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Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLiving by their wits in the steamy slums of Bahia, a gang of orphans and runaways, led by fifteen-year-old "Bullet," spend their time stealing from Brazil's rich and privileged until public outcry demands their capture...Categorized as:
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Redeeming The Rose by Emilia Finn
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLife is about checks and balances. People hurt people, and often, they die. Even as a paramedic, I can’t save everyone, but that doesn’t mean I’m not gonna try.My baby sister was a sick child. Her illnesses were the reason I chose the career I did, but her innocence and fragility also made me a man who refuses to let her live her life without my guiding hand... -
Wildcard by Emilia Finn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMy name is Ben Conner. I’m a pro fighter, the son of a murderous wifebeater, overprotective big brother, and Evelyn Kincaid’s best friend. I’ve known Evie since we were kids. I loathed her on first sight, and picked on her as often as she picked on me, but somewhere around my fifteenth birthday, my dislike was replaced with something else. It was foreign and new, potent and exciting...Categorized as:
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Gunnar: A Motorcycle Club Romance by Nina Levine
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratings𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙧 & 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙣'𝙨 𝙙𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧.𝙎𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙣 𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙚𝙨.𝙊𝙣𝙚 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜.Chelsea Novak is the kind of fire I should stay away from.She’s also the only kind of fire I’ve ever craved.Instead of extinguishing her from my life, I’ve thrown gasoline.Now we’re burning hotter and too fucking bright...Categorized as:
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Love on the Outskirts of Town by Zoe York
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMatt Foster has never met a woman he couldn’t seduce into his bed. But when he meets Natasha Kingsley, there’s just one little problem—she’s not alone. Her three-year-old daughter wants a pony ride, an ice cream cone, and help to reach the highest rungs of the climbers at the park... -
Fractured Minds by Nikki J. Summers
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFinn KnowlesThe rebel without a voice. That’s me.But just because I choose to keep quiet, doesn’t mean there isn’t a raging fire burning inside. Still waters run deep, after all, and there’s a lot of secrets I’ve kept hidden from the world.Art has always been my escape from the evil that’s tried to drag me down.It was all I had.Until her... -
Down & Dirty: Diesel by Jeanne St. James
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWelcome to Shadow Valley where the Dirty Angels MC rules. Get ready to get Down & Dirty because this is Diesel’s story…She calls him “The Beast.”Diesel, the MC’s Sergeant at Arms and enforcer, is tasked with not only keeping the club’s property and its members safe, but also taking care of “business” when needed...Categorized as:
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Dotted Lines by Devney Perry
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsClara Saint-James is completing a journey started by an old friend. She’ll return a Cadillac to California, a place she’s avoided for more than a decade. But it’s time for closure and to put old ghosts to rest. And it’s time to find out if the feelings she’s cherished for the boy from her past are just fanciful memories—or if there’s a chance they are real... -
Redeeming Ryker by Kelly Collins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsImagine finding out that everything about your life is a lie. Imagine falling for the man who thinks he killed you. Imagine having to remain dead so you can keep him. Twenty-four-year-old Ana Barrett knows who she is. She’s a struggling artist, a loyal friend, an orphan raised by loving grandparents...Categorized as:
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Take A Chance With Me by Kristen Proby
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA friends to lovers, soulmates story from Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author Kristen Proby, set in her beloved With Me In Seattle Series!Cameron Cox has mastered the art of keeping secrets. His talent for computer hacking means he’s been recruited for highly classified jobs since leaving the military. He travels the world, risking his life...Categorized as:
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Forgiving Keven: A Stand-Alone Second Chance Romance by Siobhan Davis, Sara Eirew
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe’s the one who got away. He’s the boy she can’t forget… Cheryl They say you never forget your first love, but I’m determined to prove Keven Kennedy is just a random boy from my past. It’s not like I still think about him after all this time. Or daydream about how hot his kisses were and what it felt like to have his hands on my skin. Nope, that’s not me... -
Junior For The Mountain Man by K.C. Crowne
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMy sister's gorgeous best friend and her little boy are in serious trouble.Now, I can't rest until I know the two of them are safe.I'm not afraid to show those scums they never should have set foot on these mountains.My mountains.Combat may have left me broken...But Piper's surprising return woke my passion for life again.Now, men with a death wish want to cause her and her little boy harm... -
One Way Ticket by Tricia O'Malley
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Tropical Romance NovelNY Times & USA Today bestselling author, Tricia O’Malley’s latest romance is a funny and heart-pounding story where booking a one-way ticket to paradise means starting over, letting go, and taking a chance on love…one more time...Categorized as:
