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  • Dismount by Lucia Franco

    Dismount by Lucia Franco

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Adrianna and Kova let caution fly for love despite the odds. Each lesson learned formed a new scar for them to bear. And now that her father knows their secret, the damage left behind is irreparable. They both must pay for their actions.Torn apart, Adrianna is forced to face the last challenge of her gymnastics career alone...
  • Sensational by Janet Nissenson

    Sensational by Janet Nissenson

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THEY SAY YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR FIRST LOVE… Lauren McKinnon has always prided herself on never backing down from a challenge, living life to its fullest, and refusing to be ruled by her emotions. She is the quintessential wild child who became a bold, fearless woman, she doesn’t believe in regrets or second chances, and thinks that true love only happens in fairy tales...
  • Triple Dare by C.M. Owens

    Triple Dare by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    RUBY KROSS Who is Corbin Sterling to me? That's what people always want to know. He was my first friend. He was the love of my life. And he was my only heartbreak. The problem is that I love the big jerk, and I've refused to give up our friendship, even if it does mean it'll eventually ruin me. So, to answer the question... Corbin Fucking Sterling is the Bane of my existence; that's what he is...
  • Shattered by Janet Nissenson

    Shattered by Janet Nissenson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The GhostAngela Del Carlo has been living half a life, ever since he walked out on her, shattering her entire existence and leaving her to cope with picking up the fragments. Nothing seems to matter much anymore, and her life is a drab existence of work, run, repeat. She’s forgotten how to laugh, how to love, and even how to live. Most days she’s little more than a ghost...
  • Clean Break by Lisa Suzanne

    Clean Break by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After two brothers shatter her world, Reese Brady escapes to her old life. She occupies herself with work and friends in an attempt to find comfort after her catastrophic summer. When Reese receives a desperate call from someone she thought she’d never hear from again, she’s forced to confront the love she could’ve had...
  • A Little Like Destiny by Lisa Suzanne

    A Little Like Destiny by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Reserved and responsible Reese Brady refuses to miss her chance with bad boy rock star Mark Ashton. After one steamy night, she's convinced the emotional connection they shared was just a figment of her imagination. After all, he’s a womanizer whose affairs are highly publicized. Reese strives to leave that night behind her after a handsome business mogul asks her to dinner...
  • Undeniable Love by Kelly Elliott

    Undeniable Love by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Tristan Williams thought the path of his life was on the right journey. He had a successful career, good looks, and a carefree lifestyle. One conversation changed Tristan’s way of thinking forever as his father presented him with a bottle, representing his journey and forcing unwanted thoughts of a lasting relationship to the surface...
  • Commitment: A Second Chance Romance by T.K. Leigh

    Commitment: A Second Chance Romance by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She's my sister's best friend.She thinks I've never noticed her.She couldn't be more wrong.Now I just need to prove it to her...before she walks down the aisle. Brooklyn Tanner and Andrew Brinks have a long history...one she wants nothing more than to forget. Considering he's her best friend's brother and single father to two amazing girls who mean the world to her, it's almost impossible...
  • Bonus Kisses by Freya Barker

    Bonus Kisses by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Free-spirited black sheep, Taz Boran, has worked tirelessly as a nurse bringing efficient medical care to Africa for the past eight years. But when her sister Nicky is told she doesn't have long to live, she immediately flies home to small-town Eminence, Missouri. Unfortunately, taking care of Nicky means being around her husband, Rafe; the one man Taz could never forget...
  • The Ivy Years Collection by Sarina Bowen

    The Ivy Years Collection by Sarina Bowen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Life at the elite Harkness College is brought to you in four tales, each one sexier and more heartbreaking than the last. Contains: hockey hotties, snarky T-shirts, a slow-burn love affair, a liar (with reasons,) a virgin (with reasons,) and one adorkable basketball player.   Book 1: The Year We Fell DownThe sport she loves is out of reach. The boy she loves has someone else...
  • Hard Limit by Brenda Rothert, Kat Mizera

    Hard Limit by Brenda Rothert, Kat Mizera

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    St. Louis Mavericks star defender Lars Jansson is dead set against relationships. A new love makes him wonder if maybe he can change, but first, he must confront the truth about who he is.LarsOn the ice, I’m unstoppable. If anyone is in my way, it’s simple—I move them. Hockey is my life, and I don’t have the patience for relationships spanning more than one night...
  • Frayed by Pamela Ann

    Frayed by Pamela Ann

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Trista Stevens Things went quickly sour with the already married Harry when she found out their affair had a bigger repercussion. Heartbroken, she had to do what was best for everyone. Just as planned, she and Lindsey went to visit Emma in Greece. Trista thought this vacation was going to be a way for her to heal and come to terms with of the gargantuan mistakes she’s made in the past...
  • Sail by M. Mabie

