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  • Sweet Obsession by D.A. Young

    Sweet Obsession by D.A. Young

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the moment Jack Sullivan laid eyes on Noelle Kramer he knew she was all he would ever want. He is consumed by the young beauty, but his dark past prevents him from pursuing her. When an opportunity presents itself for him to finally have what he desires above all else he takes it, consequences be damned...
  • To Dream by Carolyn Brown

    To Dream by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Greta Fields had planned to stay one night in Murray County, Oklahoma, to attend her brother's wedding, even though she thought he was making the biggest mistake of his life for the second time. But on her way out of town, she caused a three car pileup when she dropped her cell phone and tried to retrieve it while traveling ninety miles an hour...
  • Twisted Obsessions by S.K.

    Twisted Obsessions by S.K.

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Life dealt you a hand that was little more than dirt, but you hustled and turned it into gold. Now, you have everything at your fingertips: the life you always wanted, and the love you thought you would never find, finds you. Everything’s perfect...
  • Black Widow by Nikki Turner

    Black Widow by Nikki Turner

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with an explosive new novel about a woman at an emotional crossroads and the men left in her wake. Isis Tatum knows firsthand the way love can mess up a person. After all, she saw her mother drive a truck through the home of her father's mistress before killing her dad...
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    north-america  poc-mc  usa  adult  black-mc  book  contemporary  drama
  • Dropping Gloves by Catherine Gayle

    Dropping Gloves by Catherine Gayle

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Katie Weber left her heart behind in Portland when she decided to follow her dreams in Hollywood. Now she's back to sing the national anthem for the Portland Storm for their annual Hockey Fights Cancer night. One look at the team’s bench while she's singing is all it takes to know that Jamie Babcock is still hurting just as much as she is. She's done the Hollywood thing, though, and she's over it...
  • Behind Her Smile by Rosemary Hines

    Behind Her Smile by Rosemary Hines

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Not good enough…the words echo in Madison Baron’s mind as the darkness presses her to be thinner, more beautiful—somehow more attractive to her peers. A junior in high school, she is facing life without her childhood love, Luke Johnson, who is off to college in the Midwest. Alone with her insecurities, Madison yearns for acceptance—until Miles that is...
  • Malibu by Moonlight by Brooke St. James

    Malibu by Moonlight by Brooke St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Liam Kennedy was on a flight to Los Angeles, bound for his cousin's wedding. He was fresh out of a relationship that he had been trying to end for months and was looking forward to having a great trip with his family while relaxing in his reclaimed status as a bachelor...
  • Happiness In Jersey by Jacinta Howard

    Happiness In Jersey by Jacinta Howard

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The only thing in Jersey Kincaid’s world that she has time for are keeping her grades up so that she doesn’t lose her scholarship to South Texas University, playing the bass in her band, The Prototype, and satisfying her coffee addiction. Oh, and the occasional random hook-up she indulges in to pass the time. Love? Eh, not so much. Save that crap for a Katherine Heigl or Natalie Portman movie...
  • Carolina Booty by T. Lynn Ocean

    Carolina Booty by T. Lynn Ocean

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jaxie Parker works for one of the best ad agencies in Atlanta and and thrives in the upscale fast lane. She loves everything about the big city including her power-packed days and party-filled nights. But life as she knows it comes to a screetching halt when the boss puts her in charge of the firm’s annual pro bono project, which is to revitalize a small town...
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    north-america  usa  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  humor  secrets
  • Montana Darling by Debra Salonen

    Montana Darling by Debra Salonen

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Her marriage. Her job. Her body image. Mia beat cancer and is ready to rebuild her life in her hometown of Marietta, Montana. Literally. Her first order of business is to build a house on the ten-acre parcel she was awarded in her divorce settlement. And she's damned if she'll let some stranger camp on her land and claim squatter's rights. So maybe he's not a squatter...
  • Taking A Shot by Catherine Gayle

