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  • Daughtry by Cee Bowerman

    Daughtry by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Daughtry Forrester has a good life. He loves his club, his family, and working on custom builds. What he doesn’t love is the pressure the women in his life have put on him to hire a female mechanic. While trying to juggle health problems and a camera crew who’s always underfoot, Daughtry doesn’t put much faith in his new hire...
  • Creed by Cee Bowerman

    Creed by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Creed Tempest is content with the solitary life he’s chosen. The only people he needs around are his siblings. He’s got a handful of friends that are important to him, but there’s no special someone to warm his bed. Oddly enough, he’s fine with that. There’s less drama that way, he tells himself.When a beautiful woman and her children move in next door, Creed’s life is turned upside down...
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    alpha-mc  humor  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  small-town
  • Hank: Texas Kings MC, Book 11 by Cee Bowerman

    Hank: Texas Kings MC, Book 11 by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hank has worked hard to become the man he is today. He's a loyal friend and brother to the men in his club, a tough but caring employer, and a helpful neighbor to the older woman next door. He had one night of passion with a woman that ghosted him and she’s left a hole in his life that he just can't fill...
  • F*ck It by C.M. Owens, S.M. Shade

    F*ck It by C.M. Owens, S.M. Shade

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What’s a woman supposed to do after watching her cheating ex's wedding implode?Apparently, the answer is get fired.And evicted.And move to another state to start over as an independent woman who would rather stick her tit in a beehive than get into another relationship.It’s fine. Really.The only thing messing with my new, badass single girl life is an encounter with my childhood crush...
  • Claimed By Crayson by Sherelle Green

    Claimed By Crayson by Sherelle Green

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If there were ever a man who prided himself on always being up front with women, it’s tatted bad boy, Crayson Madden, in the flesh. His world may revolve around sex and cigars, but there’s a lot more to this cigar lounge owner than what meets the eye. Too bad Jordyn Jameson spends more time arguing with him, than seeing beyond his asshole-ish ways...
  • Dickslip by Gwyn McNamee

    Dickslip by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One wardrobe malfunction. Two lives forever changed. Playing in a star-studded charity basketball game should be fun, and it is, until I literally go balls out to show up my arch nemesis. When I dive for the basketball and my junk slips out of my gym shorts, I know my life and career are over...
  • The Auction by Tiffany Reisz

    The Auction by Tiffany Reisz

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    You're invited to New York City's hottest dating event: Kingsley Edge's annual King's Trust Charity Auction.New on the auction block this year is Daniel, a wealthy widower and Dominant. However, he happens to have his eyes on another first-timer in the club's auction: Anya, a strikingly beautiful virgin submissive from his native Canada.Too bad Anya hates him on sight...
  • Double Feature: The Game Plan & Double Dare by R.L. Mathewson

    Double Feature: The Game Plan & Double Dare by R.L. Mathewson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the NY Times Best Selling Series comes a Double Feature... The Game Plan Spend the next 40 years in prison or break her lease early? Normally she’d be able to say that this one was a no-brainer, but things have definitely changed since she was forced to move in across the hall from Danny Bradford...
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    A Legal Affair (Club Prive) by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    All of my friends have hot, amazing men in their lives, but I'm still single… and happy. I've never wanted to settle down. I enjoy going to clubs and hooking up with random men for the night… Then why the hell do I feel like something's missing? When gorgeous rock star Paxton Gorham walks into Leslie Calvin's office, she tells herself that she can't be attracted to him...
  • Trick You by Tracy Lorraine

    Trick You by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I hated to trick her...But I knew she would never go for the real me.She was beautiful, smart and funny—everything I could want.And I was... well. Me.Tattooed, foul mouthed, bad boy.I told one little white lie hoping to meet someone different. And I did.Danniella Abbot...
  • Devoted by Lexi Blake

    Devoted by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A woman’s work Amy Slaten has devoted her life to Slaten Industries. After ousting her corrupt father and taking over the CEO role, she thought she could relax and enjoy taking her company to the next level. But an old business rivalry rears its ugly head...
  • Quitting Time: Nights Like This by AshleyNicole

    Quitting Time: Nights Like This by AshleyNicole

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s raining, it’s pouring– Wait, nobody’s snoring. They’re in the bed, or on the couch, or maybe the counter… and will definitely have a good morning. After five years, Aleigha has walked out of her job. But then her ex-boss gets stuck at her house because of the weather, and thunder won’t be the only thing clapping...
  • Collateral Damage: A Small Town Romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Collateral Damage: A Small Town Romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is the second book in The Cortell Brothers series. It is recommended they are read in order...
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    angst  humor  legal  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Partnership by Annie Dyer

