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  • Doing It Right: A Second Chance, Single Parent Romance by Harloe Rae

    Doing It Right: A Second Chance, Single Parent Romance by Harloe Rae

    Rated: 4.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “This doesn’t have to be the end for us.”Except it was.What did we know about happily ever after at the age of eighteen?Mason Braxter was a football legend—destined for glory far bigger than the confines of our small town. Meanwhile, I had dreams of my own—a simpler life that included staying put and growing roots.And all those plans of mine were going splendidly...
  • The Wicked Truth by Melissa Foster

    The Wicked Truth by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Scorching heat, laugh-out-loud humor, and swoon-worthy moments abound in this sexy new standalone romance by New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melissa Foster. What happens when you’re not looking for love, but it walks in the door? Madigan Wicked’s heart is not up for grabs. She’s been there, done that, and she’s not going back for seconds...
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    family  female-mc  humor  multi-pov  steamy  adult  billionaire  book
  • Whisper of Love by Melissa Foster

    Whisper of Love by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Bradens are a series of stand-alone romances that may also be enjoyed as part of the larger Love in Bloom series. Tempest Braden adores her family and her small hometown, but sometimes too much of a good thing can be confining...
  • Royal by Cee Bowerman

    Royal by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A favor for his twin brother put Royal Conner under the spotlight. The highest bidder won and she’s nothing like he thought she’d be. One look and he’s smitten, one conversation and he’s intrigued, one kiss and he’s lost.Paula has too much on her plate to deal with a man...
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    family  humor  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  small-town
  • Curl It Up: The Donovans by Cee Bowerman

    Curl It Up: The Donovans by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A failed marriage and single parenthood are enough to bring the strongest woman down, but Jolie Donovan refuses to let the choices she made when she was younger define her life...
  • A Secret Baby for the Grumpy Cowboy by Hanna Hart

    A Secret Baby for the Grumpy Cowboy by Hanna Hart

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sullen cowboy billionaire Topher was the only Rolston brother that thought his small town of Isabel was the last place he would end up. Little did he know, that wasn’t the only surprise waiting for him there….His very successful jump racing event lead him back to living in Texas and inevitably to his old, abandoned ranch...
  • Not Part of the Plan by Lucy Score

    Not Part of the Plan by Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon bestselling author comes a new installment to the Blue Moon small town romance series. A womanizing bad boy with a motorcycle and sexy-as-sin smile is not part of Emma’s life plan. She moved cross-country to be close to family and finally settle down in hippie, trippy, nosey Blue Moon Bend...
  • Mutts & Magnolias by Rachel Hanna

    Mutts & Magnolias by Rachel Hanna

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In book 9 of the USA Today bestselling South Carolina Sunsets series...A new resident moves to town to take over his late grandfather's veterinary business. Will he find the love of his life or a woman who drives him nuts?Meanwhile, Dawson and Julie find out some disturbing news about their son.Janine and William anxiously wait for a birthmother to choose them...
  • Cherry Beats by Vicki James

    Cherry Beats by Vicki James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Bon Jovi. Bryan Adams. Presley West. My favourite men of music. Only one of them within reach. The night before Presley West was due to leave our small town of Hollings Hill, all of my high school fantasies came to life. He finally wanted me...
  • Redeeming Lottie by Melissa Ellen

    Redeeming Lottie by Melissa Ellen

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Things I never planned on happening in my life: Getting married, being a mother to a house full of kids, and returning to my small hometown of Billingsley, Texas. I especially never planned on seeing Tucker Monroe again. Sexy smile. Country charm. A man and a life I left behind for a reason. The only plan I had for myself was my career...
  • Time for Love by Marie Force

    Time for Love by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Dr. David Lawrence has spent the last two years atoning for his sins and recovering from the devastating breakup with Gansett Island golden girl Janey McCarthy. As the island's only doctor, he's had ample opportunity to show his fellow island residents that there's more to him than the guy who disappointed Janey so profoundly...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  medical  multi-pov  steamy  abuse  adult  audiobook
  • Bad to the Bone by Roxanne St. Claire