    Taking A Shot by Catherine Gayle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Katie Weber has lost her health due to leukemia, and now her chemotherapy treatments have taken her hair. She’s not about to show up to her senior prom bald and let her classmates steal her dignity, too...
  • His Christmas Miracle by Dani Collins

    His Christmas Miracle by Dani Collins

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Quincy Ryan was just handed custody of a son he didn’t know existed. He knows how to be an architect, not a dad, so he looks to his own father for guidance, but that means moving with Pops to Marietta, Montana. Quincy knows he has to get over his shock and give Atlas the Christmas he deserves, but how? He needs a miracle...
  • Nashville Dreams by Pamela M. Kelley

    Nashville Dreams by Pamela M. Kelley

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Young love torn apart by amnesia and a scheming billionaire.Laura Scott lives in a trailer park in Charleston, SC, with her alcoholic but very sweet mother. She is a senior in high school when this story begins and is madly in love with her best friend and soul mate Cole Dawson. His father is Dalton Dawson, a real estate billionaire and junior senator with ambitions to be Governor...
  • Chasing Destiny by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Chasing Destiny by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Billie is known on the streets as much for her unusual beauty as for her sexy yellow Ducati motorcycle. She can handle just about anything she meets on the road - but this time she might be headed for a crash...
  • The House on the Beach by Linda Barrett

    The House on the Beach by Linda Barrett

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sea View House in Pilgrim Cove offers its residents the sea, the sun, the sound of the surf and the call of the gulls. But sometimes serenity is only an illusion....Laura McCloud has come back to Pilgrim Cove—the source of her fondest childhood memories—to pick up the pieces of her life. The solitude of Sea View House is just what she needs...
  • Surrender to a Donovan by A.C. Arthur

    Surrender to a Donovan by A.C. Arthur

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sean Donovan is a man on a mission—to discover who is behind the popular relationship column that has transformed his family-owned magazine into Miami's hippest glossy. But Tate Dennison isn't the sassy columnist the hardworking bachelor expected. Nor is he prepared for the flash fire of passion the stunning single mother arouses...
  • Katie's Choice by Amy Lillard

    Katie's Choice by Amy Lillard

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Katie Rose Fisher loved Samuel Beachy with an intensity that shook their Amish district. No one doubted they would one day marry, until Samuel turned his back on the church and joined the world of the English. Alone now in Clover Ridge, Katie Rose dedicates her life to God and the school children she teaches each day...
  • Desire a Donovan by A.C. Arthur

    Desire a Donovan by A.C. Arthur

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The sexy, fast-living heir to a multimillion-dollar news-and-entertainment dynasty, Dion Donovan is the man every woman wants. Despite his playboy rep, Dion's heart belongs to Lyra Anderson. He's never forgotten the kiss they shared…right before she left Miami for a new life in L.A. Now she's back, a successful photographer�and more desirable than ever...
  • Facing Home by Danielle Stewart

    Facing Home by Danielle Stewart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Vitorino “Click” Coglinaese shouldn’t feel more at home in a war zone than he does in his own backyard. But when you earn yourself a nickname like Click, the only sound the enemy hears before you strike, transitioning back to civilian life is a more insurmountable task than any combat mission...
  • I Am Moore by Celeste Granger

    I Am Moore by Celeste Granger

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One family. Eight sisters, tangled in romance. Emery Moore moved away from home after finishing her juris doctorate. She was a successful corporate attorney and had been living in Washington D. C. for the past five years. It wasn’t often that she returned home to Atlanta, but the love of her family drew her back...
  • One Night With You by Francis Ray

    One Night With You by Francis Ray

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cougars, brush fires, snow storms—rancher Duncan McBride tackles it all without a flinch. But the archeologist who’s come to authenticate cave drawings found on his property is the kind of trouble he’d sworn to avoid. Far from the aging academic he was expecting, Raven La Blanc is a stunning woman…and definitely not sticking around this small Montana town once her job is done...
  • Home Ice by Catherine Gayle

