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  • Come anima mai by Rossana Soldano

    Come anima mai by Rossana Soldano

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    “Come anima mai” è una storia ambientata nell'Inghilterra del secolo scorso, negli anni tra 1936 e il 1945. Lewis Ellsworth, futuro duca di Buccleuch e l’eccentrico Will Chase si incontrano all’università di Cambridge e si innamorano...
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    lgbtq  mlm  adult  book  fiction  historical  romance
  • Rail Detective by R.O. Lane

    Rail Detective by R.O. Lane

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Callum Devlin gets the assignment to accompany a rail car with $500,000 in gold double eagles from the San Francisco Mint to Kansas City. A gang attacks the train and dynamites the car with the gold and Devlin inside. The resulting fight is furious and deadly. Devlin decides to go to San Francisco and get revenge on the gang. On the trip, he unexpectedly meets a woman and falls in love...
  • Molly's Man by Laylah Roberts

    Molly's Man by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s ticking things off her bucket list. Number one, find a sexy man to tie her up and spank her… Molly knows she’s not going to live a long life. Both her mother and grandmother died young. She’s determined to fit as much fun in as she can. Starting with quitting her job and moving to Haven where the men are sexy, protective, and dominant...
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    dark  industrial-era  steamy  western  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • Wild Sweet Love by Beverly Jenkins

    Wild Sweet Love by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Teresa July has led a hard life, but now she has a chance to put her train robbing past behind her. Armed with a new job as a cook to one of Philadelphia's elite families, Teresa is determined to start her life anew, and nothing––not even her boss's stuck–up (and far too handsome) son––is going to stand in her way...
  • SEAL's Vow by Elle James

    SEAL's Vow by Elle James

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Real estate agent Brenna Meyers is in a good position to work a side job as a private investigator searching for the money stolen from a bank. On a routine visit to a potential listing, Brenna discovers a grisly scene in an abandoned home. Her first thought is Squatters. A closer look reveals the house had been used as a place of torture...
  • Precious Jules by C.J. Bishop

    Precious Jules by C.J. Bishop

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Gangster Cowboy Novella They will bring him home...by any means necessary. When Adrian's 4 y/o nephew, Jules, is abducted by Adrian's brother Tazz - leader of a motorcycle gang - it is up to Clint and the boys to get him back, by any means necessary...
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    animals  crime  industrial-era  lgbtq  mlm  steamy  western  adult
  • Stealing the Heiress by Samantha Holt

    Stealing the Heiress by Samantha Holt

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She was looking for adventure...Lady Rosamunde Stanley just never expected in the form of a kidnapping.Well, an almost-kidnapping. The dastardly man only went and took the wrong woman!But she soon discovers the dark, handsome man is not quite the terrible rogue she thinks him to be and she decides to put his experience to use...
  • Bloom Town: Genesis by Ally North

    Bloom Town: Genesis by Ally North

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    June, 1852.A preacher’s daughter with a secret. An outlaw running from the gallows. A love story spanning oceans and deserts and years. When Abby Proctor is kidnapped from a train in the middle of the desert halfway to her new life in California, she makes a promise to herself—she will escape...
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    lgbtq  western  steamy  kidnapping  industrial-era  dark  romance  wlw
  • The Lies That Bind by Marshall Thornton

    The Lies That Bind by Marshall Thornton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The eighth book of the best-selling Boystown Mystery Series begins with a phone call in the middle of the night. Private investigator Nick Nowak is pulled into the troubled world of freelance journalist, and all around pain-in-the-ass, Christian Baylor. When Christian can’t stop lying about the corpse in his bathroom things slip slowly out of control...
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    crime  dark  lgbtq  mlm  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • Bloodlines by Marshall Thornton

    Bloodlines by Marshall Thornton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the latest book in the Boystown Mystery series, Private Investigator Nick Nowak finds himself simultaneously working two cases for his new client, law firm Cooke, Babcock and Lackerby. A suburban dentist has just been convicted of murdering her adulterous husband, Nick is asked to interview witnesses for the penalty phase of the trial—and possibly find the dead man’s mistress...
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    crime  dark  lgbtq  mlm  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • McKettricks Bundle by Linda Lael Miller

