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  • Losin Control by Ladii Nesha

    Losin Control by Ladii Nesha

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Deemed Detroit's bad boy, Czar is a man of many layers. To the world he’s a lyrical genius with a sharp tongue and tough exterior, but behind closed doors, he battles with dark demons from his past while dodging industry drama, scandals and lies.Marley is walking through life barely existing. Her soul is shattered by tragedy leaving her with a heavy heart and broken spirit...
  • In Love with Ezra by Love Belvin

    In Love with Ezra by Love Belvin

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Disclaimer: This series is for mature audiences only. There are three installments to the “Love Unaccounted” series. This installment is a full-length novel that contains profanity, erotica, acts of bondage, domination, and violence. It ends on a cliffhanger. If you do not like dark, racy romance between your pages this book is not for you. They made covenant. They’re married...
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    alpha-mc  family  poc-mc  adult  age-gap  bdsm  book  contemporary
  • Touch Me by Alexandria House

    Touch Me by Alexandria House

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Jovani Higgs shows up as the latest artist in residence at Romey University, Professor Sharla London can’t believe his resemblance to the gorgeous fantasy man she’s been dreaming about. She wants to write it off as her mind playing tricks, but the mysterious artist seems just as drawn to her...
  • Pretty It Up: The Donovans by Cee Bowerman

    Pretty It Up: The Donovans by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    DescriptionSometimes love just isn’t enough, or is it?Lana Gold, one of the Donovan triplets, found her one true love in college but lost him when the life he’d dreamed of became reality. Being an outsider looking in and so far away from her family and hometown took its toll on Lana and her marriage until she’d finally had enough and left it all behind...
  • Legally Unbounded by Blue Saffire

    Legally Unbounded by Blue Saffire

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Legally Bound 5.5 Legally Unbound Final installment in the award-winning, best-selling Series Legally Bound 5.5 The bomb has gone off and I am left split in two. Only now, one part of me will not survive. It’s the part that never should have been. I’m a man of instincts and that’s all I trust now. Every decision I make is because my instincts are telling me to. Time is not on my side...
  • Beneath the Secrets by Shandi Boyes

    Beneath the Secrets by Shandi Boyes

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens when the only girl you’ve ever lusted comes crashing back into the picture? Nothing. Don’t construe my lack of interest the wrong way. The last time I saw Ava, she was no doubt attractive...
  • Legally Bound 3: His Law by Blue Saffire

    Legally Bound 3: His Law by Blue Saffire

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Legally Bound 3 His Law Book 3 in Series Nathaniel Briggs has met his match in every way. When it comes to the bedroom Pamela Kemble is a pint size version of himself. She is determined to play by her own rules, but Pam is just going to have to learn that when it comes to Nate she is not always going to be on top. He has his own secrets, but she will just have to learn to trust him...
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    alpha-mc  family  poc-mc  secrets  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Broken by Tia Sirrah

    Broken by Tia Sirrah

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Love is dysfunctional. Love is messy. Love is complicated. Love is desperate. My two rules were simple enough: Protect your heart and your sanity at all costs. Never be the one to say “I love you” first. Privileged. Ruthless. Apathetic. Billionaire heir. Business mogul. Womanizer. Sex on a stick. Conner Braithwaite turned my rules to ashes...
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    alpha-mc  family  poc-mc  secrets  abuse  adult  betrayal  billionaire
  • Hope Town Books 1-3 by Harper Sloan

    Hope Town Books 1-3 by Harper Sloan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    For the first time ever, the Hope Town books are being bundled! Join us for the first three books in the series! Complete with all new bonus content! You fell in love with them as children in the Corps Security Series, but now, watch them fall in love with a spin-off series of their own, the Hope Town Series...
  • First Love by Tiya Rayne

    First Love by Tiya Rayne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Eight years ago, Zora Henderson ran away from the man she loved and the family that forced her to have an abortion. Tragedy brings her back home again. Can she face the family and the town that betrayed her? And what of the man that she left behind? Zora also has a secret, one that may have her on the run again...
  • Beneath the Sheets by Shandi Boyes