    Sail by M. Mabie

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    This isn’t just a two-year long one-night stand. It’s my life. This is my life. Our life. It isn’t just some careless affair. I’ve made the worst decisions a woman could, but I’ll earn my second chance. She can try keeping all the guilt for herself, but I’m just as much to blame. Loving Casey wasn’t my biggest mistake. Fighting it for so long was. I’ll show her how fearless our love makes me...
  • Open Wheel by Shey Stahl

    Open Wheel by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How do you choose? How do you keep from hurting the ones you love when you know your heart belongs with both of them? Seven years ago Arie Riley married Easton Levi, current heart-throb of the NASCAR Cup series. She made a commitment to him. She gave her heart and soul to another. Her love is heavy. Consuming. And it’s inherently tied to two people. Arie thought she had made her mind up...
  • Love Notes: A continuance of the Love, Wrapped, and Burning Souls series by M.J. Fields

    Love Notes: A continuance of the Love, Wrapped, and Burning Souls series by M.J. Fields

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For the readers of the Love series, Wrapped series, the Burning Souls series and Love you Anyways. A continuation of Lucas and Tessa's story, in Lucas Links POV. In Love Notes, Lucas and Tessa's rekindled love has never been stronger. Although she has never wanted to revisit the past it weighs on Lucas's heart. Lucas wants Tessa to know everything, yet burdening her further is not an option...
  • Crazy Baby by A.D. Justice, Lisa Hollett

    Crazy Baby by A.D. Justice, Lisa Hollett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Luke Woods, with his indecisiveness and impulsive reactions, is his own worst enemy. Costly mistakes have made him second-guess his every decision, past and present. With his sights finally set on his goal, his innate drive takes over and he pursues it with a new fervor...
  • Heartthrob by Ahren Sanders

    Heartthrob by Ahren Sanders

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Find out what happens when Miami's hottest doctor takes on the challenge of his life.  To most people I've always been known as the smart one.The level headed, easy-going, laid back Bennett brother. Steady as a rock ...unshakable.My future was carved out. All I had to do was stay focused.That all changed the night I met Claire Dixon.Beautiful, crazy, wild--opposite of me in every way...
  • Changing Spaces by Annie Dyer

    Changing Spaces by Annie Dyer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She said one night. He said more. She should’ve known better than to argue with a lawyer. Ava Callaghan was never going to be just one night. She was going to be more, much more. She just didn’t know it yet. Hotshot lawyer Elijah Ward can’t be interested in his friends’ and colleagues’ little sister...
  • Nobody Else by Jaxson Kidman

    Nobody Else by Jaxson Kidman

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's the past and the future. They haven't met.  They've collided. And I'm in the middle, expected to make a decision. * The perfect life isn't really all that perfect.  The handsome man holding my hand finally allows us to open our pasts to one other. His secrets hurt.  My love for someone else hurts even more. * Brice waits for me, just the way he's always done...
  • 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...
  • Second Chances by Delaney Diamond

    Second Chances by Delaney Diamond

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Renaldo da Silva’s near-perfect life in Brazil comes to a halt when he finds out about his wife’s betrayal. Now he doesn’t want to have anything to do with her. But because he needs her help finalizing the biggest deal of his career, he’s forced to make her a multi-million dollar offer and delay their divorce. Sabrina da Silva can’t forgive herself after a reckless night destroys her marriage...
  • Closer by Mary Elizabeth

    Closer by Mary Elizabeth

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Gabriella Mason is damaged. Teller Reddy is wrecked. Misery loves company, and that’s exactly what Ella gets the afternoon her path crosses with Teller’s: the misunderstood premed student who instantly becomes her lifeline when she moves to Los Angeles, an attempt at escaping her heartbreaking past. In the beginning, Lonely and Defensive complete each other...
  • Where the Night Ends by Melissa Toppen, Silla Webb

    Where the Night Ends by Melissa Toppen, Silla Webb

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It only takes one night—one moment, one small snippet of time—to change everything. At sixteen-years-old, Sebastian Baxter taught me that. He taught me a lot of things. He never had to work for my heart. In some unexplainable way I think it had always belonged to him anyway...
  • The Question by Zena Wynn

    The Question by Zena Wynn

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What would you do for a friend? What sacrifice would you willingly make? This is the issue facing Gail Henderson when her best friend, Crystal Al Jabbar, asks her to be a surrogate for her and her husband Rashid, using Gail's own egg. Complicating the decision is Gail's recent loss of her husband and toddler son in a fatal car accident, two years earlier...
  • Swing For The Fences by Kimberly Readnour, Daqri Combs