    McKettricks Bundle by Linda Lael Miller

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can't get enough cowboys? Hooked on the McKettrick Men? Now get three McKettricks --Jesse, Rance, and Keegan --for one low price with the McKettricks Bundle! Bundle includes McKettrick's Heart, McKettrick's Pride, and McKettrick's Luck...
  • Can't Help Falling in Love with an Alien by Chloe Archer

    Can't Help Falling in Love with an Alien by Chloe Archer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    RiverWorking for the Alliance is a sci-fi nerd’s dream–aka mine–come true. I’ve even won the heart of my grumpy-sexy alien boyfriend. Nothing can bring me down, baby. I’m walking on freaking sunshine! Except now one of Kai’s douchey AF exes decides to turn up like a bad case of crabs. I don’t trust him one bit. But I’ve got even bigger problems to worry about...
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    crime  industrial-era  lgbtq  mlm  western  adult  aliens  book
  • Godsend by Sable Hunter

    Godsend by Sable Hunter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Godsend is the first novel in the Hell Yeah! Heritage series. If you ever wondered where those McCoy men came from…these historical novels will take you to their beginnings. Deeply sensual stories of romance and adventure, they will capture your imagination and your heart. History is definitely worth repeating...
  • Heart Sings: Heart Series Book 2 by Luci Dreamer

    Heart Sings: Heart Series Book 2 by Luci Dreamer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happens when someone from Thomas' past threatens her and her family's future?When the Millers begin a new chapter in their lives, not even a year in the harsh environment of the Klondike could have prepared them for the types of obstacles they’ll face. Thomas and Rachel will need to rely on their bond like never before to overcome the threat neither saw coming...
  • Fade Out by Marshall Thornton

    Fade Out by Marshall Thornton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Lambda Award-winning Boystown Mystery series comes to a close with Boystown 13: Fade Out. When a box containing a woman’s corpse shows up at his doorstep, Private Investigator Nick Nowak finds himself accused of murder. The police are convinced it’s Rita Lindquist—a woman who once shot Nick. Their case is thin, but they and the state’s attorney are determined to prosecute him...
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    mlm  lgbtq  crime  dark  romance  mystery  historical  fiction
  • A Narrow Road by Amelia C. Adams

    A Narrow Road by Amelia C. Adams

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With her checkered past, Margaret Smith doesn’t expect that she’ll ever fall in love again. She’s happy as she is, surrounded by good friends, but she still sometimes wonders if there isn’t something more...
  • Prairie Desire by Tessa Layne

    Prairie Desire by Tessa Layne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What’s a guy to do when the girl of his dreams makes a pass at him?Saying no to Hope Hansen was the hardest thing Ben Sinclaire has ever done. Despite their age difference and a family feud, he's loved her since grade school, but a romance between them was always forbidden. Now she’s back and the girl he loved has become all woman...
  • Just a Little Christmas by Merry Farmer

    Just a Little Christmas by Merry Farmer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ‘Tis the season to catch up with some of your favorite couples from The Brotherhood series!Life is good in the safe and sheltered neighborhood of Darlington Gardens, where several members of The Brotherhood have made their home. Niall Cristofori and Blake Williamson are building a new life there with Blake’s daughters...
  • Southern Desire by Danielle Jamie

    Southern Desire by Danielle Jamie

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Point of View of Kayden Knox We fell in love with Kayden Knox in Irresistible Desire, Inescapable Desire, Indestructible Desire and Infinite Desire. After seeing bits and pieces through Kayden’s point of view throughout the Savannah Series readers begged for more. Y'all asked so I delivered...
  • Pushing Limits by Emma Creed

    Pushing Limits by Emma Creed

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Join these dark, dirty, and corrupt cowboys on the Carson's ranch. Where boundaries are pushed, laws are broken and limits get tested... I’m the quiet one,The one who everyone assumes is dead inside.But they're wrong.If you're dead inside you can’t feel pain…And pain is what consumes me.I’ve experienced love.I’ve suffered from it.And I’ve lost it...
  • Eli's Little Easter by Dakota Trace