    Home Ice by Catherine Gayle

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Catherine Gayle presents another novella in the Portland Storm hockey romance series. There’s only one person in the world that Mattias Bergstrom allows to see his soft side: his younger sister, who was born with Down syndrome...
  • All Tied Up by Reese Morrison

    All Tied Up by Reese Morrison

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Neil knows he’s not the kind of boy that Daddies want.He’s too old, too plain, and too… boring. So when his best friend sets him up for a kinky singles weekend in the Oregon mountains, all he’s expecting are scenic views.What he’s not expecting is Jamie, the beautiful, bratty boy who co-owns the lodge and flirts with Neil like he’s something special...
  • Melting by Sean Ashcroft

    Melting by Sean Ashcroft

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Butt naked and dripping wet wasn't how I expected to meet the man of my dreams.After a bad breakup, a rough year at his New York ice cream parlour, and no luck jumping back into the dating pool, celebrated pastry chef Hayden agrees to spend the summer with his dad in his childhood home on the Oregon coast to get away from it all...
  • Comeback by Catherine Gayle

    Comeback by Catherine Gayle

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Nicklas Ericsson is an addict. He’s also a star goaltender with the NHL’s Portland Storm, or he was until his addiction changed everything. Now he’s throwing himself into doing all the necessary things to pave his path to a comeback, both in his personal life and on the ice. Nicky’s run out of options, and now his sister and her children are in Portland...
  • His Christmas Bride by Lara Van Hulzen

    His Christmas Bride by Lara Van Hulzen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lucas lives in New York, but he's always loved Marietta. When he gets engaged, he decides Montana is exactly the place to get married. Tanner Ranch brings back happy memories of horseback riding and summer nights under the stars making it the perfect place to hold his wedding...
  • A Kindled Winter by Rachel L. Demeter

    A Kindled Winter by Rachel L. Demeter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Spirited Jeseca Reed. Withdrawn Dr. David Drake. Each have known loss. Both have felt heartache. A week before Christmas, Jeseca Reed sets off for rustic Blue River, Oregon—her childhood home and a vault of tender memories. However, fate takes an unexpected turn when she’s left stranded in the mountains’ vast, untamed wilderness...
  • Secret Agenda by Rochelle Alers

    Secret Agenda by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On paper, Vivienne Neal had a lifestyle most people would envy. Only she knows what a sham her marriage really was. So when her politician husband is killed in a hit-and-run accident, she moves to Florida and takes a job as a personal assistant to Diego Cole-Thomas, a powerful CEO with an intimidating reputation...
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    north-america  poc-mc  usa  adult  black-mc  book  contemporary  family
  • Blue Moon Over Texas by Tori Scott

    Blue Moon Over Texas by Tori Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book Two of the Lone Star Cowboys Series and the sequel to Blame it on Texas. Carol and Jake were high school sweethearts, but when she chose college over marriage, it cut Jake to the core. When they finally had a second chance at love, she chose to help her brother win custody of his daughter by moving to Dallas to live with them, leaving Jake once again...
  • Somebody's Knocking at My Door: A Novel by Francis Ray

    Somebody's Knocking at My Door: A Novel by Francis Ray

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kristen Wakefield grew up the privileged, beloved daughter and sister of a wealthy family...yet she felt eclipsed by the achievements of her older brother, Adam, a renowned neurosurgeon. In New Orleans, Kristen believes she now has the opportunity to prove herself and forget a rather disastrous past relationship. But life is much harder than she expected in the Big Easy...
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    north-america  poc-mc  usa  adult  black-mc  book  contemporary  drama
  • Whisper My Name by Maureen Smith

    Whisper My Name by Maureen Smith

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a beautiful professor joins forces with a sexy detective to find a serial killer, shes caught in a web of danger and desire as she becomes the murderers next target. Original...
  • Sweet Dreams by Rochelle Alers