    The Partnership by Annie Dyer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s setting the rules.She’s breaking them all…Playboy. Poser. Partner.It’s always the first two I’ve been known for. With the rest of my siblings in grown-up relationships, I decided it was time to prove I was more than just my reputation, and take my partnership in my family’s law firm seriously.Ambitious.Hardworking.No more spilling coffee on the photocopier...
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    humor  legal  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Resisting Mr. Kane by Rosa Lucas

    Resisting Mr. Kane by Rosa Lucas

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Resisting Mr. Kane is a dual-POV, stand-alone, steamy, holiday-to-office age gap romantic comedy.A working holiday on the idyllic Greek island of Mykonos.Making money while backpacking sounds perfect, doesn't it?Except bartending is not my forte. I moved around the bar with the grace of a baboon, knocking over glasses and serving bad cocktails...
  • Matchmaking a Single Dad by Angela Denise, Angela Casella

    Matchmaking a Single Dad by Angela Denise, Angela Casella

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They’re all wrong for each other…but sometimes two wrongs do make a right.ColeThe only woman I need in my life is my eight-year-old daughter, Jane. As a widowed brewery owner, I don’t have the time or inclination for anything more serious than a one night stand...
  • Zach: A Brash Brothers Romance by Jenna Myles

    Zach: A Brash Brothers Romance by Jenna Myles

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An image-conscious playboy hires a frumpy, shoe-losing, directionally challenged virgin. Let the chaos commence!Smooth, Playboy, Billionaire.All labels people apply to me. But the only label I actually care about is Brother.Everything I do is for them. For the empire we built together. Women are an enjoyable distraction, that’s all...
  • The Pecker Briefs by Sawyer Bennett

    The Pecker Briefs by Sawyer Bennett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I never thought a pecker would get me in so much trouble. I mean, sure… if you’re talking about a certain anatomical feature of mine that the ladies just love. Given my bachelor status and appreciation for all things curvy and feminine, I could absolutely see that. But a different pecker is making my life much harder than it needs to be...
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    alpha-mc  humor  legal  steamy  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Afternoon Delight by Piper Rayne

    Afternoon Delight by Piper Rayne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
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    Club Prive Complete Series Box Set by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Who is Gavin Manning and why does he keep showing up wherever I go? What does he want from me? These are just a few of the questions law student Carrie Summers asks herself after running into devastatingly handsome Gavin for the third time at the opening of the hottest new club in town, Club Privé...
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    alpha-mc  humor  legal  steamy  adult  age-gap  anthologies  audiobook
  • Forever, Please by Willow Summers

    Forever, Please by Willow Summers

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    **Preorder Only Sale** Will he consent to forever… I know that he loves me, that’s not the problem. And I know that he’ll be there for me. But he hasn’t mentioned forever. Not only that, but he refuses to tell his mother. Some scars run too deep, and this one is the deepest of all. I have everything on the line. To lose him now would be to lose it all...
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    alpha-mc  humor  steamy  workplace  adult  audiobook  billionaire  book
  • Nathan by Carly Marie

    Nathan by Carly Marie

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s true that you catch more bees with honey than vinegar… but what if I’m looking for a unicorn?Elliot’s life has been planned out for him: college, job, marriage, family. Going through life on autopilot, he’s rarely done anything for himself. When his sham marriage falls apart, he has to rebuild from the ground up and is faced with admitting the thing he’s hidden from everyone: He’s gay...
  • Cocky Playboy by Alex Wolf, Sloane Howell

    Cocky Playboy by Alex Wolf, Sloane Howell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "I drowned in this story. In these words, and in this world. A five star read from the very first page." - Amo Jones, USA Today Bestselling Author of the Elite Kings Club Series He's a bastard in Burberry. Decker Collins knows how to do one thing--win. When his billion-dollar law practice moves to merge with a firm out of Dallas, she shows up to oversee the transition...
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    Because Beards by Alexis Alvarez, Kacey Shea

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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  • Resisting the CEO: Office Second Chance Romance by Emelia Blair

    Resisting the CEO: Office Second Chance Romance by Emelia Blair

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Kendal’s hired to a job she never applied for, will she recognize her new boss?On the verge of homelessness, Kendal accepts the golden job she’s offered by theCEO of Starr Enterprises. But her new boss, Caleb, looks too familiar…and seems determined to start a flame between them.While Caleb works to steal her heart, Kendal accidentally discovers who he really is...
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    alpha-mc  humor  workplace  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  sad
  • Wild Night by Mari Carr

    Wild Night by Mari Carr

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Frenemies RomanceConfirmed bachelor Colm is living the good life with a thriving law practice and all the freedom the playboy has come to enjoy. Until a city-wide blackout and the greatest sex he’s ever had has him reconsidering his single status. Unfortunately, he doesn’t realize the woman of his dreams is actually his lifelong frenemy, Kelli...
  • The Replacement War by Lisa Suzanne

