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  • Finding Hope by Emilia Finn

    Finding Hope by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a man hits rock bottom, he only has two choices. Professional fighter and undisputed champion of the world, twenty-five-year-old Jack Reilly is back for the final instalment of the Rollin On series. Like many love stories, boy meets girl. Girl grudgingly agrees to a date. Boy sits through cringeworthy sex talk. Boy and girl live happily ever after...
  • Magical Midlife Love by K.F. Breene

    Magical Midlife Love by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    The fourth book in the Wall Street Journal bestselling Leveling Up series.The Ivy House team is shaping up, but there are still holes to be filled, and a magical summons outstanding. Jessie needs a teacher. Someone who can fit in with the whacky Ivy House crew. And that was going just fine...until she gets a request to host a powerful, neighboring mage. A teacher isn't going to be enough...
  • REGRET by Emilia Finn

    REGRET by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Preston Danes was born and raised on the streets.Unloved. Unwanted. And quickly discarded.Now he’s a man on the verge of a new career when the infamous Checkmate Security offers him a job.They want to shut down a mafia family, and they need the assistance of a skilled hacker to get the job done.Preston knows code like others know their left hands. He’s perfect for the job...
  • Simply Crazy by Jenn Hype

    Simply Crazy by Jenn Hype

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Forget apps, websites and singles events - clearly the best way to meet a guy is to move in next door, accidentally assault him and then demand a job at his company. If that kind of charm doesn’t totally knock him off his feet, the next step is to build an army. If possible, try to recruit those closest to the target, such as his mom, sisters and closest friends...
  • Reluctantly Rescued by Ruth Cardello

    Reluctantly Rescued by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bradford has spent his life saving innocents, but there are some days he doesn't see much difference between himself and the criminals he takes out. His goal is to die doing something important.Until he meets Joanna and she turns his life upside down.Children's book author. Mini-horse rescue owner...
  • Beast Behaving Badly by Shelly Laurenston

    Beast Behaving Badly by Shelly Laurenston

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Ten years after Blayne Thorpe first encountered Bo Novikov, she still can't get the smooth-talking shifter out of her head. Now he's shadowing her in New York-all seven-plus feet of him-determined to protect her from stalkers who want to use her in shifter dogfights. Even if he has to drag her off to an isolated Maine town where the only neighbors are other bears almost as crazy as he is..
  • Random Acts of Love by Julia Kent

    Random Acts of Love by Julia Kent

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The last ever-loving thing I ever thought I'd become is a hypocrite. A big, fat one. Joe doesn't even want me to meet his parents. Trevor's fine with it, but only if they keep thinking I'm his girlfriend. And only his girlfriend. He doesn't want that pesky little thing called truth to get in the way. Both of them are my boyfriends. Both...
  • You Can't Fight A Prophecy, Susan: Welcome To Midlife Magic: Book Four by Lauretta Hignett

    You Can't Fight A Prophecy, Susan: Welcome To Midlife Magic: Book Four by Lauretta Hignett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A handsome stranger appears on Susan's doorstep, bringing some devastating news. War is coming. It is inevitable.But first, Susan is going to have to fight some battles far closer to home. Bonds will be tested, some will be broken...
  • Koda: A Bear Shifter Romance by Kira Graham

    Koda: A Bear Shifter Romance by Kira Graham

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bad boys are great. Good boys are overrated. Wild boys… they’re just another species entirely. Join the Koda Clan where the men are wild, the women are naughty, and the hot romance is as sweet as it is spicy. Sexy, steamy, and crazy-funny. You’ve been warned. ;)LOVE METrace Koda is a man I hate.I’m terrified of what I feel for Trace. I’m angry...
  • Merry Random Christmas by Julia Kent

    Merry Random Christmas by Julia Kent

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It all started with a game of Truth or Dare... It's bad enough I got arrested for prostitution on Christmas Eve. Alleged prostitution, mind you. I didn't do it. Of course I didn't. The cops say I offered up a certain sex act for a $5 gasoline gift card, but honey? My sex acts are worth way, way more...
  • Wolf with Benefits by Shelly Laurenston