    Eli's Little Easter by Dakota Trace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The youngest son of the Atheron family, Elias has been a huge disappointment to his overbearing parents, particularly his mother. He’s done everything right, including relocating to another state to head up the office in the newest addition to the family party business, but it still never seems enough. She now wants him to come home for Easter, to reunite with an old flame, which he refuses to do...
  • Savage Desire by Constance O'Banyon

    Savage Desire by Constance O'Banyon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    GOLDEN GODDESS Abducted by two brutes, frightened beyond despair, beauty Mara Golden was elated to be rescued by the tall dark Indian. His bare chest was smooth and rippled with muscle. Soft buckskin hugged his long lean legs, and all she desired was to be crushed in his strong protective arms. She had been courted by countless suitors -- but she had finally found her true love..
  • Renegade Love by Donna Fletcher

    Renegade Love by Donna Fletcher

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rosa’s friend warned her not to look at Esteban Cesare that he was evil and once she looked upon evil she was doomed. But she felt sorry for the handsome ranchero. He had finally returned after having been abducted sixteen years ago by renegades and no one but his family welcomed him home. Rosa didn’t heed her friend’s warning. She looked upon him... and sealed her fate...
  • Her Sexy Cowboy by Mia Brody

    Her Sexy Cowboy by Mia Brody

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s the protective cowboy that will love and defend this single mom and her baby no matter what it takes…BeauI retired from the game I love and sought peace here on my farm, the Broken Heart Ranch. I like my quiet life even if the nights are lonely.Until I find her: the single mom on the run with a baby.She’s battered and exhausted...
  • Captive of the Corsairs by Elizabeth Ellen Carter

    Captive of the Corsairs by Elizabeth Ellen Carter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bluestocking Sophia Green’s future is uncertain. Orphaned as a child and raised by the wealthy Cappleman family, she has become the companion to her attractive younger cousin, Laura, while harboring to her breast an unrequited love for Laura’s diffident brother.Sea captain Kit Hardacre’s past is a mystery – even to him...
  • Burning Season by Rachel Ember

    Burning Season by Rachel Ember

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The year is 1972. Dylan Chase is nineteen, and most days he’s lucky enough to ride a tough bronc, have a beer with his friends, and maybe even sleep under the stars on his family’s third-generation cattle ranch. Dylan’s life would be perfect if it weren’t for his forbidden itch. An itch he’s only scratched once… with Bo, a hitchhiker he never thought he’d see again...
  • Cowboys and Kisses by Karin Kallmaker

    Cowboys and Kisses by Karin Kallmaker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A one-way stage ticket to the frontier leaves a young woman penniless and alone in Long Grass, Wyoming. With no other hope than to survive another day, she takes up the only profession open to her. Years later she encounters the cowboy she can love, and her first taste of pleasure - and happiness...
  • Just a Little Seduction by Merry Farmer

    Just a Little Seduction by Merry Farmer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    David Wirth has made it his life’s work to fight for the rights of those who cannot defend themselves and to navigate England’s choppy legal waters for fellow members of The Brotherhood. Tracking down the three villainous noblemen, including a powerful duke, who have masterminded a child kidnapping ring promises to be the pinnacle of his career seeking justice for the helpless...
  • The Devil Baron by K.J. Jackson

    The Devil Baron by K.J. Jackson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His vengeance depends upon her seduction.Rafe Somner, Lord Winfred, has been planning, meticulously, revenge for the day his father and most of his men were killed. Vengeance upon the four Englishmen that not only killed his father, but once ruined his life, driving his family out of England. Bloodlust demands the four men will be broken in the most brutal way—by taking their women...
  • Siren by Measha Stone