    Bad to the Bone by Roxanne St. Claire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Trace Bancroft has been in prison for fourteen years, paying for a mistake that cost a man his life. Now released, Trace heads back to Bitter Bark with his mutt, Meatball, and runs into Daniel Kilcannon, who offers to provide some medical care for the dog. Trace knows that would mean seeing Molly Kilcannon, a girl who shared one crazy night with him before his life took a turn for the worst...
  • At Home in Wishing Bridge by Ruth Logan Herne

    At Home in Wishing Bridge by Ruth Logan Herne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ruth Logan Herne, the bestselling author of Welcome to Wishing Bridge, invites readers back to the small town where big dreams come true. After surviving the streets of South Philly, Thea Anastas never thought she’d wind up working in rural New York. But a call from a friend in need convinced the nurse practitioner to make the trip...
  • The Life We Wanted by Kelsey Kingsley

    The Life We Wanted by Kelsey Kingsley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "You have too many rules.""And you don't have enough." Sebastian Moore thought he had it all. A drumming gig with one of the world’s biggest up-and-coming stars. The looks and charm to get him any woman he laid his eyes on. All the friends he could ever ask for. But something was always missing...
  • We're Made of Moments by Molly McLain

    We're Made of Moments by Molly McLain

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    We were made of moments. A handful of nights.Two weeks of passion.Four years of denial. Jesse She was never mine to keep, but I took every second that girl was willing to give me.I always knew she’d go back to him.But I never expected she’d take a piece of me with her. -- Hayden He changed my life forever, and it happened long before our two weeks together.I didn’t mean to fall for him...
  • Finding Acceptance by Christine Gael

    Finding Acceptance by Christine Gael

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Anna Sullivan has just found out that she has another sister…And the news is rocking her world. As she tries to come to grips with her mother’s infidelity and the knowledge that Pop wasn’t her biological father, she loses sight of the fact that there is another person in this equation. Her half-sister, Nikki, who didn’t ask for any of this either...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  humor  religion  spirituality  adult  book  breakup
  • Runaway to Romance by Cathryn Brown

    Runaway to Romance by Cathryn Brown

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “Southern ladies didn’t make a scene. Her mother would tell her to march her hiney back into that church and marry the man.”Cassie’s in her wedding dress and ready to walk down the aisle. Minutes later, she’s a runaway bride on her way to nowhere. Two Hearts, Tennessee, fits that description perfectly.She’s also a wedding planner...
  • Married by Monday by Cathryn Brown

    Married by Monday by Cathryn Brown

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Neither of them wants to get married, especially not to each other.Isabella visits her friend Cassie in Two Hearts, Tennessee. Bella’s ready to go back to the city almost as soon as she arrives. And she has a situation to take care of when she gets home.Micah may want to stay in his small town, but his family has other plans for him. He has two choices to solve his problem...
  • Crazy by Adriana Locke

    Crazy by Adriana Locke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    USA Today Bestselling author Adriana Locke brings laughter and love in this friends-to-lovers, small town romance. Love is crazy.Peck Ward, the sweet, small-town mechanic, isn't sure it's for everyone. Least of all him. His life is chaotic enough without adding the pressure of a relationship. Besides, unrequited love is a real thing and he's kind of over it...
  • Tangle by Adriana Locke

    Tangle by Adriana Locke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sparks fly between a die-hard romantic and a sexy cynic in this fresh, funny romance from USA Today bestselling author Adriana Locke. That cream-filled, caramel-topped doughnut should have been hers. Still, Haley Raynor can’t deny that the pastry thief with the dreamy blue eyes looks even more delicious...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  humor  multi-pov  steamy  adult  audiobook  book
  • A Seagrove Christmas by Rachel Hanna

    A Seagrove Christmas by Rachel Hanna

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It's time for Christmas in Seagrove!Are you ready to catch up with your favorite characters on the tiny lowcountry island of Seagrove, SC?When we last left off, there was a big wedding and an addition to the family...
  • Keep Holding On by Melissa Tagg