    Wolf with Benefits by Shelly Laurenston

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Ricky Lee has no plans of getting serious about anyone, but he will protect Toni Jean-Louis Parker. Not just because he’s been hired to do so, but because it’s the right thing to do...
  • The Mane Attraction by Shelly Laurenston

    The Mane Attraction by Shelly Laurenston

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Even the king of the beasts can find himself unexpectedly tamed by the right woman. Weddings have the strangest effect on people. Exhibit 1: Sissy Mae waking up in Mitch Shaw's bed the morning after her brother Bobby Ray's nuptials. Exhibit 2: the gunmen trying to kill Mitch. Exhibit 3: Sissy Mae escorting a bleeding yet sexy lion shifter to her Tennessee Pack's turf for safe keeping...
  • The Reluctant Vampire by Lynsay Sands

    The Reluctant Vampire by Lynsay Sands

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Has this immortal finally met her match?Rogue hunter Drina Argenis (from the Spanish side of the Argeneau family) has been many things in her years as an immortal, but bodyguard/babysitter to a teenage vampire is something new. There's an incentive, however: the other vampsitter, Harper Stoyan, may be Drina's life mate.Trouble is, having just lost a life mate, Harper is resigned to being alone...
  • A Real Cowboy Never Says No by Stephanie Rowe

    A Real Cowboy Never Says No by Stephanie Rowe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Rowe delivers a brand new series set in Rogue Valley, Wyoming, home to the Stockton brothers, a clan of fiercely loyal and honorable men, and the women who touch the hearts of these rugged, loner cowboys. The only reason rancher Chase Stockton and his brothers survived their brutal childhood was because they protected each other...
  • Vampires are Forever by Lynsay Sands

    Vampires are Forever by Lynsay Sands

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Vampires Don't Exist...Do They?Inez Urso is beginning to have her doubts. Her business associate Thomas Argeneau has some interesting traits, like an allergic reaction to the sun, excellent night vision, and not much of an appetite for food. And to top it all off, he just tried to bite her neck...but maybe that was a sign of passion...
  • Vampire Man by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Vampire Man by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, comes a standalone Paranormal Romcom about second chances. CAN THIS EVIL VAMPIRE CHANGE HIS WAYS? Just a few short years ago, a medical miracle turned this ancient evil vampire into a human baby. Just a small setback in Mr. Nice’s plans for world domination, right?Wrong...
  • Not For Me by Aria Bliss

    Not For Me by Aria Bliss

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Fake Dating Romantic ComedyIt’s a fake arrangement.Two weeks with me. A free vacation and one very convincing date with her. What could possibly go wrong?♥ ♥ ♥To avoid going on blind dates arranged by my mother, I agree to pretend-date my sister’s best friend. Imagine my surprise when she turns out to be the beautiful, dirty-talking woman who caught my attention while running in Central Park...
  • Secret Life of a Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Secret Life of a Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Nothing's sexier than an man who can keep a secret.A typical bachelor party is all about beers and beautiful women. A vampire bachelor party is no different -- except the men are drinking Blissky (whiskey-flavored synthetic blood). And no one can throw a party quite like Jack, the illegitimate son of the legendary Casanova...
  • Shards of Frost by Suzanne Wright

    Shards of Frost by Suzanne Wright

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When had life stopped being so simple? Probably around the time that Casey Frost first agreed to pay off her drug addict brother’s debt to save him from a brutal beating. It soon became a “thing.” When the dealer—who’s also an Alpha shifter—demands she do something that goes against her very being, Casey decides enough is enough...
  • Cop a Feel by Robyn Peterman

    Cop a Feel by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When you get time off for bad behavior, romance is the last thing on your mind--but good old-fashioned lust is a whole different story...Life undercover isn't exactly one big party--not when you're a DEA agent--but it sure beats a desk job. Except when you screw up big and someone has to go in and clean up after you...
  • Dealing Double by Tamra Baumann