    The Replacement War by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bestselling author Lisa Suzanne's rock star romance has lovers becoming enemies when a weekend fling turns into the competition of their lives. I haven’t even earned the position yet and I’m already living like a rock star. I spend my weekend on someone else’s dime in a swanky Los Angeles hotel with a gorgeous woman. She’s looking for a fling, so I give her what she wants...
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    Risk: Part 1 (The Vault) by Nina Levine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A sexy office romance from USA Today bestselling author Nina Levine. I’m comfortable with risk. I deal with it every day of my life. Hell, I fucking live for the adrenaline rush it gives me. The challenge. The gamble. The conquest. When Charlize Cohen walks into my life, she proves to be the biggest risk I’ll ever take. I throw all my strategies out the window...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  humor  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  insta-love
  • THAT MAN 6:  (The Anniversary Story) by Nelle L'Amour

    THAT MAN 6: (The Anniversary Story) by Nelle L'Amour

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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  • Hooked by Joanne Schwehm

    Hooked by Joanne Schwehm

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I love my life. As owner and chef at one of the hottest restaurants, I know how to keep things sizzling in and out of the kitchen. What more could I ask for? But I'll tell you what I didn't ask for... a klutzy, curly-haired woman slamming into me with a unicorn cake. Yes, you read that right--a damn cake decorated to look like the mythical creature bathed in every color of the rainbow...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  humor  steamy  workplace  adult  audiobook  book
  • Tripp by Alex Wolf, Sloane Howell

    Tripp by Alex Wolf, Sloane Howell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tripp Patton is not the guy you take home to meet your mom.He is the number one sports agent in the world, and he didn’t get there by playing nice.On the verge of signing the biggest player of his career, someone gets in his way.Lennon Edwards, a younger agent trying to make a name for herself. She’s hungry for success, relentless, and drop-dead gorgeous...
  • Total Surrender by Opal Carew

    Total Surrender by Opal Carew

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An Erotic Romance Collection From New York Times Bestselling Author Opal Carew whose books have won numerous awards, comes this collection of sizzling erotic romances tales. Surrender to your deepest desires in Total Surrender. PLAYED BY THE MASTER Jacqueline will do anything she can to save her brother-in-law. Race Danner is the only one with the power to help...
  • Montana Mine by Vanessa Vale

    Montana Mine by Vanessa Vale

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Daphne Lane leads an uncomplicated life as a travel journalist. After spending a week visiting her crazy Aunt Velma in Montana, she's more than ready to escape to her next assignment. But Fate has other plans in the form of JT McCade, a sexy detective with a sensitive trigger finger. Pulling over a car for speeding should've been quick and easy for JT...
  • Ale's Fair in Love and War by Sylvie Stewart

    Ale's Fair in Love and War by Sylvie Stewart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An Enemies-to-Lovers RomanceHollis Hayes is the worst neighbor in the entire history of neighbors.She’s also the hottest.F.M.L.I don’t have time to fight with the dog groomer next door. There’s a brewery to run, siblings to rein in, and a mom to look after. So if Hollis thinks I’ll roll over and let her drive me out of business, she’s not nearly as smart as she thinks she is...
  • The Trouble with Love and Ink by Harriet Ashford

    The Trouble with Love and Ink by Harriet Ashford

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Emily Lane is supposed to be on vacation. Instead, she’s in a meeting where a new hire steals the promotion she’s been slotted for. To make matters worse, the promotion thief is a bit of a jerk both inside and outside cubicle walls.Needing an escape, Emily takes on her sister’s dare to work for her calligraphy company. After all, Emily has been perfecting her pointed pen skills for over a decade...
  • Hard Truth by Emily Goodwin

    Hard Truth by Emily Goodwin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The first time I met Alexander Harding, I yelled at him for taking my parking spot. Rich and powerful, I saw him as nothing more than my new coldhearted boss. I hated him once but now…now things aren’t that simple. There’s a man beneath the beast, and the more I get to know him, the more I fall in love with him...
  • Daddy's Little Bride by Laylah Roberts

    Daddy's Little Bride by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  humor  steamy  adult  age-gap  book  contemporary
  • Wild by Hannah Cole

    Wild by Hannah Cole

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It didn’t start out as the worst day of my life. But it was certainly in the top three.The promotion I worked so hard for turned out not to be mine at all but handed to Nick Marks, some social media wunderkind. So, I got mad. I got drunk. Then made the epic decision to blow off a little steam with a wild night out, one night stand included...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  steamy  workplace  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  poc-mc
  • Wright Rival by K.A. Linde

    Wright Rival by K.A. Linde

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A sexy enemies-to-lovers romance set in the world of the Wrights about Hollin & Piper from USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde…No one on this planet pushes my buttons like Hollin Abbey.I don’t know if it’s the rugged, sexy cowboy look or the Harley Davidson motorcycle or the cocky swagger. Or just him.But whenever we’re together we fight like cats and dogs...
  • Table 10: Part 2 by Jiffy Kate

    Table 10: Part 2 by Jiffy Kate

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A waitress fielding life’s curveballs.A CEO with a penchant for pie.She’s independent and tenacious.He’s chivalrous and demanding.They’re an unexpected match.Somehow, through a series of events, their lives are thrust together...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  multi-pov
  • New York Nights: A Collection of Steamy, Alpha-Male Romances by Whitney G.