    Sweet Dreams by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Chandra Eaton can't believe she left her journals--containing very private, very erotic dreams she's been having for the past two years--in a Philly taxicab. Her embarrassment turns to intrigue when Preston Tucker finds and returns them. The soulful playwright fires up Chandra's body and her mind...
  • All My Tomorrows by Rochelle Alers

    All My Tomorrows by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Disenchanted with the politics of working in an upscale Washington, D.C. restaurant, twenty-seven-year-old chef Lydia Lord resigns from her job and resolves to make it on her own...
  • Keeping You by Daphne Elliot

    Keeping You by Daphne Elliot

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He was my first kiss. My first love. And my first heartbreak . Twenty years later, our reunion is not the meet-cute I imagined. Instead, it's a meet-puke when I find Callum Quinn throwing up on my front lawn. We’ve both come a long way since high school. I’m a free spirit single mom, back in town with twin boys and a family farm to save...
  • Embracing You by Daphne Elliot

    Embracing You by Daphne Elliot

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She offered me a deal I couldn't refuse.A little summer fling. Casual, no expectations ... and a firm expiration date.Samantha Sullivan and I have been best friends since childhood. Totally platonic. We had never crossed the line, not even once.Until now...
  • Hidden Mercies by Serena B. Miller

    Hidden Mercies by Serena B. Miller

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    At seventeen, Tobias Miller smashed his cousin’s car into a tree, killing his brother only four hours before he was scheduled to marry Claire Shetler. Unable to live with his father’s bottomless grief and anger, Tobias left the Amish church and ran away to join the Marines. Twenty-seven years later, Tobias, now called Tom, returns to Mt...
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    north-america  usa  adult  book  christian  contemporary  fiction  ohio
  • Something of a Storm by Brooke St. James

    Something of a Storm by Brooke St. James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sometimes you need to make a change in life, and Laney Spencer was about to do just that. She was a talented artist and had been encouraged to move to San Francisco to pursue her dreams. Days after her little sister graduated high school the two packed their truck and headed south to California. Laney was ready for a new start and assumed everything would go perfectly...
  • Still the Best Woman for the Job by Sharon C. Cooper

    Still the Best Woman for the Job by Sharon C. Cooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book 1 of the Jenkins Family Series Joint heir to the largest construction company in the state of Ohio, master plumber, Toni (TJ) Jenkins has been groomed to behave in a way that is befitting of the respected Jenkins’ family name...
  • The Painting of Porcupine City by Ben Monopoli

    The Painting of Porcupine City by Ben Monopoli

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Brazilian graffiti artist Mateo Amaral is looking for his heaven spot, the one perfect place to paint. His coworker Fletcher Bradford is looking for a heaven spot of his own, and his is even more elusive. Out since age 12, Fletcher's been around more blocks than Mateo has ever painted. He's dated all the jerks, all the creeps, all the losers in between...
  • Montana Maverick by Debra Salonen

    Montana Maverick by Debra Salonen

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Be careful what you wish for- Meg Zabrinski wants a child. She's a successful scientist, a well-known environmental advocate, and a tenured professor. She doesn't need a man in her life to make this happen. But having a baby alone is a weighty decision, so she retreats to her isolated mountain cabin to write and think...
  • Taming the Texas Cowboy by Charlene Sands

    Taming the Texas Cowboy by Charlene Sands

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After a disaster destroyed nearly everything Maddie Brooks owned, Trey Walker offered the petite redhead shelter at 2 Hope Ranch. A veterinarian, Maddie was smart, sexy, and good with animals… Impossible to resist, yet Trey is convinced he is cursed when it comes to women. The temporary arrangement Maddie made with Trey was supposed to be strictly business...
  • Chances Are by Kellie Coates Gilbert