    Dealing Double by Tamra Baumann

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Falling in love can leave anyone feeling a little exposed… Archaeologist Gabby Knight has been living under an assumed identity to steer clear of her mobster father’s enemies. But when she suspects her father of plotting to steal a priceless statue buried in New Mexico, she risks everything and sets out for the desert to beat him to it—and to save him from making a grave mistake...
  • Size Matters by Robyn Peterman

    Size Matters by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A few hard truths...Don’t bet on Hasselhoff, Bigfoot might actually exist, and searching for the impossible may lead you to your heart’s desire...It’s a big fat hairy deal when I lose yet another bet to my best friend, Rena...
  • Hard To Handle by Lori Foster

    Hard To Handle by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sometimes Fate delivers a left hook. After Fate deals Supreme Battle Challenge (SBC) fighter Harley Handleman a sucker punch, his uncle secretly hires a pretty lifecoach to get Harley back in the ring of life. Anastasia Kelley has actually known Harley for years, but never as well as she's going to now...
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  • Tall, Dark & Hungry by Lynsay Sands

    Tall, Dark & Hungry by Lynsay Sands

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    It bites: New York hotels cost an arm and a leg, and Terri had flown from England to help plan her cousin’s wedding. The new in-laws offered lodging. But they were a weird bunch. There was the sometimes-chipper-sometimes-brooding Lucern, and the wacky stage-actor, Vincent. (She couldn't imagine Broadway casting a hungrier singing-and-dancing Dracula.) And then there was Bastien...
  • The Undead Next Door by Kerrelyn Sparks

    The Undead Next Door by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Three signs that something is very different with your mew man:1. He sleeps all day . . . which would be annoying except he's so attentive at night.2. He's attacked by sword-wielding assailants, yet insists he can handle it on his own.3. He never seems to age.Heather Westfield has always lived a quiet life, but that all changes when she helps a very handsome, very mysterious stranger...
  • Instant Temptation by Jill Shalvis

    Instant Temptation by Jill Shalvis

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    T.J. Wilder is the perfect package of breathtaking adventure and raw sex appeal. Even better, he's about to reconnect with the one woman he's never been able to forget... Get Your Pulse Racing To Harley, the landscape around Wishful, California, is exhilarating, untamed, and more than a little dangerous. The same could be said for T.J...
  • Vampires Need Not...Apply? by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Vampires Need Not...Apply? by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    This is book 4 in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Accidentally Yours paranormal romance series. Meet Dr. Antonio Acero. Heir to Spain's wealthiest family, world-renowned physicist, and dedicated bachelor. While on vacation in southern Mexico, Antonio discovers an ancient Mayan tablet...
  • Single White Vampire by Lynsay Sands

    Single White Vampire by Lynsay Sands

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    SWM - "Lucern." Successful biographer of family, books recently categorized as "paranormal romance." Something of a recluse. Hates crowds, aggressive women. Doesn't like sunbathing, garlicky dinners or religious symbols. Likes old-fashioned values; spicy Mexican dishes; warm, nice-smelling neck; and plump red lips. Stronger than ten men and can vanish in the blink of an eye...
  • Unhoppy by Cynthia St. Aubin

    Unhoppy by Cynthia St. Aubin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When there's not a hop in hell...The day is going to hell in a hurry for Paranormal Psychologist Matilda Schmidt, and that's *before* a suicidal Easter bunny shows up for treatment.When pictures surface of Matilda caught in the middle of a hit man-Cupid sandwich, she lands in the oily grip of a ruthless blackmailer, whose motives are as ugly as his mustache...
  • Bootyversary by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook

    Bootyversary by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bootyversary [boo-tee-ver--sa-ry] noun: when someone has had the same booty call for a year.The issue: Peyton's sworn off military men.The compromise: A booty call when I'm on leave.The reason tonight changes everything: It's our one-year BOOTYVERSARY.It's supposed to be magic - me telling her she's the one.But Peyton has other ideas.And she sure as hell isn't prepared to wear a ring.Yet...
  • Billionaire's Game by Summer Cooper