    Swing For The Fences by Kimberly Readnour, Daqri Combs

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Meet bad boy shortstop, Jax Carrigan... Baseball and fast women are my life. What can I say? I’m good-looking and in the best shape of my career. Being a National League MVP contender, I’m even a great athlete. There’s only one thing I’m missing—Jocelyn Kennedy. Ten years have passed since the night we broke each other's hearts...
  • Something Worth Saving by Mayra Statham

    Something Worth Saving by Mayra Statham

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    They had it all. Or so they thought. A fairytale kind of romance that started with a girl and a boy falling head over heels in love. This isn’t that part of the story. This is what happens after the happily ever after. After careers blossom, babies, stretch marks, and carpools. Nadia is lost. As much as she loves her life, she hardly recognizes the reflection in the mirror...
  • Derailed by Kacey Shea

    Derailed by Kacey Shea

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sean Willis knows the difference between right and wrong. Sure, the bass player of Three Ugly Guys has made his share of mistakes, but when push comes to shove, Sean always chooses the high road. Now, even when things are unraveling with the band, he's the voice of reason.Until Jess.She's the only thing he's ever wanted and couldn't have...
  • Restored Dreams by L.B. Dunbar

    Restored Dreams by L.B. Dunbar

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    More romance for the over forty. Brut Paige needs a life break. As caretaker to his brother, his business, and his son, he's used to being the man to get things done. Yet, along the way, he's forgotten how to have fun. Lily Warren deserves a vacation. She's worked hard to establish her bakery, a lifelong dream. She's proud of her accomplishments. But, she knows there's something missing...
  • Consume by Jessica Prince

    Consume by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Killian Everett is condescending, egotistical, and a complete jerk. When I started as the new assistant for the famous rock band Civil Corruption, I thought I’d hit the career jackpot... but I was wrong. With his attitude, bad behavior, and stupid good looks, Killian has made my life a living hell since my very first day. We may fight constantly, but that doesn’t make me want him any less...
  • Ready for You by J.L. Berg

    Ready for You by J.L. Berg

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A second chance at first love. Eight years ago, Garrett Finnegan’s world shattered the day Mia vanished from his life. He’s been struggling to pick up the pieces ever since. Haunted by memories and ghosts of the past, he chooses a solitary existence rather than risk his heart again...
  • Forever Red by Carina Adams

    Forever Red by Carina Adams

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Not afraid to speak his mind or make a scene, Nathaniel Kelly has made a name for himself as country music’s ultimate bad boy. Covered in tattoos, singing songs about drugs, drinking and heartache, Nate acts more like an out of control rock star than the grandson of one of the genres most influential and legendary stars. Every man wants to be him...
  • Underestimated Box Set by Jettie Woodruff

    Underestimated Box Set by Jettie Woodruff

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Underestimated Morgan starts her life in a bad situation, she doesn't really know what she wants out of life. She's never had anyone to look up to or help guide her in the right direction. She had it rough and never dreamed that it could get worse. However, she finds that it can and it does...
  • You're Mine Tonight by Lucia Franco

    You're Mine Tonight by Lucia Franco

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m a lover and a player, a Hollywood socialite with a reputation I strive to live up to. But when I meet Brody, my soul ignites with an ombré of colors. The tortured artist is a dangerous addiction, and the perfect companion to my party girl ways.Then I meet River at an audition to play his co-star. He’s a slow burn that soothes my reckless heart...
  • On the DL by Laramie Briscoe

    On the DL by Laramie Briscoe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A second-chance romance as scorching hot as a baseball diamond in August. Slater "Savage" Harlow Winning the MVP award for the Birmingham Bandits last year was the highlight of my baseball career. It was the culmination of childhood dreams, calculated adult decisions, sacrifice, and a hell of a lot of focus. Tearing my ACL in spring training? Not what I expected at all...
  • In the Ring: A Dario Caivano Novel by Perri Forrest

    In the Ring: A Dario Caivano Novel by Perri Forrest

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “In the Ring” introduces Dario “DC” Caivano, heavyweight champion, who is also a man with a heavy heart. It isn’t without reason, however. As a teenager, Dario witnessed the murder of someone that he loved like a brother, and it took a lot out of him. It hardened him and left little to trust...
  • Yesterday Is Ours by H.J. Bellus

    Yesterday Is Ours by H.J. Bellus

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love struck me at a young age. Bertie Cooper owned my heart from the second grade right up until the moment I ruined everything. I didn't deserve her, not after what I did, so I lied and pushed her away. I took the coward's way out and I broke her heart. Little did I know, I sentenced the rest of my days to an internal prison of hell...
  • Lithium Tides: A Lithium Springs Novel by Carmel Rhodes

