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Losin Control by Ladii Nesha
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDeemed 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... -
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![Two Minute Warning by Alexandra Warren]()
Two Minute Warning by Alexandra Warren
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere’s a lot that can happen in two minutes or less…Kendall “Snoop” Dogwood has something to prove.After a devastating ending to his first year with the Houston Skyhawks, getting redemption is the only thing on the veteran quarterback’s mind coming into the new season... -
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Eternally Yours by Brenda Jackson
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFriends… Attorney Syneda Walters and fellow attorney Clayton Madaris are just friends…the last two people likely to end up as lovers. Syneda holds all men at arm's length because of the father whose name she never knew. Clayton has always been a playboy, and no woman has ever come close to keeping his interest for very long... -
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![Determining Possession by Christina C. Jones]()
Determining Possession by Christina C. Jones
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGood decisions don’t always leave you unscathed. Sometimes, the best choice might be the one that leaves you vulnerable. The one that forces you to face a not-so-distant past that hurts, or go through with something you never thought would come to fruition. The one that makes taking a risk your only viable option. Wilhelmina “Wil” Cunningham is no stranger to pressure... -
![Hold Me While You Wait by Kimberly Brown]()
Hold Me While You Wait by Kimberly Brown
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSomya Hilton has known nothing but a life of ultimatums. From a young age, it was her and her sister Eliza against the world. When both of them find love and start families of their own, Somya finally feels like she has the life she deserves. Then tragedy strikes, leaving both her sister and brother-in-law dead and Somya to care for her niece Jazlynn who is ten at the time... -
![Love Delayed (Waiting to Breathe ) by Love Belvin]()
Love Delayed (Waiting to Breathe ) by Love Belvin
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat happens when Zoey Barrett, an ingenuous Princeton scholar, meets NBA All-star rocker-boy, Stenton Rogers? Zoey has her life all planned out. She’s working hard at her degree and to help her family stay afloat financially. Stenton’s at the top of his game on the court, but off, his life is out of bounds... -
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Touch Me by Alexandria House
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen 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 ratingsDescriptionSometimes 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 ratingsLegally 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... -
![Legally Bound 3: His Law by Blue Saffire]()
Legally Bound 3: His Law by Blue Saffire
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLegally 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... -
![Wins & Losses by Alexandra Warren]()
Wins & Losses by Alexandra Warren
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNasir Valentine has one thing on his mind: winning a championship title in his first year as head coach of the boys basketball team. But when his team captain’s father is murdered just before the start of the season, he quickly learns coaching high school basketball in the inner city is a lot more than just drawing numbers and arrows on a dry erase board... -
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Broken by Tia Sirrah
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLove 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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Hope Town Books 1-3 by Harper Sloan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor 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... -
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![Whispered Promises by Brenda Jackson]()
Whispered Promises by Brenda Jackson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEven a once-in-a-lifetime love When Halston Parker calls his daughter Caitlin to his deathbed, she's shocked to discover that her ex-husband, Dex Madaris, has been summoned as well. It's been four years since Caitlin felt the heat of Dex's touch, the urgency of his kisses and the promise of an everlasting love that never was... -
![Love's Neutral Zone by Love Belvin]()
Love's Neutral Zone by Love Belvin
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMaaz Zyad, number ninety-seven of the Connecticut Kings, wasn’t a big name in his first three seasons in the League. Thanks to his temperamental girlfriend posting and tweeting her every grievance about the League and Kings franchise, Zyad’s become one of the most talked about players in the media.The Kings cut him a contract extension with a huge pay increase under one condition... -
![Clutch Player: A Hero Club Novel by Nikki Ash]()
Clutch Player: A Hero Club Novel by Nikki Ash
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsClutch player: an athlete who is good under pressure and performs highly impossible plays in a quick and almost impossible amount of time.HarperI fell in love when I was sixteen. Landon was my entire world and I thought he would be my forever. But I was young and dumb, and with one error in judgement, I destroyed any chance of a future we could’ve had together, along with our hearts... -
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Play to Win by Ja'Nese Dixon
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKamal’s an ex-football player. Jayda’s a single mother uninterested in another relationship until she sees Kamal with her daughter.Every rejection will only make his victory sweeter. He plans to lick, taste, and devour her like the delicacy she is until the world, her ex, and Jayda recognizes his name tatted on every inch of her curvy body... -
![Feel Me in the Dark by Tucora Monique]()
Feel Me in the Dark by Tucora Monique
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Worried about it, I’m putting pressure. You’ll only cut me if I let you. No, we ain’t doing this just for pleasure. Either learn me or I’m a lesson." — H.E.RWork.Health.Finessing.That’s the hierarchy of Finley Thomas’ life. The loc-haired, stenographer was raised by a proud gold digger and against her delight, she inherited mischievous qualities from her mother... -
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Touch of Heaven by Maureen Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWarrick 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... -
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Captivated by Love by Brenda Jackson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter being locked up for a crime he didn't commit, Sheppard Granger is back to take over the reins as CEO of Granger Aeronautics. On top of that, he intends to totally romance his wife Carson and make up for the time they couldn't share together... -
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Perfectly Imperfect by D.A. Young
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHandsome attorney Casey Sullivan is a catch, and everyone seems to know it except his beautiful, but slightly deranged girlfriend, deejay Sidra Barton! Just the slightest mention of 'happily ever after' has her ready to run out the door. Not that she'll get far because Casey Sullivan always gets what he wants, and he wants Sidra Barton... -
![Unsuitable Men by Nia Forrester]()
Unsuitable Men by Nia Forrester
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBeautiful, 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... -
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Love You Anyways by M.J. Fields
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Lucas Links finds out his wife has been cheating on him his world is rocked. Ashley, his wife, blames him for her nearly five year affair with Senator Robert Shaw. Ashley says she has lived for twenty years knowing her husband is in love with his high school sweetheart Tessa Ross. Tessa Ross Abrahams, husband Collin, was murdered in an attempt to save their daughters life... -