    Keep Holding On by Melissa Tagg

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Swoon-worthy Romance. Small-town Charm.  Best friends reunite in Tagg's latest novel of second chances and enduring love.   Beckett Walker hasn't stepped foot in Maple Valley in years. There's no getting past the painful memories, and there's every chance he'll be arrested as soon as he shows his face. Which is exactly what happens when he finally returns...
  • A Change of Heart by Hannah Ellis

    A Change of Heart by Hannah Ellis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She was never meant to fall for her best friend’s brother...Seren has had a soft spot for her best friend’s brother for as long as she can remember. But when she starts to see Kit as more than just a friend, she knows she’s on dangerous ground.Avoiding him is probably her best course of action, but that’s easier said than done when you live on a tiny island...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  humor  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Reunited in Good Hope by Cindy Kirk

    Reunited in Good Hope by Cindy Kirk

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He remembers the heat. She remembers the heartbreak. Twenty years later do they still have a shot at love? When an injury puts NFL star Krew Slattery’s future in question, he returns to his hometown of Good Hope. He plans to lay low, until he runs into Cassie Lohmeier. Krew has never forgotten the one amazing night they shared, and unfortunately for him, Cassie hasn’t either..
  • One Hundred Promises by Kelly Collins

    One Hundred Promises by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Join Bestselling Author Kelly Collins on another trip to Aspen Cove where anything is possible when it comes to love… Aspen Cove, Colorado, isn’t on Lydia Nichols’s wish list when she finishes her residency at Denver General Hospital, but life delivered several surprising blows. Her long-time boyfriend, who was also her boss, moved on with a nurse and took Lydia’s job with him. No boyfriend...
  • One Hundred Christmas Kisses by Kelly Collins

    One Hundred Christmas Kisses by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kelly Collins invites you to celebrate a small town Christmas in Aspen Cove, where North Star wishes and love’s first kisses have the power to heal. It’s been a decade since veterinarian Charlotte Parker has been home to Aspen Cove. After the death of her mother, she hasn’t been able to bring herself to face her painful past. But if ever there’s a time to start over, it’s Christmas...
  • Hoping for Love by Marie Force

    Hoping for Love by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    All her life, Grace Ryan was the “fat girl.” Taunted and teased and ignored by her peers, she tried every diet ever invented to no avail. Desperate to change her life as her twenties slipped away, she decided it was time for drastic measures and had lap-band surgery. More than a year later, she's lost 130 pounds and is venturing into the dating world for the first time...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  humor  multi-pov  steamy  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook
  • Finding Forgiveness: A Bluebird Bay Novel by Christine Gael

    Finding Forgiveness: A Bluebird Bay Novel by Christine Gael

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sasha's secret is finally out...And Gabe isn't taking it well. With a baby on the way, they have to figure out how to make their marriage work, but after all the lies, the trust is gone. Can Gabe find it in his heart to forgive her, or will their brand new marriage crumble before it even gets off the ground?Meanwhile, the Sullivan sisters are trying to pick up the pieces after Pop's death...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  humor  religion  spirituality  adult  book  breakup
  • My Twist of Fortune (The Greene Family) by Piper Rayne

    My Twist of Fortune (The Greene Family) by Piper Rayne

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Two aching hearts. A meddling small town. A second chance.It’s not a new story. Wife finds out husband’s been cheating on her and she packs up her four kids and heads back to her hometown, Sunrise Bay, Alaska.Yeah, not a fresh start, but thousands of miles away from my ex will do just fine. I’m prepared for the cold weather, the early snowfalls, and dark days and nights...
  • How to Kiss a Movie Star by Jenny Proctor

    How to Kiss a Movie Star by Jenny Proctor

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He’s Hollywood’s biggest star. She wouldn’t know him from the pizza delivery guy.I’m a wildlife biologist in a tiny mountain town, not some kind of law-breaking celebrity stalker. At least not on purpose.It was an accident when I wandered onto the property of one of Hollywood’s hottest movie stars. Five minutes ago, I'd never even heard of Flint Hawthorne...
  • Finding Forever by Christine Gael

