I detested him for it. Not that the jerk had cared to stick around long enough to know how I felt. Everyone thought he was a perfect gentleman with all his quiet intensity but I knew better. I knew he had a filthy mouth. That he liked things dirty...
  • She Laughs in Pink by Jessica Calla

    She Laughs in Pink by Jessica Calla

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four years after her twin is murdered, Juliet Anderson still struggles with guilt, her parents, and her relationships. Two things keep her from falling into a deep, dark place--dancing and her best friend, Ben. So when Ben decides to play football for New Jersey University, Juliet doesn't hesitate. She follows. Finally away from her past, there is nothing to stand in the way...
  • How to Fall in Love by Bella Jewel

    How to Fall in Love by Bella Jewel

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling author comes FOUR scorching standalone novels in one! FLAWED HEART I met him in college, and I fell in love. It was a beautiful love, pure and perfect. Max quickly became everything I could have ever wanted. He was the jock, the popular guy, and I was just Belle. But he made me so much more. He gave me everything I could have ever wanted in life...
  • Forever Love by Chelsea Landon, Megan Smith

    Forever Love by Chelsea Landon, Megan Smith

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For a limited time only, enjoy books one, Forever Dark, and two, Forever Light, in the Forever Love Series together. Forever changed by one night that leaves their lives, love, and sacrifices forever altered...
  • Playing for Hearts: The Complete Series by Debra Kayn

    Playing for Hearts: The Complete Series by Debra Kayn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There's something undeniably sexy about a man in uniform. No matter their sport, these strong, talented heroes know how to get your pulse racing: Wildly : Former Wimbledon champion Grayson Schyler discovers the gal he once knew as wild child Shauna Marino is still trouble: She makes his life sweeter one moment - and hell the next...
  • Never Over You by Ryleigh Andrews

    Never Over You by Ryleigh Andrews

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Strange how life deals the cards sometimes … Life was perfect for Mia Devereux. “You can always have me, Mia. I’m always yours. Forever, suga.” She had everything she always wanted. But maybe life wasn’t so perfect after all. One event threatens her happily ever after...
  • Let Me Go by Lily Foster

    Let Me Go by Lily Foster

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Home is wherever her heart is… Kasia Mazur has always walked a fine line between her two worlds—one where the modest, traditional values instilled by her hardworking, immigrant parents clash with the decadent lifestyles of those she spends her days with—the rich and the privileged of the elite schools she attends on scholarship. Kasia has always known who she is and has stayed true to herself...
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