    Siren by Measha Stone

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My father demands I give up my dreams to follow the path he’s set for me, but I want more.And I won’t settle.In exchange for a small favor, my aunt helps get me started on a new path. My path. But I should have known life isn’t that easy. One of my father’s most trusted men catches up with me, and he’s brought a friend.I’m off limits, the boss’ daughter, but that doesn’t stop Bastian or Garrick...
  • Jingled by the Mountain Man by Mia Brody

    Jingled by the Mountain Man by Mia Brody

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Santa is going to be extra naughty with the sweet little elf he’s claimed as his own! SusieSanta just kidnapped me. No, seriously. I’m not drunk on the eggnog. I was at the hospital’s annual Christmas party when the bearded mountain man scooped me up and put me on the back of his motorcycle.He says I’m his, and he’s keeping me.Forever.RogueI saw her. I wanted her. I took her...
  • Dusk's Devotion by V.L. Locey

    Dusk's Devotion by V.L. Locey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can love warm the hearts of two enemies facing the wrath of a Wyoming winter storm?Kyle Abbott is slowly discovering that being midway through his thirties and being married to your job isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. There has to be more to life than random hookups, horses, and cattle...
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    mlm  western  lgbtq  crime  steamy  industrial-era  romance  suspense
  • Wraith by Kathleen Kelly

    Wraith by Kathleen Kelly

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You think you can take what’s mine, and there’ll be no repercussions?I will hunt you.I will torture you.I will make you tell me your secrets, then dispose of you.My daughter is my most precious possession.I will make them regret the day they came near her.I will destroy the Harbingers of Death MC and the Petrov family. They will regret ever having touched what I protect...
  • Love Under Two Lawmen by Cara Covington

    Love Under Two Lawmen by Cara Covington

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As the illegitimate daughter of a kept woman, Amanda Dupree is considered unmarriageable. So she sets her sights on building a career as a private investigator. But when a disgraced businessman threatens to get even, she decides it s a good time leave town. She even has a destination in mind: Waco Texas, the cousin she s never met and a quest for lost Confederate gold...
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    industrial-era  mlm  steamy  western  adult  alpha-mc  book  family
  • Lessons in Power by Charlie Cochrane

    Lessons in Power by Charlie Cochrane

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The ghosts of the past will shape your future. Unless you fight them. Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, Book 4 Cambridge, 1907 After settling in their new home, Cambridge dons Orlando Coppersmith and Jonty Stewart are looking forward to nothing more exciting than teaching their students and playing rugby...
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    crime  industrial-era  lgbtq  mlm  steamy  adult  book  edwardian
  • Deeper by Tory Baker

    Deeper by Tory Baker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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    industrial-era  steamy  western  adult  alpha-mc  book  family  fiction
  • The Earl Returns by Lillian Marek

    The Earl Returns by Lillian Marek

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Earl of Merton is back. Can he stay alive? After three years as an involuntary seaman in the Royal Navy, the Earl of Merton returns to an England roiled by unrest. The end of the war has brought economic hardship and unemployment. Merton starts a shipyard, bringing employment to his neighbors but embarrassment to his family...
  • Innocence & Carnality by J. Alan Veerkamp

    Innocence & Carnality by J. Alan Veerkamp

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    (Please note: This is a re-release with no additional content added.) Innocence is his only currency. The gilded cage of propriety where Nathan grew up as a member of the Deilian aristocracy became a true prison when, at fifteen, his homosexuality came to light and created a terrible scandal...
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    crime  dark  industrial-era  lgbtq  mlm  steamy  abuse  adult
  • The Ballad of Crow & Sparrow by V.L. Locey

    The Ballad of Crow & Sparrow by V.L. Locey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes a man’s biggest blunder can turn into his greatest triumph.Orphaned at fourteen, Crow Poulin now has to hunt and trap the White Mountains of Arizona, as his father had taught him, all alone. It’s a lonely existence, until one morning, while checking his trap line, Crow finds more than a rabbit in a snare. He stumbles across the outlaw Jack Wittington lying half dead in the wilds...
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    crime  dark  industrial-era  lgbtq  mlm  western  adult  book
  • Just a Little Temptation by Merry Farmer