    Lithium Tides: A Lithium Springs Novel by Carmel Rhodes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Whose bed is this? That was Kensie’s first thought as she peeled her eyes open to find herself in an unfamiliar room. She noted the crumpled red dress, tiny black thong, and Louboutin heels in the corner. Whose arms are these? That was her second thought as the tattooed arms engulfing her tightened their grip. Her phone buzzed on the nightstand...
  • Ten Reasons to Stay ( (The Risky Hearts Duet) Book 1) by Candace Knoebel

    Ten Reasons to Stay ( (The Risky Hearts Duet) Book 1) by Candace Knoebel

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One day a week—Thursdays—my husband and I could do whatever or whomever we pleased. Protection was non-negotiable. And no matter what, we had to be home by midnight. Jack was the one who wanted an open marriage, but we were supposed to keep things simple. No strings. No commitments. It seemed so easy… until it wasn’t...
  • Rewrite by Stephanie Rose

    Rewrite by Stephanie Rose

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Once upon a time, a girl loved a boy and he loved her back. They lived happily ever after. But our story was never that simple. I loved Josh with all I had, right until the day he left. Now, all these years later, he was back—and wanting me the way I’d always longed for him. Except now, I belonged to someone else. Someone who never left me the way Josh had. I figured that was the end of our story...
  • 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...
  • Ditching the Dream by Isabelle Peterson

    Ditching the Dream by Isabelle Peterson

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Feeling dead in her marriage, Elizabeth Fairchild ditches the dream of her seemingly perfect life with her husband in search of who she really is. She went from her parents' house to her husband's home and never really learned to stand on her own two feet. She decides to leave her comfortable life in Napa Valley in search of her inner fire in New York City...
  • 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...
  • Shattered By Love by C.A. Harms

    Shattered By Love by C.A. Harms

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He was the one. The man she wanted with all her heart. But it took years before Bree realized she deserved more then what Max was willing to give. Max, was cocky and arrogant… Too strong-headed to admit that he felt more for Bree than just lust. Then it happened… One devastating night, and it shook Max to his very core. That’s when he began to see life in whole new way...
  • Ruined: A She Who Dares Standalone Novel by L.P. Lovell, Ellen Widom

    Ruined: A She Who Dares Standalone Novel by L.P. Lovell, Ellen Widom

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ruined is book four in the She Who Dares series, but can be read as a standalone. Hugo I like to fuck. A lot. Anywhere, anyway, as long as I’m shooting my load in or on some pretty young thing I’m good. In fact, scrap that, they don’t even have to be pretty. What can I say? I’m an equal opportunities kind of guy...
  • 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...
  • Replace Me by Jennifer Foor

    Replace Me by Jennifer Foor

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Replace Me is book 2 in the ongoing KIN series. To get the best enjoyment, and be able to follow the storyline and characters, please read book 1, Repair Me, prior to reading this book. Lacey Travis has wanted Shayne Hutchinson since she was 15, when they first met at the beach and she was just a blip on his radar. As adults, they finally begin dating...
  • It's Not Over by Kaylee Ryan, Lacey Black

    It's Not Over by Kaylee Ryan, Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Gwen Lately, life definitely isn't how I envisioned it. I had it all. The house, the job, the husband. Until one day, I didn't. I don't know when exactly things started to change between us, only that it did, and in a big way. So much so, I found myself standing before a judge and signing off on the end of my marriage. To the only man I've ever loved...
  • Inhibitions by Kimberly Bracco

    Inhibitions by Kimberly Bracco

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the last six months, Ashley’s life has been one disappointment after another. She walked in on her boyfriend with another woman, leaving her needing a new place to live and a mountain of debt. As if that wasn’t enough, her ex convinces her that his infidelity is her fault for being unadventurous in bed...
  • Chasing Imperfection by Pamela Ann

    Chasing Imperfection by Pamela Ann

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    After the demise of their relationship, Blake and Sienna tried to live their own lives—the way they see fit—to recover from their break-up. Blake Knightly was beyond livid when Sienna left him. Bitter and bruised, he immediately went back to his playboy lifestyle and sought the only cure he knew how...
  • A Gentleman for Christmas by Prescott Lane

    A Gentleman for Christmas by Prescott Lane

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “A holiday romance that is perfect for the season." - USA Today A breakup before Christmas is the worst.  Especially when I was thinking THIS was going to be the year I get a ring. What’s a girl to do? Get to your best girlfriend, drink wine, eat ice cream, and do some good old-fashioned man bashing for starters...
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