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My Silent Daughter by Emma Robinson
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsYour daughter will not speak… But can she teach you how to live?Ever since Ruby was tiny, she has been unique. Her smiles are magically rare, her building blocks are always colour-coded, and she communicates only in gestures. Sometimes, being Ruby’s mother is hard, but the way she sees the world makes it new for Sara every day... -
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Down & Dirty: Jag by Jeanne St. James
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWelcome to Shadow Valley where the Dirty Angels MC rules. Get ready to get Down & Dirty because this is Jag’s story… The only thing Jag, DAMC Road Captain, loves more than his custom bike is Ivy. He’s wanted her ever since he could remember. However, through the years, he’s had to watch her date anyone but him...Categorized as:
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Villa of Sun and Secrets by Jennifer Bohnet
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCarla Sullivan’s 50th birthday is fast approaching when her whole world is turned upside down. Discovering her feckless husband is having yet another affair and following her mother’s death, she is in need of an escape. Finding an envelope addressed to her mother’s estranged sister Josette in the South of France gives Carla the perfect plan... -
Inked Craving: Montgomery Ink: Fort Collins by Carrie Ann Ryan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Montgomery Ink saga from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan continues with a friends to lovers romance that breaks all of their own rules.Instead of walking away with a marriage proposal, Paige Montgomery ended up broken hearted and pregnant.Now she has to figure out how to begin her life again alone... -
Grand Lake Colorado Series: A Complete Small Town Contemporary Romance Collection by Alexis Winter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA never before published collection of small-town romances from best-selling author Alexis Winter.Lose yourself in each emotional, Kindle melting story. Whether you enjoy second chances, single dads, men in uniform or secret, forbidden love stories you'll enjoy every last word of this complete collection...Categorized as:
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Inked Devotion: Montgomery Ink: Fort Collins by Carrie Ann Ryan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Montgomery Ink saga from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan continues with a road trip romance between two friends running from their past.Brenna Garrett watched her best friend fall in love with another woman all the while keeping his darkest secrets from her. Now she’ll have to figure out who she is without him while not letting the rest of the Montgomerys see her break... -
Give Me the Weekend by Weston Parker
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat do I look like, a baby machine?I swear all my family wants from me is kids. Or at least my mother does.But I'm the black sheep of the family. The one that left for bigger and better things.No farm for me. I'm a self-made billionaire bad boy now.Real Estate is the game and making money is my thing...Categorized as:
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HATE ME AGAIN: a bad boy romance novel by Jaxson Kidman
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSHE CAN'T GET ENOUGH. I'M JUST GETTING STARTED Hey, beautiful. I'm back again. One more time. You know what happened between myself and Violet already. Now it's six months later. I'm a changed man, but not in the way you think. And Violet thinks she can run back to her old high school flame to chase my memory away. That's impossible to do. Once you're with me, you never forget me...Categorized as:
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Royal Games by T.K. Leigh
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEvery girl dreams of falling in love with a prince.When I met Jeremy, I thought he was my prince.Caring. Compassionate. Sensitive.And, unfortunately for me... Not attracted to women.So here I am, thirty years old and divorced when most of my friends are just getting married. In desperate need of a restart, I set off on a road trip to learn how to love myself again...Categorized as:
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A Better Man: A Small Town Surprise Pregnancy Romance by Carrie Elks
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe’s his addiction. He’s her escape.Logan Hartson is gorgeous, successful, and has a smile that’ll knock a woman off her feet. And from the moment Courtney Roberts meets him on a dirt road, the chemistry sizzles between them.Everything about them is wrong. He’s city, she’s country.He owns expensive restaurants. She runs a small farm... -
Inked Obsession by Carrie Ann Ryan
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Montgomery Ink saga from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan continues with a second chance romance sure to tug at your heartstrings.When men in uniform showed up on Eliza Wilder-Strong’s doorstep, she knew her life would be irrevocably altered. She not only lost her husband, but the future she’d carefully planned... -
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Shameless by Abby Brooks
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJack Cooper’s a devoted single dad just trying to make it through the morning without burning breakfast. Raising three small children on his own, who can blame him? As a result, his life is all about lists and rules and boundaries. Meanwhile, I’m a shameless free spirit always looking for signs from the universe.And Jack? He's a sign. No doubt...Categorized as:
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Find Me by Tiffany Snow