    Beneath the Sheets by Shandi Boyes

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One Small Decision: One Epic Result. Five years ago, I made a mistake. If I’d known my hasty decision was going to have the consequences it did, I would have evaluated it with more diligence. I would have taken the time to properly assess the repercussions of my actions...
  • California Sunsets by Bella Andre, Nicky Arden

    California Sunsets by Bella Andre, Nicky Arden

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Meet the Davenport family! Six brothers and sisters who call picturesque Carmel-by-the-Sea home. Successful, brilliant, and passionate, the only thing they all still need is the perfect partner in love and life. Erin Davenport always imagined she’d end up with a quiet man. Someone like her. Then she met Jay Malone. He’s the loudest, pushiest, most sales-oriented man she’s ever met...
  • Men of Inked Christmas by Chelle Bliss

    Men of Inked Christmas by Chelle Bliss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Men of Inked Christmas novella is approximately 7,500 words and should be read after Honor Me. It features the entire Gallo family, but is told through Mike & Mia's point of view. 
It was originally released in the back of Wicked Impulse, but now is available as a separate eBook...
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    alpha-mc  family  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  holidays  romance
  • Touch of Heaven by Maureen Smith

    Touch of Heaven by Maureen Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Warrick Mayne has spent twelve years blaming Raina St. James for ruining his sister's life. Now the self-made millionaire has the perfect opportunity for payback--knocking down Raina's luxury day spa to build an office complex. But his plan has met a hitch, in the delectable form of Raina herself...
  • The Pursuit of Happiness by D.A. Young

    The Pursuit of Happiness by D.A. Young

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    More than friends, less than lovers was the best way to describe Darby Sullivan and Avery Monroe's relationship. Sparks flew from the moment they met, but timing and circumstances kept them apart. Darby is known for being the charmingly wild and reckless Sullivan, with a love 'em and leave 'em attitude...
  • Brothers Black 4: Braxton the Charmer  (Brothers Black Series) by Blue Saffire

    Brothers Black 4: Braxton the Charmer (Brothers Black Series) by Blue Saffire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Award winning Author Blue Saffire presents Brothers Black 4: Braxton The Protector Book 4 in the Brothers Black Series I'll set fire to the motherf**king wind for her. That will never change. It's why I let her take me through the ringer. I understand her. I know what she needs. It's just at some point…she's going to need to figure out what she needs more. To hide or to be who we really are...
  • All of Me by Tiffany Patterson

    All of Me by Tiffany Patterson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    LenaWriter’s block has me in a chokehold.My public meltdown and toxic relationship didn’t help matters. But I still owe my ex and his record label an album, and I will deliver. I’m nothing if not professional.Attending my former publicist’s wedding far from LA was just the break I needed to get my creative juices flowing again.Then I saw him...
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    alpha-mc  family  poc-mc  adult  betrayal  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Unsuitable Men by Nia Forrester

    Unsuitable Men by Nia Forrester

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Beautiful, accomplished and a little uptight, Tracy Emerson thinks she has it all figured out, particularly when it comes to the kind of man she wants to end up with. And she knows for sure that Brendan Cole is not The One. First of all, he works in the music business, with rappers no less! His lifestyle is wholly unsuitable for a long-term partner, and not at all compatible with hers...
  • Second Chances by D. A. Young

    Second Chances by D. A. Young

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What would you do if you were given a second chance at love? Do you throw caution to the wind and follow your heart, or do you build an unbreakable fortress around your heart that only a special kind of man can penetrate? Meet Ella Kemp and Wyatt Easton. Heartbroken over a devastating loss, Ella is fairly certain that personal happiness just isn’t in her future...
  • One Special Moment by Brenda Jackson

    One Special Moment by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    To help her brother's struggling cosmetics company, Virginia schoolteacher Colby Wingate arrives in Los Angeles for one last, desperate gamble -- to have superstar actor Sterling Hamilton endorse her brother's new perfume...
  • Courting Justice by Brenda Jackson