    Chances Are by Kellie Coates Gilbert

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Chances are, you never know what story might be in the very next chapter...When recently divorced Allie Barrett receives a letter notifying her that she’s inherited her deceased uncle’s home and fishing charter business in Oregon, she quickly decides the coastal town of Pacific Bay might be the perfect place to start over and raise her eleven-year-old son...
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    north-america  oregon  usa  adult  book  contemporary  epic  family
  • Entangled (A Tangle Valley Romance) by Melissa Brayden

    Entangled (A Tangle Valley Romance) by Melissa Brayden

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Josephine Wilder’s torrid love affair is with Tangle Valley Vineyard, her family’s legacy. She’s grown up dreaming between the vines. She’s always had secret ideas about how to make the place shine, so when it passes to her, Joey vows to make Tangle Valley everything she knows it can be...
  • Hiding in Park City by RaeAnne Thayne

    Hiding in Park City by RaeAnne Thayne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A single mom on the run and an injured FBI agent find their greatest danger is with each other in this story of secret identity, originally titled Nowhere to Hide and published in 2003! As an on-the-run single mother out to protect her little girls, Lisa Connors needs two things: money, and to keep her identity secret...
  • Shameless by Lora Leigh

    Shameless by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "She's a temptation he can't afford." Ian Sinclair, the man with no heart, the ultimate Trojan, the untouchable, the unreachable, may just have met his match. As wild as the untamed winds, as innocent as love itself, Courtney's vivacious spirit shines as brilliantly as the brightest star. And he wants nothing more in life than to see the sweet innocence that is so much a part of her survive...
  • Strictly Confidential Attraction by Brenda Jackson

    Strictly Confidential Attraction by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "I need you, Alli." -- Mark Hartman, desperate new dad Did Mark mean what Alison Lind hoped? Was her boss declaring his passion for her? Did he really feel the same way she secretly felt for him? Apparently not. Turned out that what Alison wanted and what Mark needed were two different things. Instead of asking her to be his lover, he was asking her to be temporary nanny to his baby niece...
  • Perfection: The MacGregor Grooms / A Perfect Neighbor by Nora Roberts

    Perfection: The MacGregor Grooms / A Perfect Neighbor by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The MacGregor Grooms(1998)Daniel MacGregor sets his matchmaking skills against three of his grandsons - D.C., Duncan, and Ian.A Perfect Neighbor(1999)Daniel MacGregor is matchmaking again when he encourages playwright Preston McQuinn to move in across the hall from his granddaughter Cybill Campbell...
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    north-america  usa  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Lost in Cottonwood Canyon (The Searchers) / How to Train a Cowboy by RaeAnne Thayne, Caro Carson

    Lost in Cottonwood Canyon (The Searchers) / How to Train a Cowboy by RaeAnne Thayne, Caro Carson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Originally published in 2004 and called Nothing to Lose, New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne brings readers a thrilling story of a sister desperate to save her brother’s life and the true crime writer who may be the only man who can help!Crime expert Wyatt McKinnon has built his career by turning high-profile cases into bestsellers...
  • The Rules of Gift Giving by Parker St. John

    The Rules of Gift Giving by Parker St. John

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Winter is about to get a whole lot hotter!Fruitcake and FistfightsTheir first Christmas together should have been picture perfect, but disaster unexpectedly strikes. Instead of picking out a tree and cuddling under the mistletoe, Elliot and Lucas are headed to the one place that haunts Elliot like the ghost of Christmas past -- his hometown...
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    north-america  usa  oregon  urban  romance  mlm  contemporary  lgbtq
  • Bingsu for Two by Sujin Witherspoon

    Bingsu for Two by Sujin Witherspoon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This outrageously charming and infuriatingly adorable enemies-to-lovers coffee shop romance is perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Better Than the Movies.Meet River Langston-Lee. In the past 24 hours, he’s dumped his girlfriend, walked out of his SATs, and quit his job at his parents’ cafe in spectacularly disastrous fashion—even for him...
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