    Just a Little Temptation by Merry Farmer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As the owner of an orphanage in a poor neighborhood of London, Stephen Siddel has the weight of the world, not to mention the care of tender souls, on his shoulders. He is a devoted father to dozens of children and an upstanding member of the community, in spite of his rivalry with the local nuns...
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    crime  dark  industrial-era  lgbtq  mlm  steamy  abuse  adult
  • The Prize by Beth Williamson

    The Prize by Beth Williamson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What do you do when love gives you a second chance at life? Jack Malloy is haunted. Haunted by memories, he tries to escape the dreams that have stolen his sleep for six months by agreeing to help out his sister Nicky. Unfortunately, time at her ranch offers him no escape when he's confronted by Rebecca Connor's beautiful gray eyes...
  • A Prescription for Love by Callie Hutton

    A Prescription for Love by Callie Hutton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Guthrie, Oklahoma, 1903. Betrayed by his fiancee's infidelity eight years ago, pharmacist Michael Henderson vowed he'd never risk his heart again. But he doesn't anticipate the tug of attraction he shares with his new employee. Heidi Lester flees her home, determined to prove to her overprotective parents she can conquer her debilitating asthma, to make a life of her own...
  • Horse of a Different Color by Austin Bates

    Horse of a Different Color by Austin Bates

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “He’s the omega I didn’t even know I was looking for.” Kohen Russell is a farm boy, through and through. He’s been riding horses and tending the land on the family farm since he was a teenager - and with their corn maze being the best in the state, it’s a lot of land to tend...
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    animals  industrial-era  lgbtq  mlm  western  adult  audiobook  book
  • Spirit's Song by Madeline Baker

    Spirit's Song by Madeline Baker

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She was a runaway wife, with a hefty reward posted for her return. And he was the best darn tracker in the territory. For the half-breed bounty hunter, it was an easy choice. His had been a hard life, with little to show for it except his horse, his Colt, and his scars. The pampered, brown-eyed beauty would go back to her rich husband in San Francisco, and he would be ten thousand dollars richer...
  • The Treasure by Beth Williamson

    The Treasure by Beth Williamson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a clumsy governess from New York meets a lonely, bitter rancher, more than her heart will fall. Book 4 of the Malloy family series. Ray Malloy is a single father in an age when every child has two parents. Abandoned by his shallow wife, he struggles to find the balance between being a father and being a successful rancher...
  • The Reward by Beth Williamson

    The Reward by Beth Williamson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His family thought him dead. Returning home to confront his past, the bastard bandito, Hermano, finds a future he never dared to hope for. Book 3 of the Malloy family series. Hermano is more than the bandito you met in The Bounty. He's Malcolm Ross y Zarza half-Spanish, half-Scottish bastard son of a Texas hacienda owner who has hidden in the guise of a Mexican bandito for half his life...
  • Vaughn by Emma Lang

    Vaughn by Emma Lang

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A con man. A rancher’s daughter. A wildfire out of control. Elizabeth Graham spends her days running the business side of the Circle Eight ranch. Her knack for numbers and organization lent themselves to her position in the family. She has just turned twenty-one and doubts she will find a man to spend her life with...
  • Leah and the Bounty Hunter by Elaine Levine

    Leah and the Bounty Hunter by Elaine Levine

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He won't rest until he claims his prize... They are brash, they are brave, and when they see a chance to be a hero, they take it. They are the Men of Defiance, and they are not easily tamed... To Leah Morgan's mind, the last thing her hometown of Defiance needs is another gunman stalking its dusty streets—especially one as sweet-talking and fine-looking as Jace Gage...
  • Lessons in Seduction by Charlie Cochrane

    Lessons in Seduction by Charlie Cochrane

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This time, one touch could destroy everything... Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, Book 6 The suspected murder of the king's ex-mistress is Cambridge dons Orlando Coppersmith and Jonty Stewart's most prestigious case yet. And the most challenging, since clues are as hard to come by as the killer's possible motive...
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    crime  industrial-era  lgbtq  mlm  steamy  adult  book  edwardian
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