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs the head of the government’s secret Vigilance spy program, computer guru China Mack already has her hands full when her billionaire boyfriend, Jackson Cooper, asks for one of them in marriage.Thrown for a loop by the sudden proposal, China’s usually well-ordered life takes another hit when someone tries to assassinate the president...Categorized as:
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Break Me by Tiffany Snow
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJust a few weeks ago, computer prodigy China Mack’s typical night in involved Endor Star Wars pajamas and a sensible bedtime. Now she’s dating gorgeous tech guru Jackson Cooper—one of Forbes’s Top Ten Eligible Billionaires—much to the Twitterverse’s delight.Turns out, going from socially inept hermit to poster girl for geek chic has its challenges...Categorized as:
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My Father's Best Friend by Ali Parker, Weston Parker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom USA Today Best Selling Author, Ali Parker... Everyone seems to be in love but me. Why is that? Relationship after relationship and nothing. I’m always the bridesmaid, but never the bride. It’s getting old. Fast. And just at the moment I start to give up, he walks into my life. Sexy, strong, older. One of my students' father... -
Letters of Freedom : The Carmel Sheehan Story - Book 1 by Jean Grainger
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSomewhere between the light and the shadow, the cared for and the unloved, stands Carmel Sheehan. Cast off as a ward of the Irish state, Carmel enters adulthood a broken woman. Yearning for a sense of belonging and in desperation to find her place in the world, Carmel agrees to a marriage of convenience, and resigns herself to a quiet and unfulfilled life... -
One Last Summer by Victoria Connelly
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThey have the whole summer ahead of them. Is it enough to rekindle the friendship they once shared? Harriet Greenleaf dreams of spending the summer in a beautiful ancient priory on the Somerset coast with her two best friends—but her dream is bittersweet... -
Beyond Words by Abby Brooks
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat is it that makes us fall in love?A beautiful soul? A great sense of humor?What about a gorgeous body or smile?For me, it’s all of those things wrapped into one.Only this time…they aren’t. On the same day I lose my job, my house, and all hope for the future, I also lose my journal.And the worst part...the most awful, can't bring myself to say it out loud part is...HE found it.HE read it.And..Categorized as:
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Chasing the Stars by Virginie Grimaldi
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis journey could change everything...Maybe if she hadn't lost her job, Anna would never have dreamed of being so impulsive. Or perhaps if Chloe wasn't always having her heart broken, or if Lily was happy at school. But when Anna realises that her family is falling apart, only a grand, spontaneous gesture will do...Categorized as:
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If I'd Known by Paige P. Horne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTime is a thief they say, and if you’re not careful it’ll slip right past you, taking everything you hold dear in this world with it.It was the summer of 1972 when I first laid eyes on him.Cynthia Rose probably got more than she bargained for when she came to my door step asking to write about my story. Our story...Categorized as:
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Coming Home by Katy Regnery, Amy Harmon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors KL Grayson, BT Urruela, Amy Harmon, Heidi McLaughlin, Kallypso Masters and Katy Regnery comes a charity collection of military romances about what it means to come home. Just in time for Memorial Day, and only available until June 5th, you can purchase all five award-winning and bestselling novels in one amazing collection...Categorized as:
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Don't Speak by Dyan Layne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe heart always knows what it wants.Molly wants him. He wants her.She loves him the mostest. Aidan loves her more.Even though he shouldn’t.He’s heard the whispers. Nothing but a tragedy. A freak who hasn’t spoken since he was five.And her stepbrother.The heart always knows what it wants.He loved her anyway.But their world isn’t safe.Nightmares are real. The boogeyman exists...Categorized as:
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Gunny by MariaLisa deMora, Kayla Robichaux
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShattered following a devastating betrayal that results in the death of his friends, Lane Robinson finds himself in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a world away from his previous life as a Marine. Robinson is trying to forget the past, but healing from the deadly deceit that cut blood deep is hard, and memories of that treachery taint every interaction in his life... -
The Girl in the Mirror by Susan Ward
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Girl in the Mirror is the third standalone books in the Sand & Fog series. This book has a HEA. ONE-CLICK now at the 99cents pre-order sale price. I don’t know why what happened to me shocks people. Everything about me is perfectly logical. Down to my three obsessions: ballet, sex, and food. Yep, food, though it might seem strange to put that one on that list, but it isn’t, not really... -
Back to You by Claudia Y. Burgoa
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor the first time in his life, Wes Ahern has encountered something—someone—he can’t fix. Not with his hands, his words, not even with his love. His head tells him Abby had to get out of Colorado to heal from the nightmare that nearly took her from him. To mend her wounded body, piece her broken spirit back together, and find out who she is behind the mask she felt forced to wear...Categorized as:
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Maybe It's Fate by Ajme Williams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI was on my way in my high heels looking like a boss babe…Ready to prove to the world that I could make it on my own.And then…A hot businessman turned my world upside down.I was shocked too.Mainly because that hot businessman was my brother’s best friend.He lied about being married to me.I lied about not being in love with him.It was like just any other modern mess...Categorized as:
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Smoldered: A brother’s best friend/single dad/hot firefighter romance by Annie Dyer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“I didn’t find it weird. It wasn’t like kissing a sister or something. I realized that when you were video calling the other night I wasn’t thinking about you like I would do a sister.”“You know why that it?” She stepped towards him. “Because I’m not your sister...Categorized as:
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Shaken by Annie Dyer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe can save her life, but can he save her heart as well...Abby Walker arrived in Severton searching for her sister. Two years later, she’s the one being hunted.Life as a cop in a small town shouldn’t include protecting tiny blonde bartenders from big city gangs, but Alex Maynard won’t ever let the bad guys win. The quietest of the Maynard family, he refuses to let anything blur his lines...Categorized as:
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Hardcore by Jessika Klide
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this eagerly anticipated flashback installment and the first book from Aurei’s perspective, Jessika Klide takes you back to the very beginning before Siri, when Aurei was known as Hardcore. Aurelius Moore … Military officer. Maximus Moore … Millionaire Venture Capitalist. Hardcore … Player extraordinaire. Learn how Seary changed him forever... -
Stand By Your Man: A Bad Boy Rancher Love Story by Ali Parker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom USA Today Best Selling Author Ali Parker Me and my brothers have a reputation around town. And it ain’t a good one. We’re not so bad, though. Working hard for our father’s ranch by day and chasing skirts by night. It’s what Texas cowboys do. But someone is trying to f*ck with our crops, and when I find him, he’s gonna wish I hadn’t...Categorized as:
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Drummer Boy by Dyan Layne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBo Robertson. The drummer. 34. Leo.Everybody loves him, yet no one’s ever chosen him to love.He wants to be someone’s everything, and for that someone to be his.Ava Liane Harris. The babysitter. 21. Aries.The beautiful girl who hides behind her glasses. She knows better than to look for love, yet love finds her anyway.A six-week concert tour. An epic adventure. A summer of possibilities... -
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Baring it All by Tory Baker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI live life for the thrills and Stormy is straight adrenaline.She goes straight to my… heart. If there’s one girl out there I shouldn’t mess with, it’s Stormy.Everything about her screams off limits.She’s too young, hurting from being screwed over, and my niece’s best friend. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no saint.But this girl is the biggest temptation I’ve ever had...Categorized as:
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Brides and Bouquets At Cedarwood Lodge by Rebecca Raisin
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChristmas has come to Cedarwood Lodge in the second part of the feel-good romance serial from best selling author, Rebecca Raisin! Dreaming of a happily ever after at Cedarwood Lodge is Clio Winters’ current focus, especially with a winter wonderland wedding expo planned...Categorized as:
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The Billion Dollar Baby: A Billionaire Romance by Stella Andrews
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt should have been easy. It was all about Revenge. I had one woman to find. Marry her and put my baby in her belly. Clinical. Cold. Ruthless. That's me. My father's son. Then I met her. Sydney Lawrence. All American Girl. Goddess. Broken Angel. "It is more important that innocence is protected than it is that guilt be punished." Guess what? I didn't listen...Categorized as:
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Marry Me For Money: A Billionaire Fake Fiance Novel by Ali Parker
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom USA Today Best Selling Author Ali Parker I need a wife. Now. It doesn’t have to do with love and living the good life. This is all about getting the money my billionaire father left to me. And I’m running out of time. But who proposes to a stranger after the first date? Me. That’s who. As if I have another choice... -
The Truce by Mario Benedetti
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratings'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.' Forty-nine, with a kind face, no serious ailments (apart from varicose veins on his ankles), a good salary, and three moody children, widowed accountant Martín Santomé is about to retire. He assumes he'll take up gardening, or the guitar, or whatever retired people generally do...Categorized as:
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A Thousand Miles by Bridget Morrissey
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter a decade of silence, Dee and Ben reunite for a road trip they once promised to take. It's going to be a bumpy ride. Dee Matthews is the cohost of the smash-hit podcast Did I Forget To Tell You?, where she interviews family, friends, and past lovers. Nothing is off limits, except for one man (known on the show only as Name Redacted) who happens to be her high school best friend Ben...Categorized as:
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