    Courting Justice by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Winning a high-profile case has given a huge boost to New York attorney DeAngelo Di Meglio's career—and his love life. Too bad fame hasn't helped him win the woman he's been infatuated with for years. Tired of waiting and wondering, Angelo books a trip to the singles-only Bahamas resort where Peyton Mahoney is celebrating her thirtieth birthday...
  • Ocean by Jo Raven

    Ocean by Jo Raven

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Meet OCEAN, the newest of the Damage Control Boys, set in the world of the bestselling series Inked Brotherhood. *** Grab it at the low release promo price - price goes up next week!! *** This is New Adult Contemporary Romance. I thought I was a normal kid once. Do normal kids have to beg door to door for food? Not sure. It wasn’t always that bad, I guess—and then it was. Really fucking bad...
  • Luca by Grey Huffington

    Luca by Grey Huffington

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s an angel. And she doesn’t mind dancing with a demon. That’s why I’d move mountains, dry seas, and hydrate the desert if it made her happy. She brought goodness to the world. It was only right that I made it hers, along with the two tiny beauties that shared her hazel eyes and perfect smile. For them, I’d do whatever. For them, I’d become whoever. He’s a protector...
  • Ink Exposed by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Ink Exposed by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Montgomery Ink series continues with the brother that deserves a second chance, and the woman who has always loved him. Alex Montgomery lost his first love and then proceeded to leave himself in the bottle. Only he and his ex-wife truly know why he fell so hard and so fast down a path he never thought he’d take...
  • All He Desires by Brenda Jackson

    All He Desires by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Voluptuous Woman More to Hold. More to Love. Bare Essentials Voluptuous Orlando Judge Dominique Kincaid finds lust at first sight in the form of a handsome morning jogger who fuels her fantasies. But when he steps into her courtroom as a hotshot attorney, she finds it hard to remain the Honorable Judge Kincaid...
  • Drawing Me In by Tracey Alvarez, Book Cover by Design

    Drawing Me In by Tracey Alvarez, Book Cover by Design

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Passion won’t hold them together when past fears threaten to tear them apart… She’s drawn by his wild spirit… Bree Findlow’s ordered world slides into chaos when the man who broke her heart arrives back in their small New Zealand home-town. But with years of avoidance tactics under her belt, she figures ignoring the sexy-as-sin artist whose touch colors her red hot, is a practical solution...
  • Kings Catch by Iesha Bree, Selena Tosato

    Kings Catch by Iesha Bree, Selena Tosato

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Darian King enjoys the glamorous fruits of his success until unexpected changes alter his carefree bachelor lifestyle. Needing help to navigate uncharted waters, he leans on his lifelong friend, Eva Chavez. Though Eva is distracted by turbulence in her relationship, she agrees to support Darian during this transition...
  • Captivated by Nicole Edwards

    Captivated by Nicole Edwards

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Lucie Werner’s life has never followed the path she envisioned for herself and five years ago, it veered off course yet again. This time after one erotic night of passion with the man she’d been captivated by since the first day she met him...
  • Indiscreet by Nicole French

    Indiscreet by Nicole French

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sexiest man alive. Playboy movie star. Reckless actor. Will Baker, better known as “Fitz,” is back, and the world has questions...
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    alpha-mc  poc-mc  secrets  adult  age-gap  angst  book  celebrity
  • You Make Me Better by AshleyNicole

    You Make Me Better by AshleyNicole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Interior Designer Kallie Swanson just landed the biggest job of her career. Things are definitely looking up. She has her own business. She has the love and support of her family and friends. There’s no man in her life and hasn’t been for months, but that’s a non-issue. All that matters, is that her business is moving in the right direction. She is on cloud nine...
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    alpha-mc  family  poc-mc  secrets  adult  betrayal  black-mc  book
  • Winner Takes All: A Kismet Cove & Baxter Park Collaboration by D. A. Young