    New York Nights: A Collection of Steamy, Alpha-Male Romances by Whitney G.

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A collection of the steamiest, alpha-male romances from New York Times bestselling author, Whitney G. This collection includes Reasonable Doubt (Full Series), Turbulence: A Cocky Pilot Romance, and Naughty Boss. **Price will go to $9...
  • Make Me Lose: a small-town enemies-to-lovers romance by Ember Leigh

    Make Me Lose: a small-town enemies-to-lovers romance by Ember Leigh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Grayson Daly and I aren’t just rivals. We’re enemies. Born minutes apart on the same day in the same hospital, our parents thought this meant we were somehow destined to be together. We knew were we just destined to beat each other. Competition boiled over until junior year, when the cold war turned into an unexpected peace offering...
  • Crave by Evelyn Sola

    Crave by Evelyn Sola

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sandra Before THAT night, the over the top party and the cake incident, I spent Saturday nights with girlfriends, lamenting my life over margaritas. I wasn’t ready for Jacob Clark. He was sin and dark edges, wrapped in regret. He was my Kryptonite. His words oozed over me like warm honey. His dark eyes pricked my soul, and his touch….those fingers set my skin on fire...
  • Romancing the M.D. by Maureen Smith

    Romancing the M.D. by Maureen Smith

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Landing an internship at prestigious Hopewell General is a dream come true for Tamara St. John. She struggled hard to get where she is—and isn't about to risk it all because of arrogant Victor Aguilar. Tamara and Victor constantly lock horns, but the sinfully seductive doctor is driving her crazy…with desire. Tamara knows that dating a colleague is a prescription for disaster...
  • One to Chase by Tia Louise

    One to Chase by Tia Louise

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Paris fashions,Chicago nightlife,Secrets and lies...Welcome to the North Side. Marcus Merritt doesn't chase women. He doesn't have to. But when the spirited and sexy blonde who left him wanting more shows up in his office looking for work, little things like the rules seem ready to be rewritten. Amy Knight is smart, ambitious, and back home in Chicago to care for her mother...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  humor  legal  steamy  adult  billionaire  book  contemporary
  • Ego Trip: A Cocky Boss Romantic Comedy by Tabatha Kiss

    Ego Trip: A Cocky Boss Romantic Comedy by Tabatha Kiss

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two weeks on the road with my boss? Business as usual. Two weeks on the road with my newer, hotter boss that I had a one-night stand with four years ago? A disaster waiting to happen.It was a one-time thing with a man I knew from work. His name was Oliver Black. The rich and handsome manager of the Botsford Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas. Dark hair. Icy blue eyes...
  • Shattered by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    Shattered by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 4 in the NEW ADULT rockstar series, LOST IN OBLIVION He’s shattered…and she’s the only woman who can help him pick up the pieces. Nick Crandall has everything he ever thought he wanted. Tons of money, a glamorous lifestyle, professional admiration for making music. But all his success doesn’t erase the memories of who and what he’s lost on the road to fame and fortune...
  • Pierced by J.A. Huss, Johnathan McClain

    Pierced by J.A. Huss, Johnathan McClain

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    MYRTLE I’m a just an erotic woman who likes control. And edgy sex. And hard men. At the same time. So starting an outreach class at the TDH community center to teach other women how to put the dom in dominatrix was inevitable. Even if I was only doing it to use my boss, Pierce, as my submissive example and pay him back for humiliating me in front of the whole world last summer...
  • In Hate With My Boss by Lexi Calder

    In Hate With My Boss by Lexi Calder

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There are three things I know about Owen Bennett: He’s worth billions. He’s smoking hot. He’s a total asshole.Oh, and he’s my new boss. Which, I guess is technically four things. But who’s counting? Not Owen. Because all he can do is stare at my chest and make rude comments. He’s unprofessional, lazy, and the single most infuriatingly sexy man I’ve ever met in my life...
  • Control by K. Bromberg

    Control by K. Bromberg

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author K. Bromberg comes a new story in her Everyday Heroes series… Control is something Desi Whitman abhors. Why live life in black and white perfection when you can messily color outside the lines? But when she comes face to face with SWAT officer Reznor Mayne, he’s about to show her just how good control can feel...
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