    Finding Forever by Christine Gael

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Come spend some time with the Sullivan sisters and their families in Bluebird Bay...Max Burrows thought she'd finally found "the one". But when Tyler gets the opportunity of a lifetime and leaves Bluebird Bay for Paris, she can't bring herself to join him. She worked like a dog to make her own dream come true by opening the bookstore, and she won't give that up. Not for Tyler.Not for anyone...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  humor  religion  spirituality  adult  book  breakup
  • Don't You Wanna Stay by Kait Nolan

    Don't You Wanna Stay by Kait Nolan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Money Pit meets Fixer Upper in the next installment of the Men of the Misfit Inn series. After a lifetime spent trying to prove he's not a screw-up, contractor Wyatt Sullivan is ready to take his YouTube channel, DIWyatt, to the big time. But he needs more than the one-man flips that built his reputation...
  • Loving the Entertainer by Cami Checketts

    Loving the Entertainer by Cami Checketts

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A famous hotshot and the woman who broke his heart.Being famous isn’t enough for Sawyer, he has to make everyone around him famous. When the woman who told him he’d never be enough comes back into town it’s time to show her all she’s missing out on...
  • Ain't She Sweet by Marie Force

    Ain't She Sweet by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The latest Green Mountain Romance from the The New York Times bestselling author of It’s Only Love.Charlotte “Charley” Abbott has gone out with every guy under thirty-five in Butler, Vermont—except for one. Tyler Westcott’s attempts to date her may be determined, and frequent, but Charley can’t stand how he acts like he knows her better than she knows herself...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  humor  medical  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Craft by Adriana Locke

    Craft by Adriana Locke

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    An Amazon Top 15 Bestseller  They're not quite enemies. Not really friends. More like frustrated balls of sexual tension and neither will give in.Lance Gibson drives Mariah Malarkey absolutely crazy. He uses her office like a phone booth, takes cupcakes from the corner of her desk like she baked them just for him. She didn't...
  • Saltwater Cove by Amelia Addler

    Saltwater Cove by Amelia Addler

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Second chances...and the secrets that sabotage them. At 48 years old, Margie Clifton never expected to be starting her life all over again. But when her brother gifts her a property on San Juan Island, that’s exactly what she decides to do. After all, it’s the perfect place to start a new business venture, provide a second home for her adult children, and recover from her nasty divorce...
  • Reputation by Adriana Locke

    Reputation by Adriana Locke

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Coy Mason is a jerk.If there is one truth that Bellamy Davenport knows, it’s that. Hands-down. (Well, that and the fact that she didn’t mean to hurt him. Physically. Coy can’t be hurt emotionally because he doesn’t have a heart.)Coy is not just the small-town, literal boy-next-door...
  • 32 Rowan Blvd by Kelsey Kingsley

    32 Rowan Blvd by Kelsey Kingsley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Get married.Buy a house.Have a baby.That's every girl's dream, isn't it? Well, maybe not every girl, but for Christy Bush, it was.So, when her boyfriend realized he didn't want any of those things, the obvious answer was to set him free and find a man who did...
  • Tangled Up In You by Barbara Freethy

    Tangled Up In You by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Detective Adam Cole has been a loner for as long as he can remember. He's very good at protecting people. He's great at being a friend, but relationships that go beyond that—not so much. A darkness in his past prevents him from making himself open and vulnerable...
  • After You: A Sapphire Falls Novel by Erin Nicholas

    After You: A Sapphire Falls Novel by Erin Nicholas

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ~ The next great love story from Sapphire Falls ~ Only one thing has not gone according to Kyle Ames’s grand life plan. Hannah McIntire. She was his first love, the woman he planned to marry, the one that got away—all that romantic crap. Two years ago, Hannah broke his heart. Which has been, well, not exactly fine, but he’s handling it because he doesn’t have to see her every day...
  • Tie the Knot in Good Hope by Cindy Kirk