    Billionaire's Game by Summer Cooper

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "I fell asleep against his chest feeling many emotions, but amidst them all, one emotion stood out and that was love." Lesli is used to one thing: Being the youngest and smartest person in the room. But now college is over and she’s not sure who she is or what she wants from life. On a whim, she decides to move to Florida to work for her cousin’s nonprofit organization, Ophelia’s Angels...
  • Loving Dracula by Kinsley Adams

    Loving Dracula by Kinsley Adams

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Legend. The Immortal. My… Fiancé?Welp, I, Anna Perish, am now a vampire. And it’s been one hell of a ride so far. Not only am I shacking up with the Dracula, but I’ve also been summoned by the Queen of Vampires. And why, you might ask? Oh, it’s nothing big. She just wants to kill me for killing her sire. Unfortunately, self-defense doesn’t mean squat among the undead...
  • The Rogue Hunter by Lynsay Sands

    The Rogue Hunter by Lynsay Sands

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Rogue Hunter:An Immortal Who Protects The World From Renegade VampiresSamantha Willan is a workaholic lawyer. She's grateful for some rest and relaxation in cottage country, and after a recent breakup she wants to stay as far away from romance as possible. Then she meets her irresistible new neighbor. There's something strange and mysterious about his eyes...
  • Do Me a Favor by Christina Hovland

    Do Me a Favor by Christina Hovland

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Some days things just click. Today is not that day.Love is a battlefield, and divorce attorney Sadie Howard is entrenched on the frontlines. She thought she might have met the right man once, but he was a career military guy who got shipped overseas and left her heart on the tarmac. These days, the only commitment Sadie wants is the one she's made to her Denver law practice...
  • Played by the Rockstar: A laugh out loud rom com escape! by Christina Hovland

    Played by the Rockstar: A laugh out loud rom com escape! by Christina Hovland

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A rock star walks into a bar…Certified behavioral counselor (and former band groupie) Becca Forrester needs a break. Taking a leave of absence from her job, she moves into the apartment over her parents’ garage, and clinches a gig waitressing at a dive bar known for bringing in big name musicians.Cedric “Linx” Lincoln is a certified rock star...
  • Vampires Drink Tomato Juice by K.M. Shea

    Vampires Drink Tomato Juice by K.M. Shea

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    High School student Morgan Fae is beginning to question her sanity. After witnessing a weird incident involving a werewolf, a substitute teacher/possible vampire, and a thermos of tomato juice, she is taken to the Magical Beings' Rehabilitation Center. The MBRC is an organization that strives to integrate magical beings into human society and hides itself in Chicago’s Union Station...
  • Wet & Wild by Sandra Hill

    Wet & Wild by Sandra Hill

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A very confused Viking finds himself hurtled through time to face the rigorous ordeals of the Navy SEALs. Yet while his brawn allows him to easily adapt to the military, he's no match for one of the most difficult challenges of all-the modern-day woman...
  • Nauti Seductress by Lora Leigh

    Nauti Seductress by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh delivers the heat with another steamy novel featuring the Mackay sisters, following Nauti Enchantress and Nauti Temptress.Zoey Mackay is as tough and savvy as anyone. But when an unknown assailant slips her a psychoactive drug, she descends into a literal nightmare of violence and blood...
  • Demon Kissed by Katie May, Ann Denton

    Demon Kissed by Katie May, Ann Denton

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I fucked up.Honestly, how was I supposed to know that a love spell was actually a summoning spell...and that it would actually work?Now, I have five demons at my beck and call, their sole purpose to fulfill my heart's deepest desire - which is to make William Washington fall head-over-heels in love with me...
  • Accidentally...Evil? by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Accidentally...Evil? by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Backlum Chaam, the God of Male Virility, wasn't always such a bad guy. Before his heart turned black and his biggest goal in life became destroying mankind, he was just like any god. Compassionate, loyal, and dedicated. So where did it all go wrong? Sometimes broken hearts don't heal...Word count: 35,000...
  • Dance With The Devil by Joanna Blake