    Winner Takes All: A Kismet Cove & Baxter Park Collaboration by D. A. Young

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Divina Langley-Kemp is fed up with the pompous, overbearing men in her life. From her father to her ex-husband, she’s beyond over their arrogance and high-handedness. All she wants is peace and quiet to live her life on her own terms. Instead, she gets Grant Easton, a drop-dead gorgeous blast from the past who’s more trouble than her ex-husband and father combined...
  • Mine Tonight by Christina C. Jones

    Mine Tonight by Christina C. Jones

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A little unrequited love, a little deceit, a little anonymous encounter, and a little bit of unforgettable chemistry. This is three sexy short stories, about three women, with a focus on how one night of mind-blowing intimacy can change it all. If you’re looking for a sweet, tender love story… this ain’t it...
  • Defeat by Evelyn Sola

    Defeat by Evelyn Sola

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A self-proclaimed bachelor, content on his own. A runaway bride, searching for her freedom.They may seem like they’ve got nothing in common, but the tiniest sparks make the biggest flames.Delaney Lewis is desperate for her freedom. From her controlling mother and the man she left standing at the altar...
  • Toby the Protector by Blue Saffire

    Toby the Protector by Blue Saffire

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Award winning Author Blue Saffire presents Brothers Black 3: Toby The Protector Book 3 in the Brothers Black Series I’ve wanted her from the first time I saw her. How was I supposed to know I couldn’t have her? She was made for me. I was made for her. We’ve tried to avoid each other, we’ve tried to be apart. It almost killed us. I’ve loved him since before I met him...
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    alpha-mc  family  poc-mc  secrets  adult  betrayal  book  contemporary
  • Irresistible You by Francis Ray

    Irresistible You by Francis Ray

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Pierce Grayson is a marked man: if his mother, Ruth, has her way, his carefree single days will soon be over. But Pierce isn't going down without a fight. He's ready to take action against his mama's matchmaking…but what he's completely unprepared for is the feeling that hits him when he meets Broadway actress Sabra Raineau. She's in Santa Fe helping Ruth with a production at the University...
  • Legally Bound 2: Against The Law Book 2 by Blue Saffire

    Legally Bound 2: Against The Law Book 2 by Blue Saffire

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Legally Bound 2 Against The Law Book 2 in Series Marcus Mariettie never should have had a right to love her but it didn't stop him from falling hard. And now everything he has could be destroyed because of that love. All he wants is his family safe, but knowing what he does he’s not so sure he doesn't stand to lose it all. Rita Briggs never wanted to hurt anyone...
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    alpha-mc  family  poc-mc  secrets  adult  betrayal  book  contemporary
  • Ashes to Ink by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Ashes to Ink by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Carrie Ann Ryan comes a new story in her Montgomery Ink series… Back in Denver, Abby lost everything she ever loved, except for her daughter, the one memory she has left of the man she loved and lost. Now, she’s moved next to the Montgomerys in Colorado Springs, leaving her past behind to start her new life. One step at a time...
  • The Manny by Piper Rayne

    The Manny by Piper Rayne

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She needed a nanny. I needed a lead actress. Somehow I became The Manny.  Secrets and lies are a killer way to start any partnership--especially a horizontal one. Now, I'm a glass half full kinda of guy, so, after the 'you're fired' speech was directed at me, I figure now's the time to be the screenwriter I came to sunny California to be...
  • Redneck Romeo by Xavier Neal

    Redneck Romeo by Xavier Neal

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A small town man. A big city woman. A star-crossed love affair that begins in paradise... What starts as five days of fun in the sun leads to two people traveling down an emotional dirt road. Down a highway paved with good intentions but full of unpredicted roadblocks...
  • Mail Order Groom by A.N. Boyden

    Mail Order Groom by A.N. Boyden

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nina O'Neil is a successful physical therapist looking to settle down, but without all the hoopla and disappointment that dating in the modern age brings. Despite the stern warnings she received from her family and friends, Nina signs up for a mail-order groom service in hopes of finding true love.It didn't take much for Nina to fall for Zane Doran, an accomplished hedge fund manager...
  • Suddenly Together by J a Low