    Tie the Knot in Good Hope by Cindy Kirk

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Love always finds a way… Lindsay Lohmeier’s life is no bed of roses. After struggling at a job she loved, but ultimately lost, she opened her own florist shop in Good Hope. Her budding business won’t be her only new addition. Lindsay is pregnant. While she’s happy to open her heart to her baby, opening up to the father is another story...
  • Bachelor Games in Good Hope by Cindy Kirk

    Bachelor Games in Good Hope by Cindy Kirk

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bring on the Bachelor Games His latest girlfriend may not have broken his heart, but she sure as heck wounded his pride. Clay Chapin has looks, money and a knack for picking the wrong women. When the matchmaking matriarch of Good Hope insists she can find him the perfect woman, Clay figures he has nothing to lose by playing along...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  humor  religion  spirituality  adult  book  classics
  • The Inn on Mirror Lake by Debbie Mason

    The Inn on Mirror Lake by Debbie Mason

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They swear they’re not right for each other but the matchmakers of Highland Falls are out to prove them wrong.Elliana MacLeod has come home to whip the Mirror Lake Inn into tip-top shape, the only way to prevent her mother from selling the beloved family business...
  • Maple Sundaes and Cider Donuts by Olivia Gaines

    Maple Sundaes and Cider Donuts by Olivia Gaines

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Evan Eaton spent three years waiting for the right Mail Order Bride to bite the hook. Time was not on his side and the note was coming due. He had to marry and produce an heir. Believing he’d finally found the perfect bride in Claudia, but as the months turned to days and the days turned into hours, he soon realized his bride to be was not going to show...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  humor  religion  spirituality  steamy  adult  black-mc  book
  • Fix Me Not by Carey Heywood

    Fix Me Not by Carey Heywood

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Continue your love affair with the Thompson family in this hot and hilarious new romantic comedy from New York Times Bestselling author Carey Heywood! Paige Sullivan's life is a train wreck. In a matter of months she lost her business, her swanky apartment, and her big city life. Now she's stuck in Nowhere, New Hampshire, sleeping on her mom's couch...
  • One Hundred Wishes by Kelly Collins

    One Hundred Wishes by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Bestselling author Kelly Collins welcomes you back to Aspen Cove, the tiny Colorado town where anything can happen if you just open your heart and mind. Pop Star Samantha White walks off the stage and disappears into the crowd of cheering fans. After ten years as music sensation Indigo, she needs to figure out who she really is...
  • In for a Penny by Melissa Foster

    In for a Penny by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Friendships and family abound during a week of love, laughter, and happily ever afters. Catch up with your favorite characters and enjoy Bones and Sarah’s wedding while falling in love with the newest Whiskey-world couple, Penny Wilson and Scott Beckley in this Whiskey series novella...
  • Gareth by Kimberly Rae Jordan

    Gareth by Kimberly Rae Jordan

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to the fictional town of Serenity Point, Idaho, home to the large Halverson family.A mixed family with both biological and adopted children,their lives and relationships are held together by their love for each other and their faith.Gareth Halverson has studied for years to become a doctor, planning one day to take over his parents’ clinic in Northern Idaho...
  • My Kind of Forever by Tracy Brogan

    My Kind of Forever by Tracy Brogan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    As the youngest mayor Trillium Bay has ever elected, Brooke Callaghan wants to prove she’s up to the challenge. She’s stepping out of her practical teacher flats and into her sister’s treacherously high heels…with disastrous results. But if she’s going to (literally) stumble her first day on the job, why not fall into the arms of a handsome stranger?Leo Walker is a rarity on Wenniway Island...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  humor  steamy  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Baby Dreams in Good Hope by Cindy Kirk

    Baby Dreams in Good Hope by Cindy Kirk

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Always be my babyMarigold Rallis is not the type to fall to pieces. The youngest Bloom sister makes managing marriage, career, and a busy life in Good Hope look easy. But looks can be deceiving. Years of struggling with infertility while her sisters fill their nurseries have started to take a toll.It’s not just Marigold who is feeling the stress...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  humor  religion  spirituality  adult  book  classics
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