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![Second Chances by D. A. Young]()
Second Chances by D. A. Young
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat 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... -
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Sin Bin by Maureen Smith
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsLogan “Bruiser” Brassard and Meadow Ryan are no strangers to heartache, loss, and trauma. When they met as foster children, they both bore deep scars from the horrors life had inflicted. Although their time together at the group home was brief, they never forgot each other. Fast forward fifteen years, and Meadow is an unemployed social worker down on her luck... -
![One Special Moment by Brenda Jackson]()
One Special Moment by Brenda Jackson
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTo 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... -
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Courting Justice by Brenda Jackson
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWinning 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... -
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Luca by Grey Huffington
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe’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... -
![Friend Zoned by Evelyn Sola]()
Friend Zoned by Evelyn Sola
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThey say the best things come when you least expect it.Burned by her ex-husband and a messy divorce, Jeannie Dubois isn’t looking for anything more than a good friend. Besides, she’s still dealing with the ex who can’t seem to let her go.Insert NBA coach, Aiden Walsh... -
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All He Desires by Brenda Jackson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe 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... -
![This I Promise You by Maureen Smith]()
This I Promise You by Maureen Smith
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this steamy sequel to Tempt Me at Midnight, Quentin and Lexi Reddick are enjoying a life of wedded bliss. They have everything they could ever want and their love is stronger than ever, proving why best friends make the best soul mates. But when a stranger from Quentin's past appears unexpectedly, old wounds are reopened, forcing him to confront the family he never knew... -
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Bounce Back by Nicole Falls
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“This thing between us is unexpected for me…”With her professional basketball career seemingly in her rearview, Micaiah Kennedy is trying to figure out what the future holds for her... -
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Inn Love by Bailey West
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe great thing about losing something is, if you retrace your steps, a lot of the time, you can find it… Charlene Kearns spent her teenaged years planning a future with the person she would spend the rest of her life with. She dreamed of the day their plans would become their reality. Then she heard those dreaded words: “It’s not you, it’s me... -
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![Kings Catch by Iesha Bree, Selena Tosato]()
Kings Catch by Iesha Bree, Selena Tosato
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDarian 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... -
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Seduced by a Steele by Brenda Jackson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA notorious heartbreaker is about to meet his match… When the “thief” caught driving his stolen vintage car turns out to be a stunning runaway heiress, Mercury Steele is conflicted. On the one hand, Sloane Donahue triggers the billionaire playboy’s protective instincts. But she also triggers red-hot desire... -
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Safe Space II: The Finale by Tiffany Patterson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLove gained. Love lost. Or was it? Chanel I thought I finally had found my happy. Yes, I lied about my past to Xavier, but I never suspected it would blow up in my face the way it did. Now he’s gone, won’t answer my calls, and now, I’m left with nights plagued by nightmares, and that’s only when I’m able to get to sleep at all... -
![You Make Me Better by AshleyNicole]()
You Make Me Better by AshleyNicole
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsInterior 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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Claimed by a Knight by Té Russ
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe last thing Paige Bennett expects while home in Sweet Rapids mourning the loss of her best friend is any romantic entanglements. But when she runs into Remi, she quickly discovers that he might just be the perfect distraction. Former NFL player Remington Knight’s sole focus has been getting his brewing company up and running... -
![Mine Tonight by Christina C. Jones]()
Mine Tonight by Christina C. Jones
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA 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... -
![Irresistible You by Francis Ray]()
Irresistible You by Francis Ray
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPierce 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... -
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Possessed by Passion by Brenda Jackson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey're discovering the healing powers of passion Burned-by-love architect Hunter McKay came home to Phoenix to open her own firm, not rekindle her fleeting high school romance with playboy Tyson Steele. But when she runs into the sexy surgeon at a nightclub—and he unleashes that legendary Steele charm—Hunter fears she's headed straight for heartbreak once again... -
![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 ratingsLegally 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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Bangshift by Winter Travers
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings*Skid Row Kings Series, Book 3 Kurt Jensen has had enough. Tired of being under his brother's thumb and having the one person he wanted push him away, Kurt knew it was time to leave. California was supposed to be the new start he craved and needed, but one wrong turn brought everything crashing down around him, literally... -
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f*ck and fall in love by Nicole Falls
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsfor jane and nigel, timing is everything... -
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The Beginning of Forever by A.E. Valdez
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHarlow and Acyn are on their way to happily ever after…Or so they thought.When their wedding is in jeopardy from outside forces and well-meaning family members, they decide to take matters into their own hands and escape to the Oregon coast.Follow their journey from there to the Beginning of Forever... -
![Beast: Part Two by Tiya Rayne]()
Beast: Part Two by Tiya Rayne
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt 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... -
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Undeniable by Delaney Diamond
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey 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... -
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Essence of Desire by Brenda Jackson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE 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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SHADOWS OF DECEIT by S.K.
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJust when the lives of the three couples we’ve grown to know and love seem to be as close to perfection as they can possibly get it…all hell breaks loose. A devastating occurrence from Aleesha’s past rears its ugly head, spawning hot anger and wary mistrust in Marcus. He struggles to reconcile the woman he thought he knew to the woman he’s beginning to learn some harsh truths about...
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