    Suddenly Together by J a Low

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    SHE WAS EVERYTHING I ALWAYS WANTED I’m Christian Taylor, world famous guitarist of Dirty Texas. I’m a certified rock god, I have a reputation, tattoos and a body made for sin. One look from me and I’ll melt your panties. There isn’t a woman out there who has ever said no to me, except Vanessa Roberts, the one woman I want above all and can’t have...
  • Forever by Blue Saffire

    Forever by Blue Saffire

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ward winning Author Blue Saffire presentsForever: Brick Lost Souls MC Book 1 in Lost Souls SeriesI’m so much more than meets the eye. One world sees me as a successful business man. Owen Mason, an upstanding pillar of the community. My brothers back home know the real me. Brick, a member of the Lost Souls MC. One of the last people you want to see come through your door...
  • Legally Bound by Blue Saffire

    Legally Bound by Blue Saffire

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Legally Bound I Bobby Mariette is a successful lawyer with the world at his fingertips, but he wants one thing and one thing only! Her, Paige Kemble, the attractive brilliant lawyer in his father’s firm. Paige is the one thing Bobby never thought he would have so when opportunity knocks Bobby Pounces...
  • Brie Pleases Her New Master by Red Phoenix

    Brie Pleases Her New Master by Red Phoenix

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Find out what happens after the elevator doors close… Brie and her new Master are now free to explore life as a D/s couple. Although Brie graduated from the Submissive Training Center top of her class, she soon finds she still has a lot to learn. A rival Dom cannot accept her choice of Master and will not let her go without a fight...
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    alpha-mc  family  poc-mc  adult  age-gap  book  contemporary  epic
  • The Road Leads Back by Marci Bolden

    The Road Leads Back by Marci Bolden

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kara Martinson and Harry Canton weren’t exactly high school sweethearts, but they did share one night neither will ever forget. Twenty-seven years later, Harry surprises Kara at an art gallery opening and discovers he left her with more than just memories when he went away to college...
  • Yours Actually by Nina Levine

    Yours Actually by Nina Levine

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The playboy and the girl next door.Best friends since forever.This was only supposed to be a wedding season as each other’s plus-one, nothing more.But Callan Black has his hands on me, his eyes on me, and has suddenly become very possessive of me.Callan is the guy I’ve crushed on since I was a teen.It’s totally unrequited.He’s got a type and I’m not it...
  • Down to My Soul by Kennedy Ryan

    Down to My Soul by Kennedy Ryan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ***This is Book 2 of the Soul Series. You MUST read Book 1, My Soul to Keep, first.*** RHYSON She doesn't wear my ring. We never stood before a preacher. The only vows exchanged were between our bodies; between our souls. But she was mine and I was hers until I ruined it. I have to believe that every day, every step, every breath brings me closer to making things right...
  • Beast: Part Two by Tiya Rayne

    Beast: Part Two by Tiya Rayne

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It All Comes Down To This.All enemies have been revealed. Now Priest and the guys face off with their greatest opponent yet. With the Church out to get them, their families depending on them, and a new assailant on their tails, they will have to work together in order to come out alive.As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, the guys must navigate a web of deception and heartbreak...
  • Undeniable by Delaney Diamond

    Undeniable by Delaney Diamond

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They can’t stand each other…or can they?For years, hard work and perseverance have been the tenets by which Santiago Vila lived his life. As such, he’s achieved everything he’s gone after. Except Abena Dubango. She’s the total package of brains, beauty, and a sense of humor. Even though she wears another man’s ring, he’s never forgotten the moments they spent together...
  • Essence of Desire by Brenda Jackson

    Essence of Desire by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE MAKEOVER Before becoming a strait-laced wealthy businessman, Robert Noble was considered a bad boy and sexy rogue inside out, while breaking hearts, right and left. No one knows it better than Roxanne Miller since Robert was her brother's best friend in high school...
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