    Dance With The Devil by Joanna Blake

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I waited years for her. One day she disappeared without a trace. I just didn’t know she was carrying my baby. I’m one of the Sons of Satan, part of an inner circle we call The Devil’s Riders. I was just a prospect when I first saw her. Becky Townsdale, the curvy girl who worked at Mae’s diner. She’s so pretty it hurts to look at her...
  • Miss Frost Solves a Cold Case by Kristen Painter

    Miss Frost Solves a Cold Case by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Welcome to Nocturne Falls, the town that celebrates Halloween 365 days a year. Jayne Frost is a lot of things. Winter elf, Jack Frost's daughter, Santa Claus's niece, heir to the Winter Throne and now...private investigator. Sort of. Needing someone he can trust, her father sends her undercover to Nocturne Falls to find out why employees at the Santa's Workshop toy store are going missing...
  • The Perfect Stroke by Jordan Marie

    The Perfect Stroke by Jordan Marie

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This bad boy wants to show her his rock-hard nine-iron…and his smooth stroke. CC Gray Lucas is a bad boy, on and off the green. As golf's new media darling, his face is plastered on the front of every tabloid in the country. His exploits are legendary--one of which is me. We had a one-night-stand, before I knew who he was. It was passionate, wild and exhilarating...
  • Hell's Kitty by Eve Langlais

    Hell's Kitty by Eve Langlais

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Good thing this Hellcat has nine lives because he’s going to need them if he’s going to survive Lucifer’s latest scheme and land on his four furry feet.Okay, so Felipe ate a few of the Styx sea creatures. In his defense, they were awfully tasty. Depleting the monster reservoir didn’t mean Lucifer had to go all Lord of Hell on him and order him to go on a stupid mission...
  • Hell's Kitty by Eve Langlais

    Hell's Kitty by Eve Langlais

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Good thing this Hellcat has nine lives because he’s going to need them if he’s going to survive Lucifer’s latest scheme and land on his four furry feet.Okay, so Felipe ate a few of the Styx sea creatures. In his defense, they were awfully tasty. Depleting the monster reservoir didn’t mean Lucifer had to go all Lord of Hell on him and order him to go on a stupid mission...
  • Dodging Bullets by Grace McGinty

    Dodging Bullets by Grace McGinty

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sometimes, life spirals out of control without you even noticing...
  • Trailer Park Elves by Michael Dalton, Adam Lance

    Trailer Park Elves by Michael Dalton, Adam Lance

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    #1 in Men's Adventure! #1 in Metaphysical Fantasy! #1 in Fantasy Adventure!Deep in the elbow skin of the Fae Wilds, far from the teeming fortress of the Goblin King and the glittering palace of the King and Queen of the Elves, there lies a forgotten hideaway of crumbling single-wides and rusty Airstreams...
  • Love Bites by Lynsay Sands

    Love Bites by Lynsay Sands

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    True Love: Good From The First Bite...Etienne Argeneau's three hundred years of bachelorhood were at an end. Either that, or he'd be forever alone. He could only "turn" one human in his lifetime, and most of his kind reserved that power for creating a life mate. If he turned the wrong woman...But what choice did he have? He had to save Rachel Garrett...
  • Signs of Cupidity by Raven Kennedy

    Signs of Cupidity by Raven Kennedy

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    You'd think that basically being in charge of love would be an epic job, right? Wrong. Sure, I can blow some Lust into people's faces and watch the show, but I can't actually participate. It gets old, trust me. Same goes for love. I can pass it out like sugar-free lollipops at a dentist's office, but I can't get any love for myself. It totally sucks...
  • Claiming Goldilocks: Tales From the Three Bears by S. Cinders

    Claiming Goldilocks: Tales From the Three Bears by S. Cinders

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Prepare yourself for this epic reverse harem... Goldie has been in one bad relationship after another. Every man she meets wants to change the best parts of who she is.Grandma Mara is up to her matchmaking again. Certain that Goldie needs the right incentive, she sends her to the local spa that happens to be run by three gorgeous bear shifters...
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